SUMMARY:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM®) with 10 years of experience leading Agile Software Design and Development teams working in Java ( stand alone, web and front end ) using Agile methodologies
• 4 years’ Program management experience as Scrum Master handling agile deliverables and tracking agile metrics for projects.
• 7+ years of hand - on experience in development of Core Java applications with heavy usage of Design patterns and MVC framework and backend technologies.
• Java Architect for Network Management solutions delivered for Confidential .
• Highly experienced in coordinating Scrum activities like Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, sprint Review and Retrospective meetings.
• Well versed in preparing various Scrum artifacts like Product and Spring Backlogs, Product Increment etc.
• Highly experienced in leading agile development teams instilling in them a deep sense of customer focus and result orientation.
• Experience in development methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Waterfall.
• Strong experience in preparing and reviewing design artifacts such as Use-case models, Implementation Proposals, Design documents and well versed in Rational Architect and UML.
• Highly practiced in clarifying business requirements, performing gap analysis between goals and existing procedures/skill sets, and designing process and system improvements to increase productivity.
• Strong interpersonal skills, highly adept at communicating effectively product improvements and strategies to the stakeholders. Recognized project management skills, consistently delivered complex, large-scale projects on time and with highest quality and exceeding expectations.

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Scrum Master
• Project Management
• Business Analyst
• Java Architect
• Telecom Solution Architect

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technologies/ Framework: Spring, Hibernate, Servlets, Struts, JSP, C++, QT, XML, Clear Case, Web Services

Operating System: UNIX, Linux, Windows

Languages: Java, COBRA, SQL, PL/SQL, UML, HTML, C, C++, QT

Scripting Languages: Perl, Shell, JavaScript

XML Technologies: DTD, Schemas, XSLT, DOM, SAX

Relational DB: MySQL, Sybase, Ingres

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, SAN RAMON, CA

Sr. Business Analyst/ Technical Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating User stories in JIRA to support scrum masters and development teams at offshore
• Participate in Daily scrum calls and work towards removing impediments to scrum teams
• Converting Client requirements into user stories and set priorities and delivery schedules
• Performing Business Analyst role by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews or Confidential mobile and web projects collectively valued at over $2 million
• Lead cross functional teams in multiple geographies developing Mobile Apps for Confidential
• Actively involved in all stages of Business life cycle planning and implementing activities including creating business/functional specifications, user stories for Change Requests, WBS, critical path diagrams, schedule and cost baselines; overseeing quality functions to deliver mission critical projects
• Followed Agile (Scrum model) software development processes and supported scrum master and Tech team

Confidential, SUNNYVALE, CA

Agile Delivery Manager/ Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Project Manager/Product Owner for a scrum team of 15 people preparing User Stories, roadmaps and managing weekly sprints.
• Build strong working relationships with key stakeholders to understand and analyze engineering, business, and other data processing, processes and capability needs related to a variety of business domains .
• Facilitating with Client Product Owners in preparing the User Stories for the monthly deliveries.
• Facilitating the sprint teams in understanding the User Stories and conducting the sprint planning and review meetings for the weekly sprints.
• Discussing with the teams in daily scrum meetings on the impediments encountered during the implementations and resolving them after discussing with the partner teams.
• Providing technical support to the developers in Java and SQL whenever required.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager (Scrum Master)

Responsibilities:

• Advised product managers regarding product strategies and helped prepare and maintain product roadmaps.
• Guided an 8 member scrum team to deliver in time with outstanding quality
• Involved in various Scrum activities like Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, sprint Review and Retrospective meetings
• Helped prepare and maintain Scrum artifacts like Product and Sprint Backlogs and Roadmaps.
• Provided technical assistance in solving issues during the design and implementation
• Coordinated product development across different modules providing a clear understanding of the customer requirements and technical assistance in the product delivery
• Conducted various sessions to the team in building the overall competency in the areas of Java Performance tuning, CORBA and SQL.

Confidential

Technical Project Lead and Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Led a 10 member scrum team as a Scrum Master that delivered in quick sprints and reduced time to delivery by 25 % and improved the efficiency of the deliverables from 15% defects to 5% defects
• Involved in various Scrum activities like Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, sprint Review and Retrospective meetings
• Worked on various Scrum artifacts like Product and Spring Backlogs, Product Increment etc.
• Led multiple scrum teams as Scrum of Scrums coordinating the project’s product backlogs and agile deliverables
• Provided technical assistance to a 10 member code refactoring team that improved the response times of critical features by 100%
• As Liaison Engineer, translated critical business needs into actionable specification designs and improved delivery efficiency by 7%
• Coordinated product development across different modules providing a clear understanding of the customer requirements and technical assistance in Java, CORBA and SQL during the product delivery
• Led product Integration team that quickly builds and deploys integration frameworks to test various integration and performance issues
• Facilitated development and deployment of quick product prototypes helping product owners to clearly understand value addition of new features.
• Worked with the Test Automation team that implemented java scripts to handle the automation of manual testing that reduced manual work by 35%

Confidential

Technology Lead | Java Architect | Java Designer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for development and maintenance deliveries post transfer. As onsite coordinator, discussed the development and maintenance tasks with clients and served as a bridge between clients and offshore team.
• Deployed JVM profiling tools and reduced the application overhead and memory consumption by 65%
• Developed and deployed XML parsing tools using DOM parser
• Spearheaded the project transition the complete application from Confidential Italy
• Led a team of 4 people who were involved in the Knowledge Transfer from Confidential

Confidential

Onsite Coordinator | Solution Architect | Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development for convergence of Public Ethernet Manager with Service On Core
• Responsible for coordination and involved in the Knowledge transfer from the Service On Core Team
• Involved in code refactoring, unit testing, review and code walk through.
• Worked as onsite coordinator with the client team onsite and was responsible for maintaining the coordination between the client and the offshore team.
• Responsible for providing solutions to various technical issues during all phases of the life cycle.

Confidential

C++ Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Graphics and Proteomics Modules maintenance.
• Involved in designing the scripting framework for Bio-suite.
• Involved in code refractory, unit testing, reviewing and code walk through.
• Responsible for preparing unit test cases and identifying specific tools those are useful in development.
• Responsible for providing solutions to issues found during all phases of the life cycle.

Confidential

C++ INTERN

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for conducting a survey, designing and implementing a HMM based handwriting recognizer.
• Worked with the testing team in preparing the test specifications and providing technical inputs to the team.
• Conducted demonstration of the product to the customers with success