SUMMARY:

• Continuous Improvement…. Coaching….Empowerment
• Accomplished servant - leader capable of delivering medium to large-scale software and application development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams.
• Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.
• Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
• Over 10+ years of experience as a Sr. Project Manager/Agile Project Manager and Scrum Master in the field of Finance, Banking, Corporate, Pharma and Information Technology.
• In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle process which includes Waterfall and Agile-Scrum, Scrum, Kanban, SaFe and Scrumban methodologies.
• Hands on experience in Infra Structure, Application development, Wealth Management, Compliance, Regulatory, OTC Projects.
• Hands on experience in setting up and supervising mid to large size projects.
• Excellent understanding of the principles, concepts, practices and standards in project management, Agile frameworks and controls.
• Proficient in conducting all Scrum ceremonies- Daily Stand ups, Planning meetings, Review and Retrospective Meetings.
• Proficient in setting up Sprint Burn-down and Burn-up charts.
• Expert in engaging various techniques like T-shirt sizing and Planning Poker in estimating the User-stories.
• Proficient in handling multiple teams and calculate their Team Velocity
• Expertise in preparing Project schedules and coordinating all activities associated with new product development and product change from inception through project completion, including:
• Identified and provided clarification of project objectives and scope
• Established success criteria for the project.
• Have conducted feasibility study including cost, capacity and alternative/option analysis
• Was responsible for establishment and implementation of project team and timetables as well as a production launch plan.
• Project Coordination/Management through completion.
• Lead Budgets/Finances for Projects & Programs scaled from $2-20 Million.
• Lead both on-site and off-shore teams and ensured that both were facilitated with resources all through the project.
• Motivate team players with excellent business, analytical, communication, presentation, and management, technical and written skills.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Agile Manifesto
• Tasking Meetings/Retrospectives
• Project Management
• Relative Estimation
• Communication
• Story-Based Development
• Iteration/Sprint Planning Meetings
• Conflict Resolution

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Agile Tools: JIRA, RALLY, VersionOne, VSTS/VSO, HP Agile Manager.

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile-scrum, Waterfall-scrum, KANBAN, Scaled-Agile, SaFe

Business Skills: Project Management, Impact assessment, Risk Assessment /Management, Requirements gathering, Process Re-design, Data Modeling, Test Management, Impact assessment, GAP Analysis, SWOT Analysis

Requirement Management: Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Doors, HP ALM V 11, VISIO

Project Management Tools: MS Project, Clarizen, Clarity, EPM, SharePoint 2010, HP PPM, Primavera 6, Hyperion, PeopleSoft, CA PPM/ PPM Optics

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center v10.0, HP ALM V11.5, Quality Center (Test Director) v7.0, Rational Clear Quest, Load Runner

Statistics: Financial Data Modeling and Analysis, SWOT analysis, UAT, Regression and Risk analysis

Reporting tools: Tableau, Cognos v 8, MS Visio, Excel, SSRS, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Access

Languages: HTML5, CSS3, XML, SQL

Databases: MY SQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Project Manager/Scrum Master

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Guided the Product Owner with grooming the product backlog, as needed by understanding the project objectives and detailed business requirements.
• Defined Team working agreements, velocity charts and a burndown charts.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum ceremonies.
• Coached the team to create clear and concise epics/stories, Acceptance Criteria, Definition of Done and Ready.
• Build and update project charters, updating as plans, budgets, resources as scope changes were made.
• Full responsibility for the build and deployment of the supporting IT Infrastructure for Global ITS.
• Supporting overall migration planning and deployment strategy.
• Maintenance of portfolio level plans including associated resourcing plans for the entire infrastructure team.
• Developed Communication Plan/Operating Cadence to ensure appropriate team engagement
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise.
• Reviewed and screened resumes for external vendor-supplied resources
• Conducted planning meetings, workshops with project core and extended team members and developed a project schedule to ensure complete delivery schedule; obtaining team buy-in and baseline the project.
• Develop a RACI to establish clear roles and responsibilities
• Followed SDLC processes, Stage gates, procedures and PMO best practices for managing projects as per Celgene’s infrastructure.

Environment: Waterfall- Scrumban, Slack, Confluence, Azure, EPM, JIRA, SP 2010, Excel, MS Project Professional, MS Office, SPO.

Sr. Project Manager/Scrum Master

Confidential, Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Coached the team to create clear and concise epics/stories, Acceptance Criteria, Definition of Done and Ready.
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise.
• Defined and Managed Program and Project schedule and budgets
• Lead a matrixed team of system design engineers, system build engineers and infrastructure technologists to successfully deliver multiple concurrent infrastructure changes in a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Managing the customer interface for all matters related to the build and migration.
• Ensuring that all the relevant engineering processes are followed and relevant standards adhered to
• Full responsibility for the build and deployment of the supporting IT Infrastructure for Global ITS.
• Supporting overall migration planning and deployment strategy.
• Maintenance of portfolio level plans including associated resourcing plans for the entire infrastructure team.
• Create work plans or schedules, project work packages, & project reports.
• Create and maintain logs, action items and minutes for meetings following each meeting. Maintain proactive awareness of all projects and tasks with frequent communication updates and interaction with project leads in person and by phone.
• Assist in project capture, business development effort, a draft project proposal, request for information documents, cost estimates and obtaining pricing.
• Review, proof, edit, organize and manage project deliverables/documents related to web based application projects. Design and compose slides for presentations.
• Lead tracking of project deliverables for multiple concurrent projects, tracking version control, when comments are received from individual reviewers and when response to comments and tracked changes versions of documents are due.
• Creating and recommending strategies for easier and effective execution of projects.
• Coordinate meetings, lunches, company events, and business traveling and other logistical arrangements.
• Supervise project workers and ensure that they stick to project specification and guidelines.
• Intermediate between the director and other workers to prevent agitations that may hinder the smooth flow of project execution.
• Draft project budget on a monthly basis and ensure that it meets all necessary protocols.
• Participated in ad-hoc projects as required and maintained logs, action items and minutes for meetings following each meeting.
• Maintain proactive awareness of all projects and tasks with frequent communication updates and interaction with project leads in person and by phone.
• Assisted in project capture, business development effort, a draft project proposal, request for information documents, cost estimates and obtaining pricing.
• Create work plans or schedules, project work packages, & project reports.
• Design and compose slides for presentations.
• Lead tracking of project deliverables for multiple concurrent projects, tracking version control and tracked changes versions of documents are due.
• Created and proposed strategies for easier and effective execution of projects.
• Tracked Project Actuals Vs Forecast monthly.

Environment: Agile, Waterfall-Agile, VSTS/VSO, JIRA, Confluence, Excel, MS Project Professional, MS Office, SharePoint.

Program Manager/Scrum Master

Confidential, White Plains, NY

Responsibilities:

• Managed projects around systems and data architecture
• Providing leadership in the delivery of local and regional IT infrastructure initiatives across the consumer, commercial product lines.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories, Acceptance Criteria, Definition of Done and Ready.
• Coached and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise
• Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and managed inter-team tasks
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams in India.
• Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%
• Authored and persuasively presented proposal to executive team, and directed initiative for a major e-commerce program projected to save $1M per year

Environment: Agile-Scrum, JIRA, MS-Visio, SQL, Sterling, SharePoint (2013), TFS, Java, HP PPM, SSIS, EA, Web Services, HTML, Guidewire, XML

Confidential, Reston, VA

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed a good knowledge of Amortization, Bi-Weekly Mortgage, Fixed Rate Mortgage, Adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM), Annual percentage rate (APR), Balloon payment, Two-step mortgage, Foreclosure.
• Developed project scope, deliverables identification, resource allocation, project estimation and change management in coordination with Business Analyst.
• Liaised with key stakeholders to maintain Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), milestones identification, budget allocation, open issues resolution and project schedules development.
• Worked with various Scrum and Agile projects and measured metrics by Velocity of Scrum Teams
• Involved in conducting various Scrum ceremonies like Standups, planning, Retrospective meetings etc.
• Managed closely working with Product Owners in defining Sprint and Product backlogs.
• Managed project closure initiatives, such as client satisfaction survey and closure analysis.
• Performed Gap Analysis to identify the deficiencies of the current system and to identify the requirements for the proposed system and followed Agile SCRUM methodology.
• Assisted BA in developing use case diagrams, Swim Lane, Process Workflow Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, and Business Workflow Diagrams to represent the system workflow and capture bottlenecks in the application using Enterprise Architect.
• This project is a Governance Infrastructure project with SOX regulatory development of applications.
• Worked on Identity Access Management tools (IAM) in granting access to various resources.
• Assisted BA in constructing data mapping document by identifying source attributes, target destination, and business rules to setup the ETL process.
• Directed a cross functional, geographically diverse team responsible for the deployment of the data warehouse, data mart, associated ETL streams and the analytic applications.
• Was responsible in reviewing the user stories according to the Acceptance criteria.
• Directed ongoing data quality assurance activities including design and implementation of data validation audits reports for ongoing production ETL loads and execution of data campaigns.
• Directed the development and institution of the quality assurance and change control governance models.
• Assisted in performing Data Mapping activities such as capturing data requirements, source to target mappings, and data validation rules using SSIS and executed SQL queries to retrieve data from different databases.
• Generated & managed static & operational reports using SSRS and deployed them into MS SharePoint document libraries.
• Utilized Jira for Requirements Traceability throughout the testing and development life cycle, issue tracking, requirements management and project management.
• Directed successful transition to a steady production state of the applications, data warehouse and data mart's quality assurance, maintenance and governance models using ORACLE DRM.

Environment: Agile -Scrum, JIRA, Java, MS Office, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus (Hyperion), MS Project, WEB Services, MS Visio, Guidewire.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements by driving user-group meetings and working with various global, cross-functional and virtual teams.
• Responsible for business system analysis of customizing the product with SDLC.
• Responsible for handling data manipulation, mapping, and basic database tasks.
• Responsible for understanding current processes and tools and experience in reviewing and analyzing documentation.
• Assisted the Project manager in creating the Work breakdown structure (WBS).
• Created Macros for the project application.
• Experience in working in the Application development.
• Created User Requirement document for testing purposes reports in Business Objects.
• Experienced in working with technical Writing teams and ensures the delivery of a high-quality software application.
• Used Visio to model the process using UML to create behavioral and structural diagrams.
• Experience in Facilitating organizational change strategy development and objective setting with a cross-functional group of Business/State stakeholders.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Use stories, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, UML and Business Process Modeling.
• Developed business process models in RUP to document existing and future business processes.
• Conducted client side validation to study ETL operations on the involved databases and the data warehouse
• Worked along with the development team to solve browser compatibility issues.

Environment: UML, SDLC, Rational Requisite Pro, SharePoint (2007), MS Visio, Excel, MS Project, MS Access, SQL Server, WESB, Sterling, IBM Message broker, Windows 2000/XP.