PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Working as SCRUM Master (RTE) / Agile Coach / Technical Manager and around 12 years of strong experience in Agile methodologies.
• As an Agile coach have been involved into
• Passionate Agile transformation coach with exposure to various agile frameworks like SCRUM, Kanban, SAFe, Lean .
• Have been involved in migrating or transforming multiple projects from waterfall to various agile methodologies.
• Coaching and Training team members, Stake holders and Other Scrum masters on various Agile principles and methodologies.
• Have been involved in training product owner for writing user stories.
• Have been involved in migrating various project from Waterfall to various agile framework.
• Very good exposure to various Agile framework like SCRUM, kaban, SAfe,XP and good knowledge of various agile practices.
• Conducting training by using various agile games.
• Passionate coach and trainer who understand importance of team and business. Have always focussed on collaborate, Inspect and adapt approach.
• Taking decision on the Agile framework to be used for various projects.
• Rather than blindly following process have always focussed on importance of each ceremonies in various framework, focussing on why and how it helps.
• Feature distribution, Release planning, hosting Scrum of scrum, finding new approach to improve process, providing feedback to Management.
• Create and manage Agile maturity matrix to plan and track agile practices for the team improvement.
• Coaching and helping team members for various agile practice like TDD, ATDD/BDD, Pair programming.
• Creating standard templates in tool to ensure same template being used by multiple teams.
• Have been involved in introducing SAFe methodology for the large projects and multiple agile teams.
• Always focussing on how team can be made self - sufficient to deliver quality deliverables.
• Created presentation on various Agile topics to train and coach team members.
• Have been involved in exploring new tools like JIRA, TDP, Rally, TFS, TeamForge. Have very good conceptual knowledge on Agile tools and have been involved in managing Admin activities for various tools like Use roles, Managing workflows, Reports, Customized Dashboard view
• Taking training Confidential organization level to share knowledge.
• Created standard templates to identify Team capacity, velocity, Strike rate, Dependency on another teams.
• Focussing and explain the importance of each ceremony rather than simply following as a part of process.
• Creating various reports to be used across multiple teams.
• Created Agile community within organization for Knowledge sharing also have been part of multiple meetups.
• Acted as beacon for continuous improvement in Agile.
• To own the complete process, removing impediments and Coordinating with Team as well as to achieve Sprint/Iteration goals.
• Helping Product owner / Business Analyst for User story writing and user story slicing.
• Have worked in Distributed Agile environment and clients from various region like US, UK, Netherlands.
• Handling multiple projects and teams simultaneously and attending SCRUM of SCRUM (SOS) to coordinate with other dependent team to resolve dependency and impediments.
• Have been involved in taking care of complete scrum life cycle and all SCRUM ceremonies.
• Strong experience on Agile methodologies like SCRUM, KANBAN, SAFe.
• Good Experience on DevOps and Continuous integration using various automated tools.
• Passionate SCRUM Enthusiast with good communication and analytical skills.
• Point of contact between Team, Client, Stake holders and Higher management.
• Helping Product Owner for Story slicing and managing product Backlog.
• Guiding and coaching Scrum team, Product Owner & Stakeholders, Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Have been deeply involved in converting Project from waterfall to Agile.
• A committee member of Agile Testing Alliance (ATA) group which helps people and organization to resolve their problems using Agile practices.
• Managing complete agile lifecycle using Various tools like JIRA, TDP, RALLY, TFS.
• Knowledge of various other tools like cucumber, Jenkins, Selenimum.
• Have been involved in Developing and managing web based and mobile based applications.
• Have been involved in all major Agile activities like Prioritization, Estimation, Daily Stand up, Client Demo, Sprint Retrospective, Release Planning and many more.
• Tracking SCRUM activities through Kanban board, Burn down chart, Sprint Velocity, Spring Capacity and many more matrices.
• Have been involved for removing impediments during sprint to achieve smooth deliverables.
• Responsible for Identifying Risk and mitigation plan.
• Also have an experience as Project manager, have worked on various activities like Project Matrices, Project Charters, Leave Management, resource Management, Monthly reports, presentation for VP review and tracking agile activities on daily basis.
• Have created automated tool to create matrices and provide data to management.
• People management is one of my strong area and have strong ability to grasp new things quickly.
• Managing Web based and mobile based application and experience in Dev ops.
• Creating Flow diagram, Application Diagram, Infrastructure diagram, Use case diagram through Visio.
• Very good knowledge of OOAD and have been involved in solution designing by using various design patterns.
• Have been involved in Solution designing, Project Management, Release Management and delivering end to end projects.
• Helping team for code refactoring and preparing guidelines.
• Involved in Database design, Query optimization, Data migration and many more DB activities.
• Preparing various data driven matrices using SQL Server and Excel.
• Helping team member for writing Unit test cases by using NUnit/JUnit.
• Have been involve in code refactoring, preparing coding guidelines.
• Setting various environment and Creating guideline for deployment.
• Exposure to cloud-based applications like Azure and AWS.
• Code refactoring and improving code quality during sprint hardening.
• Strong of experience in leading, designing and developing web-based and mobile applications using ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC Kony, Java, Xamarin, C#.
• Good Knowledge of JQuery, JavaScript, Angular JS .
• Worked on service-oriented (Microservice architecture using WebAPI, WCF and web services (SOAP and REST)
• Have been involved in taking training and conducting workshop for Knowledge transfer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Agile: Scrum Master, Sprint Planning, release Planning, Scrum Meet, Retrospective, Story estimation, Client Demo, Dev-Ops, Agile metrics, Migrating project to Agile, Continuous Integration, TDD, ATDD/BDD, Pair Programming, Agile Games, Training People on SCRUM.

Project Model: SCRUM, Kanban, SAFe, Scrumban, XP, waterfall. Iterative,, Nexus( Less)

Project Management: Creating Project Matrices, People Management, Release Management, Risk Management, Leave management., Training people on Agile.

Agile Tool: JIRA, TDP,RALLY, TFS, TeamForge

Domain Knowledge: E- commerce (Retail), Finance and Mortgage, Telecommunication, Engineering, Industrial Automation

Technology & Framework: ASP. Net - (2.0 3.5, 4.0, 4.5), ASP.NET MVC (,4.), HTML,CSS,JSON, XML, Ajax, Web API, Web Service, WCF, MS Test, Web API,Log4Net, Xamarin, Kony, entity Framework, Angular JS, Responsive design, Data migration, Design patterns, NUniit, JUnit Dependency Injection, Visio, SSRS, JQuery, JavaScript, C#, ( C, C++, VB), SQL Server, UML, OOAD

Version Control: TFS, SVN, Git, Microsoft VSS

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas

Scrum Master(RTE) / Agile Transformation Coach / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Agile coach to transform IT teams from waterfall to SCRUM and SAFe.
• Initially started with 2 teams and later it was implemented for remaining teams.
• Working as Agile coach/Scrum Master/ Project Manager to follow complete agile ceremonies by using SCRUM.
• Leading and managing Confidential mobile application team.
• Started with single team using SCRUM and later SAFe was introduced to manage multiple team.
• Training team on Agile, Estimation, Writing effective User story and many other agile practices.
• Created Agile maturity matrix
• Set up QA, Requirement and Release process across multiple projects.
• Haven been involved in converting complete Project from waterfall and adhoc process to Agile.
• Training Scrum Masters and Business owner on Agile.
• Created standard templates to be used by multiple team for tracking project activities.
• Conducting SCRUM of SCRUM to resolve dependency and coordination.
• Coordinating with team members, LPM (lead PM), APM, Dependent teams for project activities.
• Conducting Daily scrum call and tracking complete SCRUM cycle through tool JIRA & TDP.
• Coordinating with product Owner/business Analyst to review user stories with team and resolving dependency for user stories and Epics.
• Iteration and release planning with team to achieve meet me dates with dependent application.
• Coordinating with System test team to plan iteration for system test for each project.
• Align onshore and offshore to meet to follow SCRUM process
• Training team member on Agile and JIRA.
• Handling multiple SCRUM team and have worked as a backup as well to handle other scrum teams.
• Coached/Mentored resources Confidential different level.
• Worked on Distributed agile environment and used PlanningPoker for Estimation.
• Used JIRA and Team Forge as the tool to Backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task management.
• Conducting Sprint Demo with Product Owner and Sprint Retrospective for the team.
• Responsible for Identifying Risk and mitigation plan.
• Conducting Sprint Retrospective for the team and managing through Team Forge.
• Ensured product backlog management and stories prioritization for consistent delivery.
• Helping Team member for Technical challenges, creating DB design, writing test cases.
• Created testing approach to be used for project execution.
• Involved in technical Design and project architecture.
• Have been involved for setting environment (Dev, QA, Pre-prod, Prod)
• Responsible for deployment process and creating guidelines.
• Introduced TDD and testing method approach to be used (manual and automated).
• Integrating cloud based API for Web, mobile and scanner application.
• Managing Beacon administration through Kony tool.
• Code refactoring and updating coding guidelines.
• Getting involved in all phases of Software development.
• Involved in POC for beacon and image search feature.
• Taking care of Project Deployment, Release Management and version maintenance.
• Training stake holders on Agile to ensure smooth functionality.

Tools:, Methods & Technologies: SCRUM, JIRA,, TeamForge, MS Office, Scrum Poker Cards( Mobile App), Kony, Java,.NET, Web API, TDD, Nunit, Demadware, XML, JSON

Confidential

Scrum Master ( RTE) / Agile Coach / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as SCRUM Master/RTE to follow complete agile activities by using SCRUM .
• Used SAfe methodology for project management and handling multiple teams.
• Conducting SCRUM of SCRUM to resolve dependency and coordination.
• Coordinating with team members, LPM (lead PM), APM, Dependent teams for project activities.
• Conducting Daily scrum call and tracking complete SCRUM cycle through tool JIRA & TDP.
• Coordinating with product Owner to review user stories with team and resolving dependency for user stories and Epics.
• Iteration and release planning with team to achieve meet me dates with dependent application.
• Coordinating with System test team to plan iteration for system test for each project.
• Taking lead on the project and coordinating with other teams within SSDF for Planning and tracking project work.
• Training team member on Agile and JIRA & TDP.
• I was new to the tool TDP and was involved in exploring the tools in details, created multiple views, queries and reports to plan ad track each iteration work. Also made sure the team is tracking all the task through TDP.
• Handling multiple SCRUM team and have worked as a backup as well to handle other scrum teams.
• Coached/Mentored resources Confidential different level.
• Worked on Distributed agile environment and used PlanningPoker for Estimation.
• Used JIRA and TDP as the tool to Backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task management.
• Conducting Sprint Demo with Product Owner and Sprint Retrospective for the team.
• Responsible for Identifying Risk and mitigation plan.
• Conducting Sprint Retrospective for the team and managing through JIRA & TDP.
• Ensured product backlog management and stories prioritization for consistent delivery.
• Communicate with the APM,LPM on a regular basis to provide feedback on current project status.
• Involved in creating microservice architecture.
• Helping Team member for Technical challenges.
• Helping team member for unit Test cases (TDD).
• Getting involved in all phases of Software development.

Tools:, Methods & Technologies: SCRUM, JIRA, TDP, SAFe, Visio, MS Office, Scrum Poker Cards (Mobile App), Java, Oracle, JUnit, XML, JSON, Entity Framework

Confidential

Scrum Master (RTE)/ Agile Transformation Coach / Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Agile coach to completely transform various project to SCRUM, Kanban, SAFe framework
• Worked as SCRUM Master/RTE to follow complete agile activities by using SCRUM and KANBAN
• Used SAfe methodology for project management and handling multiple teams.
• Conducting SCRUM of SCRUM to resolve dependency and coordination.
• Took various Agile team training Confidential to promote Agile and end to end Agile Implementation.
• Training stake holders on Agile to ensure smooth functionality.
• Taking care of Project Deployment, Release Management and version maintains.
• Coordinating with QA team for smooth project deliverables.
• Created document for code reviews and implemented peer review process.
• Involved in grooming Juniors and conducting training
• Ensured compliance of development team with Scrum methodology in delivering incremental features and monitor defined process adherence.
• Coached/Mentored resources Confidential different level.
• Worked on Distributed agile environment and used PlanningPoker for Estimation.
• Used JIRA as the tool to Backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task management.
• Ensured a common understanding by setting expectations in accordance with the Scrum principles, to align the stakeholders and team members.
• Created automated excel and sharepoint application for Project management matrices.
• Conducting Sprint Demo with Product Owner and Sprint Retrospective for the team.
• Ensured product backlog management and stories prioritization for consistent delivery.
• Communicate with the stakeholders on a regular basis to provide feedback on Implementation progress of the solutions, involve the architect team in case of technical roadblock.
• Helping Team member for on various technical aspects.
• Involved in technical Design and project architecture.
• Have been involved for setting environment (Dev, QA, Pre-prod, Prod)
• Responsible for deployment process and creating guidelines.
• Introduced TDD and testing method approach to be used (manual and automated).
• Introduced TDD/BDD for one of the team which was later used by complete IT teams.
• Code refactoring, Code reviews updating coding guidelines.
• Took training on various agile practices like TDD, BDD, pair programming, writing effective user stories.
• Getting involved in all phases of Software development.
• Taking care of Project Deployment, Release Management and version maintenance.
• Involved in POC for various JS framework like Angular.js m Bootstrap.js, Node.js
• Helping team to prepare project specific technical design and document. (Class diagram, Sequence Diagram, Activity Diagram etc)

Tools:, Methods & Technologies: SCRUM, KABABN, JIRA, SAFe, Nexus, Visual Studio, Visio, MS Office, Scrum Poker Cards( Mobile App), SQL Server Management studio,ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET, Angular JS,C#, SQL Server, TDD,BDD, WCF, Jquery, Javascript, XML, JSON,, Nunit, Entity Framework.

Confidential

Technical Lead / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked as SCRUM Master to follow complete agile activities by using SCRUM and KANBAN
• Conducting SCRUM of SCRUM for combine project update.
• Involved in Design, coding and Unit testing.
• Taking care of Project Deployment, Release Management and version maintains.
• Coordinating with QA team for smooth project deliverables.
• Created document for code reviews and implemented peer review process.
• Preparing project specific technical design and document. (Class diagram, Sequence Diagram, Activity Diagram etc)
• Worked on service-oriented architecture to support future mobile development.
• Involved in grooming Juniors and conducting training
• Training Team members on Agile to ensure smooth functionality.
• Ensured compliance of development team with Scrum methodology in delivering incremental features and monitor defined process adherence.
• Coached/Mentored resources Confidential different level.
• Used TFS as the tool to Backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task management.
• Ensured a common understanding by setting expectations in accordance with the Scrum principles, to align the stakeholders and team members
• Conducting Sprint Demo and Sprint Retrospective.
• Communicate with the stakeholders on a regular basis to provide feedback on Implementation progress of the solutions, involve the architect team in case of technical roadblock.
• Ensured product backlog management and stories prioritization for consistent delivery.
• Helping team member for technical solutions.
• Involved in all phases of Software development life cycle.
• Created internal SCRUM Master Group within the organization to share best practices.

Tools: & Methods: SCRUM, KANBAN, TFS, Visual Studio, Visio, MS Office, Scrum Poker Cards( Mobile App), SQL Server Management studio,ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, WCF,TDD, Jquery, Javascript, XML, JSON, Nunit, Entity Framework

Confidential

Technical Lead / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked as SCRUM Master to follow complete agile activities by using SCRUM
• Handling SCRUM of SCRUM for complete project update.
• Used JIRA as the tool to Backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task management.
• Ensured a common understanding by setting expectations in accordance with the Scrum principles, to align the stakeholders and team members
• Following all the SCRUM activities like Estimation, Sprint Demo, and Retrospective.
• Introduced Anonymous way to do Sprint Retrospective using tool.
• Ensured product backlog management and stories prioritization for consistent delivery.
• Designing project module flow diagram and class diagram.
• Involved in Database designing.
• Involved in technical Design and project architecture.
• Have been involved for setting environment (Dev, QA, Pre-prod, Prod)
• Responsible for deployment process and creating guidelines.
• Introduced TDD and testing method approach to be used (manual and automated).
• Code refactoring, Code reviews updating coding guidelines.
• Took training on various agile practices like TDD, pair programming, writing effective user stories.
• Taking care of Project Deployment, Release Management and version maintenance.
• Architecture Design, Coding and Helping team member for technical solutions.

Tools: & Methods: SCRUM, JIRA, Visual Studio, Visio, MS Office, Scrum Poker Cards( Mobile App), SQL Server Management studio,ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, WCF, Jquery, Javascript, XML

Confidential

Scrum Master / Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Got an Internal Training for SCRUM Master and started implementing SCRUM activities.
• Majorly was involved in Coding Unit Testing.
• Designing project module flow diagram and class diagram.
• Involved in Database designing.
• Coordinating with Stakeholders.
• Preparing Low Level Design (LLD) and Unit testing.
• Code Deployment and version Maintenance.

Tools: & Methods: SCRUM,TFS, Visual Studio, MS Office, Enterprise Architect, SQL Server Management studio ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, WebService, Jquery, Javascript, XML