Project & Program Management
Overview
- Ten years experience leading large-scale, aggressive, and dynamic technical projects with competing resources and priorities.
- Several years experience in multi-project/program, portfolio management with agile and classical methods.
- Full project management life cycle experience:
- Initiation
- Planning
- Execution
- Monitoring and Controlling including "Earned Value" method
- Closure
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Excellent knowledge in all Project Management knowledge areas:
- Several years experience in roles such as Program and Project Manager, Release Train Engineer (RTE), Product Owner or Scrum Master .
- Collected and prioritized requirements, defined, verified and controlled the scope.
- Developed and controlled schedules, release planning.
- Planning of the human resource needs, managed and motivated multiple cross functional teams located in India, Germany, China, Egypt, Romania
- Applied best practices for the offshore software development and virtual teams.
- Estimated and controlled costs, determined the budget. Managed a budget of more than 20 million euros.
- Identified and monitored risks, created strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.
- Identified stakeholders, planned the communication, managed the stakeholders expectations
- Planned, conducted and administered procurements
- Experience with all type of contracts such "Fixed Price", "Cost Reimbursable" or "Time and Material".
Project Management Standards
- Excellent PMI methodology / PMBOK knowledge(worldwide recognised Project Management standard defined by the Project Management Institute).
- Strong waterfall project management skills.
- Strong agile project management skills, especially Scrum, Scaled Agile (SAFe) and KANBAN.
International Projects
- More than 5 years experience in leading teams in India
- Experience working locally in India
- Experiece in leading teams in Romania, Egypt and China
- Experience in managing expectations of stakeholders located in geographical dispersed locations: Germany, South Korea, USA, Denmark, Netherlands, UK, etc
- Managed suppliers in Germany, India, China, Denmark, Poland, USA, Germany, Ukraine.
Vendor Management
- Several years experience in managing geographic dispersed vendors
- Experience in successfully managing vendors with different contract types such as "Fixed Price", "Cost Reimbursement" or "Time and Material"
- Negotiated successfully contracts for prices, deadlines and other terms and conditions
- Prepared and organized bidding sessions
People Skills
- Excellent skills in building successful, cohesive and high performing teams
- Able to motivate or deal with people having different personality types
- Very good intercultural competencies. Led teams or negociated with people from all around the world.
Project Types
- 10 years experience in managing software development projects. Strong software development background in areas as software architecture or programming
- Experience in managing roll-out and cut-over projects
- Experience in managing hardware development projects
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