SUMMARY:

• More than 11 Years of experienced Agile Scrum Master leading teams in corporate technology projects. Agile Delivery Manager adept at establishing harmonious cross - functional high performance project teams to produce state of the art, next generation software products.
• Servant Leader who collaborates with, mentors and leads developers, product owners, business analysts, user experience, and quality assurance in planning, execution, review and retrospective.
• Strong experience maintaining scrum artifacts, TDD, XP and continuous integration.
• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies to ensure complete transparency and visibility of work being done by the team.
• Agile and Scrum promoter and enthusiast to team; organize and facilitate iteration planning, daily stand-up meetings, backlog refinement & iteration reviews.
• Experience managing team delivery pace; maintain sprint and release burn down, conduct retrospectives, impediment removal and release planning.
• Manage the expectations of the PMO body with respect to the project management guidelines and project governance without impacting the Scrum team.
• Possess a solid experience utilizing Version One and Rally Development Tools for managing releases and iterations.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS:

• Scrum framework
• ITIL v3 Foundation Certified, 2012
• Waterfall framework
• E2E Software Development Lifecycles
• Budgeting and resource management
• Change Management
• Version One and Rally Development Tools
• SharePoint

COMPUTER SKILL:

Microsoft Office Suite: PowerPoint, Excel, Project, Access, Word, Adobe Photoshop. Maple, C, Lotus Notes, Math Cad, NPES Integration and Test Support System (NITSS), MATLAB

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Vista

SKILLS: Agile Project Management, Agile Certified Practitioner(ACP), Contract Negotiation, Project Management, Inspection, Project Coordination, Cost Planning, PMP, Certified Scrum Master(SCM), Adaption and Flexibility, Cross-functional Team Management, Fast Track Project Execution, Value Optimization, Iterative and Adaptive, Time Boxed follower, Potential Deliverable, Complex Framework, User Story writer, Empirical Process, Sustainable Pacer, Influencer & Critical Decision Maker, Negotiator and Trust Builder, Offshore Teams communicator, Quality Assurance (QA)/Quality Control (QC) Specialist, Risk Management, Project Estimation and Cost Control and Acquisitions, Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Roanoke, Virginia

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed system developers and business analysts' engagements and implemented projects initiatives aimed at developing the encounter management system 2 (EMS2).
• Identified, analyzed, prioritized and mitigated project risks.
• Administered change control and perform configuration management.
• Manage risks and resolves issues that affect scope, schedule and quality.
• Formulated and enforce Project Management procedures and enforced Project Governance structure for quality delivery.
• Lead and coordinate all activities including the execution of deployment plans and checklists.
• Strategize project scope and gather requirements to clearly communicate the project roadmap.
• Managed several concurrent Scrum projects with multiple sprints and releases

Confidential, Arlington, VA

IT Infrastructure Plans Officer

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated the analysis, design & implementation, testing, of I.T infrastructures within schedule, budget and the quality standards.
• Proactively identify value engineering opportunities; develop and define scope of projects.
• Developed request for proposals (RFPs) from documented scope and determined a minimum of three professional companies to price the work.
• Led pre-bid meetings to clarify the scope of the project, logistics and existing conditions.
• Reviewed bids and qualifications and developed comparison spreadsheet analysis for management's review.
• Strategize project scope and gather requirements to clearly communicate the project roadmap.
• Transitioned waterfall projects to release based on scrum framework and ensured sustainable Scrum processes and practices.
• Define scrum structure for development team. Used agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and management goals, creating detailed project road maps, milestone charts, bar charts, subsidiary plans, schedules, scope of work statements and work breakdown structures.

Systems Test Director, Portsmouth, VA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led project teams and implementation activities through all project phases' collaboration software.
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other scrum related meetings
• Ensured that all the scrum artifacts are maintained as per scrum framework
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Developed project budget with the assistance of the technical team, forecasting reports and control costs.
• Worked with end users and application teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues and implement new solutions according to project initiatives.
• Experience using Scrum and one or more common agile implementations such as Kanban and lean.
• Coached, mentored, motivated and supervised project team members and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Documented & maintained project records (project scope, business case, resource planning & scheduling, risk register, issue register, change control register, lesson learned register, progress reports).
• Produced and presented status reports and updates to stakeholders and senior leadership

Confidential, Lanham, MD

Scrum Master/IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all the Scrum Master activities for the project and project team.
• Collaborated with stakeholders on current and future state workflow assessment and documentation Re-design.
• Liaison with other federal agencies, such as the GAO and matrixed organizations.
• Facilitated meetings and deliver project presentations to team members and all levels of management.
• Supervised the development of training materials and training plans.
• Managed quality auditing of project data and system build prior to conversions.
• Managed project budget and ensures quality control.
• Experience using Scrum and one or more common agile implementations such as Kanban and lean.
• Managed the expectations of the PMO body with respect to the Project Management guidelines and Project governance without impacting the Scrum team
• Performed vendor assessment and recommended process improvements.
• Delivered reports, business plans, proposals for IT strategy, and budget assessments.
• Facilitated all scrum ceremonies to ensure complete transparency and visibility of work being done by the team.

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Sr. Project Analyst/ Quality Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Assisted management in keeping track of project economics including budgets, resources and time and updated & maintained project files (risk logs, issue log, change control register, lesson learned log).
• Supported the project manager in the planning and implementation of projects by organizing work processes, delivering agreed project benefits on time, on budget and to the agreed quality standards
• Actively involved in gathering and documenting requirement and proposing solution for end-to- business process, Eliminate system redundancy and establishing business process flexibility.
• Responsible to Track, Document, Capture, Manage and Communicate the Requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix which helped in controlling numerous artifacts produced by the teams across the deliverables for a project .
• Involved in Test Planning, Test Preparation, Test Execution, Issue Resolution and Report Generation to assure that all aspects of a Project are in Compliance with the Business Requirements.
• Created requirement documentation; reviews with user representatives, recommend priorities, gave presentations and walkthroughs and obtain user signoff.
• Prepared data mapping documents, use cases, requirements traceability matrix and worked with the user experience team (wireframe preparing team).

Confidential

Action Officer, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Prepared briefs, memos, and packages for senior Confidential leadership regarding status of Confidential related issues.
• Generate Nuclear Posture Review weekly report routed to the Confidential
• Worked the Confidential position for Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty Follow on Treaty ( Confidential ) with Joint Staff and Confidential
• Wrote action memos and confidence building measure discussion papers in support of Nuclear Weapons Free Zones and Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty in preparation for Confidential response to Joint Staff.

Confidential, Groton, CT

Systems Test Director

Responsibilities:

• Involved in test planning, test preparation, test execution, issue resolution and report generation to ensure that all aspects of the command center suite are within requirements.
• Managed multiple software lifecycle development projects in weapons systems platform with constraints like scope, schedule, cost and quality with using Scrum Agile methodology.
• Facilitated different Scrum ceremonies (stand ups, sprint planning, sprint review, retrospective, backlog grooming, story writing, release planning and demo)
• Successfully managed complex projects providing transparent professional direction on Agile and Scrum values, principles and practices & monitoring QA / QC of multi-functional teams thus accomplishing challenging business targets & program goals.
• First point of contact for the Confidential customer and stakeholders; conducted daily scrum, sprint reviews and retrospective meetings to mitigate risk for software testing on propulsion electronic systems.
• Analyzed business and technical requirements, developed test plans, test cases and test scripts and responsible for executing the test cases, test scripts for non-propulsion electronic systems
• Implemented an effective reporting framework covering daily, weekly & monthly progress reports, identification of critical issues, risks, opportunities and resource allocation.
• Supervised & coordinated development of detailed project plan documents to address the key factors impacting project success. Define sequence of tasks, incremental completion milestones, tracking logs, prior sea trials/system testing requirements as per project design and specifications.