SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master with 12 years of professional experience in IT industry comprising about 4 years as a Scrum Master (Coach) in Agile projects & Application Programing.
• Lead teams of about 30 engineers & Transitioned multiple projects.
• MotivatedScrumMasterwith focus on Agile Transformation,Scrum, Lean Software Development with technical background.
• Worked on projects involving Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud deployment & DevOps Software engineering culture.
• Worked in projects involving technologies such as Java, C++, Data Warehousing, DataStage, Oracle Business Intelligence, Reporting via Tableau, MySQL, NoSQL, DB2, JSON Files, IAM, RACF, etc.
• Have extensive experience of working on projects in BFSI (Insurance, Banking and Mortgage) and Investment Banking domains
• Has been a Servant Leader being a part of Agile Team and support the team to do their best and focus on removing their impediments and bring cultural change in organization
• Promote seamless Intra and Inter - Team communication to develop transparency and trust that helped to increase productivity and velocity of the teams.
• Relentlessly work to perceive continuous improvement by inculcating Agile principles & Scrum values among the team members
• Extensive business and IT experience driving full software and full system development life cycle (SDLC)
• Experience in Project Scoping, Sizing, Effort Estimation, Forecasting, Planning and Scheduling
• Conducted allscrumceremonies and ensure thescrumteams follow the Agile /Scrumrules
• HelpedScrumteam to mature and show the path towards the self motivation and work collaboratively along with sprint team and also with other teams
• Worked with the Agile(Scrum) Project Management methodologies such as budgeting, Backlog and story management and iteration planning and implementation of SAFe.
• Worked towards effectively resolving/ removing impediments/ blockers for the sprint team/ member
• Implemented Large ScaleScrum(LeSS) for Agile Software development. Knowledgeable on SAFe agile framework.
• Knowledge of other Agile methodologies like Kanban and Extreme Programming (XP)
• Experienced in Project Scoping, Effort Estimation, Project Scoping, Sizing, Effort Estimation, designing and developing project document templates based on Agile(Scrum), Kanban, Waterfall and SDLC methodology and successfully implementing them.
• Performed project planning, execution, monitoring, and resource balancing to support multiple simultaneous projects in a matrix organizational structure
• Highly focused and results-oriented in supporting complex, deadline-driven operations; able to identify goals, objectives, priorities and resolve issues.
• Experienced in leading and managing teams, operating extensively in onshore - offshore working model.
• Working withScrumteams on agile practices such as Continuous Integration, Automated Deployment, Automated Testing, Test Driven Development, pair programming.
• Working with teams on Agile concepts of User Story Mapping, facilitating Release Planning and Release Roadshow.
• Coordinate with Product Owner, Chief Product Owner, Senior Business analysts and the Business team in gathering the requirements, refining the Product Backlog and guiding them on story writing.
• Accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale software development projects by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multipleScrumteams
• Collaborate with Vendor partners, Business stakeholders, and Engineering teams to remove impediments to achieve project/ program goals.
• Working knowledge of Project Management tools like IBM-RTC, ALM & JIRA and

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• IBM Mainframe
• Cobol
• JCL
• DB2
• CICS
• SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Increased Productivity, Increase in software quality and happiness in team, reduced Production Time & increase in experienced people willing to join the team.
• Develop Product backlog along with Product Owner for a given Application.
• Develop and follow Agile project management plan and Agile ceremonies
• Organize & ConductScrumDaily standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings
• Continuously follow the Empirical Process to refine the Product backlog and track increment
• Remove team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables
• Collaborate with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs
• Retrospectives to encourage Self-expression, uncover the concerns and Measure the health of the scrum team by employing appropriate techniques.
• Facilitate team meetings and teamwork to continual improvement of teams agile practices
• Strong ability to balance data with other factors when making decision, ability to integrate agile principles and work products
• In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle process which includes Agile-Scrum and Waterfall.
• Active participation in discovery sessions, interviews, document-reviews, plan setup, plan configuration with clients.
• Involved in Client interaction and support to the marketing team. User meetings resolve implementation and performance issue.
• Motivate team players with excellent business, analytical, communication, presentation, and management, technical and written skills.
• Excellent communication and partnership skills which are essential for interacting and communicating with key stakeholders at all level across the company to manage, inform and influence outcome
• Ability to work effectively in cross functional team environment, and able to balance workload and prioritizes effectively. Able to manage self and time to meet commitments
• Organize and drive the Demo to Internal teams, business and the End-User and follow-ups

Scrum Master / Project Manager

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Scrum Master within the financial organization, collaborated with development to design, Web accessibility, and to support the creation and maintenance of mission-critical web-based software applications and high visibility/high demand websites through the use of an Agile/Scrum process with modified appropriation of the Kanban approach
• Facilitated thescrumteams, work with Product Owners to define the product backlog and priorities, and work to implement standards and best practices within theScrumframework.
• Experience with user story creation, requirements gathering and deliverable review
• Experience with daily scrum meeting, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, and backlog grooming.
• Stakeholder/subject matter expert interaction and other aspects of projects to iteratively take them from kickoffs to the final delivery and maintenance

Project Manager

Confidential, Brussels, BE

Responsibilities:

• Worked out of Brussels, Belgium to coach the team and drive the project effectively.
• Successfully guided two development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development
• Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity. Encouraged and implemented process improvements. Created team-building opportunities
• Facilitated Scrum events as needed & requested; coaching the Development Team in organizational environments in which Scrum is under development and adopted
• Facilitated release/sprint planning, grooming, daily stand-ups, retrospective meetings and demos.
• Tracked and communicated team capacity/velocity.
• Provided internal and external communications to maintain accountability and transparency.
• Participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices
• Ensured that the product owner prioritized features for the team to ensure enhanced team delivery of product increment at a consistent pace
• Consistently maintained and pushed for Scrum best practices.

Technical Team Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead team of 32 engineers consisting of Developers, Testers, Analysts & Reporting personal.
• Onsite and Offshore Geographically distributed teams with diverse technical and cultural backgrounds
• Develop technical design specifications for application enhancements, including flowcharts, diagrams, DDL, and/or write pseudo code to illustrate sequence of steps and describe logical operations
• Define and Maintain KPIs, Assist with the creation of SOW’s, project scoping, planning, etc
• Manage team members, activities, work allocation, and delivery in a manner that maximizes team efficiency, resulting in the consistent delivery of exceptional customer experiences
• Conduct code reviews and testing. Track defects from reviews and testing.
• Proactively provide regular and consistent communication (written and oral) on the progress of projects, issues, and deliverables to customers and vendors
• Provide solid direction, guidance, feedback, and support to team members, promoting an environment where productive, engaged, and satisfied employees thrive

Software Engineer - Linux & Python

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Works with Analyst and Quality Assurance team mate to resolve complexapplicationproblems;
• Strong team player. Team consisting of fourdevelopers, one tech lead, one architect, two QA analysts and three business analysts.
• Generated UNIX scripts for build activities in QA, Staging and Production environments
• Build artifacts (war and ear) are deployed into a WebLogic app server by integrating the WLST scripts to Shell Scripts.
• Rewrite existing Java application inPython.
• Wrotepython scripts to parse XML documents and load the data in database.
• Performed testing using Django's Test Module.
• Worked on middle tier and persistence layer. Created service and model layer classes and Value objects/POJO to hold values between java classes and database fields.
• Exported/Imported data between different data sources using SQL Server Management Studio.
• Maintained program libraries, users' manuals and technical documentation.
• Responsible for debugging and troubleshooting the web application.
• Successfully migrated all the data to the database while the site was in production.
• Developed GUI using webapp2 for dynamically displaying the test block documentation and other features ofpython code using a web browser.
• Hand full experience on LINUX operating system.

Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Application testing, fixing defects, supporting the external test team during integration test, System test, end-to-end test, performance test and user acceptance testing.
• Involved in Unit Test Plans, UAT, Integration testing.
• Worked with the Architects on SDLC process being the owner of post development environments.
• Analysis of Programs, Preparation of Component Specification & Coding of programs

Environment: IBM Mainframe, Cobol, JCL, DB2, CICS, SQL.