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Servant Leader to Enable Transparency and Growth,.while encouraging AgileTransformationFrisco, TX (Street Address )527-0281 EMAIL AVAILABLE https://LINKEDIN LINK AVAILABLEExperienced Program Manager specializing in seamless process execution, change management, and team motivation. Proponent of Agile transformation through multiple levels and divisions within organizationLeading large-scale programs, including multi cloud migrations and efficiently managing 30 + complex projects from conception to delivery across diverse platforms resulting in reliable applications and reduced operating costs.Results-driven leader with a proven track record in spearheading transformative change. Skilled in cultivating self-motivated teams grounded in transparency and accountability, fostering a culture of open communication and ownership. Adept at navigating complex technological challenges and inter-team dependencies while promoting cultural diversity and inclusion. Efficient management of Hypercare activities leading to customer satisfaction.Champion automation strategies by encouraging automation in critical areas such as test driven development, job scheduling, blue/green releases strategies, and reporting to streamline processes, enhance efficiency, to optimize outcomes and decrease operational costs.Forge efficient partnerships with customers, sponsors, vendors, and the steering committee, ensuring engaged and content stakeholders for improved financial and business outcomes. Strategic partner to business leaders with strong business acumen. while ensuring strategic communication with stakeholders. with focus on achieving planned ROI within budget .Professional Experience:Technical Project Manager (through Narveetech) Speridian Technologies : Qmerit Oct 2023 Feb 2024As Program Manager as well as Engagement Manager I led Speridian teams working for Qmerit, Wedgewood, InvestCloud and Aprilaire to achieve their business objectives. Led projects for Qmerits automobile EV charger installations, providing enhancements and devops support. Provided integrations for multiple partner organizations to be onboarded with Qmerit applications.Aprilaire, I led a team focused on DevOps CI/CD implementations and application enhancements, empowering an analytics team to deliver reports utilizing data analytics for proactive management of thermostats before potential failure.Across projects at Wedgewood I managed initiatives aimed at enhancing DevOps, automation. Data clean up and data migration for multiple applications.Provided actionable insights to senior leadership at invest cloud, fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making and enhancing organizational agility. Implemented process for Safe agile development . Create a roadmap for investment banking packages using the Jira roadmap feature.EM Technical Project Manager ThoughtFocus Brookfield WI June 2021 July 2023Enhanced Thoughtfocus document processing applications to improve quality of processing, incorporating secure storage and transition of PII information. Managed support for TFDocuPro application built on Natural Language Processing using LLM for banking and medical customers.Conducted market research and prepared a roadmap for TFDocuPro tool for Go-to-Market. Analyzed marketing domains and performed segment marketing for the product, reviewing competitor features and pricing.As a technical product manager facilitated meetings with SME and users of CRM applications,documenting user stories for application enhancements and new reports using ML models for determining the probability of success for opportunities as well as sales person's performance.Mubadala Investment Company was enthralled with quick delivery of Power BI reports to enable them to track and analyze status of portfolios. Provide analytics for investment banking packages.Managed hypercare for multiple client projects providing guidance to the team, daily reporting ensuring SLA and OLA are met.Created several dashboards for velocity, burndown and sprint health charts using data from swaggerCaptured ROI and KPI metrics for each project and consistently monitored them.Managed projects within SAP S/4HANA. Monitored project CapEx & OpEx approved budget, forecast, and actuals weekly and reported monthly..Maintained and updated RAID register and communication plan.Reviewed non-functional requirements, such as performance, security, compliance, observability and disaster recovery. Build platform as service, rest client and services, deploying CI/CD deployments.Worked for two major clients JJKeller and Hydrite Chemicals with 1M and 600k budget while managing internal projectsManaged project finance for multiple clients on Planview providing weekly updates on capex and opex budgetUsed MS Project to create Gantt Chart and task dependencies as well as define critical path. Smartsheet was used at Hydrite Chemicals for defining milestones.User Stories and tasks created and assigned in Jira.ThoughtFocus Contract Senior PM JJKeller Neenah WI June 2021 July 2022Brought on to resolve challenges with agile adoption, addressing consistently changing technical and business requirements.Cultivated trusting relationships with key stakeholders at JJKeller. Negotiated with stakeholders on selecting mitigation strategies for identified risks. Used cloud watch for API monitoring.Formed scrum teams and facilitated scrum ceremonies while coaching Scrum masters, product owners and engineering team on agile processes.Persuaded Product Owners to use Gherkins language to document PBI with acceptance criteria in backlog grooming. Created change requests to manage scope changes.Facilitated demo for relevant stakeholders to seek feedback. Conducted planning sessions with business users and cross functional stakeholders to prioritize backlog and estimate work for upcoming Sprints.Utilized MS Visio and Miro to document architecture, infrastructure, and business process flow diagrams.Monitored and updated actuals and forecasts based on the planned budget and acquired cost.Communicated status and built rapport with Stakeholders, winning their engagement with ecommerce training for both desktops and mobile applications. Managed data migration from on prem to cloud.Created chatbots for managed services teams using Generative AI technology for responding to queries.Successfully deployed Training on Demand application at JJKeller on multi cloud, navigating complexities of handling transfer of large video and image files to desktop and mobile devices. Provided UI/UX front end support.ThoughtFocus Contract Senior PM Hydrite Chemicals Brookfield WI Nov 2022 July 2023Upgraded ERP infor to M3 while migrating to Azure Cloud, maneuvering challenges with data migration, ETL processes implemented in Python, build API interfaces and API monitoring on prometheus.Cultivated trusting relationships with key stakeholders and vendors. Reports created with data from DB2 .Negotiated with vendors on selecting purchase of Locks for Opti-Lock Project Led implementation and testing for IOT implementation and DCM connectivity to Optilocks locks from mobile devices.Managed multiple Managed service teams, Infrastructure build, Data migration,MS Azure Authentication and Security projects.Implemented Access controls for Warehouse Operations team.Project schedule and reports generated using MSProject and smartsheets and managed as waterfall.Certified Project Manager DOJ Madison, WI (through Mars IT Corp ) October 2020 June 2021Brought on to resolve risks impacting projects as well as to enable agile adaptation at Department of Justice for State of WI Collaborated closely with CIB and CLB stakeholders to define project scope and business process diagrams using MS Visio. Led the team in documenting data dictionaries for all CIB data, and implemented CMDB for assets management. Managed products and held responsibilities of Product ManagerFacilitated architectural discussions and expedited design documentations to address challenges such as network connectivity. Managed CapEx & OpEx budget, forecast, and actuals .Implemented a comprehensive technological upgrade by migrating to Azure cloud infrastructure, adopting Docker containers for streamlined deployment, incorporating Kafka for real-time messaging, and transitioning to a microservices architecture. These enhancements significantly improved system efficiency and scalability, enabling greater agility, scalability, and resilience to support business objectives.Led efforts to manage the customer data platform, including creating a data dictionary, establishing a business glossary, conducting data clean-up, and orchestrating data migration. These actions ensured organized, accurate data, facilitating better communication and maximizing platform benefits.Maintained transparency and conducted planned communication with stakeholders, sponsors, cross-functional teams, and leadership. Managed budgets for several projects totalling to 750KOperations team lead to ensure timely resolution of the incidents based on criticality and priority.Provided regular reports on project progress, risks, and budget, ensuring effective change management and stakeholder engagement. Adopted Agile Scrum methodology to enhance project flexibility and efficiency.Planview used to monitor the budget and provide monthly updates.MS Project for task dependencies and identifying critical paths.User Stories and tasks created and assigned in Jira and azure devops for different projectsSenior Technical Project Manager Kohl's Innovation Center February 2014September 2020Menomonee Falls WIBrought on as a System Analyst to implement updates on Merchandising Application for retail stores that would allocate merchandise to 1100 B&M and Ecommerce stores across the USA I was quickly promoted to PM role.Project Management Tools and Skills:Jira: Managed project backlogs, facilitated Scrum meetings, and tracked progress using Jira. Collaborated with cross-functional teams.MS Project: Tracked project schedules, milestones, and dependencies using MS Project.Planview: Monitored project budgets and financials.Oracle PPM: Leveraged Oracle Project Portfolio Management for financial tracking and reporting.Retail Domain Knowledge:Orchestrated the deployment of complex projects related to retail merchandise allocation.Worked on Oracle Retail Management system upgrades and legacy system decommissioning.Transitioning to a Project Management role, orchestrated the deployment of over 15 complex projects. Demonstrated versatility in project management, combining agile methodology with technical and business acumen. Managed multiple projects with 100K to 2M budget Managing projects backlogs on Jira and Confluence, and created releases, and dashboards.Led teams through cloud migration initiatives on GCP, SaaS implementations on AWS cloud, and JDA SaaS implementations on JDA cloud. PLSQL used to fetch data from applications .I managed deployment for upgradation and remediation of MainFrame applications and databases.Championed the transition from waterfall to agile processes, leading projects on Oracle Retail Management system upgrades as well as decommissioning of older applications, databases, and infrastructure.Monitored project budgets using Planview, Oracle PPM. Tracked Project schedules on MS Project,Collaborated with Legal teams, leadership, and vendors to create SOW contracts and fostered relationships with vendor partners and sponsors to encourage involvement in agile methodologies.Acted as a scrum master for multiple enterprise wide projects facilitating scrum meetings, planning sessions, Demo,backlog grooming and retrospective for many ERP Supply chain management projects.Captured project CapEx & OpEx approved budget, forecast, and actuals monthly.Reported on budget status, risks/issues, Key Performance Index and ROI metrics, and overseeing dashboards and reports for stakeholders and leadership to stakeholders.Project Manager Technical Lead Fujitsu America, Milwaukee WI May 2008January 2014Brought on work as a technical consultant for retail business at Kohls Department StoresAs a full stack developer worked on front end, services and database implementation for development, deployment, support and build several enhancements for Kohl's Merchandise Application.Following the SDLC process worked on requirement validation,creating functional, business requirements, developing code base, testing and implementing them.Monitoring and enhancing performance led to performance improvement during peak by 20 %Created and supported Web Services for ecommerce platform along with SQL transactions form Oracle and Relational Database Management Systems - RDBMS databases on AWS.Implemented healthcare practices and technologies to promote wellness and improve patient outcomes.Utilizing BMC Remedy tool to monitor, record, track, and resolve the support issues.As a technical consultant, joined Rockwell automation and performed roles of project lead.Completed PMP certification and moved on to Project Management role and managed 4 projects.Created architecture diagrams, built work breakdown structures and task planning.Full Stack Developer Hallmark Global Technology Newark DE January 2005April 2008Developed code for Merchandising Allocation at Kohl's, involving:Front-End: Java SwingMid-tier: EJBs, JMS, Java Mail, REST servicesUtilized J2EE patterns like Singleton, Session Faade, Factory, and Value ObjectBackend: Hibernate XML mapping, Oracle Stored Procedures, Customized database interaction frameworkEducation: Master in Computer Applications Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, TN IndiaBE Mechanical Engineering with specialization in Production Osmania University Hyderabad Telangana IndiaCertifications: PMP certified PMI 2012Soft Skills: Teamwork & Collaboration, Organization, Planning & Scheduling, Time Management, Budgeting, LeadershipHard Skills: Java, Oracle, SQL,TSQL BigQuery, Tableau, Power BI,Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence,Planview |
