SUMMARY

• 14+ years of progressive experience in Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), Project Management Methodology and Delivery related roles for key Banking Financial Services in the areas of, Capital, Corporate & Investment and Wealth Management.
• Major Expertise in handling/delivering projects and program related to Credit & Market risk initiatives.
• Well versed in entire gamut of SDLC in requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment of complex banking and financial applications using both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Lead projects, build and maintain strong relationships with internal/external teams, senior management, business stakeholders and C - level executives. Experience in leading global distributed teams and managing Agile projects..
• Experience and Deep understanding of the Quality and Configuration Management, Change Management, Budgeting and Forecasting, Release Management, Defect Management/Triaging, Communication, Vendor & Procurement Management, Risk Management etc.
• Involved in Monitoring & Controlling of Project and Program status reporting, Issue log management, time tracking, and monitoring using internal standards of the company.
• Promoting continuous improvement to increase team effectiveness and helping the organization and key stakeholders in adapting an Agile mindset.
• Expertise in dealing with all relational databases systems like (Sybase, SQL Server, Oracle).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Practices: Agile and Waterfall

PM Tools: MS Office, Jira, Rally, Confluence, Rational RequisitePro, Rational Clear Case

Core Methodologies: AGILE, Scrum,SAFe, Kanban, SDLC, XP, Kaizen, UML, RUP, RAD

Other Tools: TOMCAT,IIS,Toad12.6,IBMWebSphere,PortalSever,WINSCP,Putty,SQL Server

Scheduling Tools: Autosys, Control M, Tivoli

Operating Systems: Unix, Red Hat Linux, Sun Solaris, All Windows OS

Modeling Tools: Power Designer, Rational Rose, MS Visio, Workflow and Dataflow

Scripting / Language: SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX Shell

Database: Oracle 11g

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager and Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Define and deliver programs like FRTB, CCAR, BCBS, and Murex etc that have broad cross organizational impact.
• Educate the teams towards all agile principles and methodologies like engineering and management.
• Release planning and define product roadmap.
• Assist the product owner to refine the product backlog.
• One of the key stakeholders in delivering the initiatives from idea to launch by closely working with product management and technology teams.
• Run the various scrum ceremonies and provide guidance, motivate and mentor team members.
• Resolve all the impediments so that team focus on the deliverables.
• Empower the team to be self-managed and protect the team from external disturbances so that team can focus on the sprint goals.
• Plan the resources (people, budget, activities, etc.) required to complete the project.
• Facilitate the team to focus Sprint planning and grooming, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint review and system demo and retrospective ceremonies regularly.
• Create and Manage Metrics on Release burndown Chart, and ensure the team Velocity Trend is focus towards the sprint goal.
• Coach the team on Scrum processes towards the required systems and tools for continuous build, automated testing, etc
• Work with Dev Ops and cross functional technology partners to plan deliverables and set milestones.
• Help develop PoC for GPU (Graphical Processing Unit database) migration and participate in discussions to prepare roadmaps for load balancing for 3 data centers.
• Define technology roadmap for Confidential Internal Audit applications.

Project Manager and Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implement version control using TFS 2015
• Streamline, simplify and automate delivery pipeline using Teamcity and AIM
• Serve as SME for continuous integration and continuous deployments in the group.
• Reduce technical debt to increase responsiveness and reduce cost.
• Continually evaluate and improve current software engineering practices in Deployments, Unit testing, Regression testing and Code quality metrics.
• Champion for emerging technologies and standards.

Confidential

PM/Business Analyst and Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical design sessions with global Scrum Teams.
• Responsible for writing user stories and key role in establishing acceptance criteria’s.
• Identified project risks, impediments and managed them to resolution or escalate.
• Completed all Citi mandated project documents and artifacts to meet internal and external audits.
• Provided guidance, motivated and mentored junior team members
• Stewarded the project from design to final implementation.
• Determined the resources (people, budget, activities, etc.) required to complete the project.
• Worked with stake holders to capture requirements, prepare functional specifications document and flow diagrams.

Sr Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Hands on experience leading multiple project teams.
• Worked with business user to manage the requirement and prepare for the next release using FDLC methodologies.
• Initiated, planned, coordinated, executed, controlled, and closed project activities with multiple project teams.
• Developed work plans for each subproject/department and prepare summary for management review.
• Executed and maintained project plans; reviewed, tracked, monitored and reported on project status.
• Calculated, mitigated and monitored risk by creating contingency plans and advising management, as appropriate.
• Adapted SDLC best practices and process improvements.
• Established and maintained working relationship with all departments, stakeholders and external customers involved in the project.
• Worked closely with clients to develop strategies for achievement of business goals.
• Involved in vendor selection process for the client.
• Participated in the assessment of products or program alternatives to make recommendations to management.
• Established relationships with all integrated services for the project.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in design of common security framework which is used across multiple CRM systems.
• Worked with Business Owners across multiple systems to capture requirements and develop specifications documents.
• Instrumental in Planning (identifying, Analyzing and Prioritizing), budget and forecasting.
• Lead the effort to build a data warehouse which holds data from external and internal data vendors like Fact set, Cornerstone, Option metrics, Reuters, Thompson etc.,
• Used technologies like SQL server integration services (SSIS), C# windows services and scripts to build large data warehouse spread across multiple databases and servers.
• Worked extensively on SQL stored procedures, functions, and views etc., to massage and prepare the data so it can be used to write high performance reports.

Project Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 7 members and delivered quality product of a project that had stringent time line and got appreciation.
• Involved from Requirement gathering till delivery of Reports module.
• Prepared the High Level and Detail Design Document as per user requirement
• Constructed high level design document.
• Designed the work and shared the task to the team members.
• Instrumental in Planning (identifying, Analyzing and Prioritizing), budget and forecasting Assist the project manager in WBS and project management activities.