SUMMARY

• Certified PMP, PSM1 scrum master, project manager and software engineer with over 15 years of experience in various capacities, including project management, business analysis, vendor management, consulting and process improvement in the financial, retail and software industries.
• Strong background in implementation of business strategy spanning multiple business and technology teams with a track record of consistently delivering results that exceed senior management’s expectations.
• Seeking an opportunity to leverage my leadership abilities and experience to succeed and grow in a challenging role.
• Agile principals, Conflict resolution, iteration/sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews, demos and retrospect
• Leading and managing various internal and external stakeholders (business teams, technology teams and vendor management)
• Experience managing projects across globally distributed teams
• Business Analysis, requirements gathering and documentation
• Self - driven and results oriented resulting in high level of client satisfaction
• Problem solving with an analytical thought process and cross functional perspective
• Managing and tracking to project timeline and deliverables, escalating issues when required
• Understanding the audience and communicate/ deliver appropriately
• Excellent leadership, management and communication skills
• Keeping projects on track, maintain task lists, issue tracking
• Effectively lead meetings, provide status reports and communicate with senior management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master/ Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working with teams transitioning to Agile; managing the project as a hybrid of Agile and waterfall methodologies
• Backlog Grooming
• Manage and update backlog items
• Work with Product Owner to reprioritize backlog
• Sprint Planning, review and retrospectives;
• Define number and length of sprints based on SOW
• Divide user stories appropriately between defined sprints based on average velocity
• Adjust each sprint as necessary heading into a new sprint
• Project planning, schedule management, communication planning, project execution, change control management, documentation management, business acceptance testing planning and approval, deployment planning, Enablement and operational readiness planning and presentation to forum
• Regular status reporting and issue and risk management
• Coordinating activities between development group, business units, QA, performance delivery and vendor

Scrum Master/ Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed the project as a hybrid of Agile and waterfall methodologies
• Managed a development team including a designer, front end developer and .Net developer
• Project planning - Creating a timeline for the project and managing to it
• Stakeholder management - be the primary point of contact with the client, ensure their involvement as required, provide regular status and updates; Escalate items when necessary
• Project management, scope management and change management - Ensure tasks are being completed as per plan; identify when a change is a change to the scope of the project and initiate the change control process along with the proper approvals.
• Backlog Grooming
• Manage and update backlog items
• Work with Product Owner to reprioritize backlog between sprints
• Sprint Planning and retrospectives;
• Work with team to size user stories
• Define number and length of sprints based on SOW
• Divide user stories appropriately between defined sprints
• Adjust each sprint as necessary heading into a new sprint
• Quality management - Manage testing and validation on completed development

Scrum Master/ Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working as the primary contact between the business (Lenscrafters), technology services teams and the vendors
• Advising business leaders on challenges and help strategize solutions to meet goals and challenges
• Leading internal and external meetings across various geographic locations
• Coordinating the activities and deliverables of various workstreams such as Store design, Marketing, Communications, Analytics, Content Management, Learning, Procurement, Testing, System Support, and IT Services
• Creating and managing the project plan and tracking completion of tasks of the various workstreams
• Creating project dashboard, communication plan, risk log, post implementation lessons learned and other project documents
• Working as the Product Owner with the technology solutions and analytics vendors to make sure the application requirements are captured accurately and delivered accordingly
• Prioritizing vendor deliverables based on business needs
• Ensure project progresses on time and within budget; leading senior management meetings
• Working with the test lead to ensure the application is tested as per the plan, all major defects are addressed and meets client expectations

Scrum Master/ Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager with the Online PMO team
• Managed project associated with banks online website
• Managed activities of the design, development, and testing teams
• Worked with the vendor to ensure requirements were captured accurately
• Worked with the business unit to document and clarify requirements
• Managed the vendor activities and timeline
• Managed the overall project timeline and processes
• Regular status reporting to senior management