Manager Project

Vasist Sharma, PMP Cell - 408-***-****

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An experienced Program Manager, possess over 18 years of work experience, an accomplished Software Professional with overall work IT experience of 16 Years in diversified fields of IT Functional Experience. Core proficiencies that includes Strategic & Tactical Planning, developing product roadmap, playing program manager/Agile Coach, Customer Relationship Management, Requirement management, Application Development and Design, technical understanding, Team building, coaching/mentoring & Performance management Expertise in leading and managing cross functional teams within all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle using Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Accustomed to fast-paced environments where deadlines are a priority and handling multiple responsibilities is routine. Specialize in management, administration, coordination, implementation while developing fortitude and aptitude in people. He has experience in implementing IT and Quality processes for his projects and has managed projects in CMMI level 5

Certifications

Certified “PMI PMP” Project Manager.

Agile certified practitioner “ PMI ACP ”.

SAFe 4.0 certified. ( Scaled Agile ).

Stanford certified Project Manager ( SAPM - from Stanford Center for Professional Development ). Advance Certificate in Software Engineering (certified from IBM). Experience Summary

Program & Product management experience – 10 years

• Apply PMI and Agile project management processes and best practices in all phases of project life cycle; communicate effectively with project stakeholders with different business disciplines on- shore and offshore; build strong relationship with stakeholders and project teams; manage ven- dor, budget and resources.

• Create and enforce processes for product development, release management, change control, incident management, and case management; develop strategic plans and project roadmaps to achieve business goals; author and implement business continuity plans; develop effective key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to continuously monitor and improve SLA and customer satisfaction

• Experience in managing & leading multiple web application development from inception to completion by learning current/future needs of various stakeholders, creating charter, scope, negotiating & tracking budget and schedules, prioritizing tasks & deliverables, managing change, release planning while ensuring all program related activities are communicated effectively to all the stakeholders.

• Lead multiple distributed agile teams in the adoption of Agile by evangelizing the benefits of the Scrum/Kanban/Scaled Agile framework (SAFE), that includes mentoring/guiding as coach, facilitating & organizing scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand up, demo, retrospective), ensuring team uses all the best practices of Agile like Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development (TDD), test automation and pair programming to name few.

• Monitoring project technical and financial metrics like budget, ROI; maintaining various project related documents, defects, risks & issue logs (RAID), building relationship with cross track teams; collect, analyse and present key findings (KPI) to senior management and executives in the form of meetings, dashboards, graphs and analysis reports for the ongoing projects/programs. Test planning / Test Process – 6 years

• Develop Test Strategy, Test plans and Test specifications, improving Quality Assurance & process.

• Define and establish overall automation test strategy, scope, test readiness and testing activities risk analysis; Design and collect automation efficiency tracking metrics and utilizes other effective approaches to measure automation quality

Area of Expertise

Program Management & Governance.

Vasist Sharma, PMP Cell - 408-***-****

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Quality Assurance & Quality Management

Agile Coach & Team Leadership

Technology Exposure & Experience

Program Management:

MS Project, MS Visio, SharePoint, MS Office Suite, UML, Jira, Jive, Confluence Wiki, Burndown/Burnup Chart, Grant Chart.

Technical Exposure:

Testing Tools: Selenium ( 2.0 ) Webdriver, JUnit, Firebug, TestCase Manager, Jenkins. Technical Exposure: J2EE, JavaScript, Oracle- PL- SQL, SOA, Soap, REST API, AWS Database: MS SQL Server, Oracle.

Operating System: Macintosh, MS Windows Family, UNIX, and Linux. Roles and Responsibilities Highlights

• Sr. Program Manager (VERIZON – 7/2014 to 06/2017) Exposure to:

Media and Entertainment Domain - IPTV

Hardware and Firmware: STB (Set-Top box) and DVR.

APP and UX: Consumer electronics and TV.

Manage entire product lifecycle of devices from conception through execution; Work closely with engineers, partners, Product and QA, to resolve technical design issues. Communicate – to executives & individual contributors – minutes, actions, risks, status versus milestones Lead / Facilitate - focused topic and x-functional meetings. Ensure team member accountability to actions. Ensure appropriate change control. Conduct post-mortems. Own Process - use and promote the established Product Innovation Process, & constantly consider its improvement. Institute change when appropriate.

Plan / Organize – via creating and maintaining MS Project schedules -- Define Tasks, Utilize Work Breakdown Structures, set Predecessors/Successors, Set Baseline(s) Manage Risk – via risk assessments & mitigation planning, escalating appropriately . Coach – work with engineering, test, product management, support, and marketing to develop, release, and manage complete products that respects our support and sales team and delivers exceptional customer value

Coordinate, support, and execute various programs from initiation through completion Identify and resolve program level and organizational conflicts Identify, collect, and monitor metrics to measure release program success Continuously assess and improve key aspects of program management to creatively address complex problems

Perform program analysis, manage risk, influence necessary course corrections, and communicate program status and activities across multiple levels of management. Accomplishments

Worked on coordinating Alpha and Beta Trial of IPTV DVR Devices for the next generation of FIOS Service offered by Verizon.

Led and Involved in planning, executing and delivering DVR. Introducing process improvements in release cycles.

• QA Lead / Project Manager (Client: Google Inc – 01/2011 to 07/2014) Involved in Quality Assurance and Quality Control for Google Maps projects. Developing Test strategy Test plan. Planning strategies for different releases / new modules launch. From Employer perspective, involved in resource planning. Involved in the resource planning for Offshore Team. Responsible for operations such as to evaluate resources and source them to client requirements. Involved in disseminating the Quality Assurance and. Collecting different metrics / reports (project / team / management), analyzing the same and formulating different strategies.

Identify the process improvements to maximize output, formulate the strategies in coordination with customer. Scheduling required trainings, knowledge transfer, and product knowledge to teams. Vasist Sharma, PMP Cell - 408-***-****

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• Project Lead / Project Manager (Client: Apple Inc – 11/2009 to 10/2010) Responsible for monitoring the project and project goals. Engagement with important Stakeholders from Engineering, Product and team. Responsible executing the offshore component of a web based applications, executed on quick agile based methodologies. Quick interaction with stake-holders and high coordination skills was much required to align with the delivery model. Working closely with the Product Manager and multiple Engineering Managers to plan and prioritize new features, analyzing use cases and customer/partner requests to help generate roadmaps for future releases by creating clear, logical and realistic project plans, budget, schedule and revised as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.

Accomplishments

Led important applications on AOS (Apple Online Store). Defend Changes through Change Management process.

• Project Lead / Manager (Client: OnStar-General Motors - 05/2004 to 05/2009) Accomplishment: Led important applications like VDU and RTE, which were high economic value to GM. Involved in Quality Assurance / Quality control and Project Management. Exposure to GM’s SDP-21 process for Software Delivery.

Accomplishments

Led weekly release cycles that include requirement gathering, scoping & delivering. Led QA Team with Test Strategies and Test Plan.

Professional Awards

• Delivery Excellence award – Application Maintenance and Support, OnStar.

• OnStar Chairman’s award – OnStar Vehicle Diagnostics

• Received several Pat on Back (felicitations) from Satyam Management.

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