PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Confidential is an IT Professional wif 15 years of experience in Information Technology working as a Project Manager, Scrum Master, Release Manager and a Java Developer.
• Confidential was successfully delivered several large to midsized projects wifin time and budget.
• Confidential is excellent at collaborating, facilitating and coaching teams.
• Confidential is excellent at working wif Business Stakeholders and Product Managers to halp them understand teh project Status, Risks and Constraints and is equally good at managing teh technical teams, including doing code and defect reviews wif them.
• Confidential TEMPhas a strong background in working wif teh client to define business processes and develop requirements.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Project Management Tools: Programming:

Java Technologies: J2SDK v1.4, J2EE, EJB, Servlets, JSP, Struts Framework, Hibernate, Spring Framework, AJAX - DWR, J2ME, Java Beans, RMI, JDBC, Java Applets

IDE Tools: WSAD, XMLSpy3.5, Eclipse RCP

Database: Oracle 8.x/9.x, SQL Server, MS-Access wif exposure to VBA

Internet Tools/Technologies: XML, PL/SQL, XSLT, Java Script, HTML, XMLSpy 3.5, Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, WebLogic

Source Code Control: Visual Source Safe, Ant, Maven, SVN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, IL

Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated Scrum Meetings - Planning Sprint, Sprint Kick off meetings, Backlog Refinement Meetings, Grooming Sessions, Sprint reviews, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.
• Fully involved in Backlog estimation exercise during Project Planning.
• Was involved in Release Planning of teh products.
• Kept an updated Confluence Project space wif meeting minutes, project deliverables, calendars, technical docs etc.
• Kept JIRA updated wif Product backlog, Scrum Board, User Stories, technical tasks etc.
• Created, maintained and organized backlog of features, epics, stories and tasks.
• Generated project status reports depicting budget spent, scope delivered and risks.
• Supported and educate product owner and team wif respect to grooming and Product backlog.
• Mentored teh team on Scrum best practices.
• Removed impediments and external distractions interfering wif team’s ability in delivering sprint goals.
• Organized and participated in Defect triage meetings to resolve outstanding defect issues.
• Calculate team velocity and maintain sprint burndown.
• Worked teams to deliver product releases based on schedule released by Release Management.
• Helped in removing blocking issues wif support from other teams/stakeholders to achieve sprint objectives, coordinate and manage code releases wif other IT groups.
• Closely coordinated wif Production deployment team to ensure code is released and important jobs scheduled.
• Facilitate release schedule and sprint planning, identify & allocate resources needed to build a Scrum team.
• Organized end of sprint demos for Product Managers and Owners.
• Coordinated work wif other scrum teams to check for dependencies.
• Worked wif teh business to define Project Scope & created Project Charter.
• Created Project Plan and focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestone were completed on time & wif desired results.
• Conducting workshops/working sessions wif project team, Product Owner, Product Managers and stakeholders, to drive project goals and priorities.
• Performed Budget Planning including planning for Contingency Reserves/ Risks and did Resource Tracking and scheduling using Sears Ad hoc Scheduling Tool.
• Maintained Risk Log and worked wif teh team to mitigate teh risk.
• Planned and conducted Sprint Planning Meetings, Backlog Refinement Sessions, Retrospectives and Demos.
• Maintain Product backlog and Scrum Board in JIRA.
• Created and Updated Burn Down charts.
• Worked wif teh Off shore team to organize work and create processes for Project Delivery and created standards dat needed to be followed for communication and escalation.
• Ran Daily stand up meeting and collaborated between business and IT Team.
• Conducted Resource Planning and Tracking.
• Identifying proper resources required, estimating and procuring resources required by teh project.
• Delivering teh project wifin set budget and timeline wif quality and expectations
• Working wif PMO to enforce new guidelines/standards.
• Organize teh work into manageable activities and determine an TEMPeffective approach to completing teh work, delegating work according to Resource Capability and skills.
• Assisted teh project teams and application infrastructure teams to establish teh physical environments as application code moved between environments like QA, STAGING on a smooth path to Production Environments
• Provided input on new and existing processes and procedures based on industry best practices
• Demonstrated a process driven method of working by showing attention to detail
• Escalating promptly any issues dat may impact operations. Producing stage plans, Highlight reports, risk logs, requests for change.
• Analyzed, Troubleshot and took appropriate actions for Application/Webserver errors and logs on UNIX Platforms.
• Troubleshot application integration, deployment and configuration issues
• Wiki and JIRA Administration.
• Created Training and Roll out of different applications.
• Created Implementation Plan for Roll out and worked wif Release Management to get code into production.
• Was involved in coordination of Trouble shooting and resolution of Post Production issues.

Environment: Unix, JBoss, WebSphere 7.0, Tomcat, My SQL DB, SVN, Ant Deploy Scripts, Maven.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Tech Lead & Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is a Resource Management System (RMS) which involves developing a UI-Front end for editing and generating Reports for teh user. Teh reports front end TEMPhas four Primary Functions: Parameter Collection, Parameter Storage, Report Initiation, and report display. It’s a complex Java-J2EE STRUTS based Architecture.
• This project models all existing taxonomies and related links into topic maps, and provides it to teh Internal Atlas Platform for Scion in a consistent manner and to insulate Atlas from teh mechanisms by which this information is created and maintained today. Teh information in teh Relate implementations on IRN/TRN will be consolidated in a single data store, called “Relationship Database.” From this location, teh Relate information can be supplied to Atlas in a single consistent manner.
• Confidential is a java based framework developed by HSBC. It is based on MVC Architecture, very similar to dat of STRUTS Framework. Teh whole framework TEMPhas been broken into small reusable plug-ins. Teh plug-ins can be released as individual projects to teh clients.

Environment: Java2, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Web logic 7.1, AWT-Swing,, Oracle 7i, WindowsNT, Linux and Solaris OS, VSS, UML, Rational Performance studio, Servlets, Jakarta Struts, XML, XSL, SQL, VSS.