SUMMARY:

• Accomplished servant - leader, capable of delivering large-scale Projects facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams with 14 years of IT Experience.
• Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.
• Coached, Trained and Mentored high performing Scrum Teams for more Valuable agile practices
• Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
• Thorough understanding of Spotify Framework and Spotify Scaling to visualize Squads, Tribes, Chapters and Guilds with T-Shape Model

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Agile Principles

SAFe

Ceremonies

Business Analysis

Conflict Resolution

Business Intelligence

Estimation

System Analysis

Spotify

Data warehousing

Project Management

Kanban

DOD/Acceptance Criteria

Data Analysis

Domain Experience:

HealthCare, P&C Insurance, Online-food Ordering, Manufacturing, Credit Card, Software, Finance, Banking, Energy, Retail, Telecommunications, Funding and Automobile

SKILLS:

Competencies: Scrum, Project Management, SAFe, Spotify, Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Business Intelligence, System Analysis, Product Owner, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office, Rally, Visio, JIRA, Confidential ALM, CLARITY, Share point, Quality Center, Version One, KANBAN, Excel, Power Point, Dimensional Modeling, ITIL Process, Use cases, Requirements Gathering, Agile, Waterfall, SDLC, User stories, Process Flows, ETL, DWH, Oracle BPM, BRD,DRM, MDM, EPM, FDM11.x, Hyperion Financial Management 11.x, Financial Reporting, Hyperion Essbase 9.3.1.x Clear Quest, Soap UI, Change Management, Web Analysis, OLAP, Smart View, Test Plans, RFP’S,RFC’S, JAD Sessions, Business Objects XI R3, 5.1,6.2, Visio and Word.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Scrum Master/ Process Manager

Responsibilities:

• Train and Coach new team members of LA Bite team to Confidential Environment
• Closely work with Confidential Sr. Director of Technical operations and LA Bite CTO to make them understand the process of Scrum.
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrums to teams in Belgium
• Authored and persuasively presented proposal to executive team, and directed initiative for a major AWS program projected to save $5M per year
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect teams from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs
• Made Team understand the principles underlying agile methodologies by training and educating
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours
• Extensive use of Kanban Boards to define and track progress of User stories in Rally
• Experience as an RTE and Driving Teams on SAFe
• Focus on Kanban process on Lean Agile for Visualizing work and Continuous Improvement

Confidential, River Woods, IL

Scrum Master/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 20% and the quality of deliverables by 26%
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of 6 major initiatives
• Made Team understand the principles underlying agile methodologies by training and educating
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours
• Extensive use of Kanban Boards to define and track progress of User stories in Rally
• Experience as an RTE and Driving Teams on SAFe
• Focus on Kanban process on Lean Agile for Visualizing work and Continuous Improvement
• Followed continuous delivery using Kanban process for an OLMPD Project
• Coached and Mentored 3 Teams about Agile Practices and Principles.
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from iteration to sprints to deployment
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Facilitations with Directors. Sr. Managers and VP Marketing on Backlog Grooming Sessions

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Successfully migrated more than 8 projects from Waterfall to Scrum within 6 months
• 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
• Coached and Trained Scrum Teams to learn about trends in Agile development and Scrum Framework
• 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 engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrums for offshore teams in India.
• Explained the benefits of Scrum to Business 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%
• Authored and persuasively presented proposal to executive team, and directed initiative for a major Federal Survey program projected to target different customers across BCBS.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the Finance projects
• Worked with the Sr. Managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks
• Coached and Trained Scrum teams on Framework with Scrum Team to apply agile and Scrum for the real product.
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams in India.
• Worked on agile principles of DOD for Quality of Work
• Trained Business on Scrum and Agile Principles
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress

Confidential, Austin, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Conducted analysis and Conducted Scrum Ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily-stand up’s) of business and user needs to develop requirements documentation for specified Confidential Software business units.
• Facilitated sprint planning as Scrum master for Scrum teams.
• Developed Test strategies, Test plans, Test cases and Test scenarios.
• Reported Test results and documents and reported defects on Daily basis.
• Capture, consolidate, and communicate information between SMEs and Development team.
• Worked on 14 different source systems as Scrum Master and to integrate into reporting needs and working on MDM needs using Vertica and resolving issues in 24hrs.
• Understand business user requirements for information, features, functions and communicate to the application development, metrics/reporting team and drawing UML Diagrams
• Take high level business requirements and filter them down to an appropriate level of business rules and detailed user, functional and non-functional requirements and write user stories based on the use cases

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Communicating with Business Users for all specific BI Planning
• Organized and Facilitated Sprint Planning daily stand up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning’s, Demos and Scrum related meetings.
• Gathered Technical specs and Translated them to Database Solutions
• Compared Data Mappings between different Databases and Generated Data work flows and Utilized Analytical functions to transform the data and presented to the End Users.
• Primary Liaison as Scrum Master between different BU’S, DC’S and Finance and Writing BR Document.
• Written user stories for software development with P&C (Home and Auto).
• Interacted with Customer and Developers to write the User stories using Wireframes.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Sr. Business Lead

Responsibilities:

• Looking into the Design Considerations of Planning and Confidential BI Tools for Finance and Tax departments
• Communicating with Business Users regarding the Project Specifications and Milestones with Agile Scrum methodology
• Written Financial and Tax Project Goals into Technical Requirements as User stories.
• Understood the Technology and driven the process to meet deadlines.
• Used BPM and EPM Tools to Collect data and integrate it through process of DWH using Kimball Architecture.
• Loaded Data through FDM and Worked with Data Grids
• Worked on Business Rules and Application Security and part of Change Management process.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Entered data into data Grids using Hyperion Financial Management and done Business Analysis
• Worked as Business Analyst for Hyperion Planning with Agile Scrum methodology Gathering requirements, Writing Scope Analysis, Documenting the Process Flow
• Entered data into Data forms and Communicated with Business and IT.
• Processed Journals and generated Reports
• Created FDM Applications
• Integrated FDM applications with Target applications
• Created Validation rules and Entities and Interfaced through JAD Sessions and Implemented change management process (Planned/Unplanned)

Confidential

BA Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, troubleshooting and application demo presentations of Cognos 8 and Hyperion 9.3.0 and B.O XI R2 and Oracle BPM, Data warehousing platforms on Windows and Linux versions to Clients.
• Demo Presentation for Cognos and Installation and configuration on Stage and Production with Data stage as ETL.
• Lead a Team of 4 People and As a Team Lead Managed and Trained Team Members.
• Provided Status Reports on Team Activities
• Coordinated meetings with the Client, Project manager and the Functional Teams.
• Lead definition of Hyperion Essbase application architecture standards, best- practices and design methodology.

Confidential

Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Operations and helped Nissan for Cost Effective Production on Hyperion Planning and Requirements Gathering through JAD Sessions
• Documented the Business Process by identifying the requirements on planning side with Agile Process.
• As good Knowledge in Hyperion Planning provided User trainings to Hyperion Users
• Took active part in Business Modeling using Erwin with RUP Life Cycle.
• Evaluating the information gathered through workshops and surveys of Cognos TM1.

Confidential

Hyperion Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Architects to gather and translate requirements
• Helped to Identify potential data sources by talking to the Business Users
• Recommended Scope of Requirements and written Requirements Gathering Matrix
• Demo presentations of Hyperion 9
• To assist pre sales team in making architecture recommendations
• Lead definition of Hyperion Essbase application architecture standards, best- practices and design methodology.
• Provide deep-level Hyperion Essbase and data warehouse subject-matter expertise and consultancy to the team in areas of functional design data warehouse design, dimensional model design, ETL, dashboards and optimization.

Confidential

Hyperion Presales Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provide deep-level Hyperion Essbase and data warehouse subject-matter expertise and consultancy to the team in areas of functional design data warehouse design, dimensional model design, ETL, dashboards and optimization through presales from requirement gathering sessions
• Directly interact and communicate with the clients and explain the Functionalities of the system and tool.
• Participate in and contribute to business/functional analysis and requirements definition.
• Prepare RFI and review for complete BI and Data warehousing tools available.
• Had done RFP’S, RFC’S, and RFI’S for customers and had done demo calls.
• Training of customers and partners.