SUMMARY

• An ambitious Project Management Professional and Certified Scrum Master with about 7 years of experience who values teamwork, integrity and accountability to help drive teams to exceed beyond their current limitations.
• Skilled at meeting the demands of business objectives, by way of identifying, clarifying, scheduling and tracking projects throughout the project life cycle.
• With proven solid understandings of the agile development methodology and leading both technology and technologically challenged teams in the agile framework.
• Adept at juggling the demands of complex projects to meet the scope of their deliverables, through strong leadership, data analysis, communications and creative problem solving.
• Seasoned at working with cultural diverse teams across the globe, from early - stage requirements gathering and procurement of services to project follow-through and completion.
• Manage multiple teams of (20+ resource both onsite and offshore)
• Demonstrated responsibility and leadership capabilities at all the deliverables.
• Lead, manage and drive teams in agile methodology in Product based companies to effectively deliver on schedule and Budget.
• Active participation in product requirement meetings with the stakeholders.
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for gathering requirements, analysis and design.
• Extensive knowledge on developing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Technical Specification Document (TSD), Scope of Work (SOW).
• Conduct GAP analysis, SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis and ROI analysis.
• Manage, review and execute manual, automation and performance test strategies, test plans and test cases.
• Design of project checklists, risk registers, issue trackers, communication plans, change management plans and implementation plans.
• Conduct and manage demo of products to business team and management.
• Provided additional adjudication processing assistance to team members with complex reimbursement and client-related questions.
• Design and review project plans and checklists prepared by team to process Customers data. Owned the entire SDLC process for development projects.
• Closely worked with procurement team and involved in vendor management for resources. Managed and executed custom support activities.
• Developed Risk management document, Disaster management documents, Change management documents and Vendor management documents.
• Analyzed the existing release process and submitted multiple reports to improve the process and efforts.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Skills: Primavera, Open text’s Live Link Document Management System, API, Visio, Sun, Eclipse, Toad, Confluence, Team Foundation Server (TFS), VSTS, GIT, GitHub, Puppet, Jenkins.

SOFTWARE & LANGUAGES: JAVA, R, JavaScript, Visual Basic, VB Script, ASP, HTML, SWIFT, XML, Oracle SQL, IBM WebSphere, Web Services, Tableau, Google analytics, AWS, MSBI - Microsoft business intelligence

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows, LINUX, UNIX, Mac OX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Scrum Master/Tech Project Manager/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Communicated with stakeholders regarding project risks and supported enterprise/non-enterprise production releases.
• Involved in technology, maintaining a deep understanding of the competitive landscape, and identifying Emerging technologies that can impact growth.
• Coached other product owners on requirements gathering and story writing process.
• Developed and delivered team and organization training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile transformation.
• Established and supported communities of practices to promote organizational understanding of Agile roles and to help individuals develop into them.
• Wrote Agile FAQs, articles and success stories which were distributed via newsletter and posted on a SharePoint site to improve the Agile maturity level.
• Achieved 25 percent efficiency improvement by identifying and removing impediments to prevent distractions and introducing new time management technique by managing the product team and ensure they focus on sprint goals.
• Led sessions to aid co-creation of Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, and Team Values & Working Agreements.
• Created and presented project status reports to business and upper management on a bi-weekly basis and conducted quarterly forecast sessions with the use of MS PowerPoint presentations.
• Identified the potential problems, associated risks and implementing risk mitigation measures in various projects.
• Responsible for preparing the project plan, project schedule, milestone tracking and resource allocation using MS Project. Responsible for writing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and User Requirement Specifications.
• Writing and executing Change management plans and vendor management plans for successful software.
• Tracked and communicated team velocity, sprint/release progress, sprint burnt down and other metrics that helped business in release planning. Maximized resource utilization resulting in 40% increase in productivity.
• Responsible for regular analysis and tracking of budget between the multiple development teams part of multiple vendors. Monitored and communicated health of the project through metrics.
• Collaborated with marketing and sales teams to communicate value of the products we build to the market.

Environment: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JSON, JQuery, .Net, ASP.NET, iOS, Android, Angular.js, Bootstrap, Coda, GIT, Jasmine, JIRA, Visual Studio.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Scrum Master/Project Manager/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Mentored and coached four teams new to Agile in Scrum and Lean Best Practices developing firmware for hardware integration and shipping
• As Scrum Master, Helped team in writing user stories, worked closely with the Product Owners to manage complex backlog of stories, continually kept sufficient set of stories defined and estimated for Sprints, aided Scrum team in determining suitable commitments.
• Worked with stakeholders, operations Finance, accounting, Marketing, IT and vendors to understand work and processes -in-place vs. delayed as well as globally distributed teams to meet deliverables.
• Developed and presented high-level roadmap and project plan in Steering Meetings using Jira and MS Project.
• Responsible for managing onsite/offshore globally-distributed team members and product teams, conducting Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Retrospective and Sprint Reviews sessions and managing functional testing, regression.
• Coordinated work with a cross functional team of technical and business owners to deliver world class solutions to business problems.
• Proactive identification of problems and opportunities followed by effective communication across an interdisciplinary project team.
• Motivated team to ensure best results in the agile development environment, as well as the regression team For efficient and effective testing of products.
• Communicated the progress to senior management thru 'Burndown Charts' and mentored team through the project management processes.
• Working on the Business problems cited by the Account management team and provide Data backed recommendations/insights.
• Initiated and developed Automation framework for Web Applications, coordinated automation testing using Selenium.
• Developed processes to streamline testing efforts for the new releases. Promptly communicated the testing status and follow up on issues for customer releases.
• Improved the quality of products by better QA practices and adherence to standards. Functional and non-functional testing of web based applications.
• Facilitate training for teams on new technologies.

Environment: JIRA, Confluence, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Angular.js, JSON, JQuery, PHP, iOS, Android, Coda, GIT, Jasmine.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Scrum Master/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Part of the “scrum of scrums” which had more than 80 people. Directly managed a group of 11 with 6 Developers, 4 QA and 1 Product Owner/ Business analyst.
• Recorded detailed customer requirements, constraints, and assumptions with stakeholders to establish the project deliverables, using requirement-gathering techniques (e.g., planning sessions, brainstorming, focus groups) and finalized project charter.
• Successfully driven complex transition from Waterfall to Agile methodology. (Scrum, Lean/Kanban, SAFe, and DAD frameworks)
• Measured project performance using appropriate tools and techniques to monitor the progress of the project, identify and quantify any variances, perform any required corrective actions, and communicate to all stakeholders.
• Facilitate Scrum process (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews & retrospectives)
• Setting up Meetings i.e. Kickoff/Close, Estimation, Prioritization and Elaboration meetings.
• Developed and Documented Software Requirements Specification (SRS) and documented product design utilizing TFS and the UML.
• Interfaced with developers to identify and resolve technical issues and bugs in the software to validate end-user requirements. Helped in creating of data-mapping best practices document including visual processes and trained team members on data mapping process and tools.
• Performed UI Design and Analysis; Involved in GUI interfacing and prototyping, System Integration testing and created test cases and test scripts.
• Communicate ongoing vision, goals, and backlog content to the Scrum team members. Help the Scrum team promote clears tory writing and concise backlog story grooming.
• Improved release planning practices by facilitated story-mapping, story writing and agile estimation workshops.

Environment: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JSON, JQuery, Angular.js, Bootstrap, Visual Studio, GIT, Jasmine, JIRA, NPM, BOWER.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple projects and responsible for planning the project strategy and work in close coordination of individual PMs of multiple departments.
• Managing the Sprint Planning process by assigning specific user stories to Iterations, sizing the Epics and User Stories, determining and reporting the Velocity of the team using Burndown Charts.
• Conducting Daily Stand-Up meeting, removing impediments and ensuring that the team is on track for delivering the Sprint commitments and meeting all Acceptance Criteria.
• Leading Sprint Retrospective Sessions, documenting Lessons Learned and applying the retrospective knowledge to subsequent sprints with a view to further fine-tune the Sprint planning and execution.
• Facilitated a release planning meeting that translates project vision into a very rough plan that has buy-in from entire team; helped product owners in creating a product vision; creating a release roadmap via story mapping/ process mapping.
• Facilitated the identification of resource needs to support the project portfolio, and feed into the overall resource planning process (including BSA, PM, Development, QA)
• Working within a formal corporate PMO, which provided project governance utilizing standard project management methodologies.
• Part of Steering committee to monitor and review the project status and deliverable rollout.
• Coordinated as needed with other internal Project Managers and external vendors for the delivery of components.
• Worked closely with the Business Users to develop requirements, receive sign-off, communicate with development team and enable communication via regular stakeholder meetings.

Environment: Rally, CSS, HTML, Java script, Angular JS, bootstrap, Typescript, Ajax, Rest web service, SourceTree, Git, Grunt and Npm & Bower.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, daily standups, sprint review, sprint retrospect, Scrum of Scrum) and helped in the creation and grooming of the artifacts (Product backlog, sprint backlog, project Burn down chart).
• Determined release readiness based on release criteria and managed the approval process.
• Worked with Dashboard team on reporting metrics needed for different projects.
• Worked with Business groups, assisting them in transition to a new web-publishing model, processes and use of web content management software.
• Weighed business needs against security concerns and articulate security issues to business lines and management.
• Developed project schedule templates utilized through entire PMO.
• Performed risk assessments, audits and examinations of existing business unit functions.
• Prepared Business Process Models that includes modelling of all activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level. Followed top down, leveled technique for building Business Process Models.
• Analysis of business requirements and converted to high-level Use Cases, Activity and Sequence diagrams.
• Prepared Requirement tractability matrix to ensure all the requirements, features for the project were gathered and mapped as per the requirement in BRD.

Environment: HP ProLiant Servers, Storage and Backup systems, ASP.NET, Web Services, Jira, Visual Studio.NET, SSL, C#, JavaScript, HTML, IIS 6.0, ADO.NET, SQLSERVER 2005, Microsoft Visio, XML, CSS, MS Projects.