SUMMARY:

• Project Management Professional with 5 years of experience in coordination and management of full life cycle of various information technology and business projects from inception to post - implementation.
• Successful track record of assisting in all aspects of project management, which includes, managing schedules, tracking costs, facilitating meetings, managing meeting minutes and outcomes of the meetings, managing and storing the project documents in the document repository.
• Strong analytical background with experience analyzing and manipulating raw data from various sources including SQL, Access, Excel and ERP systems such as SAP
• Development /Management-Administrator of team SharePoint sites/workspaces.
• Heavy Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook use; primarily Excel with Excel functions - pivot tables, pivot charts, vlookup, index, match, sumifs, data validation, data analysis & dashboard creation
• End to end SDLC project management experience and designing and developing project documents based on Waterfall Methodology
• Skilled in managing both Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall
• Collected project data and published the Bi-Weekly Status Reports and IT Project Dashboard Monthly Status reports.
• Gathered business requirements, organized, populated, assisted with site design and maintained the project documentation and storage for the MS SharePoint site.
• Scribed project status meetings, workflow analysis sessions, and reconciled the RAID issues log by tracking issues internally.
• Created, updated, and edited project plans as needed.
• Set up conference calls and created contact groups; developing meeting agendas, capturing meeting minutes and following up on tasks and action items
• Excellent in facilitating meetings by driving the discussions towards the objectives of the meeting.
• Expertise in identifying and analyzing the business needs of the end users and build a project plan to translates the functional requirements into technical tasks that guide the execution of the project.
• Provided administrative support for the Project Management team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Skills/Project Management Skills: Project management Tools - MS Project, Sciforma, Smartsheets, Jira, Confluence, MS Visio Dashboards & Data Visualization - Tableau & MS Excel Data Management & Reporting Microsoft Office Suite (advanced MS Excel - vlookup, index, match, sumifs, and pivot tables, pivot charts, Word, PowerPoint, Access) MS Sharepoint ERP - SAP HCM End User and Functional Consultant GSuite (GSheet, Gdocs, Gslides GDrive) Project planning and development Agile - Scrum Project Management Lean & Kanban Board PMI processes Risk management Service & Release Management Change Management Business Analysis Vendor Management Process Automation and Process Improvement Functional Specification Documentation s and Documentation Team building and Mentoring

RDBMS: - ORACLE 11g, MySQLProficient with SQL

Operating System: Mac OS, Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Newark, CA

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Design Manager / Design/ Engineering / QA to develop project scope and to define project plan that comply with the vision, the strategy and the goals of the BG (Business Group).
• Supervise across the project and ensure meeting Resource Cost, the Schedule, and the product eXperience (aka C2SX).
• Scrum Master for the team, be help the team to achieve sprint goals, remove obstacles and guide team to follow best scrum practices.
• Create, develop and manage program budget and product cost targets, staffing requirements, resource planning, schedule for program and product delivery.
• Establish aggressive, but realistic schedules and cost targets based on project requirements and business needs.
• Create risk management list and contingency plans. Decide upon and execute contingency plans, when required . Synthesize data and information related to scope or risks change.
• Report and communicate on regular basis; escalate when project goals are at risk. This includes regular reporting of project status to key stakeholders, Business Group (BG) directors through management review meetings and Gate meetings as prescribed by internal development processes.
• Build strong relationship with our key partners and stakeholders such as Design, Marketing, and QA
• Collaborate with Managers to improve project organization, efficiency (tools, processes) and time to market. Ensure that project activities operate within the policies and processes of the organization.
• Identify and skill gaps within project management team and as well in cross-functional teams - take care of and develop best practices; share key learning from Post Completion Report (PCR).
• Support processes and tools that standardize software development activities to increase effectiveness and efficiency.

Project Analyst/Coordinator Intern

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Schedule, track, manage and provide reporting on project activities.
• Facilitating Release planning by closely working with developers.
• Creating release planning documentation.
• Overseeing deployment of code within said timelines
• Heavy Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook use.
• Develop, improve and maintain project process.
• Working with team members in creating metrics for assigned task.
• Manage stakeholder's expectations, project plans and communications and provide updates as needed.
• Assist in reviewing project integration processes and reporting for accuracy; Summarize and document process improvement across projects.
• Identified process inefficiencies through gap analysis.
• Recommended operational improvements based on tracking and analysis.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Product Roadmap, Align Development Process with Agile Project Methodologies.
• Documented business processes and analyzed procedures to see that they would meet changing business needs.
• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
• Provide Project Management support to the team.
• Formalization of Project Management deliverables.
• Product Offering As a Service / Subscription.
• Product Management and Partnership.

Project Coordinator / Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyze client's business requirements and processes through document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis to understand client business, translate their needs and provide them with the very best solution.
• Coordinate and organize meetings, including notification to prospective attendees, set-up, pre- and post-meeting correspondence, meeting minutes, records and uploaded minutes, action items and risks to SharePoint site.
• Analyzed and compiled periodic reports to seek documentation compliance. Managed and maintained data repository SharePoint and team webpage.
• Daily use of Excel, pivot tables, VLOOKUP, data validation, data analysis and dashboard update.
• Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Liaise between business and technical personnel to ensure a mutual understanding of processes and applications.
• Coordinated/ assisted project tasks and resource requirements.
• Capture and maintain the knowledge and documentation on Sharepoint Site
• Align & communicate Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Collaborate extensively with stakeholder to advance projects, monitor objectives and tasks and advise on technical customizations.
• Create and maintain schedules, utilizing organization and time management skills consistently meeting deadlines and goals.
• Drive the process in a high-volume / time-sensitive environment, working for various clients (John Deere, Monsanto etc.) Develop and maintain relationship with stakeholders.
• Actively participated & helped in restructuring and streamlining processes so that they are in line with industry best practices.
• Managed and resolved escalations by escalating it to the right people, at the right time & with the right communication.
• Directed planning, budgeting, vendor selection and quality assurance efforts.
• Supervised the work of 10 team members, offering constructive feedback on their work performance.
• Defined clear targets and objectives and communicated them to other team members.
• Reviewed sales, customer concerns and new opportunities to drive business strategy at weekly planning sessions.
• Assessed vendor products and maintained positive vendor relations.