SUMMARY:

• A highly motivated person with strong technical background and management experience. Extensive experience of over 19 years in Insurance Software development including 10+ years of end to end Program/Project management with 6+ years of Agile Project management using SCRUM and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Experienced in heading software releases, coordinating with Product management, development team, technical architects, QA teams and other stakeholders.
• Acknowledged for able leadership, management and project execution.
• Maintained ownership of medium sized to million - dollar data projects from initiation through to completion. Experience in managing cross-functional and global programs end-to-end, including project charter, business case for program approval, project creation and allocation, to closure and sustenance of technology projects.
• Experienced in the use of agile approaches, including Extreme Programming, Kanban, Test-Driven Development and Scrum.
• Accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale complex software projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams.
• Capable of bringing enthusiasm, productivity and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused, motivated and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: Z/OS, Windows XP, NT, 2003 Server

Project Management Tools: JIRA, Confluence, MS Visio, MS Office, Waterfall, Agile techs.

Programming: COBOL, CICS, JCL, PL/SQL, ASP.net, C#, VB.net, Classic ASP, VB, HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, VB Script, UML.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master

Confidential, New York

• Confidential is based at New York. It is one of the Leading Insurance providers in U.S.A. They provide Individual and Group Insurance policies apart from 401(k) and 403(b) plans.
• Overall experience with Guardian is 10+ years and started working from offshore as scrum master from offshore. Started working in onshore from March 2015 onwards.
• End to end program management for Confidential including Quality Compliance, Risk Management, Program Schedule Adherence and Process Improvements.
• Adopted Scaled Agile framework, being actively involved in product backlog grooming, Program Increment (PI) planning, collaborate with Product Management and development team to plan and deliver for the Agile Release Train (ART).
• Collaborate, facilitate, lead and coach Scrum teams responsible for developing system/server management software. Facilitated scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Created & presented detailed status reports, spreadsheets and presentations for executive and larger team consumption. Liaised with executive team on project reporting and mitigation plan to ensure successful launch.
• Well Versed with Project tools like MS Project, Jira, Confluence and SharePoint

Skills: Agile techs, JIRA, Confluence, Kanban.

Technical Manager

Confidential, New York

• Confidential is based at New York. It is one of the Leading Insurance providers in U.S.A. They provide Individual and Group Insurance policies apart from 401(k) and 403(b) plans. Phoenix is a data capture system that takes data from Online CICS screens and maintains it on DB2.
• Consistently delivered the projects for all the 4 blocks for 4+ years.
• Led the team for collecting screen messages and got client appreciation.
• Had been providing insights in the functionality as well as technical insights for client.
• Provided recommendations on technical feasibility of proposed solutions and provided advice and guidance to Developers and other solution designers.

Skills: COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, FILE-AID, Abend-Aid, SPUFI, SYNCSORT, Control-M, SQL, Stored procedures.

Developer

Confidential, San Bruno, CA

• Successfully implemented below projects Japan Interim Solution Project, D50 project - F & T project, Japan Download Rewrite Project, Europe Poll Split Project & NvDM Elimination Project.
• Enhancement of Existing systems, includes Reviewing the requirement sent by the Client / Onsite Coordinators. Preparing the Design documents and Test plans & Changing the Programs/Jobs Unit Testing and logging the results.
• Production Support, includes Attending to calls related to Problems/ Abends in Production jobs. Communicating with Business Partners for understanding the problem and clarifying their queries. Analyzing and resolving them within stipulated time. If required, making Temporary or urgent fixes and moving them to Production

Skills: ISPF/PDF, File-Aid, Super C, Xpeditor, Strobe, Endevor, Panvalet, JCL, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, MQ, SPUFI, XCOM, ACM/MLINK, Service Center, UNIX, C, PERL.

Confidential

Developer

• Confidential is a part of the Financial Applications of Time Customer Service. Time Customer Service provides different kinds of services for their Clients.
• Successfully delivered code without defects.
• Prepared program specifications, involved in coding and testing.
• Peer review coding and unit test results

Skills: Visual Basic 6.0, Cobol 370, DB2, File aid, Endevor, JCL