SUMMARY

• Senior IT professional, with over 15 years of experience supporting complex projects in the area of software and web development. Successfully delivered large scale IT projects through coaching, team building, effective collaboration, facilitation, servant leadership and process management. Led the development and implementation of numerous high visibility projects utilizing both Agile and traditional methodologies. Recognized by stakeholders for team leadership capabilities, effective project management skills, collaborative processes, and the ability to develop and maintain exceptional stakeholder relationships.
• Over 15 years of Information Technology experience having managed, supported and/or developed small to large - scale contracts with a concentration on business process re-engineering and business process improvements.
• The ability to explain the business impacts of technical issues and concerns to non-technical staff and executive management.
• Demonstrated achievements in full life cycle project implementation with Waterfall and Agile methodologies and production support.
• Ability to identify project risks and develop mitigation when needed.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills with ability to interact in professional environment and experienced in coordinating, negotiating and motivating teams in support of time line and project deliverables.
• SDLC and project management methodologies and Process methodology (CMMI)
• Effective project tracking of tasks and costs of deliverables and EVM analysis and reporting
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams that can work to solve problems.
• Quality Assurance/Testing efforts, Test Plan, Test Cases and Iterations, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test Readiness Review.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SENIOR PROJECT Manager/Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ensure that the team prioritizes and completes work in alignment with stakeholder needs and program timelines.
• Lead Projects teams from scope analysis to Production deployment working closely with Business/Technology and multiple vendors and support groups.
• Facilitate sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective meetings and product demo meetings to stakeholders/leadership and work with Technology managers to plan and manage capacity.
• Help the team in completion of sprint activities for design, development and testing and deployment efforts.
• Conduct daily Scrum meetings and help create an environment that empowers and energizes team members, with a focus on accountability, adaptability, and collaboration.
• Track and report Scrum team velocity and manage Sprint capacity.
• Work with Product Owner and help them groom the product backlog, plan sprints and deliver valuable features every sprint.
• Tracking, escalating and remove impediments and mitigating risks identified.
• Ensure the Scrum teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Felicitated Scrum of Scrum meetings and coordinate dependencies between teams and other Scrum Masters.
• Maintain Release Burn Down/Up Charts, Sprint Burn Down/Up Charts and Defect Logs.
• Coached the team to transform from Traditional Waterfall to Agile Scrum methodology and improve team velocity and efficiency.
• Work and coordinate with support groups and teams for release deployment thus minimizing risk during releases.
• Provide reporting to senior C level executives weekly.

PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Responsibilities

• Led a group of 15 team members responsible for designing and developing a Data warehouse for Division of Service Improvement (DSI)
• Supported requirements elaboration and analysis with the help of business analysts and testers
• Coordinate with testing teams and track defect resolution.

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER /SCRUM MASTER

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Created detailed release plans and delivery schedule.
• Facilitated visioning sessions with clients to develop the product roadmap.
• Conducted daily Scrum meetings and managed the agile board, and worked closely with product owners to prioritizing items into releases.
• Monitored all contractor and sub-contractor burn rates, approved sub-contractor invoices as well as ensured timely payment of final invoices to the customer.
• Facilitated the Scrum process of planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives with team and Product Owner and proactively removing impediments to progress.
• Present periodic reports to the client on the progress and risks. Reported weekly status of consolidated sprint activity such as Velocity Charts, Burn-down Charts, Sprint Retrospective notes, etc.
• Review test scripts, test cases and coordinate with QA team for Regression and automation testing.

SCRUM MASTER/Project MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understand Customer needs and help in elaborating stories and creation of product backlog.
• Key liaison between client end-users and various vendor teams (development, testing, etc.) to ensure a quality solution that delivers results.
• Recommended on a continuous basis improvements to operational processes to improve efficiency.
• Mentored teams to Create documents, document AS-IS and TO-BE functionality, and identify creative recommendations to meet time critical business needs that were SOX compliant.
• Identified gaps and impact analysis of change request by working closely with business and communicating to teams.
• Create senior level overview documents, presentations decks for VP’s and reports on timely basis.
• Worked with product owner to create and prioritize user stories for agile development for agile projects.
• Maintained Release Burn Down Charts, Sprint Burn Down Charts and Defect Log.

PROJECT MANAGER /SCRUM MASTER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Agile Scrum Methodology throughout the organization to improve communications and transparency between project teams, product owners and business stakeholders
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum related meetings.
• Supported and guided product owner in management of backlog, ensuring Scrum process standards and identification of stakeholder conditions of acceptance.
• Led a team of software developers and testers and coordinated release planning and actual release schedules for multiple releases on a continuous delivery cycle.
• Work with component teams to resolve issues and conducted daily scrum meetings.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity by 70% within the first year.
• Enforcement of scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management in teams.
• Facilitated change management and continuous improvements by increasing quality of deliverables by 30%. Coordinated and managed code releases with other IT groups and international groups and set targets for defect resolution. Communicated with stakeholder issues and helped teams in removing roadblocks.
• Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master that resulted in reduction of cycle time by 20% and increased team’s throughput in less than 8 weeks.
• Interfaced with the QA/Test Scrum teams and government stakeholders in supporting their roadmap and vision.

Tech PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led highly matrix project teams.
• Managed schedule, budgets / EVM, resources, deployment planning, risks, and priorities.
• Oversee interaction with business for requirements to their transformation into Functional Specifications, application development, track progress, Quality Assurance and plan delivery including Disaster Recovery.
• Interfaced with the QA/Test Scrum teams and government stakeholders in supporting their roadmap and vision by prioritizing features, release planning of backlog and system demos.
• Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings with the IT Project Team and Business Area.
• Assisted in defining and implementing global deployment and release plan.
• Provided project status reporting to stakeholders and managed projects from inception to deployment.
• Managed the daily program operations and lead project teams in delivering solutions.
• Create and execute project work plans from imitation to deployment and revise as appropriate to meet changing requirements.
• Interact with senior customer personnel on significant technical matters frequently requiring coordination across organizational lines.
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of project and scope.

Environment: XML, .Net Framework, ADO.NET, Visual Studio.NET, Visual Studio Test, SQL Server, SSIS Package, MS Team Foundation Server, IIS

Software DEVELOPER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design & Development of IGP (Integrated Grant Management System) USAIDMicro.org for USAID.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Web Design and software development of applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft: Microsoft Project server 2013, SharePoint, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Microsoft project, Rally, Jira, Remedy, EPPM, COTS

Skills: Project Management - Project Planning - Stakeholder Communication - resource allocation - Document Development-Training & Staff Development - Client Interfacing - Quality Assurance - Strategic Planning - SDLC-Policy Development & Implementation - - Risk Assessment & Mitigation Monitoring & Evaluation - Software Compliance - Performance & Data Management - Vendor Management - Agile Kanban Board - Scrum Master -EVM