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Sharat - Project Manager

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Location: Houston, Texas, USA

Relocation: No

Visa: USC

SUMMARY: Over 17 years of experience in Customer Management, Projects, Execution, Operations and Engineering Startup experience with XiFi Networks building Nationwide WiFi Network and developing the first WiFi aggregator Mobile App and The Subsea Company developing unique Oil & Gas auxiliary products MNC experience with Hess, Schlumberger and TechnipFMC leading and overseeing the work of executives in Manufacturing, Sales, IT, Project Management, HR, Supply Chain, Vendors and Finance Experience in managing applications implementation projects in Cloud - AWS and Azure (Kubernetes) Lead outcome driven sales and managed client-relationships by tracking new markets and emerging trends Developed and maintained contact with top decision makers at key clients; participate and lead aspects of the proposal development process Proposed and developed new strategic partnerships, wrote proposals and plans, and guided long-term objectives to meet business needs and requirements Scale planning processes, execution frameworks, change of management (MOC) and risk management for teams while providing visibility to resource allocation/prioritization to management Managed financial planning, financial risks, financial reporting and record-keeping Strong leadership skills with the ability to collaborate and build relationships across organizations, bridge gaps between teams, and successfully influence Experience in Project Management Professional (PMP), Cost Control, Business fundamentals, Effective Leadership Communication Skills, Project Execution and Cloud Computing WORK EXPERIENCE Solera Holdings, Westlake, TX Aug 2022 Current Project/ Program Manager Solera Inc is a SAAS company which provides risk management and asset protection software and services to the automotive industry and property insurance marketplace. Responsibilities: Requirements gathering: Collaborate with Business users and data stewards to gather and analyze ETL requirements. Coordinate and allocate resources including team members and tech resources to support ETL project activities. Ensure the quality and accuracy of ETL Processes and data transformations. Enforce high data quality standards. Data validation and testing procedures to maintain high data quality levels. Act as the backup technical lead to assess environment discovery and offer estimates and recommendations for a full data warehouse implementation, including detailed project plans, staffing plans, and release plans. Ensure interoperability across a standard application data standard across different subject areas. Oversee the design and development of logical and physical data models to meet approved business requirements overall data strategy. Banking Clients and team management Facilitates Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums and Backlog Grooming Creating, managing, and tracking projects with detailed project plans Effectively documenting, communicating, and reporting on defined deliverables Managing project activities for multiple projects across all project phases, including initiation, planning, user experience, design, development, QA, launch, Develop a schedule for project completion that effectively allocates the resources to the activities using the Jira Management Software Tool and Microsoft Project. Assisted in maintaining the Agile culture while following all of the rituals of Scrum Day-to-day execution, management, and reporting of the project(s), including managing resources, costs, scope and meeting deadlines according to plan. Documented current business procedures and processes and identified relevant technology solutions for efficiency improvements. Assessed the impact of changes to the system and processes. Developed business requirements definitions to adhere to development methodology. Documented system and client acceptance test plans for custom application Prepared detailed reports on project progress to include project plans, barriers and solutions, milestones, projections and analyses. Developed task boards, both sprint and product burn down charts along with other radiators. Analyzed challenges, problems, and process breakdowns to ensure that lessons are learned and improvements are made. Created user stories from epics and use case decomposition. Developed process to incorporate Kanban task boards on brownfield projects. Implementing Sprint review sessions, Sprint retrospectives, and Sprint backlog creation with several Product owners. Improved inefficiencies of current QA and UAT processes by creating processes for greater transparency. Facilitated sprint backlog grooming meetings. Define the scope of the projects in collaboration with the senior management and manage all the projects using Agile & Scrum development techniques Liaising extensively with the clients to get all the requirements for the project. Create a detailed work plan which identifies and sequences all activities needed to successfully complete the project. Determine the resources (time, money, equipment, etc.) required to complete the project and ensure that the project deliverables are on time, within budget and at the required level of quality. Review the project schedule with senior management and all other staff that will be affected by the project activities; revise the schedule as required. Professional experience as a development or operations manager in an Agile environment including working with enterprise customers on large scale projects Knowledge of development and common frameworks Experience in security best practices for software and data platforms Ability to quickly synthesize complex or strategic visions into execute level presentations Strong presentation skills including an ability to drive the content generation including slides, graphs, tables, charts, etc. Hunger to learn new concepts, new technologies, and a willingness to adopt new ideas Communicates effectively cross-functionally across various teams, organizations, and internal and external stakeholders Self-motivated and excellent problem-solver Driven to improve, personally and professionally Collaborate with their peers, designing pragmatic solutions Effectively lead and manage change within their area of responsibility as well as across the business Operate best in a fast-paced, flexible work environment Have a cooperative, collaborative, open and flexible mindset Manage multiple competing projects while ensuring budget, timelines are executed according to plan and expectations are effectively communicated Strong ability to analyze contracts and vendor agreements Ability to formulate plans from beginning to end, including resource planning and onboarding across multiple teams and products Think end-to-end by connecting all the pieces of the business to help drive strategic and cross-functional projects for short and long-term growth Creatively turn problems and solutions on their heads to come up with better designs, better technical solutions, better products Effectively manage relationships with a willingness to roll-up their sleeves to get the job done Interface across boundaries and at all levels of the organization Requirements gathering: Collaborate with Business users and data stewards to gather and analyze ETL requirements. Coordinate and allocate resources including team members and tech resources to support ETL project activities. Ensure the quality and accuracy of ETL Processes and data transformations. Enforce high data quality standards. Data validation and testing procedures to maintain high data quality levels. Act as the backup technical lead to assess environment discovery and offer estimates and recommendations for a full data warehouse implementation, including detailed project plans, staffing plans, and release plans. Ensure interoperability across a standard application data standard across different subject areas. Oversee the design and development of logical and physical data models to meet approved business requirements overall data strategy. Banking Clients and team management Facilitates Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums and Backlog Grooming Creating, managing, and tracking projects with detailed project plans Effectively documenting, communicating, and reporting on defined deliverables Managing project activities for multiple projects across all project phases, including initiation, planning, user experience, design, development, QA, launch, Develop a schedule for project completion that effectively allocates the resources to the activities using the Jira Management Software Tool and Microsoft Project. Assisted in maintaining the Agile culture while following all of the rituals of Scrum Day-to-day execution, management, and reporting of the project(s), including managing resources, costs, scope and meeting deadlines according to plan. Documented current business procedures and processes and identified relevant technology solutions for efficiency improvements. Assessed the impact of changes to the system and processes. Developed business requirements definitions to adhere to development methodology. Documented system and client acceptance test plans for custom application Prepared detailed reports on project progress to include project plans, barriers and solutions, milestones, projections and analyses. Developed task boards, both sprint and product burn down charts along with other radiators. Analyzed challenges, problems, and process breakdowns to ensure that lessons are learned and improvements are made. Created user stories from epics and use case decomposition. Developed process to incorporate Kanban task boards on brownfield projects. Implementing Sprint review sessions, Sprint retrospectives, and Sprint backlog creation with several Product owners. Improved inefficiencies of current QA and UAT processes by creating processes for greater transparency. Facilitated sprint backlog grooming meetings. Define the scope of the projects in collaboration with the senior management and manage all the projects using Agile & Scrum development techniques Liaising extensively with the clients to get all the requirements for the project. Create a detailed work plan which identifies and sequences all activities needed to successfully complete the project. Determine the resources (time, money, equipment, etc.) required to complete the project and ensure that the project deliverables are on time, within budget and at the required level of quality. Review the project schedule with senior management and all other staff that will be affected by the project activities; revise the schedule as required. Hess/ Infosys, HOUSTON, TX Apr 2022 Jul 2022 Project/ Program Manager (Applications and Infrastructure) Hess is a leading international independent energy company engaged in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas. Responsibilities: Lead scoping and prioritization of technology pilots and related digital enablement initiatives with IT, Business and Digital teams Work closely with Production & Exploration organization to support IT needs for strategic initiatives like drilling, onboarding Rigs, Wells, Facilities etc. Coordinate the use and delivery of IT Infrastructure/Security solutions service delivery (i.e. Azure Cloud migration to on prem data center) to the Business Units including offshore facilities while coordinating with central IT to ensure delivery of central services (i.e. servers, data, technical applications, etc.) Understand the urgency of issues to drive timely resolution of issues and requests Ensure the outside operated Guyana asset is fully supported effectively from service delivery perspective Prioritizing features using MoSCoW techniques and ensuring Features are divided to User story with the desired business value to fulfill INVEST criteria in order to prepare Product Backlog Items Educate and Influence business to follow established ITIL based processes & help manage escalations timely to minimize business impact Constantly coordinated with offshore team, onshore team and release management teams to resolve issues during prod Install with highest priority and generate reports Working with Multi-functional teams spread across three different projects within the Enterprise Coordinate with PMO leadership on Standardizing PM methodologies, change management, RACI and Risk Register. Working with distributed teams with Onsite-offsite model and leading the onsite teams Helping and leading the Business and the teams in regular Deployments across multiple projects Preparing and implementing multiple environment strategies for teams, by explaining strategic ways to deploy User Stories throughout different environments i.e. Dev, QA, UAT, Pre-production and Production Status Reporting for weekly meetings for business and represent our project in Program Management Council (PMC) meeting for leadership Creating and Managing SNOW (Service Now) Incidents and Change Tickets for Managing deployments and tracking and updating Production issues Working with multiple Business Analysts as well as IT architects and program management on evaluating business requirements and implementation XIFI NETWORKS R&D Inc, HOUSTON, TX Jan 2019 Feb 2022 Project/ Program Manager (Applications and Infrastructure) XiFi is a wireless technology, product, and solutions company that enables fast, secure, highly efficient, and scalable low-cost installations. XiFi developed state of the art Network as a Platform JanWANI that enables ISPs/TSPs/Private WiFi Hotspot players to effortlessly get onboarded and instantly start monetizing thru XiFi s Mobile Application (XiFi App). Responsibilities: Financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financial reporting to Executives Manage program budgets, coordinate and execute fundraising plan from prospective Angel investors Manage multiple teams including IT that develop XiFi s Mobile App and support Cloud, Network Infrastructure and Data storage thru AWS Manage day-to-day operations of Project resources, including infrastructure, team, customers, and DevOps Conducted Scrum Calls and various Scrum ceremonies for multiple teams, engaged teams and programs SME s to understand, communicate status, priorities, risks and issues. Lead team consisting of 23 members to streamline a multifaceted nationwide wireless project Identify different Ad aggregators and OTT Players that help monetize thru XiFi s Unique Platform and negotiating and liaising their contracts for best results Responsible to design, build and maintain the operational readiness of the Managed File Transfer (MFT) application infrastructure in a mission critical computing environment Support Marketing team in Website, Social Media management, PR, and Corporate Communications Track and report delivery team services and support their findings with objective data including statistics, research, and objective evaluation tools Responsible for managing assigned software products and associated hardware and operating systems relevant to the Enterprise Managed File Transfer (MFT) function. Keep up with Telecom and WiFi trends to shape enticing programs for TSPs and ISPs and ensure that all programs adhere to applicable laws and regulations Analyze the impact of demand and how to "right-size" cloud services at the design and production stage Manage employees involved in carrying out programs, and responsible for hiring, supervising, and evaluating these employees, as well as creating and delegating tasks Setup Zoho (CRM/ERP) for Customer database, Project planning, Milestone management, Accounting, Inventory, Vendors, and custom browser for installation support Responsible for managing/monitoring instances on Amazon EC2(AWS) and deploying XiFi application Configured and managed AWS Glacier, to move old data to archives based on retention policy. TECHNIPFMC, HOUSTON, TX Sep 2013 Feb 2019 Project/ Program Manager TechnipFMC is a leading global provider of technology solutions for the energy industry. TechnipFMC designs, manufactures, and services technologically sophisticated systems and products such as subsea production and processing systems, Wellheads, Measurement Control Systems, and marine loading. Responsibilities: Lead an integrated project team which includes Project Managers, Project Coordinators, and Project Assistants to provide comprehensive and coordinated project support for the Shell portfolio Successfully managed largest Portfolio (Client) of the Company and executed all the contracts on time and lead the team in portfolio level scope management, timeline management, risk and issue management, communication management, and any escalation with customers and partners Planned projects and delivered HSE, quality, technical, commercial, and customer support Managed multiple projects Profit and Loss (P & L) with constituent Project Managers and monitoring cost, schedule, execution, and technical performance of the projects Managed change orders (MOC) for multiple projects and tracked for the complete portfolio Coordinated assignments and resources to the projects for the overall benefit of the program Trained, developed, and mentored team members to take on added responsibility and supported their career development Planned, managed and coordinated assigned projects typically consisting of Subsea equipment, tools, spares and offshore support personnel Managed the detailed schedule and financial performance of the project to deliver a quality product, on time and at the lowest achievable cost, along with managing customer KPIs Facilitated communications between cross-company and functional teams to ensure that issues are identified and incorporated into schedules and processes Supervised 20 employees depending on the size and scope of the project. Ensure costs, schedules, and objectives are met and handle sensitive communications CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Schlumberger), HOUSTON, TX Oct 2012 Aug 2013 Project Manager Cameron is a leading provider of flow equipment products, systems and services to worldwide oil, gas and process industries. Responsibilities: Executed to Cameron Process Solution s policies, procedures, and best practices for project execution Responsible to execute full project plans and support completing Stage Gate deliverables Prepared, monitored and managed the Triple Constraints that includes Scope, time and budgets for multiples functional teams within the Enterprise. Developed MFT (Managed File Transfer) Interfaces for various file transfer protocols using integration tools Conducted meetings as required with all functional team members and work closely with the both overseas and local plant's project team to meet project and plant goals and provide updates to Stakeholders Supported any third parties, suppliers, and customer witness testing Provided full project status report to management when required, track project milestones and deliverables. Identified and resolved issues and conflicts within the project team, project dependencies, and critical path. Executed planned and scheduled project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools. Write the XML Script and automate the process for managed file transfer solutions. Monitored and supported Coordinator/ Accountant to manage change orders (MOCs) worth more than a Million throughout the entire project lifecycle Monitored and tracked all customer document transmittals are processed Defined the talent requirements for the team to effectively accomplish the PMO mission. Ensured capacity needs are planned for and met. Engaged the team in Companies mission and lead the team to develop their skills. Helped the team manage interpersonal Risks, conflicts, challenges, and opportunities for growth. Applied Patches and Upgrade to Backup and Recovery Software, and Managed File Transfer Software. Conducted business in accordance with Cameron/Schlumberger policy and code of conduct Complied with all Cameron/Schlumberger Process Solution s operating guidelines and standards Other Experiences: THE SUBSEA COMPANY, HOUSTON, TX Apr 2009 Oct 2012 Product Development & Project Manger VERSABAR, INC., HOUSTON, TX Mar 2007 Mar 2009 Projects PIPING TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCTS, HOUSTON, TX Jan 2005 Mar 2007 Projects EDUCATION PG Program in Cloud Computing 2022 Great Learning (Online), Texas McCombs AWS: Cloud Computing | Managed Services | Big Data Management & Analytics | Containers | Microservices M.S in Mechanical Engineering Dec 2004 University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA B.S in Production/Industrial Engineering Jun 2001 Osmania University, Hyderabad, TG, India SOFTWARE SKILLS SAP (ERP) | Zoho (ERP/ CRM) | Visual JobShop (ERP) | Service NOW | Eon Reality Clarity | JIRA | MS Office | MS Project | Primavera P6 Criter (Risk) | MasterControl (Risk Analysis) OTHER SKILLS PMP | Primavera | Project Development | Project Lifecycle | Project Plans | Project Support Large-Scale | Customer Support | Technical Assistance | Operations Manager | Wireless | Microsoft Project | ERP | SAP | Document Control | MS Office | Enterprise Resource Planning | Cost Control | Critical Path Operations | Contracts | Statistics | Mentor | Sales Management | Budgets | HR | Strategic Planning | Virtual Reality (VR) | Augmented reality (AR) Keywords: quality analyst active directory rlang information technology microsoft Arkansas Louisiana Texas