Sr. Java Agile Project Manager Resume
Columbus, OH
SUMMARY
- 10+ years of experience in business process engineering and software development life cycle (SDLC) including analysis, design, testing and implementation of software applications.
- ScrumMasterand Product Owner for various Agile Projects.
- Great facilitator and conflict management skills to derived project successfully.
- Extensive experience in managing several industry domains wif commercial and State clients including Telecommunication, Insurance, Pharmacy, Excellent in requirement gathering techniques including conducting interviews, brainstorming, workflow analysis and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions.
- Implemented various testing methodologies to ensure high product quality and industry compliance standards.
- Proficient in analyzing and designing business and financial reports.Good noledge of relational database.
- Test Environment Coordination, Testing Coordination, Manual testing and Performance testing wif excellent attitude in adapting to new technologies.
- Expert inScrumMasterwif a proven track record of delivering high - quality software, on-time and wifin budget.
- Coach and mentor otherscrummasters. Extensive noledge of business analysis methodologies and tools iterative SDLC processes.
- Well conversant wif agile methodologies.
- Maintain relevant metrics dat help the team see how they are doing.
- Strong project management skills including planning, scheduling, monitoring, and estimating resources.
- Focuses the team on the goals of the current iteration, keeping them on track work wif the Product Owner, providing a check and balance between getting more done and maintaining high quality and efficiency.
- Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and otherScrum-related meetings
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, change and conflict management, problem solving and capability in building relationships wif the stakeholders, client and IT department.
- Proficient in Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Life cycle. Expertise in Issue and Risk Management, Incident and change management and metrics based performance reporting.
- Excellent Problem solving skills and proficient in coordinating the Implementation problems.
- Experience in broad range of technologies, including business process tools such as Microsoft Project, MS Access, MS Visio, technical assessment tools, Excellent oral and verbal communication skills and presentation skills.
- Ability to meet deadlines and handle pressures in multi-task and fast paced environment.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages: Java, JSP, Groovy, C, C#
J2EE/JAVA Technologies: REST/SOAP Web Services, Jersey, Apache CXF, Apache Axis2
Web Technologies: Angular JS, JQuery, JSON, HTML5, CSS3, Sass, Node.js, AJAX, JavaScript
Frameworks: Struts 2.0/3.0,Spring 3, Spring MVC,Grails, Hibernate,Google Web Toolkit(GWT)
Tools: MS Project, Excel, Visio,Workflow & Delivery,Responsive Web Design,Moblie Development,Single page web app,Google Analytics
IDE Tools: Eclipse, STS IntelliJ, NetBeans, WebStorm, Sublime Text, Photoshop, Dreamweaver
Application/Web Servers: Oracle WebLogic,IBM WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, JBoss
Databases: Oracle 11g, DB2 MS SQL Server, MySQL
Testing Tools: SOAPUI, Junit, EasyMock, Mockito, Ruby, Cucumber, LoadRunner, Quality Center
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Columbus, OH
Sr. Java Agile Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Created and Maintain Product Backlog
- Created User Stories, Features from Epics
- Facilitated Weekly Grooming Sessions wif team, Daily Stand ups, Sprint Review meetings
- Assisted team wif making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively and maintained best practices which reduced development time by 25%
- Proposed and implemented Agile and Lean processes to streamline the work and deliverables.
- Configured Project Management and Bug Tracking Tool (JIRA) web application for feature requirements, change requests and defects tracking.
- Introduced 3 Amigos sessions to the team to have better Acceptance Criteria which helped in streamline the process.
- Redefined "Definition of Done" which resulted in successfully completion of sprint goals
- GuidedScrumteams on Agile/Scrumpractices and coach them to achieve higher goals and setup cohesive work environment.
- Tracked and managed original and remaining estimated hours in JIRA/TFS and shared Sprint Burn down in daily standups.
- Trained Product Owners wif respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
- Charted the scope of the project and created a detailed work plan in collaboration wif senior management.
- Successfully prepared and managed operation and interim timelines for production support activities.
- Acted as key point of contact and arranged weekly status calls wif client to ensure the project deliverables are on time, wifin budget and of high quality.
- Maintained and presented expense reports and variance to senior management on a weekly basis.
- Created user manuals, technical references, release notes, and other customer facing technical documents for software and hardware products.
- Conducted interviews wif the key internal and external stakeholders to gather and document requirements.
- Performed GAP Analysis for functionality requirements and prioritized them based on the business needs.
- Gathered and analyzed requirements via Brainstorming and (JAD) sessions to create artifacts such as Report Requirement Document (RRD), Requirement Specification Document (RSD).
- Prepared test plans and executed test cases for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Validated business/finance reports by extracting data from database using SQL as per business rules.
- Facilitated UAT sessions, performed regression and other testing on a legacy system.
Environment: HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, Backbone.js, Node.js, JQUERY, AJAX, JSON, Sublime.
Confidential, Columbus, OH
Sr. Java Agile Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Led Team successfully and helped managers to achieved goals on offshore project.
- Created User Stories and Tracked Bugs using JIRA.
- Analyzed and recommended best Agile methodology suited for the environment.
- Led and facilitatedScrumCeremonies from release planning to sprint planning, daily stand - ups demos, and retrospectives.
- Worked wif New Product Implementation team to follow the Agile framework.
- Identified dependencies by working closely wif dev and test teams.
- Migrated more than 5 projects successfully from Waterfall to Kanban wifin 1 year.
- Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
- Created and maintained Kanban Board in Jira.
- Worked on making sure team understands the Agile Principals and follow best Practices
- Created Traceability Matrix between user requirements and test scenarios.
- Analyzed existing business processes through a variety of techniques including Document Analysis, Process Flow Analysis, Brain Storming sessions and interviews including offshore team.
- Developed Use Case Diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Class Diagrams and Collaboration Diagrams using Visio.
- Reviewed and created the User Requirement Specification and the Functional Requirement Specification documents wif business team and end users.
- Prepared Risk Assessment Chart using JIRA for successful sprints and releases.
- Developed and executed Test Plans and performed improvements in Test Methods and Strategies.
- Generated business reports in database using SQL to validate data integrity.
- Performed Functional Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for business users.
- Created change request management process to improve turnaround time for report enhancements.
- Led the regression, load and performance testing for multiple projects.
- Developed and executed queries in SQL server to perform Back End Testing.
Environment: HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, JavaScript, AJAX, Angular.js, Responsive Design, Bootstrap, Dom, XMLOracle, Windows.
Confidential, Helios, Columbus, OH
Sr. Java Agile Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate sprint planning, dailyscrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
- Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
- Work closely wif Product owners in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
- Educate and reinforcescrummethodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
- Working noledge of implementing software development projects using methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile/Scrum.
- Conducted kick - off meetings, peer reviews and solution meetings
- Set direction for the initiation and the implementation of new technologies, methodologies, processes and procedures as related to the change management process and its integration wif other processes.
- ConductedScrumdaily status meetings, weekly iterations and iteration planning meetings.
- Participated inScrummeetings to handle unpredicted changes and TEMPeffectively deliver the product wif in the given deadline.
- Act as focal point for all proposed process improvements to the Enterprise Change Management process.
- Work wif Strategic/Technical team to conduct review of change management policies, standards, process and procedures.
- Defined project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies.
- Coach and mentor agile team members and provides constructive performance feedback
- Trained and coached a development team of 6-8 to utilize Agile Methodology wifScrum.
- Encouraging the team for self-organization to boost the efficiency and coordination
- Working wif stake holders / product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint.
- Encouraging the team to come up wif reusable elements and use the best practices.
- Helped the product owners to come up wif set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development.
- Identify and provide quality process improvement
- Expedite resolution of complex or ongoing issues, problems, incidence or defects impacting project timelines
- Partner wif defect management for follow-up and resolution of defects.
- Planned for PSM (ProfessionalScrumMaster) Certification.
Environment: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JSON, AJAX, AngularJS, Eclipse, MS Office, Twitter Bootstrap, XHTML, jQuery
Confidential, Austin, TX
Java Agile Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Facilitatedscrumceremonies and solutions meetings wif cross functional teams.
- Managed burn down charts, tracked team's velocity, planned capacity and sprint/releases.
- Conducted RCAs to involve parties to resolve issues.
- Maintained storyboards, organized charts wifin JIRA and influenced best practices to team.
- Held retrospective meetings to guide cross functional teams improving future sprints for success.
- Mitigated issues and sheltered team from impediments and scope creep.
- Coached developers probed them wif questions to solve both business and technical issues.
- Performed reviews of product backlog, requirements, and design, code and test scripts.
- Researched, defined product requirements for website enhancements wif stakeholders
- Defined the wat, and worked wif the execution team to document the how in technical terms
- Devised test and control projects optimizing merchandising pages increasing ROI
- Produced epics, user stories and tracked various project's progress using JIRA
- Prioritized product backlog for grooming and sprint planning of simultaneous projects
- Built roadmaps and release management from routine deployments to product launches
- Fostered team's culture, ensuring they work closely wif one another and contribute during meetings
- Coached team to be more self - reliant through retro and react appropriately to issues and team mates
Environment HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Angular JS, Node JS, Ajax, XML, W3C, MS Access, Photoshop, MS Office, MS Visio.
Confidential, Dublin, OH
Sr. Lead Java J2EE developer
Responsibilities:
- Developed multiple GWT (Google Web Toolkit) Web application (from client to server).
- Developed processes and procedures to better improve software development lifecycle (e.g., bug/feature tracking, software versioning, automated/continuous builds, information accessibility)Track customers' open credits and deposits.
- Coded and implemented PL/SQL packages to perform Application Security and batch job scheduling.
- Contributed to front-end development on a Spring-based, multi-tiered web applications
- Installed, configured, and maintained a continuous integration (build) server.
- Developed Integer and Date JSF components to support user entry of integer and date (month/day/year) values wif internationalization. Re-wrote several pieces to make them compliant wif the emerging JSF standard.
- Mentor and educate team members in design and coding best practices in individual and group settings.
Environment: Eclipse Helios, Java 1.6.x, JEE 1.5, JSF (RichFaces, IceFaces), JSTL, JPA, JAXP, JAXB, Spring framework, Spring MVC, Hibernate, PL/SQL, JQuery, Junit, AJAX, Tomcat.
Confidential
Sr. Java J2EE developer
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for Agile design, development, Integration, deployment and deliverable of Department of Job & Family services website project.
- Designs and develops cross-plane business objects and domain objects wif Object Relational Mapping Framework such as Hibernate/JPA.
- Designs and develops cross-plane service business process and data access to Oracle database and back-plane layers wif JAXB, and XML.
- Wrote PL/SQL packages to calculate Missing Information and Determining Eligibility in the processing of a Job & Family Services Families Application.
- Developed JSF components to provide clean and strict generated HTML markup to ease designer's CSS work.
- Re-factors tight-coupled Java code by applying Java Design Patterns and Java best practices for performance, better maintenance and code readability.
- Analyzes, troubleshoots and fix defects in the cross-plane service components.
- Unit-tests cross-plane service components wif JUnit.
- Writes Maven build script to compile Java codes and create service module packages.
- Performed code review and mentored Java developers in code implementation to adhere coding standard and best practices.
- Provided technical support on issues arise after deployment to Production.
- Wrote report analysis on design, deployment plan, and performance issues.
- Mentor and educate team members in design and coding best practices in individual and group settings.
Environment: RAD 7.3.5, Java 1.6.x, Groovy, EJB 3.0, JEE 1.5 (JSF, Servlet, JSTL, JPA, JAXP, JAXB), Spring framework, Spring MVC, Hibernate, PL/SQL, AJAX, JUnit, Dimensions, Tomcat.
Confidential
Sr. Lead Java J2EE architect/developer/Project Management
Responsibilities:
- Extensively involved in business requirement, analysis, code, design reviews, development, testing and deployment of web services, and testing of the application.
- Allow finance charge rates to be assigned on a customer by customer basis or allows you to use system defaults
- Provide both balance forward and open item statement formats on a customer by customer basis wif optional aging information
- Online Accounts Receivable system application provides transactional capability, where the customers (retailer/supplier) could manage (create/edit/update) client’s information. WLSAD is driven by the choice of the web application framework Jakarta Struts, the Web Gain Top Link persistence model, and J2EE technologies.
- Evaluated proposed Java technology architecture and made recommendations to increase performance and security.
- Identified client requirements, develops test schedules, reviews testing plans and tracks and documents the development and results of these plans.
- Evaluates business requirements for enterprise Confidential Label applications integration and service activation, while delivering new or modified software systems enhancements and/or integration solutions.
- Implemented the web services and associated business modules integration.
- Developed persistence layer for the web services and integrated modules.
- Developed client modules for the SOA integration, and implementation of best-practices methods for development of re-usable SOA components wifin an enterprise development environment
- Wrote and run test cases and modules for load testing scenarios
Environment: RAD 7.3.5, Java 1.6.x, Groovy, JEE 1.5 (JSF, Servlet, JSTL, JPA, JAXP, JAXB), Spring framework, Spring MVC, Hibernate, AJAX, JUnit, Dimensions, Tomcat.
Confidential, Marysville, Ohio
Sr. Lead Java/J2EE Developer/Architect/Support
Responsibilities:
- Project to develop and manage multiple Intranet websites of Confidential . Responsibilities included designing, coding, enhancements, testing wif Java, Java Beans, JSP, JSTL, Struts, and Java Script, to support web applications as follows:
- PDDA (Process Data Development & Analysis): A J2EE Java application designed to capture the data around a specific methodology whereby an automobile-built process are studied in terms of a series of motions and the time associated wif the motions is recorded. dis methodology is primarily used to aid in establishing manpower requirements, but may also be used as a tool to determine the ergonomic impact of the various motions associated perform.
- RCM (Returnable Container Management): A J2EE Java portal application, designed to help you quickly manage, monitor, and move container inventory at a local or global level wif the RCM System, Honda can reduce costs by quickly correcting allocations when required by changes in production.
- PQTS (Parts Quality Tracking System): A J2EE Java portal application dat provides an electronic tool for tracking part issues and to build Supplier history. Generate reporting on specific part issues (Honda Trouble Report) and summarize trouble reports monthly.
- IH (Industrial Hygiene): A J2EE Java application designed to increase Confidential 's ability to proactively identify and manage exposure risks to ensure the health and well-being of HAM Associates. By creating relationships between: company policy and procedure, sampling strategy, quality data collection, and record retention
Environment: WebSphere Application Server 5.1, WSAD 5.1.2, WebSphere Commerce V6, WebSphere Portal Server 5.0.2, JDK 1.4, J2EE 1.3, EJB 2.0, Servlet 2.1/2.2, JSP 1.1, JSTL 1.1,STRUTS 1.2, JavaScript, DB2 v 8.0, SQL, IBM MQSeries5.2, JMS, XML, XSL, Tomcat, UML1.5, RUP, Windows XP.
