SUMMARY:

• Big - picture strategist with 18+ years of experience and ideal blend of strong leadership skills and expansive technical knowledge base
• 18+ years of experience in Agile and Lean based process improvements in a large organization as an Agile Coach, Scrum Coach, and process consultant in Agile adoption and transformation.
• Advanced expertise in Agile (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, RAD) and PMBOK methodologies, complemented by SAFe SPC4, CSM, PMP s and more than a decade of experience for world-class organizations.
• DevOps (CI/CD) Expert
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• TDD, ATDD, and BDD Expert
• Budget Management / Cost Optimization
• Business-Technology Alignment
• Agile (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, RAD)
• Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure Government Cloud, Google App Engine, and Rackspace Cloud)
• Web / E-Commerce / Data Modeling

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Agile tools: JIRA-Agile, CA Agile Central (former Rally), VersionOne, AgileCraft, LeanKit.

Build Tools: (Ant, NAnt, Bamboo, MSBuild, Rake, and GNU Make)

Continuous Integration Tools: (Jenkins, CircleCI, Cruise, TeamCity, and Hudson)Infrastructure Automation (Chef, Puppet, and Ansible)Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure Government Cloud, Google App Engine, and Rackspace Cloud)

Project Management: MS Project, MS EPM, Planview, EPPM.

Web Development: MVC 5, ASP .NET, JSON, Mobile App, XSL, XSLT, Drupal 7 CMS, AJAX, JSP, WebSphere, IIS 8.5, Tomcat, Apache, CSS, BizTalk Server 2.

Distributed Computing: Security, RESTful, Web services, WCF, MVVM, Unity Framework, Prism, MEF .NET Remoting, COM+/DCOM, Reusable Components, DNA, RMI, CORBA.

RDBMS: Oracle 12c, SQL Server T-SQL, z/TPF, Mainframes, LINQ-to-Entity, Entity Framework 4/5/6, NHibernate, Handling Big Databases / DTS Packages / Relationships, ODBC, ADO .NET, JDBC, MS Access 2013, FoxPro 2.6.

Languages: C#, VB .NET, PHP, C++, VC++, Java Script, Win32 SDK, ActiveX, MFC, ATL.

Java: JEE, JSP, JPA, JMS, Swing, EJB, JNDI, JNI, AWT, Servlets, Applets, Security.

Data Modeling: UML, Design Patterns, ER Diag, DFD/SCs, SharePoint, XHTML, OOPs.

Development Tool: VS 2013, Eclipse, Mercurial, SVN, Ankh, ReSharper, VSS, Visual Caf .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in making real change, improving processes using scaling principles, prople development; TDD, ATDD and BDD practices, tools/frameworks: Git, Nuget, MsBuild, Jenkins, CircleCI, nUnit, OpenCover, FxCop, Fortify, SonarQube, Nuget, Nexus, uDeploy, Ansible Controller/Playbook, DevTest Cucumber SoapUI; and Agile tools JIRA-Agile, Confluence.
• Facilitated launch for two agile release trains, provided agile coaching, and led the agile transformation, driving change, adoption and maturity of agile practices.
• As a SAFe® Program Consultant 4.0 (SPC4), conducted SAFe® Agilists (SA) and SAFe® Practitioner (SP) for different levels of leadership and scrum teams throughout the Enterprise Agile Transformation.
• Analyzed health of different teams and created customized Agile material and guidelines documents for agile Leadership, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Project Teams.

Confidential, McLean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in TDD, ATDD and BDD practices, tools/frameworks: JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, SoapUI, Appium, Cucumber, and RSpec; and Agile tools VersionOne, JIRA-Agile, CA Agile Central (Rally).
• DevOps expert: Implemented continuous deployment of code as well as configurations, automation tests, integration/deployment scripts, and metadata. Automatically integrated, deployed Gradle, Rake (Ruby), Bamboo, Jenkins, CircleCI, and Nexus, and validated the code Cucumber/Selenium up to staging environment (AWS Cloud).
• As a SAFe® Program Consultant 4.0 (SPC4), conducted authorized SAFe® Agilists (SA) and SAFe® Practitioner (SP) for different levels of leadership and scrum teams.
• Acted as SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) for high-performance Scrum/Kanban teams.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Created customized Agile material and guidelines documents for agile Leadership, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Portfolio Managers (PfMs), Program Managers (PgMs), Project Teams, and other stakeholders that play a role in the delivery of an Agile project.
• Trained teams on Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, RAD) and conducted role-based Agile such as Scrum Master, Product Owner .
• Expertise in TDD, ATDD and BDD practices, tools/frameworks: JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, SoapUI, Appium, Cucumber, and RSpec; and Agile tools VersionOne, JIRA-Agile, CA Agile Central (Rally).
• As a SAFe® Program Consultant 4.0 (SPC4), conducted authorized SAFe® Agilists (SA) and SAFe® Practitioner (SP) for different levels of leadership and scrum teams throughout the Enterprise Agile Transformation.

Confidential, McLean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Created and tailored Agile processes based on customer need, keeping the processes always aligned to the Agile Manifesto
• Provided and coaching in Agile Development principles and practices to development teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and executive leadership.
• Facilitated launch for two agile release trains, provided agile coaching, and led the agile transformation, driving change, adoption and maturity of agile practices.
• Worked with multiple teams with varying levels of Agile maturity (no use of Agile to mature Agile teams) to determine the team’s current state processes and develop a plan to adopt Agile or improve their current use of Agile.
• Utilized effective Agile metrics to track and report sprint status: estimation accuracy, velocity, burndown, test statistics (coverage, automation, defect analysis) and effect on the Release Plan.

Confidential

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in TDD, ATDD and BDD practices, tools/frameworks: JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, SoapUI, Appium, Cucumber, and RSpec.
• Marketed Agile to project stakeholders to demonstrate the value of Agile’s dynamic approach to creating user stories and defining project outcome.
• Brought in Agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, tracking, product visioning, spiking, slack, generalized specialist, technical debt reduction, self-management, Kanban, empowerment and role .

Confidential, Washington, DC

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Regularly interacted, trained and coached “C” level executives at the client end.
• Collaborate with product owners and team stakeholders to coordinate release and sprint planning, backlog grooming, stand-ups, scrum, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Worked with Confidential, Confidential, and Mindtree for completion of infrast. modernization initiatives to support touch screen capabilities within ambitious deadline while achieving budgetary goals.
• Drove large-scale reservation system project to successful completion while identifying and resolving Cross-Browser Compatibility issues for new media channels and third-party integration using JEE, JSP, JPA, JMS, Swing, EJB, JNDI, JNI, AWT, Servlets, Applets, and Security.
• Devised and monitored $5M operating budget and managed $10M+ base capital budget.

Confidential, Arlington VA

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Provided and coaching in Agile Development principles and practices to development teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and executive leadership.
• Spearheaded successful launch of a robust research platform supporting $8 billion in annual client investments.
• Facilitated Scrum meetings - planning, grooming, sprint review, retrospectives, and stand-ups.
• Greatly improved responsiveness and ROI of efforts; increased quality of work; improved development turn-around time; decreased defects; and integrated newly acquired technologies.
• Deftly managed teams overseeing multimillion-dollar IT projects to ensure streamlined delivery.

Confidential, Fairfax, Virginia

Scrum Master / Agile Coach / IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Trained teams on Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, RAD) and conducted role-based Agile such as Scrum Master, Product Owner, etc.
• Was responsible for facilitating agile meetings, project initiation sessions, user story workshops, classes and providing coaching to technical team members, management, senior leadership and the key stakeholders.
• Led creation of 250+ website development projects in the travel sector including Orbitz, Cheaptickets.com, and the travel section of Yahoo .
• Coached, trained, and mentored development team members, serving as key resource and advisor
• Tapped expansive knowledge of technologies to effectively oversee transformation of business requirements into functional software requirements with detailed design using several languages including Microsoft based .NET technologies such as .NET Framework 4, C#, ASP.NET, LINQ-to-Entity, Entity Framework 5, MVC 4, SharePoint, REST, WCF, and Web Services.
• Expanded opportunities to evaluate project throughout all phases of lifecycle, maximizing customer satisfaction through early and continuous deliveries, by incorporating Agile Scrum methodologies.
• Innovated new designs based on current W3C web standards, design patterns and involved many related technologies such as XML, XSLT, XSL, AJAX, OOAD, NHibernate, UML, ReSharper, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVN, NUnit, NAnt, CRM, JIRA, and SQL Server 2012/08.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Technical Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded deployment of test automation suite with 550+ servers and 18 global clients.
• Architected robust systems, functional prototypes, specifications, components, and more.

Confidential, San Mateo, California

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Expanded user capabilities to customize various feature by authoring innovative Java code.
• Used Java/Multithreading to test whether multiple instances of production could run concurrently.

Confidential, New York, New York

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Fueled launch of ImageCADE, an integrated Windows-based solution for image and data capture.

Confidential, New York, New York

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used ODBC to import/export data from external databases SQL Server, Oracle, Access, & FoxPro.
• Implemented multithreading, worker threads & threads synchronization, to perform complex calculations in background.