SUMMARY:

• Senior Tech Project Manager with 15 years of success across all phases of web - based,cloud,datacenter & Mobile technology projects within the banking and Financial institution.
• Strategic leader with proven history of planning and managing multimillion dollar projects to fulfill business goals and deliver technology solutions that drive process improvements and competitive advantageResults-focused, with background that encompasses project management, change management, and ScrumMaster roles; areas of expertise include Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Solid communicator who leverages technical, business, and financial acumen to communicate with and deliver compelling presentations to client executives and other key stakeholders.
• Managed successful transition of multiple complex projects from Waterfall to Agile with successful delivery of products features.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Java/Technologies: Javascript, Backbone.js, CSS3, Hibernate 3.0, AJAX, SOAP, REST, ASP.Net

XML/HTML: XML, HTML5.0, CSS3

Business Modeling: Rational Rose, Visio

Microsoft Tools: Excel, Sharepoint

Agile tools: Rally, JIRA

IDE: IBM Rational Application Developer, Eclipse, Net Beans

Incident & Ticket Management: Maximo, Peregrine, ITSM

Defect Management: ALM, HP Quality Center

Source Control: Tortoise SVN, Rational ClearCase, Visual Source Safe

Cloud Services: Overview of AWS & Azure services

Project & Resource Management: Microsoft Project Plan, Plan view, Field glass, MS Excel, Macros, PPMC (Project and Portfolio Management), Power Point

Servers: Tomcat, Websphere, IIS

Transaction Monitoring: Dynatrace

Analytics: Ensighten, Adobe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Smithfield, RI & Seattle, WA

Tech Program Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Led 25-member team of business analysts, developers, and project managers collaborating across multiple internal groups in complex integration projects.
• Identified stakeholders and led project initiation phases, project working groups, and project control committee meetings.
• Collaborated extensively with product owners and business partners to ensure fulfillment of business requirements.

Confidential, Smithfield, RI & Seattle, WA

Tech Program Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Own daily standup calls, identifying the impediments and risks, resolving them in timely manner
• Create project plans by identifying interdependencies between projects, tracking these plans closely
• Been Servant leader, helped team members by mentoring and sharing the knowledge on continuous basis
• Lead meetings for Continous backlog refinement of backlog by working closely with Product owner and Agile BA
• Own release management process, continuous integration and continuous deployment
• Planned and directed delivery of information to management and project teams, explaining project plans, budgets, proposals, requirements, strategies, and recommendations. Resolved issues and overcame barriers.
• Manage issue resolution and decision-making for complex projects. Partner with lead analysts, technology leads, DBAs, and QA team to deliver projects on time and on budget, maintaining communication to apprise higher management.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations to product team. Maintained team focus on project backlog and project timeline.
• Track and manage product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown. Provided education and reinforcement for scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and other key stakeholders.
• Product Backlog, Sprint boards, ‘Daily burndown charts’ & Retrospective outcomes are tracked through JIRA

Confidential, Smithfield, RI

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead 3 Scrum Teams for 3 Online banking features consisting of 20+ team members.
• Facilitate Product Backlog Refinement, Release Planning and Sprint Planning meetings on continuous basis
• Working closely with PO(s) to ensure that Product Backlog is refined regularly, resulted stories in Ready state
• Removed impediments in timely manner and facilitated all ‘Scrum Events’ in rhythm, consistently
• Product Backlog, Sprint boards, ‘Daily burndown charts’ & Retrospective outcomes were tracked through JIRA
• Created measurable project objectives; identified stakeholders and determined their impact and influence; coordinated project initiation phase, including evaluating product feasibility within given constraints.
• Conducted working group and control committee meeting, apprising higher management on project status.
• Partnered with Information Security to identify and remediate ESM and Qualys vulnerabilities.
• Led production readiness meetings. Engaged in release planning and sprint / iteration planning; conducted scrum planning meetings, daily standup calls, and retrospective meetings; updated status in JIRA.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Technology Project Manager / ScrumMaster

Responsibilities:

• Led team of 20 members for multiple complex Integration projects with annual budget of $8M across 3 projects.
• Managed ~300 tickets per month and reported on Confidential to client's higher management.
• Created and implemented transition plan for knowledge transfer from internal team to Confidential for multiple projects across multiple locations in India and US, expanding team strength from seven to 50 within seven months.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Established L2 and L3 production support team of 30 members supporting 22 applications.
• Served as Scrum Master for development and maintenance team; led continuous improvement meetings.
• Partnered with product owners to create, prioritize, and maintain product backlog, helping team focus on delivering business solutions with the highest customer experience impact.
• Led team of business analysts, functional managers, business project managers, and project support staff including architects and DBA to create, maintain, and manage project schedules.
• Created, coded, designed and implemented web projects