Project Management

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS:

A highly motivated Senior Project/Portfolio Sever Consultant with over 18

years of hands-on experience in consulting, implementing, managing

Enterprise Project/Portfolio Management solutions for diverse, global

PMO/project teams to success in fast-paced environments with cutting-edge

technology. Possess strong technical and business knowledge in

Program/Project Management, PMO Office, portfolio management, capacity

planning, resource/demand management and strategic planning. Proven ability

to successfully analyze critical business requirements, identify

deficiencies and potential opportunities, and develop innovative, cost-

effective solutions to enhance productivity, revenue and improve customer

service offerings.

Major Strengths:

. MS Project/Portfolio Server (EPM/PPM): A proven track- record of success,

with 30+ major implementations and customizations, migrations,

integrations, administration, and reporting for wide-range of businesses

from IT, Engineering, Medicare, Insurance, Retail, Manufacturing to

Government.

. Program/Project Management: A proven track- record of delivering

outstanding results managing a range of programs/projects of IT,

Engineering, SW/HW, infrastructure, and implementation.

. Guru in MS Project/Portfolio Server, MS SQL, MOSS (SharePoint) and

Microsoft technologies.

. Decade of experience building, managing complex PMO Offices and providing

Enterprise Project /Program Management, Resource Capacity/Demand

Management, BI and Portfolio solutions.

. Hands-on experience implementing & migrating Project Server 2003 to 2013

for long-list-of clients.

. Leadership: Business insight, effective communication, and a flexible,

"can-do" management style.

. Certifications: Orange, Blue and Black Belt in MS Project/Project Server,

MCSE, MCTS and PMP.

. Managing EPM, SharePoint, WSS, MS SQL DBs, client/servers and integration

with TFS and ERP.

. Organizational Process Design, Portfolio/Data Analysis, Reporting and

Client Liaisoning.

. Great problem solving and data analysis skill. Always comes up with a

resolution in time.

. Defining and implementing Project/Portfolio Server best-practices,

process, policies and standards.

. Administrating, managing and supporting: Project server & Portfolio

server (EPM, PPM), PM/Change Management tools set, PMO governance and

program/project management practicing PMI standards.

. Leading multi-sited, multi-cultural, cross-functional teams of 12~20

Project Leads, engineers, developers, QAs and PMO/IT/CM/tools

professionals.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Project/Portfolio Server & PMO Consultant

October 2008 - Now

Clients:

Canon USA Inc., Irvine, CA (November 2012 - Now)

Complete consultancy on Project Server Technical and Business Solution -

Managing Project Server implementation, configuration, MOSS & PS upgrade

from 2007, SP1 and building PMO.

- Managing/Administering Project/Portfolio Server 2010 (Enterprise

Project Management EPM 2010)

- Resource/Demand Management, Time Management

- Cost/Budget Management

- Portfolio, Governance, BI, Process development, work-flows &

enterprise solutions

- SharePoint Templates, Project sites, MOSS

- Dashboards, Reporting and Training

Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA (July 2011 - November 2012)

Implemented 5 new PS 2010 instance for large business units, managed and

provided services to 7 on-going environments with customer range of 8 to12

K. Responsibilities included enhancement, configuration, support and

training for existing customers. Played a key role on building complex

report development, best practices, project management processes and

methodology.

Dept. of Health & Human Services, Washington DC (September 2010 - June

2011)

Implemented MS Project Server 2007 & 2010 customized with business

requirements and best practice to manage, track and successful execution of

this program. Provided EPM 2007 technical expertise, managing daily tool

and solution support, guiding the PMO team on best tool usage and

methodology, maintaining the App server, clients and PWA SharePoint sites.

Built and delivered weekly status, progress report Congress.

Microsoft Inc., Seattle, WA (June 2009 - May 2010)

Implemented EPM solution with Project Server 2010 to manage Demand

Management and Capacity planning, Project Management, budgeting and

forecasting, portfolio analysis, global resource management, project

prioritization, task/schedule management and tracking. As a Sr. Consultant

to this project, I provided EPM 2010 solution on business drivers,

portfolio prioritization, tool/server/DB/business process optimization,

schema configuration, building global resource pool, defining program/

project management strategy, OLAP and portfolio reporting and guided

project server team.

Halliburton / MD Anderson, TX / AllState Insurance IL (October 2008 -

September 2010)

Halliburton: Built an Enterprise PMO solution using MS Project Server 2010

to manage their proposed site/client potential portfolios. As primary

consultant, I provided complete technical and PMO solution from start-to-

end, HW and requirement gathering, MPS implementation, environment set-up,

configuration, customization, process model, legacy projects migration,

security, reporting and training.

AllState Insurance's Chicago head-office: Migrated to Project Server 2007

from 2003 for entire organization with over 10,000 Team Members and 2,000

Project Managers using the system. Goal was to have a seamless migration

with enhanced 2007 features and new functionalities added, built Portfolio

and business reports using EPM/SQL reporting server data. Trained user

community on 2007 post-migration.

MD Anderson: Developed a multi-million dollar state-of the-art EMR

(Electronic Medical Records) system to over last 7+ years, which consisted

of huge number of large projects to manage and integrate several modules

under PM/PMO organization. As primary consultant, led and managed Project

Server 2007 implementation project to achieve successful execution and

tracking of all complex, globally distributed projects over multiple

development centres, business units with cross-functional teams.

To all my clients: provided complete consultancy on, complete Enterprise

Project & Portfolio Management solution, starting from HW selection,

implementation, configuration, DB configuration, WSS (SharePoint)

configuration & administration, PWA configuration, enhancement, reporting,

monitoring, support to training. Enhanced current program/project

management practice using EPM. Enhanced PMO finding gaps, process

improvement, portfolio configuration, business drivers, tracking, data

analysis reports, cost analysis, auditing, status reporting, timesheet

management, business process, training, user support and system automation

to manage projects from initiation-to-finish. EPM/Portfolio integration

with TFS, ERP and legacy.

Texas Instruments, San Diego, CA

November 2001- September 2008

Senior Project Manager/ Manager PMO/CM/Tools

Managed large-scale, multi-sited, complex, multi-million dollar

engineering, IT, system and infrastructure Projects/Programs. For years

managed, Enterprise Program Management, Product development, business

development, business web-portals, SW/IT tool

development/implementation/automation, report development, program/project

tracking and reporting, resource & demand management, cost analysis and

budgeting, requirement & Risk management and change management, business

process and user training.

Successfully, managed and supported five large Project & Portfolio Server

(EPM) implementation projects globally for different Wireless/WLAN business

units and cross-functional teams.

Lead and managed PMO office, tool engineers, EPM, engineering and

Configuration management teams

Major Accomplishments:

> Designed and implemented EPM for CCSS group, self-contribution saved

business over ~ 250K.

> Implemented global PMO business tools and process, which reduced project

cost and time by 15 %.

> Rewarded for early-execution and deployment of Global CM/Tools projects

across WLAN.

. Architected, designed and implemented MS Enterprise Project/Portfolio

Management solution for business units analyzing requirements, strategy,

business practice, pilot plan, standards and use-cases.

. Managed planning, co-ordination and successful execution of business

IT/PMO projects.

. Handled day-to-day PMO office support, resources and project/program

activities.

. Championed in scheduling, forecasting, cost-estimation, budgeting and

resource planning.

. Conducted and chaired Project status, check-point and Project review

meetings in a timely fashion.

. Administration, maintenance, support and training on Project Server &

Program Management tools.

. Provided process/guidelines to improve program planning, scheduling,

reporting, portfolio views and resource allocating in a multi-program and

cross-origination environment.

. Worked closely with management/IT/PMO for forecasting, expectation,

budgeting and resources.

. Authored training manuals/user-guides/trainings materials on tools,

processes and policies.

. Day-to-day operation, line-management, assignments, task distribution,

status reports and guidance.

. Monitored customer/project/team issues and routed them across teams for

support/resolution.

Commerce Velocity Inc., San Diego CA

Project Lead/Senior CM Manager

March 1996 - November 2001

Lead for three large B2B financial/banking development and implementation

projects from start-to-finish.

. Provided project management/SW development/integration/testing/product

delivery/change management solution and consultancy to PM/engineering

teams and internal/external customers.

. Managed detail SW development, integration schedules, tasks, baselines

and resource assignments.

. Provided process/guidelines to improve program planning, scheduling,

reporting, portfolio views and resource allocating in a multi-program and

cross-origination environment.

. Designed project status reporting and portfolio reporting for management

to stay on top of projects.

. Led PMO, development, configuration Management, QA and Engineering

Support teams.

. Monitored customer issues and assign to team for resolution in timely

manner.

. Managed software Build/Release and automated code integration among

modules.

Shecom Computers, Anaheim,CA

MIS Manager

February 1994 - March 1996

Managed a team of software devlopers, devloping software for utility

industries. Handled team assignments, production flow and customer

relations. Developed product segregation, shipment analysis, rejection

reports using Devloper2000. Performed front-end customization, maintenance

of database, coding and testing using C, C++, and Visual Basic. Maintained

and managed company's databases, networking and IT Infrastructure.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Program Management Tools:

MS Project/Portfolio Server 2003/2007/2010/2013, MS Project Pro, MS Office,

Visio,

RequsitePro, DOORS, Action Item Tracking and Risk/Issue Mgmt. Tools

CM/Change Management:

ClearCase, ClearQuest, UCM, RUP, Rational Rose, Remedy, PVCS and VSS

Operating Systems: Windows, Windows XP/CE, UNIX, Linux, Windows Server

2008/2005/2003

Networking: Wireless, WLAN, WAN, LAN, TCP/IP

Programming: C, C++, Visual Basic, SQL, PL/SQL, Perl, VB, HTML

Databases:

Oracle, MS SQL Server 2008/2005/2003 and MS Access

Other Tools:

SharePoint (MOSS) 2010/2007, IIS, .NET, ORCAD-CIS, BaaN

EDUCATION:

MS Computer Science, USC (University of Southern California), CA USA

MS Computer Science, WCU (West Coast University), Los Angeles, CA USA

BE Computer Science & Engineering, Utkal University, INDIA

TRAINING/CERTIFICATIONS:

Microsoft Project and Portfolio Server Training and Certifications

Trained PMP

Orange Belt, Blue Belt and Black Belt certification in 'Enterprise

Project

Management/MS Project'

Rational Certification on RequisitePro (ReqPro), ClearQuest, ClearCase

Administration

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