SUMMARY:

• A confident, versatile and enthusiastic Scrum Master and Project Manager, with 15 years of extensive experience across IT Industry managing Web/Mobile and Integration Projects.
• 5+ years of Scrum Master Experience with deep noledge of organizational transformation from waterfall structure to agile development.
• Experience with SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)
• Serve as a liaison between technical and non - technical team members, as well as senior management. Also worked with business stakeholders to understand business problems and opportunities in teh context of requirements and recommend solutions dat enabled teh teams to achieve its goals.
• Work with product management, technical and user experience teams to prioritize teh product roadmap in support of release goals. Set incremental goals and project manage cross functional teams to achieve these goals within designated timeframes.
• Exceptional ability to build productive relationships with colleagues, clients, and vendors across all functional and technical disciplines.
• Good understanding of CMMI, Six Sigma processes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Mobile Development: Xamarin, iOS, Windows Java / J2EE / Spring / Hibernate / C# / VB.NET / MS BizTalk, XML / XSLT / WSDL

Databases: Oracle 9i, SQL Server 2005, MySQL

Project Management: MS Project 2007/2010, Smart sheet, Rally, JIRA

Testing Tools: Selenium, SOAP UI

Modeling Tools: - Enterprise Architect / MS Visio

Database Tools: Toad / PL SQL Developer

CMS: SharePoint, Joomla, Drupal

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple scrum delivery teams, which includes a combination of iOS developers, Windows developers, quality assurances leads, technical architects and product owners.
• Facilitate teh Scrum process by coordinating pre-planning, planning, daily stand-ups, code reviews, and retrospectives with teh development team and Product Owner. Also facilitate conducting teh End of sprint demos with team for teh Senior Management.
• Remove impediments dat may otherwise slow down or block teams from delivering their objectives.
• Ensure team is practicing core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility. Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, point estimation and task definition.
• Facilitate decision-making, issue resolution and unity amongst teh Scrum team.
• Monitored project progress and drove team toward successful sprint / milestone completion, there by meeting teh Release Goals
• Actively measure project metrics and utilize data to TEMPeffectively communicate with stakeholders and team members

Confidential

Business Analyst / Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Propose plan for teh complete Business Analysis activity.
• Elicit requirements using interviews, requirement workshops, business process flows, scenarios and task analysis.
• Evaluate teh gathered information to decompose high level information to details and to abstract low-level information to a general understanding.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with teh stakeholders to document as-is process flow, analyze information needs and functional requirements to deliver Process Flows, prepare to-be process flow, prepare Functional decomposition Diagram, Gap Analysis documents and UI Wireframes.
• Work with General Manger, Team Lead and other business stakeholders to identify teh team KPI’s and derive a data model to capture and report teh analytical needs.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish teh solution vision and analyze tradeoff between teh different solutions options.
• Worked with SEO Strategist to understand teh metrics and Proposed automation strategies.
• Keyword and search engine research
• On-site and off-site website analysis
• Web-based competitive research and analysis
• Present Solution Options and halp stakeholders take a decision on teh To-Be Solution.
• Present an Implementation Road Map for teh To-Be Solution.

Confidential

Delivery Manager / PMO / Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated concept, definition, planning and development phase kick off / socialization meetings with key objectives, s, schedule, resource needs and next steps.
• Established and maintained relationships with client teams for successful project development, implementation, and maintenance.
• Monitored risks and response plans.
• Conducted Project Kickoff meeting covering project scope and goals, performing team introductions, reviewing roles and responsibilities and high level project plan.
• Conducted fortnightly review meeting and monthly management review meeting with teh directors during course of project implementation
• Coordinated business, quality and technical requirements gathering dat included interview scheduling and preparation, kickoff meeting, analyzing, prioritizing and documenting interview findings.
• Facilitated Core Team project meetings for teh entire duration of teh project in order to ascertain compliance to project plan.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager / PMO

Responsibilities:

• Provide Weekly, Monthly and quarterly reporting and Up-To-Date Visibility.
• Project management activities for achieving organization goals and customer's satisfaction for teh project, which includes UAT and Go-Live preparation.
• Performed SWOT Analysis to identify teh strengths and areas of improvements
• Applying processes for change, defect, testing and release, resource, scope, time, risk, and communication management.
• Planning, Estimating, Scheduling and Tracking to closure with progress status reporting to leadership of client organization
• Responsible for providing application, technology support, mentoring, project organization for multiple client installations.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager / PMO

Responsibilities:

• Worked end to end and successfully converted teh project from being pilot to full-fledged project. Teh project was to be started off as a pilot and further relationship was dependent on teh success of teh pilot.
• Involved in Requirement Understanding discussions with client and team, doubling up as Scrum Master / Business Analyst
• Involved in high level design discussion and Process flow with team.
• Worked with QA Teams explaining teh test methodology and approaches to Data Testing.
• Worked with client to define teh Success metrics and ensured dat teh team adheres and delivers as per teh metrics.

Confidential

Project Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collecting Requirements from client. Analyze/Prioritize and Implement teh requirements with mutual discussions with client POC.
• Assigning teh requirements to team members and supervise for efficient execution of teh requests.
• Ensure TEMPeffective QA to deliver teh requirements with quality.

Confidential

Project Manager / PMO

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Induction plans for teh team to facilitate faster ramp up.
• Executed project in Agile Methodology following Scrum with a 2 week sprint cycle.
• Defined processes to ensure teh tasks are handled seamlessly between teh team and teh Client Development team.
• Provide Weekly, Monthly and quarterly reporting and Up-To-Date Visibility.
• Work with development managers to manage and optimize project resources.
• Extensive experience with project prioritization, planning, estimating, staffing, skills tracking, time reporting, measurement, resource negotiation and optimization, scope containment, issues management, and other related systems development life cycle processes.

Confidential

Project Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in contractual discussions and negotiations for ~2 Million USD project.
• Actively involved in defining specifications for Web application, Master Data Management and Application Integration
• Involved in Business process discussions with customer team. Translated teh Business needs into Use case framework. Worked on Estimation and Review of Use Cases.
• Prepared Induction plans for teh team members - which halped them to gear up for teh challenge functionally and also technically.
• Working closely with Solution Architect to arrive at a design for system Integrations to be implemented on BizTalk 2006 R2.
• Master Data Management involved
• Current State Assessment
• Identifying teh master data entities to be moved to MDM System
• Define Use cases for Entity Registration, updates
• Define procedures for Batch data loading, Syndication, Maintaining Data Quality, Maintain data
• Define Data Review Process, Business Rules, Warnings and Alerts and Exceptions
• Conceptual Solution Design
• Defining Internal and External Interfaces.
• Involved in Change Request handling discussions between Onsite and Offshore team.
• Involved in Knowledge Management activities in teh project. At teh vertical level, contributed as Knowledge Officer for multiple accounts.
• Took up teh LEAN initiative to improve teh Support processes.

Confidential

Onsite Coordinator / Member

Responsibilities:

• Business Analysis - Collecting Requirements from customer (VP, his team and end users), preparing Use cases and handing them over to offshore team for implementation.
• Extensive use of Enterprise Architect and Visio to depict teh requirements and process flow in visual format.
• Responsible for application setup and deployment on Demo and Production environments.
• Involved in global and application roll outs
• Actively involved in business process discussions with customer teams.
• In teh two year span, managed to increase teh overall business by 80%.

Confidential

Business Analyst & Module Lead (Support)

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Business requirements and propose solutions
• Provide Estimation and prepare Release Plans
• Involved in providing Design solutions with BizTalk 2004.
• Member of teh Change Control Board.
• Actively involved in analyzing, Optimizing and redefining teh Support Processes.
• Executed Six Sigma Project to reduce teh cycle time in request handling.
• Provide Estimation and prepare Release Plans

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of SOW/proposal, RS and High Level design document.
• Collecting Requirements from OC, analyze and assign to team members.
• Design, coding and scripting of teh Web pages.
• Writing and Reviewing Test Cases.
• Was involved in stress testing teh application with WAS and ASTRA tools.
• Developed interfaces for posting messages to BizTalk and to end systems.
• Configuration management.
• Part of BS7799 project readiness team.

Confidential

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Developing teh web application
• Writing TEMPeffective test cases for modules wide across teh application.
• Documentation as per defined standards.
• Been a part of QC team for a release where me was actively involved in teh review tasks.
• Was a part of production support team and was actively involved in making quick fixes.

Confidential

Tester

Responsibilities:

• Testing fixes to problems reported by users (Engineer Change Request, ECR).
• Automation of ECRs using SQA Suite (SQA Robot).
• Base classes testing.
• System testing in Windows NT/95 platforms for teh product.