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Senthil M.Sc., PMP, PMI-ACP

Senthil M.Sc., PMP, PMI-ACP

Lead Program Manager/Sr. Project Manager/Director of IT
New York,United States

Summary

Senior IT Executive, Lead Program Manager, Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), and Six Sigma Green Belt Certified Professional with a total of 20+ years of IT experience with 15+ years of extensive Project Management experience in leading and executing multiple large-scale (ranges from $4 Million to $25 Million Projects) IT Projects, Programs, and Portfolios. Proven success designing and implementing architecture solutions and solid foundational knowledge of Software Development lifecycle with different project methodologies like waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean and SAFe. Hands-on in supporting teams to remove impediments and backlogs, enhance velocity, and help teams and organizations adopt the agile methodology. Extensive experience in Business Process Analysis, IT Service Management, IT strategy, Project Portfolio Management, and process improvement.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certificates

Work History

Lead Program Manager/Sr. Project Manager

New York
New York, NY
03.2015 - Current
  • Lead strategic direction of IT for company
  • Establish relationships with all departments and divisions to become point of contact for technology-assisted business solutions and ideas.
  • Lead full life cycle delivery of large cross-functional projects spanning teams across multinationals.
  • Analyzed, identified, and recommended business process and technology solutions for initiatives and programs within Portfolio.
  • Streamlined service delivery process through interactive teams to obtain best practices and procedures.
  • Implemented governance and prioritization steering committee that controlled portfolio of several hundred enhancement projects.
  • Partner with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to imagine, design, develop, test, and launch software that wows community and inspires and peers.
  • Working with cross-functional to identify cross-team dependencies, manage inter-team tasks, and facilitate scrum team in cross locations.
  • Manage all aspects of Major Web Hosting facility through cessation of operations.
  • Preparing Project Charter, Monitoring and Track Progress, developing status reports, resolving issues, and coordinating tasks and activities to complete project goals on Time and within Budget.
  • Initiated Centralized Information Technology Project Management Office (PMO) aligned with Organization Portfolio and Governance processes.
  • Mentor and motivate broad range of PMO personnel.
  • Continuous Integration: Increased quality by helping team implement/run daily automation tests.
  • Track and communicate agile metrics, including team velocity and sprint/Program Increment (PI) progress within Scaled Agile (SAFe) Framework.
  • Test-Driven Development: Managed short lifecycle of code development; encouraged developers to debug previously written code and fostered making their changes with confidence.
  • Managing scrum sessions and executing sprint planning, sprint retrospective, and sprint demos.
  • Implemented JIRA to manage and track agile projects in structured manner for entire IT Portfolio and trained teams to adept scrum methodology.
  • Leading offshore SI (System Integrator) team working on Re-platform of unified (from SharePoint to Java stack) Human Resource application ($4 Million) on spring boot-based microservices and hosted on Azure cloud.
  • Optimize resources to manage and support 24x7 high availability, fault-tolerance, and scalability organization teams over 100+ Oracle, SQL Server, Microservices, and PostgreSQL Applications with 3,000+ concurrent online customers running on Solaris and Red Hat Linux platforms.
  • Designed, Planned, and implemented security measures to safeguard vital business data and monitor security for users, databases, and applications.
  • Manage teams, coaching and mentoring high-performing architects and engineers to help them grow their skills and enhance their knowledge of systems and their ability to get things done.
  • Leading Offshore team to convert all legacy Java Applications (30+) to WebLogic 14c and Oracle Reports (300+) to BI Publisher.
  • Determine, track, prioritize and schedule all development and enhancements for over 30+ projects.
  • Assist in strategy selection, procurement, and contract negotiations for all contracted staff coordinate sessions with IT database administrators and developers to brainstorm future enhancements to existing systems.
  • Develop and discuss project plans, deadlines, and statuses for systems migration and enhancements with management.
  • Directed staff to manage and budget time to include possible scope creep for their assigned tasks.
  • Performed and managed user requirement definition, prototype development, technical specifications, user acceptance testing, training manuals, and written and online documentation.
  • Deliver project oversight, architectural review, and Q&A evaluations of blueprint, design, and development for 17 J2EE/CRM projects.
  • Directed highly skilled team consisting of 25+ consultants experienced in all aspects of J2EE, BI Publisher, Microservices.
  • Achieved 25% ROI on one project by optimizing remote site resources while reducing vendors' downtime and credits.

Director of Systems Development

SourceTec International
Atlanta, GA
06.2009 - 03.2015
  • Worked closely with management teams to plan, develop, coordinate and execute technical strategies aligned to client's vision, mission and purpose.
  • Liaised effectively with others to promote on-going network design, reevaluation and optimization that scaled with company growth.
  • Interviewed, hired, trained and mentored 10+ staff by coaching daily, leading performance reviews and offering constructive feedback.
  • Reviewed and assessed architecture design, implementation, testing and deployment needs to identify project requirements and costs.
  • Managed minimum of 5+ projects each year while maintaining adherence to budget, schedule and scope requirements.
  • Planned and arranged meetings with external organizations and individuals, enabling parties to meet and discuss project progress.
  • Managed and motivated project teams to promote collaboration and keep members on-task and productive.
  • Investigated and corrected or escalated project problems.
  • Analyzed projects to determine resource requirements and procured necessary equipment and software.
  • Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.
  • Identified innovative and automated approaches to routine tasks, making suggestions that were widely received.
  • Produced reports and updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
  • Communicated with IT Technical team members to keep project on schedule.
  • Reduced costs $7M -15+M by negotiating SI, PO, ITCS Type agreements strategically.
  • Built and utilized reporting systems to keep customers and management in loop with latest information.
  • Collaborated with project owners and team members to set ambitious but achievable goals.
  • Created clones, images, templates, snapshots, resource allocation, resource pools and system monitoring by applying subject matter expertise of VMS file system.
  • Maintained project schedules by managing timelines and making proactive adjustments.
  • Enforced alignment of project strategy with business objectives and made modifications to promote efficient project completion.

Sr. IT Project Manager

DCC Inc
Dallas, TX
06.2005 - 06.2009
  • Facilitated Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Envisioning, and Retrospective and assisted Product Owner
  • Provided resources, skill sets, and Proposed changes to support Application and Database functionalities
  • Manage project timelines and communicate with management staff and clients to ensure project progress satisfactorily.
  • Participation in design reviews for upcoming application enhancements, providing on-call support.
  • Iteration Retrospective Session: Reflected on project and process issues and took appropriate action.
  • Picked up best location and created recovery strategies team for Disaster Recovery.
  • Led cross-functional team of 14+ developers to provide services for data management, data governance, ETL, data mining, data analytics, business intelligence, and reporting.
  • Communicated with operations team to ensure proper skill set to meet existing project and forecast requirements, resulting in 93% utilization for practice.
  • Devised cutting-edge .NET console program to automate loading and processing of information into newly designed SQL database, which reduced data entry time by 75%.
  • Assured suitable training offerings were provided to employees to further career and organizational development.
  • Directed changes to project scope and cost and implemented appropriate change management processes to keep project on track.
  • Oversaw internal and external projects by reviewing activities, maximizing efficiency and increasing collaboration and communication transparency.
  • Developed and led multi-disciplinary team to redefine problems and reach solutions based on different perspectives.
  • Formulated integration system process flows, business process model and notation (BPMN) plans and data mapping diagrams based on stakeholders' specifications, technology surveys and interviews.
  • Gathered project requirements through interactions, meetings and walk-throughs with potential application users and to develop business requirements documents (BRD), functional requirements documents (FRD) and user mockups.
  • Monitored contracts and service level agreements to identify potential risks and implement mitigation actions to protect development process from unforeseen delays and costs.
  • Collaborated with business users, technical teams, database administrators and testing teams during kickoff meetings, joint application designing and planning sessions to validate requirements.
  • Oversaw large portfolio of projects to support teams, report progress and influence positive outcomes for key stakeholders.
  • Developed project plans and managed project scope using methodologies to guide projects from conceptualization to implementation and maintenance

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Bharathidasan University
India
03.1992 - 11.1994

Skills

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Accomplishments

  • Successfully integrated On-Perm Team Foundation Server (TFS) into Cloud DevOps2019.
  • Integrating StoryTeller with Azure DevOps using TaskTop integrator.
  • Initiated Centralized Information Technology Project Management Office (PMO).
  • Implemented governance and prioritization steering committee that controlled portfolio of several hundred enhancement projects.
  • Implemented JIRA Tempo Folio to track Portfolio IT
  • Managed a team of 35+ software engineers to develop software solutions for the Clients.
  • Hired, trained, and managed 30+ Software engineers both FTE and Consultants.
  • Managed data integrity within the applicant tracking system, ensuring timely entry and visibility of recruitment activity within CRM technologies.
  • Worked as a single point of contact for over 15+ clients across company wide, answering all their requests and questions in a timely manner.
  • Led the digital transformation project, adopting software to help with Finance, accounting, and HR duties.
  • Over the past 5 years, successfully completed 6 projects from start to finish, generating great consumers satisfaction and reducing papers.
  • Improved error documentation systems, resulting in increased workplace efficiency and reduced yearly labor costs of $200,000.
  • Consulted in the redesign of a company’s website, resulting in a 25% increase in traffic.
  • Updated the business continuity plan and created a 3 year disaster recovery plan.
  • Led and managed a team of six in developing new financial management software.
  • Developed company procedures and guidelines for data analysis and security that increased efficiency by 30% in the first six months after implementation.
  • Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
  • Achieved best performance by introducing DevOps for Daily tasks.
  • Achieved timely completing tasks with teams by completing effective communication.
  • Created best practices handbook to use as a design guideline

Software

Project Management (PPM): MS Project, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations, Smartsheet, JIRA

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment: TFS/VSTS, AZURE DevOps 2019, StoryTeller, TaskTop

SharePoint, MS Visio, PowerPoint

Business Intelligence: Power BI, Tableau

Configuration Management: Team Foundation Server, PVCS

SDLC: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall

RDBMS: Oracle 11g, 10g, 920, 9i, 8i, 7x, Sybase 1192, SQL*Loader, MS Access 70, SQL Server 2000, Informix, and DB2

Certification

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

Awards

2010 Excellence in IT Service and Support – Staff

Quote

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli

Competencies

  • Critical thinking and problem solving
  • Excellent decision-making and leadership skills
  • Adaptable to new types of stakeholders and technology
  • Exceptionally organized
  • Relentless communicator
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Thrives in a fast-paced & dynamic environment
  • Sense of humor

Timeline

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

05-2022

Project Management Professional (PMP)

06-2021

Six Sigma Green Belt

02-2020

Lead Program Manager/Sr. Project Manager

New York
03.2015 - Current

Oracle Database 10g Administrator Certified Professional

06-2012

Director of Systems Development

SourceTec International
06.2009 - 03.2015

Sr. IT Project Manager

DCC Inc
06.2005 - 06.2009

Master of Science - Computer Science

Bharathidasan University
03.1992 - 11.1994
Senthil M.Sc., PMP, PMI-ACPLead Program Manager/Sr. Project Manager/Director of IT