Project Manager Quality Assurance

SUMMARY

Dynamic, highly experienced Senior Program Manager with over 10 years

of related professional experience in diverse, technical, fast-pasted

creative environments is seeking a challenging and strategic position with

a progressive organization. Proven track record of reliable delivery of

quality projects that vary in complexity, scope, cost and duration.

Experience creating, building and managing Project Management Office and

defining various business processes that help organization to improve

efficiency in project execution and provide much needed transparency to

various stakeholders.

Strong leadership and mentoring skills. Expert in running software

development projects utilizing Agile.

HIGHLIGHTS

. Expert in managing large project teams and multiple projects concurrently

in high pressure, high visibility environment. Successful delivery of

various new programs for Interthinx (division of Verisk Analytics), Sony

Pictures and Sony Corporate of America, NBCi, and J.D.Powers &

Associates.

. Practice predictive (non-reactive) management approach to problem

solving. Able to anticipate project problems and correct them before they

affect the delivery date or quality. Provide creative solutions to

resolve various issues and help the teams to bring ideas to fruition.

. Strong leadership skills managing team of Project Managers and projects

cross functional teams. Successful implementation and growth of PMO group

that provides decision support to business goals and objectives and

standard methodology in managing projects.

. Strong communication skills managing various working interfaces with

other functional specialists involved in the software development cycle.

Proven track record in developing and maintaining cooperative, solution-

focused relations with other project/product stakeholders.

. Hired, trained and managed professional staff of project managers. Rolled

out new processes/methodology (Agile Scrum) in the technology

organization. Personally trained various technical teams on the basics of

Agile methodology.

. Certified Agile Scrum Master. Expert knowledge of full project lifecycle

and software development methodologies ranging from traditional

waterfall, RUP (Rational Unified Process), and Agile methodologies.

. Expert knowledge in various business process improvements. Development

and documented and roll out various software development processes to

improve organizational efficiency, time to market.

. Strong product development skills ranging from SOW and proposal writing,

business requirements definition and marketing planning. Ability to

analyze market needs and segments; ability to balance features with

practical implementation. Experience creating business requirements, use

cases. Knowledge of information architecture and development of wire

frames

TECHNOLOGY

. Expert knowledge of Microsoft Project and Microsoft Office Suite (Word,

Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), Windows XP operating system.

. Expert knowledge of Jira/Confluence/Green Hopper Collaboration Systems.

. Understanding of various software frameworks such as .NET and J2EE .

. Understanding of relational databases such as Microsoft SQL, DB2, key

aspects of data modeling and data mining. Basic knowledge of SQL

. Understanding of web technologies such as XML/SOAP web services.

. Knowledge of web content publishing & content management systems.

EXPERIENCE

Interthinx, Division of Verisk Analytics - Director, Project Management/Sr.

Project Manager, November 2005 -Present

Key accomplishments:

. Created and grew efficient Project Management Office that provides

decision support for business goals, re-alignment of resources and &

inner project prioritization

. Built Portfolio Management System that improved overall project

information transparency

. Rolled out new software development process (Agile SCRUM) and mentored

technology team.

. Developed and standardized software development processes that

provided efficiency and improved time to market.

. Manage key company technology projects such as roll out of the

company's flagship risk management product, FraudGUARD.

. Hired and trained team of professional project managers

Responsibilities:

. Manage multiple complex software development projects concurrently

that vary in size, budget, and duration through all the phases of the

software development cycle: from inception to product launch and post-

production support.

. Manage projects utilizing various types of project management

methodology from iterative implementation to Agile SCURM.

. Act as SRUM Master, provide leadership, and work direction to project

team members on day-to-day basis to meet quality, schedule, and

milestones commitments. Remove impediments to ensure teams' ability to

meet sprint goals. Act as a buffer between the team and distracting

influences.

. Schedule and facilitate sprint and product planning meetings, conduct

daily scrums. Report team progress through burndown charts, provide

velocity reporting and release progress reporting. Bring projects to

closure, implement process improvements suggested by teams.

. Perform overall portfolio risk and contingency planning, track

interproject dependencies. Responsible for development of rollout

release schedules, resource utilization plans for a large technology

group (team of 70).

. Developed and manage Project Portfolio Management System that improves

project management efficiency, offers valuable metrics that measure

projects' trends, and provides decision support to business units.

. Work with various project groups and stakeholders: Engineering,

Product Management, Design, QA, Technical Operations and other

departments in different locations to align project implementation,

resources and resolve conflicts & dependencies.

. Know at all times the health of projects &, project risks and

dependencies. Responsible for the overall direction and management of

all technology projects ensuring consistency of processes across

projects and customer satisfaction with the results

. Manage and mentor staff of project managers (team of 4)

. Responsible for transparency in tracking and communication - developed

sophisticated project progress reporting & monitoring mechanism that

synchronizes communication among project functions and other business

stakeholders

Sony Pictures Digital/ Sony Corporate of America -Program Manager, Sr.,

July 2001 - November 2005

Key accomplishments:

. Managed the initial launch and subsequent releases of Sony download music

service (Sony Connect). Successful implementation of Sony Connect

service allowed the company to enter the new business previously owned by

Apple - an on-line music store - especially in the US.

. Managed the initial launch and subsequent releases of Sony Pictures

Digital video download service (SoapCity Download ). Successful

implementation of this project allowed the company to pioneer in the area

of video download and offer a unique value to soap operas fans

. Led prototype and initial product analysis, business viability assessment

of Connect Video Service

Responsibilities:

. Lead core business Program consisted of a number of concurrent

projects

. Manage large scale software development projects through inception to

launch.

. Lead up to 25 person teams in day-to-day execution of project member

responsibilities. Team members include Business Analysts, Software

Developers, Lead Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers, System

Operations and Product Team.

Plan, direct and coordinate all areas of project to ensure milestones

are met by establishing viable work-flow, creating master project plan

and monitoring team members' progress.

Prepare and present weekly status reports which include project

timelines, development highlights and risk management summary, for

senior management team.

Host daily triage of development issues/bugs with tech leads and QA

managers to properly assign and prioritize fixes.

Develop and manage change control process to minimize scope creep.

Managed vendor selection process through services proposals and SOW

evaluation; production costs reviews, interviews and risk analysis.

Actively involved in new personnel hiring and mentoring.

Respond TV - Product Development Manager, January 2001 - April 2001

Managed development of Interactive TV product suite designed for

Interactive TV platform operators. Product suite allowed cable operators to

provide interactive, on-demand services. Took product from prototype to

final release within allotted time and budget.

Responsibilities:

. Managed cross-functional team of engineers, designers, and system

architects developing Interactive TV delivery platform.

. Produced product roadmap and implementation plans.

. Prepared detailed Marketing and Production Requirement Documentation

for the Interactive TV channel.

. Performed product market research of competing products, issues and

opportunities.

NBC Internet (NBCi) - Sr. Project Manager, January 2000 - January 2001

Managed complete overhaul and successful re-launch of NBCI E-commerce site

in time for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. In parallel,

managed development and operation of NBCi Shopping Merchant Program - an e-

commerce sites hosting system.

Responsibilities:

. Managed all aspects of project from business requirements definition

trough construction and transition phases of a project.

. Managed Quality Assurance (team of 4) and the Operations team (team of

10)

. Coordinated geographically distributed product development process.

. Led cross-functional development teams.

. Contributed to definition and shaping of NBCi's e-commerce strategy

. Worked with executive group to define hiring strategy for the

division. Conducted hiring

JD Power and Associates - Technical Project Manager/Supervisor, April 1997

- January 2000

Designed and deployed effective methods and procedures for data control,

cleansing, maintenance, reliability and integrity rules for various

marketing studies in accordance with strict clients' requirements.

Responsibilities:

. Conducted requirements definition meetings with existing and potential

clients. Managed implementation of various client custom studies for

the data sampling group.

. Hands-on expertise in building business applications using RPG IV,

DB2/400, AS/400, Visual Basic and Microsoft SQL server 7.

. Designed database models, developed data extraction routines.

. Managed Data Sampling Group (team of 4)

. Represented IS department in company-wide transition from AS/400 to

Oracle 8i environment. The goal of the transition was to build modern

and extensible e-business platform that would incorporate company -

wide data warehouse.

Xircom, Inc - Technical Accounting Analyst, April 1994 - March 1997

Supported and maintained Oracle 7 Financials and Manufacturing Modules.

Successfully managed deployment of various internal software applications.

Conducted cost accounting, accounts receivable, monthly /quarterly closings

and forecasts.

EDUCATION / TRAINING

Certified SCRUM Master, 2009

MBA, The Graziadio School of Business and Management, Pepperdine

University, Malibu, CA 2002

B.S. Business Administration, State University of Vilnius, Vilnius,

Lithuania, 1992

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