SUMMARY:

• Seasoned IT consultant with 25+ years of experience in Solution/Software development and business process improvement.
• Lead and transformed development teams using Agile Methodology since 2008 (8+ years).
• Recent experiences include leading, coaching and mentoring development teams as an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, and Development team technical lead.
• Proficient in development frameworks including SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, XP, RUP and SDLC. Expert in Agile tools like Rally and JIRA Agile.
• Versatile communicator with experience delivering training to a variety of audiences, developing content such as instructor slide decks, workshop materials, and transforming development teams into high performing teams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

SAFe Coach

Responsibilities:

• Provided Agile/SAFe coaching and mentoring to multiple development teams working on developing application for Confidential ;
• Performed analysis of the current state of agile implementation as part of IV&V for Confidential ;
• Provided a detailed report on the current practice and ways to improve the Agile implementation, to help transform development teams into performing teams;
• Provided training and coaching for development teams, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners on Agile Scrum, Kanban, DevOps and XP practices;
• Trained IV&V Team on Java and Selenium programming for Test Automation implementation;
• Helped Confidential executive management setup Confidential Agile University division for company to train Government development teams, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), and Scaled Agile (SAFe Agilist) training.

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Senior Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the teams as Senior Agile coach providing training to development teams at Confidential training and coaching on implementing Agile Scrum and Kanban practices;
• Was responsible for coaching and mentoring three development teams.
• Commute from Springfield VA to Columbia, MD was taking almost 4 hours a day - putting a lot of stress with daily commute, hence decided to end the contract.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Part of Agile Advisory team for analysis of Agile Practices for Confidential development teams;
• Performed series of interviews with majority of Confidential ’s development teams and provided detailed analysis of the current state of operations;
• Developed the training plan to get the enterprise wide efficient implementation of Agile practices including Agile Scrum, Kanban and various XP practices including Confidential, and CI/CD;
• Confidential went under restructuring, which led to the elimination of this position to support the customer Confidential .

Confidential, Reston, VA

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Working with Confidential helping lead Development teams using Scrum, Architecture and DEVOPS team using Kanban methodology;
• Coordinating multiple teams for the Enterprise data initiative using SAFe for Agile practice;
• Represented the teams in Scrum of Scrums;
• Leading, coaching and mentoring the development teams using Agile Scrum methodology;
• Instrumental in devising Confidential enterprise data Agile Center of Excellence. A group of Agile Coaches, Confidential and Scrum master reviewing the agile practice and help device team improvement plans. Center of Excellence was continuously working on improving the Agile practices;
• Implemented Test Driven Development for the development teams. Due to the nature of development activity we did not utilize any automated testing frameworks. Quality assurance team drove development of test cases, and development team utilized the test cases for Test driven development of INFORMATICA based interface development;
• Lead the setup of Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline for the DEVOPS team using Jenkins;
• Mentored Product owner on drafting user stories, and backlog grooming;
• Facilitated all the Scrum ceremonies, Sprint Planning, Daily standup, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective;
• Used Rally as the Agile Lifecycle management tool. Produced metrics for Teams and external business consumption. Teams used the burndown as information radiator for development team progress, and business used various reports including Release Burn up charts;
• Developing Rally documentation to use by other Scrum Master on various tasks with Rally;
• Facilitated Program Increment (PI) planning with Confidential and other Scrum Masters;
• Arranged “getKanban” game to help Architecture and Devops team gain understanding of Kanban methodology.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Agile Technical Coach, Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead Confidential software development team to coach on Agile Scrum, Kanban and other agile practice like Test Driven Development ( Confidential );
• Delivered Agile Scrum coaching sessions for Product owner, and development team. Coached on drafting user stories, backlog prioritization and backlog grooming;
• Lead development team following agile development practices, helping the development team with Agile principles, as well as development support for design and develop various applications used by Confidential ;
• Helping write User Stories, Iteration Planning, Sprint Planning and all Scrum meetings including daily scrum/standup, sprint review, sprint retrospective;
• Coached and Mentored additional division of Confidential -PMO with Kanban coaching and Setup Kanban board;
• Expert in JIRA Agile for Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM).

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Agile Technical Lead/Manager

Responsibilities:

• Influenced technical leadership and serves as the Service Delivery Manager for all Confidential Application Engineering and development services including application strategy and planning, business mission and user requirements analysis, applications architecture and design, application development and testing and systems integration initiatives;
• Served as the Technical Lead for the preparation and operations of Confidential Agile development teams;
• Developed boot camp to coach multiple development teams for a) Agile Scrum practices; and b) Operation as Agile development teams for Java based web application development using frameworks like spring, hibernate and Maven for continuous integration;
• Lead the team to setup development environment for the development team in anticipation of Confidential award;
• Authored draft of the Service Catalog for Confidential Corporation;
• Responsible for the talent acquisition for the Confidential project and other projects supported by Confidential .

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Technical Lead/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Served as the Technical Lead for the Patents System Division (PSD) providing technical leadership and guidance for multiple development projects. PSD is responsible for all the software applications being developed and maintained by Confidential ;
• Researched and authored a white paper on existing Confidential applications. To get a thorough understanding of the Confidential business, investigated how the Patent Application was filed at Confidential and written a white paper on the process of how a patent application was filed and the process and applications that were involved once a patent application was filed. Listing the Automated Information Systems (AIS's) involved in hosting the patent application as it goes through pre-examination and examination;
• Lead Projects at Confidential as Tech Lead included OACS, DMI (OACS/PALM/eDAN), Chinese Patents Search and Translations also known as GPSN, CPC Database, PRS Thematic Goal and Text2PTO;
• Lead Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) Database project and Global Patent Search Network (GPSN) project which was making the Chinese Patents and their translations available on the Web in the Amazon Cloud environment as Scrum Master in addition to providing technical leadership;
• Provided technical leadership to multiple project development teams. For development projects, lead the development teams in requirements analysis, design, development and coordination of testing with the support groups;
• Authored the Design Review Process and in corporate in the Confidential SDLC process for enhancement of the quality of development by the outside vendors.
• Lead the teams as Scrum Master, providing coaching and guidance to the development team and product owner to follow the Agile/Scrum Methodology;
• Coached members on Agile practices, especially Scrum and Test driven development ( Confidential ) and the use of Rally for Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) and planning Release, Iterations and Daily Scrum;
• Coached product owners on agile principles, and helped draft and groom user stories, and facilitate estimation and release planning sessions, and iteration planning.

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Senior Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked for Confidential on the Transportation Information System as Sr. Java Software developer. Current version of the Transportation system was developed in PowerBuilder, this effort was to port the Power Builder application to Java/J2EE application using SQL Server as the back end database. Provided analysis of the power builder application and developed the design and development for the application implementation;
• Responsibilities included developing application using EJB 3, JSF, in Jboss and SQL Server environment using spring and hibernate frameworks. Provided mentoring support to junior development team members;
• Was part of the agile development team, following Agile scrum methodology.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Technical Lead/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Leading the development of Enrollment and Eligibility System for Veterans Affairs. Development for the project was in Java, iLog jRules, Jboss, Oracle 10g and using Spring and Hibernate frameworks;
• Led a team of 15 members, including developers, DBA, BA, CM and QA group;
• Coached Agile methodologies, as the teams were new to Agile Scrum methodology, coached the team as Scrum Coach on Agile Methodologies like Scrum, Confidential and CI;
• Development environment was using IBM WebSphere Application Server, Eclipse IDE, Maven Scripts and SVN for version control. Logging functionality was provided using Log4J framework and JUnit and TestNG framework for Test Driven Development( Confidential ). Database used was Oracle 10g, with Spring and used Hibernate framework for Object Relational Mapping (ORM);
• Managed the agile lifecycle using Codesion/Scrum Works as the Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool;
• Used Version One and finally VA approved Rational Team Concert, Rational Requirements Composer and Rational quality center for entire project management from requirements, development, to testing of the components;
• Coached Product owner on agile methodologies, and helped author user stories, development of the backlog, backlog prioritization, iteration planning and release planning. Worked with the teams on estimation of user stories.

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Senior Java Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved as a Sr. Java Consultant, worked on developing the front-end applications using - Spring Framework and Ibatis framework in a WebSphere Application Server 7.0 and Oracle 11g environment;
• Responsible for developing the design for new requirements. Worked with other members of the team with the designing and development of the project. Developing a Business Reply Mail - permit management application. Tools used for development included Eclipse IDE and frameworks used were Ibatis for Object Relational Mapping and Spring Framework;
• Development team was using Agile Scrum methodology.

Confidential, Washington, DC

EM Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Environment Management (EM) team and work with Configuration Management (CM) and Performance and Capacity Planning ( Confidential ) teams. Day to day task involved supporting the development projects going on at Confidential -FEPOC, making sure the applications were deployed as per the life cycle in place at Confidential ;
• Troubleshoot any issues the development team with their environments. Including admin services for the source code repository Serena Dimensions;
• Architected, designed and developed the automated service web application using MySQL and PHP to help the teams with the day to day activities and to streamline the processes handled by the EM team.

Confidential, Towson, MD 0

Enterprise Architect/Scrum Coach, Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to lead and provide guidance to Confidential product development for new product - Confidential, powered by n-tier architecture.
• Confidential was a Portal application providing Confidential customers a solution to their requirements for Business Intelligence reporting. Lead multiple development teams through the requirements, design and development effort for IntelliSource. Responsibilities included Architecture definition, design and implementation of IntelliSource and Confidential . IntelliSource was the backbone architecture for Confidential product. IntelliSource was divided into multiple sub-components, including Data Acquisition, Quality Measures processing, BPM Engine for managing business processes, ETL loads to Data Marts and Information Delivery system, which was responsible for user management, reporting engine and end user interface. Technology used in the development of IntelliSource - a Business Intelligence Solution for Insurance companies - was based on JBOSS Application Server, JBOSS Portal, SEAM, spring, JPA/Hibernate, JBPM and EJB3 frameworks;
• Software development methodology implemented was Agile/Scrum for software lifecycle development;
• Project teams were new to Agile/Scrum so held training sessions and coached the teams on Scrum methodologies. Coached multiple teams on Agile Scrum, and Test Driven Development ( Confidential ) methodologies;
• Lead teams by example, was the Scrum master for the development teams, and Scrum of Scrums;
• Coached product owner with Agile Scrum methodology, and helped with User stories, and backlog grooming, prioritization and estimation - worked with the product owner on Release Planning;
• IntelliSource architecture provides complete support to the Confidential business intelligence products. Additionally, responsible for leading the teams designing and creating the Data Marts handling large volume data for Informatics services layer.
• Also, responsible for defining the processes for design and development practices, enforcing process governance and cross cutting concerns across multiple teams;
• Authored governance processes, to ensure teams were following the defined software lifecycle processes. Communicate with product management about the architectural decisions and presenting on a monthly (Sprints) basis - the progress of the development teams.