Project Manager Management
Resume:
Venkatesan (Venkatesh) Lakshminarayanan
Union City, CA
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND GLOBAL IT DELIVERY
10+ years experience in providing software for eBusiness, Financials, Banking, Insurance and Manufacturing industries utilizing multiple technologies. Successfully managed all aspects of Portal and application development throughout the SDLC process. Worked in functional and matrixed organizations, in a Water fall and Agile Environment with knowledge of Kanban. Solid management skills, change management skills, capable of leading, mentoring and motivating individuals to maximize levels of productivity while forming cohesive team environments. Worked in migration, integration, B2B, B2C, WebOnline, Oracle, Multi-channel ecommerce, Retail, POS and Online Retail store, Insurance, banking and manufacturing environments. Exceptional planning, coordination and communication skills, focused on building strong customer relationships and establishing a long standing relationship with the organization to promote organizational growth and self-worth. Certification includes Project Management Professional (PMBOK) and Certified Scrum Master. Core competencies include the following skills set.
• Project Delivery Lead (>$8M) • Communications & Governance using Standard SDLC • Risk & Issue Management
• Estimation, Resourcing, Allocation • PMLC/SDLC Standards & Methods, Agile Scrum Master • Problem Solving & Mgt Reporting
• Program / Change Management • User interface (e-Com), Online IT, Finance & Retail Systems • Business Process Engineering
• Software development roots • Knowledge of Cognos reporting
Anritsu, CA Oct 2016 – Apr 2017
Sr. Project Manager
• Worked closely with Business and technology to complete requirements, UI, technology design and develop application, CMS in SITECORE to support the Web enhancement project
• Created process to build BRD, FRD Design specifications, change processes and sharepoint documentation
• Stakeholders included teams from US, Japan, Korea, Russia, UK and China
• Managed UI/Functional enhancements to the current website deploying in a managed MS Azure cloud environment
Harman, San Francisco, CA Jan 2015 – Oct 2016
Target Corporation
Sr. Project Manager – Scrum master
OOPIS – Order Online and Pick up in store – Omni channel solution:
• Actively contributed towards a Product development program from evaluation, conception, design, development, testing, beta implementation and production live
• Integrated SSO with Target.com website
• Ensured application works in an Omni channel environment
• Performance testing and code refactoring were implemented after Jmeter testing
• Security testing scans and Penetration testing using Veracode were implemented and code remediation was completed
• Managed with team as large as 50 in a 5 scrum team environment to implement OOPIS in a multi million project
• Implemented process to ensure that peer code reviews, client code reviews, Jenkins check in reviews, and security standards were implemented across multiple teams
• Implemented process to initiate new members, communicate, foster teamwork, set priorities of projects towards release, track and report information across to client and led positively bringing together a team of 100
Projects – Enhancements of Legacy POS Telecommunication application:
• Build out Roadmap of Projects and budget resources, schedule hiring and plan execution of multiple projects
• Proven ability to achieve results in high-pressure environments and to keep teams motivated
• Managed monthly releases of product to the market in an OMNI channel environment
• Ability to facilitate both business and technical discussions, leading multiple teams to sync up on requirements, technical integration, testing and hand off
• Applied Agile software development using JIRA, SDLC, and Business Analysis practices to schedule monthly product releases, and educated international teams to follow scrum practices
• Developed and maintained vital relationships across multiple internal and external departments to accomplish deliverables on time using scrum ceremonies across the multi-functional departments
• Acted as an SME in a SAAS environment, working with Business, tech and support teams during the different phases of product development in a SSO, Omni channel environment with upgrades and enhancements
• Partnered with Dev Ops to Implement software projects and plan infrastructure needs, monitoring using splunk, HP OVO and AppDynamic for software performance enhancements
• Ensured that the Infrastructure implementation supported multiple levels of support for the dev, qa and pre-release and production stacks
• Extensively worked with teams managing projects in Java, Mulesoft, ESB during coding and implementation
• Integrated, scheduled and code remediation after Veracode security testing scans and penetration testing across the board to implement Cybersecurity recommendations
• Ensured peer code reviews before check ins, client code reviews, code approvals on Jenkins boxes
• Ensured that the teams followed the coding guidelines, security standards, and standards around creation of reusable objects
• JMeter performance testing enhancements were incorporated and security testing re-initiation
• Code repositories and code movement to higher environments were controlled and regulated
• Code freeze and restrictions around higher site availability periods were strictly enforced
Perficient, San Francisco, CA April 2014 – Jan 2015
Blue Shield, San Francisco, CA
Sr. Technical Project Manager – Scrum Master
Omni Channel – Enhancement of UI and Functionality of BlueShiled Insurance App
• Efficiently managed day to day operations in technical, business and functional aspects of project delivering quality solutions in an OMNI channel environment
• Implemented Jenkins jobs to automate deployments across multiple environments to ensure testing and deployment scheduling
• Managed onshore and offshore teams in monthly releases and scheduled 2 week demos to stakeholders in mobile and web environments
• Ensured code reviews, managed client code reviews, design reviews, and SIT, UAT and pre-production testing
• Managed teams of up to 25 employees and contractors in a budget of 2 million dollars
• Ensured load testing remediation to code after testing using Jmeter
• Implemented code reviews, code refactoring, object reuse and coding standards across multiple teams
• Analyzed Mobile devices’ usage and ensured that scalability of application across new and existing devices were not compromised
• Consistently exceeded expectations to proactively work with the multiple scrum teams to define and implement processes for Development, testing and releases
• Established strong partnering with vendor teams and managed SOW definitions and approvals
• Conducted scrum training and ceremonies working with multiple scrum teams in two week sprint cycles using JIRA, Confluence and Sharepoint
• Ensured that the teams followed the coding guidelines, security standards, and standards around creation of reusable objects
• Code freeze and restrictions around higher site availability periods were strictly enforced
Bank of the West, San Ramon, CA Feb 2013 – Oct 2013
Technical Project Manager III, VP
Security banking solution – Vendor evaluation / Integration
• Efficiently managed communications and coordinated technical and business discussions, to have business requirements documented, analyzed and estimated
• Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple related projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational processes
• Requirements defined by Marketing, IT Call center and released in phases
• Monitored project activities and updated management and stakeholders of risks and mitigations needed to bring project back on track in a SAAS environment
E*Trade Financials, Menlo Park, CA Feb 2011 – Feb 2013
Senior Staff, Technical Program Management – SCRUM / Waterfall
Implementation of Futures Trading & Multiple Projects
• Managed multi-million dollar projects for cost, scope, quality and timeline working in a strict regulatory environment with semi-annual audits
• Efficiently managed business updates, management updates and peer level updates
• Successfully managed projects through AGILE and Waterfall and worked successfully integrating SAAS vendors into the mainstream applications using Rally
• Project reports and budgets managed through Project Tracking System (HP)
• Efficiently scheduled, delivered project working with multi-functional teams across global locations
• Managed deliverables working closely with extended vendor to meet project constraints
• Documented lessons learned, managed project artifacts for company audits
GlobalEnglish Corporation, San Francisco, CA July 2010 – Feb 2011
Senior Project Manager – SCRUM Master
Enhancements of Learning solution applications
• Successfully worked with multiple project teams to manage scope, plan and development
• Established detailed pre-planning, ownership of tasks, and updates from teams regularly
• Managed multiple projects through Agile SCRUM – using Rally
• Documented lessons learned and closed project
• Organized kickoff, bi-weekly status update meetings and retrospection on Sprint performance to stakeholders and management
SAPIENT, San Francisco, CA Nov 2009 – June 2010
Manager, Program Management – eCommerce – SCRUM Master
Enhancements of Web Application Platform for target.com
• Managed multiple tracks in the Ecommerce portal redesign of website Target.com
• Led teams of multiple tracks to manage scope, plan and development in an Agile Scrum using Rally
• Managed track level, vertical level, inter track and inter vertical level dependencies, issues and risks working with multiple teams and managed tracks dashboards
• Developed program / project plans and schedules through consistent estimation and team consensus building with tracking milestones and dependencies
• Trained vendors to use Sapient plan tool to provide consistent approach to status tracking and reporting
• Responsible for all Proposal Response Activities:
o RFP Proposal Response Management
o Proposal Writing
o Proposal Pricing
o Teaming arrangements
• Managed plan for Agile SCRUM methodology through custom tracking tool; provided status reports, conducted kickoffs, checkpoints and everyday status management with load balancing of available resources, buffer management and risk management.
WALMART.COM, Brisbane, CA Jun 2008 – May 2009
Senior Project Manager – eCommerce
• Established and monitored multiple project objectives across eCommerce projects to meet cost, scope, quality, time and resource allocations using key metrics to meet business goals.
• Drove upgrade Portal projects to completion using YUI (Yahoo User Interface) components and monitored website performance through analysis of metrics from Keynote statistics optimizing site performance at Akamai servers
• Worked closely with marketing and product team to capture and prioritize requirements and work with technology team to ensure delivery timelines
• Informed core team, stakeholders, PMO and management on major issues and prioritized trackers with updates and follow ups
• Reviewed, resolved conflicts and revised scope, time cost and quality analytics and metrics based on changing business requirements from multiple tracks
• Enabled superior page performance using analytics from KeyNote and Omniture; implemented Site Strategies
AGILYSYS CORPORATION, Emeryville, CA Jul 2003 – Jun 2008
Senior Project Manager
• Led teams to re-engineer flagship ERP EatecX product into a web eCommerce portal application providing Enterprise software solutions across multiple sites and locations
• Defined and managed requirements, schedules, scope working with multiple business groups and planned project lifecycle deployment
• Managed change management releases for existing customers
• Worked with USDA and coast guard to adopt standards and approvals
• Implemented CRM Salesforce solution for company team integrating into the ERP system
• Implemented document sharing, repository and backups across organization
• Coordinated with multi-functional teams, multiple tracks, through product/application conception, design, development, test, release and maintenance
• Conducted kick off, weekly and monthly team meetings with Business, Engineers and stakeholders to track progress of projects and changes in delivery variables of scope, time, cost and quality
• Managed metrics of development, QA for weekly, monthly and quarterly tracking solving complex issues
• Served as a Single Point of Contact / interface for supporting Customers / Third parties / Clients / Stakeholders and key issues for management.
• Managed preparation of documentation, installation procedures, marketing presentations and preparing project management training materials
OTHER SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCE
Project Manager/Team Lead, HP.COM, Sunnyvale Nov 2002 – Jun 2003
Project Manager, Bank of America, San Francisco Oct 2001 – Oct 2002
Technical Project Manager, Inleague Inc May 1998 – Oct 2001
Sr. Business Analyst / Sr. Programmer Analyst, LAM Research Corp Jan 1995 – May 1998
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION
MBA, California State University, Hayward, CA, 2007
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
PMI® certified Project Management Professional (PMP®)
Certified SCRUM Master (CSM@)
MCDBA in SQL Server 2000
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