Find out what I've accomplished over the years...

SKILLS  

• Leadership

• Program/People/Project Management

• Strategic Planning

• Requirements Analysis

• Cross-functional Relationship Management

• Team Leadership

• Graphic Design

• Brochures/ Newsletters/ Logo Design

• Corporate visual interface designs

• Business/ Data Analysis and visualization

• Proficient using MS Windows & Mac OS
  
  
  
  
  
  

EXPERIENCE WITH

• Program/Project Management Tools

  • JIRA/Confluence

  • Advanced Roadmap Tool

  • Trello Boards

  • ZenHub/GitHub

  • MathWorks RDM (Release Deliverable Management)

  • MathWorks – Scorecard

  • MathWorks – JDART (JIRA Dashboard and Reporting Team)

  • GanttProject (Gantt Charts)

  • IBM AgileTeamTool

• IBM Rational Toolset

  • Rational Team Concert (RTC), Quality

• IBM Lotus Notes

• Adobe Creative Suite 6

  • Adobe Photoshop/ Illustrator/ Indesign

• IBM Watson Analytics

• MS Office

  • MS Word/ Excel/ Powerpoint/MS Project

Certifications/Accolades

• HarvardManage Mentor

• Advanced Certified ScrumMasterSM (A-CSM)

• Certified Scrum Master® (CSM)

• IBM Agile Explorer

• IBM Watson Analytics Certification

• Data Science Methodology Certification, Big Data University

• Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO)

• Project Management Professional Certification (PMP) 5.0 (5th Ed Aligned)

• Graphic Design Certificate, School of Art Institute of Chicago, United States

WORK EXPERIENCE

SR. PROGRAM MANAGER – MathWorks
May 2020- Present

Responsible to assess and improve the processes that comprise the software development life cycle, mentoring and coaching other members of the teams, responsible for performing specific activities including program analysis, influencing necessary course corrections, and communicating program status and activities across multiple levels of management.

DIRECTOR, PROJECT MANAGEMENT – Xoverture (former GeekTek)
Aug 2019 – Dec 2019

Responsible for providing day-to day leadership for planning, implementation and closing and deliver appropriate and effective executive level communication, continuously seeking feedback on what customers make of the experience, create and review quarterly/yearly roadmap and priorities to define overall goal and mission, make recommendations about process improvement opportunities and provide strong people management: retaining, inspiring and growing individuals.

PROGRAM MANAGER / SQUAD LEADER – IBM
October 2017 – July 2019

Responsible for participating in the prioritization of business requirements through out the lifecycle working with different focal experts and development teams, defining project goals and roadmap to meet them, monitor and manage multiple projects simultaneously, make recommendations about process improvement opportunities, status, bottlenecks and escalations in the workflow.

AGILE PROGRAM MANAGER – IBM, Charlotte, NC, United States
April 2015 – October 2017

Responsible for understanding business needs, defining project goals and defining roadmap to meet them, responsible for projects delivery, stakeholder management, specifying requirements and prioritizing them for each sprint, post implementation review and project close-out.

SR. PROJECT MANAGER, IBM, Charlotte, NC, United States
May 2011 – March 2015

Responsible for the project management for the entire life-cycle of the project, including project initiation/sizing, project delivery, stakeholder management, post implementation review and project close-out.

 
TEAM LEADER – IBM, Charlotte, NC, United States
July 2010 – May 2010

Responsible for guiding technical teams in identifying technical solutions. Analyze business requirements and define technical project specifications. Excellent communicator, helping bridge the gap between technical jargon to business terms and vice versa. Lead global development teams and ensure consistent, standardized and reusable components
are developed.

SOFTWARE PROJECT LEAD – IBM, Charlotte, NC, United States
December 2009 – July 2010

Responsible for project planning, coordinating and delivering of various IT software projects. Responsible for compiling documentation for requirements, design and implementation. Responsible for also managing team of graphic designers and flash developers to create rich media content for marketing and sales teams. Manage the creation of graphical elements like icons/images etc. based on company standards. Create storyboards for demonstrating the concept and design of videos and presentations.

Business Data Analyst – IBM, Charlotte, NC, United States
June 2009 – Dec 2009

Perform complex data analysis to support management/customer requests. Building reports of statistical findings for various business units in the organization. Assist business in understanding the data through well designed Hyperion/Brio reports which help in identifying appropriate leads available to follow up on.

EDUCATION

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
University of Illinois, IL, United States
 

B.TECH IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India