SUMMARY:

• A keen strategist, planner and implementer, with over 15+ years of rich and insightful experience as an Agile Project Manager, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Senior Business Analyst, for multiple engagements involving complex architecture, data model, business logic and user experience.
• Proven experience managing complex IT projects and Infrastructure projects through full Project Management Life Cycle, coaching and mentoring on SDLC using Water fall, V, Agile, ASAP methodologies.
• Expertise in big data business concepts. Managed big data - advanced technology stream
• Experience in Guidewire Configuration/Integration for Guidewire PolicyCenter, Guidewire ClaimCenter, Guidewire Billing Center and Guidewire Studio
• Tracking record of on-time, on-budget completion of projects dat satisfy all stakeholder requirements.
• Expertise in establishing and manage Scrum Team governance framework.
• Experienced professional in establishing the sprint schedule, ceremonies, evaluate and introduce sprint execution velocity and lead/coordinate sprint and release schedule, facilitate the scrum process which is backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives. Ensure active, bi-directional, consistent communication within and across teams as well as key stakeholders.For the improvements received from retrospection, work with team and relevant stakeholders to prioritize, come up with an action plan and follow up. Facilitate scrum of scrums.
• Ensure sprint schedules and reviews are posted centrally for cross-team visibility
• Coordinates the scrum Team’s capacity planning with the respective application delivery and tech teams
• Ensure adherence to standard process, use of tools, established project delivery standards
• Identify and implement process improvements, onboarding, reporting improvements and training as required across Scrum teams
• Coordinate evaluation of scope change, estimates, priority and trade-offs with Business and Product Owners and communicate to all stakeholders
• Ensure daily team status reporting is complete with actionable steps planned/taken to address issues/risks. Make sure dat scrum teams, tech team and PMO are aware of project and scrum team milestones. Collaborate with Dev., QA, XLOB scrum teams, production support team to achieve established Sprint goals. Monitor or Track ALM entries for resolution/closure.
• Status reporting to the stake holders on daily, weekly and monthly basis with metrics/KPI’s, issues, risks, dependencies and action items. Proactively identify and remove the issues. Interact with upstream, downstream systems to resolve the dependencies. Focus on continuous improvements. Guide the scrum team for effectively adopt the scrum process. Monitor the team progress frequently.
• Helping the team to get rid of external and internal impediments. Mediating through conflicts Collaborate with delivery and product owner teams to ensure project backlog is groomed, prioritized and maintained
• Ensuring Scrum teams follow JIRA workflows and processes in order to complete stories committed in a sprint. Creating ITSMs to support the deployments to ITE and Prod following it to approvals completion
• Proactively work with required teams for environment readiness needed for the project completion
• Focus towards continuous improvement, lessons learnt and best practice to PMO.
• Experience with making presentations for business teams and customers to provide a detail, analytical and convincing plan to meet customer needs.
• Proficient in identifying the resource, building, guiding, coaching the scrum teams, release and velocity planning. Review legacy architecture and make recommendations.
• Implementing process for requirements, development, architecture implementation and UAT.

KEY AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Scrum Master
• Agile project Manager
• Agile Transformation
• Release & Change Mgmt.
• Resource Management
• Business Analyst
• Quality control
• Quality Assurance
• Guidewire Policy Center
• Guidewire Studio
• Guidewire Claim Center
• Guidewire Billing Center
• Risk Management
• Vendor Management
• Budget & Expense Management
• Negotiation
• Strategic Planning & Implementation
• Workflow process Analysis
• C,C++, R, Java / J2EE, GOSU, .Net, VB,MUMPS, ABAP, JavaScript
• SAP BW 7.3, SAS, MS BI
• BO 4.x, Informatica, BODS
• HANA, Terra data, Oracle, DB2
• NodeJS, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Spring, AJAX, & JSON
• MVC, Meven, Jenkins, Docker, MS Build, TFS,
• Apache Struts 2
• Waterfall, Agile and ASAP, TDD, ATDD
• JIRA, VersionOne, Rally
• AWS, Azure
• Selenium, Cucumber, QTP
• Junit
• Software Processes (SDLC, Scrum)
• Big Data - Analytics, Data Science. Sales Force
• Rational Tools- RTC, Clear Case, Clear Quest & DDTS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Established and managed the scrum team governance framework.
• Responsible for facilitating product back long grooming, effort estimation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and review and retrospective meetings.
• Responsible in the scrum processes, monitoring the scrum processes and scrum meetings. Responsible for forecasting the numbers of deliverables possible in an iteration and number of sprints possible in the release which is based on evidence and history.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution meetings.
• Responsible for guiding, coaching, mentoring, teaching and assisting scrum teams. Leads team by serving the best interests of team to meet objectives. Help the team in removing the impediments. Protect the team from outside interference
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog and with release plan. Ensure dat integrity of the agile process by capturing velocity and removing obstacles to drive projects to successful release.
• Responsible for the process and health of the scrum team.
• Responsible for progress or status reporting to the stake holders on daily, weekly and bi-weekly with identified metrics/KPIs and financial compliance against an agreed plan. Responsible for all kinds of project management activities and proactively managing and tracking the risks, issues and dependencies.
• Focused on continuous improvement and the ability to build a collaborative culture within the scrum teams.
• Responsible for delivering high quality code deliverables, lead validation for all types of testing and support activities related to development or implementation and transition. Involved in Release plan, project planning, scheduling and budgeting.
• Reviewing the all deliverables and artifacts and make sure dat all artifacts are approved by the customer and stored in the central repository.
• Implemented automation, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration (CI/CD), Testing and deployment in the project.

Environment: AWS Java Script, .Net, SQL, Core Services, AngularJS, AJAX, JQuery, NodeJS, Chat.JS, High Charts, PDX, Cucumber, Safe, Version One/Jira, DevOps - Jenkins, Dockers, Linux, MS 365, Microsoft Project Server 2013, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Share point.

Confidential, Raritan, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a scrum master for JNJ Pharma Data Portal project. Worked with ETL and Reporting scrum teams with multiple vendors, distrusted scrum teams with offshore and onsite model.
• Established Scrum Team governance framework. Acting as the primary interface between a specific business/functional area and their IT partners.Identify and resolve operational issues with business areas.
• Facilitating effective and efficient meetings including Agile/Scrum ceremonies
• Worked in Safe environment, collaborated with architects, product manager, release train engineer and scrum team. Proactively identify and remove the impediments for teams
• Maintain transparency into the team’s work through metrics
• Works as servant leader to each team member and support the removal of blockers
• Coach and guiding the scrum teams, product owners about agile, scrum process and support continuous improvement within the team. Helps the team to increase in the velocity.
• Help identify and mitigate any external dependency risks in feature or product development
• Coordinated with other upstream/ downstream Scrum Masters to resolve the dependencies.
• Establishing scrum delivery process, identifying the gaps in the process and focus continuously improvements the process.
• Working independently and effectively with scrum teams and at all levels from multiple divisions.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to prioritize the tasks and manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Managing multiple projects, multiple scrum teams in multiple engagements.
• Involved in Release plan, project planning, scheduling and budgeting.
• Reviewing all deliverables and artifacts and make sure dat all artifacts are approved by the customer and stored in the central repository. Implemented automation, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration (CI/CD), Testing and deployment in the project
• Having strong organization and presentation skills. Updating weekly status 4 blocker to the key stake holder.
• Coordinated with testing team members to create the user acceptance test plan, User Acceptance Test execution, test results. Giving product or application demo to the users. Coordinating the test users with the development, system integration test teams creating the Software Application Training documents and Business Process Reengineering. Involved in Quality Assurance Management.

Environment: AWS, Bigdata, Hadoop, HIV, SQOOP, DevOps - Jenkins, Dockers, Linux, SAP ECC, SCM, Edge/Curve, CRM, ETC, DocSpace, Scepter, PQM, Informatica, Teradata, Track wise, FF, Spotfire, Cognos, Selenium, SAFe JIRA, HPALM, Microsoft Project 2013, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Share point.

Confidential, San Antonio TX

Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as scrum master, agile coach. Established and manage scrum team governance framework.
• Facilitating the product back long grooming, effort estimation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and review and retrospective meetings.
• Responsible in the scrum processes, monitoring the scrum processes and scrum meetings. Responsible for forecasting the numbers of deliverables possible in an iteration and number of sprints possible in the release which is based on evidence and history.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution meetings.
• Responsible for guiding, coaching, mentoring, teaching and assisting scrum teams. Leads team by serving the best interests of team to meet objectives. Help the team in removing the impediments. Protect the team from outside interference
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog and with release plan. Ensure dat integrity of the agile process by capturing velocity and removing obstacles to drive projects to successful release.
• Responsible for the process and health of the scrum team.
• Responsible for progress or status reporting to the stake holders on daily, weekly and bi-weekly with identified metrics/KPIs and financial compliance against an agreed plan. Responsible for all kinds of project management activities and proactively managing and tracking the risks, issues and dependencies.
• Focused on continuous improvement and the ability to build a collaborative culture within the scrum teams.
• Responsible for delivering high quality code deliverables, lead validation for all types of testing and support activities related to development or implementation and transition. Involved in Release plan, project planning, scheduling and budgeting.

Environment: Guidewire PolicyCenter, 7.x, Guidewire billing Center 7.x and ClaimCenter, Studio, Contact Manager 7.x, Microsoft SQL Server, Ant 1.7, SVN, Jetty Server, Apache Tomcat, XML, Gosu, Java, J2ee, Java web services, SQL, Informatica, JIRA, DB2, Mainframes, Beeline, TFS, Selenium, JIRA, Clarity, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Share point.

Confidential, Bloomington IL

Scrum Master and Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Scrum Master, agile coach. Established Scrum Team governance framework. Capacity Planning.
• Ensures dat the scrum team has an appropriate environment.
• As a Scrum Master, Guiding, coaching, facilitates, and teaches scrum practices.
• Clears the impediments for the team. Ensures dat scrum process being followed.
• Facilitate the collaboration meetings.
• Help the team resolve impediments ASAP. Effectively managing risks, issues, dependencies. Protect the team from outside interference
• Teach/guide the team and Product Owner to effectively adopt Scrum Processes
• Monitor the project, is the Team self-managing, on target to meet commitments of each sprint, productive and creative. Facilitating the development team decisions
• Always Focus on Continuous Improvement. Expertise in budget - estimation, review, tracking and forecasting. Utilization - Monitoring, review and reporting with program directors.
• Involved in creating the user acceptance test plan, User Acceptance Test execution, test results. Giving product or application demo to the users. Coordinating the test users with the development, system integration test teams creating the Software Application Training documents and Business Process Reengineering. Involved in Quality Assurance Management.

Environment: Guidewire Billing Center 7.x, Guidewire PolicyCenter, 7.x, Studio, Contact Manager 7.x, Microsoft SQL Server, Ant 1.7, SVN, Jetty Server, Apache Tomcat, XML, Gosu, Java, J2ee, Java web services, SQL, Informatica, JIRA, DB2, Mainframes, Beeline, TFS, JIRA, QTP, Clarity, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Share point.

Confidential, Tampa FL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing project's schedules and financial health
• Understanding, evaluating, managing risks/issues (RAID), mitigate, Track and resolve on the projects.
• Adherence to standardized methodology for project delivery.
• Preparing presentations, project status and other communication materials to Senior Management
• Status report on project details to the business and technical teams from beginning to end of all projects.
• Expertise in project initiation, plan, resource allocation, execution, monitors and control phases.
• Managing cross functional interdependenciesand acting as a point of contact for any issues.
• Worked collaboratively with all groups and business areas to build positive business relationships.
• Leading retrospectives and communicating the same to the leadership team.
• Making presentations and assisted business team to discuss opportunities with any new potential partners and get more Projects.
• Working with BA’s to ensure all business requirements are met.
• Work with users, release BA artifacts, i.e a BRD and Software Requirement Specification, Business Rules, use cases and coordinate with design teams to implement the requirements, conduct user demos.
• Involved in all aspects of project management, change management and continuous improvement.
• Review the deliverables, project status on weekly and monthly basis.
• Expertise in budget - estimation, review, tracking and forecasting. Utilization - Monitoring, review and reporting with program directors.
• Involved in creating the user acceptance test plan, User Acceptance Test execution, test results. Giving product or application demo to the users. Coordinating the test users with the development, system integration test teams creating the Software Application Training documents and Business Process Reengineering. Involved in Quality Assurance Management.

Environment: Infrastructure, Java, J2ee,TFS, Java web services, Lotus Notes, Rally, Jenkins, RTC, QTP, Unix, Microsoft Project Plan, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Share point.

Confidential, Reston VA

Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as scrum master for affinity product enhancements. Established Scrum Team governance framework.
• Responsible for facilitating the product back long grooming, effort estimation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and review and retrospective meetings.
• Responsible in the scrum processes, monitoring the scrum processes and scrum meetings. Responsible for forecasting the numbers of deliverables possible in an iteration and number of sprints possible in the release which is based on evidence and history.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution meetings.
• Responsible for guiding, coaching, mentoring, teaching and assisting scrum teams. Leads team by serving the best interests of team to meet objectives. Help the team in removing the impediments. Protect the team from outside interference
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog and with release plan. Ensure dat integrity of the agile process by capturing velocity and removing obstacles to drive projects to successful release.
• Responsible for the process and health of the scrum team.
• Responsible for progress or status reporting to the stake holders on daily, weekly and bi-weekly with identified metrics/KPIs and financial compliance against an agreed plan. Responsible for all kinds of project management activities and proactively managing and tracking the risks, issues and dependencies.
• Focused on continuous improvement and the ability to build a collaborative culture within the scrum teams.
• Responsible for delivering high quality code deliverables, lead validation for all types of testing and support activities related to development or implementation and transition. Involved in Release plan, project planning, scheduling and budgeting.

Environment: MUMPS, Cache, Strategic Business Intelligence .Net 5.0, MVC 3.0, Jenkins, Unix, Static Content tools, Java web services, Jira, QTP, Microsoft Project Plan, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Share point.

Confidential

Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As a scrum master, build multiple scrum teams, worked with multiple scrum teams.
• Ensures dat the scrum team has an appropriate environment.
• As a Scrum Master, Guiding, coaching, facilitates, and teaches scrum practices.
• Clears the impediments for the team. Ensures dat scrum process being followed.
• Facilitate the collaboration meetings. Help the team resolve impediments ASAP
• Protect the team from outside interference. Review the sprint defects on daily basis.
• Teach/guide the team and Product Owner to effectively adopt Scrum Processes
• Monitor the project, is the Team self-managing, on target to meet commitments of each sprint, productive and creative.
• Facilitating the development team decisions. Responsible for all kinds of project management activities and proactively managing and tracking the risks, issues and dependencies.
• Always Focus on Continuous Improvement. Involved in creating the user acceptance test plan, User Acceptance Test execution, test results. Giving product or application demo to the users. Coordinating the test users with the development, system integration test teams creating the Software Application Training documents and Business Process Reengineering. Involved in Quality Assurance Management.

Environment: Java, J2ee, web services, SQL,TFS, Rally, Microsoft - Project Plan, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Star Team.