CAREER PROFILE:

• A highly motivated person with strong technical background and management experience.
• Extensive experience of over 19 years in Insurance Software development including 10+ years of end to end Program/Project management with 6+ years of Agile Project management using SCRUM and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Experienced in heading software releases, coordinating with Product management, development team, technical architects, QA teams and other stakeholders.
• Acknowledged for able leadership, management and project execution.
• Maintained ownership of medium sized to million - dollar data projects from initiation through to completion.
• Experience in managing cross-functional and global programs end-to-end, including project charter, business case for program approval, project creation and allocation, to closure and sustenance of technology projects.
• Experienced in the use of agile approaches, including Extreme Programming, Kanban, Test-Driven Development and Scrum.
• Accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale complex software projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams.
• Capable of bringing enthusiasm, productivity and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused, motivated and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Agile Principals

Tasking Meetings/Retrospectives

Communication

Relative Estimation

Project Management

Story-Based Development

Iteration/Sprint Planning Meetings

Conflict Resolution

SKILLS:

Platforms: Z/OS, Windows XP, NT, 2003 Server

Project Management Tools: JIRA, Confluence, MS Visio, MS Office, Waterfall, Agile techs.

Programming: COBOL, CICS, JCL, PL/SQL, ASP.net, C#, VB.net, Classic ASP, VB, HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, VB Script, UML.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• Overall experience with Guardian is 10+ years and started working from offshore as scrum master from offshore. Started working in onshore from March 2015 onwards.
• End to end program management for Confidential including Quality Compliance, Risk Management, Program Schedule Adherence and Process Improvements.
• Adopted Scaled Agile framework, being actively involved in product backlog grooming, Program Increment (PI) planning, collaborate with Product Management and development team to plan and deliver for the Agile Release Train (ART).
• Collaborate, facilitate, lead and coach Scrum teams responsible for developing system/server management software. Facilitated scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Created & presented detailed status reports, spreadsheets and presentations for executive and larger team consumption. Liaised with executive team on project reporting and mitigation plan to ensure successful launch.
• Well Versed with Project tools like MS Project, Jira, Confluence and SharePoint

Skills: Agile techs, JIRA, Confluence, Kanban.

Technical Manager

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• Consistently delivered the projects for all the 4 blocks for 4+ years.
• Led the team for collecting screen messages and got client appreciation.
• Had been providing insights in the functionality as well as technical insights for client.
• Provided recommendations on technical feasibility of proposed solutions and provided advice and guidance to Developers and other solution designers.

Skills: COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, FILE-AID, Abend-Aid, SPUFI, SYNCSORT, Control-M, SQL, Stored procedures.

Developer

Confidential, San Bruno, CA

Responsibilities:

• Successfully implemented below projects
• Enhancement of Existing systems, includes
• Production Support, includes
• Attending to calls related to Problems/ Abends in Production jobs.
• .Communicating with Business Partners for understanding the problem and clarifying their queries. Analyzing and resolving them within stipulated time. c.If required, making Temporary or urgent fixes and moving them to Production

Skills: ISPF/PDF, File-Aid, Super C, Xpeditor, Strobe, Endevor, Panvalet, JCL, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, MQ, SPUFI, XCOM, ACM/MLINK, Service Center, UNIX, C, PERL.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Successfully delivered code without defects.
• Prepared program specifications, involved in coding and testing.
• Peer review coding and unit test results

Skills: Visual Basic 6.0, Cobol 370, DB2, File aid, Endevor, JCL

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in facilitating scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise
• Worked with the managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams in India.
• Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%
• Involved in coding and testing
• Performed as a configuration controller and defect prevention anchor

Skills: JCL, CICS, COBOL, DB2