OBJECTIVE:

Seeking a challenging position as Scrum Master / Project Manager

SUMMARY:

• 13 plus years of experience as Project Manager/Scrum Master with strong record of achievement in managing highly visible enterprise technology projects and programs. Proven success with project management, software development, system implementation and oversight of key performance indicators (KPI’s) Certified Scrum Master
• Highly motivated professional with experience working on wide range of IT Projects of commercial and Confidential domains.
• Customer oriented and multitasking professional with excellent analytical and logical skills.
• Highly experienced in leading large cross functional teams of developers, testers, CM, Architects and product owners.
• Experience with managing transitions of agile delivery teams from Waterfall to SCRUM or Kanban
• Effective at coaching/mentoring the agile team on agile process and practices
• Well versed with software development life cycle (SDLC), Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, ITSM, PMI - PMBOK, Six Sigma, CMMi methodologies
• Proficient in business process improvement, re-engineering, change control, development process, quality assurance principles, concepts relative to standards and procedures, review process, reporting, escalation and continuous improvement.
• Strong SQL skills for data Validation /Verification and adhoc reporting for Client.
• Highly experienced in using tools like JIRA, Confluence, Requisite Pro,Rational clearcase, Remedy

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Agile SCRUM
• Business and Systems Solutions Stakeholder Communications
• Liaison Business Process Modeling Systems Analysis Design
• Total Quality Management(TQM) Functional Design
• CMMI Level 3 Practices User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Systems/Requirement Analysis Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Office Project, Confidential Rational Clear Quest 7.0.1, Confidential Rational Requisite Pro, Confidential Clear Case, Microsoft Visio, Sharepoint, Mercury’s Quality Center 8.2, Test Director 8.0/7.2, Test Manager, Confidential Rational Portfolio Manager, Agile User Stories, iRise, Wirefy

Functional Testing Tools: Test Manager, Mercury’s Win Runner 8.0/7.5/7.0, Quick Test Professional (QTP) 8.2/6.5, Confidential Rational Functional Tester 7.0.1, Confidential Rational Manual Tester 7.0.1.2, Microsoft Office Visio 2003, WinSCP4.1.6,Bugzilla

Programming Languages: SQL,UNIX Shell Scripting, HTML, XML, Java 7,Java Script, JQueryDatabases Oracle, MS-Access, MS-SQL Server

Web Application Server: Web Logic, Web Sphere, Tomcat and Apache

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Environment: Agile SCRUM,JIRA,Confluence,Java,JQuery,JSF,WebLogic,Androiod,iOS,Oracle,SQL,Linux,SVN,Webservices, XML

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, Confidential and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Drive multiple projects forward concurrently
• Ensured that the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, visibility and Investigate, analyze and make recommendations to management regarding technology improvements, upgrades and modifications
• Presented Demos to Product owner after end of every iteration.
• Supported the development team by assisting with organizing and updating the Confidential backlog
• Managed the team - Ensure that daily, Confidential, release commitments are being upheld
• Removed obstacles that are preventing the team from accomplishing its Confidential goals.
• Ensured that the team’s progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself. This information may take the form of various Scrum artifacts, from backlogs to burn-down charts.
• Followed Agile methodology to ensure that the team lives by the values and practices of Scrum. The Scrum Master protects the team by making sure they do not over-commit themselves to what they can achieve during a Confidential .

Confidential

Scrum Master/Project Lead

Environment: s: JIRA,SQL Developer, MS Project, iRise, SQL, Oracle, JAVA, SOAP Web Services, Agile, WebLogic, SVN, Agile SCRUM

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with testing teams and development during development and testing phases
• Responsible for documenting real time metrics/reporting to map stories from JIRA to Rally. Setting up these reports to support the Agile/Scrum process. The candidate should have experience pulling reports for all components of JIRA.
• Maintained confluence pages, team’s scrum board.
• Ensured that Confidential schedules and reviews are posted centrally for cross-team visibility
• Coordinated the Scrum Team’s capacity planning with the respective AD and Tech teams
• Helping the team to get rid of external and internal impediments
• Mediating through conflicts (internal and with external parties as well).
• Collaborate with AD and BA teams to ensure project backlog is groomed, prioritized and maintained
• Facilitating the space to have a Backlog Grooming sessions
• Faceoff with BAs on open questions and concerns with committed stories
• Ensure all processes are followed so that scrum teams’ JIRA boards represent accurate status of Sprints and team backlog
• Ensuring Scrum teams follow JIRA workflows and processes in order to complete stories committed in a Confidential

Confidential

Environment: s: Rational Rose, Rational RequisitePro, ClearQuest, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, JAVA, J2EE, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, MS SQL Server

Responsibilities:

• Served as liaison between technical and non-technical departments
• Communicated with management, developers, product managers, product owners and support specialists on product issues; improve inter-team communications.
• Facilitated business signoff of on design documents, Requirements, RTM and change Control Board approvals.
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and managed throughout the project.
• Responsible for conducting joint application development (JAD) sessions, project meetings, reviews, walkthroughs and customer interviews.
• Skilled in gap analysis using as is and to be business processes, SWOT analysis and cost/benefit analysis.
• Worked closely in coordinating, negotiating and motivating testing teams in support of timeline and project deliverables.
• Work closely with Project Management teams in delivering Artifacts. Artifacts include Contingency Plans, Production Shakeout Plans, Production Readiness documents, Architecture Documents and Network Topology diagrams.

Confidential, McLean

Environment: Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, MS Visio, MS Project, RUP,SQL SERVER, Windows, .NET, Oracle, JAVA.

Responsibilities:

• Transforming business requirements into functional specifications, focusing on workflow analysis and design, business process reengineering, user interface design, and process flow modeling using Use Cases and Activity Diagrams.
• Every SSA processed document was in XML format. All verification & Validation was done using XML outputs.
• Involved in web services versioning by derive requirements when adding, removing, renaming new or existing operations.
• SSA's platform was RESTful web services.
• Updated project status reports during each operational phase and scope.
• Prepared weekly project status reports for Project Manager and Higher Ups.
• Facilitate business signoff of on design documents and change Control Board approvals.
• Prepare contingency plans and backout for the production rollouts.
• Communicate any final adjustments required based on user feedback, usability or deployment issues to the development/implementation team.

Confidential, Fairfax

Environment: Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, MS Visio, MS Project, RUP,SQL, Windows, Siebel CRM, Oracle

Responsibilities:

• Followed clients Confidential standards when creating functional requirements, RTM and all related documents.
• Reviewed and analyzed all legacy data before creating requirements Seibel CRM domain.
• Conducted regular JAD meetings with Confidential clients on requirements.
• Conducted regular Requirements review meetings for the entire team and participated in test case review meetings.
• Gather and Translate requirements for Seibel CRM Analytics Reporting a Web Interface
• Worked Closely with Project Manager to articulated requirements prioritization and tradeoff decisions to meet release deadlines and scope.
• Analyzed and translated functional and non-functional business requirements into Use Cases and Activity Diagrams for web interface
• Worked closely with Seibel architecture team, Data warehouse and Design/Development teams in creating DDD for all requirements.

Confidential, Overland Park, KS

Sr. Systems /Requirements Analyst/Project Manager

Environment: MS Project, PMBOK, EDP, RUP, CMMI level 3, Rational ClearQuest,Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case, Documentum, UML,OOAD, ASPECT, AVAYA ACD, IVR, CTI,MS Access, MS Excel, MS Visio,WebLogic,Java,J2EE, UML, Telelogic DOORS, Oracle, CITRIX, UNIX, Windows

Responsibilities:

• Lead OU server infrastructure project for Sprints nation wide contact centers. Successfully completed in moving all UNIX, LINUX and telephony servers, ACD (Avaya, Aspect) RTS, IVR and Witness to OU/AD domain Active Directly.
• Lead the TestLab redesign infrastructure project from Initiation to on going support Configuring Avaya, Aspect ACD switches and CTI servers, RTS, Witness for all Production rollouts.
• Reviewed use cases, scenarios, requirements, test plans, test cases, test scenarios and support development teams in all the phases of development for RMS
• Analyzed and translated functional and non-functional business requirements into Use Cases and Activity Diagrams for RMS
• Partnered with users to identify, evaluate and develop systems and procedures that are cost effective and meet user requirements.
• Facilitated JAD sessions with Business and IT counter parts.
• Developed Project Plan and estimated Level of Effort for the project.
• Managed projects from initiation, design, development, testing and deployment phases.