SUMMARY

• Lead and coach scrum adoption
• Plan Scrum / SAFe implementation
• Implement changes and steps to increase the team’s productivity
• Collaborate with other scrum masters to improve the methodologies’ efficiency
• Conduct Scrum - Ceremonies
• Conduct scrum of scrum’s
• Experience in Auto Loans and Auto Captive Industry
• Managed design, development, deployment, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) planning, documentation, tester training including UAT completion sign-off; resulting in reduction in UAT test cycle
• Strong collaboration and experience working with both Business and Technical teams
• Created and delivered full sign-off project documentation starting from Development and ending at post-Production deliverables by working with Key Stakeholders to elicit information and gain agreement

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Salesforce, Informatica IDQ, Collibra, SAP, PLM, GCP (Google Cloud Platform), Business Objects XIR2, Informatica 8.1.1, Xcelsius - Dashboards, BODI, Oracle Data Integrator, SSIS, Cognos Reports, Toad, Sharepoint 2010, Kafka, Solr, Xamarin, Android, iOS app development, Informatica Power Center

Operating Systems: UNIX, LINUX, Windows

Languages: HTML, .Net, Objective C, VBScript, JSP, Java, J2EE, XML, REST Web services, Visual Basic, Kafka, SOQL (Salesforce Object Query Language)

Databases: Oracle 9x/10g, Teradata, SQL Server 2000/2005, MySQL, Sybase, Cassandra, DB2, Big Query, Big Table

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidentia, Plano, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead and coach scrum adoption
• Revised and wrote effective user stories in agile based on missing or new requirements established by project stakeholders utilizing the TFS tool
• Act as scrum master for 1 of 4 scrum teams, covering a solution that spans Data Landing, harmonization, and reporting
• Understanding of incremental delivery and the value of metrics including backlog tracking, burn down metrics, acceptance criteria, velocity
• Able to facilitate the effective breakdown of epics into user stories, to attain high levels of sprint velocity within corporate constraints, to plan and execute against sprint roadmaps
• Lead release teams through look-ahead planning, release planning, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint review and retro meetings. defect management, test execution
• Lead and influence others including those more senior in agile methods and test driven development
• Lead defect management meetings with stakeholders, product owners, and development teams
• Emphasize on commitment to quality and getting the best from people
• Implement changes and steps to increase the team’s productivity
• Proactively track and remove blockers as quickly as possible, mitigating risks as much as possible
• Conduct lessons-learned analyses regularly and suggest ways to overcome long standing obstacles

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead software development team through Scrum ceremonies
• Shared the facilitation of daily stand-up, retrospective, backlog grooming and iteration planning meetings.
• Conduct sprint review and retro meetings
• Revised and wrote effective user stories in agile based on missing or new requirements established by project stakeholders utilizing the JIRA tool
• Updating roadmaps-- Single Sourcing of data, Architecture Convergence, and Rationalization of Platforms
• Driving innovation across the firm’s corporate technology portfolio, increasing efficiencies through process automation, and Agile application development, with an emphasis on user experience and shorter development cycles
• Using Jira to plan and manage teams work. Assume accountability for the data team across scrums, driving sharing of information and consistency in approach and deliverables
• Ensure engineering processes embrace the engineering standards, tools and reusable assets as defined for the overall portfolio in the project data management plan that is compatible with both incremental document development and project data management coverage needs
• Gathered requirements and document in Confluence towards building an enterprise wide Customer Hub to store customer related transactions
• Created and delivered full sign-off project documentation starting from Development and ending at post-Production deliverables by working with Key Stakeholders to elicit information and gain agreement
• Work with Data Quality and Data Governance teams on capturing business rules and data quality
• Upload the attributes in Collibra for Data Quality and Governance
• Documenting Data Quality metrics/dimensions like Accuracy, completeness, duplication
• Created Tableau reports (mockups) in partnership with IT Developers, empowering business partners to drive productivity improvements
• Assisted with testing and updating test cases

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Shared the facilitation of daily stand-up, retrospective, backlog grooming and iteration planning meetings.
• Mentor team members in Scrum best-practices
• Manage application project plan/roadmap and cross-team dependencies
• Participating in the analysis, design, and definition of efficient, cost effective solutions that support business processes and functional requirements
• Collaboration with stakeholders, development, and QA teams throughout the project lifecycle
• Lead cross-functional scrum teams and manage the overall scrum processes
• Work closely with cross-functional leads to improve deployment processes, resolve underlying issues, build best practices, and align with business goals and desired outcomes
• Develop and improve Agile best practices and implement them consistently across team functions
• Proactively track and remove blockers as quickly as possible, mitigating risks as much as possible
• Conduct lessons-learned analyses regularly and suggest ways to overcome long standing obstacles
• Using PLM tools to maintain and analyze product details
• Revised and wrote effective user stories in agile based on missing or new requirements established by project stakeholders utilizing the JIRA tool
• Translated business requirements into IT solution design (Functional Requirements Document) to drive a seamless future system
• Conducting business requirement sessions with all the stake holders like the Business senior management to gather and finalize requirements
• Perform analysis on data sources
• Managed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) planning, documentation, tester training including UAT completion sign-off; resulting in reduction in UAT test cycle
• Work with IT, Business, development and testing teams to realize the overall business goal
• Handling REST Webservices, Cassandra, DB2, Kafka, Solr support activities
• Onsite/Offshore project management co-ordination

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Shared the facilitation of daily stand-up, retrospective, backlog grooming and iteration planning meetings.
• Conduct sprint review and retro meetings
• Allocating, organizing and assigning tasks. Delegation of tasks to appropriate personnel, conflict resolution within the project team, supervision of team, coaching and mentorship of team members
• Tracking and monitoring the project delivery efforts through Agile and SDLC software development life cycle methodologies
• Revised and wrote effective user stories in agile based on missing or new requirements established by project stakeholders utilizing the TFS tool
• Promote positive team culture and collaborations among business stakeholders, development, and deployment teams
• Product Management teams and leadership to improve product features and supportability of a product offering by identifying problems and suggesting and/or driving implementation of fixes and features
• Develop templates, metrics, reports, and tools to efficiently identify progress, issues, course corrections, goals, and success
• Proactively track and remove blockers as quickly as possible, mitigating risks as much as possible
• Conduct lessons-learned analyses regularly and suggest ways to overcome long standing obstacles
• Coach broader team members to understand/adopt scrum and the agile principles
• Handling IBM Cognos reports Business Intelligence development activities and Informatica ETL processes
• Qlikview and Tableau executive management dashboard development
• Handling Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle 11g and Teradata database support activities
• Handling .Net, sharepoint 2010, Apple IOS Ver 8.0 application development and integration activities
• Monitoring the Autosys, AS/400, Mainframes application processes and integration activities
• Microsoft TFS (Team Foundation Server) code maintenance
• Stored procedure development and utilizing Fiddler tools to effectively monitor application integrated Webservices components
• Overseeing the overall system development process from inception to user acceptance testing to post production release and support activities.
• Resource management, estimation and application Issue resolution
• Onsite/Offshore project management co-ordination
• Support the ongoing project activities and new enhancements initiatives

Confidential

BI Project Manager/ Senior Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Revised and wrote effective user stories in agile based on missing or new requirements established by project stakeholders utilizing the JIRA tool
• Translated business requirements into IT solution design (Functional Requirements Document) to drive a seamless future system
• Work with Informtica IDQ teams reviewing mapplets and sign off.
• Documenting Data Quality metrics/dimensions like Accuracy, completeness
• Working with teams on validating the Informatica Data Quality transformations like Address validator
• Developed Cognos Reports, updated gate decks, bubble charts per business requirements.
• Developed application page mockups and reviewed with business.
• Advise business on the implementation of portal development and redesign aspects.
• Interacted with the Business Clients, Product Owners, Directors of marketing division for clear exposure to trickle down the technical/functional User Requirements and assisting development activities in Sharepoint 2010 and Cognos reporting.
• Trained business users, resolved issues related to the post implementation activities of the projects
• Mockup report templates for user requirement gathering
• Interacted with business users to gather finance reporting requirements and lead the report building activity within a short duration of time.
• Analyzed data sources and writing effective SQL queries to feed cognos reports in Oracle data warehouse environment
• Understood the new environment setup, SLC activities and issues existing in the new project as a technical lead in a short duration of time and coordinated the activities of completely moving the code base with the issue fixes from old servers to new servers in all the environments (Development, QA and Production).
• Worked with business users, application vendors, database administration, Windows application, security teams to analyze the performance issues in the GFMS application.
• Coordinated and successfully configured the MQFTE agents on the new windows servers, AS/400, mainframes when the old FTE setup was obsolete, thereby moving all the jobs in the old environment with Autosys job scheduling.

BI Senior Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the Business Clients, Product Owners, Developers and Product Managers for clear exposure to trickle down the technical/functional User Requirements.
• Develop matrix to understand data analytics requirement across business functions like marketing, sales, finance, NDC, field personnel, manufacturing sites etc.,
• Preparing Functional Requirement Documents, updating requirements in RequisitePro.
• Create BOXIR2 report mockups.
• Involved in analyzing the existing SAP reports using the T-codes.
• Conduct final FD review meetings with all the stake holders and capture any additional requirements, change requirements.
• Participate in project deployment/release meeting.
• Responsible for the ETL build validation process on an ongoing basis
• Review source to target mappings
• Involved in existing BO 6.5/XIR2 report consolidation
• Assist team to write and execute SQL queries to validate actual results match expected data and compare report data.
• Review SQL scripts for Comparing data in different databases.
• Gather, analyze and conduct business user data analytic, reporting training requirements
• Involved in analyzing and consolidating the Salesforce feed, existing access databases to support the data warehousing initiatives.

Confidential

BI Senior Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the business users, product owners, developers & QA manager for clear exposure to trickle down the technical/functional user requirements & change requests to test plans and test scenarios.
• Participated in requirements, design, and release readiness review sessions.
• Participated in QA meetings, bug review meetings, Go/No-Go meetings & responsible for updating & verification of the project checklist during the Deployments/Releases.
• Responsible for the ETL SSIS build validation process on an ongoing basis and prepared test data for ETL(SSIS).
• Worked with the development team to create a suite of test data (both input files and expected results) that fully exercises data validation (detecting and rejecting bad data) and actual SSIS functionality (properly processing good data, i.e., transformations, calculations, and derivations)
• Developed and reviewed source to target mappings.
• Responsible for execution and validation of jobs in SQL Server 2008 ETL process of any additions / modifications to before release to production.
• Executed Packages jobs in SSIS and validated the results
• Wrote and executed SQL queries to validate actual test results match expected results.
• Wrote effective SQL queries, review and translate the meaning of the results.
• Developed SQL scripts for Functional and Regression Testing and SQL scripts for Comparing data in different databases on separate servers