SUMMARY:

• 10+ Years of experience working across multiple technologies and Healthcare domains for several Fortune 500 clients
• Highly personable and influential Scrum Master with 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Business Analyst and Project Manager delivering Business, Functional and Systems requirements
• Certified Scrum Master and SAFe Agilist
• Facilitates daily stand - ups
• Coordinates and facilitates sprint planning sessions, where teams size stories, and have questions answered by product owners and engineering managers
• Coordinates and facilitates end-of-sprint ceremonies (demo, retrospective)
• Ensures that sprints are not started until all stories have adequate definition of ready - descriptions, acceptance criteria, and point assignments and other elements as identified by the team
• Drive sprint planning through coordination of backlog story grooming sessions
• Helps resolve ‘blockers’ of progress, coordinating with other teams as needed
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to their teams and management
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Participates in ‘scrum-of-scrum’ meetings with other scrum masters as needed
• Works closely with Product Owners to ensure backlog items are properly and fully defined prior to acceptance into an iteration/sprint
• Coaches and supports teams in estimation and release planning
• Understands cross team dependencies and guides team as needed
• Have good experience in Waterfall & Agile methodologies
• Involved in all phases of software development lifecycle including Requirement Analysis, Solution Architecture, Design, Development, Application maintenance, Quality Reviews and Testing
• Experience in entire implementation process
• Good experience in analyzing and testing of critical business applications
• Model data using SQL, DB2, Teradata and Teradata SQL assistant
• Experience looking at trends in data to inform process improvement
• Strong hands on experience usingTeradata utilities (SQL, B-TEQ, Fast Load, MultiLoad, FastExport, Tpump, and Query man)
• Serve as the subject matter expert on the assigned function product to ensure operational performance
• Experience in claims and knowledge of provider reimbursement methodologies
• Quick adaptability to new technologies and zeal to improve technical skills
• Executed Projects successfully for the clients Confidential and Confidential
• Good Technical, Communication and Interpersonal Skills with solid customer orientation and client interfacing skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: SQL, Cobol

DBMS: MySql, DB2, Teradata

Software Engineering Methodologies/Tools/Technologies: JIRA, Confluence, MS Visio, MS Project and MS FrontPageIBM Utilities, SDSF, TSO/ISPF, XPEDITER, FILEAID, SORT, Endevor, FTP, DFSORT, Connect Direct, NDM and AbendAID

Productivity Tools: Microsoft Office applications including Excel and Access, Notepad++, Teradata BTEQ, FastLoad, Mload, Fast Export, SQl Assistant 12.0,14.0, VSAM, DB2, GDG, Sequential files, DB2 Tools (namely SPUFI, QMF, Move/Access, File Aid for DB2, BMC and DB2 commands)

Domains: HealthCare, PBM

Methodologies: Scrum/Agile, Waterfall, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Sr. Consultant, Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Led daily scrum meetings with development to track progress and updated the project team with necessary updates
• Coached team to lead sprint planning and facilitated prioritization session among the technical lead and product owner
• Led and trained team to better facilitate user story analysis session to create and elaborated user stories, technical stories and user journey on JIRA
• Facilitated and led sprint retrospective meeting with team to communicate lessons learned by discussing what the team did well and what team didn’t do well
• Led story estimation session and backlog grooming session with the team.
• Led Sprint planning meeting to prioritize user stories on the sprint according to the roadmap defined by our Product Owner
• Acted as a liaison to educate technical teams about the business and functional requirement of clients
• Analyzed and supported for business operations in claims process, claims payment/analysis, provider data, member data, pharmacy and external reporting
• Performed extract, load, model, and reconcile large amounts of data across multiple system platforms and sources
• Experienced usingTeradata utilities (SQL, B-TEQ, Fast Load, MultiLoad, FastExport, Tpump, and Query man)
• Proficient in coding of optimizedTeradata batch processing scriptsfor data transformation, aggregation and load usingBTEQ
• Strong experience in Creating Database Objects such asTables, Views, Indexes in Teradata
• Strong skills in analysis, coding and debugging Teradata utilities likeFast Load, Fast Export, MultiLoadandTpumpfor Teradata ETL processing huge volumes of data throughput
• Supported business initiatives through data analysis, identification of implementation barriers and user acceptance testing of various systems
• Gathered requirement and prepared functional and technical design from business requirement.
• Defect tracking
• Participate in discussions with the business users
• Maintained a good rapport and relationship with all the customers interacts on day today calls and e-mails
• Done impact analysis for the proposed project needs and delivered high level estimate, work break down structure for upcoming projects
• Tuned SQL Queries and improved performance
• Performance tuning, bug fixing and error handling

Confidential

Associate

Responsibilities:

• Technical and business guidance to team members throughout the project
• Co-coordinating with QA team and provided technical help to them during System testing
• Analysis of the problem reported and fixing the same
• Preparation of Module specification and Unit test cases for enhancements
• Program coding using COBOL, JCL and Unit testing
• Providing technical guidance/ to the team members especially to Junior members