SUMMARY:

• Hands - on experience in all phases of SDLC including Project Management, Requirements analysis, System analysis, Design, Development and implementing custom application software in various industries
• Leading the transformation from Waterfall to Agile Scrum methodology by way of, coaching and mentoring client teams with respect to the new methodology
• Expertise includes Client / stakeholder management, Vendor management, mentoring onsite and offshore Project teams
• Engaging with Product Owners and Business teams in creation of user stories and grooming / prioritizing the Product backlog
• Conducting daily stand-ups, sprint planning sessions, product review (along with Product owner) and Sprint retrospective meetings
• Enabling visibility to all stakeholders with sprint metrics like Team velocity and Burn down charts
• Capability in managing/executing simultaneous multi-threaded projects (Imaging/Workflow systems, Treasury/Risk management systems, Maintenance and material management systems and other commercial applications)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Durham NC

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Have led multiple Scrum teams (Onshore and offshore)
• Conducted Scrum ceremonies like Daily Standups, Sprint planning sessions, Release planning sessions, Product review demos, Sprint retrospective sessions etc.
• Creation and maintenance of Kanban boards for all Production support initiatives.
• Actively involved in and guiding scrum teams and keeping them focused on Sprint goals
• Actively collaborated with Product owner(s) to generate User stories and keep the Product backlog prioritized based on stakeholder priority.
• Actively participated in SoS and Essential SAFe planning sessions
• Acted as a bridge between Product owners, Stakeholders and the scrum teams
• Provided metrics like Team velocity, Sprint burn down charts, completed user stories versus committed user stories, Defect management, at the end of each sprint.
• Have been actively using JIRA and Confluence for this project.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Technical Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead the transformation from Waterfall to Agile Scrum methodology
• Actively participated in SoS sessions
• Trained, coached and mentored Product owners and business teams
• Collaborated with Product Owner/business teams in creation of User stories while keeping the Product backlog groomed/prioritized
• Managed multiple Scrum teams, spread over multiple geographical locations, for smoother transition
• Implemented 2 week Sprint planning
• Enabled requirements gathering and task breakdown based on user stories (by analysts and development team)
• Created Sprint backlogs and monitored progress of each sprint
• Held Daily scrum meetings
• Delivered sprint burn-down chart as per progress, for each sprint.
• Conducted sprint review and Retrospective meetings, for each sprint, with all stakeholders
• Provided relevant metrics like Team velocity, completed stories versus committed stories, Team motivation, for every sprint
• Collaborated closely with all managers/directors and ensured that their needs were met to their satisfaction.
• Facilitated exhaustive JAD sessions. Documented all requirements in functional specifications document including business team sign-off
• Involved with design team and development team meetings and guided the process in case of any issues being faced by the team (Design and Analysis)
• Coached and mentored project teams (onsite and offsite) - held regular engagement team meetings with onsite and offshore teams
• Developed and managed project plans using MS Project (Project Planning/Tracking)
• Created WBS for each project and tracked each project closely to ensure that the production deployment(s) are aligned with every release
• Managed “scope changes” with clear documentation along with level of effort estimates aligned to the “change management process” (Change Management)
• Maintained a Risk management document where all potential risks (short and long term) were documented along with mitigation measures (Risk Management)
• Communicated out of scope, risk and change management to all levels of management
• Ensured all artifacts, source code and processes were aligned with the client’s quality process including system integrated test execution per approved test cases/plans (Quality management)
• Maintained defects documentation and tracked until resolution while managed enhancements in scope document. (Defect management)
• Actively worked with business users to ensure all UAT defects/issues were documented while enhancements managed thru the change management process (UAT management)
• Closely worked with IT, support and release management teams to ensure defect-free release (Release management)

Environment: TIBCO, Java J2EE, Oracle 11g, Adobe Flex, Clarity, HP Quality Center, Agile (Scrum Methodology), JIRA.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Project/Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the Business and vendors and resolved lot of hiccups in the project within a limited time frame
• Worked with business representatives of the state department in order to translate work to the offshore manager and enabled quality delivery
• Involved with the state vendor on procurement of software and hardware
• Facilitated the prototype process
• Engaged data transformation, data migration process
• Facilitated User acceptance and User

Environment: NET Framework, XML, Oracle 11g, File Net eProcess Workflow.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and presented the artifacts
• Documented requirements including functional and non-functional requirements
• Created Gap analysis document
• Developed detailed test cases and traceability Matrix
• Established data migration process for present and future groups

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Application Development Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Led Sprint Planning sessions, worked with team on user story selections and estimates
• Conducted daily stand-up meetings, removed impediments and motivated the team along the way
• Tracked sprint tasks to update sprint burn down chart and create sprint review documentation
• Worked with team to learn strengths and weaknesses and improve team sprint velocities
• Worked with Product Owner and stakeholders to prioritize Project Backlog

Environment: FileNet P8, WebSphere, DB2, Java, JSP, Agile methodology (Scrum), MS-SharePoint.

Confidential, New York, NY

Project/Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Organized and led the team for all the JAD user Design Process
• Coached project teams with regular team meetings with on-site and offshore teams while ensuring their voices were heard and any issues or concerns were resolved
• Developed and managed project plans using MS Project
• Created WBS for each project and tracked each project closely to ensure that the production deployment(s) were aligned with every release
• Implemented risk management, scope and change management process
• Ensured client’s QA process was adhered to
• Managed defects with clear documentation and tracked till completion
• Worked with all relevant teams to ensure that the approved release packages were implemented in production

Environment: Java, JSP, XML, Oracle 10g, Weblogic, Bizflow (Workflow engine).