SUMMARY

• 18+ years experience in Program and Project Management using Agile methodologies, and Java software design and development with the understanding of full software development life cycle.
• 10+ yrs of technical development experience in distributed web application design and development.
• 8+ yrs of program and project management experience in planning, execution and delivery of projects and programs.
• Product Owner experience in defining vision, requirements and roadmap.
• Strong experience in bringing operational excellence to enterprise releases.
• Strong experience in enterprise change management.
• Program Release Management - defining process, release criteria, cadence, schedules and support policies.
• Strong experience in driving organizational transition to Agile Model (Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, TDD).
• Expert in driving roadmap planning and release strategies.
• Expert in developing project process standards and performance metrics.
• Expert in risk identification and risk mitigation.
• Expert knowledge of Jira and Confluence.
• Self-motivated team player with strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excellent presentation, communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Java / J2EE: Java, J2EE, JSP, JSP Tag Libraries and Java Servlet. J2EE Design Patterns, MVC Architecture Struts,Spring Framework,Hibernate Mapping. Java Bean’s, JSP, HTML, DHTML, XML, AJAX, DWR, Dojo, JavaScript and CSS. CORBA, SOAP and REST.

Application Servers: Websphere Application Server, Tomcat.

SQL/Oracle SQL, PL/SQL .:

UML/Rational Rose/Visio: Use Cases with Sequence and Class diagrams.

Configuration Management Tools: Perforce, PVCS, CVS and P4V.

Build Script: Maven.

Ms Office: Word, Excel, Powerpoint.

OS: Windows, Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Program Release Manager

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed all aspects of program releases including defining roadmap, process, criteria, cadence, schedules and support policies.
• Created Enterprise Roadmap and Release dashboards providing visibility into the App Foundation Roadmap and Releases
• Drove Enterprise Roadmap and Release Planning with Engineering and Product Management.
• Acted as the release quality gate for high quality releases.
• Escalation point for Strati App Foundation consumers post-release.
• Tracked and Triaged Defects.
• Managed Dependencies.
• Established Release quality metrics with dashboards.
• Facilitated Release Scrum of Scrum meetings.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as the Product Owner in defining the vision, strategy and roadmap for a unified project tracking system for both public and private contributors to the open source projects
• Drove Roadmap and Release Planning with Engineering and Product Management.
• Created the Jira Workflow for filing Open Source tickets for approval for Inbound and Outbound projects in collaboration with Legal, Infosec and Engineering Leads.
• Created multiple dashboards for the OneOps launch plan, MVP for launch and daily tracking of the plan.
• Functioned as a UI expert and converted OneOps site to use Content Management Framework Joomla for ease of content updates.
• Successful in implementing a unified project planning and tracking system for open source projects.
• Successful in driving the OneOps Open Source launch.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed all aspects of the project from inception to delivery for multiple parallel projects.
• Managed projects in accordance of Agile fundamentals for timely releases - Planning, Daily stand-up retrospective meetings, Capacity Planning, Sprint estimation.
• Removed roadblocks and facilitate conflict resolution.
• Managed inter-team dependencies.
• Defined performance metrics and create visual dashboards.
• Monitored and tracked team progress and communicate to stakeholders, track and triage defects.
• Pro-actively identified risks and propose solutions for risk mitigation.
• Assessed agile maturity within a Program through surveys and created survey questionnaire.
• Created and hosted Project Manager guilds as a forum to discuss enterprise process enhancements.

Agile Coach/ Project Manager / Scrum Master

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Trained and Coached external teams on Lean and Agile software development principles and practices.
• Managed all aspects of the project from inception to delivery for multiple parallel projects.
• Collaborated with stakeholders on the release plan.
• Collaborated with the UX, Build, Quality, Support and Knowledge Management teams for timely release of the products.
• Facilitated scrum meetings (daily scrum, sprint planning, release planning, backlog grooming and sprint retrospectives)
• Removed roadblocks and Manage dependencies.
• Monitored team progress and communicate team performance such as team velocity, burn-down charts to the stakeholders.
• Tracked and triaged bugs/defects.
• Identified risks and propose solutions for mitigating risk.
• Assisted new team members to come up to speed and become productive.
• Facilitated discussions and help resolve conflicts.

Technologies: Websphere Studio Application Developer 5.0.1, Eclipse, IntelliJ, 2EE, J2EE design patterns, Apache Struts, Tiles, Validator, JSP, Log4j, HTML, DHTL, CSS, Corba, JSP, XML, Dojo, Javascript, Oracle, TOAD, CVS, MVC Design Pattern, JSDK 1.5, Java Servlet, Maven, Selenium, JDBC, Crystal Reports, SOAP, Hibernate Mapping, Spring, Windows, Unix, Unix Shell Scripts