SUMMARY

• Certified Professional with 11+ yrs. of Management and Development experience in Banking, Insurance, Wealth Management and eCommerce domains.
• Driven to deliver Smart and Scalable solutions.
• Results oriented and determined to implement the best Software Development practices.
• An excellent servant team leader, equipped and ready to play diverse roles to achieve set objectives.
• SAFe/ AGILE Transformation and Adoption.
• SCRUM Ceremonies: Support Release Train Engineer, Facilitate Sprint Planning and Refinement sessions, Daily Scrum, Sprint Demos and Retrospectives.
• Product Backlog Maintenance with Product Owner to ensure Prioritized delivery of features and enhancements.
• Enterprise Software Development: Technical competence to partner with Business Partners, Technical Architects, Product owners and DevOps team. Facilitate constructive conversations between all stakeholders. Manage resource allocations, Dev/ QA metrics, delivery timelines, and deployment cycles.
• Product/ Project Management: Requirement Analysis, Cost Estimation, Scheduling, Scope and Time Management, Planning and Integration, Dependencies, Risk and Quality Management, Resource Management, and Project Closure.
• QA Automation: Drive change in QA practices with Selenium to increase Cost effectiveness and Test Velocity.
• Relationship Management: Strong Organizational, Negotiation and Stakeholder Relationship Management.
• Team Management: Build Cohesive and Productive teams through interviewing and mentoring process.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Tools: Rally, Clarity, MS Project, Jira, ALM, IBM RTC

Vendor Partners: FIS (Core Banking), SEI(Wealth Management)

Microsoft Tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio

Other Utilities: OBIEE, Splunk, Confluence, SharePoint.

Programming Language: Java/ J2EE

Framework: Struts (MVC), Spring (MVC based), ZK (MVVM based), Angular JS, Node JS

Automation Testing Frameworks: Selenium Webdriver, TestNG, Junit, Saucelabs

Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OS, Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SCRUM MASTER/ Sr. PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple Scrum Teams through Iteration to achieve its objectives.
• Track & Resolve Cross Functional dependencies.
• Lead BA, Dev, QA teams through SAFe transformation of development processes.
• Maintain Production Release plans with Product Management team.
• Support successful rollout of features into Production with support of Support and Business teams.
• Collaborate with Dev - Ops team to build and execute Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment strategies.

SCRUM MASTER/ TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Manage Project Delivery of new features within Enterprise Development framework.
• Perform current state analysis, evaluate scope, define project milestones, Identify risks and dependencies.
• Maintain project plans, accounting records and resource allocations.
• Lead Dev, QA teams through Agile ceremonies and help in issue resolutions.
• Organize client presentations, demos and review sessions with stakeholders.
• Provide technical guidance to eliminate potential roadblocks and mitigate risks.
• Track Scope creep and its effects on Milestones.
• Provide Cost Effective QA Automation solutions to business partners.
• Manage engagement of Global resources for Project Delivery.

PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Managed Integration & Delivery of new channels onto Account Opening platform.
• Led technical implementation and integration of IBM Analytics framework Coremetrics within the platform.
• Headed 5 member ABPA Production Support team for 6 months of new Product launch in 2012.
• Managed Daily reports measuring health of application for Business and Tech Partners.
• Organized scrum activities like sprint planning, daily standup, story prioritization in sprint, backlog prioritization, story grooming, sprint retrospective, lunch and learns, etc. in partnership with Scrum master.
• Worked with Scrum Master to identify opportunities and recommend solutions to improve Agile adoption for team members.
• Assisted business partners in adopting new approach of requirement prioritization and software delivery processes.

TECHNICAL LEAD

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Responsibilities:

• Defined the Scope of 2012 Annual project, to mitigate eCommerce operation failures within platform from 2011 Holiday season.
• Delivered Project Integration & Continuous Delivery plans with other ongoing Business Critical projects.
• Re-architecture and Re-Integration of batch jobs for better performance.
• Supported preparation of PCI Compliance Audits for 2012.

PROJECT TECH LEAD

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Responsibilities:

• Delivered Requirement Analysis documents, Process Flows and Architecture designs for new IRS mandate Merchant 1099K forms.
• Designed a Core Java and Oracle driven framework for monthly and yearly data summarizations.
• Integrated with Netezza based Data Warehouse systems that stored merchant transaction data and other interaction systems based on MySQL/Oracle.
• Developed schedules for data retrieval and transformation into Oracle database.
• Designed Struts based UI module for Line of Business and Call center associates for supporting Merchant requests post form generations.
• Led global team during the Execution and Delivery phase.

PROJECT TEAM LEAD/ JAVA DEVELOPER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully Developed and Delivered 10+ Projects through standard Waterfall Software Development Lifecycle.
• Led teams with Hands-on approach in Development, Maintenance and Enhancement of various Multi-tier UI and Core Java applications.
• SME of various backend systems within Offers Management portfolio.
• Expertise in UI Development & Integration using various frameworks like Struts, Spring, Hibernate, Oracle, etc.
• Expertise in J2EE Technologies like Webservices (SOAP, REST, JSON), EJBs.
• Designed Wireframes and Prototypes using HTML, CSS and Java scripts frameworks like JQuery.
• Mentored new associates into the projects.