SUMMARY:

• 16 years of experience as Mainframe Developer/Lead/Architect/Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master/Agile Coach.
• Technology Leader in managing and leading large strategic development and migration projects using various methodologies such as SAFe, Scrum, DevOps, Kanban and Waterfall.
• Extensive experience and long - term partnership/association with major clients such as Liberty Mutual Insurance(2 years) Confidential -Wealth Management and Asset Servicing (8 years), Confidential (2+ years), LPL Financial (6 months ) and Confidential (2 years).
• Comprehensive understanding and experience in Agile/SAFe Transformation DevOps and CICD Implementations.
• Experience in coaching Product Owners to maintain the Product backlog more efficiently.
• Experience in facilitating Scrum/Kanban/SAFe ceremonies (Portfolio/Solution/Program/Team/Program Increment.
• (PI)/Release/Resource/Capacity Planning, Product Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospectives, Innovation and Planning (IP)).
• Coached teams on Agile principles and increase their velocity by 50% within the first year of Agile adoption and reduce process Waste caused by communication gaps.
• Experience in Organizing Product backlog features, epics, stories, estimations and tasks in Rally.
• Experience in Maintaining metrics, Information Radiators that provide visibility into sprint health progress. Manifesto/Principles/methodologies, daily meetings, planning, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, managing flow, being cross functional and coordination with other teams for continues integration, improvement, prioritization, resolution of software defects and delivery of quality products.
• Experience in identifying and removing impediments/roadblocks for the Scrum teams, escalate issues at the appropriate management levels and helped teams to deliver Portfolio/Solution/Program/Sprint Goals on time.
• Experience in Full SDLC and managing multiple projects with multiple teams on tight deadlines.
• Technical standpoint-Architected and designed at BNY Mellon- WM M/F based applications from scratch to end. Having good exposure on Eagle products PACE, STAR Web Panels & Reports, JAVA-Spring, S Spring, SOAP, Rest and Angular js. Having exposure on Big Data Hadoop. Good knowledge with HDFS, HIVE, HBASE, MongoDB & PIG. Implemented proof-of-concept and convinced businesses of the benefits of the new technology using Hadoop.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases and Tools: DB2, IDMS, CA-7, REXX, OPC, CSF (Custom Statement Formatter), ESP, SPUFI, APC, XPEDITER, IDCAMS, FILE-AID, ENDEVOR, DFSORT, CATS, OPC, SQL tools, JIRA, Rally, Clarity

Languages: Mainframe (JCL, MVS, VSAM, COBOL, ADSO, CICS, EASYTRIEVE). Java/J2EE, Spring Framework, Big Data, Hadoop.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master/Technical Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Schedules and facilitates all relevant meetings for the release, including sprint pipeline grooming, release planning, sprint planning and daily stand ups/huddles.
• Protects the team, facilitates the removal of issues/blockers/impediments, and helps the team resolve dependencies.
• Responsible for facilitating the sprint pipeline grooming that gets the User Story to Ready state.
• Participate in Scrum of Scrums forum and Responsible for the SAFe adoption across the programs handled.
• Manages the release and sprint timelines, follows up on key action items.
• Assesses the scrum team’s velocity for the upcoming sprint and tracks the sprint health.
• Facilitates the sprint review and demo, sprint retrospective. Captures and distributes feedback.
• Provides status updates in necessary discussions - generally internal to the team/ART.
• Facilitate PI (Program Increment) and sprint planning processes, as well as all other scrum ceremonies, and empower team commitment to PI and sprint delivery.
• Completes Product Development Process (PDP) documentation.
• Criteria, Definition of Ready (DOR), Definition of Done (DOD) & tasks in JIRA, and Rally.
• Maintains release information in Clarity and Rally.
• Coordinate test environment is set up properly.
• Coordinated environment setups, maintenance, code deployments and production releases in CI/CD DevOps environments.
• Coached teams on principles of Test Driven Development (TDD) & Behaviour Driven Development (BDD).

Technical Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Followed Scaled Agile Framework and involved in PI sessions for release planning at enterprise level train programs.
• Educate team members on Agile principles and providing guidance on methodology.
• Identify and engage all other cross functional teams/stake holders and make them to align with project scope/schedules. Leading scrum teams along with other cross functional dependent teams located geographically at different locations/time zones.
• Organize and facilitate scrum daily standup, spring Planning, sprint Review, sprint Retrospection, product backlog review and other scrum related meetings.
• Collaborate with Product owner, team members, other dependent teams & groups and manage product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity and task breakdown.
• Protect development team from outside distractions and over-commitment, remove impediments and help team to maintain focus on sprint goals.
• Identify project risks and keep the adequate mitigation plan in place and ensure delivery is not compromised. Manage Issues, Dependencies and Changes requests.
• Facilitate team & cross-team retrospectives to build good working relationships.
• Monitor the overall functioning of processes, identify improvement areas and implement adequate measures to maximize customer satisfaction level.
• Makes good decisions in ambiguous situations and provides stakeholders with recommendations and contingency plans.
• Responsible for the other typical project management activities - co-ordination, monitoring & control the all work items, managing project financials including budget, forecast and spend, production implementation planning & execution, project status reporting to leadership with necessary metrics, following the organization/industry standard processes etc.

Scrum Master/Technical PM

Confidential, Phoenix

Responsibilities:

• Improved teamwork by identifying and maintaining dependencies among scrum teams within the train
• Facilitated sprint planning, sprint review, retrospective meetings, daily scrum meetings, show and tell and worked on deliverables for each sprint
• Aligned stakeholders on documented framework, release/deployments and developed material
• Increased value by planning deployment, unit testing, system integration testing, regression testing, end to end UAT, and PIV (post implementation validation)
• Improved efficiency by planning capacity, velocity and maintained reports like iteration burndown and velocity charts
• Managed escalations, impediments, risks, and challenges associated with product development
• Responsible for the DevOps (CI/CD) implementation in all the programs handled.
• Responsible for Designing, modifying, developing, implementing, debugging software programming applications using Mainframe and JAVA.
• Delivered technology solutions by working with product owners, architects, engineers and quality assurance
• Manage Clarity updates- Forecasting, variable and fixed. Financial plans, Risks and Issues updates, OPC booking, Team and Task updates. Billing Recons, OPC accruals and SLA details updates.

Technology: JAVA- Spring, SOAP, Rest and Angular js

Technical Project manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop a detailed project plan with dependencies and key milestones based on coordination with all project stakeholders.
• Work with the project team to identify project risks and develop appropriate risk mitigation plans.
• Perform status reporting to communicate progress to project sponsors, key stakeholders and IT management including IT scorecard and capital / expense forecasting and reporting.
• Maintain an issues list and communicate key issues to project sponsors, key stakeholders, and IT management.
• Manage Clarity updates- Forecasting, variable and fixed. Financial plans, Risks and Issues updates, OPC booking, Team and Task updates. Billing Recons, OPC accruals and SLA details updates.
• Facilitate weekly status call, E2E status call, Dashboard updates, Portfolio updates and Retrofit Conflict Management calls.
• Resource Management - team size of 40 + onsite and offshore.
• Manage AMEX SDLC process and SOX/SAR compliance details for projects.
• Cognizant, C20 Approval and IDE follow-ups, BCP process, BFS Engineering Excellence.
• Technical leadership- FIS Enhancements/ PoC’s.
• Responsible for Designing, modifying, developing, implementing, debugging software programming applications using Mainframe and provide CSF and application SME support.

Technology: Mainframe- COBOL, DB2, VSAM, CSF (Custom Statement Formatter) 13.5, DOC1, Control M, File-Aid, Infoman, Changeman, Mercury Quality Centre, Librarian, Clarity, C20, REXX Tools

E2E Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and prioritize execution onshore / offshore
• Manage the Daily Activities of Testing Team
• Report to Leadership
• Manage E2E Defects across Trade Processing / Execution
• Prioritize E2E Defects for Leads
• Internal E2E Execution Report Forward
• Coordinate and drive trade processing
• Redrop Queue Management
• Triage Fallout and Follow-ups
• Defect creation and communication
• End of Day Status to Management
• Coordinating the project through key development phases of analysis, development, implementation, deployment and production
• Understand the valuation models and methods for IRS,CDS, Inflation swaps and Total Return swaps

Mainframe Technical Lead/SME/Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Architected and designed WM Mainframe based applications (Accounting and Donor Statements) from scratch to end.
• Technical leadership
• Understand requirements and translate to Development activities. Communicate with business teams to raise questions, clarify and resolve conflicts.
• Detailed design, construction, Unit Testing, UAT Testing, Integration and System Testing.
• Involved in the development and enhancement of WM Accounting and Donor statements applications.
• Production support and implementation.
• Offshore Technical coordination.
• Performance tuning of Accounting and Donor Statements applications and suggested solutions.

Technology: MVS/ESA, COBOL, JCL, DB2, Revolve, Star Tool, Endeavor, OPC, ESP, VSAM, CICS, CSF (custom Statement Formatter).