SUMMARY:

• Over 16 years of experience in Information Technology.
• Extensively worked on Retail, Banking, Insurance, Logistics industries
• Domain knowledge: Retail, Banking and Financial services, Insurance
• Experienced in working as multiple roles such as Scrum Master/Project Manager
• Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings.
• Responsible for managing all aspects of the end to end release life cycle process
• Responsible for delivery of the entire lifecycle of the service/release of the application.
• Lead Scrum master for 1onsite team & 2 offshore teams in India.
• Experience in coordination across multiple Service Delivery Teams & Infrastructure Shared Service Teams across multiple locations.
• Conducted Release Readiness Reviews, Post implementation Reviews and successful deployment.
• Leads the transition activities to production support during the Warranty period. Reports to PM.
• Job would involve Program / Delivery Management - Project sizing and successful offshore transitions.
• Designed solutions for complex legacy data systems and Data mappings are identified for various legacy data sources
• Strong in designing the Staging databases and integrations databases and Data Conversion and migration solutions.
• Good experience in Requirement Study & Analysis, Effort Estimation, involved in reviewing QEA Test Strategy & reviewing the test planning, Test Plan, Test Case design and execution of Test cases along with Defect management.
• Experience of delivery of multi technology shared services middleware projects on integration services
• Direct project scoping, producing project definitions, providing schedules, critical dependencies across projects, resource planning, risk & issue monitoring / control, providing estimates (cost, time), project budgets, etc., ensuring compliance with the standards set for the project
• Aim at successfully delivering projects through effective program management to ensure all deliverables in terms of time, cost and quality are met
• Prepare & write proposals for customers, provide technical & pre-sales solutions, create business model diagrams, domain model diagrams and use case & sequence diagrams
• Attend meetings with potential clients to determine technical / business requirements and ensure all necessary information is collated prior to producing a solution
• Extensively involved in, production support, Design & Development of metadata management projects, including defining the metadata management architecture, managing the metadata project.
• Experience in handling Conceptual data modeling; logical and physical data modeling.
• Expertise in Situation analysis, Problem resolution and excellent Customer Satisfaction ratings.
• A strong team leader and motivator, fostering an atmosphere that encourages highly talented professionals to balance high-level skill with maximum productivity with exceptional planning, execution, negotiation and interpersonal skills.
• Work closely with the Management, Service teams and other business functions as well as customers to develop customer satisfying service solutions and sustain service leadership position in the industry
• Experience of working on incremental / iterative delivery and waterfall delivery of projects
• Experience in managing Agile projects,
• As part of Water Fall SDLC, worked on large / big bang deliveries and also on Incremental / Iterative SDLC with smaller Water Fall SDLC

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: JAVA/J2EE,JSP, Spring, Hibernate, Oracle PL SQL

Database: Oracle, SQL Server

Other Utilities Tools: AUTOSYS, Remedy, Service now

Current Location: Irving, Texas

Project Management: 8 Years

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Project Plan, JIRA

Project Methodology: Agile, Hybrid Waterfall

Estimation Skill: Function Point, Use case

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Texas, Irving

Responsibilities:

• Engagement delivery lead end to end delivery management, project management
• Risk Assessment / Management
• Work Planning & Staffing
• Sprint Planning/Scrum Master
• Resource Management
• Release Management
• Revenue management
• Build and implement projects with different waves covering analysis, design and deployment phases of the project with strict adherence to delivery methodology
• Experience of working on incremental / iterative delivery waterfall delivery of projects
• Focal Point of Contact for all client-related escalations; co-ordinate with customers to ensure all areas of concern are attended to / worked upon for improving service levels Developed road map and implementation plan for transitioning all technology projects in the domain area from legacy Waterfall to Agile methodology. Defined business flow processes and identified best-suited tools to execute specific projects in adopted agile methodology.
• Monitor progress and effectiveness of ongoing projects in addition to planning for future projects
• Direct project scoping, producing project definitions, providing schedules, critical dependencies across projects, resource planning, risk & issue monitoring / control, providing estimates (cost, time), project budgets, etc., ensuring compliance with the standards set for the project
• Experienced in budgeting / forecasting / IT - contract management (T&M, Managed outcome), Preparation of Monthly governance, SOW reviews, customer proposal engagements, Revenue management, Handling account revenue of $2M/months

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Agile scrum master with team size of 20+ team members across Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune offshore Location including Horizontal & Vertical resources,
• Work Planning & Staffing
• Sprint Planning/Scrum Master
• Resource Management
• Release Management
• Risk Assessment / Management
• Deployment plans, review with all project Stake holders for successful Go live

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Handled offshore team size of 20+ team members across Chennai, Kolkata, offshore Location including Horizontal & Vertical resources
• Providing Daily/Weekly meeting set up with Offshore/Onsite Synch up, involved in technical reviews with Customer and makes sure all the deliverables are delivered on time, Risk & Issue mitigation.
• Involved in preparation of Detailed cut over deployment plans, review with all project Stake holders for successful Go live
• Preparation of Weekly/Monthly Governance meeting with Customer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project manager handled offshore team size of 15+ team members across Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, offshore Location including Horizontal & Vertical resources
• Providing Daily/Weekly meeting set up with Offshore/Onsite Synch up, involved in technical reviews with Customer and makes sure all the deliverables are delivered on time, Risk & Issue mitigation.
• Involved in preparation of Detailed cut over deployment plans, review with all project Stake holders for successful Go live
• Preparation of Weekly/Monthly Governance meeting with Customer

Confidential

Responsibilities :

• Handling team size of 10+ & Technically leading the team on High Level Design, LLD & Development
• Customer expectation management, establishing SLA with the Customer and meeting those consistently, Providing statistical periodic reports to the customer
• Plan, Risks and Issues, Scope Management & Tracking
• Adapting a project execution structure and process
• Actively participating in creation (or facilitation) of specifications
• Establishing a Scope management process
• Actively participating in project sizing and resource requirements
• Handling project execution offshore & co ordinating with onsite/client
• Overseeing and ensuring validation on the technical architecture/specifications
• Technical Assistance to the team members for development activities
• Ensuring quality of the end deliverable
• Maintaining project costing metrics, comparing to proposal and taking necessary corrective actions
• Staging and executing User Acceptance of the end Deliverable

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Handled team size of 10+ & Technically leading the team on High Level Design, LLD & Development
• Responsible for requièrent gathering & high-level scoping of project
• Responsible for estimating, planning and scheduling the project
• Responsible for submitting a clear statement of work along with project plan including cost & schedule estimates for approval from customer
• Monitoring and tracking project schedule
• Work closely with stakeholders and updating them on project progress
• Creation of Project plan & Execution, Involved in User Stories Discussion.
• Working with Product Backlog owner for each Iteration.
• Project Monitoring and Tracking

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities :

• Involved in Project Estimation, Involved in Project Initiation, Requirements Gathering/Daily Status update with Client