Project Manager Development

Maneesha Datta

Cell: 415-***-**** *************@*****.*** Master in Computer Applications

Summary

Extensive experience in managing and developing high impact customer facing applications.

Possess strong inter-personal skills, excellent verbal and written communication, quick learner, team player, capable of working independently and motivated team member.

Delivered projects working with complex, cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams.

Experienced facilitator and meetings coordinator/moderator with excellent interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.

Serving as liaison between stake holders/business sponsors and technical staff, taking on the key responsibilities of handling details of requirements while actively managing expectations.

Proficient in designing, reviewing and development of complex system changes, new features and merging application.

Solid Experience in understanding of requirements and carrying it throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in both Waterfall and Agile with Scrum/ Kanban methodology

Ability to lead, organize, and prioritize tasks and associated resources in a timely fashion.

Well versed in requirements elicitation and testing for projects of differing sizes and complexity.

Preparing for PMP

Technical Skills

Language: Java, Ruby, NodeJS, Python

Analyzing Tools: Postman, CharlesProxy, Splunk, Curl

Management Tools: JIRA, SAFe Framework

Agile: Scrum, Kanban

Web Services: WSDL, Rest API

CI: Hudson, Jenkins

Design tools: Rational Rose (UML), Visio

Platforms: Windows, Linux

Webdriver: Selenium, PhantomJS

Work Experience

Technical Project Manager

April 2016 to Present

Bank of America (Digital Payments) – Concord, CA

Role:

Oversaw $4+ million project to streamline and provide an improved customer experience for payments for Bank of America’s pioneer project in the digital payments

Led cross-functional teams of 50+ members (including dev, test, team leads) to deliver competitive payments feature to customers within the defined deadline which increased customer traffic by 20% on mobile.

Applications involved followed waterfall and agile with scrum methodologies.

Scheduled PI events using SAFe Framework. Scheduled grooming sessions and worked with teams to schedule sprint cycles and retrospective sessions.

Project included changes and addition of new features to multiple clients - Mobile app, mWeb and OLB. The changes included changes to the web services, the payment system and new/updated schema for the database.

New and modified API service changes across multiple applications.

Worked on streamlining the steps to handshake between multiple applications for ATM with digital payments

Worked closely with business to identify requirements and have it documented, approved and delivered

During design and development, worked in sync with development team – both client and services – to make sure that the requirement and business was understood and designed accordingly.

During test phase, joined in with the testers to make sure that functionality and regression covers all aspects of the project and existing customer experience.

For defect resolution, worked closely with developers in identifying issues and any concerns raised technically or requirement based. Analyzed logs using Splunk.

With prior development experience, I helped out with design discussions, code review (when required) and participate in reviewing test plans/cases.

Actively participated in Bug Triaging, Sprint planning and grooming sessions, with Performance testing and capacity planning teams to identify infrastructure limitations

Responsible for presentation to higher management on project status and POC for any concerns raised from leadership.

Technical Project Manager

July 2015 to March 2016

LinkedIn (Home page) – Mountain View, CA

Role:

Managed team with Kanban and run SCRUM standups, and coordinated retrospectives for customer facing LinkedIn Feed team

Worked out roadmaps for development and resource allocations with leadership

Developed strong partnership with technology and business leaders

Responsible for concisely articulating all of the interactions and factors that contribute to the project completion.

Managed dependencies between multiple projects.

Participated in analyzing A/B testing results using XLNT, an internal end-to-end A/B testing platform.

Brainstorming ideas to help resolve reporting and network traffic monitoring of new features

Lead and participated in functional testing, bug triaging, defect prioritizing and analyzing bugs

Mentored new members on the feed business model and the play framework

Updating stakeholders with the status updates and program plan

Created tool in Python to parse end-user’s suggestions on LinkedIn on the new released mobile App as requested by CEO office.

Testing for Kafka messages, REST APIs for desktop and mobile, using Charles proxy, Curl and Postman.

Upgrade and Native Mobile (iOS and Andriod) testing with Charles Proxy.

Participating in companywide POP testing, multi-cluster database testing.

Assist in test data preparation and reproduction of production issues.

Technical Project Manager

November 2008 to November 2010

Bank of America (Online Banking) – Seattle, WA

Role:

Delivered successfully $6 million project introducing new customer experience with person-2-person transfers between BOA with other in-network banks

Successfully lead the front-end development team of 8 developers for money transfer to other banks with an estimate of $1 million

Coordinated between Business Analysts, dependent and third party teams and development to clarify and resolve conflicts, resolved dependency and delivered within the deadline.

Actively participated in writing, executing and reviewing the code.

Instrumental during production install, resolving high priority issues and taking baseline ownership.

Responsible for weekly status report and presenting to higher management.

Tech Lead

September 2006 to October 2008

Bank of America (Online Banking) – concord, CA

Role:

Anchored software development, test, deployment, and support. Communicated status with stakeholders and resolved issues in a timely manner.

Recommending and implementing technological improvements and efficiencies.

Was responsible in removing roadblocks and ensured smooth functioning of teams.

Guide teams through full product lifecycl and provide technical guidance and assistance as needed.

Participated in the design, development and testing phases for several key initiatives

Actively participated in code and test plan reviews.

Developed tools to facilitate development and reduce cost.

Senior Developer

August 2000 to August 2006

JP Morgan – Kansas City, Kansas

Role:

Participated in design and development of existing 'Retirement Statement processing – 401K' COBOL application running on mainframe into a JAVA application.

Worked closely with analysts, project managers, and other developers to meet tight timeframes for issue resolution, code changes and/or data changes.

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