SUMMARY

• Accomplished servant - leader capable of delivering medium to large-scale software and application development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams.
• Expert at driving teh adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.
• Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to teh removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
• Over 10 years of experience as a Project Manager/Agile Project Manager and Scrum Master in teh field of Finance, Banking and Information Technology.
• In depth noledge of Software Development Life Cycle process which includes Waterfall and Agile-Scrum, Scrum, Kanban, SaFe and Scrum-ban methodologies.
• Hands on experience in Infra Structure, Application development, Wealth Management, Compliance, Regulatory, OTC (SOX, DOTT Frank act) Projects.
• Hands on experience in setting up and supervising mid to large size projects.
• Excellent understanding of teh principles, concepts, practices and standards in project management, Agile frameworks and controls.
• Proficient in conducting all Scrum ceremonies- Daily Stand ups, Planning meetings, Review and Retrospective Meetings.
• Proficient in setting up Sprint Burn-down and Burn-up charts.
• Expert in engaging various techniques like T-shirt sizing and Planning Poker in estimating teh User-stories.
• Proficient in handling multiple teams and calculate their Team Velocity
• Expertise in preparing Project schedules and coordinating all activities associated with new product development and product change from inception through project completion, including:
• Identified and provided clarification of project objectives and scope
• Established success criteria for teh project.
• Have conducted feasibility study including cost, capacity and alternative/option analysis
• Was responsible for establishment and implementation of project team and timetables as well as a production launch plan.
• Project Coordination/Management through completion.
• Managed Budgets/Finances for Projects scaled from $2-20 Million.
• Managed both on-site and off-shore teams and ensured dat both were facilitated with resources all through teh project.
• Motivate team players with excellent business, analytical, communication, presentation, and management, technical and written skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Agile Tools: JIRA, RALLY, Version One, VSTS/VSO, HP Agile Manager.

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile-scrum, Waterfall-scrum, KANBAN, Scaled-Agile, SaFe

Business Skills: Project Management, Impact assessment, Risk Assessment /Management, Requirements gathering, Process Re-design, Data Modeling, Test Management,, Impact assessment, GAP Analysis, SWOT Analysis

Requirement Management: Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Doors, HP ALM V 11, VISIO

Project Management Tools: MS Project, Clarizen, Clarity, SharePoint, HP PPM, Primavera 6, Hyperion, PeopleSoft, CA PPM/ PPM Optics

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center v10.0, HP ALM V11.5, Quality Center (Test Director) v7.0, Rational Clear Quest, Load Runner

Statistics: Financial Data Modeling and Analysis, SWOT analysis, UAT, Regression and Risk analysis

Reporting tools: Tableau, Cognos v 8,MS Visio, Excel, SSRS, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Access

Languages: HTML5, CSS3, XML, SQL

Databases: MY SQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Managing of schedule and budget related to teh IT Infrastructure build.
• Lead a matrixed team of system design engineers, system build engineers and infrastructure technologists to successfully deliver multiple concurrent infrastructure changes in a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Managing teh customer interface for all matters related to teh build and migration.
• Ensuring dat all teh relevant engineering processes are followed and relevant standards adhered to
• Full responsibility for teh build and deployment of teh supporting IT Infrastructure for Global ITS.
• Supporting overall migration planning and deployment strategy
• Responsibility for teh production of all formal documentation related to IT infrastructure.
• Maintenance of portfolio level plans including associated resourcing plans for teh entire infrastructure team.
• Create work plans or schedules, project work packages, & project reports.
• Create and maintain logs, action items and minutes for meetings following each meeting. Maintain proactive awareness of all projects and tasks with frequent communication updates and interaction with project leads in person and by phone.
• Assist in project capture, business development effort, a draft project proposal, request for information documents, cost estimates and obtaining pricing.
• Review, proof, edit, organize and manage project deliverables/documents related to web based application projects.Design and compose slides for presentations.
• Lead tracking of project deliverables for multiple concurrent projects, tracking version control, when comments are received from individual reviewers and when response to comments and tracked changes versions of documents are due.
• Creating and recommending strategies for easier and effective execution of projects.
• Coordinate meetings, lunches, company events, and business traveling and other logistical arrangements.
• Meetings Organization - support teh Solution Architect of meetings from budgetary commitments to reporting of meetings, including reserving rooms, checking and sending agenda, compiling hand-outs, reception and security arrangements.
• Supervise project workers and ensure dat they stick to project specification and guidelines.
• Intermediate between teh director and other workers to prevent agitations dat may hinder teh smooth flow of project execution.
• Draft project budget on a monthly basis and ensure dat it meets all necessary protocols.
• Performing any other related tasks as required.
• Participate in ad-hoc projects when necessary.Create and maintain logs, action items and minutes for meetings following each meeting.
• Maintain proactive awareness of all projects and tasks with frequent communication updates and interaction with project leads in person and by phone.
• Assist in project capture, business development effort, a draft project proposal, request for information documents, cost estimates and obtaining pricing.
• Create work plans or schedules, project work packages, & project reports.
• Design and compose slides for presentations.
• Lead tracking of project deliverables for multiple concurrent projects, tracking version control, when comments are received from individual reviewers and when response to comments and tracked changes versions of documents are due.
• Create and recommend strategies for easier and effective execution of projects.
• Meetings Organization - support teh Solution Architect of meetings from budgetary commitments to reporting of meetings, including reserving rooms, checking and sending agenda, compiling hand-outs, reception and security arrangements.
• Supervise project workers and ensure dat they stick to project specification and guidelines.

Draft project budget on a monthly basis and ensure dat it meets all necessary protocols.

ENVIRONMENT: Agile, Waterfall-Agile, VSTS/VSO, JIRA, Confluence, Excel, MS Project Professional, MS Office, SharePoint.

Scrum Master/ Program Manager

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

Environment: Agile-Scrum, JIRA, MS-Visio, SQL, Sterling, SharePoint (2013), TFS, Java, HP PPM, SSIS, EA, Web Services, HTML, Guidewire, XML

Confidential, VA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Research, develop proposals and presented recommendations to senior leadership/ownership in regards to teh projects dat included network, software, hardware, security and overall IT costs.
• Managing projects around systems and data architecture
• Responsible for multiple projects simultaneously. These were projects involving teh update or replacement of server technologies for a variety of business and technical support systems.
• Providing leadership in teh delivery of local or regional IT infrastructure initiatives across teh consumer, commercial product lines.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Taught teh 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 teh enterprise
• Worked with teh engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams in India.
• Evangelized teh 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%
• Authored and persuasively presented proposal to executive team, and directed initiative for a major e-commerce program projected to save $1M per year

ENVIRONMENT:Agile -Scrum, JIRA, Java, MS Office, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus (Hyperion), MS Project, WEB Services, MS Visio, Guidewire.

Sr. Project Manager/Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed a good noledge ofAmortization,Bi-Weekly Mortgage, Fixed Rate Mortgage, Adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM), Annual percentage rate (APR), Balloon payment, Two-step mortgage, Foreclosure.
• Developed project scope, deliverables identification, resource allocation, project estimation and change management in coordination with Business Analyst.
• Liaised with key stakeholders to maintain Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), milestones identification, budget allocation, open issues resolution and project schedules development.
• Worked with various Scrum and Agile projects and measured metrics by Velocity of Scrum Teams
• Involved in conducting various Scrum ceremonies like Standups, planning, Retrospective meetings etc.
• Managed closely working with Product Owners in defining Sprint and Product backlogs.
• Managed project closure initiatives, such as client satisfaction survey and closure analysis.
• Performed Gap Analysis to identify teh deficiencies of teh current system and to identify teh requirements for teh proposed system and followedAgile SCRUMmethodology.
• Assisted BA in developinguse casediagrams,Swim Lane,Process WorkflowDiagrams,Data Flow Diagrams, and Business Workflow Diagrams to represent teh system workflow and capture bottlenecks in teh application using Enterprise Architect.
• This project is a Governance Infrastructure project with SOX regulatory development of applications.
• Worked on Identity Access Management tools (IAM) in granting access to various resources.
• Assisted BA in constructingdata mappingdocument by identifying source attributes, target destination, and business rules to setup theETLprocess.
• Directed a cross functional, geographically diverse team responsible for teh deployment of thedata warehouse,data mart, associatedETLstreams and teh analytic applications.
• Was responsible in reviewing teh user stories according to teh Acceptance criteria.
• Directed ongoing data quality assurance activities including design and implementation of data validation audits reports for ongoing productionETLloads and execution of data campaigns.
• Directed teh development and institution of teh quality assurance and change control governance models.
• Assisted in performingData Mappingactivities such as capturing data requirements, source to target mappings, and data validation rules usingSSISand executed SQL queries to retrieve data from different databases.
• Generated & managed static & operational reports usingSSRSand deployed them into MS SharePointdocument libraries.
• UtilizedJirafor Requirements Traceability throughout teh testing and development life cycle, issue tracking, requirements management and project management.
• Directed successful transition to a steady production state of teh applications, data warehouse and data mart's quality assurance, maintenance and governance models usingORACLE DRM.

Environment: UML, SDLC, Rational Requisite Pro, SharePoint (2007), MS Visio, Excel, MS Project, MS Access, SQL Server, WESB, Sterling, IBM Message broker, Windows 2000/XP.

• Gatheird business requirements by driving user-group meetings and working with various global, cross-functional and virtual teams.
• Responsible for business system analysis of customizing teh product with SDLC.
• Responsible for handling data manipulation, mapping, and basic database tasks.
• Responsible for understanding current processes and tools and experience in reviewing and analyzing documentation.
• Assisted teh Project manager in creating teh Work breakdown structure (WBS).
• Created Macros for teh project application.
• Experience in working in teh Application development.
• Created User Requirement document for testing purposes reports in Business Objects.
• Experienced in working with technical Writing teams and ensures teh delivery of a high-quality software application.
• Used Visio to model teh process using UML to create behavioral and structural diagrams.
• Experience in Facilitating organizational change strategy development and objective setting with a cross-functional group of Business/State stakeholders.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Use stories, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, UML and Business Process Modeling.
• Developed business process models in RUP to document existing and future business processes.
• Conducted client side validation to study ETL operations on teh involved databases and teh data warehouse
• Worked along with teh development team to solve browser compatibility issues.