SUMMARY

• 13 + years of multifaceted Information Technology Experience with Finance/Wealth Management, Retail, Pharmaceutical, Health care, Federal Government Projects.
• Helped Leadership/Management teams in setting realistic Vision/Goal for the Portfolio/Programs.
• Adept in Agile Software Engineering Practices, Process Management.
• 7 + years training and coaching on Agile Transformations (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe/XP) developing several High performing teams.
• Technology Management & Delivery experience in Big - Data, Java, .NET, Business Intelligence/Analytics, ETL Data Warehousing, SAP, Mobile & Cloud.
• Practical Agile coaching with emphasis on technology for cost saving, value added innovation that complied with Cost/Scope/Schedule factors.
• Working knowledge of various scaled agile frameworks such as DAD, DSDM, Crystal and LeSS.
• Helped teams achieve optimum performance level by analyzing individual skill level and program's Vision/Milestone needs.
• Expertise in coordinating with 110 + internal and external stakeholders so as to run multi-million-dollar SAFe Release Trains successfully.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• JIRA-Global
• Confluence
• Bitbucket
• Micro Strategy
• PHP
• Perl
• Trizetto Facets
• Pega Customer Service - BPM tool
• SQL Server Management Studio
• Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS.)
• Lean Kit
• Apache Hadoop Yarn
• Hive
• Apache Pig
• Apache Cassandra
• Apache HBase
• Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
• Apache Spark
• Apache Sqoop
• MongoDB
• CA Clarity
• Planview
• GIT
• Jenkins
• Tableau
• Map Reduce
• Python
• Java Eclipse
• MyBatis
• Apache Maven
• JVM
• VMware
• Windows VM
• Jasmine
• Karma
• Protractor
• SAP Plant Maintenance (PM)
• K2 SharePoint and Blackpearl-.NET
• Informatica. Sales force CRM
• Cognos
• Hyperion
• Cucumber
• Maven
• Ansible.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Agile Coach & Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coached and managed multiple Agile teams using effective Scrum/Kanban/Scrumban techniques on SAFe Agile platform.
• Consulted for the FAASTER Portfolio under the Office of the CIO that manages IT initiatives pertaining to Global Trading/Financial Risk Management and Compliance.
• Helped teams and Scrum Masters in setting up Sprints/Releases/Ceremonies and managing the same using Atlassian JIRA.
• Presented various Agile topics for the management and the teams.

Confidential

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Scrum Masters/Product Owners in splitting the User Stories and breaking down the Features using the CA Rally- Application Life cycle Management tool.
• Served as the single point of contact for the leadership team regarding Agile practice/compliance consultation.
• Recommended and facilitated training sessions for effective DevOps oriented tools like Jenkins, Ansible, Git Hub, Maven.
• Encouraged Jasmine and Karma tools usage to perform Test Driven Development and Cucumber for Behavior Driven Development.
• Fostered SAFe’s Architectural Runway/Infrastructure by identifying Enablers with Technical Architects.
• Inculcated Operational and Support mindset on technical team that were new to Dev Ops.
• Assessed existing Agile practice and feasibility of conversion from Waterfall to Agile model including Scrumban pertaining to the projects under the DFO program.
• Assisted applicable roles in creating Rally ALM tool based Epics, Themes, Initiatives, Features, User Stories, Tasks that served the Mobile Cloud Computing product.
• Supported the PMO in reviewing Program estimation, Feature (WSJF), Cost and Schedule tracking, Forecasting, Agile Earned Value Analysis where in the Portfolio’s value increased from $6 MM to $28.2 MM.
• Tracked the progress of the program using Release-Iteration Burn down Chart, Burn up Chart, Defect Chart, Cycle Time, Cumulative Flow Diagram, Kanban board, Velocity Chart, Agile Scorecards/KPI.
• Coordinated with vendors to create training sessions for QA teams to effectively use Automation so as to strengthen CI/CD.
• Helped and influenced the Leadership team in understanding Risks/Dependencies and prioritizing Business needs during PI Planning sessions.
• Initiated Kanban-DevOps practice, visualized Work In Progress (WIP), Monitored the WIP limits to support Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
• Conducted SAFe oriented scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective, Backlog Grooming sessions, Scrum Of Scrum, Demo sessions, Hackathon.
• Supported the SAFe Program Increment (PSI/PI) planning sessions.
• Facilitated and hosted Agile workshops/ training classrooms (including role oriented) with focus on Agile methodologies and Agile Games for varying audience level-Leaders and local teams.

Confidential

Coach/Agile Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the Agile Release Train Engineer/Value Stream Engineer for the strategic Enterprise Agile Implementation/Transformation based on Milestones in agreement with C-level Executives and Stakeholders.
• Coached scrum and Kanban teams in the MEP program totaling 31 team members including UI/API developers, Testers, Big Data-Hadoop developers.
• Used effective Agile Project Management techniques in balancing Cost-Schedule-Scope.
• As a Servant-Leader, induced cadence in high performance scrum teams, removed impediments related to technical/resource dependencies.
• Developed and coached scrum teams, supporting the complete Agile scrum/Kanban implementation which yielded $65 MM in 1 year with approximately $1.2 MM in combined cost savings, 18 days ahead of schedule and a reduced Time to Market.
• Introduced Extreme Programming (XP) concepts that included TDD, BDD, and Pair Programming.
• Hosted key data analytics/algorithm sessions with Data Scientists/ Data Modelers for the mining of key datum.
• Guided the teams in aligning with Agile Manifesto, Inspect and Adapt, INVEST/SMART, Continuous Improvement principles.
• Created and maintained Agile training materials and Project Charter.
• Customized JIRA to include relevant sprints under the SAFe PI along with applicable User Story, Tasks, Time-boxing, etc.
• Initiated applicable Sprint 0, HIP/IP Sprints while under SAFe PI.