SUMMARY:

Passionate and action oriented technical leader with agile mindset and experience in helping organizations implement and improve project delivery in enterprise environments. Passionate about building, coaching, motivating, and empowering teams to become self - managing and high performing to drive continuous improvement and achieving phenomenal results. Expertly competent to translate business issues into technical solutions and communicate in clear and concise manner to all levels, ensuring needs is met. Leveraging expertise in resolving problems, coordinating and guiding all project-based initiative phases.

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Lean-Agile (SCRUM), Kanban
• Risk Mitigation
• Cross-Functional Team Management & Development
• Quality Assurance
• Program & Project Management
• Budget & Timeline Compliance
• Continuous Process Improvement
• Delivery Management
• Change Agent
• Stakeholder Relationship

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: C#, C++, C, familiarity with Python

Platforms: Microsoft .NET, Oracle CRM, Java

Applications: Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Project, Lucid Chart

D Confidential bases: Microsoft SQL, Oracle

Tools: Jira/Confluence, CA Agile Central (CA Rally), CA Clarity, VersionOne, HP Project and Portfolio Management, BMC Remedy, Quality Center

Other: Hardware interface Integration, TCP/IP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Release Train Engineer/Agile Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Ensured priority alignment and effective communication by facilitating PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, inspect and adapt, and collaborating with cross-functional leads on feature backlog, vision, and goal.
• Promoted a risk-aware culture and drove continuous improvement by coaching cross-functional teams in Lean and Agile practices and mindsets, using Inspect and Adapt workshops at all levels.
• Provided transparency and improved processes and tools by collecting and reporting metrics to make program level value delivery and feature completion tracking visible to management and business stakeholders.
• Improved leader and team quality, effectiveness, and consistency by facilitating and delivering at leadership meeting, coaching and sharing best practices with Scrum Masters and Release Train Engineers in Communities of Practice around Team Agility, Quality practices, SAFe, Scrum and Agile program management.
• Increased organization transition and adoption of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) by improvising Agile accounting processes, overall planning and Cadences, Tool rollout plan, and mentoring Development Managers, Scrum Masters, and Teams on Agile Practices.

Confidential

Portfolio Project Manager/ Scrum Master Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Enhanced leadership transparency by standardizing recording of d Confidential and reporting across all portfolio properties in Version One ALM tool.
• Improved quality and speed by implementing CA Clarity as the time tracking tool for contracting team members and easing time entry, seamlessly integrating with CA Clarity, providing to all team members and support with adequate documentation.
• Drove overall enterprise risk reduction and met goals by coordinating activities across the Line of Business project portfolio and across other Lines of Businesses, taking advantage of synergies.
• Direct and manage two agile scrums teams with resources located in multiple locations that were responsible for development, testing, implementation and maintenance.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Passed all project governance gates with accuracy and timely completion with quality product delivery by managing stakeholder expectation and transparency through accurate status reports, proactively communicating across all groups on up and down stream dependencies.
• Mitigated risk and provided compliance to PMO and Audit groups by creating and maintaining accuracy with project plans, capacity plans, risk management plans, test plans, budget estimates, progress reports, documentation and .
• Added value and quality by proactively getting as Scrum Master and contributing to agile transformation of teams.

Confidential

Project Manager, Business Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided quick turnaround with highest quality and facilitated projects within SOW limits by coordinating discovery sessions with clients to capture CRM workflow requirements, following up with a collaborative Build-Show-Refine session.
• Contributed to company growth by delivering correct solution and exceptional customer service for retaining clients and securing strategic partnerships. Other business units from the clients requested for our team to be their solution provider.

Confidential

Senior Manager /Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Enhanced team morale, retention, and growth by directing scope, schedule, and work plans for direct reports and career goals in Research, Design, Architectural considerations, product enhancements, and several new modules.
• Executed all phases of project development life cycle, delivered projects on time, grooming and mentoring junior developers and improved team productivity and quality by creating a high performance development team for leading and delivering successful programs.
• Drove product release success and quality by overseeing all major releases and updates collaborating and coordinating with India and China teams.

Confidential

Team Lead, Developer

Responsibilities:

• Enhanced the product by implementing virtualizing Hardware Library devices and to support Storage Area Network devices for CA ARCserve backup product line and streamlined builds as team lead by managing 4-member build automation team.