Sr IT Project Manager

Sharad Kumar Agrawal, PMP

**** ********* ***, *** ** Sunnyvale, CA 94087

313-***-**** (cell); 408-***-**** (Home); email: ********@*****.***

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SUMMARY

* Accomplished result driven IT Program/Project Manager with more than 8.5 years of experience & consistent record of achievements with fortune 500 companies (Applied Material, Ford Motor Company, Airbus, Caterpillar & Dassault Systemes) at multiple global locations including Asia, Europe and United States.

* Deployment and implementation experience in 12-15 large & complex Releases as well as several point releases (software patches)

* Managed projects upto $12 M and upto 50 resources in cross functional team (Matrixed organization). Strong knowledge of Project costs breakup (Expenses and Capital).

* Knowledge of Six Sigma, CMM Level, PMI (PMBOK) & ITIL Processes

* Experience in project execution in highly structured PMO environment, along with exposure of setting up PMO organization, Project Templates and Project Management best Practices

* Project scope management using change control process and delivery on time and within budget using triple constraints (Scope, Schedule & Budget) and key Project Management SDLC methodologies Iterative, Waterfall, RUP & Agile

* Experience in vast range of projects e.g. 3rd party ERP software deployment and Infrastructure Upgrade (Application Server/Client switch from Unix to Wintel Platform), Custom Software Development, Data Migration

* Responsible for delivery of the overall project according to SOW (Fixed cost as well as T&M)

* Strong experience in identifying business goals, developing strategies and delivery of overall project according to SOW (Scope, Schedule & Cost) using software development life cycle (SDLC)

* Experience in development of Business Requirement Specifications (BRS), Project Charter, Functional Specs, Design specs, Testing Plan, Training Plan, Go-Live Plan, Project Plan, Change Order, Business Continuity Planning(BCP), Disaster Recovery Planning(DRP), Roll Back Plan, Production Support Plan, Performance Management Planning

EDUCATION

* Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering,  Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Kanpur), 1996-2000

Technology Skills

* Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/2003/XP, HP PA RISC, SUN Solaris, HP CAD Blade solution deployment

* Applications: MS project, MS Office, MS Visual Studio, SQL, Oracle, ERP (SAP SRM), Microsoft Sharepoint, MS SQL

* Languages: HTML, XML, Visual Basic, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, OOPS Methodologies

* Data Storage: Server Hardware & Storage solution Planning (SAN, NAS), Procurement Planning (Server, EMC, NetApps, Licenses, OS)

* Project Lifecycle Management: CAD, CAM, PDM, PLM, Teamcenter (including 2007 unified), Windchill, CATIA V5, CATIA V4, Ideas, ProE, ITK, CAA RADE APIs, NX5, Ansys, CFD, Oracle Agile, MatrixOne Enovia

Awards

* Appreciation award, Ford Motor Company, Jan 2008

* Appreciation award, Ford Motor Company, October 2006

* Best performer achievement award, Geometric Software, Aug 2002

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS

* Certified PMP Training - PMI-HVC Chapter

* Other Project Management Training (e.g. Negotiation skill, Project Planning, Risk Mitigation Planning, Resource Planning, Cost & Schedule Control etc..)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Bournie technologies, USA, June 2008 – Present

Client: Applied Material (AMAT), Santa Clara, USA

Role: Senior Project Manager, Program Manager

Project: Upgrade Project

The project is divided in 2 phases. Phase I of project involves switching Server OS from HP PA RISC to Wintel, Switching storage from EMC to NetApps, Upgrading Oracle 9i to 10g, Porting Teamcenter and other custom applications on Windows. Phase II of project involves switching Teamcenter application from 9136m to 2007 UA.

Project Management responsibility includes

* Identify requirements, establish clear and achievable objectives, Managed project scope, time and costs

* Oversaw, negotiated and managed project budgets and expenditures

* Successfully managed vendors expectations

* Managed client expectations and conflicts, lead project meetings and presentations to stakeholders

* Creation of Statement of Work and final deliverable document

* Competitive analysis of systems, business requirements and technical feasibility, functionality and usability

* Recommended best practices for optimization of company IT assets, processes and policies

* Analyzed business units to leverage efficiencies to improve productivity

iknowvate technologies, USA, March 2005 – May 2008

Client: Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, USA

Role: Senior Project Manager, Release Manager, Deployment Lead

Project: Implementation of C3PNG Program, Ford ADS

Managed multiple projects and responsible for implementation and deployment of 3rd party software aligned to both short and long-term business requirements to expand programs and services, reduce costs.

* Gather information, project metrics, resource needs, and other critical project requirements, and assist assigned technical and other personnel in all phases of the project. Closely monitor efforts to ensure all project goals are met, and deadlines and budgetary restrictions achieved.

* As required, update business practices and procedures

* Consistently achieve stated management goals.

Satyam Computers, Spain, Dec 2002 – Feb 2005

Client: Airbus – Madrid, SPAIN

Role: Project Manager

Project: CATIAV5 Integration with PRIMES (Windchill)

* Served in a direct supervisory role, directing efforts of a 5-member analyst team.

* Interfaced closely with project principals from conception through final delivery developing business enhancements.

* Consistent in achieving and exceeding desired outcomes.

Client: Caterpillar

Role: Project Lead

Project: Configuration and customization for Teamcenter

* Oversaw and guided teams developing and implementing solutions streamlining business processes and improving communications across the organization.

* Effective Initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & control and closing of the production standards project

Geometric Software, India, June 2000 – Dec 2002

Client: Dassault Systemes – Pune, India

Role: Project Lead

Project: Electrical Harness Flattening workbench development in CATIAV5

* Played a key role designing and developing system and product enhancements, new operational and administrative processes and procedures

* Enhanced business acquisition efforts dramatically through design of innovative technical tools and procedures.

* Other duties included informal and formal training and office relocation planning and execution.

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