OBJECTIVE:

To obtain a challenging position in a team of ‘A’ players in the areas of Project Management, Agile Development that utilizes my strong academic and industrial experience along with my exemplary interpersonal skills.

PROFILE:

• 5.5 years’ experience in Information Technology, Analysis , Problem Solving, Conflict Resolution, and Troubleshooting
• 4 years’ experience Agile Principles, Agile Scrum Coaching, Team Management, Organizational Behavior and helping organizations to transition from traditional methodology to Agile
• 3.5 years’ experience as a Project Manager / Scrum Master with Agile and Lean (Scrum, Kanban, and XP) methodologies to deliver software and being directly involved with agile teams to support improvements to planning, grooming, estimation, tracking, and delivery. Guided the development of agile teams into an effective delivery unit with a sustainable cadence.
• 2.5 years’ experience in Technical Requirement Analysis, developing Process Documentation , Business Analysis, SQL and UML, Tableau Reporting, SAS and Data Analytics
• Proven track record of proficiently driving organization - wide Agile adoption, TDD, BDD, Pair programming, removing impediments, fostering self-management and facilitating time-boxed Scrum ceremonies; Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review, Retrospective, Backlog grooming.
• Expertise in business strategy, p lanning and managing multimillion-dollar projects, aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Successful track record of working with engineers, from DevOps to QA, to improve the processes and practices of developing software and release a great product.
• Passionate about creating awareness about the need and benefits of integrating Agile and DevOps methodologies
• Experienced in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) that include duties like providing documentation on design, testing, and migration of code from development to production
• A quick learner with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to work quickly and under tight delivery deadlines while paying attention to detail

SKILLS:

Software: JIRA, JAMA, Rally, VersionOne, VSTS, Confluence, TFS, MS SharePoint, MS Project, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) Tableau (v9.2), MS Visio, Unix SAS, SQL Server Management Studio, Toad, Adobe Photoshop

Development/Testing Tools: Visual Studio, Notepad++, JUnit

Languages: Python, SQL, UML, SDLC, C++, Java, HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, R

General Skills: Backup/Restore Utilities, Configuration Management, Help Desk, Support, Troubleshooting

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10, Unix

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Confidential, Madison, WI

Responsibilities:

• Served as Project Manager / Scrum Master for multiple Agile Scrum teams and Kanban mobile team.
• Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction
• Defined and maintained project scope and objectives, involving relevant stakeholders, ensuring business and technical feasibility
• Carried out end to end communication with the stakeholders, updating them regarding the progress, scope, and project deliverables
• Educated and coached executives, managers, stakeholders, and others throughout the organization regarding Agile practices and how their roles and interactions may change
• Created and managed the work plan for ongoing projects using MS Project, allowing me to track the progress of the projects, allowing successful delivery within the projected schedule and estimates
• Facilitated the creation and prioritization of Product Backlog, establishing Sprint goals and Sprint Backlog during the Sprint Planning Phase. Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings
• Gained a solid understanding of customer/stakeholder relationships, business analysis, prioritization, estimation, and capacity management and Implemented Issues Tracking in JIRA to effectively track impediments against user stories
• Captured clear and concise meeting minutes from internal and external meetings. Followed up on action items to get them completed.
• Generated Burn-down charts for cumulative flow, Bug and Test tracking, resource/ task allocation and time tracking for each Sprint using Rally. During the Sprint Review, demonstrated success/failure of the Sprint to all stakeholders
• Resolved conflict through arbitration, negotiation, reasoned discussion, or escalation. Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions
• Learned basic Mainframe skills to add value to the development team by working on user stories as a back-up developer
• Trained development team to conduct daily Stand-ups to communicate current day’s goals, previous day’s achievements, and any impediments or concerns in an Agile Scrum environment
• Communicated the progress to senior management thru 'Burndown Charts'. Monitored quality thru metrics and mentored agile teams thru the project management processes
• Provided training on writing Business and Technical User Stories, Acceptance Criteria’s, and Agile Engineering

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Used Rally to effectively manage project Resources, Cost and Schedule tracking to track planned numbers against the actuals
• Worked with multiple agile teams to foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. Conducted backlog reviews, planning poker sessions, sprint planning / review and retrospectives for two teams during concurrent 3-week sprint cycles
• Collaborated with multiple cross-functional teams, including Product Management, Release Management, User Interface Development, QA, Information Development
• Executed large programs involving multiple project workstreams, performed multiple vendor evaluations, planned contract negotiation, and administered IT Resource requirements
• Focused on developing a trustful and collaborative team environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged with on finding solutions to problems
• Identified and removed impediments to development teams' progress, and protected the teams from outside distractions
• Acted as a liaison between developers and stakeholders; fostered quality communication between engineering disciplines. Developed meaningful relationships, facilitated collaboration among disparate teams to deliver strategic results
• Communicated progress to senior management thru Burndown charts. Monitored quality thru metrics and mentored team thru project management processes
• Assisted in identifying and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes. Maintained and published agile metrics and regularly reported to business leadership
• Ensured cross-functional coordination between product owners, analysts, developers, and QA occurred early and often removed barriers and blockers for the team
• Assisted product owners and business analysts with backlog creation and grooming. Helped Scrum teams adhere to the best engineering practices and the Definition of Done

Business / Data Analyst

Confidential, Addison, TX

Responsibilities:

• While working on the CPM analytics team developed User Stories, conducted data analysis and data compilation on an activity book with over 18 million loans with over 48 attributes amounting to $92 Billion using Unix SAS (v9.2) and Toad for Oracle (v12.1.1)
• Led virtual training on advanced Microsoft Excel skills including VLOOKUP statements, Pivot tables , and IF statements; Assisted colleague in reducing his time to organize a report by several hours by creating a VLOOKUP formula
• Interacted with business users to understand and document their key reporting requirements ; translated those into reports and interactive dashboards for stakeholders
• Collected functional and non-functional requirements from users, customers, and stakeholders using a variety of techniques
• Designed and developed navigation report and risk loan analysis report using action, context filters, and calculated fields
• Projected and forecasted future risk in terms of number of seriously delinquent loans by developing area maps to show details at the county level
• Managed the PMC ( Post Modification Counselling ) and monthly trial conversion reporting process by modifying the existing SAS code, generated Tableau reports, identified trends and performed QC analysis for the same
• Created various Ad-hoc reports, performed analyses as per user requests for managerial meetings and discussions. Converted metric insight reports to tableau reports
• Assisted users to publish and collaborate reports via a web browser & embed Tableau views in other web applications like SharePoint