SUMMARY:

• Experienced Agile Coach and Scrum Master with hands on Agile, SDLC Cloud/DevOps experience coaching co - located and spread out teams; expertise include:
• Agile/Scrum Methodology, Test Driven Programming, Rapid Application Development
• Development and Rollout of a DevOps/RM Framework for code journey from DevInt, QA, Staging thru Production, Micro Services
• SDLC experience spanning Planning, Requirements Development, Design, Implementation & EOL
• Development using Java Technologies, LAMP stack, .NET with Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, Cassandra etc.
• Multi Tenancy SAAS Application Development

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• JIRA (Greenhopper, Confluence)
• Rally; Team Foundation Server
• MS Project; PlanView

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Program Manager & Agile Coach

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Make structural changes to the Programs to re-formulating Platform Engineering, On-boarding, Architectural and Support Teams
• Coach Confidential waterfall development teams to adopt Agile software development methodology
• Engage with business and IT managers to lead the digital transformation of the Organization
• On-board Companywide IT and Business Applications numbering more than 2000 on the
• Drive the transformation of legacy Supply Chain Applications
• Develop a new hybrid CI/CD Pipeline as a Service with Kubernetes management support on the AWS and Azure clouds
• Manage and oversee the performance and growth of the CI/CD technology team

Scrum Master & Agile Coach

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Leading across functional (Development + Release Management) teamutilizing Test Driven/Behavior Driven Methodologies to develop and roll-out an automated Continuous Delivery pull transaction processing platform incorporating the movement of mobile and desktop software application from the Confidential environment to QA to Staging and thru to Production. Technologies used are Python, J2EE, PHP, Google Cloud Engine, Google Spanner Database, Google Big Table Database,Docker and Ansible etc.
• The security framework is based on Google Cloud’s Identify and Access Management Framework.
• Deep knowledge and established track record of leading teams to continuous deliver software utilizing DevOps delivery framework and tools such as Jenkins, Salt, Chef and containerization technologies. Deeps hands on experience with standalone Docker based CI/CD and Docker CI/CD utilizing the GCP containerization platform.
• Coached the team to conduct a successful Inception to identify the architecture and create initial set of stories for the new automated framework.
• Led the team to conduct a follow-on inception for the Infrastructure Virtualization Layer, the Automation Layer, the Environment Config Layer and the services Layer
• Also managing the daily Scrum of the new scripted workflow development; also responsible for facilitating infrastructure stories liaising with the Google team for the deployment of the application in the Google Cloud platform.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Agile Coach& Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Project Inception kickoff
• Classroom and informal coaching of Agile development
• Story writing
• Story mapping techniques
• Release plan estimation and development

DevOPs Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led a cross functional (Development + Release Management) team to develop and roll-out an automated Continuous Delivery cloud based DevOps framework which incorporated the movement of code from the Confidential environment to QA to Staging and thru to Production.
• The Framework utilizes technologies such as Mesos, Marathon, Docker, Ansible etc.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Recognized as the top Scrum Master by the Management and Development Teams in the Confidential Cloud Foundation Organization to coach and lead Dev Ops focused Scrum Teams delivering Micro services based software components.
• Led the Confidential OpenStack and Compute teams to develop and deliver on the CIS 1.0 business requirements.
• Key responsibilities include managing daily standup, facilitate review and prioritization of the backlog, support periodic releases to production and coach team members to adopt Agile discipline in daily work. Conducted several Story Pointing TOI sessions and coached the team to start assigning Story Points to Kanban board work log such that the team Velocity can be measured and benchmarked. Responsibilities also include maintenance of the JIRA Project board.
• As part of the CIS Openstack Scrum Master role, led a combined Confidential and Red Hat cross functional teams to evaluate the RabbitMQ stability issues, identify enhancements, and plan selected enhancements for development. Got recognized by the Confidential CIS Management Team for the successful completion of the RabbitMQ stability Project.
• Currently leading the Network Edge, Edge Security and Telemetry teams to develop and deliver the newly reconstituted Confidential Cloud Foundation MVP targeted for Jan 31, 2017 release.

Confidential

Agile Transformation Coach

Responsibilities:

• Work with offshore development providing solutions for the BI development
• Manage development team utilizing legacy Mainframe, OPEN source and BI technologies, provide guidance in story writing and execution against prioritized requirements
• Act as a SPOC (Single Point Of Contact) for all Scrum Teams
• Provide thought leadership for the web applications and online user experience best practices, based on relevant experience with industry leading ecommerce firms, including online catalogs, storefronts, and customer journeys
• Participate in estimation and project planning meetings
• Conduct estimation meetings & planning meetings
• Supervise the offshore development processes and make sure that they meet the standard
• Facilitate learning through Active and Passive on the job coaching
• Active classroom Agile Coaching; Overt and Subtle 1 on 1 Agile Coaching
• Team Building activities with different audiences
• Conduct Daily Standup Meetings
• Facilitate Backlog Grooming Sessions; Facilitate Iteration Planning Sessions
• Manage SoS - Scrum of Scrums
• Facilitate Iteration Open/Close Session, and
• Facilitate Retrospective Sessions