SUMMARY:

• MBA, Certified Scrum Professional, Certified Scrum Product Owner, Certified Scrum Master, Certified SAFe experience managing multiple projects and large Complex integration projects in Healthcare, Media, Insurance, Retail and Auto Industries.
• Over 18 years’ experience serving Healthcare, Financial Services, Technology clients in a delivery and functional lead capacity utilizing Agile delivery framework and waterfall project management practices

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago

Lead Scrum Master/Coach

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a mentor to several Scrum Master transitioning to Agile product development
• Used Agile and Kanban frameworks to manage the product development workflow.
• Coached teams on SAFe, Agile, Lean, Kanban, Scrum, and Jira at a large Scrum Masters networking event.
• Acted as Scaled Agile Framework Release Train Engineer for seven high - performance Scrum teams.
• Acted as a mentor to several Product Managers transitioning to Agile product development.
• Coaching team members in a fast-paced environment through our transformation to Agile.
• Facilitating Scrum events (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Retrospectives, Release Planning,), and ensure User Stories and other artifacts are captured, prioritized, communicated, and properly sized by the team.
• Focused the team on the goals of the current iteration, keeping them on track.
• Removed barriers that block the team so they can deliver all committed User stories of each sprints.
• Working with the Product Manager, providing a check and balance between getting more done and maintaining high quality and efficiency:
• Coaching and Leading the onsite and offshore team in Scrum project management practices through:
• Building Organic, self-organizing agile teams and integrating them into the enterprise.
• Created a guiding, shared team vision, project vision, and product vision
• Implemented simple, adaptable methodology rules to deliver business value rapidly and reliably.
• Tracking and monitoring the project for timely and relevant feedback while instituting systemic learning and adaptation.
• Created Pair Programming: This Increase collaboration between Dev and QA’s, also software quality without impacting time to deliver.
• Helped testing team to create test cases in ALM, defect fixes and JIRA and ALM updates. Experience in Selenium automation tools.
• Leading COP of SM’s groups.
• Practicing Servant Leadership.

Confidential

Project Manager/ Scrum Master, Bloomington, IL

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple projects concurrently scheduled for implementation at different timelines.
• Upholding agile values and principles; facilitating agile ceremonies, carried out daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, Sprint and release planning, demos, and other scrum related meetings for three teams.
• Served as Scrum Master for two agile teams, focused on building and enhancing our system of record .
• Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
• Rendered hands-on supervision and mentorship to a team which was entirely new to Agile Scrum methodology.
• Worked with Product Owners on crating and grooming the product backlog.
• Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology.
• Audit sprint metrics and convey all the data to Product Management teams.
• Using Jira and Confluence tools for Scrum and Kanban, creating burn down, burn up and other artifacts as needed.
• Project Management including Vendor Management (3rd party software used), Transition Management, and Communications, Risk Management, Release Management, special projects planning & deployment activities
• Using Primavera P6 to define, plan and manage the projects effectively that are scheduled to be implemented at different times of the year.
• Organized and used SharePoint to store project documents / meeting minutes, track project statuses, risks, milestones, issues and resolutions.
• Helped to monitor visualize project performance vs planned.
• Delivered common UI controls and client-side database components across multiple releases.
• Leads in implementing/applying standard processes for scope/change management, risk management, issue management, quality assurance, estimate variances and project communications.
• Managing all projects, tracks time allocations and resource usage; build and deliver SDLC artifacts.
• Worked closely with Portfolio Architects, Tech Leads, Business Analysts, QA Managers, Functional Managers, Test Managers, and Release Manager; and making sure everyone is in sync and informed.
• Status Reports Dashboard for C-level Exec. Management, business stakeholders and sponsors.
• Coordinating project team meetings including meeting logistics, agenda and meeting minute preparation.
• Ensured that the project has compliance approval at every stage and is following organization norms.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed project prioritization by collecting justifying data from business, cleansing and collating it to be presented at Senior Management Meet. Capacity analysis for in-taking non-prioritized projects. Cost plan review for approvals. Worked on Large /Small Data Center Migrations.
• Functional Value Measurement for portfolio. Resource Planning and management. Project Management audits and knowledge sharing sessions.
• Managed knowledge repository for portfolio which includes best practices, lessons learnt and project documents. Partner with various stakeholders to ensure roles and expectations are clearly defined and understood on each project.
• Recognize and understand competing business requirements and make recommendations for the overall good of the projects.
• Identified, drive and execute projects aligned with departmental or organizational strategy. Developed effective project plans with defined objectives, deliverables and communication plans. Managed project resources and budget to ensure objectives are met.
• Proactively ensure the right level of project analysis to create the schedule and transform project vision and scope to a time-based plan. Reported project health and status utilizing agreed project management methodologies, systems and tools.
• Engaged project sponsor, stakeholders and team with effective communication and project leadership. Ensured project closure meetings are held, produce project closure reports highlighting areas for improvement.
• Created and maintain risk registers and issue log to ensure proper risk mitigation.
• Created project charter and project milestone plan to govern code delivery and quality assurance.
• In addition, also responsible for management and coordination of all vendors and contractors who performed work in these Data Centers.
• Prepared weekly release status updates.