SUMMARY

• Successfully delivered multiple concurrent multi - million-dollar projects, across business areas, cross-functional teams, countries and time zones using Waterfall and Scrum framework.
• Sustained track record of progressively increasing responsibilities and steady career growth. Conducted and prepared business feasibility studies.
• Ddeveloped proposals, including estimates for costs, time and resource; prepared statistical reports; complete cost/benefits analysis, project plans, project charter and performed project management tasks, and business requirements gathering.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Program Management
• Project Management
• Agile Transformation
• Scrum Methodology
• Relationship Management
• Scope Management
• Vendor Management
• Team Management
• Change Control Process
• Financial management
• Budget Management
• Reporting Management
• Risk Mitigation
• Strategic Planning
• Resource Allocation
• Communication Management
• Product roadmap and backlog management
• Epic and User story creation facilitation
• Sprint planning and technical debt mgt
• Sprint Review and Retrospective
• Scrum of Scrums
• Program Increment Planning
• Velocity Reporting and Prediction
• Burn Down and Up charts

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Project Manager/Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed current and new project management methodology to identify the most efficient and inexpensive ways to complete project leading to saving of about 20% cost.
• Effectively managed waterfall and scrum teams to complete projects by coaching, delegating, providing feedback and resolving conflicts and problems.
• Lead and facilitated program roadmap, breakdown, objectives and delivery meetings wif Senior Leadership (IT and Business).
• Created and updated traceability matrix, tractability matrix and Project plans, so that all projects can be tracked and aligned wif business priorities and on time delivery almost 90% of time.
• Participated and managed day to day activities associated wif projects, ensuring that business solutions are delivered on time, wifin budget, and meet corporate standards.
• Facilitated Scrum team selection, Creation of Epics, Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum standup, Scrum of Scrums, Product backlog, Task List, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Facilitated Epic breakdown, User stories creation, estimation and commitment meetings wif development and business scrum teams.
• Anticipated risks and impediments early and worked wif teams on risk mitigation plan and impediment removal to avoid further slippage and risks turning into issues.
• Analyzed and communicated program status using standard and specific project management analysis techniques for budget and schedule variance. This includes but is not limited to the generation and publication of program status reports.
• Maintained and always keep up to date of program relevant budget, schedule, and resource information wifin the portfolio management tool to ease preparation of Operating and Steering committee presentations for leadership and stakeholders.
• Evaluated and made recommendations to improve organizational effectiveness and customer service, reduces costs and provides a competitive advantage.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Scheduled work to meet completion dates, estimated manpower needs, reviewed project progress and made changes in methodology where necessary.
• Drove stream of work reporting to PMO. Work wif Solutions architect, technology delivery manager/technology delivery executive, and developers.
• Delivered documentation and circulation of an end to end Plan, including activity, dependencies, timing and ownership (WBS: Work Break down Structure). Followed up wif specific owners to deliver components of the project on-time.

Confidential

Manager - IT Projects

Responsibilities:

• Identified critical path decisions, made recommendations, and influenced program leaders and business process owners to maximize project payback.
• Established dynamic IT alignment and strong relationships wif functional team members to define and execute multiple large initiatives.
• Perform/Drive business analysis, data analysis and translate business requirements into functional specifications and validate functional designs wif subject matter experts.
• Performed project management of all tasks and resources, estimating and tracking progress against individual plan, and monitoring development activity to overall enterprise plan
• Delivered the project to cost, scope and timeframes approved by the Steering Committee or Initiatives Council.

Confidential

Business System Analyst.

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in leading Joint Application developments (JAD), Joint Requirement Planning sessions (JRP), Scrum Planning and Requirement Elicitation sessions wif stakeholders, end users and technology group.
• Ensured Requirements for Efficiency, Maintainability, Usability, Re-startability, Recoverability, Performance and Compliance are analyzed, defined and included.
• Documented business requirements, to ensure that the project team develops solutions that meet the customer's needs and to minimize requirement defects up front prior to implementation.
• Created/Reviewed test conditions, test cases and test plan for system test, user acceptance test and regression testing. Prepared project specific documentation. Attended and lead project review meetings.

Confidential .

Business Analyst.

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an Interface between the users and the different teams involved in the application development for the better understanding of the business and IT processes.
• Worked as an Interface between the users and the different teams involved in the application development for the better understanding of the business and IT processes.
• Acted as single point of contact for the off-shore team.
• Created full life-cycle documentation from product requirements in the developmental stage to functional specifications for the completed modules of application components.
• Reviewed the Test Plan, Test Scripts developed by the testing team for testing the application.

Confidential

Team Lead - Quality.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the defect triage meetings, including ownership of the defect management process and administration of the test case repository and defect tracking tool.
• Created and executed test cases along wif test plans and estimations.
• Provided Test Reports on all test activity. Defined the reporting needs beyond the standard reports generated.
• Worked wif cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.