SUMMARY:

• PROJECT MANAGEMENT|PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT | SERVICE DELIVERY | ACCELERATED ADOPTION
• Agile Transformation Consultant, with over 10 years expertise in Project & Program Management experience in managing software development projects, product development & accelerated adoption, to deliver business value, improve processes and maximize team potential as well as product quality and efficiency.
• Recognized Agile Evangelist in driving the transformation agenda within the organization and adopting an Agile Mindset.
• Implemented organization standards successfully to establish the lean principles and procedures tailored to Agile and DevOps models that saved time and increases production stability.
• Successfully guided multiple work - streams simultaneously through transition from Waterfall to Agile development approach within 6 months.
• Recognized Team Lead for providing strategic leadership on high-profile projects and in planning, designing, executing, automating, and reporting.
• Coached and mentored lean agile principles as a scrum master that resulted in a 20% increase in team's output put in less than 8 weeks (4 Iterations).
• Assisted with lowering project execution time by 25% for MedAsset’s PMO by streamlining procedures, implementing KPIs, and improving communication among various stakeholders.

SKILLS:

• Expertise in SDLC methodologies - Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and Kanban.
• Strong technical command of project management tools - Rally, TFS, JIRA/Confluence, Version One, MS Project, MS Office Suite, Salesforce
• Well versed in project version control and collaborating tools - SharePoint, Primavera P6
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams.
• Strategic Planning & Execution; Process Optimization and Change Management
• Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery Pipeline & Release Management
• End-to-End Planning, Governance, Cross-Functional Teams, Implementation and Requirements Gathering.
• EMR: Epic, Cerner, McKesson, Gateway, Allscripts

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Snr Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Scrum events for Standup, Planning, Backlog Refinement, Review and Retrospectives to plan, refine, improve process and keep track on all the issues and to remove the impediments & help resolve team conflicts.
• Setup JIRA project space with Scrum Boards to track all the issue types for different sprints - Epic, Story, subtask, Test case, and Bugs.
• Create Confluence space to maintain the project documents - Product Requirements, Stakeholder register, Meeting notes, Decision logs, Roaming items, Retrospective, and Task Report.
• Facilitate the estimation of work and efforts for “Story & Tasks” and helped the team to update their time against an original estimate in JIRA, to keep track on each story’s efforts.
• Liasing between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines.
• Served as a servant leader Scrum Master for Production Support team on an Enterprise
• Integration projects utilizing Kanban Methodology.
• Work closely with the Business/Product Owners and Users to understand the requirement, and guided the team to convert those requirements into a product backlog.
• Worked closely with the right personnel to remove impediment as indicated by my team.
• Serving as an Agile Coach and Mentor to teams on adoption and improving agile methods and practice and attend Scrum of Scrums, providing feedback to Agile Team.
• Support product owner and Scrum team to ensure the successful Data Mirgration lifecycle from source to target system.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Served as an IT Project management liaison to the business client, and performed hands-on analysis of the business and technical environments.
• Define and Deployment of PMO Strategies that align with overall business objectives for vendor management, to include process improvements, and customer relationship management (CRM).
• Responsible for definition, adoption and optimization of an agile framework, processes and practices.
• Monitored development progress through iterations to ensure project was within scope and budget.
• Identified potential project risks and helped developed a mitigation plan to resolve potential issues.
• Managed the insight and opinions of multiple stakeholders and helped to ensure all stakeholders agreed with the current scope and roadmap of the product.
• Ensure consistent, frequent and clear communication channel is established with all stakeholders by conducting weekly status meetings and fostering transparency to radiate the information.
• Asessed the Scrum maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to continously improve efficiency at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and managed team to ensure proper backup and roll out of Desktop/Servers and attained customer satisfaction.
• Maintained excellent communication regarding project/program status and priorities with sponsors, driving planning and tracking of tasks, schedule, resources and dependencies.
• Maximized productivity by setting clear expectations and communicating project status, issues and risks to internal stakeholders and top management.
• Worked with the Governance Manager to define standards and templates to be used on the contract and in the PMO.
• Managed all project stakeholders to make sure that appropriate project controls are instituted, and developed required documents, procurement documents and project status documents.
• Participated in change management process improvement initiatives as well as provide recommendations to improve/enhance existing procedures and controls.