PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

Having overall 11+ years of IT experience & Project Management experience, which includes many years of software development lifecycle experience and significant experience in Scrum methodology and Project Management in delivering and supporting business through IT solutions.

STRENGTHS:

• Scrum Master
• Project management
• Service delivery
• Stakeholder Management
• Risk Management
• System development
• Application Integration
• Process Design
• International Experience
• Vendor Management

SKILLS:

• Project Management
• Business Analysis
• IT Specialist
• Lotus Notes & Domino - Expert
• Operating system: Windows

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows NT, Windows ’95,Windows ’98, Windows XP Professional

Languages: Lotus Notes Formula Language, Lotus Script, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, C/C++, Adobe Lifecycle Designer 6.0/7.0

Gui: Visual Basic

Groupware: Lotus Notes 4.x/5.x/R6.5/8.x

Web Related: HTML, Java Script, CSS

Tools: & Utilities: GIMP, Microsoft Visio, PowerPoint

Domain Knowledge: Automotive, Insurance, Banking, Manufacturing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Certified Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Experience varies from engaging the project team & Conducting Scrum ceremonies - Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Conduct impact analysis as requirements emerge, communicate progress and concerns amongst product/project stakeholders to accomplish the objectives.

Confidential

Scrum Master & Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Experience varies from managing projects across account ranging from AIX to Linux Migration, Data stage upgrade, zOS Upgrade projects etc with many stake holders for a major client.
• Responsible for managing the delivery of multiple projects end to end, Risk Management, Resource management which includes Resource planning, Team development, Retention Strategy.
• Majorly involved in project delivery communicating to C-level stake holders, risk and quality assurance.
• Played key role in delivering critical IT projects.
• Incorporated agile and scrum methodologies as a part of projects to make quick wins.

Confidential

Lotus Notes Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• During this tenure, my focus was in providing solutions and consulting for client on projects that helps in implementation of new business processes.
• Worked closely with customer for the Solution design and delivery.

Confidential

Project / Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• I was also actively involved in resource identification, and risk management helping the Delivery Manager in successful GO Live as per the need of the customer.
• I had worked with various capacities from Team lead to Project Manager where I was responsible for managing Projects, design and development, supporting IT solutions Viz. Delivering application development projects, Software Currency Projects ranging from Migration to upgrade.
• Having extensive experience in direct client interaction, requirement gathering, development, onsite-offshore coordination, implementation and support. Worked extensively in the entire software development life cycle in design, development and implementation in Lotus Notes Domino 5.x/6.x/8.x as well as Software currency projects.

SCRUM MASTER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate and manage the product backlogs with priority and estimates.
• Conduct Scrum ceremonies - Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Create corresponding activities/tasks for the user stories (WBS). Work with development team to breakdown business needs into use cases and collaborate during translation into requirements.
• Prioritize work based on project needs, task dependencies, team capacities and schedules.
• Conduct impact analysis as requirements emerge, communicate progress and concerns amongst product/project stakeholders to accomplish the objectives.
• Work with UX team, Software development team to validate the business need and constraints and ensure the features are achievable based on business value established for various ongoing requirement changes.
• Coordinate and delegate necessary tasks with sprint team. Manipulate product road map into manageable TFS Product backlog, user stories, and tasks for sprint team.
• Determine the team capacity from historical data.
• Monitor the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and Impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.
• Communicate the progress to senior management thru 'Burndown Charts'. Monitor the Quality through metrics and mentored team through the project management processes.

PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in seamless on-site and off-site team Collaboration (Leadership, Architects, Engineers & IT Analysts, Product development teams), Communication & Problem-solving
• Successfully delivered programs across Healthcare, Manufacturing, Banking, Telecom, Oil & Gas, Information Media and Entertainment domains involving heavy interactions with Business users, IT Teams and Infrastructure teams
• Responsible in creating and delivering business value driven technology strategies, building & building & fostering collaborative working partnerships with business units, mobilizing high performing, customer focused organizations, running fiscally efficient operations.
• Responsible for End to End project management for all the software currency projects including WMB v6.1 Upgrade, AIX to Linux Migration, ZOS upgrade, Data stage upgrade etc.
• Identify Customer Business Requirements: Lead the process of discovering prospect’s project requirements, needs, pain points and expected project outcomes
• Identify impacted business areas, impacted applications and its upstream & downstream working with team. Identify dependent projects and other impacted releases/projects
• Work along with Client in selecting applications for POC
• Transition: Communicate the requirements to the project delivery team ensuring a smooth transition from POC team to Project delivery team
• Responsible for review of High Level Estimation and Schedule.
• Resource Management in terms of defining project team, resource availability, Capacity Planning.
• Support during Project Cycle: Ensure continuous support during the entire project life cycle by providing regular status reports starting weekly reports, RAG and SLA reports. Participate in weekly meeting and coordinate with Client and providing guidance to the project team.
• Created Communication, change and Risk Management Plans.
• Review of Quality process documents and estimates submitted for the projects.
• Responsible in tracking and evaluation of efforts spent by the project team and in delivering the project within cost and schedule.
• Work with Delivery teams for cost effective solutions across different verticals and diversify the usage of reusable components.
• Anchor weekly status call and pointing out ways to strengthen deliverables and time management.
• Conducted Regular weekly meetings to discuss about work status / issues/target achieved and also encouraged the team to share the best practices and conduct some technical sessions.
• Scheduled for 1-1 and group discussions, thereby creating environment to discuss and address any concerns or issues within the team.
• Continuing to develop strong relationships with the team and client across work streams.
• Responsible in resolving the issues overnight working with team that impacts business with proper coordination.
• Maintains and ensures the vacation plan is in place for all the teams involved in order to ensure there is no dependency on resources to complete the work.
• Helped team members in reaching out to other teams seeking different ideas. Enabled open meeting and forum for team discussions.
• Mentored the other business area with the Metrics submission process. Share expertise in process review of IT projects.
• Have volunteered and accepted new roles and responsibilities like Lean initiative to improve productivity, Maxpro monthly stats and other account initiatives.
• Incorporated Agile methodologies and scrum meetings as a part of waterfall methodologies to make quick wins.
• Continuously Improves Skills: Continuously improve cross-application and delivery expertise, Project Delivery (process, execution and presentation skills), and Industry (understanding customer industry and pain points). Leverage resources as needed.