SUMMARY:

• 10 + years experience of managing IT backlog of data to be modeled and integrated into data warehouse and responsibility to provide solid direction to teams to ensure the Agile process is successful.
• Transition from concept and principles to effective behavior based application of leadership skills that support the line of business products, different business models, and technology architecture/environments unique to specific lines of business.
• Facilitate sprint planning, retrospective and daily activities related to stand - ups and sprint burn down; as well as maintain relevant metrics that help the team see and understand their progress during a sprint. Ensure Scrum and SAFe process, rules, and ceremonies are properly applied by leading, facilitating and supporting the following: Daily stand-up meetings o Sprint Planning o Sprint Retrospectives o Sprint Demos o Scrum of Scrum meetings
• Release Planning Events.
• Coach the team to: o Become a self-governing high-performance team
• Collaborate and effectively manage work o Resolve issues and conflict
• Assist the Product Owner in: o Maintaining and prioritizing the Product Backlog o Writing and breaking down User Stories
• Work with the Release Train Engineer (RTE)/Technology Services leadership to help facilitate: Release Planning Events o Scrum of Scrums o Program governance o System Demos o Team status reports o Stakeholder management and organizational change management.
• Collaborate with and escalate as required to the TS Application Development manager Remove any impediments to the team s progress
• Create and maintain work visibility (Kanban boards, Agile tools, charts, etc.)

• Understanding & active use of JIRA for managing Agile project & TFS.
• Internal Orders & CO-PA in Controlling.
• Microsoft technologies like SSRS, SSIS, Azure & AWS.
• Facilitate discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution. Ability to get the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Waterfall, or Kaban principles.
• Experience managing projects with stakeholders/SMe/Product Onwers across multiple business domains.Databases/hands-on SQL query writing experience.
• Coordinate onsite/offshore team.
• Financial Accounting (FI) Enterprise Structure.
• Business Intelligence tools (Micro Strategy, Spotfire, Tableau, QlikView/QlikSense, Power BI)

SKILLS:

• Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, attention to detail and interpersonal
• Strong ability to work independently and strong time management . Strong leadership and mentoring
• Necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback.

TECHNOLOGY SUMMARY:

Applications: Micro Strategy, Spotfire, Tableau, QlikView/QlikSense, Power BI, Azure DevOp/ADO

Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project, Access, Visio and Outlook

Project Management: JIRA, MS project, Primavera 3/6 ERP SAP QM, R/3 FI/CO

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Scrum Master/ PM

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for two scrum teams running concurrent scrum iterations with dependencies on each other and other teams in other trains or outside of the scaled agile program of the organization.
• Assist the released train engineer in the both the Pre-PI, and the Program Increment (PI) planning for train.
• Acts as a buffer between the team and process overhead, so each team member can focus on the timely delivery of applications.
• Coordinate the sprint planning, daily Scrum meetings, Backlog review, sprint review, sprint retrospective, PI Objectives, solution demo to the Product owner and stakeholders.
• Shields the team from interruptions and removes impediments that may impact the delivery of the product. Instilling Agile principles into daily activities to ensure smooth functioning of the DIA, UAC implementation delivery team
• Present and explain proposals, reports and findings to clients, assign, direct, and evaluate their work, and oversee the development and maintenance of staff competence.
• Work closely with the product owners to ensure all resolved user stories, and story points are closed at the end of the each iteration.
• Consult with solution clients, end users to prepare project specifications, and acceptance criteria for each requirement .
• Keeps external stakeholders and other interested parties well-informed on team progress and activities through available tools for the Matrix .
• Strong understanding of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation and production methods.

Environment: AzureDevOp (ADO) JIRA, VSTS, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, Excel, Visio etc.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Scrum Master Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for two scrum teams running concurrent scrum iterations with dependencies on each other and other teams in other trains or outside of the scaled agile program of the organization.
• Assist the released train engineer in the both the Pre-PI, and the Program Increment (PI) planning for train.
• Acts as a buffer between the team and process overhead, so each team member can focus on the timely delivery of applications.
• Coordinate the sprint planning, daily Scrum meetings, Backlog review, sprint review, sprint retrospective, PI Objectives, solution demo to the Product owner and stakeholders.
• Shields the team from interruptions and removes any impediment s that may impact the delivery of the product.
• Coah the teams on SAFe Agile principles into daily activities to ensure smooth functioning of the EMR/HMR Go-Live implementation delivery team
• Present and explain proposals, reports and findings to clients, assign, direct, and evaluate their work, and oversee the development and maintenance of staff competence. Analyze technology, resource needs and market demand, to plan and assess the feasibility of projects.
• Confer with management, production and marketing staff to discuss project specifications and procedures Review and recommend or approve contracts and cost estimates. Direct, review and approve product designs and changes. Consult or negotiate with clients to prepare project specifications.
• Keeps external stakeholders and other interested parties well-informed on team progress and activities. To ensure smooth delivery, tracks and removes and obstacles and barriers that may prevent progress
• Implementation of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation and production methods.

Environment: JIRA, TFS, PowerBI, Spotfire, Tableau, Qlikview, QlikSense, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, Visio etc.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Scrum Master / PM

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for two to three scrum teams running concurrent scrum iterations with dependencies on each other and other teams in other trains or outside of the scaled agile program of the organization.
• Assist the released train engineer in the both the Pre-PI, and the Program Increment (PI) planning for train.
• Acts as a buffer between the team and process overhead, so each team member can focus on the timely delivery of applications.
• Coordinate the sprint planning, daily Scrum meetings, Backlog review, sprint review, sprint retrospective, PI Objectives, solution demo to the Product owner and stakeholders.
• Shields the team from interruptions and removes any impediment s that may impact the delivery of the product.
• Confer with management and all stakeholders to discuss data driven applications, and ERP projects specifications and procedures Review and recommend or approve contracts and cost estimates. Direct, review and approve product designs and changes.
• Managed multiple Data driven application projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities using SAFe and Scrum Principles
• Acts as a buffer between the team and process overhead, so each team member can focus on the timely delivery of applications. Shields the team from interruptions and removes obstacles or impediments that may impact the delivery of the product. Guides the team's operations by facilitating ceremonies (e.g. daily stand-ups, sprint planning) and instilling Agile principles into daily activities to ensure smooth functioning of the delivery team
• Present and explain proposals, reports and findings to clients. Recruit employees, assign, direct, and evaluate their work, and oversee the development and maintenance of staff competence. Analyze technology, resource needs and market demand, to plan and assess the feasibility of projects.
• Keeps external stakeholders and other interested parties well-informed on team progress activities t o ensure smooth delivery, tracks and removes and obstacles and barriers that may prevent progress
• Responsible for the administrative, coaching and leadership roles that make Scrum development / delivery possible. Strong knowledge of production processes, quality control, costs and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
• Strong knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation and production methods.

Environment: JIRA, TFS, PowerBI, Spotfire, Tableau, Qlikview, QlikSense, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, Visio etc.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Software Engineering Manager /IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple Electronic Mailing Software (SendSuite Live), making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of the software technical activities. Facilitates internal and external communications (e.g. task coordination, progress tracking / reporting, dependency management) Ensure team is well-informed on the internal and external initiatives and activities.
• Consult with management and review project proposals to determine goals, time frame, budgeting, funding limitations, and procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of resources. Regularly updated project owners and stakeholders regarding key issues and risks.
• Work with the Project Owner in preparing for the Tollgate review meetings
• Assist the Product Owner and Solution Architect in user story creation/prioritization and product Backlog grooming via emergent requirement elicitation while supporting overall organizational goals. Track and report Scrum team velocity and manage Sprint capacity.
• Guiding and coaching both the Scrum Team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum framework. Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Acts as a buffer between the team and process overhead, so each team member can focus on the timely delivery of applications. Shields the team from interruptions and removes obstacles that may impact the delivery of the product.
• Coordinate the QA software testing processes as required and collaborate and communicate with other project managers and leaders to coordinate the cross functional project initiatives and activities.
• Present and explain proposals, reports and findings to clients. Recruit employees, assign, direct, and evaluate their work, and oversee the development and maintenance of staff competence. Analyze technology, resource needs and market demand, to plan and assess the feasibility of projects.

Confidential, Peoria, IL

IT Project Coordinator (Agile Scrum)

Responsibilities:

• Develop project plans, project charters, communications plan, risk plans, contingency plans, lessons' learned post implementation reviews and other associated documentation.
• Confer with management, production and marketing staff to discuss project specifications and procedures Review and recommend or approve contracts and cost estimates.
• Direct, review and approve product designs and changes. Consult or negotiate with clients to prepare project specifications.
• Manage, Develop and implement business solutions for software application management, and implementations with high quality business analysis, network, server, database setup, localization and deployment of large-scale enterprise-wide projects.
• Track record of continued and recent education in Scrum, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc. Facilitate agile meetings and coach team members and external teams on the Agile principles.
• Keeps external stakeholders and other interested parties well-informed on team progress and activities. To ensure smooth delivery, tracks and removes and obstacles and barriers that may prevent progress.
• Regularly analyze key metrics impacting the velocity / performance of the team and produce and share status reports that highlight any issues / blockers.Responsible for the administrative, coaching and leadership roles that make Scrum development / delivery possible.
• Dedicated to continuous process improvement through feedback loops, coaching, retrospectives, and individual improvement. Support teams using a servant leadership style and leading by example. This person should personify Scrum and Agile.
• Engages with any needed business entity to help remove obstacles to his or her teams being able to deliver on stated goals and influences working agreements.

Environment: JIRA, TFS, PowerBI, Spotfire, Tableau, Qlikview, QlikSense, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, Visio etc.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Business Analyst/PMO

Responsibilities:

• T ranslate business requirements into a structured IT solution using functional approach Extract data from various sources, transform data, and present easy visualizations of data in appropriate Business Intelligence (BI) tools to support pricing decision-making process.
• Performing project administrative tasks such as: creating and maintaining project plans, completing project estimates, identifying and reporting action items and risks, project status reporting, meeting facilitation and preparation of meeting notes.
• Critically evaluates information gathered from multiple sources, reconciling conflicts, decomposing high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Develop reports and dashboards in existing and new tools leveraging latest technology. Organize, prioritize, coordinate and efficiently manage multiple projects and meet critical deadlines with minimal to no supervision.
• Requirement gathering sessions (RGS) with clients, customers and Project Managers and Developers alike to ensure adequate understanding and communication of project details
• Translate inputs from the users of pricing systems to create Business and Functional requirement documentation including process and system diagrams.
• Systems integration Object oriented and structured programming while developing and implementing support documentation to meet customer requirements.
• Accountable for supporting management and delivery of multiple projects, varying in scope, within the event solutions division. Lead the participant experience through web registration, database management and technical services.
• Informatica Power Center, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), Oracle Daily Business Intelligence or a similar set of tools. Architect, design and develop enterprise business intelligence and data warehousing solutions on Microsoft SQL Server

Confidential, Houston, TX

Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Provides day-to-day application support for system’s software application . Installs, configures, and troubleshoots windows systems and web application.
• Project Highlights
• Develop detailed documentation on software configurations, deployment processes, and packaging procedures, imaging process, test scripts, VBA, VB6, and other desktop and application related documentation.
• Designing and develop internal unit application, windows forms, and applications using Visual Studio 2005/2008 C#, ASP.Net, HTML, XHTML, and JEE2 /Net beans JAVA, JavaScript, VB Script, VB6, PHP, Apache .
• Configure and maintain code review, debug any third-party vendor software applications to integrate with internal and existing applications for usability purpose.
• Deploy & Implement Windows Active Directory 2003/2008/2010 and user administration duties corporate wide, including creating users and groups; assigning user and group rights; setting up shares, volumes and directories; and monitoring servers, storage and events corporate wide.
• Use of Safe Source for continuous build development and deployment
• Translated inputs from the users of pricing systems to create Business and Functional requirement documentation including process and system diagrams.
• Environment - JAVA, C#, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, IIS 5.1, Apache, MS Visio, UML, VB.Net, HTML, XHTML, XML, XSLT, Java Script SQL Server, Visual Source Safe, Windows XP & 7, Crystal Reports
• Worked in an Agile environment as a Scrum Master/Project Manager .
• Experience with coordinating IT lifecycle initiatives and managing multiple application development teams as a scrum master is desired.
• Experience being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)
• Experience playing the Scrum Master and Project Manager role for a software development team.
• Knowledge of other approaches discussed in the Agile space: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories,ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Planning, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, JIRA & TFS.
• Strong knowledge of production processes, quality control, costs and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.