SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of Technical Project Management experience inspiring teams and enabling new technology
• Detail - oriented IT Project Manager with experience leading and implementing technology strategies, Project Management Office (PMO), and high visibility transformation projects. Strategically focused on project and process management with expertise in deploying software and hardware transitions while driving a continuous improvement culture.
• Managed cloud-based projects on agile and scrum on SAAS, PAAS & IAAS based cloud models, virtualization of servers and compute storage using enterprise architecture for various domains (Finance, Banking, Manufacturing and Retail). Strong bias for action and ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects while ensuring business requirements are met on time and within budget. Project highlights include:
• Demonstrated expertise in managing Agile Scrum, Agile Transformation, traditional, and hybrid projects and programs, SDLC, risk management, contingency planning, estimation, and enterprise application design, COTS product evaluation, product development, release, and deployment.
• Conceptualized and implemented strategy for capturing Project and Program metrics and funneling information into easy-to-understand dashboards. Enabled Executive Management to keep a pulse on project health, revenue expectations, and strategic analysis of projects.
• Provides complex scientific & technical leadership in determining research priorities & the plan, design & execution of research projects, ensuring that programs of investigation meet specified objectives.
• Migration of infrastructure, data and applications out of legacy data centers into the cloud and hybrid environments (public and private)
• Proficient in managing budget, schedule, scope, resources, quality, risk, application security, configuration, disaster recovery, deployment, user training, and closeout, as well as operations and maintenance service level management.
• Successfully communicated to the Business and Technology teams, stakeholders, and executives regarding project status, issues, risks, mitigation plans, and deployment plans. Used logic and critical thinking to guide actions and present rationale and plans concisely. Escalated when necessary.
• Manage the Enterprise IT Asset Management financial cycle, including bidding, proposals, and procurement for hardware and software assets to further evaluate and improve company's return on investment (ROI).
• Recruited to lead onshore and offshore technical teams within a quality management framework and outsourced/vendor partner environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: Planning + Tracking: MS Project, Ace Project Pro, Agile Scrum PMO, Smartsheets, Workday

Languages: C, C++, Java, XML, Perl, VB.Net

Quality Assurance: Mercury Load Runner, Mercury QuickTest Pro, Mercury Active Watch, Test Director, HP Quality Center

BPM/Data Modeling: ERWIN, MS Visio, Skelta, IBM Workflow

Operating Systems: Windows, XP, DOS and Unix, Red Hat

Databases: IBM DB2, Oracle 9i, SQL Server, MS Access, Domino

Other: QuickBooks Pro accounting software, Data Analytics/Big Data, DevOps/Cloud Migration, MS Visual Source Safe, Spider Content Management, Defect Management, Remedy, JIRA, Spider, Ariba, Project Portfolio Portal, Enterprise Project Life Cycle (Eplc), Tableau

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Develop a comprehensive project plan with coordination of business, technology stakeholders and technical staff during all project phases, from initial development through implementation.
• Successfully oversee a team of 40+ members performing program management functions. Managed operations and technology department with regulatory sanction screening system implementation.
• Facilitate periodic meetings and communication to external vendors (implementation team) and management on the dev build status and readiness for the planned monthly/quarterly releases.
• Manage vendor selection and work with sourcing team to complete vendor onboarding process and budget approval process.
• Uncovered a resource constraint with the offshore team due to Covid19. Worked with internal tech team to determine the root cause of the issue and was able to divide the work to different resources without impacting the budget or timeline.
• Work with technology and infrastructure teams to ensure the environment was built and ready for successful execution of SIT, UAT, and performance testing.
• Lead the go-no-go decision meetings and monitored overall project health by documenting risk, issues, and dependencies to ensure the mitigation plan was in place; ensure project quality and success.
• Identified and helped resolve a requirement gap on a project by collaborating with tech and business teams and executed three separate releases to keep project on time and on budget.

Confidential, Fort Wayne, IN

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created and maintained project plan and hosted phased tollgate reviews; reported semi-weekly status dashboards to IT oversight governance body, operations committee, and key stakeholders, including Executive Steering Committee levels.
• Worked with Scrum Master and created sprint planning, task estimates, task sequencing, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Implemented Agile, sprint activities, daily standups, retrospectives, sprint reviews, and sprint release planning.
• Coached teams through the Agile transformation and provided the necessary training and references to enable the ideal management and team structure. Adoption and training were successful, and teams began delivering iterative based releases.
• Created and managed a well-defined project management process and championed ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Project Management.

Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established a strategic project plan and analyzed/designed system specifications for integrating all business processes into a new ERPM system.
• Author and present business requirements, project charters, scenarios, user stories, meeting minutes, and other documentation related to project to stakeholders and business partners.
• Created user stories using Jira and Confluence to ensure project accuracy and compliance, as well as progress visibility for all stakeholders.
• Managed, directed, and coached project staff, including contract Scrum Master, technical project leads, developers, business analysts, testing teams, database team, and web developers, within a matrix organization.

Confidential

IT Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the PMO manager and created a work breakdown schedule (WBS) to assist with scheduling, estimating costs, resource allocation, and risks.
• Led implementation of best agile practices, including dynamic team collaboration, informative metrics, lean development, and continuous improvement.
• Coached and trained non-technical stakeholders on Agile Methodologies and enabled a Kanban team to adopt some Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning meetings, daily Scrum, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Assisted tech teams with the five levels of agile planning and on backlog grooming.
• Monitored the project slides to track project specifics, including actual spend versus budget, milestone dates, resource assignments, and any project changes to provide updates and reminders to project managers and management board.
• Coordinate with IT/QA, business owners, and project team members to ensure test plans and test cases are comprehensive.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

IT Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked under the project manager's direction to produce and maintain project documentation, time reporting, labor and infrastructure estimates, project plans, and dashboards.
• Collaborated with SCRUM Master and performed agile project management activities including planning, execution, tracking, and reporting.
• Created Use Cases and Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams, including Activity, Class, and Sequence diagrams.
• Managed cross-functional teams across tracks (testing, development, business analysts, business intelligence, operations, and client strategy) and conducted end-to-end user training.

Confidential

IT Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with development and deployment teams for prioritization, scheduling, and implementation of changes to production environments.
• Created risk management plan to identify, analyze, monitor, and respond to risks associated with the project to ensure ability to achieve expected outcomes, on time, and on budget.
• Developed reporting documentation (Monthly Status Reports, etc.) so that all administrative coordination points between cross-functional departments and projects are informed/updated regularly.
• Communicate project status weekly to team, business owners, and executive leadership as appropriate throughout the duration of assigned projects/initiatives and through post-implementation.
• Created project plans and executed all phases of the project life cycle, including scope management, requirements management, work breakdown schedule and timeline management, and roles and responsibilities.