SUMMARY:

• An Agile professional who leads teams in tailoring and adopting Agile and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) principle and frameworks. Analytical thinker with facilitation and conflict resolution skills.
• Coaching various functional roles during Agile transformation on best practices.
• Certified Scrum Professional.
• Enthusiastic and passionate, strive to delight customer and enjoy sharing Agile knowledge with both new and experienced teams.
• Extensive experience transitioning Waterfall teams to various Agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
• Radiate information to sponsoring executives, IT and Business leads, showing progress, trends, key performance indicators of Agile maturity and adoption.
• Leverage recommended Agile best (single and multi - team) practices, tools and experience to help teams become more self-sufficient and sustainable

EXPERTISE AREA:

Process Improvements * Project Management * Migration Management * Stakeholder Relations * Statement of Work * Risk Mitigation * Multi - Discipline Collaboration * Team Building/Leaderships

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: Software Development Life Cycle Rational, Agile, Lean and Scrum; Jira, Microsoft Operational Framework, Microsoft Project Server, PPM and Workbench, Rally, Webex, SalesForce, Excell

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Confidential, Minneapolis

Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for definition, planning, development, implementation and managing projects (and/or multiple sub-projects of a program) of various sizes and complexity.
• Performed Quality Management: Managed assigned projects and sub - projects/work efforts utilizing appropriate rigor of Solution Delivery Management including comparing estimates to actual hours billed against a project
• Assess the Agile maturity level of the team by applying key metrics during retrospectives
• Develop and deliver various workshops and mock-ups for teams in areas they are deficient within the Agile methodology
• Coach teams, product owners, business analysts & scrum development teams on Agile values and principles to promote continuous improvement in practices & artefacts.
• Mentor teams, leading them to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision-making, conflict resolution and transparency.
• Focus on key areas that team members are lagging and mentor and train them to be better.
• Guide teams in the adoption of the Agile processes such as user story creation, release planning, scrum ceremonies, improving velocity and improving collaboration amongst the teams.
• Work collaboratively with development teams, lead architect and the business to determine technical direction and approach to system design and implementation, including both brand products and supporting systems;
• Facilitated and drove program level ceremonies - PI Planning, Program Roadmaping Session, Product Management Council, Cross Team Collaboration, Scrum of Scrums, Release Train Retrospectives, Problem Solving Workshop

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Project Manager Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Manager project team which contain Onshore and Offshore resources
• With company stakeholders, manage priorities for an 8 - member Agile software development team.
• Lead quarterly release and bi-weekly Agile team sprint planning. Craft work execution plans, and user stories. Manage backlog. Facilitate daily Scrum Ceremonies to proactively identify product definition and software development process improvements.
• Play Coach role for development team/ Product Owner and Client
• Coached Product Owners in creation and grooming of Product Backlog
• Break down concepts into user stories
• Organize the product backlog and map the result with a business value per story point order.
• Coached team members on Agile principles and providing guidance on the methodology
• Conducted sprint ceremonies like planning, retrospective and demos
• Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions
• Removed impediments by promoting team transparency and collaboration with QA team
• Updated Jira System to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
• Ensured Burn-up and Burn-down charts are available and accurate
• Created Scrum model for working with on-shore and off-shore team members.
• Facilitated daily stand-ups, Demo/Retrospective/Planning meetings, story sizing, backlog grooming with PO, and release planning.
• Generated reports on team velocity and used this information to project quarterly release planning.
• Provided training on team dynamics, relative story sizing, user story creation, and writing acceptance criteria.
• Managed off shore project teams located in India on moving application to new servers.
• Reviewed the unit and system test plans and tracked the results, also reviewed any and all ricks with management.

Confidential, Ham Lake, MN

Business Analyst / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Understands customer dynamics and demonstrates superior ability to set and follow account custom software delivery strategy.
• As a delivery leader with excellent team-building skills and a focus on productivity and results, typically exceeding business stakeholder expectations. Responsible for providing overall Business Case analysis and requirements to align with overall strategy and business needs
• Build a Resource Estimating Model that was utilized to budget and schedule resource needs
• Deployed Quarterly Forecast Cycle along with Annual Operating Budget, which is used to provide a comprehensive financial forecasting, budgeting, and analysis to senior management to make key business decisions . Generate reports of consultants activity as required (time-to-fill metric, requisition load, etc.).
• Establish Project work within large Essbase/ Hyperion Planning upgrade for Medical Device Client on Hyperion Planning Upgrade Software integration project work .
• Manage day to day deliverables using Agile methodology for HCG on shore /offshore team for 3 clients for national Infor Healthcare managed services organization to manage recruitment costs, build staffing and budget effectiveness and drive results Report executive team about project status and resource utilization.
• Interacted regularly with existing or potential clients to determine their needs and to develop plans for improving delivery.
• Responsible for providing product, vendor, and service requirement in line with client requirements.
• Facilitate the definition of project missions, goals, tasks, and resource requirements; resolve or assist in the resolution of conflicts within and between projects or functional areas; develop methods to monitor project or area progress; and provide corrective supervision if necessary.
• Responsibility for assembling the project staff; for their technical or functional development, performance, and/or termination during the project or projects.
• Responsible for OCM planning and involvement of all stakeholders.
• I was responsible for providing product, vendor and service recommendations in line with client requirements.
• Providing project statuses and challenges to senior management.

Client Partner / Project Manager

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Project Manager to implement the ERP System with Onshore/ Offshore team
• Created Project Plans, Communication Plans.
• Provided budget estimations to the Senior Management.
• Worked with business analysts, development and QA teams to ensure that the Project milestones were being met
• Worked with Support team to create a customized Vendor Management Report. This was used briefly to keep track of all maintenance requests and also during the weekly vendor meetings
• Developed a well - trusted partnership with the clients through my team's and mine day-to-day work with the clients and also by consistent, on-time delivery of maintenance releases and patches.
• Provided implementation status of the Planning applications to management for Account Team meeting.
• Provide weekly status reports to the Senior Management thus providing visibility to the work of the team

Project Manager/ Client Partner

Confidential, St. Louis Park, MN

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the completion of projects within specified time and budget dealing with financials, project work flow, change management and dealing with vendor relationships.
• Identified, prioritized, tested and proved essential business functions to assure compliance with client and internal auditing
• Collaborated with Quality Assurance Analyst in Rational Clear Quest to track defects and used Rational Clear Case to maintain consistency in the builds
• Involved in creating Periodic Status Reports and Release Notes
• Interacting with the development and testing teams to improve overall quality of the Application
• Documenting the day-to-day activities, procedures, policies and their limitations, to understand the existing process and find out the gaps through