Project Manager Management

Nizar Bhamani 678-***-**** acr8ou@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/nizarbhamani

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Project Manager, Scrum Master and Systems Architect with 25 years of experience in E-Commerce, Mobile Applications, Client Server, Multi-Media Technologies, System Analysis, OOA/OOD, Design and Software Development Life Cycle, as well as Waterfall and Agile Scrum methodologies. Significant exposure in developing proposals, budgets and project documentation, including project time and cost estimations. Experience in industry sectors such as Insurance, Telecommunication, Media and Financial Services.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

2014 – Scrum Master Certification

2012 - Professional MBA, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University; 2009 - PMP certification;

2006 - Project Management Knowledge certificate;

1999 - Sun Certified Java Programmer;

1992 - Post Graduate Diploma in Software Technology, NCST, India; 1989 - Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Bombay University. TECHNOLOGY SKILL SUMMARY

Operating Systems: UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, Xenix, SCO-Unix), Windows, CMS, ULTRIX Software Tools and Languages: .Net 4.x, 3.x, 1.x, C#, C, C++, VB, Share Point 2007, Biz Talk 2004, Microsoft SQL Reporting Services, J2EE, Java 1.6 and prior, Struts 1.1, JSP, Tag Libraries, JDBC, MVC, MVP, WCF, WWF, Ant, Nunit, Junit, SOAP, TIBCO PORTAL BUILDER, HTML, TCP/IP, SHELL Programming, Turbo C, SQL, Eclipse IDE, Rational Rose, IBM Web Sphere, iPlanet Web Server, Tomcat Web Server, Lucene, Nutch, Inxight Smart Discovery Semantics, BoilerPipe, Hadoop, Apache Web Server, IIS, JavaScript, JQuery, Dojo, DGrid, Node.js, MongoDB, AngularJS, Oracle Financials 10.0, Oracle 9 and prior, Oracle Report Writer 1.1, SQL* PLUS 3.0, Pro*C 1.3, UIMX GUI Builder, XMT GRAPH, X- Windows, Lib, Toolkit, MOTIF, Performix Empower. Source Code Control Systems: SVN, CVS & SCCS, MS Visual Source Safe. Project Management Tools: Rally, MS Project Plan/Server, JIRA PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Macy’s January 2015 – Present

Program Manager

Project: IT Solutions and Strategy

Manage Strategy solutions with a vision for 2020.

Work with multiple project stakeholders for planning the strategic initiative for Next generation selling in store to manage Store customer, preferences, inventory, merchandising and marketing initiatives.

Communicate the plan, status updates to Management and set appropriate expectations.

Manage project plans and interdependencies with in store selling, product logistics, planning, merchandising and marketing teams.

Project Manager

Project: DiS - (Digital In-Store)

Manage Design, Development and Implementation efforts for Digital In-Store applications running on Windows and iOS based devices.

Work with third party Vendor (Skava) to manage CMS based application development, QA and delivery.

Identify and manage Scope, Risks associated with the project that involved development, QA and production environments and deadlines.

Communicate plans and status updates to Management and set appropriate expectations.

Manage project plans and interdependencies with other in store experiences, expansion and timelines.

Follow Agile Scrum methodology.

Work with various teams to help resolve blockages and issues and dependencies and improve overall process.

Project delivered and deployed successfully

ADP October 2012 – September 2014

Project Manager/Scrum Master/Consultant/Architect/Team Lead Project: Time and Labor Management - Scheduling

Manage 3 Projects and Teams spread across different ADP work sites using Agile Scrum and Kanban methodology.

Work with Product Owners to facilitate grooming, prioritizing and maintaining the product backlog.

Manage teams and resources, Sprints and deliverables, work with Product owners, other teams for dependencies through SDLC.

Conduct Sprint Standups, Sprint Planning meetings, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings. Monitor and report progress using Sprint burn down charts and team velocity. Nizar Bhamani 678-***-**** acr8ou@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/nizarbhamani

Architect, Design and Lead efforts for HR TLM Scheduling Project. Time and labor management web portal for Small, Medium and large businesses all across the globe.

Environment: .Net 4.5, MVC, WCF, Oracle 11, C#, dojo, Dgrid, Java Script, SVN, Rally Agile Project Management Tool.

News Distribution Network (Now Inform) (www.newsinc.com) August 2011 – May 2012 Architect

Project: NDN

Architected, designed and managed Cloud based (Amazon) service solutions for video news aggregation and delivery portal. Ingest videos from content providers into the Control room. Video content is delivered to publisher partners through flash and html 5 players.

Work with CEO, COO for guidance and help them understand project info at high level.

Agile Scrum and Kanban Methodologies.

Environment: .Net 4.5, MVC, WCF, Microsoft SQL Server, C#, JQuery Java Script, SVN, JIRA. Project: Inform Semantics matching platform

Leveraged the existing semantics platform to store and generate related video content for a news article. i.e. Show list of related video content and top match video associated with a news article. The video content is placed on the news article page on the publisher site.

Environment: J2EE, Tomcat Web Server, Lucene, Nutch, Inxight Smart Discovery Semantics, Boiler Pipe, Hadoop, Red Hat Linux.

Software Paradigms Inc (www.spi.com) November, 2009 – May, 2011 Project Manager/Architect

Project: PepsiCo (December 2010-May 2011)

Work with PepsiCo to Manage, Architect, design and implement Trade Claims Web portal an e-commerce web application, (https://www.pepsicofsvtradeclaims.com/PROD/Pages/Login/UserLogin.aspx) to automate distributors and operators for special programs and rebates.

Defined Workflow of the new automated process. Created wire-frame of the web application to help business and development teams understand the application and flow.

Managed project from inception through implementation using SDLC and an offshore development team to successfully complete the project on time. The project was accepted and deployed to production.

Followed Agile Scrum methodology approach for project planning and execution.

Research and decide on tools and technologies to be used for project implementations.

Budget for the entire project: 1.5 million

Project Manager/Architect

Project: Park-mobile (www.Parkmobile.us) (April 2010-December 2010)

Planned, managed project and Liaised with client to understand business process and current technology being used.

Defined process and rules of engagement for offshore (India) data warehouse reporting project execution.

Built and Managed 5 developers and 3 testers at the client site for project execution from inception through completion through resource allocation.

Managed and developed Web service (WCF) based solution using the Microsoft platform to allow the users to register, park, un-park, and other parking features via their mobile device like iPhone, Android, Blackberry and utilizing SMS texting feature.

Followed Agile Scrum methodology and Waterfall approach for project planning & execution. Project: Hudson’s Bay Company (www.hbc.com) (November 2009-March 2010)

Planned and managed communication with client to discuss projects. Recommend technologies to be used. Recommend solution to their existing application problems.

Business Intelligence Project – Understand existing BI solution to identify issues and limitations for resolution. ACE Insurance (www.acelimited.com) Mar, 2000 – Aug, 2009 AVP - Systems Architect / Technical Team Lead (2005-2009)

Project: Multinational Account Exchange (MAX) Internet Web Site (2005-2009)

Architected, designed and re-engineered multi-million dollar project (https://max.acegroup.com/) to allow ACE affiliate and non-affiliate offices in 50+ countries along with their brokers and clients to access the Insurance implementation information. The application also allowed to manage user tasks that were generated based on inputs and helped to manage service level standards in all ACE affiliate countries.

Create Project Charter, Performed time and cost estimates for budget approval. Determined project scope, use work breakdown structures to better modularize, do estimates, track critical project paths and drove project to completion.

Work with management for project presentations for budget approvals and regular status updates.

Designed Server architecture (physical hardware) to support resilient 24/7 availability for users spreading across various countries all over the world. Design also considered usability, transactions, performance, concurrency, etc. Nizar Bhamani 678-***-**** acr8ou@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/nizarbhamani

Defined software platform and development tools to be used for applications after studying various options.

Conducted, led and coordinated software development activities throughout the project life cycle, including key design decisions for the technology.

Acted as liaison with business partners to manage and review software design documents, code by development teams to ensure it met the quality standard. Interfaced with other divisions in IT to recommend best architecture solutions.

Led a team of 8 developers’ onsite to perform various development and maintenance tasks. Also, liaised with offshore team and third party vendors consisting of 3-4 vendors.

Re-engineered existing architecture to successfully overcome all the issues and limitations in the previous architecture and intranet application with a better design approach. Also improvised significant system performance.

Budget for the entire project: 2.5 million

Project: Common Rules Legacy systems integration (2007)

Liaised with several legacy applications (10 multi-platform applications) leaders to understand their architecture and analyze best option to define a Common Rules engine interface. Completed analysis an enterprise wide legacy applications and helped achieve the goal of common rules engine. Senior Software Engineer (2005 - 2006)

Project: Builders Risk insurance quoting and rating internet application (2005)

Builders Risk insurance application (https://www.westchesterspecialty.com/WSG/welcome.aspx) was a web application developed by third party vendor that had severe usability and performance issues. Worked with the Project Manager, Users for resolution. Successfully overcame all issues single handedly and satisfy the business and customer needs within a span of 5-6 months. Performance improved by 90-95%. Very Critical Project.

Project: Recreational marine quoting and rating internet web site (2005-2009)

Designed and Developed Recreational marine insurance quoting and rating internet web site (https://www.inamar- orca.com/login.aspx), an internet application with facility for agents to download Quotes into their Agency Management Systems (AMS) using ACORD Standard XML and ACORD AL3 and also allow agencies to get quotes using XML interface.

Project: INA-AGENT website (2002-2004)

Led a team of 4 developers. Designed and developed the INA-AGENT website (https://www.inainsurance.com – site disabled) to allow Agencies and Dealerships to quote for Recreational Vehicle, Collector Auto, Manufactured Home and Motorcycle insurances using J2EE architecture on UNIX servers.

Project: YouDecide.com web site (2000-2003) – (YouDecide was acquired by ACE in 2001)

Designed and developed an e-commerce application (http://www.YouDecide.com) for Disaster Mortgage Protection, Home Finance/Refinance/Equity and Auto-Finance. Also, Marine, Recreational Vehicle & Collector Auto Insurance.

Project: Wealth Statement portal for ProAct Technologies (previously Consumer Financial Network); later spun off as YouDecide : (2000-2001)

Designed and developed a ‘Wealth Statement’ Employee portal that allowed users to access their employee benefits online. The web application interfaced with various 3rd party providers to access their benefits and consolidated it and made it presentable for the users to browse through.

Worked on various Java based Web Applications for the Employee Web Portal using TIBCO portal builder. The site allowed users to be abreast with the daily announcements, access daily news, weather, stock portfolios, etc. Emplifi Corp (Formerly Mastech Corp) Senior Software Engineer Jan, 1996 - Dec, 1999 Tata Consultancy Services (India) Senior Systems Analyst May, 1992 - Jan, 1996 Data Daemon (India) Private Limited, Bombay, India Analyst Programmer Mar, 1991 – May, 1992 Data Electric Company, India, Bombay, India Programmer Aug, 1989- Mar, 1991

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