Project Manager Management

VINOD VELAYUDHAN, PMP

Status: Green Card . Santa Clara, CA 95051 . 408-***-**** .

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

PMP certified and ACP trained Project Manager with 14+ years of total IT

experience of which 8+ years as Project Manager where I have executed

multiple end to end projects on Waterfall, Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Experience in managing every aspects including budget and schedule of

project/program management with working on eCommerce, insurance,

semiconductor, supply chain and procurement management domains. Has

developed effective key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics,

analyzing these indicators and presenting them to improve overall customer

satisfaction and project visibility. Responsible for overseeing & reviewing

globally located teams performance, mentoring them and managing their

aspirations.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Project/Program, Service & Team management experience

Collaborate with multiple engineering and product management teams in

leading, facilitating, and supporting product and technology planning at

multiple levels, including planning at the strategic, roadmap, release, and

sprint/iteration levels.

Have managed and controlled the budgets up to $5M and multiple cross-

functional globally located team size of 15.

Mentor scrum team on agile processes, update scrum dashboards, conflict

resolution, burn down chart, work with product managers/SME's in writing

quality stories, facilitate various sprint ceremonies, publish KPI metrics

using various agile tools.

Develop, track and communicate product/program's high level objectives,

negotiate budget and schedule, tasks & milestones achieved to stakeholders

and PMO team.

Lead the design, development and review of project requirements; define

test strategies, scripts, defect triaging, identifying risks and working on

mitigation plan to ensure project alignment with business needs and

timelines.

Act as the single point of contact for all change management and CR

processes, mapping budget and resource information to specific release

timeliness, identify, measure and drive metrics around schedule, resources

and budget.

Creating checklists and coordinating with other teams on hardware's

upgradations and migrations, conducting performance testing for

benchmarking.

Ensure compliance, policy & guidelines are followed strictly and software

quality measures comply with the predefined standards.

Work with HR team/recruiters on resource identification, planning

interviews, onboarding new resources, mentoring, prioritizing tasks and

managing team

Authored release & deployment management process with detail process flow,

policies, roles and responsibilities. Also defined release management

metrics and KPIs for performance measurement and continual service and

process improvement.

Experience with Agile Scrum, Iterative & Waterfall project management

methodology for software development.

TECHNOLOGY PROFICIENCY:

Program Management Tools : MS Project, MS Visio, MS Sharepoint, MS

Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word), Google Docs, Bugznizer,

Jira, Greenhoper, Mingle, Planview, Gantt chart, Burn down chart.

Database : MS-Access, Oracle 9i, MSSQL Server 2000/2005.

Testing Tools : Selenium Weddriver, JUnit, Firebug, TestCaseManager

Version Control : MS-Visual SourceSafe 6.0, Perforce.

Programming Language : C, C++, Java, PL- SQL.

Version Control : MS Visual Source Safe, Perforce

Operating System : MS Windows Family, Unix, Linux.

1 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Kohl's.com, Milpitas, CA August 2014 - till

date

Sr. Project Manager, Consultant

Responsibilities:

Lead and Manage Holiday Readiness program for Kohls.com ecommerce using

agile methodology.

Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand ups, retrospectives & periodical

reviews, track user stories and defects,

Collaborate with engineering & product management team to perform day to

day project related tasks.

Work with various product owners to prioritize the user stories,

requirement clarification and conducting user acceptance testing.

Work with external vendor on hardware/infrastructure upgrades, timeliness

and testing the new hardware's.

Managed budget of $3M and cross-functional teams of up to 8 developers, QA,

analysts and external vendors.

Managing and forecasting budget, approving billing, timesheets/hours for

external vendor teams using Planview.

Update Sr. management with overall project status, sprint velocity, update

scrum dashboard, budget, schedule on a weekly basis.

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA January 2010 -

August 2014

Project Manager, Consultant

Responsibilities:

Responsible for planning and ownership of strategic level guidance on-staff

and vendor based teams in a fast-paced agile environment with budget of

$5M and 15 cross-functional team.

Facilitated, coached, and guided the team on the values and practices of

Agile and Scrum thus ensuing that agile principles and processes are

properly implemented and adopted.

Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings,

reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related

meetings.

Acted as the primary source of contact for addressing risks or impediments

facing the team and working with product manager in resolving them.

Perform defect triage, follow up on stale bugs, defect resolution status,

verify defect quality and collect various QA related matrices.

Sent weekly status reports for sprint progress, velocity, defects, sprint

burndown, open defects and other Key performance indicators (KPI) to

various stakeholders.

Worked on managing & forecasting budget and schedule, variances using

internal tools and templates to the PMO team.

Worked on hiring new team members, on boarding and mentoring, allocating,

prioritizing and monitoring tasks, approving timesheets/hours and

conducting periodic reviews.

Surplus Line Association, San Francisco, CA October

2007 - December 2009

Project Manager, Consultant

Responsibilities:

Established and maintained effective relationships with the engineering,

customer and key stakeholders of the project.

Worked with stakeholders on requirements gathering, design reviews and to

execute the project within the schedule and budget of $3M.

Prepare Gantt chart to chart to manage & update schedule and tasks.

Worked with the team to produce the functional specification, architectural

documents and engineering plans.

Perform root cause analysis for production failures and provide corrective

actions for fixing the issues.

Worked on change management, performing impact analysis and adjusting

required budget and time line.

Was responsible for working with different teams hardware upgradations and

server migrations, bench marking them and performing adequate testing.

Conduct weekly status meeting with various stakeholders and PMO team to

report overall project status, milestones achieved, budget, schedule, risks

and variances.

Authored a Release & Deployment Management process document with detail

process flow, policies, roles and responsibilities.

Managed teams located at multiple locations, hiring & onboarding new team

members, allocating & prioritizing tasks, monitoring them, conducting

performance reviews periodically for the team on various parameters and

provide feedback.

Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ October 2005 -

September 2007

Onsite Project Manager, Consultant

Responsibilities

Worked with various Intel Product owners, Project Managers and Intel

managed vendors for requirement gathering and creating workflow diagrams.

Prepared Project plan to define & track project execution, change

management within defined scope, schedule using gantt chart, budget, risks

and mitigation plan.

Worked on Change management, impact analysis, presenting & getting approval

from Intel Change Control Board(CCB).

Worked on onboarding new customers, training and provide application

support.

Ensured access to applications is managed and controlled and aligned with

individual accountability and responsibilities.

Intel Corporation, Bangalore, India November 2003

- September 2005

Project Lead, Consultant

Responsibilities

Managed a 14 member team to maintain and support the mission critical

applications used at Intel semiconductor fabs all over the world.

Worked closely with 14 Intel fab's application owners and site level

engineers to understand the architecture and workflow.

Gathered requirements, design and coding of various factory automation

software releases to significantly reduced the time.

Administrated of software releases to Intel fabs, establish beta exit

criteria and enable general release of the software.

Interacted with stakeholders from various Intel fabs spread across the

globe.

Was part of the Component Automation System (CAS) Support Team providing 24

hour on-call support to all Intel fabs with ability to troubleshoot

problems in a crisis.

Sr. Developer September 2000

- April 2003

Alpha Infosys, Goa, India

Responsibilities

Performed requirements gathering, design, conding and testing for various

in house projects using C, C++, VC++, VB, MS SQL.

EDUCATION:

BS from Indira Gandhi National Open University.

Network Centered Computing from National Institute of Information

Technology.

CERTIFICATIONS

Project Managment Professional(PMP) valid till Jun 2018.

Trained Agile Certified Practitioner(ACP).

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