SUMMARY:

• Innovative, and driven servant leader Scrum Master(CSM) and Agile Coach with more than fifteen years of global experience seeks a position using web and mobile technologies
• Has significant knowledge working with Data Warehousing, Business Process Management (BPM) with Sequence workflow software, and a solid understanding of technical frameworks. Experienced in delivering technical systems using Agile an approach for investment banking clients, media, and conglomerates, managing large applications for project management initiatives, in addition to directing and implementing, project plans through the comprehensive project lifecycle utilizing n - tiered Business Intelligence (BI) systems. Background includes a strong knowledge of IT platforms, and Data Warehousing.
• Strong written and verbal communication skill with the ability to deliver effective presentations. Outstanding ability to mentor and create opportunities for onshore and offshore developers, enabling them to be onboarded quickly and effectively in project teams, as well as creating a future roadmap for their individual success.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

METHODOLOGIES: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SDLC, Waterfall

DATABASES: MS SQL Server 2012, Oracle, MS Access.

HARDWARE: EMC Storage, Sun E4500.

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGIES: IIS, Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS).

.NET SKILL SET: Silverlight, WPF, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, .NET Class Libraries, .NET Framework and Common Type System, .NET Remoting, LINQ, Web Services.

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows 7, Unix, Vista, Windows XP.

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: C#, .NET, Silverlight, VBA, VB.NET, Perl, Python.

SOFTWARE: JIRA, SharePoint, QLIKVIEW, .NET Framework, Silverlight 4.0, Access, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Intermediate Excel, VBA, AlphaBlox, Crystal Reports, Essbase,, SPLUNK, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2010, WebEx.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jersey City, New Jersey

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple BPM projects using Agile methodology, managing backlog, and acting as Scrum Master, or Product Owner, conducted daily scrums, sprint reviews, backlog grooming, and sprint retrospectives; implementing .NET based proprietary workflow application called Sequence, including iPhone, and iPad development for several Fortune 500 clients including KPMG, Viacom, Waste Management and others. Responsible for teams of up to five to ten developers, managing projects with budgets up to $500,000.
• Agile coaching of teams located on client sites as well as offshore. Delivered projects using Agile methodologies, including TDD, & XP, helping clients transition from Waterfall in most cases, with high code quality, in one case achieving a 92% acceptance rate from clients QA team, and earned accolade from their technology team. Familiar with onboarding team members from offshore locations, achieving rapid productivity by unique approach. Travelled globally including the UK, Israel, & India to help create effective teams, and build successful relationships with end users.

Confidential, New York, New York

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Work with Data Architects to contribute to the design of the Data Warehouse.
• Build a BI data tier using ROLAP to provide migration reporting for Senior Executives.
• Use SPLUNK, QLIKVIEW to produce real time reporting and dashboards.
• Train, develop and mentor an offshore team of SQL developers in Mumbai, to provide Business as Usual support for batch reporting, and ad-hoc queries.
• Create test cases, and carry out unit testing and UAT Reports
• Work closely with migration Project Managers, occasional travel to Chicago to support live events, write extensive SQL queries and Excel/VBA, & Access for end user reporting.
• Write complex stored procedures for ad-hoc requests and reports.

Confidential, New York, New York

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Used Agile methodologies, worked as a Scrum Master, reviewed weekly builds with product owners.
• Served as an Agile Coach to new hires.
• Create and design complex project plans for new and innovative projects, and present new technologies to prospective clients, thereby developing strong long-term business client partnerships.
• Ensure the timely delivery of projects by successfully setting up user acceptance and integration testing.
• Develop a healthcare portal for an international client (in Canada & China) using SQL Server, C#, Silverlight 4.0, and the MVC/MVVM design patterns.
• Instruct and mentor all new hires with regard to the essential technical skills required for the success of the organization and related program initiatives.
• Utilizing the latest technologies, ASP.NET, Silverlight, LINQ and WPF Design patterns..
• Set up test scripts for unit and functional testing, work with end users to ensure UAT is completed before obtaining signoff and deployment of code.
• Build data-tier writing complex queries, and stored procedures using SQL Server 2008.

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Program Management of a large global eDelivery initiative across Confidential .
• Worked with large offshore team based in India.
• Carried out PMO activities and metrics/reporting to the CTO office.
• Executive reporting to the CTO and other management groups, including regulatory program status dashboards and packaging of evidence/artifacts.
• Leading and supporting PMO activities,, coordination, and quality assurance of regulatory deliverables.
• Regular interface with senior managers in the CTO and other functions and facilitation of meetings on a regular basis.
• Interaction with Regulatory and Compliance department to ensure internal and regulatory criteria met for client data in each region globally.

Confidential, New York, New York

.NET Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Taught Microsoft Certified courses in .NET, SQL Server, Object Oriented Design, SDLC to clients in the US, Canada, UK.
• Authored several courses for clients, including Introduction to C#, SQL Server 2005, Silverlight 2.0, .NET Framework.

Confidential, Parsippany, New Jersey

Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and delivered valuable initiatives to programmers.
• Created several new and innovative courses, and regularly updated course materials and corresponding exams.
• Interviewed and evaluated incoming students in partnership with sales staff.
• Guided and mentored junior teaching staff, teaching assistants and students, ensuring their success and cultivating their s.
• As a Microsoft Certified Trainer, trained more than 1,500 developers in .NET technologies, and experienced consistently high rating evaluations above 95%.
• Authored .NET course for Infragistics Controls, thereby progressing the course from the initial stages of development through a live audience beta test and finally delivery to clients.

Confidential, New York, New York

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Delivered major BI system utilizing data warehouse, and OLAP star schema.
• As Project Manager, successfully supervised a team of ten people, and managed all requirements gathering, gap analysis, as well as the writing of use cases.
• Created and maintained significant project plans, thereby scheduling and directing global user calls, in addition to reporting status and progress to the Managing Directors, and making needed recommendations for necessary revisions to ensure successful program completion and delivery.
• Increased the Equities Division’s comprehensive ability to strategically analyze the profitability of trading from the salesperson and the trading desk, to the global, regional and national level, and saved the company more than $1 million by reducing manual efforts in creating trading metrics data, as a result of creating a new Business Intelligence System called Straight Through Processing (STP).
• While managing a team of three to six developers and creating vital technical support documentation, implemented three extensive STP projects for the Equities, Fixed Income and Treasury Operations Divisions, thereby building strong working relationships with outsourcing partners in production support, as well as surpassing set organizational missions and goals.
• Acted as liaison to a large global user base by effectively interpreting and conveying information across diverse cultural and professional groups and communities, which included significant external vendors such as IBM and offshore programming teams.
• Coded in Java, & Perl.