PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 4 and half years of experience in the Agile methodologies, from the IT industry
• Experienced ScrumMaster in Product development/management environment, working knowledge of Scrum framework and TDD,
• Sprint 0 sessions to develop the Product Backlog, Sprint planning, Release Planning, Backlog grooming into Product Backlog Items,
• Work with product owner to refine and prioritize product backlog, develop release plans, assist breaking of epics to create and add user stories in the backlog,
• Coach the team to be self - organize, collaborate, prioritize, self-manage, and to adapt to TDD, refactoring, continuous integration & code reviews,
• Monitor sprint progress towards the release plan using release burn-down charts,
• Used the tools such as JIRA, YouTRACK, TFS & Jenkins.
• Delivered the Projects using the Software Development Methodologies of Waterfall and Agile as per the Client and Project needs:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

.NET, Website Design & Dev

Responsibilities:

• Global exposure: 6 years from the USA and 4+ months from the Europe
• 8 years of Application Development experience on multiple Technologies
• Domain exposure of Banking, Finance, Healthcare, Insurance and Wealth Management
• Worked with some of Fortune listed Clients
• Familiarity with Vendor Management (both internal and external)
• Managed large Teams professionally as part of the People Management, hiring the right resources and matching right person to the right position, setting the relevant KPI’s to measure the Performance and evaluating the Confidential ’s towards Annual reviews,
• Trained non-experience and functionally experienced professionals to be part of the Delivery team. Facilitated the Training (to new Employees & Consultants) on the processes towards Operations and Delivery,
• Experience of SDLC; Analysis and Design of the Objectives, Coding, Testing and reviews of the Deliverables. Good at Defect prevention, Risk management, assigning the Tasks and directing the Activities to Team and tracking them to Milestones,
• Managed the Deliverables and Artifacts using the Project Management (PM) tools: PlanView (v. 9.1 and 7.4.1) HP-PPM (v. 10) Microsoft TFS, Project Microsoft SharePoint
• Independently configured the SNA Server for the Mainframe to establish the DB2 Connect from OS/390 Host of the Confidential .
• Reviewing the Chef's modules/recipes, scripts from Maven, dry run of Vagrant files and repackaging them, Smoke test of the Services written in Nagios.
• Designed the UI/UX for the Websites, prepare/review the Content, review the Page navigations/links, defining the Workflow for Payment gateways and evaluate if the Website is User friendly.
• As a Tech Lead, for .NET Projects; designed and implemented the Desktop and Web applications, designed and overseen the Deliverables for the Intranet applications (such as HR, Business Development, Project Lifecycle and Timesheet).
• Technical/Business Analysis on ICD-9 to ICD-10 conversion Project (as part of HIPAA) for Confidential of Arkansas, in the year 2010; which is a Mainframe to .NET migration project.
• As a Sr. Developer, responsible for the Mappings and data modeling using Informatica 8.1 & Erwin, Designed the Class objects of the Universes and Reporting using (SAP) Business Objects 6.1 and XI and building the Interface/Transactions using the SAP ABAP.
• End-to-end Testing of the Team Foundation Server upgradation from Visual Studio, to ensure the functionality works as is (per Specs) and new Features are intact.
• PlanView migration from v7.4.1 to v9.1; responsible for Testing the overall Functionality by reviewing the Test plans, Test scenarios, and Test all the Features and User Acceptance with 'Go' / 'No Go' decision of the PlanView 9.1.
• Developed the Mainframe applications using COBOL II, JCL, DB2, VSAM, VAG and IMS for few of the Fortune listed clients.

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

ScrumMaster

Environment: .NET, Java, JIRA, TFS, Jenkins, Microsoft Project, SharePoint, Chef, Vagrant, Nagios, Maven.

Responsibilities:

• A state-of-the-art, enterprise-wide solution for the retail and wholesale markets that provides highly configurable functionality needed to originate any volume of loans, while following workflow processes and procedures defined by the lender.
• LendingSpace® LOS - The ideal technology for correspondent lenders, LendingSpace is a proven solution that helps lenders seamlessly manage the entire review, audit and approval of correspondent loans, and effectively move those loans to the secondary market.
• SalesEdge® is an integrated and highly configurable lead and customer relationship management (CRM) solution, designed specifically for lenders to manage new leads, and develop and maintain customer relationships that will ultimately generate new business and boost productivity.
• Run the Triage call to prioritize the Items in Backlog, Daily scrum calls, refining the epics/stories,
• Collaborate the Scrum team, PO and Stakeholders on impediments reported; to move forward,
• Support Sprint planning and retrospective activities, Execute process flows and product backlog,
• Coach the teams on Scrum and groom them to be self-organizing and be a value-add to the teams,
• Facilitate sprint 0 sessions to develop a prioritized feature roadmap, to size product features, to build backlog of user stories that are reviewed, sized and ready for sprints 1 and 2,
• Facilitate negotiations between product owner and development teams on priorities, dependencies, and during story sizing,
• Monitor sprint progress and progress towards release plan using release burn-down charts,
• Update JIRA to maintain time boxes (sprints, releases), product features, backlog, Kanban states,
• Work with Build & Release team to ensure the Environment is kept ready for the Testing / Deployment,
• Collaborate and communicate with release managers, project managers, integration test and deployment leads, external teams.

Confidential

Scrum Master / Delivery Head

Environment: .NET, C#, HTML, CSS, Confidential, PhoneGap, Open-CMS, TFS, YouTRACK, Balsamiq and Visio.

Responsibilities:

• Track the backlog of Pharma Inventory (.NET) and Sales application (PhoneGap) that are developed using Agile (Scrum) methodology and ensure the Product released per the Sprints planned,
• Ensure TFS & YouTRACK is updated all the time with the Sprints planned, and the reports distributed to the Stakeholders,
• Collaborate the Product Owner, Vendor and QA Team to resolve the issues and meet the Timelines,
• Facilitate backlog estimation, sprint planning, review, and retrospective sessions, daily stand-ups, monitored burn down and sprint progress
• Refine epics to create and add user stories in the backlog, Coached the team to self-organize, collaborate, prioritize, self-manage,
• Track and monitored status, work log, time recording, dependencies for issues and tasks in JIRA,
• Overseeing the Delivery of Projects from all technologies, prepare / respond the Proposals towards new challenges, Collaborating the Deliverables between Onsite and Offshore,

Confidential, New York City, NY

Scrum Master - PMO

Environment: SAP-BO XI 3.1, HP-PPM, JIRA, Microsoft SharePoint, Office and Visio.

Responsibilities:

• Product backlog refinement and sprint planning sessions, sprint review and retrospective meetings to inspect, learn, and adapt or improve,
• Daily scrum, remove impediments, monitor burn-down chart on a daily basis for progress and status, identified and resolved issues, mitigated risks,
• Collaborated and coordinated with other managers, Scrum Masters, product development teams, Work with the team of product owners, business analysts, developers, and embedded testers,
• Track the backlog and ensure the Product released per the Sprints planned,
• Tracking the Projects in PPM to verify the Staffing Profiles, estimates, Headcount, Budgeting and correct the Projects to be Quality compliant,
• Responsible for Audit drills (Project Execution, Audit & Control), ensuring the Disaster Recovery plans are in place, Business Continuity plans (DRP & BCP) are updated by PM’s on respective systems,
• Staff augmentation with RPO and Vendors, allocating the Resources to the Teams identified based on the Cost Bucket of SILO, ensure the Infrastructure instated in-time,
• Working with the Vendor Staff to ensure they complete the Corporate Mandatory Trainings in time to adhere the Corporate Guidelines.

Confidential

Delivery / Project Manager

Environment: PlanView 7.4.1, BO XI, .NET, QA, IBM Mainframe, Microsoft SharePoint and Visio.

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the Delivery of Projects ICD9 to ICD10 Conversion (Mainframe to .Net), CA ITS (Development and Testing), WGS which is a combination of multiple subsystems like Provider System, Pricing System, and Membership, Migrating the Claims processing from Mainframe to FOCUS,
• Analyzing the Project needs and Delivery requirements, Interacting with Onsite Managers to track the Project execution, and responding to the Proposals,
• Invoicing the Offshore Billable hours and Status Reporting to Exec VP and Director on weekly basis,
• Reviewing the Confidential ’s of reported Resources, ramping up the Teams for better productivity, cross-training the Technical Skills, and facilitating the Domain sessions,
• Initiated and contributed an Intranet Application for Tetrasoft; that comprises of HR Application, Timesheet, SQA and Employee’s personal and Professional level information.

Confidential, New York City, NY

PMO / Test Manager

Environment: PlanView 9.1 & 7.4.1, BO XI, 6.1b, WEBI, Quality Center 9.0, Microsoft SharePoint and Oracle 9i.

Responsibilities:

• Tracking the SDLC Phases of all the Projects from Shared Services, to Control the Budget and advising the respective Project Managers and managing reporting Resources accordingly,
• Interacting with the Project Managers for Budget updates, Forecasting, any PlanView supported activities and resolving Project Quality Issues and NCI,
• Extensive usage of PlanView to Create the WBS, defining the Phases, Tasks and Activities, Resource Allocation, and Project changes as required,
• Generating the Reports such as Time Reporting, Financials (L0, L1, L2, L3), Forecast, Year to Date spent, and Month to Date; in Business Objects,
• Creating the ad-hoc Reports from different Universes of Business Objects and tracking the Artifacts for Project deliverables,
• Extracting the Reports of Cost and Effort from PlanView to update the Stake Holders of the Project,
• Reviewing the Test plans, Test scenarios, Status calls, Defect reporting of PV 9.1 and Status updating to PMO,
• User Acceptance Testing of PlanView 9.1 by evaluating various scenarios to conform the expected / existing functionality.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Estimating, Budgeting, Risk Identification and Management, Tracking, Status updating to the Members of PMO,
• Overseeing the Program Delivery; being a liaison between the TPA, Business Analysts and the Delivery teams,
• Creating the WBS, defining the Phases, Tasks and Activities as by the Waterfall model, and Resource Allocation in the PlanView,
• Extracting the Project oriented Reports from PlanView and sharing with the Stake Holders of the Project,
• Coordinating with TPA and Aetna Architects for the Program Delivery to setup the Group and Member enrollment process.
• Analyzing the existing CMBS System and producing the extract for HRI - Subrogation,
• Validating the extract which contains Employer and Employee eligibility information to validate against the Claims files that are sent to HRI for Subrogation

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Onsite Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Gathering, Designing, Project scheduling and tracking,
• Reviewing the Test strategies, Test cases and Test results,
• Interacting with Business Analysts and Users to conform the Functionality,
• Coordination with Offshore team for the Deliverables.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the Statement of Work, Preparing estimates and Project Plan,
• Interacting with SMEs and Business Analysts for the clarifications,
• Preparing design documents - High level design Flow,
• Work allocation to the team members and Project Monitoring,

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance and Production Support of the Application,
• Fix the Abends that may occur from STD/LTD/FMLA Jobs, so the Groups will fed with the real-time Data for Online Systems.
• Interacting with the Business Team and handling of the Change Requests,
• Coordination with Offshore and inspection of Deliverables,

Confidential

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the existing FBS system on Mainframe, Mainframe host connectivity
• Preparation of the reverse engineering document at Code level, which includes functionality of the Program and Databases used,
• Coordinating with the Java Development team to have them understand the existing functionality of FBS,
• Responded to several RFPs, as requested by the Management.