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Summary

  • Extensively experienced Scrum Master/ Project Manager managing multiple IT teams delivering projects using conventional Project Management and Agile methodologies.
  • Proactive Scrum Master implemented the best practices of Scaled Agile Framework SAFe - ceremonies, metrics, incremental and iterative delivery across the enterprise.
  • Skilled in coordinating with the planning and delivery of concurrent multiple projects, constantly monitoring the health of projects and taking appropriate actions.
  • Played key role in managing every step of SDLC process and each phase of project life cycle.
  • Excellent problem solving skills to resolve issues and mitigate risks that arise frequently
  • Expertise in Lean and Agile project methodologies and used frameworks like Scrum in projects implementation.
  • Well versed with Enterprise staffing, performance evaluation, recognition and rewarding procedures, tools and techniques moving resources across teams for effective utilization.
  • Experience in managing the challenging issues and resolving the conflicts necessary to drive projects.
  • Excellent understanding and expertise working in projects involving cutting edge technologies and an extraordinary ability to learn and embrace the evolving tools.
  • Managed project teams of various sizes and also ability to independently manage multiple activities at different locations onshore-offshore and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.
  • Extensive Experience working in Strategic Planning with various lines of Business and Technology creating and implementing short and long term strategies through projects.
  • Skilled in the use of PMBOK concepts and experience in SDLC using Agile, Rapid and Scrum.
  • Reported to execs and clients on project status: burn down/budget, complete, risks, milestones, etc.
  • Prepared business requirements, functional specs, SOWs and other project docs for critical projects.
  • Handled high-touch clients on a daily basis, motivated software and creative asset project team members. Prioritized work for team members based on weekly changes in client's needs and project health.
  • Educated other team members internally on best practices for Agile software development project management. Initiated and contributed to internal process improvement projects.
  • Have worked with SCRUM Agile JAD and RAD development methodology on the design and building of websites and web based applications.
  • Excellent Documentation skills to generate Business Requirement Document BRD , Functional Specification Document FSD , and Project Charter

Technical Skills

SDLC Methodologies

Agile using Scrum, Kanban, Lean and RUP, Waterfall Methodologies

Business Collaboration

MS SharePoint, MS Visio, Clear Quest, Clarizen and Confluence

Operating systems

Linux, Unix, Z/OS, Windows 7/NT/2000/XP

Languages/Scripts

Java, .NET, COBOL, CICS, JCL, PL/I, Java Script, VB Script, HTML, XML and SQL

Databases

DB2, IMS/DB, Teradata, SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle 9i 10g, MySQL

workbench

Tools

HPSM, HP QC, ALM, Clarizen, Rally, Jira, Mingle, MS Project, MS Office

Suite, Rational tools, Crystal Reports XI Rel. 2, SSRS, Business Objects,

IBM-Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose 6.0, MS Visio

Domain Knowledge

Tele-communications, Banking, Insurance and Retail

Professional Experience

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

  • Managed the team and ensured that synergies across all the projects in the program are achieved and inter project dependencies are addressed effectively.
  • Facilitate Sprint planning, daily Scrum meeting, Backlog Grooming, Sprint retro Sprint review.
  • Prioritizing the sprint backlog and coming up with techniques/tools to efficiently manage Sprint backlog.
  • Understanding the Product Owner's Vision and long-term product planning.
  • Facilitate and involve in Functional Technical decisions.
  • Motivating and coaching the team with Agile best practices.
  • Created forums for communicating vision, goals, and Product Backlog items to the team.
  • Facilitated the Biweekly Scrum of Scrums and Weekly Scrum Master Roundtable meetings to get feedback and suggest improvements to enhance performance
  • Ensure crystal clear communication among everyone involved in the project.
  • Maintained Task Boards to provide/have more visibility to Sprint Backlog.
  • Making sure the team updates the effort spent on the stories.
  • Manage conflicting interests and identify compromises while simultaneously delivering results under pressure.
  • Identifying, managing help mitigate project issues and risks.
  • Helping associates and stakeholders understand and enact scrum in their lines of business.
  • Effectively communicate status, progress, and results to management.
  • Create and maintain a plan for continuous road mapping.
  • Coordinate all release schedules with Dev/Tech Ops.
  • Maintain team metrics and make visible to team including burn down charts .
  • Demonstrated success in team leadership, stakeholder management, process adherence ownership/commitment.
  • Oversee project timelines, deliverables, resources, tasks, dependencies effort required.
  • Continuous communications with the product owners in getting the requirement right and sign-off.

Environment: Sales force SFDC , .NET, Java, Python, XML, Version One, Jira, Mongo DB and Cassandra

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

  • Managed the team and ensured that synergies across all the projects in the program are achieved and inter project dependencies are addressed effectively.
  • Expertise in working with business in defining project scope and high level solutions.
  • Scrum Master Responsibilities included management of the backlog with the Product Owners, sprint planning execution, daily team standup meetings and scrum of scrum S2 sessions, risk/impediment removal, demos, retrospectives and facilitation/coaching of the team to help them meet their goals.
  • Planned the capacity planning and managed the Product Backlog, worked with the team to prioritize requirements, define and manage scope and sprints for a project.
  • Client relationship management, Risk mitigation, project and resource planning.
  • Organized and lead the Sprint planning meetings encouraged discussions among team members so that stories were clearly understood and scoped, estimated stories using story points with sizing them whenever necessary, tasked them out, and ensured overall transparency, accuracy and consistency in maintained.
  • Drafted project contracts, budgeting and estimations leading to win-win situations.
  • Conducting the stand ups, coordinating with cross functional teams, resolving the impediments, driving the architectural teams to get the ERD Epic readiness documents signed off for future sprints.
  • Coordinated with Clients and partners to build cross functional teams moved resources around to mitigate risks and issues arising out of globally distributed teams from multiple competing vendors, outsourced partners and third party system vendors working in an onsite-offshore model.
  • Constantly work with Version One tool to flexibly plan and adopt the best agile practices
  • Guiding the team on continuous integration, managing the quality delivery, preparing the Definition of Done.
  • Responsible for quality deliverables, project timeliness, and customer satisfaction.
  • Participated in review of plans associated with project execution and also provide the clarifications to development and testing teams as they arise.
  • Involved in GO-NO GO Meetings, coordinate with project releases and delivered all the projects on time within budget.

Environment: Sales force SFDC , Java Scripts, APEX Classes, APEX Triggers, HTML, XML, Jira, Version One, TOAD, SQL and Oracle

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Worked collaboratively across geography with business stakeholders and cross-functional team to deliver projects as per Scrum's Rules, Roles, Artifacts and Events.
  • Planned the capacity planning and managed the Product Backlog, worked with the team to prioritize requirements, define and manage scope and sprints for a project.
  • Functioned as the Scrum Master for the Pilot teams in implementing Agile Practices.
  • Spearheaded bringing Scrum and Agile into the Engineering department.
  • Facilitated the Daily Standup Meeting and used it effectively to help protect the team from distractions and interruptions, removing impediments and improve the empowerment and productivity of the team.
  • Coached and mentored a 9 member team with members distributed across the US and India, on an onsite-Offshore model from different vendors.
  • Identified existing SDLC as outdated and ineffective, spearheaded a corp-wide Agile overhaul. Initiated and documented process improvements and standardized templates for estimating, program management and project management initiatives.
  • Led the Scrum Transition Team of execs and VPs chartered with learning and adopting Scrum.
  • Facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective meetings
  • Lead the Sprint Review /Demo Meeting Presented Sprint Metrics and Release trends that included Velocity, Cumulative Flow Diagrams, Burn-down charts to encourage teams maintain a sustainable pace.
  • Mentored and coached software teams and individuals in the effective use of these SDLCs
  • Managed globally-distributed, iterative projects across offices in different time zones
  • Participating in Scrum of Scrums for cross-team dependencies and an Active member in leadership meetings.
  • Involved in Sprint Planning and backlog assignment to the Development team.

Environment: Sales Force SFDC , Java Scripts, APEX Classes, APEX Triggers, HTML, XML, UML, Rally, TOAD, SQL and Oracle

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Managing multiple large projects for new development to enhance overall reporting experience.
  • Performed Leadership activities to enable the high-profile individuals and teams to embrace Agile seamlessly.
  • Coordinated with Business teams and organized, scheduled and facilitated User Story Workshops to create stories with varied level of details for Roadmaps, Release Backlog and Sprint Backlogs.
  • Expertise in managing agile scrum methodology projects. Thorough knowledge and experience of all scrum processes and methods.
  • Identified stakeholders, Involved in Requirement Elicitation/Requirement gathering and validating the user requirements.
  • Implemented Information Radiators like Sprint Scrum Board, Release and Sprint Burn-down charts, Velocity for all cross functional teams.
  • Estimated stories using Story Points and helped teams with the estimation using Planning poker.
  • Primary Scrum Master for four concurrent project teams: handled kickoffs, burn down, retrospectives
  • Used established PMI and client corporate standards to manage project billing, budgets, causal analysis, change control, communication plans, critical paths, earned value indicators, executive status reports, invoicing, issues, management status reports, project escalations, project plans, project scope, quantitative metrics, risks, resources, schedules, scorecard analysis, stakeholder expectations, supplier contracts, variances and work breakdown structures.
  • Planned the capacity planning and managed the project deliverables, worked with the team to prioritize requirements, define and manage scope of the project.
  • Facilitated Backlog Grooming Meetings with Product Owners of other teams.
  • Provided project management consultant expertise to an intensely intertwined set of projects involving business process and process improvement initiatives.
  • Monitored the progress and changes to the ART and mitigated risks and resolved issues.
  • Requirement analysis and prioritizing of business and functional requirements.
  • Maintaining Traceability metrics, providing suggestions and improvements throughout the execution of the project.
  • Communicating the Sprint and Release burn down charts.
  • Expertise in using PPM tools like Microsoft project and providing guidance and mentoring the team.
  • Introduced effective incremental and iterative development, automated testing and deployment.
  • Coordinated with the vendor managers, partner companies and client managers to effectively plan and deliver the committed to functionalities encouraging change in the functionality throughout the release cycle
  • Expertise in working with senior management to address project issues and challenges
  • Review and provide clarifications/feedback to development and testing teams.
  • Involved Go-No Go meetings, supported planning and deployments of project releases.
  • Responsible for product quality, project timeliness, SLAs and customer satisfaction.

Environment: Java, .NET, SAAS BI, Oracle 9i, SQL, HTML, XML, MICROSOFT OFFICE SUITE and JIRA

Confidential

Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

  • Acted as a liaison between the client's business team, stakeholders and development team.
  • Involved in Requirement Elicitation/Requirement gathering.
  • Responsible for quality deliverables, project timeliness and customer satisfaction.
  • Identified stakeholders, facilitated JAD/JAR and Brainstorming sessions with stakeholders.
  • Requirement analysis and understanding the requirements. Prioritizing the requirements.
  • Created documentation like BRD, FSD, UI Mockups, Wireframes, Power point decks and getting the sign-off from the stakeholders/sponsors.
  • Participated in reviews of plans associated with project execution.
  • Created documentation including user stories, design documents, acceptance criteria, Power point decks, user guides and process flows.
  • Gathered Business Requirements from all the designated Stakeholders by conducting requirements analysis, and facilitating Joint Application Development JAD sessions to identify business rules and requirements elicitation.
  • Removing the project Impediments and also engaged with various cross functional teams to resolve problems as they arise.
  • Tracking the execution of the projects, providing burn down metrics, velocity and weekly status reports to the client.
  • Also acted as a scrum master facilitated all the scrum events - daily stand-ups, sprint planning/pre-planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective.
  • Participated in review of plans associated with project execution.
  • Review and provide clarifications to development and testing teams.
  • Used SQL tools like TOAD to run SQL queries to validate the data and report generation.
  • Supported in UAT and Involved in BAT and system testing.
  • Assisted the Manager in leading, estimation, budgeting, staffing and other activities associated with the project Management.

Environment .NET, C , VB script, SAS BI, JIRA, HTML, TOAD, SQL, DB2 and SQL Server

Confidential

Business Analyst

  • Project Imagine is a web application for order entry, pre-qualification, service fulfillment interfaces, service assurance, customer care, billing, collections, credit management, and contract Management. This was a migration project which defines the strategy for converting data from Legacy Systems to New Stack Systems.
  • The overall data conversion solution is using ETL Extract, Transform, and Load approach. Data will be extracted out of each legacy application. Conversion scripts will map and transform legacy data so it will fit into the format of new stack systems.

Responsibilities:

  • Acted as a liaison between the client's business team and development team.
  • Responsible for managing team members, assigning the tasks and ensuring the completeness of the tasks.
  • Involved in Requirement Elicitation/Requirement gathering and had overall understanding of appropriate business processes and workflows.
  • Gathered Business Requirements from all the designated Stakeholders by conducting requirements analysis, and facilitating Joint Application Development JAD sessions to identify business rules and requirements elicitation.
  • Responsible to translate customer needs to business requirements, creation and review of functional design, user interface design and UI prototypes/mockups.
  • Requirement analysis and prioritizing of business and functional requirements.
  • Maintaining Traceability of all changes, suggestions, and improvements throughout the project.
  • Created documentation like BRD, FSD, UI Mockups, Wireframes, Power point decks and getting the sign-off from the stakeholders/sponsors.
  • Worked with a variety of information systems and data files, including large and complex files, analyzing file structure and database structure, creating file layouts.
  • Expertise with analytical reporting using Advanced Excel features like Pivot tables and charts.
  • Responsible in validating and analyzing the change requests and providing feedback to the client.
  • Responsible for maintaining Requirement documents in IBM Requisite Pro tool and ensuring quality software delivery, richer requirements artifacts and synchronize the artifacts with the team around the world. Tracking the execution of the projects providing daily/weekly status reports to the client.
  • Assisted the Manager in leading, estimation, budgeting, staffing and other activities associated with the project Management.
  • Used agile methodologies to manage day to day operational and scope aspects of projects, performance metrics and resource optimization to achieve goals.

Environment UNIX, z/OS, .NET, COBOL, CICS, DB2, Remedy, AMDOCS, PDS and IMS

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

  • The Essential Maintenance EM Team is a part of the Production Support, MI Finance and Business Solutions and caters services to the Central MI and Finance. Objectives of the Essential Maintenance Team include:
  • Implement the Error reporting process for Policies, Quotes and Claims for all the Source Systems.
  • Investigate and resolve the Errors in the feeds from Source Systems. The Objective is to reduce the number of Errors encountered during loading into MI Data Warehouse, Decommissioning appropriate systems and handle ad-hoc change requests raised by Production Support teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Onsite coordinator for the Essential Maintenance team and was coordinating with the offshore team.
  • Involved in requirement gathering and analyzing the requirements.
  • Preparation of Design documents.
  • Conducted GAP Analysis to document AS-IS and TO BE system.
  • Coding COBOL, SAS, JCL and PROCs.
  • Responsible for Production Support and support of mainframe environment.
  • Design/Code reviews.
  • Involved in Unit Testing.

Environment Z/OS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, SAS, File-Aid, Alchemist, Remedy and DB2 Platinum

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Analyzing BRD and preparing impact analysis.
  • Preparing Design documents.
  • Coding COBOL programs, JCL and PROCS.
  • Involved in Unit Testing.

Environment z/OS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, File-Aid, CA-7, CHANGEMAN, Rexx

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Analyzing business requirements/High Level design.
  • Preparing Design documents.
  • Coding COBOL-CICS programs, Easytrieve, JCL and PROCS.
  • Was involved in Unit Testing.
  • Involved in Job monitoring.

Environment MVS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, Endeavor, Xpediter, TRACEMASTER

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