SUMMARY:

• Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as expert knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles.
• Balance business/technical background with sufficient level of technical background to provide highly credible leadership to technology teams. Required.
• Ability to work with customers, understand their business practices and manage their expectations. Required.
• Demonstrated strong verbal/written communication skills with the ability to simplify and communicate complex issues to multiple audiences.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Herndon, NJ

Agile Coach / Agile Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Helped Product Management team to build Program Backlog, and Visualize Releases
• Helped the development teams in Agile Estimations and improved velocity from 90 story points to 200 story points
• Coached the development teams in Test Driven Development and attained 75:20:5 pyramid coverage for Unit, System, and UAT Test Scenarios
• Worked with various teams and implemented Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Testing for the program
• Involved in RFEs for the agile programs for Hexaware FPP projects and developed KPIs for the programs
• Developed Agile Maturity Framework and Agile adoption Readiness Framework for Hexaware customers

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Sr. Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Sr. Scrum Master / Agile Coach for Digital Membership Card - Self Service Tool & CSO Tapestry projects.
• Transformed and mentored four new teams to become agile and deliver the program. Implemented CICD practices for all the lower environments
• Helped Product Managers and launched PI Train for November Delivery of Kaiser’s Digital Membership Programs
• Worked with Product Owners and mentored them on defining the stories
• Scheduled and conducted all the agile ceremonies (Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog grooming, Sprint review/retrospective and daily stand-ups).
• Ensured a smooth delivery with of the projects using Scrum Methodology.
• Responsible for management reporting of various metrics on the program.
• Conducted several brown bag sessions that helped other programs in adopting agile

Technologies: Java, Jira, WebSphere, Oracle, SOA, REST

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Program Manager for IDMS Projects.
• Responsible for working on the IDMS Projects from Initiation to Closure using Kanban Methodology.
• Work with Engineering Managers, Developers and Vendors for accomplishing the Program Objectives and ensure delivery happens every 2 weeks.
• Responsible for on time delivery of projects that include high volume transactions with Directory Services.
• Prepare release notes on new features and communicate with all the stakeholders.
• Prepare and produce Status reports to the director on the on-going programs.

Technologies: Java, iOS, Couch base, NoSQL

Confidential, Monterey, CA

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an agile coach for CIGs projects mentioned above
• Set-up a complete Microsoft Suite of agile tools and delivery model for agile using TFS
• Established release cadence and program Kanban for the organization
• Work with Product Owners, Stakeholders, and Vendors on prioritizing the backlog items.
• Ensure that AQS and eCIG releases happen as per the business requirements and enabled the organization to penetrate sooner into the new markets
• Conduct Product Grooming Sessions, Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Communicate with business and external stakeholders for the major releases, and ensuring that system downtimes or communicated.

Technologies: .NET, TFS, WebServices, DW/BI, Oracle-Hyperion

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Sr. Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Sr. PM/Scrum Master for eCoupons Project for Confidential ’s mobile application.
• Coordinate the efforts from teams in a highly matrix organization.
• Conduct status meeting with customer and innovation team at Confidential .
• Manage Scope/Cost/Schedule changes through Clarity and Open Workbench.
• Manage Risks & Issues effectively through life cycle of the project.
• Worked on Agile model, participated in Product Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews and Retrospective Meetings.
• Implemented SaaS Services with Coupon vendors.
• Manage third party vendor teams from IBM, Cognizant and Coupons.com teams.

Technologies: Java, SaaS, Web Services, Mobile Technologies, ATG, HyperCloud

Confidential, Washington, DC

Sr. Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Sr. PM for Pick Automation, MTPD Photographs Archiving, and Scanning Projects. These projects are strategic initiatives of Confidential .
• Responsible for Delivery of Projects from end to end.
• Creating Staffing Plan, WBS, and Manage budget for the project.
• Follow agile model for the build.
• Manage project teams, Development Team, Testing & Business Analyst’s for the project.
• Provide status reports to the management on a weekly basis.
• Manage Scope, Cost, and Schedule changes through Change Management System.
• Work as BA as needed for the Documentum, SharePoint & Captiva developers.
• Document “As-Is” processes and define “To-be” process for various business units of Confidential

Technologies: .NET, Documentum, SharePoint, Captiva

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Sr. Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Sr. Project Manager for Offers Project.
• Responsible for setting-up scrum teams that helped in rolling out the offer projects on time
• Established offshore and onsite/offsite agile teams
• Manage project teams, Development Team, Testing & Business Analyst’s for the project.
• Provide status reporting to the management using seven keys to success.

Technologies: ASP.NET, QTP, IIS, Java Script, WebServices, Oracle-Hyperion

Confidential, Greenville, SC

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Program Manager for three different groups in offshore and onsite model. (Disability, Life, and Dental)
• Responsible for managing 15 onsite and 45 offshore team members spread in four locations of Confidential .
• Managed on-going releases and projects of Confidential by working with Development teams and business.
• Manage Risks & Issues effectively through life cycle of the project.
• Create Implementation Plan, and execute the same across the board.
• Responsible for 40 Metrics for the testing services. Reported on a periodic basis.
• Metrics based transition is applied for the knowledge transition
• Management reporting done twice a week. Report is purely objective with a lot of metrics.
• Managing the project milestones with MF, Java and SharePoint technologies.
• Quality ensured by using metrics framework throughout all the project life cycle.
• All projects delivered on time and under budget.

Technologies: Mainframe, Java Technologies, Testing, SharePoint

Confidential

IT Strategy Consultant

Responsibilities:

• ITIL Based solution provided for better performance of IT Systms.
• Roadmap created for current and future state of the system with a transition plan and cost breakdown by year.
• Optimized the performance of support and development system by providing the process improvement in IT Systems.
• Developed and Implemented Service Plans, SLAs and MMFs for Confidential IT Support.

Confidential, Fort Wayne, IN

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Delivery Manager for the AMS Services in the Lincoln Financial Groups Annuity business.
• Responsible for Projects and Releases of the Lincolns Annuity Business
• SDLC Water Fall Model is used for the Projects & Releases
• Earned Value Management (EVM) extensively used for managing the projects.
• Manage Risks & Issues effectively through life cycle of the project.
• Create Implementation Plan, and execute the same across the board.
• Metrics based reporting is done on the projects.
• CCB implemented as a part of the project.
• PCBs are used as per the Industry Standard for the Lincoln.

Technologies: Mainframe, Java, Lotus Notes, Web, ETL, Informatica.

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as End-to-End Project Manager involving, interaction with technical, people and business.
• Built the Project Charter, Project Plan, Quality Plan and Communication Plan with client.
• Used Hibernate & Spring for the project development. Custom built the JLog for the client.
• Managing the client relationship above project level and responsible for ensuring a long-term recurring business from the customer.
• Planning the tasks assigning to the team members, monitoring, mentoring, and motivating the team to meet the organizational and their personal objectives.

Technologies: Java, Hibernate, spring, Struts, WebLogic, SQL Server, Apache Webserver

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for collecting the requirements from the EC software development team and distribute the work accordingly to the team.
• Architect the solution and provide the guidance to the team
• Update the training material and train the development team on the new features.
• Provide support to global teams and clients on the platforms.
• Used V model for SW development.

Technologies: UNIX, Perl, Java, Shell Programming