SUMMARY:

• Experienced software professional with over 18 years of experience in Managing, leading and delivering complex software projects.
• Proven ability to lead and manage project teams of seven to 15 people.
• Experienced in managing onshore and offshore project teams.
• Certified Scrum Master with knowledge of Confidential ® Agile practices, test - driven development, and Waterfall methodologies.
• Transformed existing Waterfall to Agile development using Scrum and Kanban. Technical expertise in Business Intelligence and Web technologies.
• Technical expertise on data warehouse (ETL) and OBIEE reporting projects within Confidential Stock Plan Services, which is one of the leaders in the equity compensation field, catering to over 600 client companies.
• A dedicated team player with excellent problem-solving skills who is committed to providing high-quality support.

SKILL:

Methodologies: SDLC - Waterfall, Agile (Scrum / Kanban)

Software Tools: Rational Team Concert (RTC), Clarity, Service Now, JIRA, VersionOne, MS Office (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook), SharePoint, HP Quality center, Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE), Informatica Powercenter (ETL), Sahi Automation, Cucumber

Languages: SQL, VBScript, JavaScript

Databases: Oracle 11g/Exadata.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Transformed team from a traditional waterfall methodology to agile methodology by coaching and mentoring the team as well as individual team members to adapt the agile practices and procedures
• Introduced Agile Cadence meetings such as Daily Standups, Iteration/Sprint Planning, Show & Tell (Sprint Review) and Retrospective to the line.
• Promote collaboration between team members to increase productivity and efficiency.
• Monitor and analyze team velocity, iteration burn downs and release burn-ups to help the team stay focused on the committed iteration plan.
• Prepare continuous improvement plans for the team and help the team execute them
• Maintain visual management systems by keeping them current and updated with the latest iteration and release information.
• Mitigate Blockers & Risks for the team by escalating them as needed and help them move forward on the iteration plan daily.
• Addressing conflicts between team members and mentoring them to come to an agreement.
• Encouraging positivity in the team space by identifying skill upliftment / professional advancement opportunities, providing constructive feedback and planning engagement activities for the team.
• Continuously coach the line keys to adopt and improve on the leadership role.
• Assess Line Maturity Model (LMM) and report iteration & release metrics for the team.
• Complete Iteration zero activities and receive approvals before starting DDIT.
• Review, analyze, forecast and maintain line level budget information by partnering with Application Owners and Application Delivery leader.
• Partner with peer scrum masters to identify and mitigate project risks and dependencies.
• Project resource demand needs to the Application Owner, Application Delivery Leader, People & Process Leaders and Project Manager as needed.
• Collaborate with Release Manager and Project Managers to provide project and release level updates, plan and schedule projects/ releases and mitigate risks.
• Collaborate with the business application owner and partner with them to maintain a healthy, relevant and prioritized backlog.

Confidential, Durham, NC

Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led new reporting projects using Agile (Scrum) and Atlassian JIRA.
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies (daily stand-up, sprint planning, story grooming, retrospectives, sprint review/demos).
• Acted as a liaison between business and development to foster a trust-based relationship measured by delivering incremental business value.
• Established team cadence.
• Data Center Migration from Dallas to RTP - Migrated numerous applications and database servers to RTP (primary location). Planned and coordinated with business, technology, and other support groups in successfully completing the activities and validation.
• Disaster Recovery Center Migration from RTP to Omaha - Migrated numerous applications and database servers to OMA.
• Performance Improvement to meet better SLA - Worked with various groups to analyze and plan the activities. Worked with Development, QA, and DBA groups in completing the activities.

IT Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Administered Waterfall and Agile (Scrum, Kanban) methodologies while overseeing technical aspects of projects, including resource planning, project plan, schedule, tasks, documentation, dependencies, risk, budgeting, project reporting, and quality management.
• Managed milestones, issues, risks, dependencies, resources, timelines and constraints, both onshore and offshore, in order to successfully release numerous deliverables.
• Acted as a bridge between the System Support team, DBAs, and Technology teams to deliver code migration to SIT, UAT, and Production.

QA Lead

Confidential, Marlborough, MA

Responsibilities:

• Executed project on retirement benefits, onsite-offshore query resolution, requirement analysis, test plan designs, design and execution, defect reporting, and management.
• Successfully handled and delivered new client implementation stages.

Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared new team members through the use of onboarding materials and regular sessions.
• Planned / coordinated project schedules and proposed resource assignments to resource pool manager.
• Conducted business requirements gathering sessions in the form of questionnaires and business scenarios with the end users, subject matter experts (SME), and the developers.
• Collaborated with Technology team designing and implementing the ETL process using Informatica to extract, transform, and load data from different source databases (DB2, Sybase) to Oracle Exadata along with designing the RPD and building reports using OBIEE.
• Used data analysis techniques to validate business rules and identify low-quality missing data in the existing enterprise data warehouse (EDW).
• Contributed to automate the functionality for testing using Sahi and Cucumber.