SUMMARY

• An ambitious Project Management Professional and Certified Scrum Master wif about 7 years of experience who values teamwork, integrity and accountability to halp drive teams to exceed beyond their current limitations.
• Skilled at meeting teh demands of business objectives, by way of identifying, clarifying, scheduling and tracking projects throughout teh project life cycle.
• Wif proven solid understandings of teh agile development methodology and leading both technology and technologically challenged teams in teh agile framework.
• Adept at juggling teh demands of complex projects to meet teh scope of their deliverables, through strong leadership, data analysis, communications and creative problem solving.
• Seasoned at working wif cultural diverse teams across teh 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 teh 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 wif teh 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 wif complex reimbursement and client-related questions.
• Design and review project plans and checklists prepared by team to process Customers data. Owned teh entire SDLC process for development projects.
• Closely worked wif 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 teh existing release process and submitted multiple reports to improve teh process and efforts.

TECHNICAL 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 wif stakeholders regarding project risks and supported enterprise/non-enterprise production releases.
• Involved in technology, maintaining a deep understanding of teh competitive landscape, and identifying Emerging technologies dat 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 teh Agile transformation.
• Established and supported communities of practices to promote organizational understanding of Agile roles and to halp individuals develop into them.
• Wrote Agile FAQs, articles and success stories which were distributed via newsletter and posted on a SharePoint site to improve teh Agile maturity level.
• Achieved 25 percent efficiency improvement by identifying and removing impediments to prevent distractions and introducing new time management technique by managing teh 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 wif teh use of MS PowerPoint presentations.
• Identified teh potential problems, associated risks and implementing risk mitigation measures in various projects.
• Responsible for preparing teh 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 dat halped business in release planning. Maximized resource utilization resulting in 40% increase in productivity.
• Responsible for regular analysis and tracking of budget between teh multiple development teams part of multiple vendors. Monitored and communicated health of teh project through metrics.
• Collaborated wif marketing and sales teams to communicate value of teh products we build to teh 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 wif teh 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 wif 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 wif 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 teh agile development environment, as well as teh regression team For efficient and effective testing of products.
• Communicated teh progress to senior management thru 'Burndown Charts' and mentored team through teh project management processes.
• Working on teh Business problems cited by teh 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 teh new releases. Promptly communicated teh testing status and follow up on issues for customer releases.
• Improved teh 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 teh “scrum of scrums” which had more than 80 people. Directly managed a group of 11 wif 6 Developers, 4 QA and 1 Product Owner/ Business analyst.
• Recorded detailed customer requirements, constraints, and assumptions wif stakeholders to establish teh 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 teh progress of teh 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 teh UML.
• Interfaced wif developers to identify and resolve technical issues and bugs in teh 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 teh Scrum team members. Help teh 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 teh project strategy and work in close coordination of individual PMs of multiple departments.
• Managing teh Sprint Planning process by assigning specific user stories to Iterations, sizing teh Epics and User Stories, determining and reporting teh Velocity of teh team using Burndown Charts.
• Conducting Daily Stand-Up meeting, removing impediments and ensuring dat teh team is on track for delivering teh Sprint commitments and meeting all Acceptance Criteria.
• Leading Sprint Retrospective Sessions, documenting Lessons Learned and applying teh retrospective knowledge to subsequent sprints wif a view to further fine-tune teh Sprint planning and execution.
• Facilitated a release planning meeting dat translates project vision into a very rough plan dat TEMPhas buy-in from entire team; halped product owners in creating a product vision; creating a release roadmap via story mapping/ process mapping.
• Facilitated teh identification of resource needs to support teh project portfolio, and feed into teh overall resource planning process (including BSA, PM, Development, QA)
• Working wifin a formal corporate PMO, which provided project governance utilizing standard project management methodologies.
• Part of Steering committee to monitor and review teh project status and deliverable rollout.
• Coordinated as needed wif other internal Project Managers and external vendors for teh delivery of components.
• Worked closely wif teh Business Users to develop requirements, receive sign-off, communicate wif 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 halped in teh creation and grooming of teh artifacts (Product backlog, sprint backlog, project Burn down chart).
• Determined release readiness based on release criteria and managed teh approval process.
• Worked wif Dashboard team on reporting metrics needed for different projects.
• Worked wif 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 dat includes modelling of all activities of teh business from teh 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 teh requirements, features for teh project were gatheird and mapped as per teh 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.