SUMMARY:

• Metrics driven Skilled in optimizing complex IT processes using Agile SAFe 4.0, Scrum, Lean, Kanban, XP, DevOps and waterfall practices.
• Broad experience in leading projects using Agile/Scrum practices
• Excellent team management and leadership skills.
• Effective problem - solving skills
• Expert in providing customized solutions to cater industry, organization specific needs.
• Proven ability to establish priorities, delegate tasks, motivate teams, and implement innovative Enterprise Solutions that meet customer needs.
• Passionate, proactive, and deeply committed to driving breakthroughs in customer experience and financial performance.
• Worked in IT across several domains like Banking and Finance, Telecom, Manufacturing and Travel.
• Performed various roles as a Scrum Master/Agile Coach, Technical Lead and Developer.
• SAFe Advanced Scrum Master & SAFe Agilist (Leading SAFe)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: WINDOWS XP/9X/2000, LINUX (Red Hat), UNIX (SOLARIS 5.8)

Web Skills: Servlet, JSP, EJB

Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Rally, Microsoft Office, Sharepoint, Autosys, Maven, Jenkins

Languages: Java, J2EE, C, C++,SQL, XML, UML, HTML

Web Servers: Apache Tomcat, Websphere

IDE: Eclipse, RAD

Scripting Language: PHP, Javascript,CSS

Data Bases: SQL Server, DB2, MYSQL, MS Access

Frameworks: Spring, Hibernate, JSF, Struts, JDBC, Swing

Source Control Tool: SVN, CVS, Git

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Scrum Master /Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• A team facilitator and is continuously engaged in improving team performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity.
• Assist team to eliminate impediments and facilitate them to achieve sprint objectives.
• Assist teams in constantly improving the quality of deliverables by helping them to foster the culture of technical discipline and craftsmanship
• Train various teams in organization to understand and follow agile practices
• Coach Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog
• Facilitate scrum events such as sprint planning, retrospective and sprint reviews
• Work with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery and facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope.

Tools: JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, angular js Java, J2EE, Jenkins, Tomcat, Maven, XML, JUnit, rest microservices, Git, Puppet

Confidential, NJ

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum events such as sprint planning, retrospective and sprint reviews.
• Coach team members on Agile principles.
• Coach Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog.
• Work with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery.
• Helps team to meet the quality of deliverables.
• Helps the team to manage interpersonal conflicts, challenges, and opportunities for growth.

Tools: Rally, Microsoft Office, Java, J2EE, JDBC, JSF, PrimeFaces, Spring, MVC, JMS, Jenkins, Maven, XML, JUnit

Confidential, NJ

Scrum Master/Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Plan and facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, story estimation and sprint demo.
• Ensure that Scrum framework is utilized in a manner consistent with the corporate framework.
• Coordinate software release meetings to release software into pre-production and production.
• Improve transparency by assisting with internal and external communication on the status of milestones.
• Perform technical analysis, investigate solutions to identified business needs and opportunities, the liaison between business subject matter experts, various IT groups, and vendors to ensure a mutual understanding of the business need and solution technical requirements.
• Mentored and guided team members ensuring all were trained in software knowledge/skills and capable of performing assigned duties.
• Track metrics to optimize the performance of the teams
• Work with cross-functional teams to resolve technical issues
• Design and develop complex software solutions
• Facilitate team meetings, providing meeting minutes and action items where needed
• Influence continuous improvement of processes

Tools: JIRA,Confluence, Sharepoint, XML,UNIX, JAVA-J2EE, Multithreading, JSP, HTML, Struts, JMS, JSF, Autosys, SQL Server, Informatica, Eclipse, SQLDBX, TOAD, CVS, Websphere, DB2, JDBC, ANT, JUnit, TDD, Struts

Confidential, MI

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Be part of the design workgroups and Joint Application Design sessions to understand the business requirements and analyze the impacts for the applications.
• Effort estimation and planning of software components
• Draft the High level and Low-level design documents
• Conduct internal and project review of the design documents
• Review the offshore deliverables including code, unit test scripts and unit test results
• Provide testing support to all the applications interacting with Sales order processing by development of test plans and test scripts, unit testing and system testing, performance testing.
• Development of software components. Checking coding compliance using ASSENT tool. This tool helps in checking if code is as per client’s standards. It helps in streamlining the entire process.
• Providing production implementation support and active monitoring of functionalities
• Configuration management of software components using versioning systems.
• Status meetings with Confidential and client managers

Tools: Linux, JAVA, J2EE, IRAD, AQT, WinSQL, SmartFTP, Putty, Serena, TTS, SERV

Position: Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering and preparing technical specifications using Issue Manager.
• Developing the application by building the code to adhere client standards using tools like ASSENT.
• Design and architecture meetings with clients
• Preparing design documents such as high level and low level design of the project and maintain them in KNOWMAX
• Quality Assurance by performing IQA and EQA in IPMS
• Carrying out root cause analysis of reported bugs using Causal analysis Tool
• Managing and controlling change requests
• Carrying out Internal quality assurance activities of the artefacts being delivered in IPMS.
• Status meetings with Confidential and client managers

Tools: Windows, Core Java - Swing, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Eclipse, PL-SQL, DB2, Assent

Computer Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Development and maintenance of online ecommerce website using Mambo and PHP-Shop
• Analysis and evaluation of alternatives to formulate the mode of implementation of the system
• Estimation of the software development efforts
• Unit testing of software components
• Ensuring quality deliverables by reviewing the deliverables of the team members(IQA and EQA)
• Weekly meetings with stakeholders for requirements gathering and tracking status of the current deliverables.

Tools: Linux, Apache, MYSQL, PHP-Shop, Mambo, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design of content management website
• Development and maintenance of admin website
• Estimation of the software development efforts
• Unit testing of software components

Tools: Linux, Apache, MYSQL, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript