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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.

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