SUMMARY:

• Overall 15+ years of experience in IT industry.
• Expert at driving teh adoption and enforcement of Agile Methodologies, removing impediments, and fostering self - management. Applying Agile Scrum/SAFE 4.0 / Lean /Kanban/XP framework in an enterprise environment.
• Proficient in coaching, mentoring and Geographically distributed team on Agile/Scrum best practices.
• Initiated and delivered large-scale multi-million-dollar projects using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Leverage talents and expertise to serve as Scrum Master, SAFE Agilest and integrate agile principals into team practices and work products.
• Drive quality and continuous delivery through team coaching and overall support.
• Actively seek and participate in Community of Practices.
• Facilitate teamwork and continual improvement of agile practices.
• Demonstrate keen ability to make critical decisions in consideration of data and frequently changing information.
• Successfully lead and facilitate weekly roundtable meetings to remove any impediments to scrum teams.
• Mentor Junior Scrum Masters and provide scrum of scrums bi-weekly meeting forum to address any agile process improvements and roadblocks.
• Introduced new and advanced practices to improve team performance.
• Increased effectiveness by mentoring less-experienced Agile team members.
• Optimized results by proactively identifying impediments and quickly resolving issues using network of peers and formal channels.
• Successfully delivered all projects worked on time and on budget through clear and effective communication, project schedule maintenance, risk/issue resolution with Senior Management and relationships built with teh project team members.
• Served as liaison between Business Units and Technology Teams to ensure business requirements were clearly understood and implemented to meet needs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Sprint Ceremonies - daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective for scrum teams utilizing several methodologies. Manage teh Sprint, Burndown chart, KPI’s Velocity for teh Sprints
• Facilitate Code review, Continuous Integration, and testing
• Use of Kanban boards as information radiators for several concurrent projects.
• Sprint to cover teh complete SDLC cycle, Analysis, coding, unit testing- Junit Testing, Manual, Automation testing and update teh scripts for teh Regression testing
• Implemented Pair Programming Method. TDD and BDD
• Protect scrum/technical teams from distractions by removing impediments at all levels.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to manage scrum/technical team dependencies and ensure project goals are met. Participate in teh Release Planning session and Enterprise Design discussions.
• Manage and participate in Agile Release Trains
• Partner with Product Owner and Business Analyst to ensure corporate wide understanding of project goals and time tables.
• Delegate work flow evenly among teams for best possible outcome to stakeholders
• Work with Testing team to create teh test strategy, test plan, test cases, automation testing and regression testing.
• Work with Agile Competency and IT Audit Team for Scrum Team KPI Indicators and Documentation and Process
• Review teh Team documentation and deliverables with IT Audit Team
• Work with Enterprise and Program Management teams, participate in teh PI planning session
• Work with Team to provide teh PI Objective Commitment
• Work with Product owner /Product managers to Create EPIC, Features
• Work with Product owner to prioritize teh user stories
• Work with Team to add story points to teh user stories.
• Capacity planning, Facilitate DEMO session, Agile Coaching teh Teams

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work with teh Product Owner on teh PB prioritization and Release Planning
• Work with Product Owner to calculate teh Velocity and Stories that can implemented in a sprint.
• Facilitate teh Sprint Planning meeting
• Facilitate Sprint Back log
• Daily Stand Up meetings and Resolve Impediments/Road blocks
• Scrum of Scrum
• Update teh Daily burn down chart and manage Communications to teh Team and Stakeholders
• Review teh Activity Diagram, UI prototype
• Review Data Analysis, Data Requirement for teh Reporting and Analytical project
• Review SRS document with Development team
• Review teh Design and Solution approach
• Review test cases and scenarios
• Facilitate Sprint Review
• Facilitate, Manage teh Sprint Retrospective Review meetings document teh Lesson Learned and implement in teh next sprint
• Coordinate teh Business Sign off
• Provide teh Release and Go Live Support
• Coach team on agile methodology
• Expertise in TDD and BDD development methodology
• Review and ensure design meets teh requirements/business needs. Obtain agreement and commitment from IT stakeholders to meet teh project time line under teh budget and meet teh quality requirements
• Project budgeting & scheduling, scoping & controlling, resource planning, create procurement documents.
• Extensive noledge and expertise MS Office Suite MS Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, SharePoint, Rational Tools, HP-ALM, CA clarity, workbench.
• Schedule and facilitate project status meetings and resolve issues and disputes on timely basis.
• Manage and facilitate teh Stage Gate Reviews at each stage of teh projects with teh PMO /Release management teams
• Perform Earned value management to control cost and schedule
• Perform quality audits, integrate change control, quality control, and risk assessment.
• Collaborate with senior management to conduct Change Management and project related strategic planning in order to support corporate goals.
• Provide project management support to off shore team (developers, testers) for a successful and timely implementation of teh project.
• Actively monitor Risk, Issues and Dependency Logs and acted as liaison to ensue mitigation efforts were successful within and across work-streams.
• Extensive experience Managing and Overseeing overall QA and UAT Testing effort along with Defect management process.
• Effective and Independent leader with ability to accomplish goals under limited supervision.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Develop Project plan, enhancements and future releases.
• Awareness of potential future features which will help establish teh foundation for teh product roadmap.
• Prioritize customer reported issues and tag it to appropriate service pack/hot fix.
• Change Request management and Issue management, Implementing process documents.
• Identifying key milestones for solution management.
• Maintain project liaison role between Business Operations and project team, and identify any operational impacts to teh project.
• Identify, document and communicate business issues related to teh project that present themselves during Business Requirements gathering to teh project team.
• Act as teh ‘point of escalation’ to IT/QA/BA for issues or concerns.
• Perform Risk Assessment and identify Business Impacts.
• Jointly develop risk mitigation strategies and contingency plans with business partners.
• Validate and obtain needed business decisions and resolve issues.
• Work with business partners to identify operational processes and changes needed as a result of teh project.
• Provide on-going project support during Warranty Period, Identify & resolve production issues.
• Coordinate project support transition/hand-off into normal production support mode, post-warranty.

Confidential

Sr Business Analyst, Healthcare

Responsibilities:

• Teh project was designed to provide PASC-CUBS users with tools necessary to extract information from teh collector system produce database query reports and perform various account maintenance tasks.
• Teh patient accounting service centre (PASC) will aid teh user to select accounts by selecting certain payers, dollar categories, status codes and other specific account criteria.
• PASC UI provides teh users with teh ability to search and view remittance advice (EDI 835 Transactions)

Confidential

Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed 270/271 implementation guides to elicit requirements.
• Performed elicitation, analysis, documentation & validation. Worked with process owners, decision makers and other key end users to define solution objectives, process impacts to produce quality Solution Requirements documentation within teh defined schedule.
• Prepared and delivered system requirement documentation that address functional requirements, issues, alternatives and recommendations associated with teh development of existing or new core business application.
• Meet with process owners, decision-makers and other key end-users to define business objectives, process implications and application (system).