Project Manager Management

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Professional Summary

** ***** **** ********** ** the management, architecture and delivery of large and mid scale technology solutions for a variety of industries. Worked with organizations and IT teams at the executive, departmental and project level, to adopt various methodologies, including Agile/Scrum/XP/RUP in the areas of, Portfolio & Project Management, Software Engineering Practices and Application Support.

Key Accomplishments

• Conceptualized and managed the ‘Agile/SCRUM Live Project’ demonstrations at the ’07 and ’08 Gartner Midsize Summits in Palm Springs, CA and Orlando, Fl. - Gartner Press release , Audio Pod cast.

• Started the first Agile Development Center tm in Chicago. Managed multiple teams focused on delivering high quality solutions while reducing costs.

o Leveraged agile/scrum practices - reduce time to market and budget

o Combined senior talent and recent college grads – optimized project delivery cost

o Created high level of transparency between stake holders and teams - manage/reduce scope and lower cost

• Transformed an IT staffing organization into a high-end consultancy offering IT cost reduction strategies using Agile/Scrum methodologies and SOA. Responsible for a revamp of the company’s image in terms of offerings, websites and corporate culture

• Managed a program to retain key employees possessing strong domain expertise by moving them from Mainframe technology and a Waterfall approach to industry-recognized Agile/Scrum practices and object oriented technologies. Managed multiple teams to deliver enterprise solutions from a common platform

• Part of the core team that undertook the Architecture, Design and Implementation of a cutting edge Enterprise Application Development Framework for a Fortune 500 company to provide a cost reduction of greater than 20% over the existing process by dramatically reducing time to market

• Lead a team in the development of an innovative user configurable application based on a web services framework that reduced operational costs by removing the need for a customer support team.

• Founded a startup to design and manufacture telecommunication products and grew it to a 40 employee company that designed and manufactured DOT approved telecommunications systems. Involved in the overall the design of the embedded technology hardware and application software

• Managed the development of a Rapid Application Delivery Program to reduce time to market and overall IT costs by up to 30%, using a standardized IT infrastructure, adopting agile/scrum based SDLC, using a SOA and refining the requirements gathering and management process

Skill Set

PM Tools: Microsoft Project, X-Planner, Jira, VersionOne, Rally, Pivotal, Google Docs

Process: Agile, SCRUM, XP, UP, RUP, Use Cases, User Stories, Test Cases, Test Scripts

Tools: CVS, Subversion, VSS, Star Team, Tortoise, Sales force, Share point

QA: Load Runner, QTP, Test Director, Test Partner

OS: NT, LINUX

Database: SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, Xindiche, MYSQL, Eclipse

Languages/Frameworks: Java, Websphere, JSP, Struts, Hibernate, Spring, J2ME, .NET , ASP.NET, VB, .NET Application Blocks, WCF, J2EE, Perl, COM, COM+,

Web: Apache, IIS, HTML, DHTML, XML, JavaScript, CSS

Other: WSAD, Visual Studio, Ant, NAnt, Maven, Cruise Control, CruiseControl.NET, Seam, Ruby, Open Laszlo, Cog Heads, Silver Stream, BowStreet, Sonic MQ, Dharma, Sun’s Creator, Force.com, Backbase, MindBreeze, EXT-js

Professional Experience

Nov 2010 – Dec 2010: Financial Services Client, NJ

Undertook a discovery phase to provide the CMMI- 3 compliant client with an Agile readiness assessment for an upcoming Agile adoption program. Worked with various Centers of Excellence to identify touch points between an Agile approach and their current CMMI based processes as well as identify areas of change.

April 2010 – Oct 2010: Media Company, LI, NY

Agile Coach/Scrum Master/ Technical Coach. Coaching Scrum Masters and multiple teams. Helped a SCRUM team to overcome impediments and release their Product for the first time in 5 years. Helping organization transition to Agile at an organizational level – working with QA, DB and Infrastructure teams to adapt to working with Agile teams. Mentoring teams in adoption of an Agile Architecture

March 2009 – March 2010: Consultant at American Federation of Teachers, Washington DC

Helping in the transformation to an IT2.0 organization that uses agile project delivery processes while leveraging a Web 2.0 architecture. Working with management to shape the vision, with the project managers to move towards an iterative delivery model, with the development teams to utilize and adopt a lean SDLC and with the business team to identify and procure COTS solutions to facilitate rapid delivery of their solutions. Introduced the organization to the benefits of cloud computing based on the Force.com platform. Developing a plan to migrate the organization to a cloud based information model.

November 2006 – February 2009: VP-Professional Services, Cyber Korp Inc., Bloomingdale, IL

Directed allocation and utilization of people, provided overall management support for successful customer delivery services for a wide range of clients in the Financial Services, Education and Government sector. Responsible for the management of onshore and offshore teams, worked on outsourced projects for various clients across the US. Mentored teams in Agile/SCRUM engineering and Project management practices

• Republic Mortgage Insurance Company Project Manager. Responsible for the delivery of a Pool Insurance System developed in .NET. Worked with a remote development team at the Agile Development Center in Chicago while also working with the project stake holders at the client site.

• Young Life Engagement/Project Manager. Responsible for the delivery of a Deficit Administration application using .NET and SQL server. Used an iterative incremental approach to deliver features and manage scope creep on the project.

• Laureate Education Project Manager. Responsible for the delivery and design of a social networking concept using a highly collaborative platform to reduce program development costs by 60%

• American Federation of Teachers Scrum Master Project Manager. Responsible for leading the team in the development of the first phase of a Web 2.O information system to be used by a diverse and extremely large customer base. The system was designed to facilitate easy configuration of information needs by a user through use of customizable screens. The solution was delivered incrementally using 3 week iterations

• Capital Institutional Services Portfolio Manager. Responsible for the overall delivery of a series of applications built on an SOA based RAD Platform. Responsible for the vision and high level architecture of the system.

• UNFPA, United Nations Engagement Manager. Project with the United Nations group to transition their global Novell Network to Windows based Network.

April 2002 to Oct 2006, Principal Consultant, Valtech Technologies Inc, Dallas, TX

Responsible for the delivery of OO based software development projects, focusing on advanced technologies (Java/J2EE and Microsoft C#/.Net), following the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Agile Development techniques (XP, SCRUM, Agile Modeling etc.). Responsible for coaching/mentoring clients in Agile/SCRUM Management, Engineering and QA Practices

• Hertz - Scrum Master/Project Manager/Lead - Core team member worked on the development of a Websphere based Enterprise Application Development Platform supporting 16 enterprise applications using Java/J2EE. Mentored development and QA teams in use of OO concepts for design, requirements analysis, requirements estimation and task decomposition, design patterns, Java language as well as Agile engineering practices including test driven development, continuous integration and pair programming. Mentored Project Managers in scrum, backlog management, iteration planning and delivery.

• Lab Corp - Worked on a Java/J2EE/WebSphere project developing specimen tracking systems for genetic tests. Delivered the project following the Rational Unified Process and its disciplines. Trained and mentored a team of COBOL Programmers in the adoption of Java/J2EE and agile techniques. American-Re - On-site Project Manager/Architect. Worked on a.NET solution for a Catastrophe Analysis application using an offshore development team based in Chennai, India. Responsible for developing the architecture onsite and managing requirements and clients expectations. Delivered the solution following the Rational Unified Process methodology in a series of 2 week iterations over six months.

September 2000 to April 2002, Consultant, DigitalESP Inc

• DigitalESP - Product - Rapid Application Portal System (RAP) Architect/ Project Manager, Responsible for the overall design and development of a radical concept to enable rapid development and management of business applications. Managed the complete transfer of technology to the Valtech World Wide Development Center in India.

• Real Chain Architect / Project Lead. Defined the architecture and built the solution for a Portal based application using Websphere and Silver Stream Portal for the Real Estate Industry. Created an X-Forms based solution that utilized a workflow Engine and a Document Management System.

• Checkfree Defined the architecture for the GUI Framework, the Workflow Manager and the Calculation Engine Server for a large electronic transfer agency. Designed a MSMQ based backend queue manager. Mentored project teams in the use of RUP based methodology, MSMQ and XML.

• AIG Designed and developed a robust scalable auto insurance quote system with personalization and content management. Utilized the BowStreet Business Web Factory and Java to create a customizable rules-engine driven portal framework. Used Web services to encapsulate all page data sources such as databases and real-time feeds. Mentored developers in the use of BowStreet Server.

• National Grange Mutual Technical Lead for a B2C for a large Insurance Company site using Microsoft’s ASP, SQL Server, IIS and Dharma middleware. The agent-on-desktop application provides agents with the ability to interact with their data files on the mainframe by means of a web browser.

• Galaxy Electronics Developed a pilot web site using the BowStreet suite of products with an Oracle database.

May 1998 to August 2000, Systems Analyst, Blueshift Inc.

• Republic Mortgage Insurance Company - Senior Developer. Designed the architecture for Customer Change, an application that accomplishes high volume transactional database updates in real time without locking the tables for extensive periods. Utilized XML to create a redundant transaction manager that guaranteed data integrity.

• Blueshift - Team Lead/Developer. Designed and developed an online resume application using ASPs with VbScript and JavaScript and SQL server for the database. Worked on the design of the Order Management System that used ASP and VB for the front end and SQL server for the back-end.

• Electrolux - Team Lead/ Developer. Responsible for development of the Scan-n-Send application that enabled users to scan documents and FTP them to an image server site. Developed in C++ and VB

• Firearms Training - Developer. Responsible for the C++ based modules to interact with proprietary Video Cards for the Firearm Simulator System of a video training organization.

• Geodesics - Developer. Worked on various application modules. Responsible for the conversion of MFC based screens into HTML based screens for the Cyber Oasis Internet Terminal.

Certifications

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

• Sun Certified Java 2 Programmer

• Microsoft Certified Solution Developer

Education

• BE Electrical - Mumbai University, Mumbai, India

Training

• BowStreet Web Factory

• SonicMQ

Professional Affiliations

• Agile Alliance

• Scrum Alliance

• APLN

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