SUMMARY 

• Highly experienced and Certified Scrum Master, experience leading and managing Agile teams and projects in Fortune 500 companies. Displayed strong experience in overcoming organizational challenges of transitioning to Agile methodology from traditional project management and development.
• 16 + years of practice in Project Management, consulting, Product Development, global delivery and Agile methodologies.
• Participated in all phases of Software Application Development (Agile and Water Fall). Successfully managed teams of onsite & offshore members.
• Knowledge of project management methods and experience in SAFe environment
• Strong leader and communicator experienced working with business and IT. Recognized as a collaborative and effective leader that builds high performance cross - functional teams.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Certified Scrum Master, Certified SAFe Practitioner

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential, Indianapolis

Responsibilities:

• Leading two Scrum teams, responsible for creating new SallieMae application to disburse funds.
• Supported teams in transitioning from waterfall to Agile.
• Representing teams in Scrum of Scrums and PI planning sessions.
• Generating, monitoring and tracking Burn-down charts, Planning, Reviewing and estimating backlogs with the scrum teams. Facilitating daily stand up meetings, release planning and release reviews
• Addressing issues rose by the team and worked quickly to remove the impediments and conducted retrospective at the end of the 2-Week SPRINT cycle to help identify what went well in the current SPRINT and what could have been done better.
• Setup grooming sessions with product owner and come up with stories for each sprint with acceptance criteria. Setup sprint reviews, sprint planning, retrospectives sessions with agile teams.
• Encouraging collaboration between the Scrum teams and product owner. Updating VSTS to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs.
• Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress to higher management. Involving in staffing, reporting and problem resolution.

Scrum Master

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Lead and coached a twelve-member team as scrum master to organize and facilitate scrum ceremonies.
• Organized and facilitated overall sprint planning- including daily stand-ups, reviews/demos and retrospectives.
• Encouraging collaboration between the Scrum teams and product owner. Updating Rally to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs.
• Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress to higher management.
• Coach and train team members on Agile tools and techniques.

Scrum Master

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• As Scrum master facilitated all agile ceremonies to support CRS To EI Migration project in Confidential .
• Represented team in Scrum of Scrums and PI planning sessions.
• Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress to higher management. Updating Version One to provide transparency on product and sprint.

Project Manager

Confidential, Los Angeles

Responsibilities:

• Led a cross-functional team of developers and QAs to develop features and fix product defects in three Bankruptcy Administration Applications.
• Developed accurate development estimates and drafted project resource plans.
• Worked closely with QA to review test cases and track feature bugs.
• Coordinating with Offshore and delegation of work to Offshore
• Responsible for creation and submission of weekly status reports.
• Assessed the risks, issues and worked with respective stakeholders to mitigate the same.

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as the scrum master in the delivery of Confidential 's mortgage servicing project
• Organized daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed multiple large projects simultaneously with global teams within Confidential
• Identifying resources required, select appropriate project personnel and assign individual responsibilities.
• Maintaining scope control, reporting the impact of changes to requirements or new requirements
• Staffing, Reporting and Problem Resolution, driving project execution
• Team Building and Team Ramping.

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• As the lead developer, coordinated and negotiated timelines and priorities of the technical aspects of project management with various business groups and stakeholders.
• Developed web applications in 3-tier architecture.
• Developed data access layer and business logic layer using ADO.NET and C#.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed multiple applications using ASP.NET Framework, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and C#.
• Implemented Web Services using .NET

Confidential

Software Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in gathering Business Requirements by attending regular project meetings with the client.
• Created multiple web applications using Asp.net and VB.Net to build and manage web hosting.

Confidential

Software Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Design and Development. 
• Developed web applications using Asp.net, C# and SQL Server.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Primary Skills: Scrum Master, SAFe Practitioner, Project Management- Delivery, Resource, Release planning etc.

Secondary Skills: Dot net, C#, ASP.Net. Java, Ajax, Webservices, WCF

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle

Tools Used: Rally, Version One, TFS/VSTS, Jira, MS Project, Visual Studio 6/2012, XMLSpy, GitHub

Domain knowledge: Mortgage, Banking, Mobile Application Development