SUMMARY

• 15+ years of Information Technology experience in the areas of Application Development and Product Customization.
• Experienced in Banking & Financial Services, Cards & Payments, Travel and Human Capital Management domains.
• Experienced in managing Full life - cycle application development as well as Cooperative development projects for implementing Next Generation solutions (including Responsive Web Design).
• Implemented SAFe Agile Model and helping to transform from Waterfall to Agile Environment.
• Proven PM track record, scoring 90% or greater in Customer Satisfaction Surveys.
• Managed large group of global resources, including Project Managers, Business Partners, Analysts, Tech Leads, Testers, Developers and Release Managers as part of project delivery at CMM Level 5.
• Very well versed with Organization internal tools & processes- SDLC2.0, Sarbanes Oxley (SOX).
• Demonstrated outstanding Leadership built 30+ resources in the team for the excellence in Project Delivery.
• Extremely Diligent, Process Driven, Result Oriented and Passionate Professional, striving for continuous improvement and excellence in project delivery.
• 7+ years of strong Technical experience in applying VB & ASP technologies and very good knowledge in Java & J2ee Technologies.
• SME (Subject Matter Expert) for key Digital Acquisition & Self-Service applications within Confidential and Confidential .

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON, XML, XSLT

Languages: VB, .Net, Java, J2EE

Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000, Linux

Databases: SQL/PLSQL, Oracle

Framework: Struts

Tools: SDLC, Rally, JIRA, Confluence, Share point, Tridion, WINSCP, Putty.

Web Servers: Apache Tomcat

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall models.

Version Control: SVN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Agile / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating Scrum of Scrum (SOS) with all the scrum masters and key stakeholder for all the scrum teams in the release train.
• Managing and updating Dependencies and Issue tracker in the confluence page.
• Facilitating the PI Session (MSP - Multi Sprint Planning) for every two sprints for multiple scrum teams.
• Preparing the Sprint Readout Dashboard and walkthrough with the management after every sprint
• Coach the team and monitor to make sure that teams are self-organized.
• Day to day coordination with product owners to manage the product backlog and prioritize the user stories to maximize value of project.
• Facilitating Pre & Post program Increment planning meetings, Inspect and Adapt, Innovation and Planning meetings, PI system and iteration demos, Roadmap and Release Review meetings for executing the projects in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE).
• Organizing and facilitating daily stand-up meetings, Sprint reviews, Retrospective Meetings and backlog grooming sessions for every sprint.

Confidential

Agile / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organizing and facilitating daily stand-up meetings, reviews, demos and other iteration related meetings.
• Tracking burn down charts to evaluate the day to day progress and remaining work for respective story points.
• Reviewing estimates (story points) and helping to size the stories for the Epics.
• Driving backlog grooming sessions with the Product/Feature owners, BAs and Development leads
• Helping product owners on backlog maintenance as needed
• Conducting Iteration Retrospective meetings to identify the gaps and developing improvement plans for next iterations
• Tracking and communicating team velocity and Iteration/Release progress to all stakeholders
• Conducting mid iteration reviews to resize the iterations based on the business priorities and available capacity.
• Closely working with the Program Portfolio Management, Business Executives, Product Management, Product Owners and other business stakeholders to assure the alignment of business goals.
• Coaching on managing the program dashboards to track the progress of releases, iterations, epics, stories, defects, change controls and workload of the teams and individual resources
• Participating in helping for conducting Pre & Post program Increment planning meetings, Inspect and Adapt, Innovation and Planning meetings, PI system and iteration demos, Roadmap and Release Review meetings for executing the projects in SAFE.
• Implementing SAFe Agile model and helping organizations transform from Waterfall to Enterprise Agile environment.

Confidential

Scrum Master & Tech PM

Responsibilities:

• Role of Scrum Master and Technical Project Manager.
• Engage all the teams that is required to implement the scope and deliver the requirement on time for the features which are owned by our Production Owner.
• Manage E2E Financials for any feature in the project.
• Ensure communication between all the teams.
• Work with Product Owner and Team to determine the best solution and timelines for delivery.
• Facilitate and involve in Story Grooming, Planning, Daily Scrum, Show & Tell and Retrospection for every sprint.

Confidential

Scrum Master & Tech PM

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated and involved in Story Grooming, Planning, Daily Scrum, Show & Tell and Retrospection.
• Keep Rally tool up-to-date with updated Product Backlog, Sprint & Release Burn down Chart.
• To provide update on daily scrum stand up meeting and to discuss the road blocks.
• Facilitate meetings for Story Point estimation, Story Prioritization and create release plan.
• Identify and Manage Risks and address issues.
• Track and Communicate Status to all stakeholders periodically.
• Empowered Team to Self-Organize and deliver.