SUMMARY

• A Technical Project Manager with 15 years of IT experience covering diversified roles as Project Manager, Program Manager, Business/Systems Analyst and QA/Automation. Proficient in delivering projects using Waterfall and Agile practices (Scrum & Kanban methods). 10+ years of web & client/server applications development using Java and .Net technologies. Strong in communications, escalation management and mentoring skills.
• Having strong domain expertise in Life & Annuity Insurance covering New Business Systems, Agency Management, Compensation management and systems integrations. In - depth understanding of Insurance case management, underwriting, issue processing and end-to-end workflows.
• Strong experience in delivering software projects managing through all phases of SDLC.
• Proficient in working within budgets, cost controls, program/project planning & critical path management, resource planning, risk management change management and hand-holding with business.
• Expertise in stake holder management, adaptive to changes and pro-active in reporting.
• Proven experience in planning, leading engineering/transformation teams, QA/QE automation solutions for testing and handling cross-functional teams for complex enterprise implementations.
• Having experience leading projects in a Scrum Master role.
• Experienced in complete cycle of Scrum agile practices involving Daily Standups, continuous verification & practice adaptations, Agile Kick off/Closure Ceremonies, Program Delivery Increment and continuous learning.
• Experienced in supporting Product Owner roles in terms of direction for product backlog management.
• Worked in Technical Manager roles in a Product development company driving Product Road Maps, POCs and managing Center of Excellence team.
• Strong ability to manage globally distributed teams, mentor teams in implementation roadmaps and release plans.
• Extensively worked on enterprise applications integrations and service architecture for major insurance carriers.
• Strong experience in end-to-end enterprise application workflows systems and system integrations
• Innovative in automation strategies & accelerators development.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Scrum, Water-Fall

Continuous: Integration/Cloud Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AWS, Jenkins, APIGeeContinuous Inspection/SAST SonarQube, Fortify Scan

Other Tools: SOAP UI, Postman, Rally, ALM, GIT

Content Management: Adobe AEM

PM & Office Tools: MS Projects, Open Projects, MS Visio, MS Word/MS Excel/Powerpoint,, HP PPM, ServiceNow, Mural

Frameworks: MVC, Spring MVC, Thymeleaf, Spring Boot, Spring Security

Web Technologies: APS.Net, C#, JavaScript, jQuery, XML, XSLT, XHTM, Json, DHTML, CSS, ACORD XML Standards

Databases: SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB

Web Services: REST, SOAP, WSDL

Build Tools: Maven, Gradle

Version Control: GIT, CVS

Operating System: Windows, Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Defined integration strategy working with PCF cloud architect.
• Facilitated Sprint kick off, sprint definitions, planning, Daily scrum, Actively contributed to Program/ Delivery increment sessions.
• Performed due diligence on Feature / Story definitions following acceptance criteria relevance to cross-functional dependencies.
• Project management using Rally for Project creation, Sprint definitions, Sprint Reviews, Retros and closing ceremonies
• Successfully mitigated impediments & risks by facilitating working sessions with cross-functional teams and adopting paired programming for team level issue resolutions.
• Involved Product Owner, Business stakeholders and team where necessary for clarity of features/stories.
• Report work progress using burn chart updates and forecasting workloads.
• Successfully resolved cross-functional team conflicts by defining processes common for geographically distributed teams.
• Successfully handled cross scrum team level dependencies by facilitating Scrum of scrums owing to the Project level dependencies on cross-functional teams.
• Successfully managed knowledge by facilitating KT sessions and facilitating managed learning within the teams.
• Worked closely with Product Owners to create business cases, maintaining product backlog for development team activities.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Define integration strategy and plan implementation road map.
• Managed multiple stake holders, understanding expectations, educating process and continuous reporting.
• Strategy to ensure the migration meets the organizational change objectives.
• Successfully migrated user base and ensure seamless state of applications & integrations.
• Define and obtain approval for scope of migration in phases.
• Formulate quality parameters by collecting key success factors from Business Unit owners and knowledge users.
• Planning for implementation of migration activities by Business Unit and in batches.
• Identify program level risk factors and setup the risk management communication processes.
• Mitigations for program-delay posing risks using critical path methods, identify must haves, effective communication processes and unattended automation testing.
• Reporting weekly metrics for stake holder’s consumption, Governance reports, Resource utilization and Staffing.
• Initiate & drive steering meetings and contribute to Governance for reviews, updates, strategy and directional planning.