SUMMARY

• Over 20 years of IT development and management experience focusing on service management, application and product development in Property & Casualty, Financials and Health Care.
• Over 10 years of program/project management and technical leadership experience using PMBOK and agile methodologies.
• Agile practitioner and coach since 2010 in Scrum and Kanban.
• Over 2 years of experience managing digital collaboration projects using responsive design.
• Over 10 years of hands - on design, development and testing experience on Client-server, Web, mobile applications, and application integration using BizTalk, SharePoint, .NET and Java technologies.
• Over 7 years of experience managing multi-million-dollar programs associating with senior executives and product management (Owners).
• Proven track record of delivering 6 to 8 mission critical, high-visibility development projects successfully on time and budget with quality from inception through governance process.
• Managing large annual budget and staff of about 100 employees in both on site and off-shore.
• Head of Agile Center of Excellence building agile engineering teams, creating artifacts, disciplines, best practices, team’s dashboards, frameworks and methodologies using Scrum and Kanban, continuous integration using DevOps, management information reports and facilitating ScrumDown to share experiences.
• Trained Agile methodology enterprise wide over time by teaching and mentoring to more than 100 employees and turned them successfully adapting Agile from traditional waterfall following ADKAR.
• Built and transformed operational models adapting engineering practices to deliver projects successfully using SAFe 4.0, helped 30% faster implementation and improved around 40% quality.
• Built strong, empowered, reliable, self-organized, result oriented and highly efficient scrum teams.
• Mentored and Coached multiple scrum teams and its masters for delivering value and meeting consistent scrum goals to strive excellence.
• Managed Agile programs and its projects as an Administrator using VersionOne and JIRA.
• Ability to adjust project plans to support non-functional initiatives like Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Failover, Windows Upgrade, D Confidential base Upgrade, patching, SOX auditing etc.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills; effectively maintain information flow to senior management, team, and customers regarding project status/progress report, meeting minutes, signed-Off documents, goals & objectives and risks.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Application Development Lead

Responsibilities:

• build new high performing team of 15 members and successfully motivate them to drive for success by applying Coercive and authoritative management styles in appropriate periods. assess project feasibility (managing change control), gathered business requirements, and executed project and release plans for invest and maintenance portfolios.
• negotiate successfully the scope and prioritize it with business sponsors and development teams with the right estimates and capacity. plan and execute the monthly, weekly and adhoc releases by coordinating with the customers, development, and shared services teams by meeting the milestones with quality.
• work with vendor manager to level or assign the resources for successful delivery of the committed changes or deliverables. set the deliverables includes various documents to the team and maintain those in the repository.
• manage the scope by approving SOWs and tracked the completed work weekly. communicate effectively to all stakeholders by creating various management reports viz. weekly business status report, change-control matrix, capacity planning report, work-intake & prioritization report, monthly operation & maintenance (MOM) report, trend & risk analysis report etc. reduce the maintenance and infrastructure cost by 10% and reduced the production support incident tickets down to 30% in 2 years period by continuously improving the process and resolving the impediments and issues timely that are identified pro-actively.
• provide supporting d Confidential to business functional manager for deriving CBA. ensure the application is complaint with security and Governance by working with Internal and SOX Auditors.
• act as a Focal point of all Reverse Demand Management works and the primary member in Change Advisory Board (CAB) to measure the feasibilities, risks and impacts; and provide the complete support managing and tracking these projects for successful completion on time.

Confidential

Sr. Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to design & develop interfaces and Web based application. Developed the Proof-Of-Concepts (POC), presentation layers prototypes, developed the middle tier components and reports; communicate to the business users effectively and satisfied their needs by analyzing the requirements and implemented the same.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• This is a R&D Project to develop the complete unified messaging system for Microsoft CRM using Microsoft CRM SDK, IVR (Interactive Voice Response) and Microsoft Exchange Server.
• As an Architect and Sr. Developer, I was innovated the technical solutions to access all possible messaging services of email, Voice and Fax messages and voice attachments in one portal.