SUMMARY:

• Experience working in large PMO environments and managing anywhere from 15 to 55+ resources located locally and nationally
• Experience and thorough understanding of PMI Project Management Standards
• Extensive experience with Agile and Waterfall Methodologies
• Experience working as a release train engineer within the scaled agile framework
• Responsible for driving end to end value for programs in a lean - agile enterprise
• Partners with application and business project team leads, partners with functional managers, reports to senior management, leads matrix team of technical engineers and operational support personnel
• Proficient in actively monitoring Risk, Issues & Dependency and acted as liaison to ensure mitigation efforts were successful within and across work-streams.
• Documented vendor RFP, Contracts, SOW, MSA and involved in vendor negotiations.
• Extensive experience creating project plans, project budgets, tracking project milestones and resource allocation for senior management reporting.
• Managed Project Change management process for Business and Technical change requests and also managed post production fixes.
• Experince with Cross-Functional Supervision, Costing, Budgeting, Testing activities Rollout task and warranty support activities.
• Define SLA’s for internal and external customers
• Respond to external and internal customer requests via phone and electronic media
• Conduct meetings and take meeting minutes
• Enterprise-wide Implementations
• Provided technical assistance to peers
• Create (ROM) Rough Order of Magnitude that clients use for financial projections
• Managed critical path milestones for deliverables
• Managing and Overseeing overall QA and UAT Testing effort along with Defect management process
• Managed the client expectations and resource requirements for the project to ensure ownership and success
• Experience in supply chain processes with respect to ERP systems

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management: MS Project, Planview, JIRA, CA Clarity, ClearQuest, Confluence, HP PPM, Workbench, TFS

Software: MS office suite, MS Project, HP PPM, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, HP Quality Center, HP ALM, Optimal Trace, Frame Maker Photo Shop, Adobe Illustrator, Snagit, Robohelp, Tekscape.

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, HP ALM, Quick Test Professional, Load Runner, Test Director.

Databases: Microsoft Access and MS SQL Server, Relational database, Relational database Management systems (RDBMS), Teradata database.

Content Management: Microsoft Teams, Documentum, eRoom, SharePoint, Filenet, Clear Case.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERINCE:

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Drive Workday Delivery with reporting via establishment of KPI’s and relevant dashboards.
• Drive iterative planning with resepect to the program’s roadmap and lifecycle.
• Conduct regular program and portfolio level status meetings with cross-functional leads to ensure progress through reporting and communication on program/project status, resource requirements, risks, and issues. Perform risk management through coordination of checkpoints and mitigation strategy administration.
• Communicate with cross-functional program leads and senior leadership to manage and coordinate program injection and dependencies.
• Conduct monthly project presentations to highlight all relevant KPI’s and project health indicators to track schedule, budget, scope and the quality of each release.
• Coordination and management of multiple scrum teams who are responsible for various releases within the program.
• Assess and manage core team needs with focus on process, documentation, reporting, and utilization.
• Effectively communicate with all working teams and managers to ensure timely delivery and success for overall project goals.
• Drive delivery and decisions in accordance with organizational goals and needs.
• Manage the project budget and ensure the project is meeting earmarks as expected by senior leadership.
• Manage a team comprised of BAs, project administrators, scrum masters, vendors and development leads.
• Conduct daily and weekly scrums to provide actual data and progress on program delivery status with respect to overall program health.
• Active participation in the development of lean governance workflows for the PMO process playbook by assisting in the evaluation of program management processes, tools and recommended technology initiatives. Ensuring that the operational management strategy aligns with the overall business strategy.
• Collaborate program and project efforts to drive robust leadership with focus on harmonizing cross-functional teams.

Confidential, NY

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Create and communicate program charter, project plans, requirements specifications, process flows, presentation decks and reporting metrics to project team, stakeholders and external vendors
• Managed scope, schedule, resources, quality, costs, stakeholder expectations, communications and reporting.
• Managed a team of large number of resources on the project and located in multiple locations throughout the country.
• Manages the financial budget and create estimates from different departments including software and hardware procurement.
• Provides monthly forecasting, variance explanations and accruals data to the financial department and stakeholders.
• Proactively identified project risks, categorized them based on impact level and came up with appropriate mitigation strategy to have minimal to no impact on project progress, timeline or budget.
• Develops and maintains detailed project plan with milestones, baseline and actual dates for task completion.
• Involved in change management through proper tracking and documentation of project change requests and impacts to schedule, costs and quality.
• Conducts regular program level status meetings with all departments to ensure progress and identify issue and risks. Performs risk management through regular checkpoints and identification of appropriate mitigation steps.
• Manages a team comprised of Business Analysts, Designers, Architects, Developers, Testers and Vendors.
• Keeping and maintaining a RAID (Risk, Action items, Issues, Dependencies/Decisions made) log.
• Following up on Action items with team members/individuals in timely manner
• Monitoring issues and when necessary, escalates to Project/Program manager and help resolve in timely manner.
• Maintaining Defect log for defects identified during QA and UAT testing.
• Effectively communicate with all Project Teams and team members on a daily basis.
• Ensure the project gets completed on time by effectively managing Team members
• Create release plans with deployment strategies to move the developed components from development to QA testing to UAT and to production.
• Partcipated in the development of PMO process playbook by assisting in the evaluation of project management processes, tools and recommended changes.

Confidential, DE

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing all aspects of project management from discovery through delivery implementation
• Ensure appropriate formal project management methodology, including project plans, consistent status updates, and implementation of best practices
• Prepare and deliver effective project presentations as required
• Scheduled and facilitated weekly meetings to track the progress of projects
• Monitored utilization trends to forecast deployment
• Kept track of project milestones while operating within budget and delivering on time
• Managed programs up to certain extent using Microsoft project with several sub projects, accurate resource allocation and forecast
• Develop Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and allocate resources
• Experience working with all the SDLC tasks including Project Planning, Requirements Definition, Design, Development, Integration & Test, and Installation & Acceptance for successful project execution.
• Tracked and reported project hours and budget on a weekly basis and produce various reports such as Actual Vs estimate, capital/Expense reports.
• Coordinated Daily scrum meetings, Sprint planning, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective.
• Radiated information and ensured the team's progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself.
• Assisted the Product Owner with various activities including communicating updates and assistance with backlog &release plan maintenance.
• Facilitated creativity and empowerment for the Cross-functional development team.
• Working with Senior Project managers/Program Managers in overall management of all aspects of the project through effective coordination in completion of tasks.
• Responsible for creating a complete Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Tasks and Issues List in the SharePoint Project portal.
• Managed the QA and UAT testing process, reported progress and monitored resource allocation.
• Managed the entire defect resolution process starting from identifying the defect, assigning to the right developer, monitoring progress, getting it retested and closing the defect.

Confidential, NY

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Regular update meetings with PMO, Program LOBs, Client & Stakeholders and team.
• Documented project scope as a part of Project charter and Business Case
• Determined project workgroups for operational project tasks and develop project Work Breakdown structure detailing Business, PMO and IT tasks.
• Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple related projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives.
• Develop, evaluate and maintain Project Baselines (Cost, Schedule, Risk, Quality)
• Analyze the data coming in from various 3rd party interfaces and oversee support acquisition and merger projects. Coordinated with 3rd party Client vendors to complete QA & UAT.
• Record, track, monitor, and report project status as required or requested to ensure project deliverables are On-time and In-budget.
• Manage project change requests and post-implementation fixes in compliance with change management procedures.
• Responsible to communicate with Business, Client stake holder teams on multiple Programs & Projects activities.
• Responsible to develop project plan, charter, weekly status, scorecard, resource alignment, budgeting, change request process and process improvements.
• Developed and maintained project issues and risk logs and reported the same to senior management on a weekly basis.
• Responsible for creating Resource calendars and acquisition / release of resources.
• Responsible for the Development, Change request control, Deployment, Integration, Configuration, Release, Change Management with warranty support.
• Responsible for team performance assessments and making decisions based on project needs.

Confidential, CT

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Develop the project schedule and plan to ensure timely completion of the project. Obtain management and client agreement with the project plan and timeline, and advice of any obstacles or resource needs that may affect completion of the project as planned.
• Assemble the project team, identify competencies and assign resources to development tasks appropriate to each individual's knowledge, skill and abilities.
• Communicate project goals, monitor project progress and adjust resources as necessary to keep the project on task.
• Apply project management tools and tracking systems to manage all aspects of project progress.
• Maintain various inventories of supplies on a weekly basis through various vendors as requests are sent, revamped supply ordering and distribution to be more cost efficient resulting in less waste.
• Utilize project resources and serve as an individual contributor to develop, lead and ensure effective management and direction is provided; proactively identifies and communicates process improvement opportunities that resulted in improved services, compliance and increased efficacy.
• IT project prioritization based on cost-benefit analysis after reviewing the projects with the functional managers, program managers and team leads
• Standardized the project closures after meeting with functional managers and program managers, making sure projects are closed in time to help evaluate in Project Manager's performance and appraisal as well as closely monitor the contingency budget
• Provided guidance, support and training to the Technical team on the methodology and principles behind portfolio management to facilitate key performance indicators (KPI's) and critical success factors (CSF's)
• Interpret the data, and understand how the project fits into the company process while reinforcing the portfolio disciplines
• Conduct budgeting of portfolio and prioritize the projects after meeting with different functional leads and program managers
• Function as the day-to-day subject matter expert in Enterprise Project Management (EPM) processes to provide guidance and oversight practitioners