SUMMARY

• Vital Management professional with over 10 years of extensive experience in SDLC, project implementation, deployment & roll - out management, delivering high-performance leadership and process.
• Accomplished Agile practitioner with expertise in SCRUM, Kanban and XP.
• Certified Scrum Master and accomplished servant leader capable of projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching scrum teams.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, product Backlog management, daily scrum, Sprint review and retrospective.
• Utilized metrics such as burn-down, burn-up & velocity charts in the sprint summary report,
• Focused on building high-performing teams, support organization structure, optimization and communication alignment to increase development velocity and quality toward business-driven goals.
• Effectively deliver projects utilizing the Agile (Scrum) methodologies.
• Assisted product owner with backlog creation, team with sprint backlog creation and grooming.
• Proficiency in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies like Waterfall, Agile that includes feasibility analysis, requirements gathering, and testing.
• Conducted training for the team to write user stories and prioritize the work based on business
• Ensuring issues (Epic, Stories and Tasks) are entered or updated timely in Jira.
• Proven ability to work in team-environment as well as independently.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Skills: Business Process Analysis, Requirement Gathering, Use Case Model, JAD/JRP Sessions, Gap analysis & Impact Analysis, User Stories, Scrum ceremonies

Methodology: SAFe, Scrum, Kanban and Waterfall

Operating Systems: Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10

Browsers: Internet Explorer 10 and 11. Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Safari and Firefox

Management Tools: Jira, Version one, Rally, Confluence, MTM, TFS, Azure DevOps (VSTS)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with product owner to prioritize and groom user Stories in the Product Backlog in preparation of the sprint planning.
• Coached scrum teams on how to scale agile to enterprise level; team to program and portfolio levels using Scaled Agile Framework.
• Worked with development team to decompose the User Stories into tasks and assign hours to the tasks.
• Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinements for 2-week sprint cycles emphasizing on continual improvement.
• Ensures the team is practicing the core agile principles of self-direction, collaboration, business prioritization, team accountability, and transparency, toward the consistent delivery of working product.
• Facilitated weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated and 'ready-for-work' per the product owner’s priorities.
• Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
• Worked closely with Product Owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features to ensure that development team efforts on sprint backlogs are of maximum value to stakeholders.
• Leveraged Burn-down and team velocity charts to improve backlog estimates and product plans resulted in improved estimations.
• Applied creative techniques in scrum ceremonies to coach development teams transitioning to scrum in understanding and practicing agility resulted in increased team performance and overall product quality.
• Maintained Project documentation and reported project progress to management weekly through status reports.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the Agile principles.
• Provided internal and external communications to improve transparency.
• Participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
• Empowered the team to self-organize and self-manage.
• Successfully migrated projects from Waterfall to Scrum.
• Tracked & report on milestones, identified risk/issues & dependencies, facilitated communication among team members.
• Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders.
• Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Followed Agile Scrum Methodology
• Interacted with Stakeholders, SMEs from different business units to gather their concerns and suggestions
• Supervised technical resources on the project.
• Provided leadership and guidance as subject matter experts to onsite and offshore personnel.
• Facilitated release planning, Agile estimation (story points), Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review and Retrospective meetings to track progress, eliminate impediments and setting goals.
• Meet with the project sponsors, management and key stakeholders to provide them a status of the project. Identify all issues/challenges on the project. Maintain an Issues log and actions taken to resolve them.
• I helped and mentored other Scrum teams in executing Agile Scrum framework for their projects.
• Coordinating with Product Owner to prioritize requirements / Product backlog based on Delivery schedule, Business Value based on ROI calculation.
• Forming/ motivating the team, empowering them and ensuring that they are self-organized.
• Organized and facilitated meetings with the product owners, SME and the development team, and carried requirements gathering sessions with the purpose of defining the functional, business and system requirements.

Project Manager

Confidential, Bedford, IL

Responsibilities:

• Lead the agile projects from product backlog creation, planning and release deployment
• Deliver projects on ecommerce and Java/Spring platforms
• Manage release plans, iteration (sprint) plans, budgets and forecasts
• Host daily scrum meeting and resource utilization throughout the scrum team
• Guide and coach the team on Agile framework discipline
• Partner with product owners and user experience architects to ensure that we are developing the best solutions for our customers
• Utilized Jira tool to manage backlogs, sprint task boards, burn-down charts, release plans, and resource capacity plans.
• Manage risks, identify issues and mitigation activities
• Leads Agile best practices adoption including executing sprint retrospectives
• Monitors, reviews and maintains the sprint backlogs and project backlogs in coordination with project stakeholders
• Facilitate planning poker sessions for user story estimation
• Ensure timely and accurate communication and distribution of project information
• Generate project reports - velocity, committed versus complete, risks, issues, and burn down charts
• Effectively directed both the internal and external resources to achieve business solutions within project guidelines
• Transformation from Project management activities like status monthly review report, Utilization tracker, WIP timesheet to Agile Scrum methods of working ways like usage of JIRA tool.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Flawlessly managed projects budgeted between $1-2M and supported either health care reform, corporate financial business needs, or health plans and workers' compensation provider requirements.
• Successfully executed program management role to install and test 50+ applications on several new servers.
• Led complex projects requiring new and/or modified: applications, data warehouse, system interfaces, reports, backend database changes, queries, scheduled job runs, and security and user access.
• Successfully led large-scale program and project management efforts within a matrix environment forming cross functional project teams of 20-60 employee, contractor, and vendor team members with roles such as: sponsor, business partner, application manager, project manager, software architect, data architect, software developer, technical business analyst, quality assurance tester, uat tester, infrastructure engineer, risk management, security specialist, and production support.
• Led all phases of projects from initiation through closure while keeping the project within approved budget and schedule, and ensure projects are completed according to approved plan.
• Maintained project financial and project profitability, to include resource scheduling, revenue forecasting per project, billing reconciliations, expense report and time approval for project work.
• Monitored project deliverables and progress through continuous communication with project members.