SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of IT experience as Agile Project Manager/ Technical Scrum Master/ Product Manager/Project analyst/Server Administration
• Acted as scrum master during Scrum development process. Gained for Scrum Master and Certifies Scrum Product Owner
• Prepared and led bi - weekly “Iteration Planning Meetings” (IPMs) as part of the agile development process, and lead software demos to client.
• Strong background in Software Development Life Cycle methodologies such as iterative approach using Scrum as well as traditional like Waterfall Model.
• Effectively performed the duties of Project Manager on various occasions as and when required.
• Strongly possess Project management skills, keeping in mind the objectives of the project and constraints affecting time, scope and budget.
• Acted as a liaison between business users and technical teams by planning, facilitating, and directing the analysis of business problems to be solved with automated systems.
• An effective communicator with excellent relationship building & interpersonal skills.
• Strong work ethics, taking ownership of all duties and responsibilities and efficient time management skills. Group and individual based problem solving and decision-making.
• Ability to manage teams and encourage communication among team members so as to build strong team communication and coordination so as to achieve organizational goals and objectives.
• Extensive experience in user requirements gathering, Brain storming sessions and analysis.
• Capability to help remove impediments, facilitate continues improvement
• Coordinate solution implementation and delivery with other scrum/ agile masters on release train
• Ability to direct a comprehensive product strategy from product conception and definition through end of life.
• Ability to maintain a reliable and methodical approach to support and documentation.
• Good research and writing skills with the ability to change into documentation and Captivate videos.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager/ Technical Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them
• Facilitating sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Dev validation/ Story estimation, defect prioritization, retrospective as Scrum master for 5 Scrum teams
• Work with stake holders / product owners to prioritize the user stories for sprint
• Allow the stories into the sprint based on team velocity and individual capacity
• Coaches and mentors agile team members coached 5 teams (total of fifty four team members).
• Encouraging the team for self-organization to boost the efficiency and coordination
• Encouraging the team to come up with reusable elements and use the TDD, test automation and Peer review
• Motivated the team to come up with quality shippable product and meet the product goals.
• Working with Product owner On Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint burn up / Burn-down, and Release Burn up / Burn-down.
• Help the product owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development.
• Tracks and reports status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis
• Manage offshore team members in different geographical places.
• Ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget
• Managing the overall performance and delivery of cross-functional
• Co-ordinate with release team to align the sprint stories with release schedule.
• Review stories written by Business Analyst and provide constructive feedback.
• Lead group of 6 Business Analysts for Profile team and define process around breaking down features into independent stories
• Conduct Story estimation meetings on epic level as well as story level
• Facilitate UX, Dev lead validation/estimations to get a high level information
• Creating a story board which will provide the user stories BA’s working on for future projects

Environment: DB- MYSQL Platform - dotcom, mobile, express lane Orchestration - SOAP/REST api Language - Java

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team consisting of in - house Developers and QA, application architects and Product Managers, and Market Data Specialists in the development, enhancement, and implementation of mobile apps and mobile websites.
• Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.
• Escalate critical issues, risks and conflicts that could impact scope, timeline, resources and/or costs.
• Working with stakeholders on Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, and Sprint Burn down, Release Burn down.
• Facilitating Scrum of Scrum for offshore Scrum teams in Poland and India
• Managing the overall performance and delivery of cross-functional teams
• Facilitating sprint planning as Scrum master for multiple Scrum teams.
• Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to stakeholders.
• Facilitate resolution of cross-functional teams. Manage multiple external technical vendor development/QA efforts.
• Present status reports to executive management, which include issues and risks, and establish mitigation/contingency plans.
• Keeping the team together all the time to ensure successful sprints.
• Helping the team to maintain their Scrum tools (Story board, Action board, charts, backlogs, etc.).
• Certified Scrum Master and agile coach for my team
• Interface with client and internal project teams regarding business problems, issues, and opportunities in the context of business, functional, and non-functional requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle
• As part of solution delivery, responsible for the development, modification, validation, and acceptance of the Requirements document and related documents, including the Traceability Matrix documenting the solution requirements to be used as the basis for solution design and implementation
• Agile Development /Release Train: Develop the program-level value delivery system (mechanism and team) to align dependencies, roadmaps, and common vision for AOS platform
• Ensure that initial project estimates & financial forecasts are complete with sufficient level of detail to support baseline estimates. Monitor the status of the project from a cost perspective. Communicate the financial performance throughout project lifecycle.
• Working on customized weekly and monthly scorecards for leadership team.
• Created a Kanban Project for my team in versionone tool for all maintenance/ production bug fixes.
• Managing kanban project team which includes the tasks as maintenance, consulting, incident management and problem management.
• Ensuring with compliance team that platform gets data compliant such as PII (Personally identifiable information compliance), PCI (Payment Card Industry Security Standards compliance) and HIPAA (also known as Protected health information (PHI) act). Make sure that platform meets all the needs to be compliant as per data privacy and security laws.

Environment: DB- MYSQL Orchestration - SOAP/REST api Language - Java

Confidential

Scrum Master / Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included Initiating; Planning; managing matrixes resources; Monitoring development, testing, and implementation; Change management; and Defect management.
• Analyze and provide recommendations on product strategy for a single product, sub product and platform components
• Create product road maps and write user stories and requirements
• Create and manage quarterly OKRs (Objectives and Key results) for product.
• Build product business plans to drive revenue and rationalize investment
• Execute product development plan as a hands on partner with engineering team
• Work closely with delivery to ensure product operations and delivery capabilities are addressed
• Create recommendations on ongoing product fitness based on financial and client satisfaction metrics and edge.
• Research client issues with product as necessary and drives to resolution, including defining product improvement
• Elicit information based on client and/or internal business needs using basic techniques such as, but not limited to, conducting stakeholder interviews, requirements workshops, brainstorming, scenarios, and review of existing documentation, and captures information provided in elicitation sessions that stakeholders can understand, review, and validate
• Organize and synthesize information provided by stakeholders, formulating information into business, functional, and non-functional requirements, documented in a correct, clear, concise, comprehensive and cohesive format.
• Oversaw the Social Media vendor for social media integration. Established the vendor milestones and integration plan of deliverables into the main redesign project.
• Defined the requirements for SaaS 2.0 enhancements and determined dependencies from the existing third-party partner.
• Managed schedule of the multi-staged releases of partner deliverables that would enhance the redesign member site.
• Developed capital budget plan, defined cost benefit analysis (CBA), managed actual expenses. Determined metrics baseline and success targets, and analyzed & reported success metrics.
• New Markets Analysis - Gathered and analyzed data on international markets and consumers to formalize market penetration strategy of existing and future products.

Environment: DB- MYSQL

Confidential

Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assist in the initiation, conducting and coordinating of studies and analysis on resource allocation, financial program evaluation reviews; analyze programs to ensure that program financial goals and work plans are on target.
• Monitor data quality in the existing database.
• Created and standardized documents for existing process.
• Ensured that program expenses are charged correctly, and if not research and provide reasons for discrepancies.
• Review, analyze and update opportunity evaluations of potential e-projects in preparation for annual project portfolio planning.
• Performed enterprise capacity planning and assessment in Plan view to identify and present optimal project portfolio composition options to executives, highlighting scarce resources as well as identifying budget constraints.
• Analyzed and proposed project sequencing to allow carry forward projects to wind down and new projects to ramp up.
• Prepared presentation material to present project portfolio composition options to facilitate project portfolio selection by executives.
• Identified and developed improvements to the capacity planning tool and/or process to ensure that the capacity planning process supports Teachers’ project management maturity

Environment: Language - Java DB- Oracle

Confidential

Quality analyst

• Worked as quality analyst for my team.
• Used six sigma tools for quality improvement purposes.
• Worked on Maximo tool to update the team status.
• Worked on Excel updates and reports and send it to the managers.