SUMMARY

• Pragmatic, empathetic & well - organized Sr. Scrum Master & Business Process Architect with a career spanning over the past 7+ years, covering a wide range of solutions and technology.
• Specialized in the management of complex technical projects/programs as a certified PMP & SAFe® Scrum Master facilitator.
• Responsible for guiding teams in developing solutions using Agile practices including Kanban & Scrum for medium to high complexity projects from initiation through release within the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Expert in change management across multiple service industries, with focus in building, nurturing and motivating cross-functional teams.
• Highly skilled verbal and written communicator, able to present complex data outcomes to a wide audience and cultivate key business relationships with clients, coworkers, and stakeholders at all levels.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Agile PI Planning
• Agile Coach
• Interference Shielding
• Release Management Lifecycle
• Project & Portfolio Management
• Data Extraction
• Web Applications
• Resource Management
• Root Cause Analysis
• Quality Assurance
• Forecasting Deliverables
• Collaborative Leadership
• Testing, Deploying & Debugging
• Operational Development
• Stakeholder Meeting Facilitation
• Continuous Integration & Continuous Development
• Systems Administration
• Conflict Resolution, Coaching & Mentoring
• Enterprise Change Control Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Release Train Engineer/Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Served as Senior Scrum Master for various Scrum and Kanban teams specializing in Systems and DevOps, Regulatory Governance, Release Management and Data Transformation focused on Trade Capture, Lifecycle Management within Global/ Capital Markets space.
• Worked on simplifying platforms that could save multi million dollars in technology and operational costs.
• Worked on Trade capture and Position system for Bloomberg TOMS using Trading System Application Development Framework (TSADF). Analyzed EOD and on-demand credit reference data feeds from BBG/ Bloomberg. Good understanding of BBG domains vendor management.
• Represented team in Go/No Go call with The Markets Application Production Services (MAPS) to discuss issues and concern.
• Leveraging data to measuring & monitoring progress (Burndown, Velocity charts etc.)
• Worked on production system stability metrics, business continuity plan, RISE deliverables (Migration and automated deliverables of third-party applications), IAM-PCAT (Entitlements quality approvals), SOX compliance reporting, GBAM portal (PTB & PTO) and PPRT Tool (Added TBO’s and Tollgate structure)

Confidential

Scrum Master and Business Process Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided direction and trained teams to adapt Scrum methodology and JIRA across entire IT portfolio.
• Actively participated in the continuous improvement of software development process; performed root cause analysis, identified problem areas, and assessing resolutions.
• Reworked XLR8 reports using numerical and graphical representations and updated placement order and proportion of key information elements, creating platforms to promote prompt and accurate responses to data.
• Led organizational transition from Waterfall to Agile methodology, providing oversight from inception to production deployment for smooth, effortless change over.
• Assessed large raw datasets and transformed into readable and usable outcomes, performed recons of cleansed data, increasing percentage of usable data by 46% and successfully integrating into student Information system. Utilized SQL Queries to validate data in the Oracle Database.
• Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments, and conflicts and maintained focus on product backlog project timeline, successfully increasing team velocity by 20% sprint by sprint.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Business Process Architect and Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Drove adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules and PMI best practices, removing impediments with developing teams, assisting with focus on the project goals, and delivering maximum value to the customer.
• Served as Business Process Architect for fetching insider trading reports, utilizing data analysis and trending to detect unused feeds using BBG terminal.
• Enabled $4.0MM savings for bank, cutting down on 637 Position and Trade feed fields by utilizing bank owned TSADF system.
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress, followed up with DEV/UAT on challenges, risks, and mitigation towards major releases, keeping timelines intact and removing team impediments on a daily basis to allow achievement of sprint goals and deliverables.
• Worked on Schema Model Changes for Aging application. Environment: MS Visio, Oracle Exadata, Toad, Python and for the compliance workflow and Data insights.
• Developed Enterprise Data Models to fetch data from bank internal sources, eliminating 131 Bloomberg unused feeds and saving more than $135MM annual billing to bank.
• Spearhead cross-functional team to develop product positioning strategies for COSMOS and Bloomberg project.
• Designed Architecture for TOMS pricing by creating customized ticker pricing system, replicating BBG terminal with core functionalities.