SUMMARY

• Certified SAFe 4 Program Consultant, Certified Scrum Master with 14+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Program / Project Manager, Senior Business Systems Analyst, Reports Developer, Senior Data Engineer.
• Expertise in Agile/Scrum Methodology, Business Analysis, design, development, implementation/deployment of data intensive operations, Reports development, ETL within Data Warehousing, Big Data, Client/Server, Oracle, Teradata and SQL Server environments.
• Possess strong functional and technical knowledge, good experience in agile user story creation, Program / Project management, requirements gathering, functional & technical specifications preparation with mapping documents and report template development.
• Industry experience includes Retail, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Insurance, Publishing and Manufacturing
• Lead and coach scrum adoption
• Plan Scrum / SAFe implementation
• Implement changes and steps to increase the team’s productivity
• Collaborate with other scrum masters to improve the methodologies’ efficiency
• Conduct Scrum - Ceremonies
• Conduct scrum of scrum’s
• Managed design, development, deployment, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) planning, documentation, tester training including UAT completion sign-off; resulting in reduction in UAT test cycle
• Documenting Data Quality metrics/dimensions like Accuracy, completeness, duplication, validity, consistency
• Strong collaboration and good at writing effective user stories in agile / scrum framework
• Created and delivered full sign-off project documentation starting from Development and ending at post-Production deliverables by working with Key Stakeholders to elicit information and gain agreement

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Salesforce, Informatica IDQ, Collibra, SAP, GCP (Google Cloud Platform), Business Objects XIR2, Informatica 8.1.1, Xcelsius - Dashboards, BODI, Oracle Data Integrator, SSIS, Cognos Reports, Toad, Sharepoint 2010, Kafka, Solr, Xamarin, Android, iOS app development, Informatica Power Center

Operating Systems: UNIX, LINUX, Windows

Languages: HTML, .Net, Objective C, VBScript, JSP, Java, J2EE, XML, REST Web services, Visual Basic, Kafka, SOQL (Salesforce Object Query Language)

Databases: Oracle 9x/10g, Teradata, SQL Server 2000/2005, MySQL, Sybase, Cassandra, DB2, Big Query, Big Table

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master - Allocation, organizing and assigning tasks. Delegation of tasks to appropriate personnel, conflict resolution within the project team, supervision of team, coaching and mentorship of team members
• Revised and wrote effective user stories in agile based on missing or new requirements established by project stakeholders utilizing the JIRA tool
• Shared the facilitation of daily stand-up, retrospective, backlog grooming and iteration planning meetings.
• Conduct sprint review and retro meetings
• Gathered requirements and document in Confluence towards building an enterprise wide Customer Hub to store customer related transactions
• Work with Data Quality and Data Governance teams on capturing business rules and data quality
• Upload the attributes in Collibra for Data Quality and Governance
• Documenting Data Quality metrics/dimensions like Accuracy, completeness, duplication
• Created Tableau reports (mockups) in partnership with IT Developers, empowering business partners to drive productivity improvements
• Assisted with testing and updating test cases
• Created and delivered full sign-off project documentation starting from Development and ending at post-Production deliverables by working with Key Stakeholders to elicit information and gain agreement

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master - Allocation, organizing and assigning tasks. Delegation of tasks to appropriate personnel, conflict resolution within the project team, supervision of team, coaching and mentorship of team members
• Revised and wrote effective user stories in agile based on missing or new requirements established by project stakeholders utilizing the JIRA tool
• Shared the facilitation of daily stand-up, retrospective, backlog grooming and iteration planning meetings.
• Conduct sprint review and retro meetings
• Revised and wrote effective user stories in agile based on missing or new requirements established by project stakeholders utilizing the JIRA tool
• Translated business requirements into IT solution design (Functional Requirements Document) to drive a seamless future system
• Project Management and Planning - Ensuring that project dependencies & changes in project scope are appropriately documented and worked for resolving them with appropriate parties
• Resource Management - Allocation, organizing and assigning tasks. Delegation of tasks to appropriate personnel, conflict resolution within the project team, supervision of team, coaching and mentorship of team members.
• Customer Communication Management - with client teams and other vendors, Facilitating effective communication amongst all parties in the highly dynamic environment
• Tracking and Reporting - Tracking and monitoring the project delivery efforts through Agile and SDLC software development life cycle methodologies. Creating the daily, weekly and monthly reports on the progress of the project and did forecasting for the future weeks
• Issue Resolution - Helping the end users when they had issues with operating the new system and identifying its various new functionalities
• Conducting business requirement sessions with all the stake holders like the Business senior management to gather and finalize requirements
• Perform analysis on data sources
• Managed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) planning, documentation, tester training including UAT completion sign-off; resulting in reduction in UAT test cycle
• Work with IT, Business, development and testing teams to realize the overall business goal
• Handling REST Webservices, Cassandra, DB2, Kafka, Solr support activities
• Onsite/Offshore project management co-ordination

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master - Allocation, organizing and assigning tasks. Delegation of tasks to appropriate personnel, conflict resolution within the project team, supervision of team, coaching and mentorship of team members
• Revised and wrote effective user stories in agile based on missing or new requirements established by project stakeholders utilizing the JIRA tool
• Shared the facilitation of daily stand-up, retrospective, backlog grooming and iteration planning meetings.
• Conduct sprint review and retro meetings
• Tracking and monitoring the project delivery efforts through Agile and SDLC software development life cycle methodologies
• Creating application report mockup templates using RAD tools
• Revised and wrote effective user stories in agile based on missing or new requirements established by project stakeholders utilizing the JIRA tool
• Handling IBM Cognos reports Business Intelligence development activities and Informatica ETL processes
• Qlikview and Tableau executive management dashboard development
• Handling Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle 11g and Teradata database support activities
• Handling .Net, sharepoint 2010, Apple IOS Ver 8.0 application development and integration activities
• Monitoring the Autosys, AS/400, Mainframes application processes and integration activities
• Microsoft TFS (Team Foundation Server) code maintenance
• Stored procedure development and utilizing Fiddler tools to effectively monitor application integrated Webservices components
• Overseeing the overall system development process from inception to user acceptance testing to post production release and support activities.
• Resource management, estimation and application Issue resolution
• Onsite/Offshore project management co-ordination
• Support the ongoing project activities and new enhancements initiatives