Project Manager

VEDVATI A. WATWE

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Project Manager with over nine years of experience in managing large federal and state IT contracts based on waterfall and agile methodologies. Highly skilled in requirements analysis, project planning, and using Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to complete projects within budget and schedule. Managed cross-functional teams of analysts, developers, testers, and overseas and local vendors through development, testing and deployment.

CERTIFICATIONS:

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification, May 2013

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification, July 2014

SAFe Practitioner Certification, July 2019

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, August 2020

SKILLS:

Resource Planning

Budget Analysis

Scheduling

Risk and Issue Management

Requirements Gathering

Reporting/Presentations

Scrum/Kanban

Agile Central (Rally)/JIRA

MS Project, Excel, SharePoint, Visio

Confluence

Customer Relationship Management

Cross-Functional Team Management

Written and Verbal Communication

Attention to detail

Problem Solving

CLEARANCE:

Public Trust Clearance (Archived); Secret Clearance (Archived)

EXPERIENCE:

Senior IT Project Manager May 2018-Present

MAXIMUS, Reston, VA

Managing $1.5M/year budget agile projects for the Operation and Maintenance of an IT System for Medicaid Eligibility and Administration.

Managing related projects from initiation to completion, including technical project management of new and ongoing projects such as version upgrades, AWS migration, and digital application upgrades.

Facilitating team meetings and discussions to plan and execute software releases, including conducting analyses, developing goals, objectives, and strategies.

Managing project risks and issues by creating detailed action plans.

Providing ongoing project status briefings and presentations to senior managers and other internal and external stakeholders by utilizing a data/metrics-driven approach.

Participating in customer meetings to communicate ongoing project activities and dependencies.

Managing project schedule, budget, and resources.

Ensuring teams are motivated, collaborating, and communicating.

Acting as a Scrum Master by being the point of escalation for teams, proactively managing dependencies, identifying obstacles and helping teams overcome them.

Facilitating sprint planning meetings, review meetings, retrospectives, backlog grooming sessions, and daily standups.

Working with security team to identify and mitigate security issues.

Working with MAXIMUS digital team to deploy new or enhanced application and digital services.

Project Manager March 2016-April 2018

The Ambit Group LLC, Alexandria, VA - United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO):

Managed a $500K agile project for decentralizing network infrastructure for international patent offices.

Developed schedule, scope, and resource estimates with international patent offices.

Performed impact analysis for affected applications and services.

Coordinated with stakeholders to gather requirements, manage expectations, and reconcile budget.

Facilitated meetings with key partners, both internal and external.

Managed a $1.5M waterfall project for procuring and implementing an enterprise backup solution.

Developed project artifacts including project plan, schedule, and charter.

Obtained vendor estimates for cloud-based and on-premise backup solutions.

Presented cost and feature analysis to senior management for the solutions from multiple vendors.

Prepared agendas, minutes and presentations for project meetings.

Managed a $1.2M agile Windows 10 migration project. Led a team of thirty users and software developers to test and deploy Windows 10 compatible versions of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) and Government Off the Shelf (GOTS) applications.

Maintained project charter, schedule, budget and resource estimates, and risk and issue log.

Performed risk assessments and developed mitigation and contingency plans.

Managed development and testing activities by successfully executing project sprints and collaborated with users on initial testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Communicated project status and issues to stakeholders and documented lessons learned for the project.

Senior Business Analyst May 2015-March 2016

HMS Technologies, Inc., Alexandria, VA - United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO):

Worked on an agile project to enhance a critical USPTO system

Elicited, documented, managed user stories based on customer requirements.

Elicited and documented acceptance criteria from product owners and technical leads.

Facilitated sprint planning meetings, review meetings, retrospectives, backlog grooming sessions, and daily standups.

Senior Business Systems Analyst January 2011-May 2015

CACI International, Inc., Arlington, VA - Department of State (DOS), Bureau of Diplomatic Security:

Worked on multiple waterfall and agile projects for enhancement of DOS applications.

Elicited system requirements from multiple stakeholders using interviews and meetings.

Conducted weekly status meetings to track project status and resolve issues.

Documented risks, actions, issues, and lessons learned in the project SharePoint site.

Facilitated scrum ceremonies, prioritized features and user stories based on the Product Owner’s inputs.

Senior Functional Analyst November 2009-January 2011

OneGlobe LLC, Reston, VA – Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA):

Worked on multiple FEMA projects using waterfall methodology.

Documented functional requirements and use case specifications for interfaces between FEMA’s disaster assistance application and other external agencies.

Created traceability matrix using Requisite Pro for requirements/use cases and change requests.

Subcontractor Planning Analyst, Subcontractor Planning March 2004-October 2009

Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR

Project management for project to deploy inventory management tool:

oLed a cross-functional team to analyze, develop, and implement a solution for the automation of piece-part inventory management.

oParticipated in defining the project goal and developing the master plan to accomplish delivery of the automated piece-part inventory management tool.

oGenerated project justification, resource estimates, and project milestones for the tool.

oAnalyzed and identified Intel Corporation and subcontractors’ requirements by conducting analytical studies and research pertaining to the project.

oSupported the design and development of the tool by verifying and validating requirements for the development team.

oAnalyzed and presented data including monthly status reports to senior management.

oConducted customer, stakeholder, and peer review meetings to obtain approval of project requirements.

oReceived a divisional recognition award for successfully deploying the tool and realizing productivity savings.

Demand Forecasting and Supply Chain Optimization:

oProvided mid-range and long-range demand forecasts and scenario analyses to subcontractors.

oSupported strategic subcontractor forecast decisions, qualifications of additional subcontractors, and Intel’s product roadmap using scenario analyses.

oNegotiated the chipset package manufacturing volume with suppliers based on optimum price and capacity.

oTrained and provided guidance to team members in using planning tools and processes.

oReceived a process efficiency award for successful completion of project requirements for a critical application.

Integration Engineer December 2000-March 2004

oServed as the main point-of-contact to resolve day-to-day resource allocation and scheduling conflicts for statistical data collection at worldwide Intel assembly factories.

oConducted regular data reviews to assess technology maturity using the Intel process maturity table.

oReceived an Intel Excellence Award for successful qualification of the first land grid array (LGA) package for use in high volume desktop computers.

Purchase Requisition Coordinator (Contract Employee), February 2000-May 2000

oProcessed purchase requisitions using Microsoft Access database.

oCommunicated and resolved issues with processing of purchase requisitions by interfacing with site requestors and financial analysts.

oRecommended improvements to streamline the purchase requisition generation and tracking process.

Project Engineer September 1990-October 1994

Thermax Limited, Pune, India

Worked with cross-functional teams to design, manufacture, install, and test hazardous waste incineration systems for chemical plants.

AWARDS:

Maximus Superior Service Award for successfully implementing product enhancements (2019)

Maximus Superior Teamwork Award for exceptional teamwork (2019)

Intel Divisional Recognition Award for successfully implementing a process improvement (2004)

EDUCATION:

Master of Business Administration (MBA) June 2003

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering May 1990

University of Pune, India

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