SUMMARY:

• A highly motivated Scrum Master seeking new opportunities in facilitating development teams within an agile environment, coaching personnel within the scrum teams to adhere to team's rules, strategically eradicating impediments and providing necessary assistance as a servant leader.
• Certified Scrum Master with progressive professional experience spanning over 7 years of successfully managing development teams transitioning from Waterfall to Agile methodology, Strategic Planning and Business Process Improvement.
• In me, you will find a Strong communicator that is energetic in nature with "whatever - it-takes" attitude to deliver shippable product increment with every sprint.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: SQL, PYTHON

Database: Access, SQL Server, PL SQL

Markup Languages: XML, HTML, CSS

Applications: SharePoint, JIRA, Rally, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio

WORK HISTORY:

Scrum Master

Confidential, New York City

Responsibilities:

• Facilitates and time-boxed Scrum ceremonies & activities such as Sprint planning, daily scrum, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective and backlog refinement meeting, scrum of scrum, Definition of Ready & Done, Teams norms for scrum teams within the organizations
• Introduced Agile adoption to the organization with the success of the two piloted teams; and contributed to enterprise agile adoption strategy;
• Conducted on scrum, facilitated the release/sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint review, sprint retrospective, and removing sprint/release impediments & risks.
• Conducted project kick-offs and agile assessments for scrum teams, introduced agile scaling practices to support cross-team collaboration and coordination.
• Worked one-on-one with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Managers and Team members, providing feedback and advise on how to improve.
• Created a retrospective (lessons learned) document that captured all the challenges and success of the KYC (Know Your Customer) project.
• Responsible for creating documentation and running the demo sessions for all parties
• Responsible for performing GAP analysis and the exception management process eventually led to increase in enrollments / sales.
• Designed test plans and writing test cases that are easily comprehensible.
• Removed impediments faced by team members.
• Ensured open communication between team members, product owner and administration.
• Managed APM/timesheet reporting of my team members.
• Managed the email distribution list on my team.
• Facilitated activities during PI planning
• Ensured that my team meets it PI objectives and our deliverables are according to plan.
• Extracted data from Jira dashboard, take advantage of daily scrums and have teams work collaboratively together.
• Worked on multiple and simultaneous projects in highly complex environment.
• Assisted product owner with backlog grooming and potential sprint visualization.
• Coached team members through the agile process and assisting with the agile transition.
• Managed the and learning KPI infrastructure of the company.
• Maintained an open and healthy communication channel between team members and also with production owner and stakeholders.
• Readiness/change adoption/ stakeholder management.
• Quality Assurance, ensure that all applicable change requirements are satisfied; Acts as the primary point of contact and integration for the project.

Project Manager

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to run the Pen test and identify the Gaps in the Security documents.
• Drafted and maintained business requirements and align them with functional and technical requirements.
• Facilitated weekly meetings with Security team to document requirements and explore potential solutions.
• Responsible for hosting the client calls and daily stand-ups with the Engineering team.
• Conducted Risk Engineering to derive and execute action plans on time.
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with stakeholders throughout SDLC to resolve open issues.
• Participated in various testing related review meetings.
• Used the Unified Change Management (UCM) tool, Rational Clear Quest, to maintain and track the Stakeholders requested enhancements and changes. Used Rational Clear Case, a Configuration Management tool to maintain different builds of the application with description about all changes and Versions.
• Performed Gap, Feasibility, Adaptability and Risk Analysis to identify the business critical and high-risk areas of the application.
• Used MS Project to manage schedules, deadlines and resources and collaborate on the project.
• Identified the database entities, attributes, and also finalized their multiplicity and cardinality.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Responsibilities:

• Production of detailed technical design documents to match business requirements
• Work with design and sales team to propose solutions based on functional requirement of the client
• Attending daily standup meetings and walk through meetings with Business and developers to get details on user stories
• Understanding the technical specifications prepared by other team members, ensuring consistency with functional requirements and overall architecture
• Developing regulatory reports within controller view according to functional/technical specifications
• Creation of data models, Shorthands, Portfolios, Aggregations, Free Form, Tabular reports and workflows using Axiom controller view
• Assisting the Solution Architect and Project manager in reviewing design documents and performing code review for other members
• Migration of Axiom components from one environment to other
• Performing Unit Testing and supporting SIT, UAT cycles
• Supporting business users as and when required
• Supporting the Application Production Support (APS) team for production deployments

Junior Project Manager

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Data Using Excel Pivot tables to sort, count and total requested Information from the large number of data
• Used Microsoft Excel in Daily Progress Report, Setting up goals and Data Visualization
• Publication of all Documents on Project Intranet Sites (SharePoint & Leads Systems)
• Ensures all Project Information, documentation and Products are correctly Identified and Stored according to Laboratory Information Management System/Electronic Laboratory Notebook Procedures.
• Maintained/Ensured the Observance of Global Policy-Quality, Global & Good Documentation & Data Management Practices for Paper Records/Good Documentation Practices
• Created and Maintained an Internal Project SharePoint Site/LEAD for all Documentation and Key Information
• Collaborated with Process Teams to build & Understand the strategy of their Vision/Project
• Formatting and Routing of SOPs for Reviews through SharePoint & Leads System using SOP Naming/Versioning Conventions
• Coordinated, Reviewed & Controlled SOP Documents while initiating Document Workflows
• Initiated SOPs, Batch Records & Knowledge Check Document Workflows through SharePoint & Leads System
• Follow ups on the Status of SOPs, Batch Records & Knowledge Check Reviews

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering business and user requirements via discussions and prototyping with the help of business users, stakeholders, and subject matter experts
• Responsible for validating requirements by performing gap analysis of As-Is and To- Be
• Created high level BRD (Business Requirements Document) to document the business need and create estimates for each requirement
• Created User Stories & Acceptance criteria
• Prioritize outstanding defects and system problems, ensuring accuracy and deadlines are met
• Performed analysis of business rules, business and system process flows, user administration, and requirements
• Conducted weekly meetings between both development team and users for finalizing conflicting design requirements, development standards, and system issues
• Validated test cases to ensure that scripts will evaluate the business function being performed
• Provided support for application including documenting business processes
• Worked with user experience / design resources to help visualize requirements into prototype
• Performed user acceptance testing (UAT) and documented detailed results
• Created FRD (Functional Requirements Document) with detailed mock-ups and wireframes for the requirements selected for the release
• Validated the bugs opened by QA/business and took appropriate action
• Created comprehensive user manual as well as quick start guides for end users
• Performed other duties and responsibilities as assigned
• Worked extensively on MS Office for documentation and presentation purposes