SUMMARY:

• Over 20 years of experience as Kanban Lead, SCRUM Master, Program manager and Systems Architect primarily for medium to large IT companies. Is very strong in Agile Development Methodologies (SCRUM), Business Intelligence/Analytics, Software Development, Infrastructure, Testing and Quality Assurance, Building Teams, Product development and Implementation of IT Business Applications..

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Kanban Lead/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in quickly standing up an agile program called DVE (Dealer Value Experience) to meet the needs of Dealer sales. Also led the DVE program as Kanban lead/Scrum master and helped the product team in building the product backlog. Effectively directed the program to complete the backlog in a couple of quarters.
• Actively participated in DASH not only as a scrum master but also helped the program to groom the backlog and their prioritization to fill the needed gap for the role ambiguity of product owner.
• Responsible for leading cross functional teams, identifying key deliverables and driving teams to meet those deliverables and discerning when to escalate in order to achieve the stated objectives.
• Very knowledgeable in facilitating discussions and Business/Technical meetings in reaching decisions that support the enterprise objectives as well as buy - in from the individual teams.
• Well versed with agile methodologies and tools such as continuous integration, TDD, user stories, and agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily standups and Retrospectives.
• Actively involved on the on-boarding of teams on Cox proprietary Agile frame work called Café.
• Promoted self-organization and collaboration and team work in the teams by being open and continuously inspecting/adapting.

Environment: Rally, VersionOne,, COX PPM, Clarity, Visio, PowerPoint, Box, HP ALM 11.52, Informatica Power Center 9.6.1, Informatica BDE 10, Python 1.3, Cloudera, 50 Node Hadoop Cluster, Hive, HBase, AWS cloud, ORACLE 10g/11g, IBM Netezza 7.2, ICO Funnel, Responsive Design, Dependency Injection/Annotations, JSF 1.3, React 0.14, Redux, Java Script, JQuery, JSON, Restful Services

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SCRUM Master/Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in standing up agile processes during the delivery of MDM and SEG/CM projects.
• Actively managed the programs so that business requirements are understood and implemented. Identified the gaps and addressing them by working with technical teams.
• Actively participated in the transformation of governance processes and the implementation of new SDLC processes (Agile and Hybrid) not only in PMO but also across the enterprise by volunteering the State Farm program as a pilot. Provided valuable input in streamlining governance and SDLC processes.
• Actively promoted a collaborative environment between Business, Operations and Project teams (including BA, DEV and QA Teams) for smooth delivery.
• Responsible for building the required infrastructure which includes hardware and networking components for new initiatives
• Responsible for indirectly or directly managing the assignments and workload of a project team of about 35 people so that releases were delivered smoothly.
• Facilitated negotiation of the scope and the scheduling of product features between Business and IT to ensure the smooth delivery of releases.

Environment: MS Project 2013, VersionOne (Agile tool), TopTeam, SharePoint 2010, Clarity, Visio, PowerPoint, HP ALM 11.52, Mobile Apps iOS/Android, Informatica Power Center 9.6.1, Informatica MDM/HM, ORACLE 10g/11g, MW, SOA, AIA, OSB, OSM, ODI, BPEL, Siebel, Oracle ERP, BRM, OBIEE 11g, EDI Gentran GIS, JBOSS, VMware Virtualization.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Executed infrastructure projects such as Data Center Relocation and Consolidation, Active Directory Refresh, Customer Care (KANA IQ, EdgeHealth), Advertising (Cox-Media Middleware Upgrade), Digital Network Administration and Monitoring (Infinera) using Cox proprietary delivery model from inception to closure.
• Engaged in defining and implementing release management processes for a large program that interfaced with other functional groups, both external vendors and various internal programs.
• Extensively worked on defining various change management procedures that relate to release management such as project change control process, Environment change control process, software change control process, etc.
• Co-ordinated the efforts among 3rd party vendors, Cox Internal groups, NetCracker Managed Services Team for various testing activities towards a successful release. Audited the various processes in various groups, identified gaps, and filled them with appropriate measures.
• Responsible for project planning, cost and schedule estimation, and the guidance of technical teams through implementation. Also responsible for defining project scope, preparing project plans, Change Management, Vendor Management, and cost management.

Environment: MS Project Server 2010, SharePoint 2010, PPM, WorkEntry, Rally, Cox UPF ECM, Oracle Solaris 11, Visio, PowerPoint, HP Quality Center, NetCracker TOMS ver9, Oracle 11g, Informatica 9.5, Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle Exadata, OBIEE 11g, My SQL, Red Hat 5.7, Web-Methods, JBOSS, VMware Virtualization, ESXi architecture.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Executed data warehousing and business intelligence projects which had budgets of more than 5 million and were integrated with multiple source systems. Very strong in data modeling and database technologies.
• Responsible for Production Environment, Configuration Management, release calendar, Release Capacity Management, and working with internal/external vendors on large scale major releases.
• Responsible for project planning, budgeting in terms of cost and schedule, guiding the technical teams through implementation, change management, risk management, preparing project and release plans, project scope, and the successful execution of projects.
• Built and fostered high performance matrix teams by identifying needed resources and implementing a management plan to ensure successful delivery of the overall program.
• Responsible for tracking and capturing program metrics and perform analysis. Excellent in identifying and resolving impediments/Issues.
• Responsible for implementing change management process, which is in line with PMO, to carry out the changes and enhancements that surfaced after development.

Environment: MS Project, Primavera, Ecosys, ReqPro, Visio, PowerPoint, HP Quality Center, Ab Initio, Cognos, QRM V16, Oracle Reveleus, Essbase, Oracle 11g, DB2, Toad, CA-7, IBM AIX.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SCRUM Master/Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• A highly motivated and energetic professional, dedicated to understanding and meeting clients’ needs. Highly knowledgeable in project management tools, processes and techniques.
• Successfully implemented solutions using Agile (SCRUM) Methodology by playing the roles of Product Owner as well as Scrum Master in different projects. Effectively managed the product backlogs in line with corporate strategies and goals, optimized team velocities, improved the teams’ capacity by removing impediments, created high level budgets, and coordinated the release management activities.
• Has in-depth knowledge in supply chain management solutions. Reduced the shipping costs of end clients using indigenously developed Least Cost Routing and Optimization Systems which resulted in the reduction of operating costs by more than 30%.
• Converted the product vision into user stories, prioritized the product backlog based on the corporate strategy, and worked with the SCRUM teams to convert the stories into product features.
• Has an excellent track record of successfully managing small to large projects from conception to completion with strong leadership, managerial, analytical and technical skills.
• Has extensive experience in managing offshore teams for clients. Addressed issues of quality, cost, communication, culture and other issues that arise from a typical offshore establishment.

Environment: MS Project, Visio, Rally, Clarity, EXceed WMS by EXE, RFID Technologies, SAP Supply Chain Management, AS/400, EDI GENTRAN GIS, Oracle 9i, Informatica Power Center 5.1.2/7.1.2 , Business Objects 5, IBM VisualAge, Visual C++ 5.0, TCP/IP Sockets, SQL Server 6.5, Java, RISC-6000, AIX.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Systems Architect/Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall systems design, identifying integrations constraints, and creating the conceptual designs.
• Actively involved in understanding and recommending the best customization based on the customer's needs.
• Has expertise in coordinating, negotiating and motivating outside vendors and off-shore resources in support of timeline and IT project deliverables.

Environment: IBM ES/9000, MVS/ESA, DB2, CICS, VSAM, VS-COBOL-II, JCL, CLIST, REXX, XPEDITOR, File-AID, ChangeMan, OMEGAMON, Platinum Detector, EZTRIEVE.