SUMMARY:

Certified Scrum Master, Achievement driven, responsible, self - motivated and committed agile coach / scrum master / technical manager, with 17+ years’ of international industries experience (major - Payment and Banking) with get-it-done, on-time spirit in adapting, planning, managing, coaching, developing, tracking and reporting technically sophisticated, scalable, high performing, high availability multi-tiered architecture in compliance with TOGAF and other industry best practices using different technology stacks, COTS tools, libraries and vendor solutions in agile / SCRUM/ iterative development environment.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• PMI trained industry visionary, managed multimillion dollar programs and projects for fortune 500 clients in financial industry
• 17 years of industry experience, 10 years in software program and project management and 7 years in software design and development, both in project and product-based organizations
• Certified SCRUM master well versed in agile and waterfall methodologies as well as TDD and DDD
• Very good understanding of TOGAF and BIAN architecture framework and integrating ADM with SCRUM to deliver releasable increments
• Successfully executed various programs involving cross functional, cross domain teams across multiple locations by establishing effective communication management
• Excellent understanding of software architecture, design patterns and various programming languages and databases
• Exceptional problem solving, ideation, documentation and decision-making skills - well regarded for the ability to break down complex problems into simple parts and find cost effective solutions
• Well versed with all the process areas and strongly believes in setting up a solid communication plan to the C-level executives to make informed decisions
• Defining and managing scope and developing project plans and iterations to plan towards the delivery
• Coaching team in scrum adaptation and championing scrum adaptation across the organization
• Effectively manage cross-functional projects, coach’s resources, and oversee development teams across teams and locations.
• Work closely with product owner / development manager to prioritize tasks and address stake holder’s concerns
• Proficient in different project management tools like JIRA, Rally, MPP

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Business Processes Research and Analysis | Use Case Modeling | NFRS consideration | System Analysis | Design Patterns | Enterprise Solution Building | Infrastructure Diagram | TOGAF ADM
• Agile/Scrum | Waterfall | TDD | Incremental/ Iterative | Domain Driven Development
• Confidential · FIX 6.2, SWIFT | EDI - X12, HL7, PCI -DSS / PHI / HIPAA, Fin Cen, BS 7799
• C, C++, Java, C# .NET, VB, VB.net, VC++ | MFC | ATL | COM / DCOM | MTS | MSMQ / COM +
• MVC | MPP | MVVM | Spring | ORM | Hibernate | SOAP | WCF | REST | Web API | Micro Service
• Application Integrator I Perl | HTML | JScript | XML | JSON | jQuery | VB Script | python
• UML Rational Rose | MS Visio | JIRA | Remedy | TFS |SharePoint | Bugzilla | VSS | Perforce
• SQL Server | Oracle | DB II | MS Access | MySQL | NoSQL | ETL | SSIS / SSRS | BizTalk | Vera code
• Windows | UNIX | Linux | MS-Office | MS Project | MS Visio | Rally | Doors
• AWS | Azure | Docker |Mule Soft | TIBCO | ESB | CORBA | Puppet | Chef | Jenkins | Final Builder
• Vera code | HP Fortify | White Hat | Fxcop | TDD | NUnit

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Lead / Agile Coach, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed the migration of the Confidential system from Confidential to PEP+ involving 30+ resources across organization, vendors working from multiple geographies and time zones
• Worked closely with the business and multiple vendors to design the system and work with the teams across the IT organization to successfully deliver the solution
• Documenting requirements at times and working with development leads and development managers to focus on the development
• Scheduling and leading calls to troubleshoot production issues, resolve ambiguity
• Leading and proctoring GAP sessions to finalize the requirements and define the expectations

Confidential

Technical Manager / Scrum Master, Tulsa, OK

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed a 15-member cross functional team to complete the migration
• Worked with PMs from other groups to coordinate and prioritize tasks and loan resources from them to deliver on time
• Presented weekly updates to the CTO, Program manager and enterprise architect regarding the progress and achieved milestones
• Helped the Lead BA with the GAP sessions to define and decide on the requirements
• Created stories and published them using dash board for development team to estimate and build increments
• Introduced TOGAF ADM in conjunction with SCRUM to build increments
• Worked with Vendor resources to sync calendars and draw the dependency tasks and resource constraints

Confidential

Technical Manager / Agile Coach, Chevy Chase, MD

Responsibilities:

• Migrate from DB 2 and legacy systems to a newer sleek web-based platform
• Replace the legacy policy and billing systems with Duck Creek
• Build a parallel system to consume the messages coming into the system
• Migrate the DB to SQL Server
• Parse the incoming messages for Policy, Billing and Premium Reporting and record the data
• Separate out the Municipal taxes from the accrued earning
• Roll up the data daily, weekly and monthly
• Compare the data to the Duck Creek data to ensure data integrity
• Send out communications and correspondence for any discrepancy in the defined parameters
• Allow the targeted audience to make the necessary changes in case of any discrepancy
• Send the roll up data to the GL account and do a reconciliation
• Define and Build the infrastructure to allow migration of other applications in future

Confidential

Technical Manager / Lead Architect, Louisville, KY

Responsibilities:

• Worked on channel level security using x509, transport level security using SAML and IP filtering and Message level filtering using custom encoder (Shared Key)
• Designed and implemented Comdata Integration project leading a 15 members cross functional team using BizTalk
• Supported the T3 team to bring the numbers down from an existing 300+ to 150 and then transitioned over to the formal T3 team
• Implemented Vera code integration in the TFS to perform security and vulnerability scans
• Conceptualize the Q (Rejections, Returns, Repair and any process requires approval) and worked with the BAs to put together the FSD
• Designed and integrated the RPPS Biller import implementation necessitated due to changes at MasterCard
• SSO and payment SME in the shop and leads and supports any questions on SSO integration or payment issues on Confidential network
• Designed and implemented Cash Edge and Yodlee integration points to harvest EBill data and display on the bill pay site
• Designed and implemented integration with AMEX using SAML
• Designed and implemented BIP (Buyer Initiated Payment) module
• Designed and implemented the RPPS Gateway to receive funds from MasterCard
• Designed and implemented Fund verification to verify and acquire funds from JHA core system
• Instrumental in putting together the design for Consumer v3.0 for ADA compliance

Confidential

Project Manager / Technical Manager, Irvine, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managing the applications responsible for communicating with the Stock exchanges (NYSE, CBOE)
• Conceptualized and designed the order basket to place the order
• Implemented the OSI changes to be in compliance with the new symbol naming convention
• Designed the implementation of the Conditional Order system
• This enables the brokers to place conditional orders (CTO, TTO, ETO) and the orders are only fired based on certain triggers at a future date
• Introduced channel level authentication as an enhanced security measure
• Extended use of Fix 6.2 protocol
• Worked primarily as a technical manager for a team of 12 resources
• Helped team on questions pertaining to business and requirements
• Managed their task delivery and informed / communicated the PMO regarding any impediment

Confidential, Boston MA

Lead Developer / Integration Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Changed the underlying SWIFT protocol and replace them with FIX 6.2 for Confidential compliance
• Implemented the Reuters API for Navigator
• Migrated the GlobalTOC from VB 6.0 to VB.NET platform

Confidential, Dublin, OH

Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Single point of contact for all EDI systems
• Worked extensively on PO, PO ACK, ASN and INV
• Implemented CSOS system
• Introduced new web services using C++ and COM / ATL
• Received customer appreciation for resolution of filter issue