SUMMARY

• Overall 17+ years of diverse experience in Information Technology handling the various key roles of a Project Manager, Scrum Master and currently as an Agile Release Train Engineer/Agile Coach for SDWAN implementation project at Confidential .
• Experience in driving Scrum, Scaling Agile, and successful delivery of high impact projects, Agile DevOps adoption for delivering the value to the customers and to the team.
• Handled a spectrum of responsibilities which includes, Business Requirements Analysis, Stakeholder management, Project estimation (Cost & Duration), Customer handling, Risk Management, preparation of User stories, facilitating Scrum teams, facilitation of ART in SAFe framework and functional testing of Applications.
• Worked on projects catering to domains, which include Telecom, Retail, Energy, Automotive, Banking, Insurance and Manufacturing in the functional area of Supply Chain and Quality.
• Worked collaboratively with Product Owners, Developers and Operational teams to achieve the project goal, faster delivery of quality products to the customer.
• Executed projects in Waterfall/Agile frameworks catering the customer requirements. Worked for reputed clients like Confidential, General Motors, GE, Confidential, Target and Confidential
• Supported in adopting extreme programming (XP) methodology like TDD and BDD
• Transformed team to adopt DevOps from traditional software development process
• Expertise in understanding all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and proficient in analyzing the Business pain and helping in Solution development
• Have working experience in DevOps Tools like SVN, Git, GitHub, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, Chef, Linux, Shell Scripting, Python and Docker.
• Experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment services like Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), ELB, Elastic Container Service, S3, Codepipeline, Cloud Front, RDS, VPC, Cloudwatch, and Terraforms.
• Helping teams in getting the benefits of being agile, use of Cloud, Containers, Kubernetes and has a passion to learn and implement new technologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Framework: Waterfall, Agile, Scaled Agile

Project management Tools: MS Project, JIRA, Rally, Sharepoint

DevOps Tools (CI/CD): SVN, GIT, Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, Chef, Rundeck

Database: SQL server, DB2

Scripting Language: Python, bash

Webservers: Apache 2.0, Tomcat

Cloud Technologies: AWS, Openstack

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• To drive the ART in coordination of major feature releases and ongoing delivery of value to customers
• Manage and optimize the flow of value through the ART and Solution Train using various tools, such as the Program and Solution Kanban and other information radiators
• Establish and communicate the annual calendars for Iterations and Program Increments (PIs)
• Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering a Continuous Exploration process which drives the synthesis of a Vision, a Roadmap, and Backlogs, and through Pre - and Post-PI Planning meetings
• Facilitate the PI planning event and summarize Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives (the RTE) and publish them for visibility and transparency
• Mentor team in tracking the execution of features and capabilities
• Facilitate periodic synchronization meetings, including the ART sync at the Program Level and the value stream sync for Solution Trains
• Assist with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and capability estimation by teams and the roll-up to Epics
• Coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets
• Assist in managing the risks and dependencies . Escalate and track impediments
• Address impediment on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks
• Encourage collaboration between teams and System and Solution Architects/Engineering
• Work with Product and Solution Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
• Improve the flow of value through value streams by improving and assessing the DevOps and Release on Demand competency
• Mentor team to drive the Lean User Experience (UX) innovation cycle
• Work with the Agile Program Management Office (APMO) on program execution and operational excellence
• Facilitate System Demos and Solution Demos
• Drive relentless improvement via Inspect and Adapt workshops; assess the agility level of the ART and Solution Train and help them improve
• Foster Communities of Practice and the use of engineering and Built-In Quality practices
• Lead the team of developers and guide them to practice SAFe framework
• Work with Product Manager to prioritizes the features to be considered in the next planning cycle
• Facilitate the team and Product Manager to successfully plan and execute the Program Increment (PI)
• Facilitate and work on continuous improvement of periodic ART Reviews
• Escalate impediments, manages risks, dependencies and resourcing needs

Confidential, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Release Train Engineer (RTE)/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team to adopt DevOps and facilitate in applying SAFe framework
• Work with Product Manager to prioritizes the features to be considered in the next planning cycle
• Facilitate the team and Product Manager to successfully plan and execute the Program Increment (PI)
• To drive the ART in coordination of major feature releases and ongoing delivery of value to customers
• Facilitate and work on continuous improvement of periodic ART Reviews
• Escalate impediments, manages risks, dependencies and resourcing needs
• Mentor and coach Agile Release Train on Agile/Lean/SAFe principles
• Track and communicate team velocity and other KPIs in relation to the plan and published progress reports
• Build CI/CD pipeline configurations to orchestrate provisioning and deployment of both large- and small-scale systems. Creating and maintaining the development of release branches on GIT .
• Integrated Jenkins with GIT, Maven, SonarQube, Nexus and Chef . Used JIRA to monitor the progress
• Created Build jobs to multiple projects in Jenkins. Automate infrastructure in Amazon Web Services with, Terraforms CloudFormation and Codepipeline
• Explored and configured the Docker Containers and creating Docker files for Test environments.
• Develop continuous delivery product release Pipelines, using tools such as Chef, Jenkins and enable release and operations automation using Chef

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Drive program/release level processes for an Agile Release Train demonstrating stellar servant leadership, coupled with domain knowledge and technical savvy
• Facilitate Program Increment planning meetings with leadership, business stakeholders, product management and delivery teams on the Agile Release Train(s).
• Support program level meetings in partnership with product management and system architect(s) to aid in the preparation, readiness and prioritization of features for future PI planning sessions.
• Ensure strategic alignment for the train across organizations and teams
• Partner with Business Owners, Product Managers and Product Owners to help assure strategy, vision and road map alignment and execution
• Ensure value is achieved by the train on behalf of end users via the program predictability measure
• Assist with economic decision making by supporting Program Epic and Feature estimations by program team and roll up to program/ release level visibility (overarching team roles)
• Collaborate with other RTEs to coordinate cross-train dependencies
• Coaching and to assist for Relentless Improvement

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• To manage projects from definition phases through to successful delivery.
• To control project costs, deliver within budget . Preparation of timely and accurate PMO reports
• Prepare and maintain the project plan and track the schedule to deliver on time.
• Escalation of any project related issues and highlight the risk in advance.
• Manage overall project health including timelines, milestones, deliverables, issues and risks
• Identify, resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.
• Gathering, analyzing, define, and document business requirements
• Translate project requirements into use cases, objectives and tasks
• Monitor project progress by tracking activity; resolving problems ; publishing progress reports ; recommend actions

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Carrying out enhancement activity through change request like business and maintenance request
• Analysis of problem Tickets and to fix a solution. Internal and external Reviews and code-walk through’s.
• Coding and Testing of new programs and performance tuning activities of SQL statements .
• Solving discrepancies in day to day job execution and resolving abends
• Worked as core team member in SAP implementation
• Worked on Quality and Supply Chain function