Senior program Manager
Gaea Technology
Total years of experience :20 years, 2 Months
- Establish realistic goals and implement action plans for achieving set objectives
- Guide and direct project team members to ensure compliance with set standards, procedures, and guidelines.
- Develop internal communication strategies useful in ensuring communication between various departments of an organization
- Use specialized tools and techniques to delegate and ensure even distribution of tasks to project team members.
- Manage every aspect of a project, including its planning, communication, risk assessment, and resources.
• Work closely with project sponsor, partners across globe, cross-functional teams, to plan and develop scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan, budget, and timing for new initiatives
• Manage the program of projects integrations to meet the customer critical needs.
• Manage program and project teams for optimal return-on-investment, and coordinate between Software Houses internally & Externally to ensure that the Customer Requirements are met.
• Identify key risks / requirements needed from project teams, supporting functions and external vendors.
• Develop and manage budget for project(s) and be accountable for delivering against established business goals/objectives & defined GPMO KPIs as well as Regional KPIs.
• Analyze, evaluate, and overcome program risks, and produce program reports for management and stakeholders.
• Effective management of agile software development programs with cross-entity inputs and management of changing customer needs
-Lead in the project activities, track status, monitor and mitigate issues & risks and address project KPIs / benefits
- Responsible for Support Department projects and department KPI
-Continuously appraise team performance and provide feedback
-Reviews technical estimates, analyzes risks and plans projects
-Manages contractual cost, schedule, and service or product deliverables.
-Ensure delivery processes are being followed
-Act as First point of contact for client needs, issues management and/or escalations as required.
-Builds client satisfaction through formulation, development, implementation, and delivery of application, technical, and business solutions, responding to client requirements as specified in the contract or Statement of Work (SOW).
-Identify and leverage interdependencies and integration opportunities; share best practice and learning in market, regionally and cross-program.
- Spearheading multiple projects throughout the project lifecycles, employing PMI standards to effectively manage resources, conflicting priorities, deliverables, schedules as well as cost.
- Provided thought headship and strategic advice for driving business excellence initiatives
- Managing and monitoring project budgets and expenditures
- Proactively identifying potential risk events and issues so proper mitigating strategies can be developed and presented to the project stake holders.
- Working closely with Account Managers and project team to manage client expectations and ensure project objectives are met
-Leads the development and delivery of IT projects as per the implementation roadmap / RFP
-Work closely with the project sponsor on the business and technical objectives of the project
-Actively participates in selection of tools and methods for successfully meeting project objectives
-Defining and managing projects using PMI best practices
-Leads the phase risk analysis and proactively drives the Go/No Go decisions for all project phases and ensures the completion of appropriate business and systems training for new development
-Manage the implementation of GIS/ IT projects
-Plan, organizing and controlling project resources
-Develops work breakdown structure, detailed project plans and schedules
-Client handling
-Monitoring and reporting on project metrics, issues, risks and overall progress.
-Leads and manages full project lifecycle from initiation and planning to closure according to the project timelines, cost, and quality.
-Identify necessary management structures for projects, and secure the management involvement required.
-Continually identify, prioritize and mitigate project risks.
-Ensures customer requirements are captured and that the project plan and objectives reflects that
-Manage and run complex projects from design and development to production.
-Defines requirements and plan project lifecycle deployment.
-Liaison with clients to get their requirements
-Calculate project budget, monitor project running cost
-Defines resources and schedule for project implementation.
-Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.
-Plans and schedule project deliverables, goals, and milestones.
-Efficiently identifies and solves project issues.
-Focusing on the standards and technologies for enabling systems performance qualities, such as availability, scalability, recoverability, etc.
-Evaluating and selecting the enterprise’s server hardware, operating system, job control.
-Supporting the Applications architect in selecting the application framework.
-Setting and providing documentation for standards on Infrastructure solutions.
-Balancing the quality issues cost vs. robustness, and hardware architecture
-Monitoring System performance and execute System load testing.
-Design and develop programming systems making specific determinations about system performance.
-Analyze, design, coordinate and supervise the development of software systems to form a basis for the solution of information processing problems.
-Analyze system specifications and translate system requirements to task specifications for junior programmers.
-Responsible for analysis of current programs including performance, diagnosis and troubleshooting of problem programs, and designing solutions to problematic programming.
-Implementing various GIS enterprise applications for different industries using ESRI Products Environment
-Develop desktop and client/server applications
-GIS Application development using Microsoft / Sun related technologies
-Interpreting application design documents into applications and codes
-Creating technical and user documentation related to system development work
-Developing Implementing web applications using the multi-tier model and the MVC concept, utilizing JSPs, Servlets, and JDBC.
-Adding feature to DeCom using Oracle JDeveloper, JSPs, Java Beans, Java Servlets, JDBC with SQL Server 2000 Databases and My SQL Server which is considered as an Application service provider that generates E-Commerce sites for merchants and each merchant site consists of two main parts Storefront for customers to control all E-Commerce activates and Administration part for merchant employees to control all the storefront part functionality.