Project Manager Management

ANAND SRINIVASAN

817-***-**** ***********@*****.*** Columbia, MD, 21044

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

●Technical IT Project Manager (PM) with 5+ years of project management experience leading medium to complex IT infrastructure migration (modernization) projects to the cloud platform. Led to ~ $ 3,500,000 per year in savings.

●Managed resources (hiring, and training), planning, budgeting, monitoring, and reporting on the project status to the management for funding and/or approval. Team Size: Twenty-five (25) people.

●Directed the team in making informed decisions by leveraging project management tools like RASCI matrix, Business Analysis skills, and keeping track of project metrics.

●Guided the project team to understand the scope (core product goals), and prioritization of requirements in Jira, and effective organization of information in Jira and Confluence site for Executive Management reporting.

●Solid hands-on experience in business requirements analysis, software quality assurance process, and basic familiarity in Product Management theory and principles.

●Significant expertise in leading the solution delivery of the product development process through Waterfall approach and pioneered the transition of the project to Agile delivery.

SKILLS

Active Listening Stakeholder Management Conflict Resolution Project/Product Management Negotiation Business Analysis

EXPERIENCE

IT Project Manager / Lead Business Analyst 12/2019 - Current

Scope Infotech, Inc. - Columbia, MD 21044

Scope Infotech is a software services company that provides software consulting and provides technical IT expertise to federal government agencies, specifically CMS. Client: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

●Worked with business stakeholders to understand high-level project vision (scope) to plan resource allocation, and prepared budgeting with the Proposal/Contracts team.

●Worked with client business unit (end users) to document product requirements (high-level) in Confluence to lead the Business Analysis team on developing the business process map, and detail user stories to form a basis for the technical work.

●Facilitated various stakeholder meetings through daily stand-up, brainstorming, and sprint planning meetings, to identify system needs and requirements from a technical and system design perspective. Overseen documentation of work products from these meetings.

●Led the technical team to come up with costing and accounting in terms of labor hours, and technical/IT system resources. Developed strong work ethics, team morale, and worked on relationship skills (through active participation by listening to details, and from a project management standpoint), thereby leading the team to agree on project goals and the technical approach to solution design and delivery.

●Acted as a very influential thought leader in guiding project stakeholders (internal and external) in scope setting and prioritization (using Business Analysis approaches) and used real-time system data and insights to resolve conflicts among stakeholders.

●Measured and tracked project performance using PM tools (like Jira, and Confluence) by architecting the full landscape of the project roadmap and gained consensus from time-to-time.

Senior Business Analyst 12/2015 – 12/2019

Scope Infotech, Inc. - Columbia, MD 21044

Client: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

●Defined & communicated the overall vision, objectives, and goals of the business. Articulated the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) needs.

●Developed and overseen the Product Roadmap journey, and/or with Senior Product Managers and Director of Product Management (client-side product team).

●Created, refined, and prioritized the Product backlog.

●Enabled delivery of Product Backlog by presenting backlog to team; creating, owning, and refining well-formed user stories and artifacts that describe and detail new products, features and services based on feedback from team, creating acceptance criteria with the team, and accepting stories as they are completed.

●Contributed to the maturity, performance, and growth of the Agile team.

●Worked daily with scrum teams to refine, groom, and accept stories and bugs for implementation.

●Created UAT test cases, organized and facilitated UAT testing, tracked test results, and worked with the Scrum Master and Agile team to resolve issues.

●Represented the team, when needed, to external stakeholders, leaders, and other teams to ensure alignment and progress of the team.

●Developed training materials and conducted training for business and end users.

Requirements Analyst 03/2013 – 12/2015

Quality Software Services, Inc. (QSSI) - Columbia, MD 21044

QSSI is a software services company that provides software consulting and provides technical IT expertise to federal government agencies, specifically CMS. Client: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

●Contributed to requirements analysis of Affordable Care Act (ACA) Physician Value (PV) web-based application and held responsible for software quality assurance deliverables and results.

EDUCATION

Master of Science, Industrial Engineering and Project Management 05/2011

The University of Texas at Arlington

CERTIFICATIONS

●Certified Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Alliance – 12/2023

●Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance – 11/2013

AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS

●Consistently exceeded project expectations – PM of the Year Award (2021, and 2022).

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