PROFILE SUMMARY:

• Confidential Project management professional with over 7years experience in IT infrastructure and application development.
• Successfully transitioned new teams to an agile framework defining and enforcing best practices.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite - MS Visio, MS Project 2010 & 2013, Excel, MS word, and Powerpoint.
• Highly proficient with Rally, Jira, TFS, Clarity, Planview, Sharepoint, ServiceNow & Remedy.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Partner with business lead to drive out new project/program high - level scope, timing and cost to build investment case.
• Develop and track project roadmap, release plan, resource allocation, risk and issues management plan
• Facilitate all agile events (iteration planning, daily Standups, backlog grooming, and retrospective meeting).
• Provide daily communications, iteration notes, iteration review reports, retrospectives, and regular snapshots of team velocity and budget burn rate.
• Ensure the project team is practicing the agile principles. Complete product demonstrations, retrospectives, and resolve action items. Assist Product Owner with Backlog grooming.
• Manage the day-to-day tactical requests from internal teams and key stakeholders to support Confidential variety of programs.
• Ensures appropriate project documentation and deliveries are clearly defined and delivered
• Manage all vendor engagements, deployments, material reviews and approval processes.
• Analyze schedule progress and accurately forecast new timelines when necessary.
• Evaluate and mitigate project risks throughout project lifecycle to ensure successful deliveries.
• Manage and maintain client relationships, serving as point of contact for all client issues and responding to client requests.
• Meet and manage both Capital and Operating expenses based on project financial health
• Provide continuous coaching to Project team for improvement using various inspecting & adapting techniques.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Administered the process of identifying project milestones and deliverables with departmental heads. Administered change management protocols via Remedy ensuring change process are followed through at 100%
• Ensured project documentation in multiple repositories is updated regularly. Coordinated project team deliverables through SharePoint, Jira and MS Project Server. Ensured data consistency and alignment to project lifecycle
• Showcased project dashboard using functions like V-lookup, Pivot Table and Graphs from source data using MS Excel. Conducted requirement gathering from business stakeholders, prioritization and fulfillment
• Managed project communication to multiple business stakeholders in Confidential matrix environment. Used MS PowerPoint to present weekly project status report showing project progress, graphs, risk status and budget variances
• Oversaw all process of status reporting to the leadership, the reviews and required approvals. Coordinated logistics for all outages and change-over dates required by the project
• Facilitated agile ceremonies towards achieving Project goals and deliverables.
• Managed project team size of 35 individuals, 6 vendors and Confidential budget size of $2,500,000.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Client contract and Ensured project charter, business case were developed and signed off by approproate stakeholder.
• Facilitated the white board session, requirement definition and gathering towards properly defining the project scope.
• Effectively negotiated project resources with competing priorities with IT and PMO resource managers.
• Developed Confidential communication plan/strategy in partnership with the business, IT sponsors and ensured project communication to all stakeholders throughout the project life cycle.
• Developed and maintained project plans using MS Project Server, status reports, risk and issue logs, budget/ongoing project forecast of resources and materials and other project related artifacts.
• Managed, assessed, and negotiated project change orders. Ensured that assigned projects are conducted in compliance within standard project management practices.
• Managed successfully Confidential project team of 12 SME’s, 3 vendors with Confidential project budget of $1,500,000 over 6 months project lifecylce.
• Tracked time accruals and managed project financials with weekly end-value-management data using MS Excel.
• Efficiently identified and resolved project issues. Maintained project documentation and project SharePoint page regularly.
• Escalated issues that required executive, management or business attention. Tracked all PO’s and invoices. Managed vendor performance and drive deliverables to meet agreed upon target dates and levels of quality.
• Ensured business engagement throughout the project, project decision making, managed scope/budget changes, business requirements elicitation and prioritization, acceptance testing, .

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Performed initial project charter development/signed off in compliance to PMO guidelines.
• Ensured all project committee meetings action items were followed up on and closed out for kick off.
• Delivered the high level requirements and document the consolidated requirements in the business requirements documents (BRDs).
• Managed the scope definition and all project information gathering.
• Developed project plan using MS Project 2013 with inputs from Subject Matter Experts.
• Worked with the finance, vendors, SMEs to formulate the working project budget using MS Excel.
• Provided required leadership and oversaw the day-to-day execution of projects deliverables.
• Managed the project communication to all stakeholder according to the project plan developed.
• Managed all the risk identified during the project planning phase with appropriate risk response strategies.
• Maintained detailed weekly status report to the business leadership through Clarity.
• Managed the project budget and forecast (capital and operational expenses, monthly accruals) using MS Excel.
• Monitored and ensured timely resolution of project risks and issues, managed resources and resolved all team conflicts.
• Ensured project is closed properly with lesson learnt session and also making sure all closure requirements according to the PMO standards are adhered
• Worked with Pharmacy Benefit Team( Express script) for update PharmNet (CERNER) upgrade

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Ensured all required projects approvals were received for Project kick off.
• Negotiated for resources across the matrix organization and delivery time with necessary line managers.
• Managed stakeholder identification and classification and developed Confidential tailored Project communication plan.
• Developed Project plan with Microsoft Projects 2010 with inputs from Project team.
• Identified, managed and provided mitigation strategies to project risks.
• Managed the overall Project schedule to ensure work is assigned and completed on time.
• Managed Project Budget by tracking time accruals, expenses & capital expenditures.
• Created Periodic Project Status Reports along with full project documentation, and facilitating Project Change Requests for the steering committee
• Proactively managed all stakeholders by providing period project updates and information
• Ensured that the project solution is of acceptable quality
• Proactively managed scope to ensure that only what was agreed was delivered
• Managed all deliverables, conflicts and project set backs

Confidential

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Project Manager throughout the lifecycle of multiple IT Projects. Attended client meetings and assisted with determination of project requirements.
• Prepared project organization and communication charts.
• Used project scheduling and control tools (MS project Server )to monitor projects plans, work hours, budgets and expenditures .
• Created and managed key project deliverables. (Status Reports, RAID Log, Change Log etc).
• Leveraged both physical rooms and virtual tools (WebEx) to Schedule and manage project meetings.
• Issued Contracts, Letters of Intent, Purchase Orders, etc.
• Assisted the PM in the review of Contractor quotations to ensure that only fair and reasonable pricing is recommended for approval.
• Coordinated and followed up on project meetings to ensure the objective of the meetings are achieved by distributing meeting notes electronically and following up on action items on behalf of Project Manager.
• Created metrics that are included in Status reporting to help stakeholders understand the project progress.
• Assisted the PM in the drafting and issuance of project proposals, RFP’s, tenders, budgets, cash flows and preliminary schedules.
• Chair site meetings and distribute minutes to all project team members. Tracked the progress and quality of work being performed by design disciplines/trades
• Effectively and accurately communicated relevant project information to the client and project team.
• Reviewed field inspection reports from Consultants throughout the lifecycle of the project
• Maintained Contract Execution Tracking Log. Managed document repository and ensured that all documents go through due process for logging and changes.
• Tracked & managed contemplated change notices and change orders in the database. Prepared substantial completion s and ensured all required project close out documents are obtained