SUMMARY

• Nearly 15 years of experience with illustrious scholastic portfolio depicting management, continuous learning & enriching knowledge to establish industry best academic standards
• Nearly 5 years of experience of Agile SDLC project management
• Experience in release/milestone management using Agile methodology.
• Holds in - depth understanding and knowledge in the areas of financial accounting, HRM, Management Accounting, Project Management, Entrepreneurship, Company Law, Commercial Law, Marketing and Business Management
• Strong problem solving & technical skills coupled with confident decision making for enabling effective solutions leading to high customer satisfaction and low operational costs.
• Agile SDLC project management.
• Instrumental in designing and implementing profitable projects for organization and its various divisions as project Manager.
• Proficient in overseeing smooth implementation of HR policies for manpower planning, recruitment, selection, induction, orientation & development of new employees in the organization through Career & Succession Planning
• Expertise in supervising operational planning and development, and directing the day-to-day administrative activities
• Demonstrated success in establishing and directing companies’ technical initiatives from its inception and experienced in spearheading the overall key techno-commercial operations
• Passionate and confident leader with logical, critical problem-solving capabilities with hands on approach and effective resource deployment
• Well organized with a track record that demonstrates self-motivation and initiative to achieve both corporate & personal goals

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Project management
• SDLC: Agile/Scrum/Jira, Waterfall
• Change management
• Release Management
• Team building & Mentoring
• Project plans budget & schedules
• Executive Project Status Reports
• Client relationship Management
• Requirements Management
• Risk Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: MS Project, JIRA-Horizon

Content Management System (CSM): SharePoint, Confluence

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA

OTS Software: MS Office Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Project Manager/Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Promote collaboration and transparency and communicate accurate and timely information to stakeholders.
• Delivered status reports to stakeholders for budgeting and planning purposes.
• Act as Scrum Master for assigned Scrum teams, facilitating all ceremonies, i.e. Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective.
• Ensure ceremonies are effective implemented and functionally productive.
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Ensure Development Teams are practicing core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility.
• Track SPRINT updates and Agile Artifacts in JIRA-Horizon.
• Created space and added folders for Agile documentation in Confluence
• Assist Product Teams with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
• Design and present technical reports, requirements documentation, status reports, project schedules, communication plans and presentations accurately and on-schedule.
• Proactively manage project scope, project schedule delivery, risk identification and mitigation, application dependency discovery, logistical support and resource/budgetary control.
• Liaison with Product Owner and developing teams and assist them in managing and grooming the product backlog (PBR).
• Lead a team of developers and BA for on time completion of the projects.
• Expert in supervising operational planning and development and directing the day-to-day administrative activities.
• Worked with higher management to understand and develop project charter.
• Served as the single point of contact for project scheduling and changes.
• Facilitation of the Change to MAPS support team by providing the reason for change or new code changes by using PARRS internal ticketing system for Audit trail.
• Maintain and uphold Change, Problem and Service Transition policies (PIR) and procedures.
• Leading the major incident review process and ensuring all related groups are involved in the process (PAPA internal ticketing).
• Expertise in the function of Release Management, implementation, and program delivery, across participating teams and geographies.
• Follow up with the DEV/UAT for the challenges/Risks/Mitigation towards the Major Release to keep the timelines intact.

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Various projects such as skill development with Govt. Of India and HRIDAY Project for Development of Interactive City Mobile App, Route development & City curation by on-ground research, Audio-Visual interactive presentation under HRIDAY.
• Served as Scum Master too and guided professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, and so on to help the team become a high-performance team.
• Empowered the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings.
• Removed obstacles for developers and testers.
• Used key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity) to help deliver committed work
• Managed sprint backlog items and tasks.
• Lead the team’s efforts towards continuous improvement.

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Identified strategic partnerships, built relationships and quickly drove to unmet customer needs, working to identify products and processes needed to meet those needs.
• Responsible for positioning and marketing of various educational packages in the various educational institutes.
• Brand establishment of the institute in diverse sectors of academics like insurance training, BPO’s and academic training for competitive examinations. A comprehensive promotional campaign was designed by me at regular intervals.
• Placement Consultation and Services in the whole of Punjab, thereby providing a conduit among the employers and employees.