SUMMARY:

• Experienced Agile Scrum Business Analyst with 7+ years of IT experience along with good communication skills, well - rounded experience in development of IT projects and programs. Specialties include:
• Agile/SCRUM Methodology, Rapid Application Development
• Good knowledge of Python, Web API’s, R, Spark, Statistical analysis, predictive analysis, data modelling, data mining, Hive, Hadoop, SQL and MySQL
• Good knowledge in AWS S3, EC2, IAS, RDS, CloudFront, VPC and Snowflake.
• Good knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Dockers and other DevOps methodologies.
• Good knowledge of Windows, Ubuntu, UNIX, RedHat LINUX.
• Proficient in TABLEAU for data analysis and visualzations.
• Conflict Management and Risk Management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

JIRA, Confluence, Git/GitHub

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Agile Scrum Master

Confidential

• Forward Plan the release windows and cycles across a portfolio
• Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time and within budget, and that they meet or exceed expectations
• Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog, pending service requests, third party applications, or operating system updates
• Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams Confidential different locations
• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews
• Produce Deployment, Run Books and Implementation Plans.
• Weekly Release Reporting
• Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required
• Negotiate, plan and manage all release activities
• Work with release engineers to understand impacts of branches and code merges
• Maintains the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors.
• Continually work towards making improvements in the release process
• Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.
• Participate in CAB meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks
• Maintains a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.

Release Manager

Confidential, Dallas TX

• Release Planning, preparing Release reports and Managing Release plan execution.
• Maintaining project management & tracking tools like JIRA, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, ServiceNow Task board for RM.
• Following up with DBA, Admin, Server & other infrastructure teams to execute the plans for the preparation of dev, SIT, UAT instances & production cutovers & Disaster recovery testing.
• Coordinating Managing the Release logs, Instances and DB inventories.
• Preparing the metrics presentations on Change management, incident management, release report, etc.
• Coordinating with teams in different time zones viz. EMEA, APAC, US, Brazil, India time-zones • Coordinating with QA & Business Analyst teams for sanity testing.
• Sending the release communication mailers.
• Holding scrum meetings for various projects and publishing minutes of the meeting and planning & executing those projects.
• Producing status reports for all projects being worked upon.
• Scheduling & running bridges for production support and sending communications to management Confidential regular intervals.
• Scheduling & running bridges with various infrastructure & IT teams for troubleshooting of issues in various non-production environments.
• Conduct sign off meetings for SIT, UAT cycles or for production cutover plan finalization.
• Sending the downtime & uptime notices for all outages in production or non-production outages

Scrum Master

Confidential, Dallas TX

• CS2 Product Backlog development using iterative Story walk-thru techniques
• Stories Estimation and Backlog Prioritization
• Development of Project Release Plan, Project Issues, matrix and Risks register
• Kicked off Agile Methodology and supported a large # of items
• Working with the Infrastructure groups, got the dev-int, QA and production environments built for the different projects.
• Managed the design, development implementation and integration of the various Foundational Stories
• Participated in Scrum of Scrums of get the Blockers resolved and dependencies delivered
• Acted as a servant-leader to the scrum team and helped in maximizing the value of the development team efforts.
• Utilizing the discipline of Agile Methodology for Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Review and Retrospectives currently delivering quality product.

Scrum Master

Confidential, Dallas TX

• Product Backlog development using iterative Story walk-thru techniques
• Stories Estimation and Backlog Prioritization, development of Project Release Plan, Project Issues, matrix and Risks register
• Development of Project Release Plan, Project Issues, matrix and Risks register.
• Kicked off Agile Methodology and supported a large # of items .
• Working with the Infrastructure groups, got the dev-int, QA and production environments built for the different projects.
• Managed the design, development implementation and integration of the various Foundational Stories
• Participated in Scrum of Scrums of get the Blockers resolved and dependencies delivered
• Acted as a servant-leader to the scrum team and helped in maximizing the value of the development team efforts.
• Utilizing the discipline of Agile Methodology for Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Review and Retrospectives currently delivering quality product.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Dallas TX

• Product Backlog development using iterative Story walk-thru techniques
• High Level Design development using iterative design walk-thru sessions
• Stories Estimation and Backlog Prioritization
• Development of Project Issues and keeping tracks of Risks involved.
• Development of Project dependency items.
• Working with the Infrastructure groups, got the dev-int, QA and production environments built for Item Pricing.
• Maximizing the value of commitments made by the development team.
• Managed the design, development implementation and integration of the various Foundational Stories
• Participated in Scrum of Scrums of get the Blockers resolved and dependencies delivered
• Managed cross functional stakeholder expectation.
• Good understanding of development practices and the environments.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Dallas TX

• Successfully managed key development projects where quality, time and cost was critical.
• Used Trac as the project management tool.
• Documented and held project plans and meetings in Microsoft Office Suite including Visio, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Mind Maps.
• Managed budgets and created visualizations for better understanding.
• Worked with Cross functional teams in delivering complex multi-tiered solutions by clearly understanding the problem and all proposed solutions.
• Provided leadership and direction to internal business units and external beta customers through the new product introduction process.
• Managed program risk through the development and execution of risk management plan.

Data Analyst

Confidential, Dallas TX

• Collecting, analyzing supply chain data and recommending improvements to boost performance and reduce costs
• Schedule, develop, manage and promote statistical models
• Create, recommend, and implement quality processes that streamline current process flows.
• Mine and analyze data to drive optimization and improvement of development and business strategies.
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of data sources and data gathering techniques.
• Testing and measure effectiveness of entire new statistical approaches as well as process improvements.
• Formulate and refine questions, and explore data to discover meaningful relationships or insights
• Contribute to the identification, definition and development of the process to collect key measures or metrics for monitoring or performance reporting purposes.
• Turn project requirements into custom-formatted data reports.