SUMMARY

• Professional with 9+ years of extensive IT experience as a (CSM) Scrum Master/Business Analyst experience in various domains Finance, Banking, Retail, and Insurance providing a well balanced understanding of business relationships at all levels until final solution release.
• Strong hands on experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall, Agile/Scrum Master
• Accomplished servant - leader capable of delivering large scale software and web development projects on time and on budget effectively collaborating facilitating, leading and coaching multiple scrum teams
• Successfully migrated many projects from waterfall to scrum with in months.
• Strong experience of software delivery with Iterative and Incremental methodology and expertise in Use cases/ User Stories,
• Excellent understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Translating Requirements into Specification and Application Design
• Extensive experience in creating Screen Mock ups and Wireframes, conducting GAP Analysis and Impact Analysis.
• Part of successful teams that improved the overall customer experience and performance by implementing applications and services that resulted in significant business process improvement

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• QC/TDD
• Certified Scrum Master
• Requirement Analysis
• Business Analysis
• Project leadership
• TFS / Version one/Rally
• Agile Principles
• SAP FI ECC 6.0
• Project Management
• Agile/Waterfall
• Web Applications
• Agile Coaching

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Fairfield NJ

Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Employed project management skills, including agile­ specific concepts like backlog management, tracking burn down and velocity
• Scheduled and facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, feature presentations, etc.
• Facilitate operational work in a transparent, collaborative manner using the Scrum framework
• Managed and communicated release plans and coordinate software releases with teams and developers
• Enforce the Scrum framework/process/rules and ensure teams are following agile best practices
• Helped the project teams and organization improve its Agile and Scrum practices
• Drove teams to continually improve their procedures and practices, be more productive and produce higher quality products
• Helped Scrum teams understand and use self­ management and cross­ functionality
• Worked with Scrum teams to remove impediments blocking the completion of work or commitments
• Demonstrated communication and productive relationships with Product Owners, team members and other stakeholders
• Removed varying impediments to progress and resolve team conflicts and protect the team from outside distractions
• Coordinated work with other teams and Scrum Masters
• Worked closely with Project Managers in ensuring scope, cost, schedule and teams.

Confidential

Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Defined project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies.
• Facilitating the daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.
• Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management. Presentations, recommendations and updates provided .
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them
• Break down concepts into user stories.
• Coached and mentored agile team members and provides constructive performance feedback
• Encouraging the team for self organization to boost the efficiency and coordination
• Working with stakeholders / product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint.
• Helped the product owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development.
• Motivated the team to come up with quality shippable product and meet the product goals.
• Tracked and reports status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis.Managed offshore teams in different geographical places.
• Ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget.
• Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it.

Confidential, Union NJ

Sr Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshop. Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications
• Experience with SAP FI AR AP, Invoices GL, Fixed Assets
• Conducted walkthroughs with the different department heads to have a deeper understanding of the requirements including UI/UX Architects developers, SME’s
• Coordinated and communicated with offshore team on weekly bases.
• Analyzed and documented the business requirements that are correct, testable and traceable.
• Conducted workflow, process diagram and gap analyses to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.
• Analyzed the Business and System Requirements of the application.
• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology.

Confidential, Cranston, RI

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Held regular JAD meetings with the system architects, application and database developers, quality testers during the entire project to assure that critical as well as minute details of the project were discussed and issues were resolved before hand
• Work on extensive BRD and UML diagrams.
• Validation and Check free Account Reconciliation
• Defined the rules and their implementation for gathering and archiving of various documents for SMS/ARP
• Worked on Bank ARP/SMS Application, Home and Customer care and Banking applications
• Coordinated and assist with UAT
• Participate in projects supporting their clients as client representative
• Monitor that project deliverables are met according to specifications and plans

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Experienced managing the organizational change impacts of organizational redesign
• Worked with Project Manager to ensure the client’s business needs were successfully met
• Provided analytical support
• Analyzing, balance & research balance sheet account activity. Prepare monthly financial reporting & analysis various expense accounts.
• Prepare & analyze monthly payroll reconciliations for employees/partners ­ Research financial transactions on P&L's
• Handle routine matters for client accounts to include processing name and address changes, account applications and bank authorizations answering client questions via telephone