SUMMARY:

• Demonstrative and highly organized Servant Leader wif over 13 years of experience unlocking teh potential of multiple scrum teams by challenging everyone to bring their best thinking, celebrating successes and treating mistakes as learning opportunities
• Experienced planning, managing, developing, and delivering enterprise software solutions on time wifin budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple scrum teams. Technical lead guiding teams through process modeling, system design, architecture, quality management and technology deployment across teh firm.
• Extensive experience building devOps frameworks for complex and global software projects. Known as a highly empirical and problems solving mind wif very good communication skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Chief Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• for an ART (Agile Release Train) of 11 teamsLeads processing platforms enhancements and payment networks initiatives (Visa, Mastercard, etc) from initiation to release wif teams located across teh Confidential ., Ireland, England and IndiaDetermines scrum team compositions/number of teams and team sizeFacilitates various meetings including iterations planning, iterations review, retrospectives, feature definition sessions, Scrum of Scrums and Inspect & Adapt (INA) workshopsBuilds and manages
• JIRA scrum boards, synchs Scrum teams up, and facilitates teh communication of team progress and dependencies wif other team leads during scrum of scrumsHelps teh teams embrace SAFe Core Values, adapt and apply SAFe principles, and implement SAFe practicesEnsures Scrum implementation and solicits feedback from customers for continuous improvementFacilitates PI (Program Increment) planning and Scaled scrum release planningIdentifies high - level risks, assumptions and constraints, takes action to minimize teh impact of risks on projectsWorks closely wif project members to identify and quickly address problems, impediments and conflicts hindering teams from achieving iteration goalsAssists Product Owners wif prioritizing backlogs and communicating teh project vision and goals to teh teams
• Oversees scrum teams to ensure they achieve in teh areas of quality, predictability, flow and velocityEvaluates scrum team performance against OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)Creates devOps processes for CI/CD wif teams across teh Merchant Services departmentImplemented an efficient automation testing framework using Java, Maven, Cucumber, JenkinsDesigns proprietary documentations for teh payment processing platform and new resources

Environment: JIRA, Confluence, HP ALM, MS Project, C++, JavaScript, Java, Python, Maven, Cucumber, Shell, Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, MySQL, AWS, WinScp, UltraEdit, putty• JIRA, Confluence, HP ALM, MS Project, C++, JavaScript, Java, Python, Maven, Cucumber, Shell, Git, Bi

Confidential, Tampa FL

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated scrum events - Sprint planning, refinement, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planningEnacted changes and continuous improvement increasing teh productivity of Scrum teams and teh quality of deliverablesEmpowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionalityWorked wif senior Product owners in requirements (Epics/user Stories) gathering, product backlog ordering, business value determination and stakeholder managementGuided solution teams in studying existing landscape, automation product matching, design architecture, design improvements, cost Estimation and implementation.Planned team composition, needs, length of teh sprint and managed scrum boards in
• JIRAWorked wif other Scrum Masters to increase teh effective of teh application of Scrum in teh organizationLed teh program level Transaction Flow Testing activities at teh project
• LevelCoordinated teh continuous Integration efforts wif teh ODS Team, CDW Team, PEF-MIDAS team, SAP Team, CPS team and LAPP/CAPP teamPerformed Level of Effort (LOE) analysis and resources allocation for new project itemsPerformed teh cash pricing system configuration and code validation for upstream and downstream systems (Selling, PMA, Gallagher, GCP)Validated teh requests & responses from teh pricing web service to ensure teh cash pricing logic and designed a loans XMLs solution to solve import/allocation errorsDesigned process flow diagrams and documentations for Cash Pricing (Gallagher), DPM, ODS, TPA and Selling System

Environment: JIRA, HP ALM, MS Project, MS Visio, JavaScript, Java, Maven, Selenium, Cucumber, Git, Github, Jenkins, Eclipse, MySQL, Mainframe, Notepad++• JIRA, Confluence, HP ALM, MS Project, C++, JavaScript, Java, Python, Maven, Cucumber, Shell, Git, Bi

Confidential, Owings Mills, MD

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw teh day - to-day progress of Agile, Waterfall & Hybrid based development projects and release initiatives wif regard to time, budget, scope and qualityWorked wif architecture and engineering teams in distributed locations to drive planning, issue resolution, and development on platform & project specific technical topicsProvided all support to teh team using a servant leadership style and coaching
• Removed impediments and fostered team collaborative to halp achieve sprints goalsMonitored and tracked status of iterations/releases and ensured work progress visualization on teh scrum boards in JIRAAssisted wif internal and external communication, and improved transparency wif teh teams and stakeholdersCoordinated wif teh platform dev teams, project managers, and product owners to achieve a great deal of efficiency in teh sprint and release planningCoordinated cross-scrum teams communication, issue resolution, and integration defects triageResponsible for establishing schedules and processes for iterations' demos implemented across scrum teamsHelped design BlueRewards
• NISA and CIM automated test solutionReviewed Project Metrics, test results and analyzed defects wif teh project teamPerformed setups of standard models and superset models in CIMCoordinated Functional Integration (in 2 different System Integration Testing environments - SITA and SITB), End to End, and User Acceptance Test (UAT) activities wif Confidential . and India teams

Environment: MS project, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, VersionOne, SOAP UI, Eclipse, mySQL, Javascript, java, SQLDeveloper, DbVisualizer, XML, FACETS, NASCO, EDS, IADS, Mainframe, Notepad++, HP ALM• MS project, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, VersionOne, SOAP UI, Eclipse, mySQL, Javascript, java, SQLDevel

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated daily stand Confidential, sprint planning and all other scrum meetings (backlog refinement, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives)Coached teams and business stakeholders in Agile practices and provided necessary s to create positive mindset to Agile methodologiesCollaborated wif other scrum masters, product owners and project managers to ensure high quality integrated deliverables every sprintHelped teams resolving impediments and mitigating project risks on a daily basesMonitored sprints and releases progress through Burndown and velocity charts, radiating detailed status reports on measurable items, such as milestones and deliverables to product managers.Worked wif Product owner and development team on
• Artifacts such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burndown, Release BurndownWorked closely wif cross - functional teams of business analysts, developers and infrastructure specialists to deliver high availability solutions for teh mission-critical AmeriHealth applicationConsulted regularly wif internal customers on application development project status, new project proposals and software-related technical issuesContributed to teh enhancement of teh Member Appeals System (MAS) to accommodate teh data migration solution on a client platform that significantly reduced servers' maintenance costs and improved appeals experience for customersHelped Test Data Management (TDM) team to decrease "bad" data in teh
• Data Mining process by creating a thorough quantitative and qualitative description of teh needed data (Migrated and Non Migrated) along wif teh source systems AEDW and ODSAnalyzed teh database architecture to uncover teh root causes of errors in teh 834, XML & IBP filesAnalyzed and reviewed test scripts and frameworks, testability in teh product, test execution and overall test systems for HCR project

Environment: MS project, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, JIRA, SOAP UI, Eclipse, mySQL, Java/J2EE, XML, AEDW, ODS, IADS, Mainframe, Notepad++, HP QC, HP QTP• MS project, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, JIRA, SOAP UI, Eclipse, mySQL, Java/J2EE, XML, AEDW, ODS, IADS

Confidential, Plano, TX

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Successfully guided three development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile developmentResolved a complex infrastructure issue by creating and utilizing a professional network of Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Technical Leads wifin Sethi Financial GroupWorked effectively wif cross - functional development teams to create software solutions that elevated client side experience and significantly improved overall performance
• Participated to and facilitated various agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily scrums, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and backlog refinement)Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessionsImplemented Issues Tracking in VersionOne to effectively track impediments against user stories.Quickly became teh recognized VersionOne SME wifin Sethi Financial
• GroupResponsible for halping product owners in translating customer's requirements into user stories for implementation by development teams.Facilitated teh process story creations and acceptance criteria by working closely wif teh team to break down backlog items into user stories for implementation.Educated teh Product Owner on Scrum best practices, halping him maximize teh business value through frequent refinement and ordering of backlog workImproved team performance by coaching, mentoring and promoting Scrum ValuesTracked sprint progress, generated reports aligned wif senior management expectationsStreamlined teh requirements gathering process to reduce teh TTM of products

Environment: MS Project, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, MS Powerpoint, HP QC, VersionOne, Java/J2EE• MS Project, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, MS Powerpoint, HP QC, VersionOne, Java/J2EE

Confidential

Technical Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Performed teh cost/benefits analysis, investment return calculation, and projects selection to meet teh company revenue goalsUtilized Agile Scrum practices to halp increase solutions TTM by 23% wifin teh first year of Agile adoptionMonitored teh project progress and radiated teh information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basisCommunicated project progress to senior management thru 'Burndown Charts'.
• Monitored teh Quality thru metrics and mentored teams thru teh project management processesDefined functional specifications for teh new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application GAMCOIncreased teh locomotives reliability by designing a tracking application "Distress Manager"Improved teh equipment maintenance process and saved 35% of teh overhauling time by leading teh development of a FMEA solution and redesigning teh disassembly/reassembly flows
• Decreased teh locomotives cleaning costs by 70% by rehabilitating and implementing a numeric solution to replace teh old infrastructuresReduced teh expenses associated to teh sanding supply process for teh Bogies wheelslip control system by implementing an automated process using a Programmable Logic ControllerIncreased teh safety and security of passengers' cars by reengineering teh fire safety systems in locomotives

Environment: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Access, PL7, Grafcet, Ladder, C++, java/j2EE, HTLM• MS Project, MS Visio, MS Access, PL7, Grafcet, Ladder, C++, java/j2EE, HTLM