PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 13+ years of extensive experience in IT - Program management, product-line planning and delivery, enterprise project management, release management, business analysis, and service delivery.
• Experience in cross sectors like hi-tech, banking, financial, insurance, healthcare domains.
• Strong experience in Product Development Lifecycle Management, PMO, VSO, Project Lifecycle Management, SDLC. Good experience with Waterfall, Agile and Lean methodologies with IT Service management.
• Transition and Transformation: Platform, product-line, services, business processes and enterprise architecture
• Software System Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Agile Project Management and delivery: product road mapping, story mapping, stakeholder management, estimation, capacity forecasting, resource planning and allocation, value stream analysis, feature and story prioritization, release planning, release cadence and Agile modeling/engineering.
• Agile Evangelist: Expertise in the Lean and agile scaled methods, DSDM Atern, FDD, Scrum, XP, Scrum/XP hybrid, Scrumban, Kanban, Agile Manifesto, RUP, SAFe and LeSS. Assist the teams in Agile transition, process tailoring, value stream analysis, program increments, release planning/scheduling, story engineering/criteria/mapping, capacity and velocity based planning, throughput, technical debts, etc.
• Release management/launch: Reduce time to market, continuous delivery, continuous deployment, continuous integration, continuous testing, build automation with TDD, BDD, ATDD
• Risk management: Extensive experience in risk identification, analysis, assessment, responses and control.
• Experience in Traditional and Traditional/Agile hybrid project management methodologies with waterfall, incremental, V-model, iterative i.e. Project integration, scoping, planning, estimating, scheduling, organizing, executing, directing, controlling, risk and issue management, stakeholder management, budgeting, governance, project health, EVM, PERT, CPM, maintenance and drafting remedy procedures.
• Proficient in managing requirements, gap analysis, business process flow, process tailoring, BRD, business case, root cause analysis, user acceptance process, testing various methodologies, business rules, use cases, UML.
• Rich experience in digital, mobile, Ecommerce, data management assignments.
• A goal oriented, strategic thinker, willingness to learn with technical and business acumen

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Francisco, Foster city

TECH STACK: Java, Jsp, Spring, Nodejs, Nginx, Mule, Ruby, Mongo DB, Oracle DB, Tomcat, CMS, .NET, Web sphere, JUnit, NUnit, SOAPUI, Enterprise Splunk, Node time, SOA functional tester, Load tester, Cruise control, Service Oriented Architecture

TOOLS: Maven, Bamboo, Artifactory, Jenkins, GITHUB, Stash, Build Forge, ACM, Rally, TFS, Jira, CAMR, MS Sharepoint

Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery of large business critical and enterprise web development projects from release planning to post production. The initiatives span across multiple business units and functional groups
• To develop and execute activities related to end to end strategic goals includes initiating, planning, scheduling, capacity, stakeholder management, estimation, execution, quality, resource forecasting and allocation, scoping and requirements management, release delivery and governance, risk management and cost control
• Facilitate the product roadmap, program increment, feature Kanban, release cadence, release planning, deployment and support processes of a secure web-hosting infrastructure
• Work collaboratively across Confidential enterprise with other business areas, leadership and external vendors to plan and execute multiple projects
• Lead/coach the scrum masters, iteration manager, release engineers and infrastructure PM
• Accountable for release / iteration planning, executing, managing capacity, release or program retrospectives, BAU activities, compliance plan remediation efforts and tracking the schedule, scope, quality
• Keeping a tab on the procurement process for program requirements and processing of the same through agreed channels to ensure timely onboarding of the infrastructure as per the plan (RFP)
• Coordinates with the enterprise governance processes like information security, software security, sourcing, enterprise infrastructure teams, Devops and App support
• Manage quality through functional, regression, penetration, vulnerability, performance/load, release testing (TDD/ATDD)
• Drive the adoption of key agile practices like continuous integration, Test driven development, automated build and deployment with XP, Scrum and Kanban

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

TOOLS: Rally, MS Project, Plan view, MS Excel, Jenkin, MSWord, Micro strategy, Wiki

Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Liaison for business and IT, for planning, execution, driving priorities, business values, launch dates, BPO/service desk coordination
• Assisting the POs, business managers, scrum masters, backlog manager/iteration manager, medical directors, portfolio manager, PMO, release management, product team, defect triage team and Scrum/Kanban teams
• Leading/managing various initiatives, providing status and progress reports like initiative to feature, feature to user story, some metrics like release burn down/burn up charts, burn down charts, velocity charts, cumulative flow charts, etc.
• Resource allocation/management, assist Product in financial and budgeting
• Optimize program intake and delivery, managing roadmap initiatives, external dependencies and coordination
• Lead and conduct meetings for product effort, project plan, assist in Business Model Canvas(BMC), initiative status, communication plan, defect management, dependency management, quality management, release and deployment
• Estimation on velocity, capacity planning, workload, spikes, POC, progress reports like release burn up chart, cumulative chart, burn down chart, release metrics, feature status view and initiative to feature view
• Lead/manage organizational change, impediment, blocker, problem, dependency, feature decomposition and assist technical practices. Story criteria, slicing, mapping, acceptance and done
• Manage/assist the testing, defects, various environments from Dev to Production, levels of test, dependencies within our projects and others
• Assist release team with weekly progress, risks, issues and post implementation

Confidential, Bloomington, Illinois

TECH STACK: Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, SOAPUI, noSQL, XML, JAX-WS, JAX-RS, SOA architecture

TOOLS: Jira, Primavera, Track, HP Quality Center HP Service manager, HP Release, MS Excel, MS Word, SOA N-tier/Component based

Agile PM / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead Scrum of scrums to coordinate and facilitate projects where there are multiple dependencies, risks and resolution of project related defects/bugs.
• Ongoing engagement, to assist/help the team to attain goals through requirements gathering, ensure correct sizing and prioritization, story grooming and engineering, release planning, manage progress through burn down chart, document artifacts, reviews, acceptance criteria and feedback from the demos or showcases,
• Facilitate scrum meetings like sprint planning, sprint progress, sprint review, stack holder communication, track completed features and sprint retrospective.
• Manages scrum teams efforts in the context of project sprints, including web designers, product owners, web application developers, integration developers and QA
• Successfully overcame the challenges of working with an off-shore scrum team.
• Supervised and streamlined the daily delegation of incoming issues using issue tracking system.
• Gain and maintain a detailed understanding of business goals and platform capabilities

Confidential

Tools: Maximo, Service Now, Cognos, Lotus Notes, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Rational Clearcase, MS Excel, MS Sharepoint, TSRM

Project / Service Lead

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum meetings like sprint planning, daily standup, sprint review, track completed features and sprint retrospective
• Quality analysis through code reviews, test case reviews, documentation/artifacts, defects
• Effectively communicate project expectations to stakeholders and third parties in a timely and clear fashion. Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
• Risk Management: Produced ROI, Manage issue/risk logs involves establishing goals / identify / analyze / assess / manage / monitor / communicate risks, developing risk strategies to mitigate risks (proactive and reactive)
• Prepared and assisted with process improvements, impediment tracking, issue tracking, project documentation and QA
• Assist change management process and collaborate with representatives from other service management disciplines to assess change/release impacts and in post deployment analysis
• Assist the service levels for business and service support, quality, improvement and delivery

Confidential

Tools: Rational tools, Cognos 10.x, MS Sharepoint, MS Excel

Scrum Master / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assist the PMO in project support and delivery, act as a Scrum Master
• To assist with budgets, process improvements, impediment/risk/issue tracking, resource management, QA
• Effectively communicate project expectations to stakeholders and third party vendors in a timely and clear fashion
• To Set and continually manage project expectations with team members, vendors and other stakeholders.
• Support the project planning process for all project management disciplines during initial project setup and during consequent execution
• Liaise with project stakeholders directly to define and deliver their needs. Successfully conducted JAD sessions, which helped synchronize the different stakeholders on their objectives and helped the developers to have a clear-cut picture of the project

Confidential, New York City

Tools: MS Project, Rational tools, MS Excel, MS Word, Sharepoint, Remedy, Visual Studio

Project Lead / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisting Program management such as Status reports, team meetings, project plans, deliverables
• Responsible for monitoring Project milestones, estimating and re-estimating on a regular basis based on inputs from all relevant teams and reassigning priorities in order to maintain and accomplish the project schedule
• Conduct impact analysis and risk/issue management to schedule, approve and authorize the changes.
• Ensure all change requests are moving through the defined process in a timely manner, actively engaging process owners / escalations until each change request is closed.
• Audit existing change logs for accurate assignments of liability & planned vs. unplanned categorization, making process / training adjustments as needed