CAREER SUMMARY:

I am an experienced Agile professional who has supported a wide array of customers. I am effective at leading high - performance teams by creating a culture of collaboration and teamwork within and across internal and external teams. I have exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively interface at senior levels in customer and partner organizations.

EXPERTISE:

• Five years’ experience in Agile SLDC in various roles - Developer, Scrum Master, Business Analyst and Product Owner
• Business and technical depth in geospatial, big data and cloud industries
• Problem solver with exceptional ability to interpret and integrate cross-functional platforms
• Clear, candid, persuasive written & oral communication
• Proven ability to work with multidisciplinary teams, take ownership of deliverables, and drive assigned tasks to completion
• Highly detail oriented

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

• Version One Agile Project Management
• CA Rally Agile Project Management
• Jira and Jira Sport Agile Project Management
• SAfe practitioner
• KANBAN Planning
• SCRUM Iteration Planning
• Waterfall Software Development
• ESRI (Arc Map, Arc Server and Arc Modeler, Python Module, Spatial and Military Analyst)
• QGIS (Python)
• UX/UI
• QT GUI Designer
• Linux and Unix system administration
• GIT and GIT hub administration
• MS .NET integration
• MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, Access etc.)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Product Owner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Software product owner for technical development group
• Lead Planning, refinement and other Scrum Agile ceremonies
• GIS consultant for company website (ESRI web application that is our end users’ primary access point to our product
• Own product backlog for three Agile Software Groups (1 in the USA and 2 in India)
• Interface with stakeholders, program managers and senior executives to generate product requirements, features, epics and user stories
• Customer representative for standalone magnetic modelling calculator

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Compose as is / to be diagrams
• Work closely with several development teams to continuously improve delivery
• Write requirements and produce system documentation
• Consistently support different stakeholders to ensure the highest quality software products
• Collaborate with other teams and participate in Scrum of Scrum meetings
• Plan upcoming sprints, including helping the team to reach consensus / buy-in
• Monitor and report on sprints that are in-progress
• Work with the leadership team to strategically improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Agile processes
• Create Requirements Documents, Data Sheets, and Acceptance Criteria
• Interfaces with other departments to ensure clear communication for in-progress and upcoming development activities

Product Owner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supported the Agile Software Development Life Cycle process used to facilitate system baseline changes, taking ownership of those deliverables expected from the customer organization
• Worked directly with other product owners, system engineers, program managers, developers, testers and customers to define technical user stories
• Created functional flow diagrams, with the ability to frame all requirements
• Worked directly with internal software development teams as well as 3rd party software vendors like Amazon S3 AWS and Salesforce
• Supported and design sessions with internal clients from user interface to back office with an emphasis on the geospatial segment of the system
• Managed product backlog
• Scrum Master duties as needed:
• Ran daily standup meetings
• Coordinated sprint grooming / backlog sessions
• Coordinated sprint retrospective meetings
• Removed team blockers and impediments
• Scaled Agile practitioner in SAFe environment
• Produced user interface GUI for internal production operators
• Managed client/customer expectations to ensure realistic deliverables

Business Analyst to Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Business Analyst and Scrum Master for the GUPS mobile application for Census takers
• Analyzed software requirements from product owner and translated into development user stories
• Analyzed and implemented customer (Department of Commerce) business rules, regulations, best practices and service governance
• Integrated SQL database software solutions
• Scaled Agile environment
• Scrum Master duties: daily standup, grooming refinement of user stories and sprint retrospectives
• Product Owner duties: Maintaining backlog, removing impediments, interfacing with stakeholders and driving their requirements
• Composed burndown / burn up charts and visualizations of team progress
• Led software development team to create custom QGIS plug-ins for the Census Bureau Biennial survey mobile application
• Designed and composed all customer facing graphical user interfaces
• Python development environment

Data Scientist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Tableau visualization specialist of complex, big data information
• Supported the creation and fusion of Confidential and multi-disciplined intelligence data and its dissemination into Intelligence Community database repositories
• Reviewed standard and non-standard Confidential data products to determine and implement the appropriate metadata and keyword tagging
• JavaScript programming
• Worked with customers to determine appropriate Confidential products for disseminating Confidential data information
• Worked with compiled data sets to look for new exploitation methodologies that support Confidential Structured Observation Management and data analytics
• Composed government white paper for Confidential Data Science efforts

Product Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided quality assurance, control, and information technology services, including sensor operation and verification, collection objective designation and verification, ensuring that LIDAR data is sufficient to meet Digital Elevation Model (DEM) production standards, quality assurance of all point cloud extracted products, operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of cluster-based LAN and Direct Access Network (DAN) / Storage Area Network (SAN) storage and high bandwidth Ethernet environments
• Deploy and maintain .NET framework for forward facing clients
• Manufactured, organized, tracked, and assisted in quality control of data
• Managed the large data archive and pre-staged data sets for recurring time-dominant product requests, maintained large, distributed file system
• Coordinated and delivered finished OPED products to requestors and collection managers
• Provided daily collection statistics to mission commander in relation to satisfaction of requirements

Geospatial Software Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Jira Agile developer team member
• Deployed geospatial databases, integrating them into the cloud-computing environment
• Provided software testing and evaluation, interfaced directly with developers and engineers
• Developed, updated and deployed Red Hat Packet Management (RPM) packages across the distributed network
• Participated in project development and distributed programming using commercial and open source tools and libraries such as GDAL and OGR
• Assisted in the integration of GIS software like Open Streetmaps, QGIS, GeoServer, Geowebcache, Google Earth, Google Maps and Arc Server, OZONE widget tool production
• Built VM Ware virtual machine instances to integrate efficient client-side applications
• Python application development for ARCGIS and QGIS

Geospatial Information Systems Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collected, processed, exploited and disseminated high resolution mapping and intelligence data while deployed overseas
• Processed LiDAR and electro-optical information (digital photography) and deliver to Army Geospatial Center and forward deployed, combat zone located elements
• Cataloged and archived large mapping data sets
• Provided analysis, creation and dissemination of mission-tailored intelligence products for Confidential