SUMMARY

• 11+ years of experience as IT Professional with strong Leadership, Project Management, End - to-End Planning, Execution and Delivery of systems.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner(CSPO) with 3+ years of managing scrum teams and using Rally/Kanban.
• Excellent Business strategist - plan and manage multimillion-dollar projects, aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements and competitive advantage.
• Enabling teams to consistently provide contract deliverables.
• Successfully delivered high-quality completion of systems engineering, software/mobile payment development and enterprise wide implementation projects.
• Proven Ability to Fight Scope Creep. Experienced in Change Management, Incident Management and Release Management. Experienced in Risk Management.
• Providing the Definition, Management and Implementation of Automation projects across Multiple Programs to facilitate accurate Project Planning, Tracking and Scheduling.
• Leading programs and projects to consistent successful completion. Creating productive internal and external client relationships.
• Vendor Management and Support Documentation. Building and mentoring cross functional teams and vendors Resource Optimization & Management.
• Supervising, Project Proposals and Business Development. Expertise in Effort Estimations, Resource Planning and skill level staffing.
• Demonstrated expertise in the design, development, testing and evaluating of software. Extensive understanding of a range of technologies, Architectural and engineering solutions.
• Tracking project progress in terms of cost, resource deployment, time over runs and quality compliance and proactively identified problems to ensure adherence to delivery time-lines.
• Skilled in Test Management including Preparation of Test Strategy, Release Plan, Test Plans, Story/Sprint Sign-off Reports, Sprint and Scrum Release artifacts, Risk Analysis Plan, Test Closure and Test Summary Reports and Test Deliverables.
• Experienced working across a wide array of Tools, Technologies and Domains.
• Excellent communicator - leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MS Office, UNIX, MS Windows, 9X/NT/2000/2003/XP, Mac OS, Android Devices.

Tools: & Test Management: Clarity, Rally, Kanban, SharePoint, Quality Centre, ALM, Lotus Notes, Slack, TFS,Jira

Languages: Cobol, Mainframe

Configuration Tools: MS VSS, SharePoint

MS Tools: MSoffice2013, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project planner, Visio

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, SAFe

IT Project Lifecycle: Cross-Functional Supervision, Team Building & Mentoring, Client Relations & Presentations, Business & IT Planning, Vendor Management, Product Roadmap and Brand development, Planning and Prioritization

Value-Added Leadership: Requirements Analysis, ROI Analysis, Costing & Budgeting, Project Scheduling, Testing/QA/Rollout/Support

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with other product owners, system engineers, program managers, developers, testers, and customers to define features and technical user stories
• Coordinated with systems partners to finalize designs and confirm requirements.
• Support an Agile Software Development process, working in conjunction with end users / stakeholders and technical delivery team
• Work closely with counterparts in Product Management to align on the vision, program backlog, and road-map
• Acting as stakeholder of specific product backlog items, work closely with development teams to ensure the output to be aligned with expectations
• Being the voice of the customer and providing a business perspective on value during day-to-day development
• Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work.
• Owned and prioritized product backlog.
• Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.
• Identifying areas of implementation of automation tools to improve efficiency, eliminate waste and free up labor hours for other needs.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Business partners, Sales and marketing teams and other Product owners manager to identify market needs to prioritize the device certifications
• Work with the business to understand and determine system implications in terms of the platform(s)/application(s) and business processes.
• Reviews development estimates from different technology teams and actively seeks clarification/verification as appropriate.
• Work with business and Technology delivery teams to define features for supporting business use cases.
• Work with development teams to groom user stories for the proposed features that meets business requirements and enterprise quality standards.
• Organize daily stand up scrum calls, backlog prioritization, release planning, release report and post implementation review
• Work closely with technology teams, providing inputs during project envisioning (resource requirements, development estimates, etc.) and throughout the development sprints to ensure business objectives are met.
• Develop and review the consolidated (master level) artefacts
• Proactively anticipates any project risks and issues and ensures adequate mitigation efforts are put in place to ensure overall delivery is not compromised.
• Assist in Sprint/release planning and attend Post sprint/release reviews to ensure lessons learned are carried forward in subsequent sprint/release activities

Confidential

Enterprise Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed projects to determine requirements and procured necessary equipment and software for moving the projects from Waterfall to Agile methodologies
• Create and manage features that were turned into transformation stories to allow smooth transition for each project into Agile workflow.
• Managed and motivated project teams to promote collaboration and Agile transformation and keep members on-task and productive.
• Built and utilized reporting systems to keep projects on track and keep management in loop with latest information.
• Investigated and corrected or escalated project problems.
• Performed detailed assessments of risks for each project to determine constraints and develop migration strategies.
• Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.
• Developed team communications and information for Weekly - Migration meetings.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Derived conceptual designs from business objectives to deliver software and applications according to specifications for usability, performance and functionality.
• Led cross-functional teams to analyze and understand enterprise-wide operational impacts and opportunities of technology changes.
• Managed testing cycles, including test plan creation, development of scripts and co-ordination of user acceptance testing for Product launches within Credit card industry.
• Evaluated Loyalty trends to understand competitive environments and assess current strategies.
• Mapped process activities to identify shortfalls and identify options to rectify operational inefficiencies.
• Interfaced with cross-functional team of business analysts, developers and technical support professionals to determine comprehensive list of requirement specifications for new applications.
• Documented business processes and analyzed procedures to align with changing business needs.
• Developed wireframes, site maps and content inventories for new website designs.
• Documented business processes and analyzed procedures to align with changing business needs.
• Developed wireframes, site maps and content inventories for new website designs.

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Ensure development is performed to the specifications
• Develop test plans, perform unit and integration testing of software
• Work closely with development teams in EMEA to ensure project timelines are met
• Hands on technical development of mainframe application components
• Drive back-to-front development of application components
• Competent to work on complex programming and analysis projects with limited direction
• Develop thorough test cases (normal and exception) and fully test programs using standard accepted practices for unit testing and system testing.