SUMMARY:

Exceptional PMP certified, professional scrum master with core competencies in Software Development and Project Management focused on Agile Methodology.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows DOS through 2010, UNIX

Programming Languages: PowerShell, C, C++, C#, VB, VB.NET, Java, Transform 2000, SELCOPY, WebObjects

Databases: SQL Server 2000 through 2012, Oracle 10gi, Sybase

Technologies: ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Visual Studio.NET, Team Foundation Server, SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server Integration Services, Crystal Reports, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, WCF, Web Services

Methodology: Waterfall and Agile

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• Coached, mentored Scrum Masters, Teams and PO's on How to focus on Sprint Goals and effectively deliver high value every sprint by meeting the commitments, true Definition of Done and with zero defects.
• Observed rituals / scrum ceremonies daily stand - ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, Retrospectives, and release planning to provide feedback to scrum masters, team leaders and other stakeholders regarding facilitation strategies.
• Coached Product owners understanding their Roles / responsibilities in an Agile world. Helped business understand on How to write User Stories, Acceptance criteria, Story Acceptance and value of being part of the team. Helped PO's understand agile metrics for Reporting purpose. How to PLAN an Agile Release s effectively using Story points.
• Managed multiple small to medium sized technical and business oriented projects for the Information Technology organization
• Coordinated Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospectives, and Product Backlog Grooming, ensuring that all information is radiated to the larger organization.
• Assisted the product owner / business leaders in determining release schedules.
• Shielded the team from interruptions and maximized flow.
• Mentored, trained, coached, and developed the teams in the Scrum process
• Coordinated Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospectives, and Product Backlog Grooming, ensuring that all information is radiated to the larger organization
• Served as a change agent for the organization by discovering and resolving team / organizational impediments (track the impediments and work the impediment backlog)
• Implemented Kanban effectively with the Web Services team, which dramatically increased their collaboration.
• Coached teams to effectively use Agile tools such as Rally
• Facilitated use of other Agile practices such as XP and Kanban to make effective use of Pair Programming, TDD, CI and limit WIP.

Scrum Master/Development Manager

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Responsibilities:

• Managed various cross-functional projects with teams varying in size from 6 to 20 members with domestic and international teams.
• Maintained cost effective support by using talented, motivated staff and strategic use of contract staff when volume dictated.
• Mentored team and developers in the utilization of the .NET framework and general development and design processes utilizing Microsoft Technologies.
• Designed and implemented a Direct to Consumer site for loan processing. Designed in .NET and other Microsoft technologies, this site provided a one-stop site for user registration and loan processing.
• Responsible for ensuring all members followed approved development standards and ensured quality in all production deliverables.
• Reduced defects in development builds by over 95%, completed outstanding change requests, and cleared all blocking issues in a four month period.
• Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings.
• Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Monitored the development progress throughout each sprint to ensure project was within scope and budget.
• Identified potential project risks and helped develop a mitigation plan to resolve potential issues.
• Managed the insight and opinions of multiple stakeholders and helped to ensure all stakeholders agreed with the current scope and roadmap of the product.

Systems Analyst/ Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• Ensure that the project team understands all aspects of the prime contract relating to their respective responsibilities, and demonstrate a thorough understanding of the prime contract checklist and organizational structure
• Negotiate, analyze, and prepare purchase order agreements, subcontracts, and cost control budgets
• Designed and deployed and managed IT infrastructure
• Worked for Budget planning
• Vendors management
• Cross team work with global IT teams
• Identified and fixed errors and bugs in production applications developed using .NET 3.5, C# and VB.NET
• Converted existing applications from VB to .NET 3.5
• Implemented Government imposed regulations on time and within budget.
• Supported Loan Origination and Loan Servicing applications.
• Extensively used Visual Source Safe for version control.
• Participated in User Acceptance Testing and Post Production Support.
• Possess extensive knowledge of SQL Server 2000 through 2008 and Oracle 10i backend databases.

Senior .NET Developer

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Developed new reports using Crystal Reports and SQL Server 2008.
• Identified and fixed errors and bugs in production applications developed using .NET 3.5, C# and WCF.
• Used SVN for source control.
• Used Agile Methodology.

Project Manager/Senior .NET Developer

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• Create project plan and create WBS.
• Coordinate project activities with Development teams and QA teams
• Create security infrastructure migration plan.
• Risk management plan for short term risk and long term risk.
• Provide Technical guidance to the team mentoring on Technical Design.
• Activity resource estimation and allocation
• Created load and performance strategies and plans. Cost estimation and Cost budgeting.
• Developed a customized website for a client where users can trade-in or sell their electronic items like Cell phones, PDAs, Gaming Systems, Computers etc. using VB.NET, ASP.NET 2.0/3.5, ADO.NET, Visual Studio.NET, SQL Server 2005.
• Extensively used WCF and Web Services.
• Extensively used Visual Source Safe for version control.
• Used Agile Methodology

Application Developer / Product Manager/Project Manager

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Technology used for building middleware is Java, spring, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services on Web sphere environment.
• Create project plan and create WBS. Provide Technical guidance to the team mentoring on Technical Design.
• Activity resource estimation and allocation
• Process Oriented established and followed proven processes to ensure appropriate work flow and communications across the team.
• Created load and performance strategies and plans. Cost estimation and Cost budgeting.
• Strong problem solving capabilities and provide strong technical direction, but also maintained good team atmosphere.
• Lead and coordinate across all technical resources throughout the entire lifecycle of a software development project for successful development and delivery.
• Coordinate with different teams including vendor, IT infrastructure and business teams.
• Multi-Tasking worked in many initiatives moving forward at same time while producing high quality output.
• Accountable for the accuracy and consistency of development artifacts like functional and system level requirement specifications, technical design documents, project estimates, project plan & deployment plan.
• Effectively completed detailed project plans by identifying tasks, deliverables, assignments, controls, and contingency plans
• Responsible for all phases of software development life cycle for online tool that supports various functions like Category Management, Pricing Optimization, Marketing and Sales Program Optimization and Measurement, Customer Segmentation.
• Developed proprietary statistical and database model to increase category performance via fact-based decisions
• Sales growth, margin improvement or return on invested capital
• Developed proprietary algorithms to determine price elasticity at product category, sub-category or SKU-level and identify role of each product in the market basket of goods, by segment
• Destination, routine, convenience or occasional
• Developed proprietary algorithms to calculate market basket of goods and cross-category correlations and to measure payback of marketing programs and investments to further increase statistical likelihood of success
• Developed proprietary algorithms to identify optimal product or service offerings by customer segment, based on objectives and optimize sales resource allocation
• Closing rate and Sale cycle
• Developed proprietary algorithms to identify unique customer segments to support targeted sales and marking programs and to increase marketing response rates and sales closing rates.
• Developed proprietary algorithms to identify attributes of best customers to optimize new customer acquisition
• Demographic, behavioral or product mix variables
• Developed various reports and charts using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services SOAP API.
• Used SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 for backend databases.
• Converted existing VB.NET code to C#
• Used ASP.NET, ASP.NET 1.1, ASP.NET 2.0, ASP.NET 3.5 and Web Services
• Extensively used Visual Source Safe for version control.
• Participated in Testing, User Acceptance test and Post Production Testing.
• Used Agile Methodology.