EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Expert in agile project management.
• Fifteen plus years of experience on complete life cycles in Information Technology.
• Skilled at leading teams, mentoring team members and managing requirements to enable organizations build products quickly
• Certified Scrum Master /Agile Coaching / IT Project Management
• Experience in different methodologies including Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, XP, Iterative, RUP, Waterfall
• Leadership, organizational transformation and change management
• Big Data Platform, Data Lake, Data Fabric
• MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), MS Project, Visio, SharePoint, CA Agile Central (Rally), TFS, JIRA
• Planview, Clarity
• Process Management, Managing Innovation
• Experience managing wide arrays of technologies including
• Big Data Platform, Data Lake, Data Fabric, Hadoop, Sqooping technique, HDFS, Hive, CDC (IBM and Attunity) tools, Snapshot, ORC, Talend, Spark, Pig Scripts, Unix scripts, Java, SVN, JSON, Mark Logic, MQ, XML, XSD Schema, NoSQL queries, MySQL
• Web technologies, Client Server technologies, Mainframe technologies, ERP Systems, Data Warehousing, Reporting and Analytics systems, Java, .NET Platform and technologies, ERP System

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business/Product Domains: Financial Services, Banking, HealthCare, Insurance, Retail, Telecom, Manufacturing

Frameworks: Agile Scrum, Kanban, XP, Iterative, RUP, Waterfall.

Team Makeup: Managed up to 3 teams, 15 to 20 team members consisting of developers, testers, business analysts, tech writers and configuration Engineers.

Tools: Used: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), MS Project, Visio, SharePoint, Rally, TFS, JIRA, PlanView, Clarity

Project Technologies: Mobile, Big data, Data Analytics, Data Warehouse, Java, JBoss, MQ, Web Services, Oracle, QTP, MS Test ManagerVersion Management tools, Release Management tools

Microsoft technologies including: C#, ASP.Net, SharePoint, Silverlight, WCF, SQL Server. Enterprise Service Bus, Microservices, Utilizing design patterns.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Project Manager/Sr. Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Planned program increment (10 weeks/5 Sprints) for the projects, provided estimate for next features and presented past PI accomplishments to Stakeholders
• Partnered with engagement manager to review project ATA (Agile Team Agreement)/estimates
• Created and maintained timelines/schedules
• High level feature list and scope,
• Resource plan,
• Low/High Budget,
• Formed project teams and kick off the project. Managed Change request.
• Coordinated with Source teams, Consumption teams, Stakeholders, release managers, Talend teams, DevOPS teams.
• Created ADR site for the projects and maintained project artifacts from Initiation to close.
• Managed projects with aggressive targets/timelines requiring tight monitoring of daily development and close coordination with stakeholders to successful completion.
• Created and Managed CA Agile Central (Rally) projects in Rally Admin Role.
• Conducted daily scrums, retrospectives, Planning and grooming sessions.
• Coached other project managers, scrum masters and team members.
• Presented daily status to executives and managed expectations. Maintained share point/dashboard for project status.
• Presented weekly project progress/status to various portfolio/programs. Tracked and acted upon milestones, budget, scope, timelines, issues/risks, Mitigation/GTG (Get to green) plans
• Managed program level MBOs, Metrics and provided oversight and governance for the multiple projects under the programs.
• Managed project resource allocation, release, weekly planning and forecast, timely updates to Planview, time card approvals on weekly basis. This included resources from Onshore and Offshore.
• Managed releases including conducting Go/No Go meetings, production deployment/Go Live, release communication, transfer to DevOPS.

Confidential

Project Manager / Sr Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coached new Product owners, new/junior scum masters, team members in a constantly changing environment
• Participated Scrum of Scrums, risk management, release management and red yarn events for the program/release trains
• This involved responding to continuous changes in business, compliance domain, managing impact/risk, decision making.
• Coordinated with release coordinators for the delivery management for monthly deployments as well as any hot fixes.
• Partnered with functional managers for the continuous improvement initiatives
• Managed communication with Senior management. Provided help for executive reporting.
• Facilitated daily Scrums, sprint retrospectives, planning, help remove impediments in a two - week sprint cycle. fostered a culture of continuous improvement
• Served as information Radiator for key metrics
• Helped teams with reviews, grooming, definition of ready, definition of done, team operating agreement
• Helped Product owners and team members to have rightly sized PBIs and backlog prioritization
• Helped in organizational transformation towards agile.
• Coaching members, using scrum framework to hold team members accountable for the commitments
• Encouraged teams to be self-organizing and cross functional
• Assisted measuring agile maturity of team using Confidential agile maturity model and encouraged team action to attain next level
• Conducted periodic team health check
• Helped socialize new initiatives/directives from management
• Continuously involved in understanding strategy, changes and its tactical implication to teams
• Helped with audit activities
• Prepared project charter and related artifacts as needed. Managed communication with finance for budgeting and tracking.
• Presented in the PMO roundtable to update peers
• Supported Tech Ex initiatives. For example, code reviews, green build monitoring, continuous integration, Automated testing.
• Participated in Roc-A-Thon (Hackathon like event) during innovation sprints.
• Experience utilizing Kanban for one of the team
• Worked on strategy for branding, marketing, big data and data analytics as part of innovation.

Confidential

Sr Project Manager / Sr Scrum Master

Responsibil ities:

• Created and Managed Portfolio Masters for Programs
• Created Project Charters, coordinated with stakeholders for approvals.
• Managed budget, time, scope, resources, quality, risks.
• Planned and Managed Scope with top down and bottom up approach.
• Prepared release plans. Presented the same to get approval from senior management for the program.
• Executed plans in time and budget in a fast-paced environment.
• Managed interactions with business, stakeholders, partners and vendors.
• Planned and managed the resource needs.
• Coached and mentored other Scrum teams.
• Coordinated with Vendor to create and monitor integrated project plan.
• Managed vendor deliverables to meet the project needs in timely manner.
• Addressed challenges like utilizing vendor resources vs internal team, using stock vs custom development solution to effectively manage the cost.
• Formed and managed integrated teams as needed.
• Identified, addressed and mitigated risks in a timely manner.
• Managed SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) reporting and SAS reporting as part of governance and compliance.
• Conducted sprint planning meetings, sprint review meetings, sprint retrospective meetings.
• Initiated automation directive for QA using QTP and quality center
• Managed political situations involving Senior management, external teams, architects, technical and business POs, team members and vendors to execute work for multiple integrations and priorities to produce results.
• Delivered product features within budget and time in a fast-paced dynamic environment
• Coached and trained team members in agile methodologies.