SUMMARY:

8 + years proven ability to manage multiple projects and teams while meeting challenging deadlines in small to large organizational structure.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Release Manager

Confidential, NJ

• Planning and controlling multiple projects on a daily basis including the budget
• Overseeing business solutions while creating plans for implementation of simple to moderate complexity
• Executing organizational governance by facilitating quality governance meetings with key senior stake holders in development, QA, Solution Design and Senior Management
• Release level planning of multiple projects across Legacy product suites
• Release level reporting through project level deliverables and milestones across the SDLC lifecycle
• Collaborating with business stake holders on defining Acceptance Criteria yielding optimal value for enhancements and compliance issue types
• Accountable for work review orders as well as reviewing cost estimates from vendors and other third parties
• Facilitating project requests from business stake holders based on budget, complexity and dependency

Product Manager

Confidential,NJ

• Facilitate and compose Digital Operations Pillar project 2017 road map on JIRA Portfolio and Confluence for Product Manager
• Create high level business and product requirement documents, mockups, designs and contribute functional and technical specs of our product
• Track Sprint velocity and support Chief Product Manager with roadmap
• Facilitate weekly grooming sessions for two week sprints for multiple Dev teams
• Developed and Implemented Agile User Story framework, including: Acceptance Criteria, Definition of Done, Definition of “Ready” and User Acceptance Test “UAT”
• Provide clarification of functional requirements to DEV Teams during Scrum of Scrum Meeting, Spring Planning and Grooming sessions
• Responsible for product portfolio and project release management levels and provide deliverables to customers, Product and Program Managers
• Collaborate with business side in order to clarify roadmap and backlog ordering/ranking on Atlassian Confluence and Jira
• Using Balsamiq and Gliffy for UI/UX mockups for functional requirement clarifications on Confluence
• Triage and assign engineering teams for analysis of all external bugs and enhancements of our Digital Operations space
• Support Product Manager maintaining marketing requirement document (MRD) / Business requirement and product requirement document (PRD) on Confluence and map the feature specifications to JIRA Product Backlog Items (PBI’s)
• Support Product Manager with planning project roadmap and reschedule Agile Scrum EPICs and stories
• Create epics and features as key work to be completed to support initiatives in achieving business goals and objectives
• Document and report sprint status to Program and Product Managers using Confluence and JIRA Agile Scrum board and JIRA issue comments
• Monitor team collaboration/communication and determine release risks if any and radiate/inform internal DEV, Product Manager then stakeholders
• Generate JIRA portfolio metrics to monitor and ensure targets, estimates and actuals are aligned throughout the year
• Support team members on JIRA and Confluence best practices in line with Agile Framework
• Support and train program management office (PMO) and DEV managers on Atlassian JIRA Portfolio to organize and plan team capacity, initiatives, product roadmaps, business objectives and goals in Agile Scrum environment
• Integrate Atlassian Crowd with Jira, Confluence.

Confidential, NJ

• Agile Confidential for Confidential IOS/Android Teams..
• Responsible and accountable for Agile methodology framework for software development thorough organization
• Daily managed/adjusted product backlog items to provide software delivery deadlines with projections using time and story points based.
• Collaborated with Stakeholders to determine what is done in sprint review (show and tell)
• Facilitated Sprint grooming, planning, retrospective meetings for DEV and QA
• Groomed, planned and implemented customizations for JIRA and Confluence workflows, screens, fields, permissions to fit Agile Scrum
• Facilitate Scrum release planning and management for Development and DEVOPS team
• Defined and improved Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done (DoD) to software development team
• Provided metrics to managers and monitored sprint velocity
• JIRA expert specialist and designer for software defect tracking, JIRA agile
• Supported code review process, DoD Definition of Done) and coding standards
• Managed project risks through closing monitoring bug lifecycle, priority, severity and adjust RA (Risk Adjusted), NRA, (Non - Risk Adjusted) and Upper Limit
• Initiated and facilitated Agile Scrum daily standup meetings for software development, DEVOPS and QA teams
• Triaged and managed bug life cycle risk, severity, priority levels to meet deadlines.
• Ran Release planning/management and sprint grooming and planning meetings
• Coordinated with release and deployment effort and generated release notes
• Continuous negotiating with customers and development teams to manage schedule deadlines
• Defined software product roadmap for current and future releases with customer and manager/director levels engagement
• Confluence administration and customizations project planning, requirements, software specifications, collaborations and traceability
• Administrator for Crowd Server,, JIRA, Agile, Confluence, and Zephyr (Testing Management)
• Defined and implemented QA test workflow, test cycle, test execution, test plan, and adhoc tests with JIRA Zephyr
• Defined and managed software defect lifecycle to provide visibility to all related departments

Confidential, New York, NY

Software Engineering

• Agile Confidential for Manilla IOS/Android Teams..
• Responsible and accountable for Agile methodology framework for software development thorough organization
• Daily managed/adjusted product backlog items to provide software delivery deadlines with projections using time and story points based.
• Collaborated with Stakeholders to determine what is done in sprint review (show and tell)
• Facilitated Sprint grooming, planning, retrospective meetings for DEV and QA
• Groomed, planned and implemented customizations for JIRA and Confluence workflows, screens, fields, permissions to fit Agile Scrum
• Facilitate Scrum release planning and management for Development and DEVOPS team
• Defined and improved Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done (DoD) to software development team
• Provided metrics to managers and monitored sprint velocity
• JIRA expert specialist and designer for software defect tracking, JIRA agile
• Supported code review process, DoD Definition of Done) and coding standards
• Managed project risks through closing monitoring bug lifecycle, priority, severity and adjust RA (Risk Adjusted), NRA, (Non-Risk Adjusted) and Upper Limit
• Initiated and facilitated Agile Scrum daily standup meetings for software development, DEVOPS and QA teams
• Triaged and managed bug life cycle risk, severity, priority levels to meet deadlines.
• Continuous negotiating with customers and development teams to manage schedule deadlines
• Defined software product roadmap for current and future releases with customer and manager/director levels engagement
• Confluence administration and customizations project planning, requirements, software specifications, collaborations and traceability
• Administrator for Crowd Server,, JIRA, Agile, Confluence, and Zephyr (Testing Management)
• Defined and implemented QA test workflow, test cycle, test execution, test plan, and adhoc tests with JIRA Zephyr
• Defined and managed software defect lifecycle to provide visibility to all related departments