SUMMARY:

• 8 years of Professional experience in the software industry focusing on Agile, SCRUM and SDLC's for product and projects development with in - house and offshore team's solutions.
• Experienced in SCRUM based iterative incremental development showing increasing business value every SPRINT.
• Experienced in working fast paced environment & completed project tasks effectively under immense pressure.
• Experienced in Agile techniques such as SPRINT planning, Product Backlog management, Agile estimation, daily SCRUM, metrics such as Burn-down & Velocity charts, Sprint summary report, Sprint review/retro meetings etc.
• Excellent knowledge and exposure in SAFe.
• Good knowledge in modern delivery practices such as continuous integration, behavior/test driven development.
• Expertise in handling teams involved in developing data driven applications.
• Focused on building high-performing teams, support organization structure optimization and communication alignment to increase development velocity and quality toward business driven goals.
• Experience managing distributed development teams spanning multiple geographies and time zones
• Extensive experience in project/program management life cycle for large application development projects including scoping, estimating, budgeting, scheduling, data/metrics analysis, resource/risk management.
• Accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale software and Web development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams.
• Expertise in Waterfall and iterative methodologies such as Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology, and Agile.
• Good exposure to Agile methodologies like XP, Kanban.
• Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.
• Excellent knowledge in waterfall to Agile transformation using Scrum at both organization and project level.
• Good Understanding of data analysis techniques using various tools.
• Expert knowledge in understanding human resource data and finding insights from them.
• Experienced in measuring Employee engagement and key HR Metrics.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management Tools: MS Office, MS Project

Software Management Tools: RALLY/Ca, TFS

Programming & Technologies: Python, Java, SQL, SPSS, Selenium.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Littleton

Scrum Master

• Scrum Master for two development teams handling Service Activation in telecom domain.
• Facilitate Daily Standup, Defect Review Sessions, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Review, and Product Backlog Refinement meetings.
• Implementing Scrum with Rally/ca to track the progress of project and involved in creating Product Backlogs, EPICs and User Stories.
• Facilitate estimation sessions, SAFe PI planning, prioritization of stories, coordinate releases with other teams, manage dependencies with other teams.
• Make sure team has enough knowledge and help required to complete the commitments and make them self-dependent.
• Guard team from external forces which will divert the focus on Sprint goal and help the team to increase their velocity.
• Getting ready for each sprint and release planning meeting by working with team to breakdown Feature Stories into small deliverable User Stories that are appropriately sized for each sprint.
• Manage Prioritized backlog in Agile environment using Rally.
• Participate in Scrum of Scrums to track the progress of project at program level.
• Facilitate SWAT calls for teams and vendors to resolve issues quickly.
• Coaching the team with Product Owner in understanding the vision and goals of the project with each sprint in focus.
• Worked alongside senior management to define quarterly and yearly goals. Led weekly performance review meeting with executive team.
• Track burn downs & Velocity charts throughout the sprint and release.
• Track and remind the team of improvement experiments from their retrospective.
• Provided weekly status reports to the customer, including sprint scope, issues, risks, mitigation plan and upcoming activities
• Experience with Epic (Feature set - larger body of work) and Story point assignments for the product backlog.
• Ensuring story points and estimated hours are setup with Sprint goal in focus.
• Experience with sprint and burn down charts to measure the progress of sprint.
• Helping business prioritize the product backlog (PBI) based on various parameters so the tasks for each sprint (iteration) would be completed on time.
• Rollover of User Stories and reprioritize the backlog if user stories are not completed.
• Redefine user story priorities of a sprint when team comes up with new discoveries that impact size or value of work.
• Defining the definition of done and updating release backlog accordingly.

Confidential, Irving

Scrum Master

• Scrum Master for two development teams handling Credit Card portfolio management.
• Facilitate Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Review, and Product Backlog Refinement meetings.
• Lead Requirement Engineering huddles before start of the sprints.
• Implementing Scrum with TFS to track the progress of project and involved in creating Product Backlogs, EPICs and User Stories.
• Getting ready for each sprint and release planning meeting by working with team to breakdown Feature Stories into small deliverable User Stories that are appropriately sized for each sprint.
• Manage Prioritized backlog in Agile environment using TFS.
• Coaching the team with Product Owner in understanding the vision and goals of the project with each sprint in focus.
• Managed development of applications from concept/idea to live product.
• Worked alongside senior management to define quarterly and yearly goals. Led weekly performance review meeting with executive team.
• Track burn downs & Velocity charts throughout the sprint and release.
• Track and remind the team of improvement experiments from their retrospective.
• Provided weekly status reports to the customer, including sprint scope, issues, risks, mitigation plan and upcoming activities
• Interact and lead software development group in change control, issues resolution, requirements gathering, analysis and design, risk analysis, risk mitigation, programming/construction, unit testing, integrated, regression and performance testing and transition of applications into a production environment.
• Worked with Stake Holders to prioritize the high-level capabilities listed in the Product backlogs (PBI).
• Experience with Epic (Feature set - larger body of work) and Story point assignments for the product backlog.
• Ensuring story points and Estimated hours are setup with Sprint goal in focus.
• Experience with sprint and burn down charts to measure the progress of sprint.
• Helping business prioritize the product backlog (PBI) based on various parameters so the tasks for each sprint (iteration) would be completed on time.
• Align business and technology roadmaps and manage to milestones.
• Redefine user story priorities of a sprint when team comes up with new discoveries that impact size or value of work.
• Defining the definition of done and updating release backlog accordingly.

Confidential, Vizag

Scrum master/ Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Managed two teams working on reports for Claims and electronic medical records as a Scrum Master.
• Envisioning and grooming product backlog with product owners.
• Facilitating Sprint planning sessions for every sprint.
• Facilitating Story grooming sessions.
• Working in collaboration with PMO and business leadership to drive program Road Map
• Driving release planning meetings.
• Working with multiple Scrum teams to reach the goal.
• Facilitating Scrum of Scrums.
• Mentoring teams for better self-organization
• Help Business to understand Scrum Framework and follow its principles.
• Schedule and facilitate daily stand up Sprint meetings.
• Planning Sprint and Release Demo meetings.
• Facilitate Sprint and Release Retrospectives bringing in various formats to keep the team interactive.
• Remove impediments and provide healthy environment for team to reach sprint goal.
• Track project status using Burn down charts.
• Coaching the team on the rules of Scrum, guiding the team to self-organization, continuous improvement, and cross-functionality.
• Recognizes risk triggers and clearly communicates situation to project teams, sponsors and stakeholders.
• Acted as product owner for few sprints and involved in prioritizing user stories.

Confidential

Data Analyst/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Implemented the project in Agile software development using TFS as software management tool, and played the role of Scrum Master for a team located across Onshore and Offshore.
• Facilitated all the Scrum ceremonies (Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Review meetings, Retrospectives and Product backlog refinement meetings)
• Present KPIs of the project once in a week to senior management.
• Involved in transforming a team from waterfall to Agile and coaching them.
• Conducted Employee Engagement Surveys across the organizations and analyzing the data for measuring key drivers of engagement.
• Analyzed survey data and prepare reports at various levels.
• Involved in new product development starting from idea to implementation stage.
• Participated in requirement analysis meetings to manage the product log effectively.

Confidential

Data Analyst

• Creating, extracting and manipulating data used for strategic business analysis and reporting.
• Analyzing the segregated data and preparing a report.
• Provide detailed designs based on user requirements.
• Suggesting clients with accurate solutions.
• Studies on competitive and market intelligence.
• Perform Sentimental Analysis.
• Analyze Customer Satisfaction Surveys.
• Confining insights from analyzed data and incorporating’ them into appropriate metrics in the report outlay, citing key recommendations/findings and final report delivery.
• Data extraction from various sources at times.
• Doing Post Performance Analysis.