SUMMARY

• An accomplished IT professional with 17+ years of referable expertise in managing projects with Iterative and incremental deliveries using Waterfall and Agile (Scrum, Scrum of Scrum, SAFe and Kanban) methodologies.
• Referable success in handling projects involving full Infrastructure upgrades for both UAT and Prod environments involving eight different teams spread across different geo locations.
• Part of Enterprise Release Management team supporting 16 Software releases with Budgeting, Activity/Task planning, Scheduling, Tracking, Checklists, Co - ordination, Migration Requirements, and Go-Live support
• 30% reduction in Data and Reporting incidents through performance tuning and improving database design
• Subject Matter Expert on Requirements, Enhancements, Design and Testing of ETL, Reports and Data analysis for Enterprise Dispute Management platform.
• Decision making Role for Evaluation and implementing/upgrading System architectural changes through new Software enhancements, for increased performance and reduced cost of ownership

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Core Strength: Waterfall, Scrum, Scrum of Scrum, SAFe and Kanban Methodologies, Release Management & Support, Quality Management and Control, Resources and Vendors Management, Risk Management & Security Compliance

Industry/ Market Segment: Payment Industry, Project Management, Infrastructure Upgrade, BI, Data Analytics

Programming Languages: Java, AEM 6.2, JSP, Python

Planning/ Collaboration Tools: JIRA, AGM, Confluence, Clarity, MS Project, WIKI, SharePoint, MS Office

ETL/ BI Tools/ Reporting: Tableau, Actuate, Cognos, Ab Initio, Erwin, Visio, Toad

Database/ Data warehouse: DB2, Teradata, Hadoop, Hive, Oracle, MS SQL, Sybase

Operating Systems: UNIX, LINUX, AIX, Windows, Mac

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Sunnyvale, CA

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple teams through Scrum ceremonies to accomplish Project deliveries.
• Successfully Delivered six business releases each with three sprints cycles.
• Managed 8 CR releases to UAT and Prod environment each with a week cycle
• Resource management as per Business and Client needs (Recruitment, Reviews)
• As Scrum Master, manage and facilitate Scrum ceremonies like Product Backlog, Sprit Backlog, Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Impediment review, CR Planning, and Review and Retro
• Manage InfoSec reported Security and Compliance issues with support from development team

Confidential - Collierville, TN

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Daily Stand-up calls with development team, Product Owner and Stakeholders
• Update list of Impediments from daily scrum, emails and meeting on daily basis
• Prepare, publish and maintain burn-down charts and Task board on daily basis
• Ensure the deliveries are Mobile and digital compliant along with Online implementation.
• Ensure all the end user UI screens are ADA compliant with validation results
• Onboard new team members with SAFe process and procedures
• Review User guides and business Author guides as part of delivery to Stakeholders.

Confidential

Project Manager/Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Drive and facilitate Backlog grooming, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Demo, Review and Retrospectives.
• Facilitate with the team to conduct Sprint planning with User stories, Story Points, Team Velocity and finalize target release dates.
• On-boarding of major Issuing Banks to Confidential INFINITE brand with SSO (Single Sign-on) + SAML 2.0 (Security Assertion Markup Language) authentication for cardholders.
• Co-ordination with Legal teams, Banks and Vendor to ensure all the UI content are within Confidential guidelines.
• As Release Manager, Plan, Initiate and execute Phase I release to US market.
• Prepare and maintain Kanban board (whiteboard and JIRA) with tasks, bugs, Incidents, Features and Enhancements.
• Responsible for reviewing and analyzing BI dashboards (Tableau) to provide weekly and monthly trends and projections.
• Drive Semi-Annual Spend Assessment of about 130 Issuers using Tableau dashboards to provide Interchange benefits.