Management Project

SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT SDLC

Dynamic and forward-thinking IT Project Management Executive with 15+ years of success leading transformative solutions for large-scale, global corporations. Conceive and execute strategies that optimize business operations, elevate productivity, and reduce costs. Act as a change/solution agent, capable of critically evaluating technology environments and designing solutions that simplify processes to drive progress. Proactive leader who excels at maximizing available resources and driving teams to outstanding performance.

Hands-on experience complemented with strong academic background, including 5+ years in North America (IL, NC, OH, TX & SC). Experience working within a matrix-style structure with international team’s on-shore and off-shore.

Team Builder, Scrum Master, Budgeting, Test Automation framework designing, Quality (ISO&CMM) and Client Relations. Eager to offer broad scope of high-profile experience toward maximizing an employer’s success. Top-performer with the ability to analyze project needs; track milestones, deliverables, and timelines; provide cost estimations, and organize teams for on-time task completion within budget; publish dashboard and metrics. Integral leader role, demonstrated comprehensive IT methodology knowledge to resolve major issues toward executing complex projects. Coordinated multiple system integration projects/ capabilities/ releases and help delivered project results to business case. Established the program management infrastructure governance structure, management processes, plans, procedures & tools.

Excellent professional communicator who can plan, prioritize, and manage multiple assignments within high-pressure, deadline-driven environments while interfacing with all levels of teams, developers, and project managers. Knowledgeable in most standards, compliance, and governance requirements, strong analytical, project management, and organizational skills. Expert in Interfacing with external testing groups, preparing and executing successful testing strategies.

Core Competencies:

Project Management Program Management Strategic Planning Products & Industry Expertise Training & Development

Waterfall & Agile Methodologies

Regression Analysis Test Harness Development Automation Suite Development

Defect tracking Technical Writing

Lead Generation New Product Initiative Experience

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Certified SCRUM Master (CSM) from Scrum Alliance

Pursuing the course “Tackling the changes of Big Data” from Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Emerging Leaders Program, Harvard Business Review

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Windows and Unix Environments, VbScript, & Shell scripting, SQL

Database: Mainframe DB2, Oracle

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, SOAP API interfaces, C, C++, Java

Automation scripting using Tools like Selenium, SilkTest, LoadRunner

Tools:

MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel

Rally, Clarity, Share Point, Jira

Quality Center, TestLink, Bugjilla, Selenium, QTP, SilkTest, & LoadRunner

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HCL America, USA / India 2000 - Present

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities include:

Project planning and scheduling

Budgeting

Stakeholder Management

Facilitate team in resolving the critical issues

Detailed WBS preparation

Identifying the Risks and planning the mitigation

Identifying project metrics and reporting

Provide guidance in critical decision making

Onsite-Offshore team handling

Status reporting to all stakeholders

Microsoft Project Plan creation and maintenance

Coordination point between Development, CIT, SIT, UAT and regression teams

Resource identification, training

Process implementation

Test environment planning

Proposal writing and presentation

Preparing the timesheet templates and management of timesheets

Managing the third-party vendors

Below is a description of the my roles and the work that has been performed for some of

my major clients

T-Mobile (June2015 – Till date)

Domain: eCommerce

Managing the delivery of development, enhancement and maintenance of OMS related projects. Liaison between the development QA and business teams.

Responsibilities:

Perform day-to-day management of the projects

Identify issues and risks and recommend possible issue and risk mitigation strategies associated with the project

Responsible for ensuring that work performed is within scope, consistent with requirements and delivered on time and on budget

Identify critical paths, tasks, dates, testing and acceptance criteria

Provide solutions to improve efficiency

Monitor issues and provide resolutions for up-to- date status reports

Infor Inc (Aug2014-June2015):

Domain: CRM

Managed the transition of CRM & ERP products. Responsible in understanding the current process and team work breakdown structure. Identify critical resources and plan the transition accordingly. Responsibility of the position also includes hiring new team members, get them trained and deploy into the roles that are transitioned.

Responsibilities:

Manage the transition budget

Identify critical resources in the current team

Plan the transition not impacting the current project deadlines

Interviewing and hiring offshore team members

Identify training needs based on the role and the product for all teams including Development, QA & Support

Co-ordinate with the Infor campus trainers to schedule the trainings

Provide status reports on the transition progress to all stake holders

Planning to migrate the development process from Waterfall to Agile

AT&T (July2013-July2014):

Domain - eCommerce

Managed the activities of the IBM Websphere Commerce Server implementation for Mauijim eCommerce website. Implemented the website for multi-browser, (IE, Firefox & Chrome) cross platforms (Windows, Mac) and multi-device (iPhone, iPad, Android phones & Tablets). The application has responsive mobile design included. We have successfully delivered the project that had aggressive deadlines.

Responsibilities:

Provide estimations

Plan the team size and structure

Prepare project management plan

Manage the cost and scheduling

Provide status reports to all stake holders

Defect management and triage

Southwest Airlines (Aug2011-June2013):

Domain - Travel

Oversaw Delivery, ensuring the quality of Crew Planning & Scheduling applications

Responsibilities:

Cultivated a cohesive environment as the leader of an onsite team, including through process standardization

Generated detailed status reports for management review

Liaise between business and multiple Agile development teams

During this period have got Certified as SCRUM Master

Wolters Kluwer (Apr2011-July2011):

Domain - Publishing

Oversaw on- & off-shore teams of the Desktop & web applications

Responsibilities:

Conferred with business users and provided updates for top leaders of the publishing company

Stakeholder Management

Facilitate team in resolving the critical issues

Detailed WBS preparation

Identifying the Risks and planning the mitigation

Identifying project metrics and reporting

Lowe’s (June2009-Mar2011):

Domain - Retail

Executed several projects related to Human Resources, retail, and real estate

Responsibilities:

Originated Program management plans and estimates

Guiding routine and particularly challenging initiatives to completion through continual oversight

Projects managed include SAAS - Recruitment management system, Point of Sales – self checkout system

FFIC (April2009-May2009):

Domain - Insurance

Consulted for setting up a centralized testing center

Responsibilities:

Analyzed testing processes to gain understanding of technology setup

Diagnosed several areas for improvement, detailing the necessary changes and strategies needed to establish a Centralized Test Center

Medplus (June2007-Mar2009):

Domain - Healthcare

Successfully managed the Test Automation Project

Responsibilities:

Led the team to develop regression test suite and manual testing of the Care360 application for an automation project completed using SilkTest and Agile Methods

Recommended corrective actions to ensure adherence to original deadline

Verified the effectiveness of all deliverables prior to submission to the clients, directly impacting project success.

Cisco Systems & Microsoft (July 2000 – May2007)

Domain - Networking:

Responsibilities:

Directed 30+ people in several teams assigned to Development, Testing, and Technical Marketing for the Networking & Search domains

Consulted with clients via email and teleconferences

Handled daily status calls

Reviewed delivery reports, test scripts, and defects

Updated HCL Senior leadership on status through review reports and metrics

Conducted internal quality audits company-wide

Played pivotal roles in the implementation of ISO 2000 and CMMi.

Got certified as PMP

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Executive MBA, KSOU, India

Bachelor in Computer Applications, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Diploma, Electronics & Communication Engineering, SBTET,AP, India

Awards & Appreciation

Multiple SPARC awards

Live Wire award for the JFM’14 quarter for the excellent performance

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