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Senior Project Manager & Agile Scrum Master Resume

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

  • IT Professional wif 15+ years of experience in Pharmaceuticals, Insurance, Banking and Financial Service (Cards & Payments and Retail Banking) domains in various role (Project Manager, Scrum Master, Business Systems Analyst, Technical lead, Onsite coordinator and Programmer) including 6 years of Onsite Experience
  • Certified Scrum Master wif 6+ years of working noledge on Agile projects as Scrum master
  • Extensive experience working in Java, J2EE, Bigdata technologies project
  • Successfully managed simple to complex projects wif global implementation, and rapidly evolving requirements handling budgets up to 2.5M $.
  • Thorough Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), involved in various phases like Initiation, Envisioning, Analysis/Design, Development, Testing, Implementation, Warranty and Closure.
  • Strong experience in planning, organizing and managing resources to successfully complete project goals and objectives, while honoring predetermined constraints.
  • Rich exposure in project coordination activities entailing Planning, Scheduling, Analysis, as well as application maintenance & enhancement, project progress monitoring, regular reporting to various stakeholders and delivery as per quality, time and budgetary norms.
  • Experience in working wif business, development, testing and operations teams, and tracking project budget, scope and schedules
  • Facilitated key sprint ceremonies (planning, daily scrums, reviews & sprint retrospectives).
  • Adept at handling pressure situations involving opportunities from multiple region client teams and global project teams
  • Excellent verbal and written skills, especially wif regards to presenting findings to both technical and non - technical audiences
  • Managing resource allocations and setting up of communication channels across teh various horizons of teh organization structure.
  • Facilitated issues resolution and risk mitigation
  • Conducted project reviews to ensure that teh project is compliant & ready for external audits.
  • Acted as Quality auditor for entire portfolio taking care of compliance readiness of all teh projects. 

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Modeling Tools: Microsoft Visio, IBM Rational Rose.

Packages: Microsoft Office suite

Methodologies: SDLC - Waterfall, Agile Scrum, Hybrid Agile

Quality Tool: HP Quality Center, CA Agile Central, JIRA

Project Management Tools: CA Clarity, C20, JIRA, Rally, Service now

Operating System: Win NT/ 98/2000/2003/ XP.

Programming Languages: Java, J2EE

Markup Languages: HTML, DHTML, XHTML, XML

Scripting languages: JavaScript & jQuery. style sheet language Cascading Style Sheets

RDBMS: MySQL (Basic)

Others: Kneat, Confluence, CMVC, CVS, MS Project, Rational Rose, WinScp3, Putty, Leach FTP, Maven, Sub Version, Continuum, AJAX, DOJO, Prototype.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER & AGILE SCRUM MASTER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Planned, provisioned & migrated entire portfolio of 80+ resources successfully to Agile methodology.
  • Working as an Agile Transformation Coach where scrum and Kanban Techniques are applied.
  • Coaching and mentoring other Scrum Masters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams
  • Built, refined, and facilitated and workshops including Agile Principles and Practices; TEMPeffective Story Writing; and Agile Estimation and Planning.
  • Created and managed project/program resource loading and budget; reconciled budget monthly and communicated risks to Leadership. Currently managing a portfolio of $2.3M monthly budget.
  • Conducted recurring status meetings wif teh product, portfolio and delivery Team
  • Support procurement and finance team wif new vendor onboarding and defining project SOW inline wif enterprise practices and guidelines.
  • Facilitating and owning Infrastructure capacity planning wif multiple stakeholders and provisioning team.
  • Facilitated conflict resolution, issues resolution and risk mitigation wif cross functional teams
  • Worked TEMPeffectively wif cross functional teams & support teams to remove delivery team roadblocks
  • Guided delivery team through continual improvement process & best practices
  • Acted as Quality auditor for entire portfolio taking care of compliance readiness of all teh projects.
  • Monitor & track budget spent and progress by all teams weekly.
  • Mentored teams, leading them to be self-directed wif strong accountability, decision making, conflict resolution and transparency.
  • Formulizing & Standardizing process for end-to-end project executions, operational support at all stages and postproduction monitoring.
  • Create governance model for each use case in line wif data sensitivity and legal guidelines.

Tools: & Technologies: JIRA, Clarity, Kneat, Service Now, Confluence, HP Quality Center, Microsoft Office suite, Bigdata, Azure, DevOps, AWS.

IT PROJECT MANAGER & SENIOR SCRUM MASTER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Facilitate & own key ceremonies viz. Project kick off, release planning, Product backlog refinement, sprint planning, Scrum Daily standup, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives and Release Planning for a distributive team working in 3 different time zones.
  • Work wif teh product owner and teh scrum team to refine teh product backlog, split stories, and prioritize stories based on dependencies wif other teams
  • Work on team impediments removal on a daily basis to allow teh team to deliver teh sprint goals and deliverables.
  • Prepare and share teh weekly progress report to all teh stakeholders.
  • Work TEMPeffectively wif cross functional teams & support teams to remove delivery team roadblocks
  • Create & Manage Project plans, resource loading, budget spent, release plans, communications plan through teh project lifecycle.
  • Monitor & track budget spent and progress by all teams weekly.
  • Coaching and mentoring other Scrum Masters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams
  • Creating governance model for teh end users and teh field representatives

Tools: & Technologies: JIRA, C20, HP Quality Center, Microsoft Office suite, AEM, Java J2EE Webservices.

PROJECT MANAGER /SCRUM MASTER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Facilitate & own key ceremonies viz. Project kick off, release planning, Product backlog refinement, sprint planning, Scrum Daily standup, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives and Release Planning for a distributive team working in 3 different time zones.
  • Work wif teh product owner and teh scrum team to refine teh product backlog, split stories, and prioritize stories based on dependencies wif other teams
  • Work on team impediments removal on a daily basis to allow teh team to deliver teh sprint goals and deliverables.
  • Prepare and share teh weekly progress report to all teh stakeholders.
  • Monitoring project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance.
  • Empowered & lead teh team’s efforts to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings
  • Gathering and updating project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents
  • Escalating promptly any issues that may impact operations.
  • Responsible for preparing key project documentation like project charter & release plan.
  • Responsible for teh dependent team engagements.
  • Monitoring team performance.
  • Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.

Tools: & Technologies: Rally, Clarity, C20, CA Agile Central, HP Quality Center, Microsoft Office suite, Java J2EE Webservices.

SENIOR BUSINESS SYSTEM ANALYST AND TECHNICAL LEAD

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Involved in meeting wif business process owners to define and finalize teh scope of teh project, prepared teh high-level business need document, Project Charter and other documents.
  • Assisted senior program manager on software application development, tracking and financial planning.
  • Elicitation and representation of requirements based on interaction wif teh business process owner, SME’s and teh development team.
  • Documented teh requirements in teh standard formats and arranged for review wif technical & business team.
  • Monitoring project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance.
  • Involved in preparing test cases and also involved in reviewing test plans and test scripts developed by QA team to make sure that all requirements are covered in scripts and tested properly.
  • Managing client expectations by ensuring teh delivery of teh highest quality service
  • Worked closely wif QA and Developers to clarify/understand functionality, resolve issues and provided feedback to nail down teh bugs.
  • Planed & prepared teh implementation plan and coordinated wif multiple teams on teh implementation activities.
  • Tracked and monitored teh release activities
  • Wrote and maintained user documentation & application support technical manuals for help desk support.

Tools: & Technologies: Rally, Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Visio, HP Quality Center, Java J2EE Webservices.

BUSINESS SYSTEM ANALYST AND TECHNICAL LEAD

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Elicited and analyzed as-is and to-be business processes and business requirements
  • Facilitated requirement sessions, including creation of agendas and recording of action items from meetings and writing meeting minutes.
  • Created Simulation / Prototype, as required
  • Responsible for creating process flow diagrams, logical diagrams, flow charts and Use case diagrams by using MS-Visio.
  • Manage various projects and ensure completion wifin deadline by attending to every detail of assigned projects.
  • Co-ordinate wif various cross commits in a multi-vendor environment.
  • Assisting in conceptualizing teh team structure for teh project engagement.
  • Co-ordinate Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
  • Plan and manage teh Performance / Stress testing cycle.
  • Drive teh project to completion by managing teh analysis, design build, implementation planning and co-ordination wif various business & cross vendor teams.
  • Interface wif Business to manage change requests
  • Prepared technical reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
  • Recommended controls by identifying problems and writing improved procedures.

Tools: & Technologies: Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Visio, IBM Rational Rose, HP Quality Center, Java J2EE Webservices, HTML, DHTML, XHTML, XML, JavaScript & jQuery.

PROGRAMMER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Analyze teh requirements for technical feasibility.
  • System Design and documentation.
  • Writing code and unit tests, working on API specs, automation, and conducting code reviews and testing
  • Involved in bug fixing, especially teh cross-browser issues.
  • Co-ordinate Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing.

Tools: & Technologies: Microsoft Office suite, HP Quality Center, Java J2EE Webservices, HTML, DHTML, XHTML, XML, JavaScript, prototype, DOJO.

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