Justin Pathrose James, PMP, SCM
2002 SW 34^TH AVENUE. APT 16 | Bentonville, AR 72712 | 949.540.4062 | injustjam@gmail.com

IT Project Manager
SOFTWARE/APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT | ENTERPRISE IMPLEMENTATIONS | SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 

·                       Experienced project manager offering 12 years of success leading all phases of diverse technology projects; PMP, CSM and BSAC credentials; Experience in handling Offshore and Onshore teams; and five years of computer programming and business Analysis experience.

·                       Business strategist; plan and manage multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive continuous process improvements, competitive advantage with good Gross Profit Margin values.

·                       Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.

·                       Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Able to manage large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets. Holding CSM certification in Scrum.

Skills Summary

Career Progression

UST GLOBAL (Aliso Viejo, CA), IT Project Manager, 2009 to Present
UST GLOBAL (Aliso Viejo, CA), Associate Project Manager, Senior System Analyst, 2006 to 2009


Recruited by two of the nation’s leading IT consulting firms to provide project management over large-scale, top-priority and complex technology initiatives. Managed budgets of up to $8M and cross-functional teams of up to 25 developers, programmers, analysts and network specialists.

Drove the high-quality completion of systems engineering, software/database development and enterprisewide implementation projects for F500 clients including:

Achievement Highlights:

·                       Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.

·                       Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.

·                       Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures, maintaining Product Backlog, updating tasks in Team Forge tool.

·                       Honored with Quarterly Award in 2008 for Innovation in recognition of running the innovation Drive for company.

Representative Projects (2006 to 2015)

·                       Custom Software Developments: Managed all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for dozens of custom solutions for distribution centers of retail domain, Medicare business for healthcare
Results: Delivered industry-leading software that saved clients millions of dollars, shortened processes from weeks to minutes

·                       Web Product Development: Guided teams in the development of new product- Logistics product for retail domain, product for healthcare providers.
Results: Improved the consistency, recoverability and accessibility of data.

·                       System Integrations/Migrations: Project-managed large-scale initiatives involving the transition of programs to new platforms and the merger of systems from acquired client companies  in project s- Medicare run out project, Formulary compare and Analysis, New client implementations .
Results: Achieved seamless migrations and integrations that were transparent to client customers, accomplished with no unscheduled downtime and delivered by as much as ahead of schedule .

·                       Production Support : Rolling out the support plan for projects with detailed communication and escalation channels and help the team to automate the on call process. Dedicated team members are identified and commitments were made during holidays and weekends.                                                                                                                      Results: Achieved seamless execution and no downtime to the production processes and avoided customer aberration.

·                       Data ware House: Worked as a transition manager to coordinate the knowledge transition from different vendors. Started the application support team for new Dataware House system and consolidated the streams into single system.
Results: Ensured checkpoints are in place in all phases including data mart, data integration, and staging area through careful planning, testing and QA efforts.

·                       Enterprise Implementations: Managed the release management activities by implementing quality gating process in all phases of SDLC. Established a process to be followed to progress from one phase to another.
Results: Ensured defect-free releases through careful planning, testing and QA efforts.

Early Career

UST GLOBAL (Aliso Viejo, CA), Technical Lead ,System Analyst, 2003 to 2006

Completed programming assignments to ensure the new client implementations in mainframe. responsible for formulating the offshore team to learn and work in the new technology Model 204. Involved in estimating the effort for the system rewrite project.

 

PATNI Computer Systems (Mumbai, India), Software Developer, 2001 to 2003

involved in the development for new online screens and implementing the changes in the credit card application .

Education & Credentials

Bachelor of Engineering  in Mechanical Engineering (GPA: 3), MG University ( Kottayam, India), 2001
 

Under Graduation in Mathematics  (GPA: 3.3), MG University ( Kottayam, India), 1995
 

PMI-Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), 2009

Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance (CSM), 2012

Business System  Analyst from InQuestra (BSAC), 2011

Personal Details

Work Authorization: H1B

 

Contact Number : 949-540-4062

Address: 2002 SW 34^TH AVENUE, APT 16, BENTONVILLE, AR 72712

E-mail ID: injustjam@gmail.com