Project Manager Quality Assurance

Rudresh Shanthamurthy

Cell: 646-***-****

Email: ***********@*****.***

Professional Summary:

• Experienced Project Manager with 11+ years in IT with 6 years in Project Management

& 2 years in Program Management

• Expertise in project management; a natural leader with innate management skills and

able to manage small, medium and large project teams .

• Worked with Big 4 consulting company and possess global exposure of working for

clients in India, UK and USA

• Expertise in executing eCommerce, iOS, Android & Windows mobile technologies on

large distributed environment

• Successfully executed projects on fixed bid, T & M & retainer / staffing

• Lead the project to by facilitating scope, managing customer expectations,

monitoring day to day execution and ensuring the project is on schedule and within

budget

• Create and maintain standard project management deliverables leveraging appropriate

methods and practices to manage and control the project

• Handle communication between the project team, program manager, senior

management and all impacted stakeholders

• Manage team of onshore and offshore software engineers, emphasizing top-notch

development practices

• Aggressively work with development teams, quality assurance teams, designers, and

management to ensure & deliver the most valuable products

• Manage towards results using fact-based processes while always striving to improve

those processes in an agile environment

• Identify, manage project risk, budget & track expenditures

• Track and report project status on a regular basis, including escalating issues that

require management attention

• Mentor and coach team members to ensure short-term tasks are successful while

continually developing their skills

• Create an environment of success to enable confident project execution by project teams

• Exposed to all required tools that are needed to perform the job efficiently such as MS

Word, Excel, Power Point, MS Project, MS Visio

Technical Skills

Primary Skills Java, J2EE, iOS, Android, .Net, Project Management & Delivery

Secondary Skills Hibernate, Springs, jQuery, CSS. HTML 5.0

Software Methodologies Agile, Water Fall, Ideation

Database Oracle, SQL & DB2

Domain Banking, Health Care, Media & Entertainment, Apparel, Retail,

Household/Personal Care

Operating Systems Android, iOS, Windows, Unix & Linux

Application Servers IBM Websphere, BEA Weblogic, Tomcat, JBoss

IDE Net Beans & Eclipse

Tools Rational Clear Case, Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio, JIRA, Test

Director, Win CVS, Visual Source Safe, SVN, MPP, SFDC, Bugzilla

Education:

• Bachelors in Engineering, Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Bangalore University,

India, 1997

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Accomplishments:

• Successfully executed more than a million dollar project every year

Certifications:

• Brain Bench Certified Java Programmer 2.0

• Brain Bench Certified Java-EJB Programmer

• Brain Bench Certified Web Programmer

• Brain Bench Certified C++ Programmer

• Brain Bench Certified Java Script Programmer

Trainings:

• Project Management Professional

• ITIL Service Transition

• ITSM Activator Training

• ITSM Approver Training

• ITSM Change Manager Training

Professional Experience

Client: L’Oreal, NJ Nov 13 – Present

Role: Project Manager

Team Size: 23

Domain: House Hold / Personal Care

Project Description:

To enhance the existing Salon Centric features, introduce forms for Kerastase business & align

Salon Centric with Skinceuticals. This application has Admin roles that will be entitled to create

promo order forms based on the business decision. The sales representative of Salon Centric,

Kerastase or Skinceuticals will place the order based on the customer request. Order can be

simulated to know the actual value or availability in SAP. On successful simulation, the order will

be placed by sales representatives either by On Account, Credit Card, and Cash on Delivery,

The order placed will have six months validity

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple/simultaneous IT projects from beginning to end

• Clearly, concisely and effectively communicate project expectations to team members

and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion

• Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis

• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other

stakeholders

• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel

• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path

• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools

• Track project milestones and deliverables using appropriate tools

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• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise

contingency plans

• Communicate/disseminate project success criteria to involved parties throughout project

life cycle

• Adapt and conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and

problem-solving capabilities

• Proven ability to deliver projects on time and on budget while communicating with key

senior leaders

• Proficient with business process, operations, and metric definition best practices

• Identify areas of risk and opportunity, manage conflicts, and collaboratively create

mutually acceptable solutions.

• Develop, maintain, and publish program management documentation including, scope

definitions, schedules, risk & issue management reports and resource estimates for

various initiatives

• Delivered projects on time and on- budget while on communication with key senior

leaders

• Proficient with program and project management principles and practices

• Work closely with business stake holders during BUAT phase

Environment: Java, J2EE, Springs, Hibernate, Tomcat, SQL Server2005, JIRA, Mercury, SVN,

HTML5.0, jQuery, CSS, UNIX, iOS, xCode, SQLite

Client: JP Morgan Chase, NY Aug 12 – Nov 13

Project Manager

Team Size: 35

Domain: Banking

Project:

• JP Morgan Chase – Self Service Portal

Project Description:

To Develop Self Service portal as a standalone application with new user experience by

addressing, usability and performance issues to increase adoption. To Integrate with SiteMinder

for SSO and enhanced role based access to the admin portal and multi tenancy, single instance

to support multiple LOBs. The scope involved migration of existing Events and associated data

like Speakers, Hotel/Venue (one time) and master data update scripts for importing the

Global/Institutional speaker list (one time)

Responsibilities:

• Lead Project/Program Management engagements focused on any of the following:

network transformation, network deployment, product/service development, process re-

engineering, and business strategy

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• Contribute pro-actively with business and solutions consulting teams during the presales

phase

• Create customer proposals which lead to the selection of code for client projects

• Provide thought leadership with respect to program governance, program setup and

program management - provide insights rooted in industry trends and client needs

• Evaluate and/or reengineer existing project/programs

• Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals, plans, milestones and deliverables

• Define and manage project tasks, timelines, resource requirements/allocation

• Coordinate activities of all key project team members - including mentoring/direction

Manage project budget, quality assurance, risk and issues management, change control

management

• Track project deliverables using appropriate tools

• Stakeholder interaction and reporting on regular basis

• Work closely with business stake holders during BUAT phase

Environment: Java, J2EE, Springs, Hibernate, Tomcat, SQL Server2005, JIRA, Mercury, SVN,

HTML5.0, jQuery, CSS, UNIX, iOS, xCode, SQLite

Client: Best Buy, MN Oct 11 – Aug 12

Role: Project Manager

Team size: 28

Domain: Retail

Project:

• Mobile Upgrade Checker

• Digital Deals

Project Description:

Mobile Upgrade Checker will allow the customer to upgrade the existing plans based on the

service agreement. The users will be notified via mail two months prior to contract expire date.

The upgrade checker was targeted for Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, AT & T. This application is hybrid

& targeted for both desktop & mobile. The payment transaction was managed using gateway on

credit, debit & in-store pick-up options & order submission was managed by OMS.

Responsabilités :

• Lead the project by facilitating scope, managing customer expectations, monitoring day to

day execution and ensuring the project is on schedule and within budget

• Create and maintain standard project management deliverables leveraging appropriate

methods and practices to manage and control the project

• Handle communication between the project team, senior management and all impacted

stake holders

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• Manage team of onshore and offshore software engineers on emphasizing top-notch

development practices

• Aggressively work with development teams, quality assurance teams, designers, and

management to ensure & deliver the most valuable products

• Manage towards results using fact-based processes while always striving to improve

those processes in an agile environment

• Identify, manage project risk, budget & track expenditures.

• Track and report project status on a regular basis, including escalating issues that

require management attention

• Mentor and coach team members to ensure short-term tasks are successful while

continually developing their skills

• Create an environment of success to enable confident project execution by project teams

Environment: Java, J2EE, Springs, Hibernate, Tomcat, SQL Server2005, JIRA, Mercury, SVN,

HTML5.0, jQuery, CSS, UNIX, iOS, xCode, SQLite

Client: Vodafone, Milan, Italy Nov 08 – Oct 11

Project Manager

Team Size: 40

Domain: Telecom

Project Description:

Vodafone focuses on total communications, solution for business, effective data communication &

keeps companies connected. Vodafone brings together voice and data, wireless and wire line to

help my business harness the power of total communications solutions.

Vodafone's powerful business voice solutions allow my company to control costs and improve

productivity and responsiveness. With its robust nationwide and global network infrastructure,

Vodafone has the data and voice solutions to meet my connectivity needs, whatever they are.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing and maintaining engineering teams of 25-50 people.

• Responsible for mentoring and grooming project managers to handle project execution

and ensuring project profitability across the teams

• Effectively communicated project expectations to team members and stakeholders

• Liaised with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis & estimated the capacity needed to

achieve project goals.

• Determine and assess the need for additional staff and make the appropriate

recruitments if necessary during project cycle.

• Managed end-end lifecycle of complex and large project deliveries

• Status Reporting, tracking, escalating issues, risk management for owned deliveries

• Managed concurrent project releases with engineering teams to deliver quality software

releases on time

• Bi-weekly status update to key stake holders & senior management

Environment: Java, J2EE, Springs, Hibernate, IBM Web sphere, IBM Rational Rose, JIRA, SVN,

MS-Project, UNIX, DB2, HTML 5.0, JavaScript, CSS

Client: Shell, UK Mar 06 – Oct 08

Project Manager

Team Size: 20

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Domain: Energy & Utilities

Project Description:

Shell is an energy company that explores for, produces and trades in a range of energy

resources. Shell explores for and produces oil and gas and we create essential products from

them, such as fuels and petrochemicals. Shell also has a broad portfolio of hydrogen, bio fuels,

wind and solar power interests. Shell provides consultancy and technical services as well as

research and development expertise to the energy industry. Shell has many customers across

worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Oversees large projects with minimum direction from Engineering Leadership

• Executes the project plan, project schedule, resource plan and project budget with UTAS

engineering leadership and the supplier project team

• Able to communicate with all levels of the organization

• Manage all aspects of the Project to assure achievement of Project objectives

• Knowledge of Design and Development or Verification of software

• Manage Software Product Life cycle

• Manage multiple project teams

• Meet with Technical / Functional Leads to secure the proper level and mix of manpower

to meet the project milestones and schedules

• Responsible for defining, reviewing and tracking engineering metrics like On-Time

Delivery, Quality etc.

• Ensures supplier compliance to Configuration Management and Change Control

requirements

• Responsible for ensuring scope change is identified, documented and communicated to

the project stakeholders

• Conduct Risk Review meetings and keep the Risk Register updated with robust

mitigation plans (includes implementation of mitigation plans)

• Lead project reviews with Engineering and Supplier

• Monitor progress against plan and assure corrective action where necessary.

• Ensure that each project maintains proper balance among cost, performance, and

schedule. Experience with EVMS required

• Assure smooth transition for each product from design through certification to production,

as required

• Alert management on significant plan deviations beyond his/her control and recommend

solutions

• Working knowledge of MS Project professional including resource loading and critical

path analysis

• Possesses strong skills in budgeting processes

• Demonstrated ability of mentoring Project Leads and Sr. Project Leads

Environment: Java, J2EE, springs, MS Visio, DB2, HMTL4.0, JavaScript, CSS, UNIX, JIRA,

SVN

Client: IBM, LA Jun 03 – Mar 06

Role: Project Lead

Team Size: 13

Domain: Media & Entertainment

Project Description:

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Buena Vista Home Entertainment (BVHE) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Walt

Disney Company. As part of the Walt Disney Studios, BVHE distributes and markets

Video and DVD products from the Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures etc.

BVHE thought of sharing their finished good products with their collaboration

partners in a secure environment and manage the workflow. They opted to go for

PLM Product Central which would meet their needs. Most of the OOTB functionality

was made use of & fewer customization were done.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering requirement from the client & executing the requirement to their

needs.

• Involved in preparing Functional Specification, Design Specification.

• Involved in customization for fewer modules.

• Involved in maintaining the schema for the complete Application

• Involved in conversion of JSP’s to UI tables

• Involved in moving business logic from JSP’s to Java Programming Objects.

• Involved in code review for specific module

Environment: Java, J2EE, Springs, Struts, Hibernate, Microsoft Windows 2000, Oracle 9i

Weblogic 7.1, SVN, eMatrix Core – 10.0.5.0, eMatrix ServletRMI - 10.0.5.0, Application

Exchange Framework -10.0.5.0, Product Central 10.0.5.0

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