PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Accomplished I.T. professional with over 10 years of experience and proven ability to achieve results in building the most useful/valuable software product for our customers from multiple industry verticals like Supply Chain/Logistics, Telecom, Automobile, Travel/Bankcard/Healthcare Insurance, and State Government agencies
• Passionate Project Manager, Scrum Master, Business Systems Analyst, and Requirements Engineer in delivering enterprise wide Agile and Waterfall IT solutions in arears such as Business Process Re - engineering/Automation/Infrastructure OR Network Migration & New Application Development Management
• Utilize lean thinking to improve organization flow so the value teams deliver is immediately by reinforcing healthy role boundaries both within the team and between the team
• Agilist working to increase agility within my organization.
• Experience with various methodologies including Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Waterfall leading full project life cycle and managing C-level executives and key business stakeholders
• Certified scrum master capable of effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading, and coaching multiple Scrum ceremonies and teams with proven ability to work with cross-functional and self-organizing teams by acting as a Servant Leader to Agile teams and to the organization
• Well versed with Scrum ceremonies and practices, removing impediments and self-management, while keeping teams focused on delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments
• Strengths in Relationship Building, Team Management, Product Delivery, and Collaboration with Business Partners/Vendors eliciting high-level business needs, unparalleled communication and persuasion skills
• Act as change agent, coach and trainer for development teams by introducing technical excellence practices driving continuous development and continuous improvement
• Expert in Requirements Elicitation techniques like Interviews, Brainstorming, Prototyping, Focus Groups, Use Case Design, Business Processes Flows, Multi Module System, Process Flows, Wireframes, Activity/Sequence Diagrams
• Deliver timely and high quality product within cost, time, scope and quality throughout application development lifecycle across numerous industries enables to provide
• Proficient in Gap and AS-IS/TO-Be Analysis in collaboration with project management team via prioritization of Product Backlogs and by negotiating on Minimum Value Product (MVP)
• Conduct Joint Application Development (JAD) and Joint Resource Planning (JRP) sessions with end-users/clients to gather business requirements and translating them to the development teams

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Requirements and Process Management Tools: - UML, Enterprise Architect, IBM Rational Rose, Rational Requite Pro/ (Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System) DOORS, IBM Rational JAZZ Requirement Manager

Project Management Tools: - MS Project, Office, SharePoint, Team Foundation Server, HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Design Tools: Snagit, MS Visio, IBM Rational JAZZ Design Manager, Business Process Modelling Notation (BPM using BPMN) and Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Methodologies: - SDLC, Agile, SWOT, Cost/Benefit Analysis, RACI, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban

Defect Tracking Tools: - HP Quality Centre, Atlassian JIRA, Rational ClearQuest, IBM Rational JAZZ Quality Manager, HP Quick Test Professional, Selenium

Other Tools: Rational ClearCase, IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD), WebSphere Application Server (WAS), WebSphere Registry and Repository (WSRR), IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WESB), People Admin (COTS), PeopleSoft, SAP, Confluence, Cognos, Google Big Query, Google Big Data Analytics, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Azure

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Agile Kanban Coach, Scrum Master/Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coaching leaders and teams through the Agile Kanban transformations and providing necessary training and references to enable the ideal management and team structures
• Facilitating Agile Kanban transition of Confidential major legacy mainframe applications (20+ people) from Waterfall to Agile Kanban as a Coach, while also acting as the Scrum Master of two mixed on/off shore teams
• Developing training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile transformation
• Communicating and presenting weekly updates to stakeholders, product owners and program managers
• Managing and reporting project sponsor and steering committee with the latest updates and project life cycle process using agile methodology
• Supporting transformation teams by developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices
• Assessing product value stream to identify areas that require improvements and measure product performance as well as value delivered to Transformation Teams

Environment: Agile, Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Office 2016 Suite

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Timely impediments resolutions with multiple business and tech verticals
• Arranging and leading end to end daily stand-up meetings, providing application suite demos, helping the teams in decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation processes
• Co-owning product backlogs creation for planning upcoming and ongoing sprint cycles
• Acting as safeguard/first point of contact for cross functional program and project teams

Environment: Agile Methodology, Microsoft Office 2016 Suite, JAMA, Google Cloud Platform, Google Big Query, Microsoft Power BI

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as a voice to project the expectations of customers on new or already existing products
• Highlighted product features in a manner clearly understandable to the development team
• Managed and developed product backlog, as well as user stories backlog for implementation
• Conducted backlog grooming meetings with a team of product owners
• Monitored the progress of product development, as well as plan for product release
• Provided status reports to update management and stakeholders on product development operations

Environment: Hybrid Waterfall/Agile, Microsoft Office 2016 Suite, Mainframe/Linux, Google Cloud Platform, Google Big Query, Google Big Data Analytics, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Azure

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Generated features/user stories with DoR (Definition of Ready) which will be leveraged as part of the migration
• Supported the product development process by facilitate project planning, scope and initiation analysis, conducting daily stand-up meetings/Scrum calls, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other activities as needed
• Drove Scrum meetings/ceremonies, track and communicate sprints developments per release standards, maintain process documentation, ensure development teams are practicing the Agile principles and work with Agile team environment to create process flow diagrams
• Supported Product Owners and assist with backlog maintenance, with internal and external communication, with improving transparency and radiating information, with prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs

Environment: Waterfall, Microsoft Office 2010 Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, SharePoint and Team Foundation Concert), Mainframe/Linux, Google Cloud Platform

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

Project Manager/Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed customer operations to understand requirements and determine opportunities to streamline processes
• Conducted daily stand up meetings with development and testing teams to estimate Level of Efforts for user stories and to track the progress of the progress of the project
• Worked with the design team in developing screen (UI/UX) mockups and application workflows
• Worked with the Product Owner and development team in deciding and negotiating the Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria for Potentially Shippable Product Increment (PSPI)
• Worked with cross-functional teams on prioritizing user stories and participate in grooming sessions to update on user story estimation and on project status

Environment: Agile/Scrum, Microsoft Office 2010Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio), My Confidential Mobile Application, JIRA

Confidential, Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Scrum Master/Sr. IT Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted user interviews, requirement gathering sessions with Customs Compliance Managers and elicited existing and intended business requirements
• Documented AS-IS and TO-BE business processes flows and furnished systems requirement document
• Designed screen (UI/UX) mockups and process flows in collaboration with business users and various stakeholders
• Facilitated Review and Approval of requirement artifacts and built Requirements Traceability Matrix to track system requirements against components developed and unit tested
• Identified key reports by collaborating with power users and IT teams to understand business logic behind each report, and identified all end users

Environment: JAVA/J2EE Scripts, Rich Faces, Microsoft Office 2010Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Access), Customs Application, Cognos