SUMMARY:

• Extensive hands - on experience in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, SAFe, Nexus, Large-scale Scrum (LeSS), Product Development, PMO, Project Management, Business Analysis, Business Relationship Establishment, SDLC, Mobile, Cloud, Social Media, Big-Data, E-Commerce, Digital Marketing, CICD, TDD, ATDD, BDD, SCM, ERP, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), ETL, Data-warehouse, Marketing, Sales, Pre-Sales, and R&D for various sectors including Banking, Finance, Insurance, Retail, E-Commerce, Real-Estate, Telecommunication, Health-care, Pharma, Bio-tech, Entertainment, Media, Information Technology, Consumer goods, Govt, Non-profit, and Manufacturing.
• Managed successfully many full Life Cycles of Software & Business Programs and Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC) involving writing charter, planning, policies & procedures, client/user interaction, requirement gathering & analysis, user interviews, data discovery, writing user-stories, themes, epics, creating dashboards, architecting, setting branding standards, high level design (HLD), low level design (LLD), prototyping, designing, developing, code reviews, testing, BDD, TDD, UAT, integrating, deploying, documenting, and auditing.
• Specific hands-on technical expertise in JIRA, Confluence, Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Rally, Clarity, Microsoft Project, IBM Rational Suite, Water-fall, SQL, Visio, Gliffy, Lucidchart, Zendesk, SharePoint, Microsoft Office, O365, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Drupal, Tableau, SugarCRM, SQL Server, Oracle, Google Docs, Google Analytics, Google AdSense, Google AdWords, SEO, Azure, AWS in Windows, UNIX, Linux, Cloud, mobile iOS & Android environments.
• Met challenges, matrices and deadlines on regular basis, exceeding expectations.
• Possess very strong communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
• Multi-skilled. Asset for any organization & team. Contributor and difference maker.
• Excellent strong team player. Built and managed teams of different sizes.
• Consistently ranked as a top performer. Very innovative in approach.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

Agile Coach | Product Owner | Scrum Master | Project Manager | PMO

Responsibilities:

• Providing Agile coaching to the existing managers and staff.
• Assessing the current organization, team and delivery environment and recommending optimal Agile practices.
• Coaching teams in transforming to Lean Agile at scale (Lean, Scrum, Kanban and SAFe) at the portfolio, program and team levels.
• Leading development of new responsive website and mobile apps (iOS & Android).
• Managing vendor teams based in Canada, Dallas (USA) and Mumbai (India).
• Maintaining product backlog, prioritization of user-stories and creating Sprints.
• Facilitating daily Scrum calls, Sprint planning meetings, demos & retrospectives.
• Capacity planning, assigning story-points and efforts estimations.
• Creating Sprint calendar and setting up pre-grooming & grooming sessions.
• Migration of email and data to Microsoft Office 365.
• Status reporting to business governance council and to key stakeholders.

Environment: Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, JIRA, Confluence, SAFe, Nexus, Large-scale scrum (LeSS), Rally, DevOps, Android, iOS, Office, O365, MS Project, SharePoint, Kanban, Google Analytics, SQL, Endeca, Weblogic, Cloud, AWS, Azure, Tableau, Mongo DB, TDD, ATDD, BDD, CICD, Oracle ATG Web Commerce, Digital Marketing.

Confidential, Raritan, NJ

Product Owner (PO) | Sr. Functional Lead | Project Manager | Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Coaching, setting up right business processes, configuring JIRA/Confluence stack.
• Leading development of mobile apps (iOS & Android) and web applications.
• Managing multiple vendor teams based in Brazil, Europe, and India.
• Responsible for maintaining the product backlog, and prioritization of user-stories.
• Creating themes, epics, acceptance criteria, Definition of Done (DoD), Sprints.
• Requirement analysis and creation of functional specs documents (FSDs).
• Facilitating daily Scrum stand-up calls resolving team questions and blocks.
• Ensuring UAT validation and sign-off on planned time.
• Guiding product development. Directing what to build and in what sequence.
• Establishing & communicating the product/business vision.
• Fine-tuning and focusing the vision with the team.
• Producing successful product releases.
• Creating documentation and user-guides.
• Ensuring compliance internally and externally as per the FDA guidelines.

Environment: Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, JIRA, Rally, DevOps, SAFe, Android, iOS, Tableau, Google Analytics, Acquia, AWS, Azure, Drupal, SharePoint, PowerPoint, MS Project, Clarity, PMX, TDD, ATDD, BDD, CICD, Cloudera, Hadoop, O365, SAP.

Confidential, NYC, NY

Agile Coach | Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Set-up JIRA as Agile Project Management tool. Integrated plug-ins e.g. Gantt chart.
• Configured wiki Confluence for centralization of documentation.
• Managed vendor teams based in South Africa, India & USA.
• Requirement analysis and creation of requirement documents with logic flow-charts.
• Established processes for Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Created RFPs (Request for Proposals). Instrumental in successful product releases.
• Setup and customized Zendesk for customer service and engagement.

Environment: Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, JIRA, Confluence, SAFe, Rally, DevOps, ServiceDesk, Lucidchart, Zendesk, Trello, AWS, Azure, .NET, SQL Server, SSL certificates, TDD, ATDD, BDD, CICD, Microsoft SharePoint, MS Project.

Confidential, Hamilton, NJ

Sr. Project Manager | Agile Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed projects of data security, audit & compliance, meeting stiff deadlines.
• Created artefacts such as charter docs, data-flow diagrams, policies & procedures.
• Implemented safeguards used to protect the confidentiality of Federal tax return information (FTI) furnished by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) under the provisions of Internal Revenue Code.
• Ensured compliance to meet the safeguarding requirements, which include computer security, secure storage, proper disposal, employee awareness programs etc.
• Managed responses of Safeguard Security Report (SSR) & Corrective Action Plan (CAP) worksheet as per Safeguard Review Report (SRR) according to IRS Pub 1075.
• Identified processes, procedures or systems with inadequate security controls, which can lead to the breaches, compromised data & security incidents of potential criminal acts. Tracked and mitigated the security risks.
• Interacted with other Government agencies & vendors such as Xerox, Protech etc.

Environment: Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, SAFe, JIRA, Confluence, Rally, DevOps, AWS, Azure, MS Project, SharePoint, UML, Mobile, Visio, IBM Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, Software Configuration Management (SCM), Big-Data, Java, J2EE, XML, JSON, C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET, SQL Server, Oracle, IBM Benchmark Center, IBM AIX.

Confidential

Agile Coach | Product Owner | Scrum Master | Project Manager | Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the leadership, overall scope, cost, & schedule for multiple projects.
• Coached and mentored less experienced team members.
• Responded to RFPs (Request for Proposals) and did price negotiations.
• Managed overseas teams in different time-zones.
• Coordinated StoryMapping activities. Created Sprint timelines. Managed dashboards.
• Organized Sprint planning meetings and prepared the Sprint Backlog (SBL).
• Agile ceremonies: Grooming, Sprint Planning, Reviews/Demos, Retrospectives.
• Maintaining “Sprint burn down chart” updating daily progress. Analyzing Velocity.
• Juggled multiple projects at the same time. Managed high-paced multi-tasking.
• Integrated social media such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest etc.

Environment: Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, JIRA, Confluence, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Rally, DevOps, CICD, Jenkins, BDD, TDD, MS Project, Water-fall, Visio, SugarCRM, Drupal, MS Office, SharePoint, Google Docs, Cloud, Virtualization, Storage Area Network (SAN), VMware, vSphere, ESX, C#.NET, ASP.NET, VB.NET, IIS, SQL, Asterisk, XML, Java, J2EE, JSP, PHP, Linux, Ubuntu, PHP, Postfix, atMail, MySQL, Gliffy, Weebly, E-commerce, Big-Data, Hadoop, iOS, Android & Mobile Apps.

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led self-serve initiatives with the Point-Of-Sale (POS) solutions such as starting the project from the scratch for self check-out units at stores.
• Business intelligence through data analytics: Extracted intelligence from the field data, application generated, such as diagnostics information with different models.
• Put together the plan for measuring productivity & revenue generation by sales persons and technicians at the stores thus planning the right headcount per location.

Environment: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, MS Project, Visio, UML, ASP, .NET, C#.NET, XML, JAVA, J2EE, JSP, JavaScript, VB.NET, VBA, SQL Server, VMS, Weblogic, Oracle Application Server (OAS), IIS, HTML, VBScript, JavaScript, and VisualStudio.NET.

Confidential, NY

Architect | Developer

• Interacted business to gather requirements & created prototypes/proof-of-concepts.
• Designed & Developed web application using ASP, VBScript, JavaScript & HTML.
• Log utilities for reading IIS & Windows NT server log.

Technical environment: ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, VB, COM, IBM MQ Series, Oracle, .NET, IIS, PL SQL, MS Project, Visual Interdev, VSS & Mainframes.