OBJECTIVE:

Confidential is a SAFe Agilist, Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Professional Scrum Master (PSM) adept in activities like Release Planning, PI Planning, Sprint Planning, and Product Backlog refinement, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, monitoring and tracking progress through Kanban Board etc. He also acted as a Coach, mentoring the team in the language from traditional waterfall process terms to Scrum/Kanban Terms. Practically knowledge of SAFe Agile, Spotify and Confidential version of large enterprise Agile Delivery Model. (Articles in Scrum Alliance in technical skills section). He is also very strong in Project Management activities like Project Planning, Costing/Budgeting, Project Monitoring and Controlling, Risk - Management, Stakeholder Management, Change Management, Exception Management, Disaster Recovery Management, Project Closure etc

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 15 years of rich and diverse experience as a Release Train Engineer, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Project Manager, Business Analyst and Quality Assurance Expert in Telecom, Banking, Financial Services and Insurance domain with the ability to learn new industry and business processes quickly. Most recent experience entails managing and implementing end to end digital channels applications from Contact to Cash flows involving multiple Systems in the end to end flow of data for a giant Telecom. (Intranet, Internet, Client/Server, Web Applications, Mainframe) taking up multiple roles of Scrum Master, Project Manager and Business Analyst over a period of 3 years. My Highlights
• An Insightful professional with notable success in driving and managing multiple projects of international scale.
• Solid Stakeholder Management, Collaboration and Facilitation skills - Understand, analyze, communicate and validate requirements. Experienced in Requirements elicitation techniques like brainstorming, interviews, prototyping and workshops by conducting JAR (Joint Application Requirements), JAD (Joint Application Development), BR/SR (Business Requirements and Systems Requirements) and HLD (High Level Design) sessions.
• Strong Interpersonal communication skills to build and sustain strong working relationship and synergies across multiple portfolios in multi-vendor environment. See the Project details for Portfolio details.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; Ability to effectively communicate across third parties and technical and business product managers. Have ample experience of working directly with client directors and VPs.
• Experienced Project Lead, which included Team Management, Mentoring, Competency Development as well as Billing and Financial activities for the team.
• Rich experience of working Confidential international client sites in countries like USA, Canada, Europe and India in handling multi-cultural teams.
• Experienced in QA Test Management, developing test strategy, test plan, implementing testing, managing defects, troubleshooting and tracking all test deliverables.
• Industry Standards and Metrics for Agile
• Agile for Prepackaged ERP and CRM Applications
• Scaling Without Reinventing
• Creating a Self-Organizing Team

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Service Oriented Architecture using WSDL, XML, SOAP and Web services
• Rational Tools (RequisitePro, ClearQuest, Clearcase)
• Java/J2EE, .Net, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Spring, AJAX, & JSON
• HP Quality Center
• OpenSource Tools: Struts, Turbine, Tapestry, Webwork, Cocoon, Spring etc
• CA Rally, Clarity, Versionone, Prism, JIRA,
• MS Project, Word, Excel, Visio
• Prepackaged Applications (Oracle, Siebel, Salesforce)
• Fidelity NetBenefits

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cary, North Carolina

Agile SME

• Agile Coach for a project to upgrade to Oracle R12.
• Part of Agile COE team to mentor, mould project team members from Top Management to Development team
• Preparation and documentation of Best Practices and document templates tailoring to the needs of Confidential Systems, Inc.
• Educating and facilitating the way to work with cross scrum teams via Scrum of Scrum ceremonies.
• Facilitating the cadence and ownership of documentation and process for Program Increment Planning.

Confidential, Cary, North Carolina

Agile Coach

• Team Member in Program Portfolio Management Group to transition from Waterfall to Agile.
• Designed and developed the process documents to transition from Waterfall to Agile and Hybrid Methodology.
• Coached leaders and teams through the transformation and provided the necessary training and references to enable the ideal management and team structures
• Provided reporting on team performance against agile measurements
• Created and conducted training courses for Scrum Masters and teams related to agile best practices, understanding and improving team dynamics and team performance
• Mentored and trained Stakeholders, Management, Scrum Masters and Development Team members.

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Agile COE Team Member, Business Analyst

• Developed and delivered team and organization training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the agile transformation.
• Established and supported communities of practices to promote organizational understanding of agile roles and to help individuals develop into them.
• Wrote Agile FAQs, articles and success stories that were distributed via newsletter.
• Coached teams, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Managers and Executives on Agile values and principles to promote continuous improvement in practices and artifacts.
• Championed cultural change and collaborated with other Coaches on plans and techniques for accelerating and advancing the organization's transformation.
• Mentored teams, leading them to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision making, conflict resolution and transparency.

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Principal Consultant, Project Lead

• Managed and Lead the implementation COTS applications of various clients. Over all job responsibilities includes proposal generation, demonstration of the application, interaction with business teams to gather requirements, applications development. Understanding the financial and budgeting requirements is also the part of Oracle General Ledger Implementations.
• Client: Media Communications
• Lead the implementation of business applications to integrate stand alone pc based applications.
• Compliance with SOX requirements
• Review of organizational structure and modification to the approval procedures is part of the implementation

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• Building the custom applications and interfaces to integrate with parent company.
• Concurrently managed multiple projects in multiple Locations across USA and MOW.

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• Lead the development and integration of custom home grown pc based applications with enterprise configurable software for finance, sales and marketing.

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Principal Consultant

• Business Analyst and Tester for implementation of various off the shelf and COTS applications for various public and private enterprise organization