SUMMARY:

• Certified Scrum Masterwith more than18 plus yearsof experience in managing and delivering projects to clients in Insurance, Finance, Banking and manufacturing domains.
• Defined processes and suggested tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client/business needs & goals, created detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
• Managed delivery of IT application development and support for global customers spread across multiple regions through a strong global delivery model and critical SLA's.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: MS - Office, MS Visio, MS Power Point, Microsoft Project 2010, MS OfficeRemedy, Rally, Quality Centre, SharePoint, AbinitioCA-Products (CA-7, CA-View), Abend-Aid, File- aid, SPUFI, Control-M, Sync sort, TELON, IDEAL/Datacom DB, NDM, MQ Series, QMF, SPUFI, BMC Tools, Strobe, Intertest, XPEDITOR

Databases: DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, SQL, ORACLE, TERADATA

Languages: COBOL, JCL, Java, Assembler, FOCUS, MQ, XML, ASP.NET

Platform: IBM z/OS 390, MVS/ESA, MVS/XA, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Experienced inAgile (Kanban, Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) includingSprint Planning, Backlog Management,User stories,Epics,Story Points, Velocity Calculation, Mockup and Testing & Defect Management.
• Coached, mentored scrum teams and product owner toprioritize backlog, elaborate andbreakdown stories(Refinement),develop acceptance criteria&conduct scrum ceremonies.
• Led Iteration Planning sessions.
• Supportingand educating theProduct Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining theproduct backlog.
• Helped develop trusting work environment enabling open communication,identify risksandobstacles in time, excel atagile process,coached scrum teamsbecome self - organized and high-performing todeliver higher business value,keep pace with business and be able to address changing business priorities and requirements effectively.
• Guideddevelopment team fromproject initiationto delivery offinal product.
• Representing interests of the sponsor collaborated with senior / product managers to align IT with business priorities,managed risks,eliminated obstacles,optimized resource utilizationanddrove projects to closure.
• Worked daily withapplication developers, QA developers, and theSCRUMteam to elaborate stories as a member of the implementation team. Works as primary product specialist for theimplementation team, manages the team’s sprint backlog, participates actively inall phasesof the iteration (sprint), and a key stakeholder in product decisions and release planning. Product and technology focused and, as such, works closely with the Product Owner in leading the implementation team.
• Experience in managing End to End project implementation through all phases of SDLC.
• Brought inAgile best practicessuch astime boxing, code/design reviews,transparency, product visioning, technical debt reduction, self-management and empowerment.
• Assisted with internal and external communication,improving transparency, andradiating informationthrough useful reports and dashboards.

Environment: Rally, Remedy, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, SharePoint, Oracle, MQ Series, HTML, XML, ASP.NET, Teradata, Abinito, Cognos, COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS, JCICS, QMF, SPUFI, Endevor, SVN, Selenium Scripts, Quality Center, BMC Mainview

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Scrum Master/Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Deliver the requirements by understanding and balancing the competing demands for project scope, time, cost, risk, and quality
• Managed and supported all phases of Data warehouse development life cycle work on identifying the resources and participants and estimates effort required to achieve project goals
• Manage projects that involve complex objectives and have multiple cross-site/cross-functional sponsors, owners and/or team members
• Develop full-scale project plans and associated project management documentation
• Worked in tandem with client manager and responsible for costing and tracking budgets to control variances.
• Partner with other IT groups, Business Stakeholders.
• Single point of escalation for issue resolution.
• Proactively manage changes in project scope.
• Translates terminology between technical and non-technical staffs
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Supported the work item prioritization with business to ensure the backlog has sufficient prioritized user stories at a “ready” status to stay ahead of the Team for maintenance teams
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Reviewing Requirement, Feasible Solution, Detail Design and Requirement Traceability Matrix documents.
• Expertise in coming up with high level ROMS, detailed Project Estimates using different Estimation techniques
• Performing project closure activities.
• Preparing plans for the Knowledge Transitions processes etc.,
• Participated in SOX Quality Audits at client site and SOX Consolidation across multiple projects.
• Experience in working in and leading Onshore and Offshore project teams

Environment: Rally, Remedy, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, SharePoint, ASP.NET, Teradata, Cognos, Ab into, Mainframe, etc.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Project/Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participating on business Queue meetings
• Prioritizing work with business teams and routing it to teams
• Providing subject matter expertise on Auto & Property applications
• Participating in release and change management activities
• Analyzing and resolving environment related issues
• Preparing test strategies and plans
• Responsible for deliverables from offshore/onshore teams
• Developing high level design specifications
• Preparing the project plans
• Performance tuning of the host based applications
• Responsible for the deliverables from offshore/onshore teams
• Developing high level design specifications

Environment: MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS, QMF, SPUFI, ASP/.NET and JAVA technologies etc

Confidential

Designer and Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the existing system, preparing the application design, developing and testing the new developments.
• Responsible for enhancements to the existing system based on the business and technical and requirement specifications. It involved coding, testing, and debugging both online and batch programs.
• Estimatedtime and effortsfor the Enhancements
• Responsible for preparing the detailed design document
• Preparation of TS (Technical Specifications) based on the existing functionality and requirements
• Coding and testing (unit, system and functional) as per requirements
• Participating into the release management activities.
• Production support of the applications
• Coming up with high level ROMS, detailed Project Estimates using Function Point Estimation technique and other techniques
• Performance tuning of the mainframe applications
• Support for system & Acceptance, Integration testing.
• Converted TELON to Native CICS Screens
• Preparing and Reviewing different project deliverables like detail design document, Feasibility Solution Documents, Technical Specifications, Coding all types of Testing activities

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS, QMF, SPUFI, TELON, IMS DB/DC, IDEAL/Datacom DB, BMC Catalog Manger, Strobe, Endevor, MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio etc

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• As a technical leader responsible for coordinating the complete activities of the project.
• Establish the procedures for 24 x 7 on-call support
• Estimatedtime and effortsfor the Enhancements/Service requests
• Preparing Test Strategies, Unit and Integration Test Plans, troubleshooting and supporting the developed code
• Preparation of TS (Technical Specifications) based on the existing functionality and requirements
• Production support of the applications