SUMMARY:

• Highly accomplished team leader, with 25 years’ experience in IT industry; worked on all phases of SDLC life cycle.
• Expertise in working/ managing waterfall Projects as well as Agile teams as Scrum Master/coach.
• Passionate about motivating the team members on their strength and work thru the weakness.
• Broad in - depth knowledge in managing Global / onsite offshore projects.
• Demonstrated skill in budget preparation, technical support oversight, quality assurance, and resource allocation.
• Expertise in managing large scale Data warehouse, Data Integration and Application development initiatives.
• Total 10 years’ experience in Agile/Scrum.
• 5 years as Scrum master
• 2 years as Agile / scrum coach along with Scrum Master
• 3 years as Agile coach/RTE - mentored and coached about 30+ Agile teams
• Conducted training/workshops and mentored about 6 Product owner/Managers teams
• Trained 4 sessions of Senior Management on Do’s and Don’t of Scrum, Why Agile?
• Worked with senior management on why and how to have cross training with teams to improve flexibilities in resources.
• Worked as RTE for a Program of 7 Scrum teams in an Agile Release Train. I have coached, trained and mentored teams and other stakeholders develop and conduct with Agile Mindset , Courage, Servant Leadership, and Integrity. I have helped them negotiate and bring critical thinking in team interaction and problem solving. I have facilitated various SAFe events including PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, and Inspect and Adapt events such as Demo, Retrospective and Problem-Solving Workshop.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) and Working experience with SAFe development methodologies as ‘RTE and SAFe Agilest (SA 4.0)

DATA WAREHOUSE/ BI SKILLS:

• Data Integration, Data Mapping and ETL process
• Business Intelligence and Analysis services
• Insurance, Clinical/Healthcare, Retail, Financial and Marketing, Manufacturing
• Data Warehouse / Informatica/ SAP/ SQL Server Analysis Services
• Agile Development, certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework at Enterprise) /Rally/JIRA/Version one/RUP / RAD / JAD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Release Train Engineer/ Agile Transformation coach

Responsibilities:

• Working with 7 scrum teams as one release train
• Guiding the team on how to improve velocity
• Working with senior management to transform multiple teams towards Agile development project.
• Managing 4 Program teams (total 18 scrum teams) for Agile-Safe training. Working with program teams for Safe program planning, to manage dependencies who are working with Waterfall projects.
• Conducting workshops for POs towards User stories, INVEST model, splitting user stories; working with POs to write good Acceptance criteria.
• Work with business in understanding visionary goals and help in groundbreaking thinking.
• Working with Senior Management to implement Cross functional training and brining flexibilities in team members

Confidential

DW Manager and Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Helping the organization in transformation process towards Agile/Scrum.
• Working with senior management to transform multiple teams towards Agile development project.
• Working as DW Manager - help them to port data and ETL process from Sybase to Oracle/ Informatica.
• Helping to Sunset Sybase data base and associated application to Oracle.
• Conducting agile boot camp for the teams.
• Conducting workshops for POs towards User stories, INVEST model, splitting user stories; working with POs to write good Acceptance criteria.
• Work with business in understanding visionary goals and help in groundbreaking thinking.
• Working with Senior Management to implement Cross functional training and brining flexibilities in team members

Confidential

Scrum Master/Agile coach

Responsibilities:

• Working with team towards CD/CI - continuous delivery and integration and automated testing.
• Help the team with front end (Jasmine), Backend (Junit) and selenium for functional/regression automated
• Testing - test automation.
• Working with team towards to improve on code coverage and regular build and test data management.
• Track and manage the budget.
• Helping the organization in transformation process towards Agile/Scrum.
• Mentoring, coaching with team towards KANBAN and Scrum Ban systems
• Dos and Don’ts about Kanban Vs Scrum.
• Accountable for the entire project lifecycle, including roadmap planning, sprint planning, Story mapping, story slicing backlog grooming and sprint review. Release management. Ensure projects are successfully
• Delivered on-time, within budget, and to customer specifications/satisfaction.
• Work with business in understanding visionary goals and help in groundbreaking thinking.
• Providing metrics and graphs to measure productivity to the senior management.

Confidential, Richfield, MN

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Working with Data Warehouse project and work involving; developing and unifying multiple data warehouses and building APIs (Service oriented architecture - SOA - COM-API).
• Working with business and Product capability team to identify the need for Agile/Scrum projects.
• Plans all aspects of Scrum; organizational change; guidance on standard practices, training and mentoring the teams.
• Responsible for team performance review and recommendations.
• Track and manage the budget; help the team in bringing visibilities like Burndown chart, team velocity and other Scrum charts/ graphs.
• Mentor, and coach Scrum teams towards Agility, helping them towards better Scrum practices. Mentor and motivate the teams to be self-organized and self-motivated.
• Responsible for regular Scrum team performance review and recommendations
• Working with team in coaching, mentoring for Story sizing, writing and story mapping.
• Working with team to implement SAFE - Scaled Agile Framework.
• Working with SAFE Scaled Agile Framework as scrum Master for about 1 year. Worked as ‘Value Stream Engineer’ and ‘Agile release Train Engineer (ART)’ at Program level.
• Worked with team on SAFE - team on Program Increment (PI) and Program level Chartering session.
• Worked as Release Train Engineer (ART) - with 7 teams; Established program level cadence and drive program level ceremonies (e.g. PI Planning, Product Management Council, Scrum of Scrums, release train retrospectives, HIP Sprint)
• Leading the team to develop the DW and BI application, managing multiple technical projects.
• Worked with data architect, and dba team ensuring it meets the business requirements.
• Helping the team to be transparent, open and helping towards automated testing and TDD, helping team to host/organize the road shows.
• Working on Scrum, Kanban, TDD (test Driven development), and SAFe. Agile methodologies
• Worked with Deployment team in Performance, Security testing, and Release management.

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with stakeholders/ users to discuss and document requirements, project schedules, and cost.
• Responsible for deployment, coordination of SAP implementation for 18 locations, 4 instances.
• Responsible for manage and control cost/quality/schedule of the program.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

DW Manager/Scrum Master (DW/BI)

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Evangelist for Agile/Scrum process; worked as Scrum master and Scrum coach.
• Leading the team to develop the application, managing multiple technical projects using Scrum, Agile.
• Responsible for feasibility study of the project through analysis, estimation, budget management and approval.
• Responsible for end-to-end project management, demonstrating ownership of the entire process from beginning to end. Worked through all phases of SDLC life cycle.
• Responsible for building strong relationships, being flexible, providing timely responses, having strong listening skills and a big picture mentality.
• Developed, revised complex project plan, and budgets; worked with stake holder, business users to understand problems, focused on bringing issues to resolution, and escalated as necessary to meet timelines.
• Worked with data architect team for data base design; ensuring it meets the business requirement for EHR.
• Data modeling, Logical and Physical design for DW projects.
• Responsible for team performance review and recommendations.
• Worked with business owner/product owner in marinating and prioritizing product and sprint back log.
• Initiated and worked on implementing Testing/Quality control automation (Test automation) using WinRunner, Test Director and later on upgraded to Quality circle and QTP.

Environment: VB, IIS, C#, .Net, Oracle, Informatica, SSIS, Webstrat, Rate Manager, and Easy grouper, ICD-9, ICD-10, COSMOS, Galaxy, and TOPS, MyMedica.com - web portal

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Data Warehouse Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead the direction and implementation of SAP projects for the Filtration group, role: Scrum Master.
• In conjunction with Senior Management, define and produce reports and dashboards regarding the current and future states of our business including production, Order, Inventory and forecasts.
• Developed, revised complex project plan, and budgets; worked with stake holder, business users to understand problems, focused on bringing issues to resolution, and escalated as necessary to meet timelines.
• Manage development team both Onsite and Off shore team
• Responsible for end-to-end project management, demonstrating ownership of the entire process from beginning to end. Worked through all phases of SDLC life cycle.
• Worked as technical Architect and also with SOA architecture.

Environment: Visio, MS Projects, Informatica, SQL Server 2005,SSIS, Oracle, JDE, Mapics 2000, Mange 2000,SAP R/3, Oracle Financials, SharePoint.

Confidential

Data Architect /Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Data base design, Data Flow diagram,
• Participated in JAD session for gathering user and business requirements.
• Prepared ETL process and documented Business rule, Data mapping between source and targets.

Environment: Visio, Oracle, SAP R/3, Business objects, SharePoint.