SUMMARY:

• Continuous Improvement….Coaching….Empowerment
• IT consultant with 8+ years of experience.
• Served as Technical Product Owner for multiple teams.
• Experienced Scrum Master with a proven track record of delivering high - quality software, on-time and within budget.
• Detailed understanding of Agile-Scrum and Waterfall methodologies.
• Expertise using Version One and JIRA tool.
• Liaison between Product Owner and Sprint team
• Led Planning/Prioritization, daily stand-ups, Review and Retrospective sessions while working on agile teams.
• Worked with product owners to groom the backlog, sprint planning and removing impediments for the distributed team.
• Created burn down charts, helped shape up Epic and Releases for Product owner in addition to capacity planning for sprints.
• Expertise in creating various blueprinting deliverables which include business process document, process flowcharts, gap analysis document, functional and technical specification documents.
• Excellent experience writing functional validations, vendor and invoicing workflows, employee and supplier portals.
• Involved in strategy planning, process design, documentation, system configuration, application development, and testing, project management activities and d Confidential analysis.
• Detailed knowledge of ALM (Application Life Cycle Management).
• Led Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Agile Principals

Tasking Meetings/Retrospectives

Communication

Relative Estimation

Project Management

Story-Based Development

Iteration/Sprint Planning Meetings

Conflict Resolution

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Manager Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.
• Led the enhancements for Loan-Hub customer facing portal of Confidential .
• Co-ordinated the project for moving home loans API’s from XML gateway to Dev Exchange.
• Help design SPLUNK Dashboards.
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Coordinated project for Moving major home loan Application - Empower/OPUS from Win 2 Web.
• Help lead Blueprint Project in Confidential Mortgage as a pilot.
• Coordinated experience models deployment in Originations and help create road maps based on top customer problems.

Confidential

Systems Analyst/Certified Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Working on protecting development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Working closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.
• Involvement in planning and monitoring project budget/spending.
• Guided projects to completion on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Managing project scope to ensure delivery was compliant to scope commitment.
• Tracking and managing product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task break-down.
• Addressing problems through risk management and contingency planning.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams and the quality of deliverables.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of 33 major initiatives
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• New development and design of custom workflow for invoice approvals based on Winshuttle.
• Experience breaking EPIC into user stories for company procard enhancements.
• Working on various custom reports for GL team and Fixed Assets team.
• Working very closely with receivables team on BOBJ report for customer credit management.
• Extensive knowledge of working with Remedy Force, including creating test scripts, test cases and loading them in test plans
• Working directly with the end users, conducted various presentations and work around solutions to meet client specifications.

Confidential

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Experience with custom workflow for invoice documents based on DOA/vendor specific DOA.
• Experience with various invoice routing scenarios and workflows.
• Involve in business process design, analyze requirements and arrive at functional solution for critical issues. Design, develop and implement functional modules
• Perform unit, system, integration and regression testing through the project life cycle
• Analyze critical issues, remedy tickets, defects and provide solutions
• Extensively worked on various workflows related to vendor creation including One time vendors
• Experience with working on international vendors and Billing and Legal Matters of BNSF.
• Created new interfaces and worked with IDOCS.
• Created various functional validations for FI
• Extensive knowledge of working with HPQC and CHARM including creating test scripts, test cases and loading them in test plans
• Consistently worked to improve the processes and quality of our team's work by: implementing test-driven development, ensuring that software conformed to architectural standards and participating in design and implementation reviews.
• Collaborated closely with SMEs to identify and analyze core requirements and key features for call center operations projects. Facilitated user interviews and workshops to gather and analyze user stories.
• Coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives. Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts
• Planned and managed work activities of at least two software development/test teams (Web Portal, Dealer Onboarding) working closely in conjunction with business teams.

Confidential, Kansas

Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Company Code settings including maintaining Company code global parameters.
• Configured the settings for Outgoing Payments including Automatic Payment Program.
• Responsible for Configurations in Assets like, Copying Chart of Depreciation, made required settings for account determination, asset classes, screen layout rules, defining number ranges, valuation of assets in different depreciation areas, external asset acquisition, in-house asset acquisition, cross company code transfers, settings for depreciation runs, Asset Explorer, Settings for automatic account assignment ( FI-AA Integration). Supported in the area of Internal Order Settlement to Asset under Construction and respective asset (settlement profile, etc.) Configured Internal Order
• Support clients in the selection, implementation, and support of SAP FI module. This role uses consulting skills, business knowledge, and packaged solution expertise to effectively integrate packaged technology into the client’s business environment in order to achieve client expected business results.
• Involves consulting and requires business knowledge, and packaged solution expertise to effectively in corporate packaged technology into the client’s business environment in order to achieve client expected business outcome.
• Accounts Receivable / Accounts payable: configured manual incoming and outgoing payments, house banks, ranking order, bank accounts, check management, automatic payment program to meet the client specific requirements, worked on random partial payment through AP automatic payment program issue, recurring payments issues, defined terms of payment, tolerances for customers, performed mass changes of correspondent codes and dunning clerks, configured the credit management, running/editing dunning proposal and printing dunning notices.
• Technical: Expertise in ABAP/4 includes D Confidential Dictionary, ABAP Workbench writing Classical Reports, Interactive Reports, Interfaces, ALV, Dialog Programming (Dynpro, Screen Painter), SAP Scripts, Smart Forms, Bar code, Label Design, BDC Programs, LSMW, ABAP Query, OSS Notes, Debugging, Enhancements, User Exits,

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Modules: FI (G/L, AP, AR)

Responsibilities:

• Configured company codes, tolerance groups for employees, vendors, automatic payment program, and house banks.
• Configuration of Master d Confidential groups, Terms of Payment, Incoming Payments, Dunning, Interest Calculation, Open item clearing and Credit Management in Accounts Receivable
• Definition and Configuration of Accounts Groups, Terms of Payment, Automatic Payment Program, Open item clearing
• Configuration of House Banks, Bills of Exchange, Manual Bank Statement and Cash journal in Bank Accounting
• Configuration of Companies, Sub-groups, FS items in Legal Consolidation
• Running test scripts to ensure all the necessary configuration has been transported to the environment.
• Maintained non transportable configuration such as document number ranges and tax codes in client.
• Closely worked with the SD, MM teams for seamless integration of FI/CO with these modules.
• Documented the vital changes, performed the system tests and trained the members in the client team on new system functionality.
• Involved in writing Integration testing scripts as well as User acceptance testing scripts.
• Primarily involved in Configuring Settings for Controlling Areas.
• Responsible for gathering business requirements, participating in system design, configuring and testing existing system and providing post implementation support for enhancements to the current system.
• Experience with configuration, go-live and production support.
• System configuration in the areas of FI-GL transactions, configuring adjustment accounts for GL, AP, and New GL.
• Configured End to End AP module including the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program, Configured Withholding Taxes, Check Settings.
• Working on the whole flow of P2P (Procure to Pay) including the creation of the purchases order, good receipts, invoice receipt and outgoing payments.