TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Agile Scrum, SDLC waterfall, Pair programming, Kanban, SAFe .JIRA and Version One: JAVA, XML JIRA, Version One, Bamboo, JSON, REST API. MS Project, Share Point, Web services, Confidential Site minder, CA Single Sign On. Etc.
• PMP CSM (Scrum Master)
• ITIL V3 MS TFS
• MS Visio Windows NT/Server 2003/2007
• HP QC Junit
• UNIX MFT
• CRM dynamics Linux
• MS Office suite Oracle DB
• Mainframes Web Services.
• PL/SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr.Scrum Master, Project/Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Delivered projects for Fortune 500 companies.
• 7+ Years PM exp. in leading application development and integration .
• 5+ Years exp. of Scrum Master/PM in SDLC projects, executed
• Lead dual role of scrum master and project manager.
• Successfully transitioned between Waterfall to Agile framework.
• Delivered projects in retail supply chain domain for a fortune 500 retail client.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage technical project teams in onsite/offshore model.
• Responsible for manage and maintain the agile/scrum ceremonies.
• Collaborate with various network teams to review device inventory.
• Prioritize network devices based on critical parameters.
• Execute shell scripts to derive MIBs / OIDs.
• Track and Report project status to relevant stakeholders.

Confidential

Sr.Scrum Master / Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for multiple roles - Scrum Master, technical project manager and release manager. Leading teams in an onsite-off shore model.
• Lead multiple scrum teams for different business counter parts.
• Manage frequent releases into Production environment.
• Work with multiple product owners and define priorities in Jira tool.
• Work with various teams like Business stake holders, Design team, UX team, Architects, Development and Testing teams
• Maintain multiple Jira boards and product backlogs.
• Conduct release planning and track capacity planning for the scrum teams.
• Motivate the team to maintain discipline and rigor around agile best practices.
• Derive creative approaches and solutions to day to day problems in agile adoption.
• Mentorand coach Jr.Scrum Mastersto find solutions for their issues.,
• Coach business leadership on agile adoption and get them onboard to how agile teams operate and develop applications.
• Identify resistance to change within teams and elaborate the benefits of adoption.

Confidential, Minneapolis

Sr.Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead 3 scrum teams of CRM Dynamics, Digital workspace (Salesforce, Share point, Power BI etc.). and Ecommerce.
• Manage frequent releases into Production environment
• Work with multiple product owners in understanding their priorities
• Work with various teams like Design team, UX team, Architects, Testing/QA teams
• Motivate the team to maintain discipline and rigor around agile best practices.
• Ensure strict adherence to scrum ceremonies at the same time maintain purpose and relevance.
• Mentor and coach jr.scrummasters find solutions for their issues.,
• Ensure improvement of productivity within the core scrum teams by tracking velocity and other parameters
• Coach business leadership on agile adoption and get them onboard to how agile teams operate and develop applications.
• Facilitate backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospective sessions, sprint demo.
• Maintain multiple Jira boards.
• Report metrics from Jira like burn down charts, velocity charts etc.
• Work with product owner/business to ensure scrum team gets required details.
• Work with the internal scum master community to improve best practices across the board.
• Maintain and experiment with sprint cycle.

Confidential,Minneapolis

Scrum Master /Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led 2 scrum teams as scrum master in Onsite/Offshore for the automated receiving application.
• Managed and delivered a large implementation which is a combination of software and hardware under critical business domain, impacting the direct operations of the client.
• Facilitating Scrum events, sprint planning, daily stand-up, reviews/demo, retrospectives & track implementation of strategies & realization progress.
• Coach/mentor &refine utilization of chosen methodology, Agile/Scrum.
• Facilitate product owner backlog development, review, and grooming& prioritization process.
• Facilitate engineering & architectural code review process
• Work with Product Owners in prioritization User Stories- product backlog.
• Coordinated stories, tasks between on-shore & off-shore developers.
• Served as the liaison between project and third-party development teams.
• Kept leadership & business team updated on Sprint and Release progress, and identify risks and issues
• Managing project Budgets including obtaining and vetting cost estimates, monitoring and tracking expenses for the project
• Managing all project status reporting - maintain project dashboard - proactively provide project updates to project team and project stakeholders
• Elevating project risks and issues as appropriate, proactively work to resolution
• Managing vendors regarding SOWs, invoicing, tracking of deliverables.
• Continue to explore the depths of agile implementations and adoption.
• Giving feedback to teams about changes.
• Consistently show changes and improvements in day to day operations.
• Experiment and maintain the Sprintly schedules.

Confidential

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Work in a matrix team environment with geographically diverse team functions.
• Managing cross-functional teams and interdependencies for a large project
• Facilitated daily Standup, Product Backlog grooming with PO, Sprint Planning, Tech Grooming, demo review and retrospective.
• Set up standards for the creation and maintenance of team Scrum boards to track progress.
• Oversee the software development in Sprints (of Scrum of Scrums) .Help team in removing impediments/blocks in project progress.
• Identify and manage stakeholders’ expectations. Develop, execute and monitor stakeholder management and communication management plans.
• Plan risk management and identify, monitor and control risks associated with project implementation and operations support
• Create, execute and manage application transition to Operations Support team

Confidential

Scrum Master / Project Manager / Practice manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead various projects of application development in waterfall, Agile and process consulting.
• Coordinate and facilitate daily Scrum meetings, sprint planning, release planning, and sprint retrospectives for cross-functional Scrum teams
• Carried daily Scrum meetings, Sprint planning, Sprint Review
• Mentor team members on Agile software development principles and practices
• Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.
• Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary. project.
• Lead various application development projects in the integration space.
• Led a team of Process Consultants to establish Integration Center of Excellence.
• Execute Process Integration across various technology teams with in the COE.
• Definition of approach, scoping and provide direction to the team working on various initiatives with stake holders.
• High Level process redefinition recommendation and definition of roles and responsibilities.
• Defining key performance indicators and metrics to measure performance for Delivery Managers of Various technologies.
• Interaction & Co-ordination with the tools team to validate feasibility of configuring the defined process in tool and implementing it.
• Lead and drive business and technology optimization initiatives
• Plan and execute transformation initiatives that promote continuous improvement, increase operating model consistency, and engage & empower employees to enhance the value of services provided to customers

Confidential

Engineer Analyst / Technical Lead / Incident Manager

Responsibilities:

• Working on multiple projects involving phases of build, test and implementation of transmission channels across heterogeneous technologies like Secure Transport, Mainframes, Tandem Servers UNIX Windows and Distributed systems and the web.
• Co-ordinate and work with other teams to resolve client’s implementation concerns in a timely and professional manner.
• Managing service levels, client expectations and project deadlines.
• Managing workloads and organizing priorities while meeting deadlines.
• Managing project phases like design, build setup, testing and production phase.
• Real time implementation of projects in application environments (e.g.,Dev, test, QA, prod).
• Manage all aspects of project including project schedule, quality and scope

Confidential

Application support

Responsibilities:

• Worked on functional automation using QTP and load testing using Load Runner.
• Documented requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Developed Test plan, cases, and scripts as per the functional requirements.
• Used SQL queries for performing Back end testing.
• Analyzed the test results, regenerated trouble tickets during regression testing.
• Providing application support for resolving software related issues.

Confidential

Application support

Responsibilities:

• Worked on testing.
• Participate in weekly test meeting, project meetings and daily status calls.
• Developed estimation and detailed plan for work requests.
• Analyze, identify root cause for production issues.
• Performed cross browser testing for compatibility of the application in difference browser like IE., Mozilla Firefox.
• Performed load testing and monitored progress of the applications

Confidential

Java Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Trained batch of 20 -30 resources on Java, J2EE, C, C++.
• Trained multiple batches, ensure success.
• Owned the documentation for roll out the material for the upcoming batches and meeting the current technical standards.