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Scrum Master/agile Coach Resume

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Chicago, IL

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

  • 13+ years of experience in IT and software industry encompassing various domains
  • M.S. Information Technology from University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO, USA
  • CSM and SAFe certified scaled agilest with extensive 7+ years of work experience in Agile frame work as Agile Coach and Scrum Master
  • Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with 10+ years of experience in project management in various domains, managing multiple teams
  • Coaching Agile teams to implement Agile principles and guiding them on conducting Agileceremonies in effective ways
  • Involved in overall Agile transformation of client teams running traditional software development (Waterfall) frameworks
  • Lead and guided multiple teams developing desktop/Web Applications, mobile applications and cloud migrations (PCF, AWS)
  • At Program Increment level, conduct Program Increment Planning, building Program Boards, identify dependencies and risks, Leading Scrum of Scrums (SoS) and track PI progress
  • Profound experience in both business and IT functions of global Pharmaceutical, Banking, Financial and Insurance organizations.
  • IT industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill set, roles and industry verticals
  • Excellent document analysis and electronic content management skills with experience of SharePoint and Documentum environment
  • Substantial knowledge of Agile tools like CA technologies’ Rally, JIRA, Confluence in terms of managing product/sprint backlog, tracking releases, generating reports
  • Excellent knowledge of Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD), UML with emphasis on use case diagrams, state diagrams, sequence diagrams, activity diagrams and collaboration diagrams for a variety of application functionality designs using MS Visio
  • Profound experience of various Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) stages
  • Have good experience in working with new projects as well as maintenance projects in banking, finance, life sciences, health care, banking and finance domains
  • Team management experience in both Systems Administration and Software Engineering Project environments
  • Hands on experience writing SQL queries for Data analysis
  • Excellent Understanding and Application development skills using Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft SharePoint (MOSS 07/10), C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET
  • Good experience of working with source code controlling tools like Github, Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
  • Extensive experience in working with Relational Database Management Systems like SQL Server 2005/2000 and Microsoft Access
  • Individually contributed in software application analysis, development, testing and deployment
  • Conducted sessions for new recruits on integration/migration process and Agile Scrum framework
  • Well capable of independently handling the projects

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: C#, VB

Tool: & Packages: Rally, JIRA, Confluence, Zephyr, React, Cucumber, Jenkins, MS Office, MS Office Share Point Server 2007/2010, PL/SQL Developer, Github, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual SourceSafe, (VSS), Quest Toad, Delilah DQL editor, Bulk Import Tool (data migration), Slack, Jabber

Database Systems: SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle, Microsoft Access 2000.

Operating Systems: MS DOS, Windows 95/98/NT/XP

Web Technologies: ASP.NET 2.0/3.0/3.5, ASP, HTML

Web/Application Servers: IIS 6.0/5.0, SharePoint Server 2003/2007

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

  • Facilitate value stream mapping workshops for product and development teams
  • Conduct feature prioritization sessions
  • Conduct Program Increment (PI) planning
  • Lead team to migrate web logic applications to PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry)
  • Build Wealth Passport desktop and Mobile application requirements (Features, User Stories)
  • Write and execute JIRA SQL queries to generate reports (Team productivity, Feature and user story roc)
  • Conduct weekly cadence with Confidential VPs, Application Managers and Product leadership to discuss Project Status, Risks and Dependencies
  • Create work and resource estimation
  • Monitor software development work. Make sure software is delivered on time
  • Prepare product roadmap and timelines
  • Plan production releases
  • Coach teams on Agile Principles and methodologies

Environment: JIRA, Zephyr, ALM, TFS, MS SharePoint, MS Visio 2010, Android, iOS, MS Office 2010, J2EE, HTML, Java Scrip

Confidential, Riverwoods, IL

Scrum Master/ Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

  • At Enterprise level, conduct Program Increment Planning, building Program Boards, Leading Scrum of Scrums (SoS) and track PI progress
  • Coaching Agile teams to implement Agile and Lean principles
  • Guiding teams on conducting Agile ceremonies in effective ways
  • Along with traditional Agile conduct process improvement ceremonies like Structured Problem Solving and Continuous Improvement sessions
  • Facilitating daily huddle meetings to assess demand and capacity, team’s morale and work updates
  • Lead team to migrate web - sphere applications to AWS and PCF
  • Drive sprint grooming, planning, review meetings.
  • Practice newer and innovative techniques to conduct sprint retrospective
  • Coordinate with release team and enterprise system quality management team to make sure the environments are available for development and resolve conflicts with other development teams
  • Lead structured problem solving sessions at team and leadership level
  • Provide Sprint and Kanban reports and metrics with KPIs to leadership
  • Help leadership to implement SAFe agile principles from team level to Enterprise level
  • Facilitate feature prioritization meetings and collect Business values, Risk values from different stakeholders

Environment: Rally, ALM, Github, MS SharePoint, MS Visio 2010, MS Office 2010, J2EE, HTML, Java Script

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Scrum Master/ Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

  • Lead and guide 4 Scrum teams and drive sprint ceremonies (sprint planning, sprint estimation, sprint retrospective, scrum of scrums)
  • Help Agile teams to conduct workshops to gather requirements from business and document them in Confluence and JIRA
  • Coordinate with production support team to collect business issues, analyze them and add to product backlog
  • Lead and guide teams in Scrum of Scrums to identify risks and dependencies and resolve conflicts
  • Help leadership to implement SAFe agile principles from team level to Enterprise level
  • Facilitate feature prioritization meetings and collect Business values, Risk values from different stakeholders
  • Conduct daily stand-ups, story grooming sessions, sprint retrospectives
  • Identify risk, dependencies and remove impediments

Environment: JIRA, Confluence, MS Visio 2010, MS Office 2010, Microsoft Dot NET

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

  • Facilitate daily stand-up, sprint grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives
  • SQL writing of queries and extraction of data
  • Analysis of data and comparison of legacy system (Informatica) to new system (Reltio)
  • Documentation of meetings and following up on actions for the project
  • Liaison between business and technical teams on requirements of Reltio

Environment: Rally, Informatica, Reltio, SQL Server Developer, Toad, MS Office 2010

Confidential, New York, NY

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

  • Lead and guide 4 Scrum teams and drive sprint ceremonies (sprint planning, sprint estimation, sprint retrospective, scrum of scrums)
  • Guide Scrum team as Product Owner to create and prioritize sprint backlog, explain workflows and product details.
  • Extensively working on CA Rally tool to plan, moderate and track project work
  • Generate CA Rally reports for team velocity, sprint burn down chart and Program Increment progress
  • Work on UI functional development in Angular JS (include Java APIs integration) of Amex market leading lending application (This application is a game changer for Amex in banking and finance industry)
  • Lead and guide scrum team to finish the user stories and task in agile framework
  • Help leadership to implement SAFe agile principles from team level to Enterprise level
  • Play the role of Agile coach during Big Room Planning (BRP)
  • Build Program Increment(PI) plan to document activities and their owners
  • Facilitate and conduct brainstorming meetings to build comprehensive product and sprint backlog
  • Work with stakeholders from different teams (Risk, Servicing, Fraud, UI etc) to build Initiatives, Features and map them to user stories
  • Facilitate feature prioritization meetings and collect Business values, Risk values from different stakeholders
  • Drive offsite release plan, feature prioritization/ranking, product development all day sessions
  • Conduct daily stand-ups, story grooming sessions, sprint retrospectives
  • Identify risk, dependencies and remove impediments
  • Document omniture (product usage) requirements for product usage assessment

Environment: CA Rally, MS Visio 2010, MS Office 2010, Confluence, HipChat, Angular JS, Oracle 10g

Confidential, Waukegan, IL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

  • Server domain migration analysis and tracking the related activities
  • Coordinated daily Scrum Meetings (Agile methodology), sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective
  • Work with product owner to create user stories and compile application migration backlog
  • Use CA Rally tool to track and manage project deliverable
  • Track and coordinate application migration activities for 53 Business Administration applications with various technologies like .NET, SAS server, SAP, Data Warehousing etc.
  • Help product owner to create customer and user flows
  • Organize and prioritize user stories to create release backlog
  • Generate Excel reports for Data Centre Migration status reporting
  • Facilitate brainstorming meetings to application owners, DBAs and business administration leads to complete pre-migration activities (modernization, cloning, database migration)
  • Create and maintain centralized SharePoint repository for nine different business administration portfolios
  • Maintain migration and release backlog on Rally
  • Provide weekly reports to leadership on scrum team’s progress

Environment: MS Office 2010, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2013, MS Visio 2010, CA Rally, Jabber

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Backup system images, document system/equipment configurations. Update and maintain centralized repository (CMDB).
  • Created questionnaire templates to capture as much information needed and at the same time easily understood by the business users in order to avoid any confusions and provide clarity of the needful
  • Conducted interviews with key business owners to elicit, collect and manage disposition/migration requirements and business process flows
  • Develop and analyze Excel reports, submit them to management on regular basis
  • Develop Excel scripts to deliver mass email communication to business to collect the application information
  • Create, update and modify Oracle db with application related information

Environment: MS Office 2007, Oracle 9i, Toad for Oracle Xpert 9.5, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010, HP ServiceCenter 6.2.8

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Drive sprint ceremonies (planning, estimation, retrospective)
  • Lay out the migration strategy and approach for data transfer between different applications
  • Document migration plan, detailed design document and migration report
  • Setting up conferences, live meetings with key stakeholders to gather application metadata and convey the migration process (business verification)
  • Develop verification queries using PL/SQL developer to validate the dev/test deployment
  • Used strong verbal and written communication skills and analytical skills to perform tasks and interact with business users

Environment: Documentum system, Oracle 10i, PL/SQL developer, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010, MS Office tools

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager / Story Writer

Responsibilities:

  • Drive sprints, work with scrum master and product owner to plan and estimate sprint backlog
  • Manage and complete client archive (migration) request through dispatch, analysis & planning, testing and production execution stages
  • Assemble migration specification documents with source and target object models, mapping specification and retention code lookups
  • Set up collaboration and communication sessions with Business SMEs to explain migration execution and collect related information
  • Analysis and testing of migration tool DBIT (DLTS Bulk Import Tool). Migration execution using Bulldozer and DBIT
  • Prepare test and production deliverables and perform deployment
  • Document migration deviations
  • Conduct business verification conferences to demonstrate test DLTS (Documentum System) environment to business owners
  • Prepare process flow diagrams and slide decks for demonstration

Environment: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010, MS Office 2007, MS VISO 2007, DBIT, Delilah DQL editor

Confidential, Collegeville, PA

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Document process-flow diagrams and deliverable reports
  • Setup workflows to reach out business users/coordinators
  • Develop web application to provide better approach to get the disposition decision from the users
  • Handling and documenting GXP, legal hold &regulatory compliances data
  • Conducted interviews, workshops, group meetings with key business users to elicit, collect and manage disposition/migration requirements and business process flows
  • Generate and analyze Excel, MS Visio reports
  • Perform GAP analysis and project end report
  • Used strong verbal and written communication skills and analytical skills to perform tasks and interact with users, unstructured data team, execution team and all levels of management

Environment: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Team Foundation Server (TFS), MS Office 2007, MS VISO 2007, Visual Studio 2005, ASP.NET, C#

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

SharePoint, Dot Net Developer

Responsibilities:

  • Analysis of Client Requirements leading to the preparation of Systems requirements and design documents.
  • Development extensions in Template Selection Tool (TST) using dot net API with C# as back end support.
  • Creating and deploying Solution package and Templates in Test, Development, Stage and Production environments.
  • Spotfire Server development extensions (integration with SAP Portal Site) in coordination with TIBCO offshore development team.
  • Involved in different testing stages of the product through unit testing, system integration testing and UAT testing.
  • Providing development support to SharePoint Portal applications DocFlow, SAP.

Environment: Visual Studio 2005, C#, Subversion, Team Foundation Server (TFS), SourceForge, WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, ASP.NET, SharePoint Designer, InfoPath 2007, SQL Server 2005, XML, Nintex Workflow, Bamboo Calendar Control

Confidential

ASP.Net Developer

Responsibilities:

  • Worked on the requirement analysis and design of application project.
  • Used user controls and custom controls on the Web Forms with ASP.NET and C#.
  • Worked on the Integration of the existing ASP applications and .net application
  • Involved in the code review and refactoring.
  • Write stored procedures using PL/SQL.
  • Used ADO.NET for accessing Data.
  • Built Business Logic Components using C#.NET for Server side business flow validations
  • Maintained existing code and trouble shoot the application.
  • Implemented input validation using the ASP.NET input Validation Controls.
  • Implemented input validations using JavaScript.

Environment: ASP.NET 1.0, C#, ADO.NET, JavaScript, XML, SQL Server 2000, MS Visual Studio 2003, Visual Source Safe

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