SUMMARY

• Overall 11+ years of successful IT experience in creating excellent project design and execution capabilities with focus on technology, business and process improvement solutions that generate strong return of investment.
• Certified Scrum Master with 7 years of experience in executing as well as expert knowledge of Agile - Scrum, Kanban methodologies and traditional Project Management principles and practices.
• Proven experience leading projects in an Agile environment as a scrum master for complex web development projects on financing and purchase credit lines of IBM business and Confidential .
• Provide proactive coaching to the team and recommend continuous improvement of processes and tools to optimize team productivity, quality and time-to-market
• Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture. Strong language skills, good Finance domain and business knowledge.
• Track record for collaborating with business and stakeholders and vendors and delivered highly successful projects.
• Articulated project goals and scope. Defined and initiated projects to manage cost, schedule, and quality, while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the program.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Tools: JIRA, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office, Rational Team concert, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Portfolio Manager, SharePoint, Planview, Confluence

Database: Oracle, DB2, MySQL, SQL Server 2008, QMF, SPUFI

Programming: EGL, PLI, COBOL, JCL, DB2, REXX, Lotus notes, VB, HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, VB Script, UML, J2EE

Web Development Tools: Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 / 2010 , Rational Business Developer, Rational Clear case

Operating Systems: MVS, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP

Processes: IBM’s QMS (Quality Management System) & OPAL Process

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate high complexity Agile initiatives from initiation through release, providing oversight to ensure alignment with Agile/Scrum practices, project kick-off, sprint, release and deployment planning in JIRA.
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.
• Continuously seek to improve team performance by promoting joint accountability for results and solving productivity issues
• Engage in and facilitate business analysis, user experience and technical conversations across platforms.
• Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI.
• Remove impediments to delivery success through the proactive management of external dependencies, complex problem-solving and the development of new solutions or approaches to ongoing challenges; has the authority to execute against new approaches and escalate issues through business and/or IT channels where necessary.
• Responsible for various project management activities viz., stakeholder management, test strategy preparation, project planning, risk management, project monitoring and controlling.
• Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goal.
• Embrace change, influence and coach team members with an agile mindset

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Meet with clients to take detailed ordering briefs and clarify specific requirements of each web development project.
• Delegate project tasks to team based on individual strengths, skill sets and experience levels.
• Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short- and long-term goals.
• Maintain issues and risks log, milestones updates and escalation of critical impacting items.
• Organized meetings with team, vendors, key stakeholders to re-assess project.
• Worked closely with cross functional teams, QA and Development to move projects to successful completion.
• Worked with Development teams to get 90% Level of effort (LOEs) to demonstrate ability to meet target timeline.
• Conducted weekly meeting with staff and specialized resources to resolve issues and mitigate risks.
• Track project progress, forecast, budget, dependencies, issues, risks timelines & decisions.
• Meet budgetary objectives and make adjustments to project constraints based on financial analysis.
• Develop comprehensive project plans to be shared with clients as well as other staff members.
• Use and continually develop leadership skills.
• Formulated and implemented a testing strategy without compromising quality to reduce the risk of missing schedule deadline.
• Create and manage project plan, schedule and processes from initiation to completion.

Confidential

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with end users to capture and analyze challenges to their workflow.
• Manage prioritization, resource planning as well as identify, assess and prepare contingency plan for risk factors.
• Managed and maintained scope in alignment with project budget and timeline.
• Provide key performance metrics to the Head of IT on the deliveries and benefits realization of change implementations
• Prioritizes work within an agile team and maintain a backlog of future work for consideration/prioritization
• Take responsibility for the development of ongoing enhancements, create and prioritize user stories with the agile teams.
• Monitored project progress and plan to ensure delivery was on schedule, budget, and technical output as well as other project deliverables are met.
• Own and drive backlog grooming and management, prioritize user stories, create acceptance criteria and drive testing and delivery
• Defining the road map and prioritizing the backlog of work to meet the vision in a timely manner to meet market and customer demands
• Work with Program Management and Battelle leadership to support new business
• Maximizing the work of the development team
• Manage all project finances by tracking hours and cost against budget on a weekly basis, project future expenditures and revenue, and manage project scope changes against budget.
• Handled multiple projects with up to 28 team members and budgets up to $1.5M for individual projects.

Confidential

Scrum Master/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise
• Worked with the product managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks
• Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%