SUMMARY

• Over 13 years of IT experience with a proven high - performance record with more than 8 years of proven experience in Analytic roles such as Scrum Master, Business Analyst, Product Manager/Product Owner.
• Having complete exposure to Telecommunication, e-Commerce, Capital Markets, Financial Services, Investment, and Corporate Banking domains in terms of Functional and Technical aspects
• Deep understanding and Hands-on experience in Agile Methodologies and experience in leveraging Scrum as a delivery framework, especially in Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe).
• Versatile in the Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC) methodologies including Agile, RUP & Waterfall Models of Project Management.
• Proficient in Requirement gathering techniques ranging from interviews, questionnaires, Joint Application Development(JAD) sessions, job shadowing to storyboarding and prototyping.
• Successful Scrum Master with extensive experience in facilitating daily Scrums, Sprint Grooming/Planning, Sprint Demo and Retrospective ensuring quick inspect and proper adaptation processes contributing to the successful deliveries by the team.
• Expertise in coaching Agile practices by ensuring the correct use of Scrum with very good knowledge of Scrum theories, rules and practices.
• Mentor and pair with Teams to become true Agile & SAFe Champions by revisiting and refining new & existing process thereby improving overall productivity and reducing waste in every stage of product/project development & delivery.
• Expertise in using Agile lifecycle management platform tools such as Jira, VersionOne, and Rally.
• Product lifecycle management from strategic planning, conceptualization, architecture, engineering build, product launch to the end of life.
• Expertise in converting high-level product concepts and business requirements into software product requirements and design specifications.
• Team-oriented with an ability to thrive in a highly distributed and dynamic environment with excellent collaboration, strong interpersonal skills, proven project management skills, and excellent time management.
• Problem solver with the ability to rapidly analyze challenges, applying strategic thinking to tactical concerns with strong problem-solving skills and a result-oriented attitude.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Environment: JIRA, RALLY, Fiserv, Business Objects XI R4.1, XIR3, XIR2,6.5(Web Intelligence, Launchpad, Desktop

Databases: Informatica, SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle

Methodologies: JAD, RUP, SAFe, Agile SCRUM Framework, KANBAN, ScrumXP, Waterfall

Dashboard Tools: Tableau 8.x, 9.x, Hadoop (HDFS, Hive, Pig)

Other domain tools: Saving Information Repository Database(SIR), Rational Rose, Bloomberg, Mosiki(Reconciliation tool), Actuate(Reporting tool), GoSystem, Summit, On Demand. MIS3, DB VALS, GDD2, ADP, ICI IMPACT, Sentry, CMDW, Magellan, Gold, KONDOR. SIR DB, CLIPs, OneFPT.

Modelling Tools: MS Project 2013, Rational Rose, UML, MS Visio

ETL Tools: Ab Initio, Informatica 9.1, Informatica Developer (IDQ)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• I am the scrum master for all the back developments of UCC project enhancements.
• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example.
• Resolved a complex infrastructure issue by creating and utilizing a professional network of Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Technical Leads within Confidential .
• Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings

Confidential

Scrum Master/BSA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Advanced Business Analyst with Applications Services - Currently a Lead Business Analyst and SME and a Scrum Master.
• Analyzing all the 3rd Party Business connections of Hunting Bank. Create a module in ServiceNow to have the inventory controlled/certified/reviewed. So that all the connections can be monitored.
• Responsible for facilitating Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Grooming, Retrospective, Sprint Demos, Stakeholder Engagement & daily Scrum.
• Analyze client’s business requirements and map processes through documentation, analysis, client-facing, and workflow analysis
• Create requirements as per the Audit finding and Federal requirement of Risk control.
• Interview and Co-ordinate with all the Responsible Technology Managers to understand the risk part of the 3rd party Business connection.
• Collaborates with the Information Security the project team to gather and define project requirements.
• Identify emerging technology capabilities to evaluate technology enhancements.
• Work with various departments to improve the detection of security threats and breaches.
• Identified and analyzed business violations of security policy and standards.
• Performed risk assessments to help create optimal prevention and management plans.
• Actively participates in the review of the project's test strategy to ensure the approach will provide full requirements coverage
• Works closely with the QA staff to ensure test script and cases cover the project requirements being developed
• GAAP Analysis sitting with the project managers to meet established target dates and completion of activities/deliverables under changing conditions
• Helps collect requirements and functional specification sign off from all cross-impacted application teams
• Develop and execute processes to assure the software system is reliable, and configure using testing procedures
• Training techniques and learning environment for Management and the end-user.
• Provide effective and consistent technical support and research technology solutions.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a scrum master, build relationships with clients and manage expectations and scope
• Experience with creating Agile roadmap for the transformation of Waterfall to Agile
• Supported project releases, defects and enhancements as the projects rolled through the delivery process. And document the changes in SOPs
• Develop project specs, manage the project plan and work with teams to execute on plans
• Serve as the face of the company for clients and instill core values and processes in the team.
• Expertise in facilitating Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Grooming, Retrospective, Sprint Demos, Stakeholder Engagement & daily Scrum.
• Manage schedules, project scope, assets, and overall project organization to ensure requirements and project delivery dates are clearly communicated, understood and executed upon.
• Communicate and document project status and strategic recommendations to team members and senior management on a regular basis; escalate issues accordingly via the appropriate channels.
• Effectively and efficiently plan and prioritize all resources working across the project(s) based on the scope of work and project goals.
• Actively monitor project risks and scope creep to foresee/identify potential problems and proactively identify solutions to address them in advance.

Confidential

Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master leading a DevOps and System teams in a large-scale implementation of an Enterprise effort implementing highly resilient cloud-based solutions for the next generation customer servicing platform.
• Documentation, preparation of functional specification, user training manuals like SOPs.
• Responsible for playing all the roles & responsibilities of Scrum Master and resolve the team’s impediments serving the larger purpose of sprint-based frequent, reliable and continuous release of value-added solutions.
• Expertise in the SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) empowering the teams to innovate and deliver enterprise solutions by leveraging Lean and Agile practices.
• Expertise in facilitating Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Grooming, Retrospective, Sprint Demos, Stakeholder Engagement & daily Scrum.
• Expertise in using Agile lifecycle management platform tools such as Jira, VersionOne, and Rally.
• Represent the team at the Program Level Scrum of Scrums.
• Responsible to own the Roadmap and vision of the DevOps & System teams
• Prioritize and maintain the operations backlog based on the operational, infrastructure and architectural requirements.
• Partner with the Program teams, architects and key stakeholders spanning 5 lines of business, in determining key requirements and timelines on an on-going basis for a very dynamic effort.
• Expertise in articulating & presenting the Vision/Roadmap & scope of work of the team in the Large-Scale PI Planning sessions involving more than 40 teams on the Agile Release Train.
• Ability to not only lead, mentor, motivate and manage large teams, but also work with a large number of matrixed resources spanning multiple organizations and skills.
• Possess exceptional competencies including the ability to drive alignment, partnership, and buy-in not only within the team but within the leadership of those matrixed resources.