SUMMARY

• Senior Project manager with past development experience and demonstrated expertise managing large scale software projects or multiple concurrent projects in the development of plans and using various software development life cycles from inception through delivery.
• Experience working as a Product Owner for Scrum team and driving team to deliver a high quality product with high degree of unit testing, assembly testing and reviews so as to minimize the defects in the work product.
• I have a strong track record of ensuring quality in all deliverables, business services.
• Experienced in managing various methodologies including Agile, Waterfall, Scrum iterative • Reviewing changes for thoroughness, testing strategies, and documentation of matrix.
• Created and thoroughly reviewed design documents and presenting to the project team • Helped in creating a WBS.
• Coordinate with downstream systems to create overlays for different systems by providing necessary files and mapping details • Implemented Scrum Methodology/Framework with carrying out day - to-day duties of Scrum • Used Workday Software for Human Resource department. The project was successfully launched to improve annual employee's reviews, merit increases, disciplinary action, and improved communication between Human Resources, Management and Employees.
• Helped team with effective Backlog, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up Meeting, Demo, Retrospective etc.
• Remove impediments/roadblocks, ensure timely delivery and team management.
• Excellent communication skills and experience coordinating with remote teams.
• Participating in business requirement discussion with all the stakeholders • Lead bi-weekly meetings with all the business partners to understand their current business process • Understanding, eliciting, documenting and providing solution for the business requirement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Databases: Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g, MS SQL Server, MS Access

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, .NET, XML, JSON, YAML

Methodologies: Waterfall, RUP, Shift left (Hybrid), Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, Kanban

Project Management: MS Office Suite (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Project, MS Visio, Lotus Notes, MS Outlook, SharePoint

Change Management: HP Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Test Director, Requisite Pro, JIRA

Business Intelligence: Tableau, Cognos, Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Agile Project Manager

Confidential - St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Working with a team of quality engineering professions to ensure the highest quality product delivery
• Monitoring project metrics for significant deviations in quality, cost, and schedule.
• Communicated cost, schedule, scope and project concerns and supporting stakeholders with the development of formal client SDLC artifacts such as Project Charter, Project Management Plan, and Integrated Operating Model, etc.
• Developed business and functional requirements specification describing and prioritizing of the requirements.
• Lead projects to ensure the proper project methodologies, standards, tools, processes, policies, and procedures.
• Responsible for review and feedback on the adequacy of documentation during all phases of projects in the form of status and updates to portfolio management tool.
• Preparing the technical approach and estimate the effort for resource allocation • Participated in analysis/requirements gathering with the business leads and authored software requirements.
• Used MS-Visio to show the interaction/data flow diagrams connecting various local/remote applications.
• Lead daily stand up meetings, Sprint planning meetings and Weekly release health check-up meetings as best practices of Agile environment.
• Worked as a Product Owner in Agile software development process for the Facets Upgrade.
• Facilitated meetings and brainstorming sessions with CMC Business to understand and gather requirements.
• Created business requirement documents, functional and non-functional specifications and Use Cases. Documented User stories and ensured all the Acceptance Criteria had been covered to support the function.
• Provided UI mock-ups to the UX team to create new Facets screen layouts.
• Participated in the Daily Scrum/Standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Led product backlog grooming activities for sizing and prioritization of stories.
• Participated in Sprint review sessions and signed off on the incremental features upon review. Instrumental in producing demo to CMC Business and helping them understand the sprint feature.
• Participate in Retrospective sessions to understand and help improvise the processes.
• As part of the UAT team created test scenarios and test scripts to facilitate functional testing and UAT.

Environment: SQL Management, Microsoft Office, Visio, workday, EDI, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Access, MS Outlook, Cisco Jabber, SharePoint, JIRA, MS SQL Server, Documentum

Agile Project Manager

Confidential -St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with the five different vendors simultaneously on various aspects of the project, including platform, software, and implementation and testing.
• Responsible for analyzing project requirements, specifications, impact to existing systems and business areas.
• Proactively manage and communicate project status, issues & risks to management.
• Conduct regular status meetings with all stakeholders, keeping the stakeholders needs and requirements continuously in view. Extreme focus on customer delight • Provide Production support for releases and support in production release activities.
• Ensure and monitor Quality Control and Quality Assurance activities for the team, Monitor and resolve EST and UAT defects on time.
• Develop strategic partnerships with systems & business management and develop understanding of business unit's goals and processes.
• Use Organizational Process Assets and Enterprise Environmental Factors to influence project success.
• Gather project requirement, project scope statement & create work breakdown structure (WBS).
• Define & sequence activities, create network diagram, estimate resources & duration.
• Nurtures self-organizing, high performing teams through servant leadership style.
• Resolves conflict through arbitration, negotiation, reasoned discussion, or escalation. Environment: Visio, SQL Management, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Project.

Project manager

Confidential -Springfield, MO

Responsibilities:

• Created High level documents and Detailed requirement documents for the digital portlets for the site.
• Elicited requirements through Interviews, Discussions and JAD sessions.
• Used MS Office Suite for creating use cases, workflows and sequence diagrams according to UML methodology.
• Lead and participated in peer reviews and walk-through of the BRD (Business Requirements Document) and FRD (Functional Requirements Document).
• Created GUI/UX screen mock ups and process flow diagrams for the Web Portal and Mobile application pages using MS Visio.
• Gathered requirements for the various user roles, security access and Identity management (IDM) for the Portal.
• Acted as liaison between business members and technical staff at all levels.
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues, and come to an agreement quickly.
• Closely coordinated with Business users, Architects and Designers for arriving at a mutually acceptable solution.
• Worked with the UX teams to create the final screens which would be in compliance with the company standards.
• Suggested measures and recommendations to Marketing Department to improve the visibility of the new Portal.
• Closely worked with the Content management (CMS) team to gather and document requirements for content workflow.
• Worked with business users to define Product Feature Requests, Business Requirement Specifications and Change Requests.
• Maintained documents for change request and implemented procedures for testing changes.
• Maintained the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to keep track of the requirements till the testing phase.
• Reviewed Test plans and Test cases for various functionalities created by the testing team.
• Involved in testing the functionality by conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Environment: Liferay CMS, MS Excel, MS Word, MS OneNote, MS Visio, MS Outlook, JIRA, UML, SDLC, Agile, HTML, CSS, Visual basic