SUMMARY:

• I am a seasoned self - motivated Senior IT Consultant with 15+ years of overall experience. 10+ years of my experience has been in Information Technology playing active roles in the building of enterprise level solutions, products and providing technology services to clients. 5+ years into Agile project implementations, Agile transformations and Agile Coaching.
• I have handled a variety of roles in the capacity of a Project Manager, Scrum Master, Technical Consultant and Functional Consultant.
• 15+ Years experienced, and motivated process lead in developing enterprise wide solutions, products and providing services for multiple industries like Retail, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, and Oil & Gas.
• Performed end-to-end Project Management activities in Agile project implementations coordinating effectively with the PMO and encompassing all realms of project management for complex IT applications and products development - proposal preparation, requirements gathering, project scoping, feasibility analysis, estimation, resource augmentation, implementation management, risk management, issue resolution and delivery management
• Conversant in implementing and upholding the best practices for multiple software development life cycle methodologies like waterfall, AGILE, ASAP and Activate
• Upheld the Agile manifesto in the building of technology solutions for businesses that were utilizing waterfall and other conventional methodologies by successfully transforming the business to become agile compatible
• Performed the role of a scrum master and implemented the scrum framework for building solutions, products and services provision and ensured agility in process
• Coached team members on scrum methodologies and helped project team and organizational adoption of scrum framework to implement agility in process
• Facilitated events that adhere to an Agile framework and maintained the associated scrum progression reports
• Facilitated planning poker for estimation of deliverables and preformed scrum planning in accordance
• Good experience working on JIRA, Rally and Version One
• Assisted the Product Owner in writing user stories and managing the Product Backlog
• Good conversance working across different Agile frameworks like SAFe, SCRUM and Kanban
• Good experience in guiding the team towards Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD)
• Conversant with the Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) methodologies of solution building
• Familiar with working in Devops mode of delivery
• Good experience in migrating organizations from the waterfall delivery model to the AGILE delivery model
• Successfully managed on-shore / off-shore business model by mitigating the challenges pertaining to the model and optimized implementation cost and time to market for clients
• Conversant in managing internal and external dependencies and successfully manage third party dependencies to remove impediments and ensure seamless delivery of product increments
• Good conversance in estimation, planning, schedule management, resource management, risk management implementation
• Lead team of business analysts & enterprise architects to gather business requirements & documented AS-IS & TO-BE requirements in Solution Requirement Documentations along with use cases, functional flows, data dictionary and business rules
• Key role in enabling collaborative communication between teams across divisional boundaries ensuring timely and efficient delivery
• Lead meetings involving key stakeholders to streamline business process solution implementation and issue resolution
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, presentation and problem-solving skills
• Good experience in the complete Quality Analysis process cycle. Handled responsibilities in the end-to-end process cycle of test management - building test cases, gathering test data, preparing test schedules, resource allocation for testing, user acceptance testing and issue tracking
• Good experience and knowledge in the following functional cycles - Materials Management, Human Capital Management (HCM), Sales & Delivery (S&D) and Finance and Controlling (FICO)

SKILLS MATRIX:

Project & Process Management: IBM RTC, IBM Clarity, IBM Provider Workbench, Version ONE, MS Project, JIRA, Rally, MS Sharepoint

Process Frameworks: Agile - Scrum, SAFe, Kanban & Waterfall, Testing - ATDD, TDD

Web Technologies & Services: Angular JS, JavaScript, REST, SOAP, HTML5, CSS, SAP FIORI

Databases: MS SQL, Oracle, Mongo DB, SAP HANA

Testing / Test Management: HP-ALM, SAP Solution Manager, Gherkins, Selenium, Cucumber

Data Analytics / Reporting / BIG DATA: Tableau, SAP Business Objects, HADOOP, QLIK

Application Lifecycle Management: MS TFS, HP-ALM, SAP Solution Manager

Business Analysis / Requirements Analysis: MS-Visio, SMARTDRAW

Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery: Jenkins, IBM Urban Code Deploy

Version control &management: Github

EMPLOYMENT:

Agile Delivery Manager / Scrum Master

Confidential, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Performed the role of a Scrum master for multiple scrum teams and effectively facilitated sprint delivery within the SAFe framework
• Conducted all scrum events like daily scrum meetings, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and tracked the progress of the sprint to validate alignment to release plan
• Spearhead the interdependent teams involved in implementing effective DevOPS strategy to make the ‘Release-when-ready’ vision of the organization a reality
• Coordinate with the teams from Amazon in engaging my team for cloud migration of applications that we support
• Facilitated planning poker sessions and consolidated on estimates for deliverables
• Maintained burndown charts, CFDs and tracked velocity of the sprint always
• Facilitated product backlog refinement and backlog prioritization along with the Product Owner
• Actively participated in the scrum of scrum meetings and removed impediments based on internal and external dependencies
• Supported the Product Owner building user stories and in slicing and dicing epics as and when necessary
• Documented and supported solution architecting process involving key stakeholders onshore and offshore
• Facilitated scrum planning meetings and actively engaged in release planning for the product increments
• Managed a multi-site onshore offshore team and effectively managed delivery from the distributed setup
• Management of the Quality Analysis process cycle by overviewing automated test script builds and execution of automated tests to implement ATDD
• Coordinated with the RTE for facilitation of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery for all sprint deliverables
• Managed the delivery of finished products to the Product Owner and to the stakeholders in the business
• Facilitated and involved in Functional & Technical decisions
• Coordination with business users to facilitate smooth execution of UAT and product handover
• Assisted the development team in providing end-user training for delivered solution increments

Project Manager / Process Manager

Confidential, Atlanta

Responsibilities:

• Lead the whole effort to implement Scaled Agile framework for the enterprise solution
• Performed the role of a Scrum master for multiple scrum teams and effectively facilitated sprint delivery within the SAFe framework
• Conducted all scrum events like daily scrum meetings, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and tracked the progress of the sprint to validate alignment to release plan
• Facilitated planning poker sessions and consolidated on estimates for deliverables
• Maintained burndown charts, CFDs and tracked velocity of the sprint always
• Facilitated product backlog refinement and backlog prioritization along with the Product Owner
• Actively participated in the scrum of scrum meetings and removed impediments based on internal and external dependencies
• Supported the Product Owner building user stories and in slicing and dicing epics as and when necessary
• Documented and supported solution architecting process involving key stakeholders onshore and offshore
• Facilitated scrum planning meetings and actively engaged in release planning for the product increments
• Managed a multi-site onshore offshore team and effectively managed delivery from the distributed setup
• Management of the Quality Analysis process cycle by overviewing automated test script builds and execution of automated tests to implement ATDD
• Coordinated with the RTE for facilitation of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery for all sprint deliverables
• Managed the delivery of finished products to the Product Owner and to the stakeholders in the business
• Facilitated and involved in Functional & Technical decisions
• Facilitated the Biweekly Scrum of Scrums and Weekly Scrum Master Roundtable meetings to get feedback and suggested improvements to enhance performance
• Maintained Task Boards to provide/have more visibility to Sprint Backlog
• Coordination with business users to facilitate smooth execution of UAT and product handover
• Assisted the development team in providing end-user training for delivered solution increments

Confidential

Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager, Atlanta

Responsibilities:

• Performed end-to-end activities of Agile Project Management from product backlog grooming to delivery management
• Lead the whole effort to implement Scaled Agile framework for the enterprise solution
• Performed the role of a Scrum master for multiple scrum teams and effectively facilitated sprint delivery within the SAFe framework
• Conducted all scrum events like daily scrum meetings, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and tracked the progress of the sprint to validate alignment to release plan
• Facilitated planning poker sessions and consolidated on estimates for deliverables
• Maintained burndown charts and tracked velocity of the sprint always
• Facilitated product backlog refinement and backlog prioritization along with the Product Owner
• Actively participated in the scrum of scrum meetings and removed impediments based on internal and external dependencies
• Supported the Product Owner building user stories and in slicing and dicing epics as and when necessary
• Documented and supported solution architecting process involving key stakeholders onshore and offshore
• Facilitated scrum planning meetings and actively engaged in release planning for the product increments
• Managed a multi-site onshore offshore team and effectively managed delivery from the distributed setup
• Management of the Quality Analysis process cycle by overviewing automated test script builds and execution of automated tests to implement ATDD
• Coordinated with the RTE for facilitation of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery for all sprint deliverables
• Managed the delivery of finished products to the Product Owner and to the stakeholders in the business

Confidential

Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager, Detroit, MI

Responsibilities:

• Performed end-to-end activities of Project Management from requirements gathering to delivery management
• Spearhead scrum meetings and ensure adherence of scrum principles along the whole effort
• Maintain project progression parameters and the scrum charts for the same and manage the whole process on Jira
• Frequently interfaces with Product Owner and stakeholders in the business in cross functional matrix environment including management, and internal resources to ensure quality, engaging vendor, timeliness, and testing of all project/release work.
• Assist the Product Owner in gathering requirements from the client and writing user stories
• Help build visual representations of process flow and control flow of the system in consideration
• Conduct scrum retrospective with a team spread across offshore and onshore to dissect the scrum success and develop pointers for adaptation and adherence
• Responsible for resource management and maintaining the scrum team to be in alignment with delivery objectives on hand
• Spearheaded the quality analysis process cycle - writing test scripts, gathering test data, running tests, issue tracking, test data generation and feedback on issue resolution

Lead Techno Functional Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the Project Manager in performing end-to-end activities of Project Management from project planning to delivery management
• Performed the role of a scrum master and implemented agility for the whole initiative
• Spearhead scrum meetings and ensure adherence of scrum principles along the whole effort
• Maintain project progression parameters and the scrum charts for the same and managed the whole process on Jira
• Conduct requirements gathering sessions and prepare requirements specifications
• Active participation in the solution architecture process - gathering inputs from different teams and consolidating and documenting solution architecture
• Performed analysis & process mapping of the change to the enterprise solution
• Active involvement in project planning and delivery schedule planning
• Responsible for allocation of resources in alignment with delivery objectives and management of the team
• Hold meetings involving different stakeholders in offshore and onshore to streamline delivery process and resolve issues
• Management of the Quality Analysis process cycle - writing test scripts, gathering test data, running tests, issue tracking

Confidential

Associate Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Creating the Business Blue Print and Design Document for various reports
• Lead meetings involving different stakeholders in offshore and onshore to streamline delivery process and resolve issues
• Aid the data replication process from SAP and non-SAP source systems using SLT and BODS
• Design and create Data flow using HANA Views and Procedures for Master Data and Transactional data based on the given conditions and logic
• Performing Root Cause Analysis to optimize the performance of HANA models
• Implementing the foundations of the ACTIVATE framework
• Developed the candidate self application for requirements feature in the ‘My Requirements’ section
• Performed peer code review
• Conducted design discussions with the technical team to analyze the technical feasibility of a solution to the business requirement, and freeze in on the design for the same
• Worked on preparing a process documentation for the product that could be used as a user manual for end users and also as a reference guide for the product building team
• Participated in discussions with the production support team to enable knowledge transfer before go-live
• Prepared test cases, gathered test data, perform tests and track issues

Confidential

Lead - Technical Consultant, Pennsylvania

Responsibilities:

• Lead meetings involving different stakeholders in offshore and onshore to identify key objectives and close in test cases
• Involve the team in preparation of test cases and review the same
• Connect with teams across boundaries to obtain source data for testing from different system resources
• Allocate resources to different test objectives in alignment with estimated effort and delivery schedules
• Conduct issue resolution meetings involving stakeholders from different parts of the globe to effectively mitigate the issue resolution process
• Perform unit testing, integration testing, performance testing and coordinate user acceptance testing
• Document test results and resolution effort for presentation to the management
• Participate in knowledge transfer sessions with the production support team to effectively deliver solutions