SUMMARY:

• Experienced Scrum Master with 21 years of experience leading all phases of diverse technology projects; MBA and Six Sigma Green Belt credentials.
• Expert in Agile and Scrum methodologies. Able to lead complex and fast paced test driven development cycles.
• Program Manger and Business strategist.Planned and managed multimillion - dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, change and risk managements.
• Functional Head and Principal Business Analyst with 10 years of experience leading multi-million dollar projects. Led process change, functional road map, JAD and GAP sessions.
• Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and key stake holders.
• 15 years of IT experience in Business Rules, Process Management, Change Management, Release Management, SWOT analysis

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS:

• Management and Leadership Skills
• Program Management, Functional Head, Enterprise Content Management, Process Management, Change Management.
• Solutions Architecture
• N: tier .Net framework with Oracle DB and Crystal Report. Designed complete document management architecture.
• Core Finance skills
• Currency risk, DSO and Float, Credit risk, Inflation analysis, Account Payables, Account Receivables, NPV, IRR, Budgeting, Forecasting, Cost management, Market risk and Sensitivity analysis
• Stock and derivatives
• Fixed Asset pricing, Bond pricing, Options, Futures and Swaps, Portfolio management, and Valuation models like DCF models

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Dev. Tools: Visual Studio 2003/6.0, Visual Interdev, Eclipse

Source control: Visual Source Safe, Visual Studio

Languages: Java Server Pages, Java, Enterprise Java Beans, .2, PL/SQL, C, UNIX Shell Scripting, C#.Net

Internet Technologies: HTML, Java Script, XML,JSon, YML

Design Tools: MS-Project 2003, MS Visio 2003/2000, PowerPoint 2003

RDBMS: Oracle 8i/9i, SQL Server 2000, and MS-Access 2000/97

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master and Agile Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Championed and coached Lean/Agile principles to multiple teams as part of organizational initiative to move to scrum from waterfall model. Coached teams to understand and adapt to the Agile vision of the executive management for the organization.
• Coached team to move away from Excel based stories to JIRA based backlogs. Created a JIRA structure for the whole program. Imported all existing stories to JIRA and taught team to create new stories and make updates. Taught QA team to create test scenarios from acceptance criteria.
• Created customized dashboard in JIRA for the executive management team to get status with just a mouse click.
• Responsible for facilitating daily stand up meetings, sprint planning, demo to stake holders, and retrospective meetings.
• Worked with product owners to prioritize product backlogs and sprint backlogs. Facilitated backlog grooming sessions.
• Worked with the team as servant leader to bring about a change in the team to start imbibing Agile principles. Now long status meetings are reduced to 15 minutes and are more effective.
• Collaborated with development and QA teams to ensure that the development cycle is Test Driven.
• Introduced a weekly agile group discussion for the team to participate and discuss Agile methodologies, and SAFe principles
• Collaborated with program architect, production admin, and development team to understand environmental and cross-team dependencies to minimize technical debts from our sprint cycles.
• Collaborated across teams and Ensured all impediments were addressed and resolved promptly to ensure the sprints were done successfully.
• Identified and tracked all dependencies across teams and discussed in scrum of scrums and other meetings to avoid delivery conflicts.
• Facilitated program increment planning meetings that included senior management, architects, program management, product managers and owners, and all scrum teams, all providing input into what could be planned to be built in the next program increment.

Confidential

Program Manager and Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed translation and decomposition of business objectives into Agile components (Epics, Themes, Features, User Stories, subtasks etc.) and groomed the backlogs into viable releases and sprint plans.
• Provided weekly status reports on release progress, sprint velocity, risks and issues.
• Created dashboards on JIRA for the senior management.
• Ensured all scrum ceremonies such as daily stand up meetings, story grooming sessions, sprint planning, sprint demo, and retrospective meetings are properly done.
• Instituted, coached and facilitated regular scrum of scrum meetings with teams that were both co-located and remote.
• Organized a bi-weekly discussion group with other coaches, program managers and team members, to expand the depth and breadth of knowledge of lean/agile principles across the organization
• Introduced teams to test driven development (TDD), worked with the QA team for developing test scripts after the story grooming phase, encouraged team to start using automated acceptance testing and continuous integration principles to ensure high quality and tested code delivery.
• Worked with Product Owners and Product Managers to ensure the backlogs are properly prioritized keeping the goal of the organization in mind.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Introduced Lean/Agile principles and Scrum to the team members. I was the first Scrum Master for my development team.
• Worked with product owners to translate business requirements to Epics, Features, User Stories, and subtasks. Groomed the backlogs and led planning and prioritization of releases and stories.
• Provided weekly status reports on release progress, sprint velocity, risks and issues.
• Responsible for facilitating daily stand up meetings, sprint planning, demo to stake holders, and retrospective meetings.
• Worked with cross-functional team to understand dependencies and clear impediments.
• Co-led Program Increment planning meetings to ensure all scrum teams are aligned with the release train priorities and goals.

Confidential

Functional Head, Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for facilitating daily stand up meetings, sprint planning, demo to stake holders, and retrospective meetings.
• Worked with product owners to prioritize product backlogs and sprint backlogs. Facilitated backlog grooming sessions.
• Had constant communication link with key stake holders, executive leaderships, and steering committee to make sure the project was on schedule.
• Created process and standard documents for Unemployment Insurance TAX project.
• Led JAD sessions to analyze requirements and create detailed design of the business processes.
• Created business rules, process steps, screens and navigations, and documented all the details for the development team to work on.
• Designed Interfaces, and Reports for each process and created detailed supplemental specifications for each process.
• Led design review sessions with clients.
• Created system test scenarios and scripts for system testing and Integration Testing.Conducted system tests and logged defects and enhancement requests. Retested fixed defects.
• Led Gap Analysis. Had point of contact for test management, design defect management, and identifying design defects for the Tax modules

Environment: Java, Oracle, TOAD, MS Project, MS Word, RUP.

Confidential, Albuquerque, NM

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Led Scrum planning and Sprint Planning,
• Led Retrospective and review meetings. Communicated lessons learnt and implemented in next sprints.
• Led daily stand ups meetings, task board management
• Tracked sprint with help of burn-down chart
• Encouraged team to identify impediments. Worked to cleared them quickly
• Worked closely with Product Owners
• Participated in PI planning
• Worked with program management team on the overall product vision
• Ensured that the PI and Sprints are in line with the product vision.

Environment: .Net, Oracle, TOAD, SQL Developer, Rational Suite, MS Office Suite, RUP.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Principal Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led JAD sessions to analyze requirements and did detailed design of the business processes.
• Created business rules, process steps, process flow diagrams through RUP methodology
• Designed and tested end-to-end the Document Management process and Employer Account Maintenance module.
• Designed Interfaces, and Reports for certain processes.
• Conducted design review sessions with clients.
• Created system test scenarios and scripts for system testing.
• Completed System testing.Assisted in UAT testing.

Environment: .Net, Oracle, TOAD, SQL Developer, Rational Suite, MS Office Suite, RUP.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Financial Systems Manager

Responsibilities:

• As a Finance subject matter expert myself recommended improvements to the existing system to the users and worked with them to specify the scope of the changes for the developers
• Created detailed project plan, critical path mapping, resource planning, helped in conference room pilot presentation, and transition planning for the project
• Analyzed budgeting, forecasting, and P&L planning details to convert them to software design documents.

Environment: SAP, Windows 2003/XP, MS Visio, Rational Suite, MS Project, MS Office Suite, RUP, Load Runner

Confidential, Saint Paul, MN

Finance Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led budgeting and forecasting of Confidential ’s Fuel the Future corporate finance initiatives
• Managed P&L for the department and advised the leadership of the cash flow conditions of the department.
• Led the Six Sigma initiative for the Food and Beverages department to reduce cost and increase productive, resulting in better financial results for the fiscal year.
• Led university recruitment drive.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Senior Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed P&L for Confidential, the online portal for Confidential ’s ecommerce initiative.
• Created annual budgets and quarterly forecasts for Confidential stores.