SUMMARY

• Possess 18+ years of IT Experience
• 7+ years of experience in Agile and SAFe implementation, expertise in Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban frameworks.
• Authorised trainer for Leading SAFe 4.5
• Driven agile adoption and SAFe Lean thinking and practices across programs and teams.
• Coach and mentor Leaders, Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Teams in Lean Agile principles and practices.
• Expertise in JIRA creating workflows, templates, dashboards and processes for the Agile teams.
• Experienced in Project Management tools JIRA, Rally, Confluence, MS Project plan, Smart sheet.
• Possess strong technical background and experienced in architecture, high level design and development of Java and J2EE applications in a client - server and Web based environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Sun Solaris, Unix, Windows 2000 / XP

Programming Languages / Technology: Core Java,Spring Framework, Hibernate, JPA,Apache Camel, RESTful Webservices,SOAP Web Services, CXF webservices,Cucumber Testing, JUNIT, Mockito,JDBC,H2 database, JAXB, Smooks, Struts Framework, Drools, Guvnor, EJB, Java Server Faces (JSF), HTML, XML/XSD, BIRT reporting tool,Jasper reporting tool, Pentaho Reporting tool, Oracle 10i

Software Products: Apache Servicemix, JBOSS EAP server, Weblogic application Server,IBM WebSphere 4.0, IPlanet web server, Sun Java Portal Server, Resin application server, Tomcat Server, SOAP,UDDI,XKMS

Tools: Cucumber, Junit, Mockito, Jenkins, UDeploy, Rally, Nexus, SVN, CVS,VSS, Eclipse, Net Beans, SOAP UI, PVCS,TCP tracer

Project Management Tools: JIRA, Rally, Confluence, Microsoft Project Plan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Agile Coach / Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Drive Agile adoption within the program and in the individual teams. Transform and bring Agile mindset among the team and the stakeholders.
• Coach the scrum teams across the entire program on Agile principles and processes including the SM, PO or business representatives and team members.
• Recommend the appropriate tools and techniques for Agile adoption, measuring efficiency and improving productivity of the teams.
• Propose process guidelines for new teams and recommend the appropriate approach based on nature of work.
• Provide mentoring to other Scrum Masters in the program as and when required.
• Ensure the appropriate engineering practices like TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Automated Testing and DevOps are being followed. Arrange for training and coaching to the teams on these areas.
• Manage multiple scrum teams, geographically distributed and have managed up to 4 teams at a time.
• Guide and Help Scrum Master in arranging and facilitating all Agile ceremonies including, Stand-ups, Reviews, Retrospectives, Refinement, and Sprint & Release planning, SOS etc.
• Responsible for driving program level ceremonies e.g. PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, release retrospectives, Release Readiness Review meetings.
• JIRA Administration and tracking, Creating, managing dashboards, ensuring team compliance to JIRA.
• Experience in creating and tailoringAgileprocesses based on customer need.
• Reporting project status and metrics to Senior leadership.

Confidential

Agile Coach / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facility sprint ceremonies
• Release Planning, Backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
• Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum related meetings.
• Ensured that impediments to the team’s progress are removed.
• Ensure the appropriate engineering practices like TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Automated Testing and DevOps are being followed. Arrange for training and coaching to the teams on these areas.
• Acted as a coach for the various Scrum Teams, helping them to execute the Scrum process.
• Ensure cross-team coordination and managing 3rd party vendors
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Track and communicate team progress to all stakeholders

Confidential

Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facility sprint ceremonies
• As the projects are executed in SAFe environment, responsible for driving program level ceremonies e.g. PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, release train retrospectives, Release Readiness Review meetings on rotation basis.
• Facilitate collaboration between scrum teams and PO, and other stakeholders.
• Maintain up-to-date information in JIRA and tracking
• Report project metrics to Senior leadership as and when needed
• Ensuring high morale and motivation of the project team
• Ensure overall quality of the project and on-time delivery
• Reviewing Stakeholders expectation on regular basis and discuss day to day matters and issues, publish action plan to resolve any challenges/concerns
• Manage the resources and make decisions on upsize or downsize of the team
• Review scope changes and ensure change request mechanism is followed whenever applicable
• Track resource utilization and expenses closely to keep project on-budget
• Responsible for goal setting, performing mid-year and year end appraisal to Confidential team members and set path for career progression
• Ensuring high morale and motivation of the project team
• Ensure the appropriate engineering practices like TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Automated Testing and DevOps are being followed. Provide training and coaching to the teams on these areas.
• Ensure appropriate processes are being followed by the team members which helps in optimization and enhancing the overall delivery excellence