SUMMARY

• Motivated and customer - oriented Scrum Master delivered multiple projects successfully on time with right business value and quality with the help of skills acquired in the career comprises of technical experience in .Net, Big Data, AWS cloud, Supply Chain applications and process oriented experience in software development methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, XML, XSLT, CSS3, Ajax
• HTML 5, DHTML, VB Script, Java Script
• Team Building & Mentoring
• System Migrations/Integration
• SQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL
• Client Relation & Presentations
• Enterprise wide Implementation
• Resource Management
• Crystal Reports, Visio, MS Office, VSS, CVS, TFS
• Business & IT Planning
• TipQA, Proficy, One Solution - SunGard, Kronos etc.
• Testing/QA/Rollout/Support
• MS Project, JIRA, RALLY, HP ALM, Confluence, Open tools.
• Microsoft Windows and UNIX AIX 7.0
• Oracle, MS SQL Server 2010/2008, Informix 11.5, MS-Access 2010,
• JIRA, Rally, MS Project, Version one, Share Point etc. Confluence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas TX

SAFe SA Scrum Master & RTE

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain score cards, work with business partners to track and report benefits and impact of the program and disseminate success stories. Prepare and facilitate the PI planning of the Agile Release Train (ART) and provide various ideas, suggestions, and strategies.
• Work closely with product management, product owners and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment with organizational roadmaps. Facilitator: Facilitate the team with the knowledge so that team can start the project. Provide training to the team on the agile;
• Own and drive program-level continuous improvement by tracking and presenting metrics, facilitating retrospectives and assessments, perform root cause analysis using fish bone diagrams and identifying and tracking specific actions to take based on the outcomes

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Scrum Master & Production Support - DevOps

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Daily Scrum, Sprint planning, Sprint Demo and Sprint retro meetings. Coaching the team on leading practices to leverage for stories, epics, themes, estimating and prioritizing and on Agile Principles and process.
• Track and remove internal and external impediments for the scrum team. Oversee multiple Projects across developments. Monitor workflow and make timeline adjustments. Facilitate the Grooming sessions with product owner to build product backlog. Facilitate and plan for Go-Live activities. Track and report team Velocity. Updated the project status and monitors progress. Mentor the team members to adopt truly Agile mindset, including ownership, self-management and empowerment. Report progress, blockers, overall performance and provide guidance on risk mitigation to Leadership. Create a collaborative environment which allows the teams to interact closely and across domains.
• Used Kanban for the production support DevOps - alerts monitored, developed application feature and improvements. Develop application performance management to measure and act upon performance data. Develop and automate standard operating procedures around common failure scenarios.

Confidential, Thousand Oaks, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work as a part of interdisciplinary team to achieve Project Milestones. Collaborated with development team to plan Project Sprints. Developed Status reports, Cost Estimates and Resource Plans.
• Make Vital decisions and drive decision making across projects.
• Implement and maintain development best practices.
• Managed resource capacity planning. Supported software development and quality assurance to ensure optimal progress and Product Stability.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for product delivery management. Increased new product development, Led repair of four legacy products. Met goals for quality, schedule & cost.
• Participated in ERP software installation. Introduced & taught Scrum, functional testing, performance testing, test case management & product backlog management.
• System Integrations/Migrations: Project-managed large-scale initiatives involving the transition of programs to new platforms and the merger of disparate systems from acquired client companies. Results: Achieved seamless migrations and integrations that were transparent to client customers, and delivered under budget.
• Accomplished and result-driven Quality Assurance management, Supply chain management starting from the design, functional verification and system design in the software industry. Hands-on manager with proven ability to direct and improve quality, reducing defects and improving overall efficiency and productivity.
• Develops and tracks to detailed project plans, schedules, logs, cost estimates, resources and communications. Asks questions that bring out ideas and stimulates discussion. Identifies potential risks, and develops effective response plans. Works cross-organizationally to achieve business goals.
• Enterprise Implementations: Directed global rollouts of new software and systems for clients Results: Ensured defect-free releases through careful planning, testing and QA efforts.

Confidential, SC

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate, facilitate, and lead Scrum teams responsible for developing applications and automated tools for this major provider of outsourced payroll, benefits of HR services, Procurement etc.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams and the quality of deliverables increased up to 7%.
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of major initiatives. Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Apply effective project management principles, processes, and tools to enable project success. Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and demonstrations.
• Protect development team from outside distractions, resolve team conflicts and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Defines and implements project standards and processes for structuring IT projects, including process/documentation evaluation and improvement.
• Update the status of the project to clients, timely communications and proactively inform clients in case of any deviations in delivery.
• Involved in the entire SDLC from conceptualization, design, development and deployment, conduct weekly status meetings with IT and Business to identify any issues/risks and define response strategies.

Environment: Informix 11 UC4, UNIX Aix Version 7.0, Integrated Financial Accounting Application - This package is an ERP package has several modules and phases. The various modules in this package are Budget, Purchase requests, Account Receivables, Account Payables, Bid quote management, Fixed Assets, General Ledger, Human Resources, Payroll, User Security settings etc. Generated several reports related to Federal and State Governments like W2, SLTD, STD