director/senior Project Manager Resume

Desired Industry: Information Technology	SpiderID: 20401
Desired Job Location: allentown, Pennsylvania	Date Posted: 3/25/2008
Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent	Availability Date: ASAP
Desired Wage: 100,000
	U.S. Work Authorization: Yes
Job Level: Management (Manager, Director)	Willing to Travel: Yes, Less Than 25%
Highest Degree Attained: Masters	Willing to Relocate: Yes

Objective:
Managed programs and products from conception to completion phase. Mentored and managed strategically critical programs in challenging environments. Managed delivery of the products with emphasis on market needs, especially in time critical programs. Made critical decisions for resource management and budgeting.
Provided technical direction to consultants and team members. Presented to executive management team the requirements and market needs for their input in business direction. Have expert time management, communication, negotiation and presentation skills. Have good people’s management, project planning skills.
Managed multiple projects simultaneously and independently. Have strong background in Telephony (DSL, Ethernet, VOIP and fiber optics). Have strong background in IP protocols, and ATM technology. Have experience in six sigma and lean methodology.
Used MS Project, Word, Visio, PowerPoint, RUP, and Excel. Have experience in UNIX. LINUX, NT, HP, .NET, C, C++, JAVA, SIP, SCM, SAP and clearquest. Twenty years of industry experience.
CORE COMPETENCIES
• International Project Management • Budget Forecasting • Problem Resolution
• Risk Management • Team Building • Resource Management
• Cross functional Team management • Effective Presentations • SAP ERP

Experience:
EXPERIENCE:
PDV SOFTWARE, INC., Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 07/2002-Present
Principal/Senior Project Manager
Directed the development of new technologies based on intelligent algorithms for embedded systems architecture, and wireless protocol designs.
Developed risk management plans and feasible budgets. Managed global teams.
Performed regular evaluation of company’s financial state, performance, and productivity. The customers of PDV Software were Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Motorola, Intel and IBM.

Key Achievements:
• Responsible for gathering the requirements, transforming the requirement into processes/procedures, planning, estimating, design, development, implementation, execution, testing, delivery and support of the applications by utilizing different Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC)- Waterfall, PMBOK, Agile and RUP.
• Collaborated with clients to identify alternative solution to reduce the project’s scope to remain within the forecasted budget and still deliver needed capabilities, utilizing best practices methodologies to reduce average project duration and business process time requirements.
• Managed projects with responsibilities for infrastructure, application development and package deployment.
• Generated project status reports for management (Ms. Project, PP) and Diagram (VISIO).
• Created plans, policies, and procedures to ensure completion in zero-downtime environment and agreed budget.
• Responsible for P & L of projects.
• Acted as liason between customers and technical staff.
• Acted as POC for project status
• Chaired phase review and project status meetings
• Used agile methodology for project management.
• Used lean methodology

LUCENT TECHNOLOGY, Allentown, Pennsylvania 08/2000-06/2002
(Network Communication Group)
Senior Project Manager
• Initiated and chaired process improvement team consisting of designers from international locations.
• Responsible for main interface between design team, marketing, manufacturing, and sales and management.
• Responsible for developing risk mitigation plans.
• Effectively project managed and led my groups to deliver all commitments on time and with outstanding quality.
• Coordinated and designed a training workshop for new hires to help make them productive members of the organization.
• Responsible for all aspects of the development cycles including recruiting, training, and development and maintaining staff at plan level.
• Responsible for gathering the requirements, estimating, design, development, implementation, execution, testing, delivery and support of the applications by utilizing different software development methods(SDLC).
• Responsible for overall project management and technical issues of multiple cross functional teams databases and OA&M functionalities for Lucent’s Network System.
• Chaired phase review and project status meetings
• Acted as POC for project status

Key Achievements:
• Led cross-functional teams.
• Achieved reduced cycle time.
• Implemented new techniques in design process.
• Completed projects within schedule and budget.

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, Dallas, Texas 06/1997-06/2000
(Wireless Design Group)
Technical Project Manager
• Responsible for guiding cross-functional teams in robust product design.
• Developed techniques for reducing product cost.
• Headed brain-storming sessions for problem resolution and new process development.
• Responsible for analyzing wireless data applications, including wireless LAN, GPRS, CDMA.
• Develop, track, and maintain processes covering all service areas, to fulfill TQM initiatives.
• Organized service delivery including ticketing, third-party NOC, new feature introduction and overall process documentation.
• Responsible for driving IT project in SDLC process with business requirements, technical requirements and functional specifications
• Acted as POC for project status
Key Achievements:
• Led GPRS,CDMA and 3G based projects
• Built teams from scratch and mentored.
• Developed new processes.
• Completed projects within schedule and budget.
• Managed a team of 15 engineers.

NEC, Irving, Texas 02/1994-05/1997
(Wireless Communication Division)
Technical Project Manager
• Directed teams in project proposal review and developed project plans.
• Acted as primary liaison between design team, marketing, manufacturing, sales, and management.
• Managed team of engineers in a matrix organization.
• Presented market research analysis and recommendations to management.
• Drive a cross-functional delivery process via a formal control of deliverables, to ensure readiness of all service delivery teams, to reach smooth market launch.
• Acted as POC for project status

Key Achievements:
• Guided application support team of GSM
• Managed a team of 20 engineers.
• Researched new wireless technologies.
• Completed projects within schedule and budget.

Education:
EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS
Master of Business Administration (MBA) with Telecommunication and Project Management Majors • UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS, Irving, Texas (on-going)
Master of Science, Electrical Engineering (MSEE) • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, Syracuse, New York
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering (BSEE) • UNIVERSITY OF BARODA, Baroda, India
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics with Statistics Minor (BS) • UNIVERSITY OF BARODA, Baroda, India
Professional Associations:
PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE
Working aggressively for PMP and ITIL certifications
US Citizen

Candidate Contact Information:

Name: Ram Agrawal
Street:	Phone: 610-954-9654
City: Bethlehem	Fax: -
State: Pennsylvania
Zip: 18020
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