SUMMARY

• Highly focused and result - driven Computer Information Systems Engineer, Certified Agile Scrum Master and Certified professional scrum product owner with 6 years of IT experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including planning, requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation and continual service Improvement.
• Led large portfolio projects guiding and mentoring multiple onsite and offshore teams through the project life cycle in cross-functional matrix environment.
• Comprehensive background in business and technical environments, specializing in servant leadership, Change Management, Release Management, Service delivery and resource management.
• Contributed to client’s growth and development by facilitating and driving project and Service deliverables to meet the Strategic goals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, Kanban.

Operating systems: Windows (10, 8, 7, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X.)

Project management tools: MS Project 2013, Primavera P6, JIRA, TFS, Rally, MS Office suite 2016 (Word, Excel, Visio, Power Point, Access, One-Note )

Process design: MS Visio, Draw IO, Rational rose, Requisite pro.

Defect tracking, release/configuration management: HPQC, Share point, SCCM, Configuration Item Inventory.

Business process modelling: ITIL best practices, MS Visio 2010, 2013, Unified modelling language.

Big data concepts: Hadoop, (Hbase, Hive and Ambari).

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle 8i, MS Access.

Data analysis & reporting tools: Microstrategy, Pivot Table, Tableau.

Languages: C, Java, Java script, HTML, CSS, JSTL, JSP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Nashua, NH

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Trained teams in being agile, Agile Principles, Scrum & SAFe fundamentals, task boards, burn down charts & other radiators.
• Created high performing, self-organized teams that can’t wait to get into the office, challenged assumptions about, how to work together/develop product & collaborate for finding a better way.
• Acted as servant leader/built consensus through collaboration & gained ability to influence without authority.
• Established scrum teams, organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review/retrospectives.
• Assisted the scrum team in making appropriate commitments in story selection, story sizing and task definition.
• Served as a liaison between scrum team and client, earning their confidence with reliable follow through.
• Facilitated the team in removing impediments, which enhanced the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goals.
• Guided UI team for planning creation of Prototypes in agile environment and getting approvals from product owner.
• Coordinated with team to follow the TDD standards to make the process more efficient utilizing scrum.
• Worked regularly with offshore team leads to ensure that projects are on track and managed multiple projects in parallel including hot fixes and patches.
• Worked as JIRA admin to accommodate project’s needs/workflow transitions by creating projects and Kanban board configurations/settings and integrated DevOps tools like GitHub version control in JIRA for user story transparency.
• Integrated DevOps tools like GitHub and Jenkins to make sure that code is aligned and builds are successful for the teams to work together towards achieving sprint goal.
• Provided management with project report/burn down, burn up’s, charts & velocities to make decision on road maps.
• Evaluated ROM’s for user stories and coordinated with product owners for Project planning, prioritizing product backlog with user stories in JIRA, and Kanban board based on business priorities & created subtasks.
• Sent surveys to scrum members for measuring the agile maturity of teams and conducted retrospectives.
• Championed ongoing process improvement initiatives, to implement best practices for agile project management and led team agile development cycle CICD (Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery).
• Ensured that the Product owner is aware of how to maintain the product backlog in an agile environment for transparency.
• Ensured that the scrum team as a whole understands, how important it is to have an efficient refined product backlog.
• Coordinated with product owner and provided techniques to refine, order the product backlog by following INVEST pattern for creation of user story and ensured higher valued items are given importance for resulting upcoming sprint increment.
• Ensured that development team is involved in the product discovery to maintain same understanding of the definition of ready and commit as a team for the accountability of items.
• Established program level cadence & drive program level ceremonies (scrum of scrums (SOS), release train retro).
• Worked closely with development team to make them recognize that, its team’s responsibility to be self-organized with regards to how the work performed and reduction of dependencies in between teams in a Scaled Agile framework environment (SAFe).
• Implemented SAFe agile practices within scrum teams to improve teams self-organizing practices & reduce dependency.
• Worked with fellow scrum masters in Scaled Agile environment (SAFe) to implement common practices in Organization.
• Provided release and change management support for medium-high impact complexity RTS IT release and changes.
• Collaborated with Product team and project managers to build road maps and product plans.
• Facilitated review, retrospective meetings and monitored plan execution of the action items identified from the meetings.
• Prepared communicated with the stakeholders regarding upcoming releases.
• Facilitated the development of an overall RTS release schedule.
• Reviewed build schedules for development, testing, cert and production environment.
• Managed selection of all changes to plans and releases to multiple windows and iOS environments with traceability/visibility by removing extensive manual work.
• Coordinated with product owner & development teams with regards to release train schedules & follow ups.
• Successfully managed release schedules by following scrum framework extensively to overcome conflicts.
• Handled high pressure situations closure to the release dates to meet the project deadlines.
• Partnered with project manager and IT delivery owner to guide on agile release train (RT).
• Coordinated with release train engineer (RTE) and managed the content of agile release train (RT).
• Reviewed releases to verify quality assurance and operational readiness requirements have been met prior to deployment.

Confidential, Peoria, IL

Scrum Master/Project coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Served as integral part of HCLA project management team and created, monitored and controlling multiple IT features teams project scheduling using primavera.
• Assisted project managers in conducting project meeting by facilitating, capturing meeting minutes and action items.
• Created weekly project reports, analyzed project schedules & communicated project progress to project managers & team.
• Coordinated the work flow between the teams and ensured the successful delivery on projects on time.
• Improve efficiency of workflow deliverables by addressing impediments & issues b/w offshore/onsite teams.
• Utilized SharePoint databases to record all project-related documentation.
• Monitored and controlled project schedule and reported any issues or potential risks to the project manager.
• Monitored resource load to avoid resource over allocation by utilizing activity floats and lags.
• Provided project planning insights to management based on development team performance.
• Enabled the Scrum teams to perform at the highest level by instilling Scrum values, coaching the team, removing impediments and protecting the team from disruption.
• Trained teams in agile best practices across organization to maximize Scrum team performance & effectiveness.
• Coordinated with team to follow the test driven development (TDD) standards as part of the product discovery and thereby improving efficiency of the product with improved transparency of increment.
• Organized and facilitated team backlog management, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, demos and other Scrum-related rituals.
• Created dashboards in TFS to track progress of the sprint and maintain the product backlog for transparency.
• Assisted Product Owner as needed with backlog maintenance, internal and external communication, improving transparency, and disseminating information.
• Trained teams, individuals/organization in collaboration/transparency/iteration and being customer focused.
• Improved efficiency of workflow deliverables by addressing impediments & issues b/w offshore/onsite teams.
• Lead team agile development cycle CICD (Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery).

Confidential

Lead Application Java/Database Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing Garrett applications using JAVA and PHP to locate Honeywell turbo charger distributors around world.
• Created and maintained multiple third party turbo charger distributor sites as part of the business objective.
• Developed the code through presentations layer using HTML, CSS and JSP for the web based application.
• Developed back end stored procedures and triggers using SQL.
• Developed Controller components using JAVA Spring MVC framework.
• Responsible for design/documentation of REST API’s for collection & retrieval of high volume of data.
• Designed REST API’s that allow sophisticated, effective & low cost application integration.
• Written unit tests using JUnit framework.
• Worked with AJAX data consisting of JSON/XML/JSONP responses, parsing the same and presenting on the UI layer.
• Designed and implemented PHP MySQL solutions as per project specifications.
• Managed and maintained development of PHP backend for the dynamic database driven website.
• Created data dictionaries to run for validating data by running reports.
• Actively involved in code reviews and also in bug fixing.
• Underwent training on Hadoop and big data.
• Participated in multiple big data POC to evaluate different architecture, tools and vendor products.
• Installed set up of Hadoop and worked with pig, hive, map reduce and scoop.
• Configured Hadoop properties to achieve high performance.
• Developed the application using SCRUM agile methodology.
• Used SVN as version Control.