SUMMARY

• Over 14+ years of IT experience and expertise in Banking, Capital Markets and Financial Services Industry and 6+ years of Agile Program Management (Scrum/Kanban) experience, handling multi - year, multi-million dollar budgeted projects
• Strong technology, domain and process background in Banking and Financial Services - Paper, Card and Image based Check and Credit Card Payments Processing Systems, CPCS Mainframe Systems, Equity, Trading, Securities, Brokerage and Settlement areas
• Experience working in an Agile Project Management environment for 6+ years, in the onsite-offshore model and have proven expertise working individually as well as in a team
• Proficient in TDD/ATDD, Software Development/Test Life Cycle (SDLC/STLC), Iterative Software Development Life Cycle Process, RPA and other models such as Waterfall and Agile (Scrum)
• Proficient in Domain Analysis, IT Requirement Analysis, Gap Analysis and in communicating with IT and Business Stakeholders at all levels
• Expertise in Agile Project Management tools MS projects, Clarity, MS excel spreadsheets, MS power point presentations, MS Visio and Version One
• Implemented Lean Agile Techniques, Reverse Engineering, Acceptance Test Driven Development, Defect Flow Analysis and Risk Based Testing
• Excellent Communication and Client-facing skills with ability to establish a strong relationship with the Business stakeholders and align IT with Business needs

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Agile Project Management (Scrum/Kanban)
• Check Processing Control Systems (CPCS)
• Credit cards and payment systems
• Point-of-sale applications
• Equity, trading, securities, brokerage and settlement areas
• Telecommunications

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Java
• JSP
• SQL
• VBScript
• C
• C++ and Power Builder: MS SQL Server 2000
• MS Access
• Oracle 9i/10G
• Toad
• DB2 and Sybase: MS Office
• MS Project
• MS Visio
• IBM Lotus Notes
• HP UFT(QTP)
• HP ALM
• Test Director
• Subversion
• GitHub
• Selenium VSS and CVS
• Waterfall and Agile (Scrum and Kanban)
• Version One
• Clarity
• Jira
• TSYS TS2 Mainframe systems
• ALI Calltech/OnQ
• Remedy AR system
• Click Schedule
• Ruby Mine
• JIRA
• Eclipse and IBM 3890 and NCR 7780 check sorters
• Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/7
• UNIX and OS/2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Richmond VA

Agile Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Account management activities like MSA effort estimation/forecast, billing, resource management and LOB time-sheet coordination
• Day-to-day interaction with Product Owner, Collections business partners (cross-commit teams, upstream-downstream groups, business system analysts etc.)
• Day-to-day support POC for Collections team (answers questions, review deliverables, conduct/attend meetings etc.) deliverables using ATDD methodology
• Act as a liaison between the onsite and offsite teams
• Monitor for new ALM defects, enhancements, J projects and assign out for testing support
• For assignments outside of Collections, obtain confirmation that those areas have accepted the assignments and understand the timelines
• Gather all BSA's inputs, compile document and prepare BAS for review
• Maintain and update ALM/QC with the test cases and test execution results
• Ensure Knowledge Link (KLINK) folders exist to house documentation and test results for all items being tested in the release
• Conduct test results review/defect triage meetings with BSA's and obtain sign-off of test results and document the same under KLINK/QC
• Update customers and business stake holders of the current project status by means of a daily status report and iterate the same during the stand-up meetings

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Technical Project Manager/Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Onsite Technical Project Lead
• Client Interactions for functional, business and technical clarifications
• Liaison between offshore and client technical and business team(s)
• Data management test planning, test strategizing and interaction with the cross-commit business teams
• Responsible for ETL Data warehouse testing using Oracle and DB2 databases
• Preparing/reviewing System test cases and performing System testing
• Created Risk & Mitigation details and socialized with the IT platform delivery teams in the program and the Business team
• Performed and facilitated end to end Integration Testing for project delivery
• Arrived at the timelines and strategy of testing along with the platform testing teams for system testing and Integration Testing
• Provided the Test Completion status and details to the Business and IT Management
• Received High Performance Team award from the leadership team

Confidential, St. Louis MO

Technical Project Lead/Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Onsite Technical Project Lead
• Client Interactions for functional, business and technical clarifications
• Liaison between offshore and client technical and business team(s)
• Data management test planning, test strategizing and interaction with the cross-commit business teams
• Responsible for ETL Data warehouse testing using Oracle and DB2 databases
• Preparing/reviewing System test cases and performing System testing
• Created Risk & Mitigation details and socialized with the IT platform delivery teams in the program and the Business team
• Performed and facilitated end to end Integration Testing for project delivery
• Arrived at the timelines and strategy of testing along with the platform testing teams for system testing and Integration Testing
• Provided the Test Completion status and details to the Business and IT Management
• Received Brokerage Technology CIO award from the leadership team

Confidential, Mississauga, ON

Technical Project Lead/Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a single point of contact and coordinated from the client location for this multi-region project
• Client Interactions for functional, business and technical clarifications
• Liaison between offshore and client technical and business team(s)
• Analysis of the existing functionality of CPCS and prepared low level design / Impact analysis document (IAD) for Design and Development
• Responsible for coding core, client and truncation modules on C and OS/2, code promotion and deployment to staging environment
• Preparing Unit and Business Acceptance test cases, Coding and performing Unit and Business Acceptance testing

Confidential, Mississauga, ON

Technical Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Client Interactions for functional clarifications
• Analysis of the existing functionality of Fusion and prepared low level design / Impact analysis document (IAD) for Enhancements and Maintenance
• Preparing Unit test cases, Coding and performing Unit testing

Confidential, Dallas TX

Application developer

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Unit test cases, Coding and performing Unit testing
• Communicated with multi-region teams regarding the project activities and Status
• Communicated with the Clients regarding the clarifications needed

Confidential

Application support

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the support of Click Schedule, Magenta and Data Store applications

Confidential, Burbank CA

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the development of benefit estimate calculator module

Confidential

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Coding and unit testing of Rates Eye and Trades Eye modules