SUMMARY:

• A seasoned & passionate Agile Practitioner and Consultant having 16 years of experience in the IT industry through which I bring in strong management background and versatile experience in Scrum Master, Agile Coaching, Agile Change Strategist and People Management.
• Successfully managed and delivered Data & Information management, Data Integration, Digital, Regulatory & Compliance, Legacy Application for various industries includes Federal and State Government, Banking & Financial Institution, Utilities & Transportation, Technology & Consulting in Australia and USA.

SKILLS:

• Data & Information
• Business & System Thinking
• Value Added Relationship
• Data Governance
• Effective Time Management
• Culture Driven Team Building
• BI/EDW/Analytics
• Problem Solving
• Adaptability
• Digital
• Strategical Thinking
• Emotional Intelligence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Scrum Master I Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Agile transformation, identifying & mitigating cultural challenges, trust building workshops, process coaching and facilitate role - specific coaching sessions for cross-functional teams.
• Coach Leadership team, fellow scrum master aspirants, business and development team on values and principles of Agile (SAFe).
• Established a new self-organizing scrum teams by training on agile fundamentals and coaching team for sustaining changes introduced.
• Tailored Greenfield projects to evolving organizational Agile structure to adhere to processes.
• Ensure team is focused and understand the values of ceremonies and helped team communicate effectively and resolved any conflict during this process.
• Organized and facilitated overall Release and Sprint planning - including daily stand-ups, reviews/demos, and retrospectives.
• Brought in Agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, DevOps, transparency, accountability, product visioning, technical debt reduction and self-management resulting in realized velocity improvement of more than 100%.
• Executive briefing and reporting on scrum metrics, burn-up and process improvements periodically and facilitate role-specific coaching sessions for cross-functional team.
• Ensured the development teams are practicing the Agile principles, completed product demonstrations, retrospectives, resolve action items and Assisted Product Owner with Backlog maintenance.

Scrum Master / Business Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reduced costs and enhanced development flexibility to meet market demands by designing and implementing iterative development and delivery mechanisms.
• Effectively intervened at different levels of the project, whether technical, methodological, or organizational, regardless of the scope of the challenges.
• Planned and directed all phases of software development for several features using Agile (Scrum, DevOps, SAFe) methodologies, including epic planning, requirement analysis, backlog creation and sizing, task definition, sprint planning, creation, leveling and execution, defect and buffer management, and test team handoff.

Sr. Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully transformed team from waterfall to Agile SDLC, which increased effective resource utilization and cost reduction of project.
• Synchronize data to Tableau in order to build real-time Dashboards, Portals and reports for Executives and Department Heads which helped business to analyze customers safety and ensure travel with a valid ticket and reduce crime rate by deploying security more intelligently.
• Coaching Product Owner and IT team in developing Release plan, Prioritized PB, Product charter and User stories.
• Lead the Business Analytics Scrum Team to consume data streams and achieve desired outcome in form of data accuracy, historic data requirements to meet product owner’s acceptance criteria.
• Aligned scrum deliverables to include Change & Release Management requirements to marry project documentation with more collaborative tools like JIRA, Confluence and DevOps.

Sr. Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Delivered Regulatory and Compliance Reports to ATO and IRS using Common Reporting Standard (CRS) which is an information standard for the automatic exchange of tax and financial information on a global level, Compliance is voluntary; however, noncompliance will potentially cost the bank hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
• Developed comprehensive, system-wide Data Dictionary identifying data elements and defining data attributes for 200+ data elements and reduced manual processes by implementing end to end automation and development of BI reports which in turn reduced data quality issues and estimated business to save 3 - 4 million dollars in 2-3 years of time.

Scrum Master I Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Agile Project Manager in the capacity of Scrum Master to help a greenfield Agile Business Intelligence & Data warehousing initiative to develop in-house capability of Business Analytics Reporting.
• As a Scrum Master for three products and three separate cross-site teams (20+ people), identified process changes required to accelerate development and remove major impediments. In eight weeks, reduced time to ship by approximately 30%, To achieve these results, updated group's processes to conform to Agile Scrum standards.
• Successfully implement Strategical, Analytical and Operational Reports using EDW, BI, Dashboard and Portal.
• Maintained focus on product backlog and project timeline with the development team and testing team through Kanban.

Scrum Master I Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played key role in implementing Confidential to identify American account holders and disclose their balances to the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) using hybrid Agile delivery process.
• Conduct Workshop (Big Activity), Sprint Plan, 3 Amigos, Initial Analysis to define and elicit to define Product backlog, Epic, User Stories and define Confidential and develop Vision, Project Charter, Goals and Objective of Product.
• Helped setup agile eco-system to showcase organization maturity in agile practices, processes & tools.
• Ensured the RTP and off-shore teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and transparency - lead by example.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Digitization of New Start Allowance and Youth Allowance application and systems for Confidential which helped the business to save 40+ million dollar over a period of 5 years which increased accuracy of application and candidate eligibility.
• End-to-End analysis of legacy application and identify areas for improvements for Confidential and Confidential online applications.

Project Manager

Confidential, White Plains, NY

Responsibilities:

• Led $6 million program to deliver enterprise data warehouse portal factory to integrate and enhance Confidential billing system to organize its business units to ensure maximizing resource utilization and increase revenue.

Project Manager / Data Manager

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Successfully implemented digitization of origination of vehicle loans directly to consumers.
• Analyzed 20+ legacy applications and 108 source systems to implement EDW platform which showcased revenue profit of 8 million USD.

Project Manager

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Transformation of 12+ legacy applications using latest robust technology and business process and showcased savings of 4.5 million USD with increased customer retention rate of Confidential by 23% recaptured 34% of the sales market by re-aligning sales channel.