SUMMARY:

• Core expertise in delivering large complex development and maintenance projects providing highest quality, design, development and support of business critical solutions.
• Proven track record in delivering sound systems solutions for business opportunities & users productivity.
• Worked closely with all stakeholders to ensure that IT is adequately supporting and being supported.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills and a team - worker with good customer interaction.
• Strong technical skills encompassing in-depth knowledge of key system development methodologies to streamline design, development and refinement of applications that reduce costs and improve productivity.
• Good understanding of customer needs, problem solving & negotiating skills, Program/Project management, working in a multi-cultural, multi-vendor environment, multi-countries i.e. USA, UK & India
• Expertise in different delivery frameworks like Agile SCRUM, PMBOK (PMI’s framework), Waterfall, KANBAN, Prototype, Iterative, PMI project management methodologies
• Domain experience in Banking, Finance, Health Care, Telecom, Retail, Pharmaceutical, Licensing, Content Management, File Management & Tools Utilities

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Methodologies: Agile Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming, ATDD, Waterfall,PMBOK( PMI Framework)

Languages: C, C#, SQL,PL/SQL, COBOL & JCL

ETL/Reporting Tools: Informatica Power Center 8.1 & MSBI - SSIS,SSAS & SSRS

Database / RDBMS: SQL Server & DB2

Web Technologies: .Net framework, XML & ASP

Others: JIRA, Confluence,Bugzilla,Quality Center(QC), WIKI, MS SharePoint, MS Team Foundation Server (TFS), MS Office, Excel, PPT, Visio, MS Project, Visual Studio Jenkins

Platforms: Windows 2003 Server, UNIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, IBM 3090

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Created transition plan from Waterfall to Scrum framework
• Leading and coaching the team in its Scrum adoption
• Helping employees and stakeholders understand to enact Scrum and empirical product development
• Trained teams and conducted workshops on other methodologies- SCRUM, KANBAN and Paired Programming
• Facilitating Scrum ceremonies as per cadence
• Working closely with Product Owner in arranging the Product Backlog for maximizing value
• Helping the team in removing Impediments and ensure smooth progress
• Proof concept for Test-driven Design Methodology

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Helping the Scrum Team to understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items
• Ensuring the Product Owner knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value
• Facilitating scrum events as per cadence
• Coaching the Development Team in self-organizing and cross-functionality
• Removing impediments to the Development Team’s progress
• Provide and Counselling on Scrum Process and its best practices to the newly formed team
• Working with Scrum team in refining the backlog items
• Regular sync-up with Confidential Product suite owners for discussing prioritization of Problem Management & Enhancement requests
• Come up with estimation and schedule for the prioritized items with the available resources
• Ensure all the agreed processes are followed across Product Life Cycle
• Update Risk register and monitor them
• Conduct Review meetings after releases and come up with action plan for Customer pain points
• Regular sync-ups with track Leads internally
• Raise invoice monthly and determine forecasts
• Provide Weekly Status Reports to Customers and run the Weekly Status Calls
• Run Monthly Business Review meetings with Customers
• Initiate Half Yearly Feedback with Customer & come up with Improvement plan for the gaps
• Hiring and on boarding of Engineers as per Staff Management Plan
• Conduct project performance appraisals

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Working with the Scrum Team to understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items
• Assist Product Owner and help him in arranging the Product Backlog to maximize value
• Facilitating Daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Planning, Review and Retrospection Meetings as per the schedule
• Coaching the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality
• Work with other support groups for removing any impediments to the Development Team’s progress
• Leading and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption
• Identifying and making the change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team
• Learning from other Scrum Masters to improve the effectiveness of the adoption of Scrum in the organization
• Connect with multiple stakeholders from customer end on various tools requirements
• Work with clients to finalize on the scope of tools and get aligned to specific release
• Create Project Management Plan and get approval on the same
• Managed team comprising of Developers, Testers, Engineering and System Administrator
• Come up with estimates for the finalized scope and create schedule for the same with available resources
• Responsible for delivery of Physical solution design document
• Develop ETL mappings, workflows for new design
• Prepared SQL Queries to validate the data in both source and target databases.
• Monitor health of the program and provide recommendations for enhancements and performance tuning of various ETL workflows and mappings that helps in reduction in run time.
• Capture metrics data and receive monthly score on the s
• Share Weekly Status Report and run weekly sync-up meetings with Stream MS Lead
• Run Monthly Business Review meetings for maintaining strong relationship
• Hiring and On boarding of Engineers as per staffing needs
• Identify, assess and come up with risk mitigation plan
• Hiring and on boarding Engineers as per Staff Management Plan
• Conduct project performance appraisals

Confidential, Redwood City

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Product Requirements Specification reviews with all concerned stakeholders and agree upon the prioritization for the requirements alignment for a release.
• Drive and guide the team on creation of Product Requirement Specification.
• Ensure that schedule in place covering all phases of the Product Life Cycle.
• Tracking and monitoring of development and QA schedules.
• Drive Defect Triage meetings and participation in Cross Functional Meetings to coordinate for resolution of any blockers.
• Participate in CCB meetings for making decisions on change requests.
• Perform User Acceptance Testing and report bugs.
• Participate in Go/No Go meetings.
• Monitor any issues reported in field and act on any critical issues faced by customers.
• Collect metrics and conduct Retrospection meeting to collect suggestions/recommendations from stakeholders for future releases.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Estimation of efforts for DBT, System Integration Testing support and production implementation after completion of Study
• Creation and Submission of SOW
• Cost Budget, Detailed Project Plan preparation
• Resource Planning
• Coordination for all Reviews
• Tracking of Issues, Assumptions & Risks
• Task Assignment & Monitoring
• Attending Daily Huddle Calls and Integration Calls
• Onsite Coordination and Telecons
• Project Status Reporting
• Sharing of lessons learnt and best practices

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Attending Project kickoff meetings with all stakeholders
• Estimation for Analysis, CUT ( Coding, Unit Testing and production implementation
• Detailed Level Project Plan preparation
• Resource Planning
• Coordination for all Reviews
• Tracking of issues & risks
• Task Assignment & Monitoring
• Attending Defect Triage Meetings and provide deployment plan to Testing team
• Onsite Coordination and Telecoms
• Project Status Reporting
• Sharing of lessons learnt and best practices

Confidential, New york City, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Detailed Project plan
• Prioritization and Task assignment
• Client coordination
• Task monitoring
• Attending daily defect meetings
• SSR production tickets monitoring and status reporting
• Coordination for UAT, Warranty support for Implementations
• Project Status Reporting
• Collection of metrics and sharing with clients
• Mentoring the team and sharing the lessons learnt