EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• Having 14 years of experience on multiple domains like Banking & Finance, Manufacturing, Travel and Logistics out of which
• 5+ Years as Scrum Master
• 2+ Years as Project Manager spanning across SDLC process (Scoping to Delivery for Development and Production support projects)
• 8+ Years of IT experience as Project lead / Software Developer.
• Strong expertise in implementing Agile Frameworks like Scrum, SAFe and exposure on Kanban methodology.
• Facilitate Sprint Planning, daily stand - up meetings, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.
• Helping product owner to lead and manage backlog.
• Played as Release Train Engineer (RTE) communicate with stakeholders, escalate impediments.
• Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering the preparation of Vision and Backlogs, and through Pre and Post-PI Planning meetings. Summarize Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives (the RTE) and publish them for visibility and transparency
• Coach Leaders, Scrum masters, team on Lean-Agile principles, help manage risks and dependencies.
• Ensure that team is following scrum \ Kanban rules agreed upon. Facilitate the ceremonies \ meetings. Help the team progress towards the team goals, protecting the team from outside interventions.
• Support the Product Owner in their efforts to manage and prioritize the backlog and ensure that his priorities are clearly communicated to the team.
• Managed cross functional, cross scrum and cross product teams for divesture of legacy applications while adhering to compliance standards.
• Mentored teams - leading them to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision making, conflict resolution and transparency.
• Able to assess risks and impediments efficiently and determine effective courses of action, resulting in successful implementations and continuously developing enterprise Agile practices.
• Helping Organization wide in evaluating, providing feedback on the teams, suggesting, sharing the best practices and helping teams with Agile implementation.
• A keen strategist with strong understanding of onsite/offshore delivery model with vast experience in the handling projects in distributed environment.
• Articulate communicator who can fluently speak the language of both people and technology, blending technical expertise with interpersonal skills while interacting with the cross-functional teams, customers and stakeholders.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY:

Methodology: Waterfall, Agile.

Agile Management Tools: JIRA Agile, Version One, Rally.

Programming Languages: Java, SQL, PL/SQL, JavaScript

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, My SQL, PostgresSQL.

Java Technologies: J2EE, EJB 3, XML, Web Services, JMS.

Framework: Struts, Spring, Jersey.

Testing Tools: Junit, TestNG, Fitnesse.

Java IDEs: Eclipse, JDeveloper, IntelliJ.

Design & Modeling: OOA&D, UML, Java/J2EE Design Patterns.

Defect Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, SourceForge, Confluence, JIRA, HP QC.

Performance Tools: JProfiler, JProbe, Aternity.

Configuration Management: VSS, Rational Rose, SVN, Git.

Build Tools \ Automation: Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Hudson

WebServices: SOAP, REST.

ORM Tools: Hibernate.

BPM tools: IPP (Inhouse tool from FIS)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, FL

RTE \ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering the preparation of Vision and Backlogs, and through Pre- and Post-PI Planning meetings.
• Facilitate the PI planning event and Summarize Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives and publish them for visibility and transparency.
• Facilitate periodic synchronization meetings, including the ART sync at the Program Level. Facilitate Iteration planning, daily standup calls, Iteration review and retrospective, PI Backlog grooming sessions.
• Ensure that team is following scrum rules and other agile practices, process rules that team has agreed upon. Challenging the team to improve performance in the areas of quality, team velocity.
• Protect team from external interventions and help the team focus on daily and Iteration Goals in the context of current Program Increment (PI) Objectives.
• Focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance. Helps the team manage interpersonal conflicts, challenges, and opportunities for growth
• Work closely with the team and removing any impediments for the team which are stopping them to deliver / perform to their best.
• Attending the SOS meeting reporting completions, next steps and impediments on behalf of the team and radiating the information back to the team.
• Help to manage risks and dependencies. Escalate and track impediments
• To help product owner for getting ready with the prioritizing the Product Backlog by breaking down the requirements into user stories with clear defined acceptance criteria.

Confidential, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for conducting all the SCRUM Ceremonies.
• Provide high-touch and hands-on team guidance, support, and coaching in close cooperation and collaboration across all roles and functions, to facilitate increasing maturity at a sustainable pace.
• Responsible for interacting with other dependent groups to remove impediments of the team.
• Identify opportunities for individuals and team-based continuous improvements.
• Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are performing and leverage retrospectives to continuously improve.
• Lead workshops and training sessions to educate individuals on Agile Values, Principles, and Practices.
• Exchanging knowledge/thoughts constantly with other Scrum masters in the organization.
• Lead Agile inceptions and or other types of planning activities to define scope, resources required, and capture anticipated timeline and level of effort.

Confidential, Ohio

Scrum Master \ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Transition from Waterfall to Agile Methodologies and coached teams on software development using Agile best practices.
• Served as Scrum Master for several teams using Scrum and Kanban methodologies.
• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum Ceremonies, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Standups, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective.
• Provided daily communications, scrum notes, sprint reviews reports, project retrospectives, and regular snapshots of project velocity and budget burn rate to stakeholders.
• Provide high-touch and hands-on team guidance, support, and coaching in close cooperation and collaboration across all roles and functions, to facilitate increasing maturity at a sustainable pace.
• Responsible for interacting with other dependent groups to remove impediments of the team.
• Identify opportunities for individuals and team-based continuous improvements.
• Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are performing and leverage retrospectives to continuously improve.
• Lead workshops and training sessions to educate individuals on Agile Values, Principles, and Practices.
• Exchanging knowledge/thoughts constantly with other Scrum masters in the organization.
• Lead Agile inceptions and or other types of planning activities to define scope, resources required, and capture anticipated timeline and level of effort.
• Received 2 Appreciation certificates from CIO of Dana for effective project management
• Completed PM Level II assessment and Received about 8 R&R Awards from BU level in the tenure of UST to till date

Confidential, Ohio

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Achieving project deliverables such as Enhancements \ Change requests on time and quality based on the SOW \ MSA.
• Creating project plan, project schedule, tracking and updating the progress of enhancements to client.
• Identify process and functional improvement areas and provide suggestion to client stakeholders
• Making sure that team is meeting SLA compliance for the Incident and CR.
• Continuous service improvements by regular quality audits in association with QA team. Responsible for managing cost of the project and ensuring that the budget is not over run.
• To ensure that the all production movement deliverables are achieved by following project management process.
• Incidents and request are resolved with the consult and acceptance of the user.
• Regular meetings with all stakeholders and monthly meeting with Key stake holders of Dana Executive Management.
• Responsible for consolidating regular feedback from client manager \ BA and ensure that the customer satisfaction levels are high.
• Involved in new proposals and suggesting value-added ideas which will help client and in-turn generate additional business.
• Having weekly calls with the SME and vendors to show the screens and progress and get buy in from them. Any additional requirements are tracked and would be analyzed, feasibility study is done and handled as per the change management
• Provide functional / business process information and guidance to the team in doing day to day work
• Work on opportunities identification within portfolio related to emerging technology landscape
• Responsible for consolidating regular feedback from client manager and ensure that the customer satisfaction levels are high.

Confidential

Project lead

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead in the design and development of a component based (J2EE) architecture.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Agile SCRUM, JMS, JUnit, Web services, SQL, PL/SQL, Log4J, ORACLE 10g, Eclipse.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for complete development of assigned task
• Mentoring the junior resources and tracking their task to completion.
• Analysis, Design, Development, Unit Testing and integrating the whole Application.
• Finalizing the requirement by discussing with the Business partners and other teams involved in the enhancement.

Environment: J2EE, JSP, Servlets, JDBC, EJB, JavaScript, SQL, Oracle 10g, OADF, Rational Rose and Ant.