Responsible for leading and engaging the engineering and business community to achieve effective roadmap(s) and technology solution as part of the AI/ML product suite. Responsible for bridging the “voice of the customer” into the features and services for the AI/ML IT product.

Develop, Coach and own the Scrum process. Conduct all Scrum ceremonies and coach the team to collaborate more and function more efficiently. Improve team performance & implement accurate information radiators.

• Responsible for the management of several agile teams in an environment of cross functional teams in a matrix organization and rapidly changing requirements.• Provided project management services to support the initiation, planning and implementation of the technology deliverables for various projects. This included working within the constraints of scope, resources and cost and providing recommendations on the best course of action/approach to attain the project objectives.• Led daily team standup sessions for each project and weekly show and tell product demonstrations as well as end of sprint retrospective meetings.• Developed, maintained and executed required project documentation and deliverables in alignment with the project management methodology and tools. • Coached and facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and Scrum of Scrums meetings among multiple agile teams for each release. • Coordinated across various functional and organizational areas to provide solutions and resolve issues for the assigned projects as well as for customer service related issues.• Analyzed, interpreted, and reported on the performance of all projects by reviewing and reporting on the various Scrum and Kanban boards set up for each agile team.• Provided visibility and accountability for all projects by timely and accurate status reporting.• Responsible for set up, configuration and administration of JIRA, issue management tool, for all of ProQuest.

• Responsible for the management of several agile teams from a 19 member resource pool and for producing Interactive Digital Media platform and its products to the market rapidly in a Scrum environment.• Responsible for release and sprint planning as well as leading daily team standup sessions and weekly show and tell product demonstrations.• Effectively managed project scope using product backlogs and sprint backlogs. • Conducted kickoff discussions around new features/deliverables, gathered estimates across all projects and communicated scope and time commitments to all stakeholders.• Actively engaged with the team to identify dependencies between projects, coached the team to understand, develop and adhere to a definition of “Done” and standardized practices across two geologically dispersed teams.• Created daily status reports and planned resource allocation for upcoming releases.• Created product backlog composition reports by sprint and monitored and reported on project performance through the use of sprint burndown charts and project velocity.

Project Manager.

Work with business and developers everyday to define & manage scope, deliverables, schedules and cost. Be flexible to business needs and at the same time adhere to IT methodology (SDM) at Ford Motor Company

Infrastructure Project Manager

• Managed 3 major releases for the Caffeine project, an ePrize service created for small and medium businesses.• Managed all development work for the www.caffeinenow.com portal using Flash, FLEX, HTML and Java for the front end and using MySQL for the backend development.• Coordinated with Product, Creative, Design, Development, QA and Operations teams to successfully manage the execution of the project to meet business needs.• Evaluated requirements and drove prioritization of the requirements for each release. • Drove the breakdown of requirements into smaller manageable packages called stories, assigned stories to team leads, helped decompose stories into tasks, assigned tasks to the right resources, coordinated the estimation of all scheduled task activities and monitored progress on a daily basis and ensured optimum use of resources.• Ensured adequate support was provided to all project team members so that they had what they needed to complete their project assignments. • Coordinated the Lessons Learned meeting at the end of each release, gathered all the lessons learned and created plans to incorporate them in the next release.• Resolved conflicts of all types during the project execution by confronting the issues and using problem-solving techniques.• Contributed to the PM process improvement by actively contributing in the wiki style knowledge base at ePrize.

• Managed and Led the Durability Attribute evaluation and verification for F-Series program. • Developed and executed detailed Design Verification Plans (DVP&R) for durability vehicles and systems.• Led the development of an online global materials database (FGMD) by working with business customers and a third party solution provider.• Developed integrated Product Information Management (PIM) solutions for Product Development CAE teams and communicated PIM requirements to external solution providers. • Validated PIM tools and requirements and ensured timely delivery of functionality in CAD/CAE/PIM releases.