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Cumming, Georgia, Us

• Strategically lead product development efforts, ensuring alignment with business goals while directing cross-functional teams, including Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, Business Analysts, and QA Architects.• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, guiding the Product Owners in translating market needs into actionable development plans and product roadmaps.• Champion Agile methodologies, mentoring Scrum Masters in facilitating sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and sprint reviews to ensure a smooth, iterative product development process.• Oversee project delivery frameworks, collaborating with Project Managers to ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and budget, while maintaining high standards of quality and compliance.• Drive quality assurance strategies, working closely with QA Architects to implement best practices in testing, automate processes, and maintain the highest quality standards in all product releases.

Cumming, Georgia, Us

• Lead the IT operations, ensuring seamless integration and alignment between IT staffing solutions and product development teams to meet the business objectives and drive operational excellence.• Manage and optimize IT resources, including personnel, budgets, and operational processes, to ensure the staffing arm provides skilled professionals and the product development delivers high-quality solutions efficiently.• Develop and enforce IT policies and systems that support best practices in both staffing and product development operations, while also ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.• Foster innovation and continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for process enhancements in IT staffing strategies and product development methodologies to increase productivity and competitive advantage.• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, stakeholders, and internal teams, ensuring clear communication and understanding of IT operations objectives, and effectively resolving any operational challenges.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Expertly prioritize and align project goals across multiple initiatives, ensuring efficient progress and delivery by balancing business value, customer needs, and resource allocation.• Excel in time management, leveraging advanced tools and methodologies to monitor project milestones and deadlines, guaranteeing optimal productivity and focus across diverse teams.• Champion clear and impactful communication, fostering a collaborative environment by connecting cross-functional teams and stakeholders to maintain transparency and project cohesion.• Uphold a strategic vision for each endeavor, making informed decisions that reinforce the company's overarching objectives and ensure that each project contributes meaningfully to our long-term success.• Demonstrate agility and robust problem-solving capabilities, swiftly adapting to shifting project demands while preemptively identifying and mitigating potential roadblocks.

Roseland, New Jersey, Us

• Worked on multiple teams and leading their QA needs for enhancements, bug fixes.• Attending daily Sprint calls and following 3 week sprint lifecycle.• Developed and maintained fully automated WebAPIs for both Smoke and Regression using SOAPUI PRO• Extensively used Groovy scripts to write advanced data flows and validations• Used in house UI automation portal tool which is built on Selenium to automate the manual test Cases• Worked with continuous integration teams to run these SOAP UI and UI scripts on a daily basis or scheduled time using Jenkins.• Used Splunk to debug the logs and find out the issues• Dealt with multiple teams supporting the application including DB, Paas, Offshore development and testing.• Worked in HP ALM to write and execute the manual test cases for few teams.

New York City, Ny, Us

• Maintained Test data in Excel files and Importing Excel files from Resources module in Quality center to QTP data table and read the values based on the functional requirement.• Converted manual test scripts to automated test scripts in Quick Test Professional, enhanced the scripts by adding user-defined functions. Automated test scenarios for GUI, Functionality, Integration, Database, Boundary, Security and Regression Testing using Quick Test Professional• Prepared test scripts using Quick Test Professional with checkpoints using regular expressions for handling windows with different names.• Worked on testing Oracle BI reports matching it with the business requirements.• Actively involved in functional, unit and integration testing in agile methodology. Worked on QTP hybrid framework (Data Driven), identifying the functional areas and created different functions to make the scripts reusable in Quick Test Professional (QTP).• Performed extensive Black-box testing. Designed Stored Procedures to extract and manipulate data from the back end database using SQL Queries.

Savannah, Georgia, Us

• Developed the DataDriven framework for both Functional and Regression testing. • Developed test scripts for Data driven testing using parameterization in QTP by using Excel sheet for test data and Database Queries based on the functionality.• Extensively worked in VB scripting• Extensively worked in developing SQL queries using join statements and performed calculations to get different financial calculations• Actively involved in functional, unit and integration testing in Waterfall methodology. Worked on QTP hybrid framework (Data Driven), identifying the functional areas and created different functions to make the scripts reusable in Quick Test Professional (QTP).• Performed extensive Black-box testing. Designed Stored Procedures to extract and manipulate data from the back end database using SQL Queries.• Performed extensive End-To-End testing and UAT of the process by working in coordination with the TMAX Customers.

Erie, Mi, Us

• Managed a team of 6 Supply Chain planners to facilitate the smooth planning on a daily basis.• Works with Benore IT Department to enhance the current supply chain process. Increased the visibility of the present IIM system by designing different reports. • Designed an “Advanced Planning and Operations tool” which helps 4 departments to plan their resources way in advance rather than a 6 hour notice. This is a tremendous money saving and making concept used by Benore in tendering for new loads, man power allocation, accuracy in return loading process.• Worked extensively on SAP ERP and Procurement Systems.• Leading multiple onsite supply chain planning projects of Benore at BMW• Re-engineered the process of truck load planning by automating it in excel and designed a template to incorporate the automation in the website. This process improved the accuracy, reduced human errors and saved 20 hours time a week for the load planning team.• Working as the bridge between BMW supply planners and its vendors.• Designed the template to catch the missing demand after manual planning. This saved the company with not only expedites but also with plant downtime heavy penalties.• Trained the Load planning, Customer service, dispatch and load validation teams on DECISION MAKING

Garner, North Carolina, Us

Tray Pack Division, Mt Olive Sept 2009- Present• Accumulated the data from manufacturing and demand planning which is required to design a Strategic Capacity model for the first time in TP division. This report is being used extensively by S&OP teams.• Redesigned and semi-automated the entire Master Scheduling model (MPS) and the low level daily production planning model for the Tray Pack division. Conducted root cause analysis and eliminated the steps which caused human errors and improved the visibility of the inventory systems.• Designed a database to report the distress product reason details which improved the efficiency and communication between the plant and supply planners.• Used Pareto analysis to identify the major causes for the distress and helped manufacturing (QA hold) and distribution (mis-rotation) concentrate on the same. • Facilitated the weekly meetings between supply, demand, sales, CS, manufacturing, distribution and R&D teams.Entire plant operations, Longmont, CO • Current responsibilities include master production scheduling, capacity planning for S&OP, deployment, raw materials, WIP and SKU inventory management and supply management across multiple facilities. • Communicating with plant managers, planners, demand planners, customer service, shipping, 3PL logistics team, and purchasing to maintain smooth supply chain and to satisfy the customer demands.• Designed an inventory analysis tool in excel to maintain minimum inventory across various DCs.• Designed a new deployment tool that improvised the visibility of the system and used with multiple distribution centers. Saved 60% of the time taken by planners to do the daily deployment.• Gathered the information from multiple departments to model the master production schedule both in Excel and MP Voyager. Trained co-planners to model their own plants.• Designed a database to generate the Age analysis report for the entire butterball operations.

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

I designed a detailed framework to evaluate the supply chain risk involved with the Global companies. I performed the financial and weighted score card analysis for the fortune 500 companies including the SRM, spend management, strategic sourcing, category management and LHR analysis.

Trained in six sigma concepts and applications at the green belt level.Stood 2nd among 24 professionals.Awarded with the Six Sigma Green Belt certification from Benchmark Six Sigma which is certified by RABQSA.

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

Courses tutored automated systems engineering and manufacturing process engineering.Supervised lab sessions for both Graduate and Undergraduate students. Developed course material and the course website.Worked on Latex, Omnigraffle, Tex shop.

Held responsible for procurement from vendors across the nation and maintenance of inventory.Managed operations like vendor management, receipt receiving and strategic sourcing decisions.Led Reliance Petro-Marketing Pvt. Ltd franchisee and supervised twenty six employees for nearly four years. In six months, gained 26% of the market share against 17 local public sector unit’s sales.

Masters, Industrial And Systems Engineering

B.E, Mechanical Engineering