SMRUTI R. ROUT

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SUMMARY A highly motivated Senior Program/Project Manager with 17+ years of hands-on experience in managing projects/ programs and Enterprise Project Management solutions for diverse, multi-sited project teams to success in fast-paced environments with cutting-edge technology. Possess strong technical and business knowledge in Program/Project management, PMO, product development, strategic planning, business modeling, roadmap, outsourcing, vendor management and engineering. Proven ability to successfully analyze critical business requirements, identify deficiencies, potential opportunities and develop/integrate innovative, cost-effective solutions to enhance productivity, revenue and improve customer service offerings.

Major strengths:

• Leadership: Business insight, effective communication, and a flexible, "can-do" management style.

• Program/Project Management: A proven track- record of delivering outstanding results managing a range of programs/projects of Engineering, IT, SW/HW, infrastructure, implementation and Web.

• Guru in MS Project/Portfolio Server, MS SQL, MOSS (SharePoint) and Microsoft Technologies.

• 12+ years of consulting experience providing Enterprise Project Management & PMO solutions.

• Execution of large-scale, multi-sited, cross functional and complex technology programs globally.

• Decade of experience building, managing complex PMO organizations, SW development, change management, requirements management, strategy development, customer relation and IT.

• Proven track-record of executing >20, complex, long-term, multi-million dollar Projects/Programs.

• Certification: Orange, Blue & Black Belt in MS Project/Project Server, MCSE, MCTS and PMP

• Extensive experience with Commercial, Engineering, Telecomm, Wireless and Banking businesses.

• Excellent interpersonal, effective communication, leadership, and people management skills.

• Champion in project planning, fore-casting, EVM, cost-estimation, budget & resource planning, process mapping, data/financial analysis, portfolio reporting, and managing scope, status, Risk/Issues.

• Managed Products, Programs and assignments with ~400 cross-functional team & site resources.

• Leading multi-sited, multi-cultural, cross-functional teams of 12~20, Project Managers, Leads, Engineers, Developers, Web Designers, QAs and PMO/IT/CM/tools professionals.

TECHNICAL Program Mgmt. Tools: MS Project/Portfolio Server 2003/2007/2010, MS Project Pro, MS Office, Visio

EXPERTIES RequsitePro, DOORS, Sharepoint, Action Item Tracking and Risk/Issue Mgmt. Tools

CM/Change Mgmt.: ClearCase, ClearQuest, UCM, RUP, Rational Rose, Remedy, PVCS and VSS

Operating systems: Windows, Client/Server, Windows, UNIX, Linux, Server 2003/2005/2008

Networking Tech.: Wireless, WLAN, Mobile Platforms, WAN, LAN, TCP/IP

Programming: C, C++, Visual Basic, SQL, PL/SQL, Perl, VB, HTML

Database: Oracle, MS SQL Server 2003/2005/2008 and MS Access

Other Tools: SharePoint Design & Services, IIS, ORCAD-CIS, BaaN

PROFESSIONAL Senior Project Manager, Project/Portfolio Server & PMO Consultant

EXPERIENCE Clients: Qualcomm Inc., San Diego CA July 2011 - Current

Dept. of Health & Human Services, Washington DC Sep 2010 - June 2011

Microsoft WA, MD Anderson TX, AllState Insurance IL Oct 2008 – Sep 2010

Qualcomm Inc. IT provides Project Server solution to business units to manage their Programs. As Primary Project Server consultant: Managing MPS implementation for new customers and on-going development, enhancement, configuration, support and training for existing customers. Played key role on building complex report development, best practices, Project management processes and methodology.

Proving consultancy: Govt. Dept. of Health PMO office to mange President’s Health Care plan, using an Enterprise Program Management solution. To achieve timely and successful management of health provisions for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by components of the United States Department of Health & Human Services. ACA Integrated Master Project plan consist of was 480 provisions break into ~140 projects by Operating Departments. Implemented MS Project Server 2007 & 2010 customized with business

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requirements and best practice to manage, track and successful execution of this program. Provided weekly status, progress report to White House and Congress.

Leading and managing, Microsoft LPO/BGE business EPM implementation Project using Project Server 2010 to handle Demand Management & Capacity planning, Program Management, budgeting & forecasting, portfolio analysis, global resource management, project prioritization, task/schedule management & tracking.

Providing consultancy on, Project Server 2010 solution for business drivers, portfolio prioritization, business process implementation, configuration, program/ project management strategy, status & portfolio reporting. Mentoring and guiding PMO office, Project Management professionals and implementation team.

Managing, AllState Insurance Chicago head-office MPS system migrating from2003 to 2007 project for entire PMO with over 15+ thousand users include 2 thousand Project Managers. Goal is to have a seamless migration with addition of enhanced features, smooth transition and successful training.

MD Anderson was developing a multi-million dollar state-of the-art EMR(Electronic Medical Records) system over last 7+ years, which consists of huge number of large projects to manage and integrate several modules under PM/PMO organization. As primary consultant I was leading and managing Project Server 2007 implementation project to achieve successful execution and tracking of all complex, globally distributed projects over multiple development centres, business units with cross-functional teams.

Major Accomplishments:

• Built a complete Enterprise PMO office solution with all-level custom cost, budget, time reporting system, improved project vision, tracking and cost with proven track records.

• Successful implementation and integration of Project and Portfolio server in ~ 4 month

Duties included:

• Program/Project Planning/Scheduling and providing leadership for a several high-end projects.

• Managing & tracking Project progress, milestones, deliveries through Roll-up and Master schedule.

• Handled day-to-day PMO, PMs, Resource, Management and project/program activities support.

• Designed, architected and defined MS Enterprise Project/Portfolio Management solution: requirement analysis, architecture, implementation, pilot plan, standards, use-cases, customer support and training.

• Developing and Managing Critical Path Method modeling and Schedule Risk Management, and Earned Value Management System

• Developing custom data analysis, portfolio integrated reports with indicators, graphs and charts.

• Building and migrating pilot server environment to development and then to production.

• Handled admin task delegation, training all-around, documentation, process, baseline and milestones, risks and issues, balanced priorities and staying on-top of deliverables and commitment to customers.

Senior Project Manager/ Manager PMO/CM/Tools

Texas Instruments, San Diego, CA Nov 2001- Sep 2008

Project Manager: Handling start-to-finish of SW/HW/Tools/PMO projects for Wireless 3G and WLAN.

Team Manager: Line-manager for global & local PMO office, Configuration Management and Tool teams.

Managed large-scale, multi-million dollar Projects/Programs on:

Wireless/WLAN Product development, Enterprise Program Management, SW, IT, PM/CM tools set and successfully manage projects maintaining roadmap, complete PMO support from project/program initiation-to-finish, configuration & change Management, product build & release, business process and user training.

Major Accomplishments:

• Proven track record of executing >10 complex SW, Tools and IT projects over millions of dollars.

• Implemented global PMO business tools and process, which reduced project cost & time by 15 %.

• Achieved reorganization for successful implementation of (EPM) MS Project/Portfolio server, Project Web Services (PWA): which reduced project and resource cost significantly.

• Rewarded for early-execution and deployment of ‘Global CM/Tools projects’ across WLAN.

• EPM /PMO Portal Solution: Project Managed and led this over million dollar project.

Duties included:

• Led the cross-functional team to execute the program to achieve the established business goals.

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• Managed planning, co-ordination and successful execution of business SW/Tools/IT/PMO projects.

• Handled day-to-day PMO office support, resources and project/program activities.

• Dealing with multiple complex projects, juggling priorities, initiatives, changes and issues.

• Managed on-time execution of development projects, integration, overall functions and deliverables, tracking milestones, financial and budgeting process, estimation, allocation and budget drivers.

• Championed in scheduling, forecasting, cost-estimation, budgeting and resource planning.

• Handled task delegation, tracked progress, baseline and milestones, risks and issues, balanced priorities and staying on-top of deliverables and commitment to customers.

• Conducted and chaired Project status, check-point and Project review meetings in a timely fashion.

• Completed each project successfully from initiation through delivery while interfacing with product management, PM, engineering, system, verification, quality, process, support teams and customers.

• Architected, designed and implemented MS Enterprise Project/Portfolio Management solution for business units analyzing requirements, strategy, business practice, pilot plan, standards and use-cases.

• Administration, maintenance, support and training on Project Server & Program Management tools.

• Collaborated with Management, PMs, Development Teams, IT, Marketing, Customers, QAs and Operations to plan, forecast, estimate, budget, resource allocation, release and oversee the delivery.

• Chaired Configuration Control Board meetings (CCB) to approve enhancement and change requests

• Implemented and maintained: ReqPro for Requirement Management, Rational Rose/Visio for Modeling/ prototyping, ClearCase for change management and ClearQuest for change tracking.

• Designed Document Management system: manage/publish documents to internal/external customers.

• Day-to-day operation, line-management, assignments, task distribution, status reports and guidance.

• Monitored customer/project/team issues and routed them across my teams for support/resolution.

Project Lead/ Senior CM Manager

Commerce Velocity Inc., San Diego CA Mar 1996 - Nov 2001

Lead 3 large financial/banking development and implementation projects from start-to-finish.

Provided project management/SW development/integration/testing/product delivery/change management solution and consultancy to PM/engineering teams and internal/external customers:

• Managed detail SW development, integration schedules, tasks, baselines and resource assignments.

• Provided process/guidelines to improve program planning, scheduling, reporting, portfolio views and resource allocating in a multi-program and cross-origination environment.

• Handled task delegation, tracked progress & milestones, risks &issues and balanced priorities.

• Designed project status reporting and portfolio reporting for management to stay on top of projects.

• Led PMO, development, configuration Management, QA and Engineering Support teams.

• Monitored customer issues and assign to team for resolution in timely manner.

• Managed software Build/Release and automated code integration among modules.

• Implemented change tracking system using ClearQuest and implement for all projects.

• Maintained database, user/groups, manage permissions, tuning, performance and web access.

MIS Manager

Shecom Computers, Anaheim CA Feb 1994 – Mar 1996

EDUCATION MS Computer Science, USC (University of Southern California), CA USA

MS Computer Science, WCU (West Coast University), Los Angeles, CA USA

BE Computer Science & Engineering, Utkal University, INDIA

TRAINING & Trained PMP

CERTIFICATION Orange Belt, Blue Belt and Black Belt certification in ‘Enterprise Project Management/MS Project’

Microsoft Project and Portfolio Server Training and Certification.

Rational Certification on RequisitePro (ReqPro), ClearQuest, ClearCase Administration

Certification on Oracle 8, 8i and 9

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