SUMMARY:

• Experience in Agile methodologies, Scrum, business process re - engineering, reviewing existing processes, conducting gap analysis, and making recommendations for enhancements.
• Key contributor in the areas of Agile/Scrum methodologies, strategic planning, risk management and conflict management.
• Proven IT professional with 10+ years’ experience in software development life cycle with a focus on understanding the needs of the business and coupling that with a design first approach for processes, systems, and frameworks in order to align the end result with the vision of the business.
• Excel in Agile Project Management, customer /client relationships management, teambuilding, continuous improvements using best practices
• Skills include creative thinking, judicious risk taking, strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, excellent vendor and client relations’ management, communication, organization, planning, and relationship/team building.

KEY STRENGTHS:

• Agile Project Management
• Scrum Framework
• PMO Support
• Business Continuity Planning
• Business Case Development
• SOX Compliance
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• Continuous Service Improvement (CSI)
• Business Case Development
• Stakeholder/ Vendor Management
• Change Management
• Team Leadership

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software’s/Tools: Agile MethodologiesSDLCPaired ProgrammingProject Management MS VisioJiraVersion OneRally

Others: WindowsUnixLinuxMS ProjectHTML/ CSSJavaScriptMy SqlSQL ServerMS ExcelMS PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MD

Sr. BUSINESS Analyst \Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Assist Product Owner to build Product Backlog (List of Features) and prioritize them for the team
• As needed acted as a Liaison between Product owner and the team.
• Worked with team in refinement sessions and drafted User stories.
• Performed BDD (Behavior Driven Development) testing working with team.
• Documented user manuals and materials.
• Conducted along with the Scrum master on the team.
• Maintained Features and Stories in Version One.
• UAT tested acceptance criteria on the application.
• Worked with testing team to create mock data to populate reports and validate data integrity.

Confidential, VA

Sr. BUSINESS Analyst \Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for executing Scrum master activities in Agile SAFe environment
• Responsible for time-boxed sprint planning and execution
• Proactively tracked, recorded, removed and escalated impediments
• Facilitated and provide guidance to Daily Stand­ Ups, Sprints, Demonstrations & Retrospectives
• Supported Engineering and Professional Services teams in developing, maintaining and grooming the Product Backlog
• Worked with the Product Owner (PO) on a regular basis to develop a comprehensive backlog of User Stories that define the work that have to be developed by the team;
• Facilitated the teams in identifying and managing dependencies within Product development
• Served as mentor and coach for agile methodologies to members of scrum team, product owner and other Project leaders
• Shielded team from external interfaces during the sprints
• Managed cross functional team deliverables, setting and administering schedules and managed assigned projects according to plan
• Responsible for executing and managing scaled agile transformation effort (SAFe).
• Constantly assed the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and mentored the team to higher levels of maturity.
• Experience assisting in the required architecting in documenting of disaster recovery
• Developed SCRUM reports and artifacts to include User Stories, Velocity Charts, Burn-down Charts, Sprint Retrospective notes.

Confidential, NY

Sr. Business Analyst \Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a liaison between the business representatives (Product Owner) and IT, providing insight to the needs and create expectations and acceptance criteria.
• Ensured that the PO’s expectations are effectively captured in User Stories and the team thoroughly understands what has to be developed;
• Worked with product owners, engineering/QA teams to evaluate and prioritize requirements to ensure end-to-end alignment and traceability to value stories, within and across projects.
• Conducted product backlog grooming sessions, organized review of requirements with product owners, developers, QA, and technical staff.
• Established a clear channel of communication between team members and PO to maximize communication flow between them.
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, grooming, stand-ups, team communications, and decision making with the team
• Identified and removed impediments and prevented distractions.
• Developed a culture of Agile development that is in complete alignment with the Agile manifesto
• Analyzed project risks and disaster recovery/COOP solutions plan with project team.
• Responsible for latest Agile methodologies and best practices

Confidential

Business Analyst/Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the performance of the team and the quality of work
• Analyzed project risks and developed mitigation plan with project team.
• Provided academic partner insights and strategies which helped internal and external teams to deliver results
• Developed and maintained work plans appropriately for the scope and complexity of each project.
• Provided positive leadership towards the successful delivery of academic projects with a focus on cost, schedule, scope, quality and communication
• Collaborated in institutional grant proposal formulation by compiling and summarizing supportive data.
• Supervised staff involving, workflow, quality control, conflict resolution and review process of the student results.
• Involved staff in goal sharing and increased productivity and managed al database