SUMMARY:

• Punctilious and highly accomplished PMP and CSM Certified Scrum Master / Project Manager with 20 years of IT experience, with emphasis on 14 years of Project Management with capable of managing multiple, complex projects and programs in traditional and Agile Development Methodologies.
• Proven track record in IT management, Project and Program Management, PMO methodologies and processes, software delivery methodologies like Agile, SDLC; IT due diligence evaluation, system integration, Client Relationship management, Budgeting & Forecasting, Risk management, Change & Release Management, Pre - Sales activities like Bid Proposal, RFP, and SOW, SLA Management; worked in numerous industries i.e. Banking & Financial, Health Insurance, Retail, Telecom, Automotive and Logistics industries.
• Solutions focused, Customer centric, Proactive and industrious professional with an ability to work in both independent and collaborative work milieu
• Strong Project Management Leadership skill in defining program / project level strategy, Planning, Staffing, Risk & Issue management and Budgeting.
• Matrix Managed / Directed / mentored team of software developers, BA, Architects, Project Managers to plan, develop and build high-functioning systems that meet / exceed client’s expectations delivering capabilities on time and on budget.
• Solid experience of highly effective in planning, facilitating, executing, tracking and managing Agile Release Trains with limited budgets. Managed release trains with team size of 180 people.
• Solid experience transforming organization / teams from conventional waterfall to Scaled Agile framework.
• Effective in management of multiple priorities, and performs under pressure in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environments
• Enforce consistency and standardize processes across different teams and drive improvements in software development practices / processes within the teams and across the organization
• Experienced Solution Manager with a unique blend of Managerial and Technical skills backed by strong record of business development, people management and resource optimization.
• Experience in working with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Business Teams, Scrum Team members, Architects, Portfolio Managers and others to ensure the effective and efficient functioning of scrum teams.
• Developed Strategy for cloud/virtualization API/Rest API services migration and implementation best practice
• Experience in JIRA Align, Jira, Confluence, Version One, IBM RTC and Business Process Management (BPM) and Primavera for Enterprise Project Portfolio Management tool.
• Well experienced in Implementing BDD/ATDD/TDD techniques/process in scrum team
• Experience in Release Management for major and minor releases initiatives.
• Experienced in managing the Agile Software Release Process for multiple projects amongst geographically dispersed multiple agile teams
• Coach teams to apply scrum methods and train them to be self-organizing and self-managing thru meaningful use of Agile concepts like Backlog Refinement, User Story Value Mapping, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo, Sprint Retrospectives, Scrum of Scrums and daily stand-ups.
• Skilled at initiating, administering and executing across a portfolio of projects harmonizing technical needs with business realities
• Acknowledged for capacity to tackle challenging issues, analyze viable alternatives & provide innovative solutions.
• Experience in working as Kanban guru and executing project in Kanban methodology
• Practicing Agile SAFe to help the businesses continuously and more efficiently deliver value on a regular and predictable schedule
• Articulate communicator who can fluently speak the language of both people and technology, blending technical expertise with interpersonal skills while interacting with the cross-functional teams and customers .

SOFTWARE SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows, UNIX, Linux

Languages: C, C++, .NET, Java, Python, Mainframe, XML, Visual Basic, Perl MSOffice, ETL - SSIS.

Tools: Jira Align, Jira, Confluence, Version One, MS Project, ALM

Web Technologies: AWS,HTML, DHTML, ASP, VBScript, and JavaScript, SOAP

RDBMS: MangoDB, Oracle 11i, SQL Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Environment: Agile SAFe, Version One. JIRA, Jira Align, SCRUM, KANBAN, Java, J2EE, UNIX, Oracle SQL Developer, Ab Initio ETL, XML, JASON, GitHub, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services, Snowflake TSYS, IBM Mainframe, CI/CD Pipeline, Cucumber, Ruby, Eclipse, GitHub, Python

Sr. Agile Delivery Lead / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Act as a Facilitating leader to multiple scrum teams spread geographically them on effective use of scrum methods to deliver value.
• Facilitate various scrum ceremonies Release Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, Scrum of Scrums , Sprint Demos and Retrospectives.
• Participate in global scrum process reviews and best practices to provide and seek feedback on scrum methods across various teams in the organization.
• Implemented a visual dashboard for the scrum of scrums to make them more meaningful and simple to keep conversations focused on high priority issues and risks.
• Conducted retrospectives using different methods to effectively gather feedback and implement changes to address gaps and ensure that processes that work are followed.
• Manages day-to-day operational aspects of agile team, responsible for planning, tracking, and execution of projects/tasks to meet business needs in relation to priorities, budget, and schedule for agile delivery methodologies.
• Represents team at Scrum of Scrums to report progress and identify impediments and risks for escalation.
• Implement Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline process to bridge the gap between development and operations teams by automating the build, test and deployment of applications.

Confidential, Norfolk, Virginia

Environment : Confluence, JIRA. HIPAA, Java, SVN, Oracle SQL Developer, PostgreSQL

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Working as Scrum Team facilitator cum leader in of scrum methods to deliver value.
• Scheduling sprint planning sessions, working with product owners and delivery team to prioritize and groom stories for each sprint, as well as coordinate with component teams and other resources for dependent tasks.
• Attending PI planning/ Release planning (SAFe) involving multiple component team to plan for 6 sprints and aligned team objectives with strategic objectives, identify risk and dependencies and demonstrate progress using release and sprint burndown charts
• Hosts daily stand up meetings to monitor team backlog and track sprint delivery status.
• Facilitate various scrum ceremonies Release Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, Scrum of Scrums , Sprint Demos and Retrospectives.
• Used SharePoint to maintain all documents and collaborate with org standard.
• Participate in global scrum process reviews and best practices to provide and seek feedback on scrum methods across various teams in the organization.
• Implemented a visual dashboard for the scrum of scrums to make them more meaningful and simple to keep conversations focused on high priority issues and risks.
• Conducted retrospectives using different methods to effectively gather feedback and implement changes to address gaps and ensure that processes that work are followed.
• Manages day-to-day operational aspects of agile team, responsible for planning, tracking, and execution of projects/tasks to meet business needs in relation to priorities, budget, and schedule for agile delivery methodologies.
• Schedules/facilitates sprint planning sessions, working with product owners and delivery team to prioritize and groom stories for each sprint, as well as coordinate with component teams and other resources for dependent tasks.
• Member of Scrum Master Community of Practice that receives mentoring from agile coaches and provides coaching for other teammates by sharing best practices and lessons learned.

Confidential, Virginia

Environment : Confluence, JIRA, HIPAA, .Net, Java, SVN, Oracle SQL Developer, PostgreSQL, SOAP UI, Python, Bamboo, Teamcity, QA Complete, Test Complete.

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Working as Scrum Team facilitator cum leader in of scrum methods to deliver value.
• Scheduling sprint planning sessions, working with product owners and delivery team to prioritize and groom stories for each sprint, as well as coordinate with component teams and other resources for dependent tasks.
• Conducted Release planning in SAFe methodology involving multiple component team to plan for 6 sprints and aligned team objectives with strategic objectives, identify risk and dependencies and demonstrate progress using release and sprint burndown charts
• Hosts daily stand up S1 meetings to monitor team work and track sprint delivery status.
• Facilitate various scrum ceremonies Release Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, Scrum of Scrums (S2) , Sprint Demos and Retrospectives.
• Participate in global scrum process reviews and best practices to provide and seek feedback on scrum methods across various teams in the organization.
• Claims data been audited in regular intervals and prepare sales audit claims audit reports for leadership
• Member of Scrum Master Community of Practice that receives mentoring and provides coaching for other teammates by sharing best practices and lessons learned.
• Implemented a visual dashboard for the scrum of scrums to make them more meaningful and simple to keep conversations focused on high priority issues and risks.
• Conducted retrospectives using different methods to effectively gather feedback and implement changes to address gaps and ensure that processes that work are followed.
• Manages day-to-day operational aspects of agile team, responsible for planning, tracking, and execution of projects/tasks to meet business needs in relation to priorities, budget, and schedule for agile delivery methodologies.
• Schedules/facilitates sprint planning sessions, working with product owners and delivery team to prioritize and groom stories for each sprint, as well as coordinate with component teams and other resources for dependent tasks.
• Used Business Process Management tool BPM to track/provide metrics to business leaders.
• Manages pods which include support platform team infrastructure needs, as well as agile pod that deploys software enhancements on monthly basis.
• Member of Scrum Master Community of Practice that receives mentoring from agile coaches and provides coaching for other teammates by sharing best practices and lessons learned.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Environment: Java, J2EE, UNIX, Oracle SQL Developer, Ab Initio ETL, XML, ALM 11.5, ClarityVersion One. JIRA, Epi SERVER, RSA JASON, GitHub, Jenkins, AWS, Salesforce (SF), SaaS, TSYS, IBM, Messaging queue, SOAP UI, Cucumber, Ruby, Eclipse, Selenium, Maven, Eclipse, KANA

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Act as a Facilitating leader to multiple scrum teams spread geographically them on effective use of scrum methods to deliver value.
• Facilitate various scrum ceremonies Release Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, Scrum of Scrums , Sprint Demos and Retrospectives.
• Participate in global scrum process reviews and best practices to provide and seek feedback on scrum methods across various teams in the organization.
• Implemented a visual dashboard for the scrum of scrums to make them more meaningful and simple to keep conversations focused on high priority issues and risks.
• Conducted retrospectives using different methods to effectively gather feedback and implement changes to address gaps and ensure that processes that work are followed.
• Manages day-to-day operational aspects of agile team, responsible for planning, tracking, and execution of projects/tasks to meet business needs in relation to priorities, budget, and schedule for agile delivery methodologies.
• Represents team at Scrum of Scrums to report progress and identify impediments and risks for escalation.
• Conducted Release planning in SAFe methodology, involving multiple component team to plan for 5 sprints and aligned team objectives with strategic objectives, identify risk and dependencies and demonstrate progress using release and sprint burndown charts
• Schedules/facilitates sprint planning sessions, working with product owners and delivery team to prioritize and groom stories for each sprint, as well as coordinate with component teams and other resources for dependent tasks.
• Lead and In- charge for Datacenter work load Migration, API/Rest API services migration, new Cloud solution (AWS)
• Used Business Process Management tool BPM to track/provide metrics to business leaders
• Well Implemented Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) process to enable Agile Scrum team to deliver a potentially shippable product increment in every iteration.
• Hosts daily stand up meetings to monitor team backlog and track sprint delivery status.
• Manages pods which include support platform team infrastructure needs, as well as agile pod that deploys software enhancements on monthly basis.