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Ravi Kiran - Project Manager

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Location: Tampa, Florida, USA

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Visa: H1B

RAVI KIRAN [email protected]; (847) 610-9714 Project Manager / PMP Certified / Delivery Manager / Product Manager PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: Highly accomplished IT Project Manager with over 24 years of experience leading IT projects and business development initiatives within large-scale enterprises. Expertise in managing projects throughout the entire Project Development Life Cycle (PDLC), including business analysis, design, development, and implementation across diverse technology stacks. Proven ability to deliver complex IT solutions on time and within budget while driving stakeholder engagement and process improvements. Skilled in collaborating with cross-functional teams, driving product roadmaps, and aligning business goals with customer needs. Adhered to PMO (PMI/PMBOK standards) processes to manage the entire project management lifecycle. Facilitated releases, develop user stories, retrospective sessions, sprint planning along with prioritizing backlogs with the teams. Lead Scrum teams, other cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time and within budget, using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Created business process flow diagrams, wireframes, and mock-ups for better visualization and proficiency of workflows. Collaborated with C-level management to prioritize, understand the business needs, ensuring the timely delivery of project updates. Manage a team of developers and IT professionals, ensuring successful delivery of AWS-based cloud solutions using IaaS. Direct cloud-hosted services and ensure seamless deployment and scaling of applications to meet evolving business needs. TECHNICAL SKILLS: Project Management Tools: PMI methodologies - Agile, Waterfall Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure Big Data Technologies: Hadoop HDFS, Spark, Python, NoSQL Data Visualization Tools: QlikView, Tableau, Power BI Product Management Tools: Jira, MS Visio, ServiceNow Web Development: MS.NET (ver from 1.0 to latest) - .NET Framework, .NET Core, C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET, XML, Classic ASP, ADO.NET, CSS Database: MS SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access Reporting Tools: DevExpress, TMS Flexcel Studio, Crystal Reports Others: MS Office tools, MS SharePoint, MS Teams, RFID tags (UHF, Mifare, EM), RFID readers, RFID cards, Biometric (Facial, Palm, Iris), Windows Mobile handhelds, VB 6.0 EDUCATION: Master of Business Administration (MBA) Annamalai University, Singapore Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Kuvempu University, India Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications (PGDCA) CERTIFICATIONS & AWARDS: Specialist Diploma in Big Data Management Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore Project Management Professional (PMP) PMI Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) National Infocomm Award (NIA) Winner from Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), Singapore. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Client: State Of Nebraska (Remote) July 2024 - Present Role: Project Manager Responsibilities: Forming and managing cross-functional project teams with Managers, Data Engineers and Operations. Planning, organizing, managing, and executing complex project across various stakeholders. Managed multi-functional team coordination, screening of Statement of Work (SOW), developed Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposals (RFP), Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) Create a self-service platform for data access to improve both the customer experience and partner teams ability to understand customer use cases. Setting the direction for world-class user experience design Develop and manage a team of business analysts Business & project roadmap planning, developing features, and defining requirements. Client: Seatrium Limited (formerly Sembcorp Marine Ltd / Sembawang Shipyard Pte Ltd), Singapore Role: Project Manager / Application Manager July 2002 June 2024 Led end-to-end project lifecycle for over 80 in-house projects where the major projects are as below Subcontractor Portal - Spearheaded the whole development of the portal to streamline the entire subcontracting process. Gangway Tracking System (GTS) implemented a solution to track workers movements on-board vessels in collaboration with SPRING (Govt. of Singapore) & subcontractors. Electronic Document Management Systems (EDMS) Design, developed & implemented an EMC s Documentum solution in AWS for Banyu Urip FSO project. Semballiance e-Collaboration portal played a pivotal role in designing and launching the e-Collaboration portal, between shipyard & it s alliance customers. It provides direct and integrated communication and information. This portal achieved the National Infocomm Award (NIA) for The Most Innovative Use of Infocomm Technology from Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), Govt. of Singapore. Content Management implemented various internal systems using Microsoft SharePoint portal for internal departments. Opportunity for Improvement (OFI) Web based tool to improve shipyard processes and major issues for the C-suite management. Used to be a legacy application but later re-developed using the .NET technologies. Completely involved from initiation to closing & data migration activities. Intelligent Workforce Management System (IWMS) to manage employees visitors, and welders details. Used to be a legacy application but later re-developed using the .NET technologies. Completely involved from initiation to closing & data migration activities. Migration of legacy applications fully involved in the re-development of more than 5 existing legacy applications to latest technologies including hosting them at cloud servers. SAP Enterprise Portal s Knowledge Management (KM) for storing, sharing & publishing internal documents. Permit-To-Work Control System (PTWCS) - to register and generate various kinds of daily Safety permits to carry out specific work. Roles & Responsibilities: As a Project Manager / Application Manager, completely responsible for over 80 in-house projects / applications. As per PMI/PMBOK standards followed the entire Project management processes including - Business and Technical Requirements elicitation, System Requirements documents, Business Process modeling, Planning, Procurement, tracking status/timelines, defining project scope & budget, project management, implementation, testing, integration, process Re-engineering. As an Application Manager, responsible to develop & manage many legacy applications. Experienced in the migration of applications from on-premises to Azure cloud hosting. Wrote, maintained and prioritized backlogs & user stories with requirement description & acceptance criteria. Backlog grooming and refinement, Sprint planning, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective. Proficiently articulated and communicated project priorities, user requirements and backlog all using Agile methodologies and iterative methodologies. Works with Scrum teams to stakeholders and advocates for the needs of end users. Primary member to manage AWS Cloud hosting services. Prepare Statements of Work (SOW) & user documents for various applications. Fully experienced with the complete systems development lifecycle from Inception, Design, Development, Testing, Training, Implementation and Support. Developed set of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to cover processes and guidelines that outline the way of operations to perform within the scope of the projects. Lead the team of Scrum masters and developers, provide solutions for their daily work efficiently and productively. Also do performance reviews for the team members. Completely responsible for managing various IT vendors and make sure to implement the solutions successfully on-time. Procurement evaluate and suggest the required Hardware & Software solutions. As a Document Management and Information Systems (DMIS) Manager for $300M Banyu Urip FSO Conversion Project of Mobil Cepu Ltd, (Indonesia) a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation. Delivered IT and EDMS solutions. RFID technologies provide complete solutions for various production users to track goods and materials. DR plans & conducts yearly Disaster Recovery (DR) exercise for the critical systems by involving various stake holders and business users. Manage various project documentations and sites at MS SharePoint. Defined user roles, role hierarchies, and profiles to ensure that the protected data is available only to authorized users. Conducts UATs & Trainings for the various projects. Client: Neuratek Systems Pte Ltd & Robert Walters, Singapore April 2001 June 2002 Role: Software Architect / Analyst Programmer Responsibilities: Designed scalable, high-performance projects, ensuring robust features and efficient solutions. Worked closely with the project development team to translate business needs into technical requirements, contributing to successful project releases. Developed critical back-end systems for customer-focused projects, using client-server technologies to ensure seamless user experiences and scalability. Keywords: cprogramm csharp business intelligence information technology microsoft