OBJECTIVE:

• To begin the conversation about the Senior PM opportunity at your organization; discuss my suitability to their culture, vision and purpose.

SUMMARY:

• Agile Immersionist: Upon discovering Agile at work during 2007, she has learnt to combine its principles and practices and adopted it in her personal and professional career. She is a Certified Scrum Professional, taken courses from David Anderson and Mary Poppendieck (thought leaders in Kanban and Lean for software development). She is learning to be a personal and a life coach and artfully combines workspace and individual needs to transform your vision into reality.
• Product Ownership and Project Management: Her natural entrepreneurial, sales and marketing skills enable her engagement with business to create deep sense of responsibility and commitment; Her vast experience as a business analyst combined with Agile and process knowledge enable her and her team to join forces to create inspiring product visions, product road map; use
• UI design studio sessions to identify and prioritize market trends, product patterns, understand product scope and create backlogs. Work extensively with PMO and PMs to build schedules, plans; develop tactical operational goals, enable issue and conflict resolution; coach team leaders to identify the root cause of issues; help with escalations. Agile techniques for strategy: Use industry recognized techniques like Net - Mapping, Personal Kanban, Influence Maps and Think-storm to enable senior management / managers and teams develop a collective shared vision.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Agile (Scrum) Project Manager -Coach / Mentor

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Responsibilities:

• As part of their PMOs Agile initiative worked extensively with hub leads, program managers, lead project managers and scrum masters to help teams adopt Scrum from Waterfall.
• Use Scrum ceremonies, games, and intensive collaboration to identify, define scope; create project plans; uncover project and iteration risks using dot games or dialogues. Write user stories using story boarding, fishbone or using net-map tools. Work with change managers to review content for web sites; use UI design studio sessions for creating mockups and prototyping; coach team members on the importance of retrospectives, iteration planning, review and daily huddles.

Agile Project Manager / Senior Scrum Master

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the Scrum Competency center, I coached multiple teams that have a combination of onsite/offshore resources and remotely located stakeholders. Apart from fulfilling the needs of the SCC, coached and trained junior scrum masters, work with Product Owners, Technical and Functional SMEs who are transitioning to Agile. Work with various centers of excellences to develop best practices that can be adopted by all Scrum teams.
• Enabled Agile transition from Waterfall for a 30 member collocated group developing Pharmacy and Medical Audit software. This included enabling Kanban boards for Executives and Managers; Scrum process for their distributed IT team.
• Scrum Master for two teams and facilitate / enable necessary task related to sprint ceremonies (release and road map planning; daily scrum-of-scrum calls, sprint planning, task breakdown and estimates; demo and retrospectives; daily calls; interpret burn down charts and velocity;)

Lean-Agile Trainer / Coach

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• Co-facilitate two day instructor led classroom workshops on principles and practices of Scrum.
• Create several classroom exercises to enable attendees participate and engage in class activities.

Development Lead

Confidential, MD

Responsibilities:

• Implemented 6 major releases, 10 minor releases, operations and emergency fixes.
• Operations: Monitor 5 independent ETLs (deployed on Teradata, Informatica and Mainframe). Use a combination of Agile-Lean principles along with SDLC, PMBOK and CMMI framework for software development and delivery.
• Scrum Master / Team Lead: Work with developers, analysts and testers to facilitate code development, unit, system and integration testing, fixing bugs and defects. Participate in BI and testing team daily Scrum meetings. Prepare estimates; remove impediments and roadblocks for developers and testers.
• Project Management: Work with PMO to develop strategic implementation plans, staffing and project schedule. Participate in weekly prioritization, release, and risk identification meetings.
• Data quality initiatives: Medicare Part-D data quality monitoring including purgatory, Support BI data requests.

Project Manager

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the project sponsor to understand project scope
• Evaluated Quickbooks, Peachtree and similar software.

Senior BA

Confidential, MD

Responsibilities:

• Used lean principles to elicit requirements from Government customers and end users, and developed requirements documents using iterative processes.
• Conduct and lead JAD sessions with business users, development team, and DMEPOS implementation contractors.
• Work closely with Project Manager and the requirements team to evaluate Government source documents including Federal Registry, SOW, CON-OPS, and helped business users identify requirements.
• Develop requirements based on CMS requirements writing guidelines / CMMI level (II) standards and wrote business, system, functional and non-functional requirements.

Sr. Requirements Analyst

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• Procurement Process Analyst to process RFQ’s received from Government Agencies
• Gathered requirements, develop functional specifications, custom design specifications;
• Conducted extensive research and analysis to understand Government procurement processes that include different contracting vehicles, GSA, FAR / D-FAR clauses, NAICS codes, BPA, IDIQ contracts.

Business Analyst

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• As a Business analyst / QA analyst responsible for writing uses cases and test cases
• Participated in development of requirements traceability matrices, developing business, functional and non-functional requirements.