SUMMARY:

• Service - focused technology strategist with 12+ years of success directing full lifecycle delivery of business critical IT & development projects over $8M budget. Certified Scrum Master.
• Manage vendor contract in delivering on SLA’s: build SOW ensuring agreement and legal acceptance. Vendor Management - Managing more than 3 vendors (Cognizant, FIS, Yodlee, NICE Actimize)
• Expert at driving the adoption and adopting of Scrum methodologies, removing impediments and fostering self-management. Solid knowledge and expertise in Scrum, Agile, & Waterfall methodologies. Understanding of other Agile methodologies like Kanban, XP, FDD & DevOps (Continuous Improvement, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery & Testing, Automated Testing, Contiguous Monitoring & feedback).
• Expertise conducting JAD and JAR sessions with Stakeholders, Business Owners, End Users, Integration Team, Developers, Architects and QA Teams. Sound understanding of Gap Analysis, requirement management, risk analysis and project plans, Responsible to Track, Document, Capture, Manage and Communicate the Issue/Risks (RAID) logbook which helped in controlling the Project on track and mitigation plan
• Cross-functional leadership, technical, & business alignment skills. Extensive and focused experience in Root Cause and Decision Analysis, Team Building, Training Preparation and Delivery, Process Development, Systems and Business Analysis, Procedure Documentation, Project Management and Staff Management. Solid technical experience with Clarity (CA PPM), Change Point, SharePoint, MS Project, MS Office Suite.
• Actively participating in program/projects level status, reviews, issues meetings, Go/No Go meetings, Portfolio and CCB(Change Control Board) meetings. Track all the Projects status with respect to the Release Calendar and provide input to prepare the Weekly RMO (Release Management Meeting) deck from the project prospective.
• Present Executive Level Steering Committee meetings, Management meetings, and Core Team Lead meetings conveying project metrics, financial status & forecasting, and advising of issues that require decisions and intervention

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: HP Quality Center (ALM 12.2), Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, GitHUB, MicroStrategy, Retek ETL, MS Office suite, VBScript, Toad, TCL Scripting, HP UFT, CA Clarity, AEM 6.2, Adobe Marketing Campaign, Sharepoint, PL/SQL, AWS

FedRAMP Microsoft Azure CloudMethodologies: Software Development Life Cycle, Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Compatibility Testing, Conformance Testing, User Stories/Use Cases, BDD, TDD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, sprint and release planning and other Agile development related activities including sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives. Track team velocity, health and sprint/release progress through JIRA.
• Ensure Development Teams are practicing core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, visibility, continuous integration and continuous delivery using Jenkins
• Assist Product Teams with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition. Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices.
• Design and present technical reports, status reports, project schedules, communication plans and presentations accurately and on-schedule to State Director(IT), Program Managers, Business Unit Heads & other relevant stakeholders.
• Accountable to senior leadership to lead diverse teams while achieving business directives calling out project risks, issues and dependencies.

Confidential, IL

Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager Deerfield

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, sprint and release planning and other Agile development related activities including sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Track team velocity, health and sprint/release progress through JIRA.
• Ensure Development Teams are practicing core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, visibility, continuous integration and continuous delivery using Jenkins
• Assist Product Teams with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
• Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices.
• Design and present technical reports, status reports, project schedules, communication plans and presentations accurately and on-schedule to Director(IT), Program Managers, Business Unit Heads & other relevant stakeholders.
• Accountable to senior leadership to lead diverse teams while achieving business directives calling out project risks, issues and dependencies.
• Proactively manage project scope, project schedule delivery, risk identification and mitigation, application dependency discovery, logistical support and resource/budgetary control.

Confidential .

Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager Livonia

Responsibilities:

• Implementing various COTS (Commercially of the Shelve) applications from the different vendors like FIS, Fiserv, Yodlee for the Bank and Custom Application Development.
• Coached the organization on how to effectively adopt DevOps, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Testing (utilizing Jenkins) and Contiguous Monitoring.
• Achieved productivity gains of 20% by implementing Automated Testing Processes and Tools.
• Developed documentation required for the project life cycle including the project plan and tracking peer and stakeholder approvals for phase gate reviews.
• Monitored and facilitated progress, managed project resources, resolved issues and risks, ensured product quality and communicated information to stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Presented Executive-level Steering Committee meetings, Management meetings and Core Team Lead meetings conveying project metrics, financial status and forecasting and advising of issues.
• Led risk management review sessions to determine and mitigate short and long-term risks.
• Organized sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings and sprint and release planning. Assisted Product Teams with making correct commitments through story selection and task definition in JIRA
• Expertise in Scrum/Agile methodologies including Kanban, XP and DevOps.
• Created Mock-up forms for better visualization and understanding of the software solution.
• Provided leadership to the Portfolio of 40+ member teams onsite and offshore.
• Preparing product and process quality reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends, Accountability matrices and status reporting for Senior Leadership Team. Solid technical experience with Clarity (CA PPM), Change Point, SharePoint, MS Project, MS Office Suite.

Confidential,NJ

Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager Parsippany

Responsibilities:

• Develop documentation required for the project life cycle including the project plan: tracking peer and stakeholder approvals for phase gate reviews.
• Provide day-to-day project management to include monitoring and facilitating progress, managing project resources effectively, resolving issues and risks, ensuring product quality, and communicating appropriate information to all stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Design and present technical reports, requirements documentation, status reports, project schedules, communication plans and presentations accurately and on-schedule.
• Present Executive Level Steering Committee meetings, Management meetings, and Core Team Lead meetings conveying project metrics, financial status & forecasting, and advising of issues that require decisions and intervention.
• Accountable to senior leadership to lead diverse teams while achieving business directives calling out project risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Proactively manage project scope, project schedule delivery, risk identification and mitigation, application dependency discovery, logistical support, and resource/budgetary control. Lead risk management review sessions to determine and mitigate short and long term project risks.
• Organized sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings and sprint and release planning.
• Transformed the SDLC to a test-driven development model, established QA analysis steps in design and development phases which substantially improved code quality and slashed average defect rate.
• Assisted Product Teams with making correct commitments through story selection and task definition in JIRA
• Maintained Agile process documentation and Agile tools. Ensure Development Teams are practicing core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, visibility, continuous integration and continuous delivery using Jenkins
• Collaboratively documented test criteria with requestors, developers and QA teams.
• Leveraged project management best-practices, consistently resolving issues such as resource and staffing shortages and scope creep.

Confidential, AZ

Scrum Master Chandler

Responsibilities:

• Sprint Planning, ran daily stand-ups and Core Team Technical meetings in accessing status and helping the team towards correct direction.
• Sprint Reviews with the Product Stakeholders at the end of each sprint and Sprint Retrospective with the Team.
• Achieved a no-fault audit result and earned a letter of commendation from Sabre PMO.
• Defined and managed QA methodology including test plan, test strategy, guidelines, testing timelines, project plans and the usage of testing tools to support the QA team in Jenkins and Confluence.
• Managed defect tracking process, defect reporting and dissemination of QA information.
• Ensured code coverage and traceability of requirements and defects.
• Identified major software product issues, driving root cause analysis, correction and resolution.

Confidential

Lead QA/BA

Responsibilities:

• Earned recognition from Confidential for top performance and contribution including 2010 Best Contributor Award, 2010 Best Player Award and 2010 Best Team Award.
• Performed usability analysis and testing including.
• Articulated the business usability as per the business needs and made sure all functional and business requirements were met.
• Utilized corporation developed Waterfall/Agile SDLC methodology.
• Managed workload, schedules and coordinated status review meetings.
• Introduced MicroStrategy OLAP solution for ad hoc/formal reporting and query development.