Demand And Portfolio Management / Project Analyst Resume
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Louisville, KentuckY
SUMMARY
- A certified Scrum Master / Product Owner Business & IT Professional providing functional and technical assistance to high profile clients.
- Excellent problem solver who concentrates on increasing company efficiency and works well in team oriented environments.
- Adept skillset in MS Office and numerous SAP / IT Business platforms. Self - starting professional who keeps a daily log of all changes, tasks, and issues.
- Agile mindset, goal oriented, enjoys a challenge, with a passion for learning new things.
- Adept at facilitating Scrum Processes and conducting ceremonies (Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective)
- Proficiency in using issue tracking and agile management tools such as JIRA, to document user stories, conduct sprint planning, track sprint progress and monitor the teams statistics.
- Strong implementation knowledge of prioritizing (assisting product owner) well-groomed user stories by using techniques like MoSCoW.
- Enforced time boxing and facilitated estimation of user stories in Sprint Planning Sessions by using estimation techniques like Planning Poker, T-Shirt Sizing, and Relative Mass Valuation.
- Conducted User story writing workshop and emphasized the importance of INVEST criteria for each user story to the stakeholders who are new to scrum process and principles.
- Adept at being a servant leader and resolving different types of impediments faced by development teams.
- Organized product demo sessions for the internal and external stakeholders at the end of each sprint.
- Creative and aggressive self-starter attitude with integrative thinking skills, capable of forming and maintaining positive and productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- CSM (Certified Scrum Master) by Scrum Alliance
- CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) by Scrum Alliance
- JIRA, SeeNowDo and Smartsheet
- HPQC/HP Quality Center
- BlueworksLive
- SAP Solution Manager 7.2
- Workforce Performance Builder (Instant Producer, Producer, Manager)
- MS Office
- SharePoint
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Louisville, Kentucky
Demand and Portfolio Management / Project Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Demonstrated expertise at Agile practices on the portfolio levels.
- Created and maintained and organized backlog of features, epics, stories, and tasks in Azure and in Clarity tool
- Creating Budget Plans, Initial Cost Plans in Clarity tool for Home Operations/ Clinical and Healthcare teams
- Following up with the impacted business teams to get estimations after the weekly project introduction meetings and demand management meetings.
- Updating and maintaining document repositories for assigned projects in SharePoint
- Developing and maintaining excellent business relationship with all employees, contractors and vendors
- Closely working with the program manager and project managers to provide project management support
- Keeping track on quarterly project list and ensure that all the required estimations, Vison and Scope and HLAs are received.
- Acted as a main point of contact during the project release & deployment window to provide an update on the testing progress & blockers for the project go-live.
- Provided status to the leadership team on the weekly/monthly deliverables.
Confidential, Dalton, Georgia
PMO / Project Manager / Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- Keeping the team focused on daily and iteration goals; and helps achievement with respect to quality, flow and velocity
- Facilitating the team’s retrospective, and leading the team’s improvement efforts
- Facilitating all team meetings, including, but not limited to, the daily stand-up, Iteration Planning, Team Demo, and Iteration Retrospective
- Supporting the Product Owner with respect to priorities and scope
- Actively addressing impediments such as getting support from other teams when required.
- Promoting Agile quality practices so the team can meet its goals. Providing communication to other Agile teams.
- Leading an Agile development team that has implemented microservice architectures for web and application services using virtual instances, load balancing, automated surge capability, and integrated performance monitoring.
- Exhibiting Lean-Agile leadership and helping team members embrace Agile values, adopting and applying Agile Principles, and implementing Agile practices
- Keeping the team focused on daily and iteration goals; and helps achievement with respect to quality, flow and velocity
- Facilitating the team’s retrospective, and leading the team’s improvement efforts
- Facilitating all team meetings, including, but not limited to, the daily stand-up, Iteration Planning, Team Demo, and Iteration Retrospective
- Supporting the Product Owner with respect to priorities and scope
- Actively addressing impediments such as getting support from other teams when required.
- Promoting Agile quality practices so the team can meet its goals. Providing communication to other Agile teams.
- Leading an Agile development team that has implemented microservice architectures for web and application services using virtual instances, load balancing, automated surge capability, and integrated performance monitoring.
- Exhibiting Lean-Agile leadership and helping team members embrace Agile values, adopting and applying Agile Principles, and implementing Agile practices
- Keeping the team focused on daily and iteration goals; and helps achievement with respect to quality, flow and velocity
- Facilitating the team’s retrospective, and leading the team’s improvement efforts
- Facilitating all team meetings, including, but not limited to, the daily stand-up, Iteration Planning, Team Demo, and Iteration Retrospective
- Supporting the Product Owner with respect to priorities and scope
- Actively addressing impediments such as getting support from other teams when required.
- Promoting Agile quality practices so the team can meet its goals. Providing communication to other Agile teams.
- Leading an Agile development team that has implemented microservice architectures for web and application services using virtual instances, load balancing, automated surge capability, and integrated performance monitoring.
- Supported the Project Directors with respect to priorities and scope
- Actively addressed impediments such as getting support from other teams when required.
- Presented statistical reports / progress metrics to executives every end of the day using Excel pivot tables and formulas
- Kept the team focused on daily and iteration goals; and helped achievement with respect to quality, flow and velocity
- Promoted Agile quality practices so the team can meet its goals. Provided communication to other Agile teams.
- Substituted as interim Senior Project Manager when needed, managed reporting tools.
- Provided ongoing facilitation and coaching that enables teams to excel at Agile development
- Managed sprint velocity-related metrics
- Promoted joint accountability for results and solving productivity issues.
- Communicate impediments and facilitate resolutions in a timely manner.
- Effectively track team's progress, including burn down, velocity and release forecasting and displaying all the information radiators to the team in JIRA dashboards.
- Contribute to product roadmap planning, project scheduling and release management.
Confidential, Louisiana
SAP Specialist / PMO Support / Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- Reviewed processes, design documents to gather data and an overall understanding of the scope of the project
- Analyzed and reviewed Functional Requirements Specification (FRS), System Change Request (SCR)
- Performed Functional Unit Testing using HPQC
- Develop test cases, Identified issues/defects and Executed test cases
- Provided review, pre-approval and post approval for System Testing (ST) and Validation Testing Protocol (VTP) test script executions.
- Followed compliance processes and procedures to ensure that accurate tests are conducted and documented.
- Managed requirements traceability information and tracked requirements status throughout the project.
- Followed deliverables and any upcoming “must-do’s” (i.e. Client’s Policies, sequential order, documentation, Risk/Impacts) and worked closely with Project Manager to stay on target for the Project Timeline
Confidential
Project Management Support / Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- Ran key agile ceremonies, e.g., daily huddles, backlog grooming, sprint planning and sprint retros to actively manage risks and external dependencies
- Assisted in the development of version 1610 Business Process Procedures (BPP - all levels) in Workforce Performance Builder.
- Organized, recorded, edited, and performed functional reviews of processes across SAP Functional Streams: OTC, PTP, PTM, and RTR.
- Supported EPL jump start team for SAP implementations, Tools and Methodology
- Created Confidential ’s Business Process Hierarchies within Solution Manager 7.2
- Assisted in SAP Solution Manager/ChaRM (Change Request Management)
Confidential, Houston, Texas
Business Consultant / Project Management Support
Responsibilities:
- Maintained project and inter-project resource plans: maintain project budget. Tackled team challenges.
- Performed GAP analysis to determine if business requirements are being met.
- Performed as Business Development tasks by conducting meetings / negotiations with Clients.
- Managed Data using relational database concepts and reporting.