SUMMARY:

• Value - driven Agile Evangelist with experience leading cross-functional teams to plan, build, launch and manage world-class IT systems. Blend of technology skills with extensive Scaled Agile experience, and analytical abilities to evolve product strategy and deliver value.
• Skilled relationship manager proactively applies agile principles to complex and multidisciplinary opportunities to deliver high-impact results.
• Lean Portfolio Management Program Management Agile/Scrum Adoption
• Scaled Agile Framework Product Roadmap Release Train Engineer
• Risk Management Servant Leadership Stakeholder Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Consultant - Release Train Engineer / Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Coached at all organization levels to drive consistent Agile practices and enhance business value delivery and responsiveness to marketplace opportunities
• Piloted the ‘Solution-Area’ concept, modeled in conjunction with ScaledAgile.com
• Evangelized Lean Portfolio Management to optimize the flow of Epics and Features
• Facilitated Value-Stream mapping to better organize ARTs and reduce dependencies
• Drove adoption of performance and delivery metrics to identify areas of opportunity. Provided insights for agile project finance and boost agile adoption
• Facilitated and coordinated all ART level ceremonies - PI Planning, I&A workshops, System demos, PMT meetings, Arch Sync etc.
• Assumed a Solution Train Engineer role managing ‘Blue-chip’ opportunities across ARTs. Aligned business and technical stakeholders to address risks and dependencies, and expectations
• Guide and mentor Scrum Masters to help coach teams to maturity, alleviate team’s impediments, address cultural and technical issues.
• Successfully managed stakeholder relationships, addressed communication gaps and aligned realistic expectations
• Administer and set-up Jira tools/add-on for agile metrics reporting
• Help configure and implement Jira-Align to provide portfolio visibility across all levels of the organization

Methodology and Frameworks: Scaled Agile, Scrum, Kanban

Environment: and Tools: JIRA, Jira Align, Service Now, Power BI, Asana

Confidential

Consultant - Sr. Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Led agile transformation of multiple product teams from waterfall to agile methodology
• Train and mentor teams with little to no agile experience. Introduced and coordinated scrum related rituals and ceremonies.
• Coaching up on lean portfolio management - provided insights for agile project finance and boost agile adoption
• Guide and mentor other Project managers and Scrum Masters - regarded as SME for agile transformation
• Successfully managed vendor relationship, addressed communication gaps and aligned realistic expectations
• Alleviated team’s impediments and address cultural and technical issues. Empowered team decision making, and increased communication
• Administer and set-up Jira instances for agile project management
• Help PMO establish agile governance processes - identified criteria for compliance
• Help evaluate CMS and MDM systems for acquisition by eCommerce team

Methodology and Frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, Stage-Gate

Environment: and Tools: JIRA, Service Now, Google Analytics, Tableau, Salesforce, Power BI, PlanView

Confidential

Consultant - Sr. Scrum Master / Release Train Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Multimethodology Cross-functional project managing responsibility across multiple teams and project schedules
• Facilitated adoption of Scaled Agile Framework, coordinated SAFe related rituals and ceremonies (Scrum of Scrums, PI Planning, etc.)
• Coached teams to adopt Test Driven Development techniques (TDD/ATDD)
• Helped team attain operational efficiency and transparency by introducing and setting up the Kanban process
• Established smooth Sprint cadence by collaborating with product owners and facilitating product backlog grooming
• Standardized Reporting on Project status and deliverables. Created scrum artifacts such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burndown, and Release Burndown
• Managed multiple large and globally dispersed teams (US, India & Northern Ireland)
• Encouraged Agile transformation and Continuous Improvement by conducting Daily Scrum, Sprint planning and Sprint retrospectives.
• Alleviated team’s impediments and address cultural and technical issues. Escalating as needed
• Empowered team decision making, optimized team structure and increased communication

Methodology and Frameworks: Scaled Agile (SAFe), Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall

Environment: and Tools: JIRA, MS-Project, Version One, JENKINS, .Net, HP-QC, Octopus

Confidential

Consultant - RTE / Scrum Master / Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assumed functional RTE role to manage multiple teams, project schedules and coordinate cross-application dependencies
• Increased 3X sprint velocity by empowering team decision making, optimizing team structure and increasing communication
• Managed large and globally dispersed teams (US, India & Philippines)
• Streamlined Program Increment Planning by coordinated SAFe related rituals and ceremonies (Scrum of Scrums, PI Planning, etc.)
• Standardized Reporting on Project status and deliverables. Created scrum artifacts such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burndown, and Release Burndown
• Empowered teams - Manage and improved the cross-functional team
• Encouraged Agile transformation and Continuous Improvement by conducting Daily Scrum, Sprint planning and Sprint retrospectives.
• Established smooth Sprint and PI cadence by collaborating with product owners and facilitating product backlog grooming
• Alleviated team’s impediments and address cultural and technical issues. Escalating as and when needed

Methodology and Frameworks: Scaled Agile (SAFe), Scrum, Waterfall

Environment: and Tools: CA Agile - Rally, JENKINS, Java, HP-ALM, Clarity

Confidential

Consultant - Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Transfer projects from Waterfall to Scrum are major responsibility
• Implemented Scaled Agile Framework - Coordinated SAFe related rituals and ceremonies (Scrum of Scrum, Big Room Planning, Feature Squad, etc.)
• Coached agile mindset and empowered teams. Conducted Daily Scrum, Sprint planning and Sprint retrospectives.
• Managed project progress reporting and created scrum artifacts such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burndown, and Release Burndown
• Prepared requirements traceability matrix, Functional, Technical Specifications documents.
• Performed Gap Analysis, System Testing, Provided UAT support and Conducted peer Review.
• Managed and improved the cross-functional team
• Worked with Product Owner and Scrum team to groom Product Backlog
• Alleviated team’s impediments and address cultural and technical issues

Methodology and Frameworks: Scaled Agile (SAFe), Scrum, Waterfall

Environment: and Tools: Rally, JENKINS, Java, HP-ALM, Open Shift Enterprise (OSE)

Confidential

Consultant - Project Manager / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed transformation from Waterfall to Agile leveraging Scrum.
• Improved velocity by implementing Agile best practices including continuous integration, spiking, technical debt reduction, test automation and retrospective
• Helped coordinate SAFe related rituals and ceremonies (Scrum of Scrum, Sprint-0 Planning, Feature Squad, etc.)
• Conducted daily stand ups, release planning sessions, retrospective meetings
• Published progress reports such as sprint burn-down, velocity reporting and release burn-down
• Managed overall project budget and resources
• Provided management updates to leadership of transformation progress related to Sprint and release

Methodology and Frameworks: Scaled Agile (SAFe), Scrum, Waterfall

Environment: and Tools: JIRA, iOS, Android OS, MEGA, CICS, JCL, ETL, TFS

Confidential

Consultant - Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Performed project planning, scope definition and performed requirement analysis
• Facilitated JAD session, System study and Business Analysis.
• Prepared Functional, Technical Specifications documents and Batch support.
• Led the Development Effort, Performed System Testing and Provided UAT support.
• Participated in Project Planning, scoping and performed metrics reporting.
• Involved in design and implementing code for business layer.
• Created UML Diagrams like class diagrams and Sequence diagrams based on use cases
• Prepared requirements traceability matrix, Performed Risk Identification and Risk Controlling
• Created scrum artifacts such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burndown, and Release Burndown

Methodology and Frameworks: Scrum, Waterfall

Environment: and Tools: JENKINS, VSAM, CICS, Endevor, MS Project, Visio

Confidential

Consultant - Business Analyst (Scrum team)

Responsibilities:

• Elicited business analysis and review of product requirements.
• Prepared High level design (HLD) and managed Product Backlog items.
• Facilitated Coding, unit testing and Prepared test Artifacts.
• Performed Integration Testing and Provided User Acceptance Testing Support.
• Prepared and maintained the weekly status report
• Writing procedures as per the requirements.