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Project Manager Quality Assurance

Location:
New York, NY
Posted:
November 24, 2013

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Qualifications Summary

Expert in Agile software development, release management and results-

driven information technology professional, with over 15 years of

comprehensive experience IT support desk application, developing and

delivering technical solutions as well as in leading and supporting high-

performance teams. Dedicated and hands-on leader with in-depth knowledge of

software development life cycle. Armed with well-developed interpersonal

skills along with the ability to motivate and direct others in a supportive

and cooperative team environment. Proven track record in rendering support

and service with knowledge in providing guidelines and assisting

organizations to migrate all support activities under a organization.

Highly capable of coordinating well with management and cross-functional

teams in executing daily tasks and functions.

Core Competencies

Startup Planning Scoping Scheduling Budgeting Delivery Skills

Problem Resolution and Decision-Making

Coordination and Collaboration Documentation and Presentation Roadmap

Development Risk Management

End-User and Application Support Software Development (SDLC-

Waterfall/Agile)

Functional Skills

. Service Management - Adeptness in establishing effective service desk and

application service goals and solutions encompassing major incident

service level to optimize cross-functional performance improvement across

the organization.

. Innovation, Strategic and Tactical Planning - Talent in identifying

organizational competitors and support methodologies and designated task

to appropriate individuals to promote efficiencies and quality.

. Policies and Standards Compliance - Skill in creating an inventory of all

existing support worldwide and development of projects in compliance with

the organization policies as well as in appointing and designating tasks

to appropriate personnel.

. Communication and Interpersonal - Effective application of interpersonal

and communication skills in coordinating with business partners in

resolving and supporting related issues in the entire organization as

well as in working closely with the technology group to secure effective

support regarding the information and statistics and ensured migration to

a similar platform and develop process to expedite delivery in current

and future tool.

Professional History

B2BSoft New York, NY

IT Product DEVELOPMENT MANAGER SENIOR SCRUM MASTER AGILE COACH 2012-

Present

Developed and implemented product roadmap vision based on company's

business, competitive analyses and market insights. Directed and closely

collaborated with cross-functional teams (merchants, design, marketing and

development) in managing the full product development cycle across all

business verticals. Executed Agile-product driven processes to ensure speed-

to-market of development at desired timeline.

Carrier Highlights :

V Effectively led the team of product owners to define and prioritize

enhancements to the application as well as team of designers,

technical communicators, and user researchers to ensure clear and

correct definition of product enhancements utilizing Scrum best

practices.

V Introduced Scrum/Agile practices to the organization.

V Successfully collaborated with the executive team in developing and

maintaining the 12-month product roadmap.

V Proactively participated as the member of Agile steering committee

that took charge for defining Agile implementation.

V Worked closely with product development, operations, editorial,

product management, and product marketing teams to the delivery as

well as to rollout the applications and services.

V Took charge of providing excellent people management to team

members.

V Coach the Product Owner,New Scrum masters, Development team

members and delegates'

V Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-ups, print

planning meetings, Scrum of Scrums and retrospectives.

V Brought out the entrepreneurial spirit by leading new initiatives

and programs across department boundaries to drive success against

company goals and objectives.

V Actively involved with the new overseas IT team that enhance the

building infrastructure and informing proper procedures in the

workplace.

Millhouse 1889, LLC. Computool Inc.-New York, NY

Sr. AGILE Technical Project Manager 2009-2012

. This position was met and exceeded by managing and leading new product

enabling activities, to ensure the effective transfer of developmental

products from concept to development, while reporting directly to the

CTO and CEO..

. Hold full accountability for guiding the full life cycle testing of

web, client-server based software for the insurance industry.

Collaborate with software development, business and project management

teams to monitor progress of product releases, assess risks and

impacts on project deliverables, and recommend mitigation

strategies. Delivered and performed comprehensive knowledge in data

modeling, data flow diagramming, UML, web services, SQL, performance

tuning, and analytics.

. Supervised the release schedule, customer communication, as well as

the technical documentation for new and existing projects through

Agile/Scrum methodology.

. Presented and applied the enterprise-level release management, project

management, and issue tracking tools to global sites (JIRA and

GreenHopper).

. Delivered and performed comprehensive knowledge in data modeling, data

flow diagramming, UML, web services, SQL, performance tuning, and

analytics.

Career Highlights:

V Assumed a pivotal role in the establishment of offshore office in

Minsk, Belarus, reporting to the CTO and Sr. Product Director,

responsible for directing and leading the Development team from pre-

pro to full scale development.

V Took part and played a major role in the creation of database

design models, structural designs, and data indexes in numerous

categories.

V Eliminate an 2 million dollars loss by proposing a new product that

met the client original needs, also provided a new state of the

art solution for Mobil solution; thereby signing a new contract

with sufficient funds to deliver projects

V Improved existing software development efficiency 45% in six months

that delivered fixed prices software solution

V Raised sprint planning accuracy from 60% to 108%; reduced the

requirements inventory by 40%; and decreased the sprint planning

time by 33%.

V Defined and implemented software development and QA process to move

the company from startup mode to a more repeatable, predictable

development model.

V Presented information on quality assurance practices to upper

management and showed how a focus on quality is important to the

company's success.

V Initiated the set-up of lagging Agile/Scrum process.

Fidelity Investments-New York, NY

Project Leader Senior Software Engineer Developer 2000-2009

. Led the development of the database systems as well as developed user

interfaces through Visual Basic 5, Visual Basic 6, XML, ActiveX, DLL, and

SQL; and stored all data in Informix.

. Constructed web services using centralized image storage solutions

including FileNet and fidelity image management system, where the latest

web service enhancements for DIME attachment manipulations were being

used.

. Spearheaded and managed direct communication between Alternative

Investments workstation (an Oracle, ASP. Net / VB.Net application

developed to support the Alternative Investments group under the Mutual

Fund Division of Fidelity Investments used to store trades, ACAT

transfers, non-ACAT transfers, dividends, and reconciliations) and

private offerings and mainframe systems associated with AI trade and

transfer processing; wherein the links were real-time allowing for shadow-

posting across customer and processing accounts and intra-day money

movement.

. Presided over the development of rules-based alternative investments

workstation project, a $3.5M fidelity initiative for processing and

improving transactions across several groups which included non-listed

REITs and private equity and debt and hedge funds.

. Made use of Oracle 10 backend, ASP.NET/VB.NET front-end and sub-

applications, including GUI for third-party brokers and corresponding

business units to design and develop front-end application architecture.

. Piloted the establishment transaction processing systems for over 4.5

million brokerage, institutional, and mutual fund accounts through the

introduction of new technologies, hiring of key technical resources,

streamlining of software development lifecycle, and training of staff.

. Rendered leadership to multiple cross-functional teams as well as

supervised and directed the development of trading systems through .NET

and XML web services.

. Supported, developed, and coordinated with MIS Fidelity Investment of

India in the daily supervision and communications of all existing MIS

application.

Career Highlights:

V Established the software development methodology and quality

assurance operations to secure high level of efficiency in the

entire development lifecycle by designing, developing,

implementing, and maintaining the organization's Alternative

Investments Workstation system.

V Utilized Microsoft .NET technologies and data manipulations on

Oracle, Sybase, Informix, and other platforms in constructing,

supervising, and implementing web services for MIS applications for

the centralization of security repository.

V Promoted improvement in the quality of software products by

introducing complex design and testing standards, resulting in a

more error-free product being handed to quality assurance.

V Developed and established imaging workflow client-server-based

application for more than 50 trade professionals of restricted

stock certificates.

Earlier Career

Matsushita Electric Corporation of America (Panasonic)-Secaucus, NJ

Senior Programmer/Analyst (MIS Department) 1997-2000

CompUtech Consulting, Inc-New York, NY

Programmer / Analyst (Consultant) 1995-1997

Education and Credentials

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Computer Engineering 1992

Military Engineering University-Moscow, Russia

Computer Programmer Certification 1996

Chubb Institute-Jersey City, NJ, USA

Learning Tree International-New York, NY-1999

Panasonic Training Center-Secaucus, NJ-1998

Hyperion Software-Stamford, CT- 1997

Certifications

Scrum Alliance -Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Agile Evolution Inc NYC, NY:

Member: 000209423 Expires: 29 Aug, 2014

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Pinnacle 3 Learning-

NYC, NY: Oct, 2012

Oracle 7 SQL Language Hands-On Certification ( Hyperion Technical

Administration Certification

VB6 Developing Com Object Certification

Web Site Development Certification (HTML, IIS, ASP, CGI, PERL)

Affiliations

Project Management Institute (PMI), New York City Chapter

Technical Acumen

Enterprise Web-Based Applications CMS Solutions ERP Systems

Microsoft Development Technologies and Architecture:

C#, ASP.NET, XML, SQL Server, JavaScript, HTML, AJAX, and Web 2.0)

Sr. Agile Technical software development project

manager



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