SUMMARY:

• More than 16 years of success driving full lifecycle development of world - class software, enterprise architectures, and product innovations that generate multimillion-dollar revenue
• Well-qualified with M.S. in Computer Science and advanced skills honed in SDLC Management, Java Engineering, and Agile/Scrum Methodology.
• Successful in partnering with stakeholders, managers, and teams to define and translate complex requirements into scalable applications and systems that automate processes, cut costs, and increase customer satisfaction.
• Scrum/Agile experience of more than 10+ years. Strategize across all areas of software development from inception to delivery including but not limited to release process, CI/CD, Test
• Driven development, Code Reviews with the intent of producing highly efficient, self-organized and happy teams.
• Natural communicator and motivational team leader; able to drive forward progress and on-time delivery of large-scale projects and software builds under strict deadlines and release schedules.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Java Platform & Tools: J2EE (app development), Java, Rest API’s, Javascript

Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, SDLC, DevOps, SaaS

Dev. Tools/IDEs: Eclipse/Java/Intelli-J, Ant, JUnit, Mockito, Git, Perforce, JIRA, Rally, Confluence, Clover, Jenkins, Maven

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Scrum Master | Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining strategy to be more inline with Scrum Framework.
• Helped in facilitating Sprint events such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.
• As a program manager, responsible for running, interfacing with executives and reporting to them on cross functional initiatives.
• Helped with Improved visibility and communication across teams.
• JIRA Admin with experience in defining and building complex workflows to support SAFe using out of the box JIRA.
• Coach Product Owners, Dev Managers and work with their directors on Scrum education and process improvement.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Scrum Master | Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Performing a role of a scrum master for 4 teams responsible for building tools for Confidential .
• Collaborate with Product Owners to groom the product backlog and prioritize items for Sprints
• Responsible for facilitating Sprint events such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.
• Address process bottlenecks to improve team efficiency.
• Collaborate with engineering and other cross functional groups for dependencies and create a conducive environment to deliver Sprint goals.
• Work with product owners to create define stories with clear Acceptance Criteria to help developers accurately estimate and deliver valuable sprint increment as per the requirements.
• Estimate available capacity for every Sprint and help Scrum Team to commit Story points based on the capacity available for that Sprint.
• Track Sprint progress using Rally Boards and resolve any impediments to help team deliver their Sprint goals.
• Work with Quality Engineering team to triage defects during Sprints and review them with Scrum team and product owners to plan for fix and prioritization in upcoming Sprints.
• Conduct Sprint Retrospective meetings to identify the challenges, opportunities for improvements and drive action plans.
• Review the project progress with Senior Leadership team on a weekly basis.
• Build release and Sprint related dashboards in Rally.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Member of Technical Staff

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for 2 teams: Trust and Safety; Contact Reduction
• Increased team’s output from 20 to 35 story points over couple of sprints by addressing time lost due to miscommunication and resolving blockers quickly.
• Help formulate the definition of “Done” for the team. Include code review as one of the parameters.
• Instrumental in improving the release process by bringing up some pain points.
• Work with Product Manager to keep the backlog well organized and prioritized.
• Technically Lead the team and contribute to code as a development member of the scrum team using Apache-CXF, JAX-RS, Spring, JAVA, Hibernate with Oracle as backend.
• Run Sprint Planning Meetings, Daily Scrum, Retrospectives using Jira Agile and Rally.
• Bring about process improvements using retrospective feedback.
• Encourage a collaborative working environment between development and QA.
• Provide update to stakeholders about team progress via Sprint Reviews.
• Continually improve team effectiveness via team building, removing improvements and facilitating communications across cross-functional groups.
• Actively involved in releasing features to production and providing production support.

Confidential, Redwood City , CA

Principal Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interface extensively with product owners lay out detailed stories with acceptance criterion well in time before Sprint Refinement/Backlog Grooming calls.
• Worked with Scrum Team to come up with the definition of “Done” - which incorporated strict Quality criterion like automated tests which run nightly.
• Was also responsible for design/code fixes as an integral member of the Scrum Team.
• Responsible for making sure that the retrospective items had owners which took the issues and brought them to their natural conclusion of improving the team's effectiveness.
• Through the application of consistent Scrum Practices, increased the team through -put by 10 points over 3 sprints.
• Instrumental in helping the dev team and the product owner to break down functional stories into manageable chunks with could be completed within the sprint.
• Automated manual processes, increasing customer upgrade capability from 2 to 20 per week and slashed new customer deployments from ~3 hours each to 15 minutes for any number, whether 1 or 1000+.
• Triggered minimum 7-figure cost savings while increasing customer satisfaction and positioning company for millions in new product/service sales revenue.
• Writing user stories which group can work on.
• Single-handedly developed Catalyst Connector for Clarity utilizing Java, as critical component of solutions engineering project required to satisfy and retain major client account.

Confidential, Redwood City, CA

Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Credited with successfully orchestrating 2 releases of ecoGovernance product, an extension of company’s well-received Governance, Risk and Compliance (CA Confidential ) product line. Incorporated Scrum methodology, proactively resolving issues and eliminating roadblocks to meet aggressive project and release deadlines.
• Acknowledged as a primary contributor to 2 major product lines, CA Confidential and ecoGovernance, continuously ensuring on-time delivery of scalable, reliable, value-adding software solutions with a compelling ROI.
• Introduced Agile/Scrum style of working to the group. Moved from water-fall to Agile and delivered several successful projects using Agile Scrum Framework
• Instrumental in helping write user stories both functional and technical.