SUMMARY:

Customer - focused senior software professional with exceptional analytical, communication, and people skills. Dynamic and credible leader adept in balancing technical and business considerations, making good decisions in ambiguous situations and influencing teams across the organization. Polished interpersonal and leadership skills with proven ability to work through high pressure situations in a calm and solution-focused manner. Excellent Client Interfacing & Consulting skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Plantation,FL

Sr. Agile Coach

• Introduced Agile practice's through six phases as follows: Engagement Planning & Preparation; Training and Workshops; Project Chartering; Release Planning; Agile Coaching; Agile Retrospectives.
• Lead the first Portfolio transformation through Agile Transformation efforts for AMEX as well as starting up new teams and business units & manage dependencies at the Portfolio & Program Level (using SAFe Agile Release Trains).
• Support the organizational Transformation toward Agile as a Software Delivery model
• Coach the processes related to the development, road-mapping, and execution of a portfolio of strategic projects designed to optimize the company’s capabilities.
• Partner with PMO on cross-functional initiatives related to readying key processes for new product development and product releases.
• Develop training to support agile knowledge acquisition and adoption
• Conduct Agile Training sessions
• Employed Scrum ban (Scrum with Kanban), Kanban and XP (TDD and Pair Programming) practices.
• Coached, trained, and mentored Scrum Teams, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters responsible for delivering product & software projects, training and reinforcing Agile Scrum practices
• Driving organizational agility through agile values, principles, and practices for software delivery by working with the executive, mid-senior management, and development teams.

Confidential,South Lake, TX

Agile Coach / Scrum Master

• Synchronized the Agile adoption practices between business and technology stakeholders to ensure that all efforts were coordinated and achieving their stated objectives.
• Participated in project planning sessions with business analysts and team members to analyze business IT Requirements and translated business requirements into working software.
• Scrum master for multiple & individual teams; Scrum of Scrums; release planning; sprint planning/review; retrospectives; coaching; facilitation; Extreme Programming (XP).
• Coach the Product Owners in Agile, especially with regards to preparing User Stories and prioritizing the Product Backlog.
• Integrated a User Experience (UX) runway into agile software development framework
• Implemented Scrum methods into multiple levels of project engagement using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Coach and mentor individuals, teams, and management to discover and implement improved ways of collaborating and developing into high-performing, self-organizing, cross-functional units.
• Drive adoption of agile best practices in teams; work closely with Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters to educate on best-practices of the role.
• Facilitate learning in a trusting environment by way of individual sessions, lunch and learns, group workshops, team outings, etc., with an emphasis on effective problem solving.
• Facilitate roadmap planning, release planning, stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and sprint reviews (where needed).
• Organizational cultural transformation of technical/business units to foster Agile practices
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-ups, sprint planning meetings, Scrum of Scrums and retrospectives.
• Ensured demos are prepared for presentation.
• Managed sprint team issues, risks and mitigation plans; work with management team to resolve issues that must be escalated.
• Tracked and communicate team velocity and sprint progress.
• Compiled and presented post-sprint performance reviews, recommends changes to improve sprint performance.
• Coordinated delivery of development (beta) and production releases that meet quality assurance standards.
• Authored and managed all aspects of scrum documentation including; sprint backlog, burn down, team roster, velocity, ROI, etc.
• Experience coaching, teaching and guiding teams to adopt the Scrum methodology.
• Provide instruction and training to software development teams in the area of agile software principles
• Ensured team delivered required functionality on time by resolving roadblocks, e.g. access to remotely-hosted source code change control system.
• Managed offshore teams in different geographical places.
• Managed the software development in a high profile project with 24×7 support and twice a week overnight deployments. SCRUM implementation for delivery acceleration and increase communications.
• Assemble project teams, assign individual responsibilities, identify appropriate resources needed, and develop schedules to ensure timely completion of projects.
• Interface with other functional areas and manage the project with decisions often impacting several units or divisions.
• Managed projects and deadlines in anticipation of customer needs and requirements; effectively design work processes and shape deadlines to meet those needs.
• Report status and progress on a timely basis along with active management of project issues, risks and dependencies.
• Act as a change agent on matters that affect the project; help to identify and eliminate barriers to needed change and improvements and frequently offering new ideas to resolve problems.
• Coached and mentored team members in Unit Testing and design.
• Maintain the drive and motivation for improving one’s own knowledge of agile methodologies to enhance existing practices. Attend meetups, lean coffee events, etc to stay up-to-date on the role.

Environment: Oracle 10g, Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3.2, WebLogic 10.3, MQ Series, Windows XP, Suse Linux Enterprise 10,Redhat Linux 9,Eclipse 3.0.x, JSP 2.2, Java-Servlet 3.0, Jakarta Struts 1.2.4, JFreeChart, JSF, Spring 2.0/2.5.1,XML 1.0, XStream, JDBC, IBatis for java 2.1.0,Hibernate 3.1, JBOSS 4.0, Quick Test Professional (QTP), Crystal Reports 11.0.x, UML 2.0, Swing, MS Project, MS Visio 2003, Agile Processes, GIT, Java Script 1.1, InDesign, Ext JS, CSS, (D) HTML, Adobe Flex 3, UML 2.0, PL/SQL, Unix and AJAX, Rally, VersionOne, JIRA and MS Team Foundation Server.

Confidential,Las Colinas, TX

J2EE Developer

• Responsible for analyzing the requirement and providing solutions for development of Eligibility use cases like enroll, reinstate, terminate member and dependent.
• Championed the introduction of Scrum/Agile practices within development group.
• As the Scrum Master with the pilot team, demonstrated benefits of adopting Scrum; also identified potential issues and recommended action plan in order to address them.
• Facilitated regular meetings with the Scrum teams and the Product Owner to review developments (demonstrate functionality), plan for upcoming requirements (user stories) and commit to delivery in the forthcoming four week sprint.

Confidential,Columbus,OH

JAVA/ J2EE Developer

• Confidential offers a full range of insurance products and financial services for home, car, family and financial security. The project involved the development of Confidential ’s website. The purpose of the website was to expand business by bringing reliable information to the customers through an online medium.

Confidential,Dallas,TX

J2EE Developer

• V3-Global Inc. is a leading Telecommunications company providing long distance services all over the world.
• V3 Global Customer Migration Status Application is the J2SE and J2EE web Application to migrate the existing Corp ids and Circuit ids from existing third party vendors to the V3 Global. This application using the Struts framework for developing the web based tool to fetch the existing Corp ids and their Circuit ids details and provide the user ability to submit and track the migration status information for Corp ids and Circuit ids. This application is having the different levels access to submit the migration status information for Corp ids and Circuit ids. The users can also submit and track different Tasks and their sub tasks information. The migration of the status information is done using integration technologies to the XML paradigm via the implementation of a complex state machine like XML, J2SE and ECLIPSE.

Confidential,New York,NY

J2EE Developer

• Bluewire is a core processing engine for the global commercial real estate finance business. The engine delivers increased efficiency, productivity by Struts Application therefore providing additional cost savings to commercial real estate financing and asset management process.

Confidential, IL

J2EE Developer

• Caterpillar leads the Global market in manufacturing diesel engines and earthmovers. PEPD and Technical Service Division (TSD) developed a web-based system to leverage E-commerce technologies. This web based system improved communication speed, accuracy and reduced cost for the suppliers and Caterpillar in the supply chain management process.