SUMMARY

• Drove 40 sprint plannings and estimations using Rally Poker Cards
• Organized and facilitated project planning for more than 6 projects, conducted 660 dailystand - up meetings, arranged more than100 reviews, retrospectives, sprints and 25 release planning sessions
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress. Improved the team velocity sprint by sprint
• Worked with a more than 25 cross-functional team including Engineering, System Test, Product Management, Operations, and Quality
• Standardized Scrum practices across 25 Agile teams;
• Coached more than 30 Product owners on creation of prioritized, estimated product backlog worth 2 sprint s, proactively getting product backlog ready before starting sprint
• Communicated working software is a key performance measure to the wider organization;
• Mentor and trained more than 600 team members on Agile principles and responsibilities;
• Deployed Eclipse, SVN, and Hudson, utilized Fitnesses as acceptance test tool, Rally as ALM and techniques to manage multi-site teams
• Participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices
• Identified and removed impediments, prevented distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal
• Facilitated more than 500 discussions andconflict resolution
• Created 25 empowered and self-organized teams
• Created a constant focus and win - win situations for project teams to ensure that the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially shippable

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: UML, J2EE, SQL, XML, JSP, JavaScript

Software/Databases: Design, Table Design, 3rd NF, Documentation, B2B, B2C, B2E, BPR, JBDC, Oracle 8.0, TIBCO adapter, SCHEMA, LDAP, DOJ, CNN, MS Rational Rose 2000, Web design, Primavera 4.0/5.0, Business Analysis, SCRUM, PMP, Client Server, UTF-8, API. Eclipse, Hudson, Fitnesse, SVN, Times Ten In-Memory Database

Operating Systems: Windows NT, Solaris, UNIX

Networking: LAN, Confidential, TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP

Web Applications: Java Beans, EJB, Struts

Project Management Tools: Primavera, MS Project, Planview

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Newark, NJ

IT PM/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Enforcing Scrum Guideline for conducting sprint planning, prioritization of user Stories with business, conducting sprint retrospective, daily stand up, tracking and Communicating burn down
• Handling agile as well as waterfall multiple projects at the same time
• Creating project plan, deployment plan, release plan, & planning releases
• Co-coordinating deployment, resolving deployment issues, and working with all the Stakeholders (Business owners, Developers, DBAs, Senior Management, IT Support, IT security, QA Team)
• Creating weekly dashboard, RYG, burn down chart, improving team velocity
• Conducting sprint planning, sprint retrospective, daily stand up
• Creating work request and driving work request to complete closure, getting SIT sign off, UAT Sign Off, Post production Sign off
• Deploying production jobs like NOA, File Upload, Bulk Attribution
• Creating HP Service tickets, DBA requests for production jobs
• Responsible for QA review, keeping user stories updated on share point with all the sign offs, UAT Master test plan, UAT result, RTM, Acceptance criteria

Technologies: Clear Quest,, Sharepoint, MS-Office2010, DB2, MS-Project, Lotus Notes, Sametime

Confidential, New Port, NJ

Agile coach

Responsibilities:

• Coached 6 teams on Scrum processes and made them self organized and self managed
• Conducted accelerated business case workshop taking team from initiation of project till sprint backlog
• Assessed existing Scrum Team for performance, Agile compliance and Scrum processes.
• Based on assessment created action plan for improvement and brought up teams to high performance state
• Created big - movement through constant coaching, big visible charts, vision board, Scrum board, Blocker board, decision making board
• Coached and conducted training for product owners
• Coached 6 Scrum masters on Scrum process, Servant leadership, retrospective leadership and trained them lean software development practices like Kanban, Kaizen, Kaizen workshop, RCA
• Converted good teams into great teams using various retrospective technique and implementing retrospective items as user story
• Created Agile roadmap for teams, department and executed roadmap to create successful teams

Technologies: Subversion, SharePoint, MS-Office, JIRA, QTP, WebConnect

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Served as Scrum Master for 2 teams
• Facilitated daily standup, sprint retrospective, sprint demo, sprint planning
• Worked with product owner to create product backlog for all sprints
• Helped on estimation and story pointing using planning poker
• Resolved impediments and generated burn down chart report
• Trained new team member on Agile process and Scrum that we are using in project
• Conducted story writing workshop for team
• Represented teams to program committee, created weekly reports
• Control and manage project using Version One

Technologies: Subversion, MSAccess, MS-SQL, SharePoint, VersionOne, WTX, IBMWebSphere, ATT Web conference

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Implemented big projects using Agile and trained 100s of people in Agile.
• Significant experience in multi-site and international environments, sensitive to various cultures
• Extensive experience in development and delivery of workshops onAgile, iterative process, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Scrum, Pair Programming, etc…
• Excellent communication skills and hands-on fit scripting strong experience, written 100s of fit scripts.
• Excellent training, presentation, coaching and team facilitation skills
• Ability to interface with and effectively influence all levels of the organization
• Build strong and lasting relationships
• Agile solution provider for RandD Applications such as Bandwidth Manager and Real Time Data Charging for Telecom
• Conducted retrospectives for converting good team into great high performance team
• Created sprint One day planning workshop for complex project
• Iteration specialist and quickly solved impediment and YAGNI using electronic boarding
• Lean, Toyota 14 ways, and Art of the possibilities implementation skill for complex projects

Technologies: Java, J2EE, SPACE, Rater GUI, Clusters, SVN, Eclipse, Fitnesse, Rally Agile Project Management and Rally Quality Management, MS-Office7.0

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Help product owner and business analyst to create prioritized product backlog.
• Create onsite resources Sprint backlog and review offshore Sprint backlog.
• Conduct professional Agile training for Confidential University and trained more than 500 people
• Conduct daily stand up meeting, sprint retrospective, coach team and organization on Agile best practices.
• Sprint and release progresstracking on time and within budget.
• Ensured understanding and compliance with Agile/Scrum principles, mentored teams, product owners, customers, stakeholders and management in Agile/Scrum practices, and acted as negotiator, trainer at Confidential University, facilitator and team builder as needed to rapidly deliver high quality business value
• Promoted adoption of Agile/Scrum vision by the organization and enabled effective delivery on project goals by removing barriers to foster understanding between teams, their customers, stakeholders and management
• Teaching teams Agile/Scrum tactics for maximizing value delivery and meeting team objectives

Technologies: Java, J2EE, Oracle8i, IBM WebSphere6.0, ER Project Management, MS-Office7.0

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Agile coaching, SOW creation and estimation for internet / consumer goods web sites, project intake and project tracking.
• Converted website for branding the product using open source.
• Tracked impediments.
• Client management and team handling, including onsite and offshore team management.
• Business Analysis, Project plan creation, SCRUM burn down sheet planning with offshore.

Technologies: Agile, SCRUM, Drupal, Oracle8i, Java, JSP, PHP

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Project Planner /Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Agile - coaching and SCRUM best practices implementation and scheduling using Primavera.
• Developed schedules and created various baselines for tracking and reporting purposes.
• Implemented strong resource management skills using Primavera 4.0 and Primavera 5.0 and effectively participated in planning meetings.
• Efficiently communicated schedule forecasts and issues to project team members and to various levels of State Farm management

Technologies: Primavera 4.0, Primavera 5.0, Cognos, SCRUM

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of Project Managers, team leads and meet 99.9 up time SLA
• Managed full life cycle of large scale Confidential and One BP technical projects using Primavera 4.0
• Involved in high visibility projects using emerging technologies and managed multiple projects concurrently
• Managed work of offshore and done executive level management presentations to visiting clients

Technologies: Java, J2EE, .Net. Oracle8i, iPAT

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed onsite requirements and offshore development team
• Managed and reviewed project deliverables and adherence to quality standards and best practices. Design documents and testing plan reviews.
• Managed client and provided end customized product.

Technologies: J2K, Selectica suite of products, JSP, Java, Oracle8i

Confidential, Research Triangle Park, NC

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed offshore software Development Team and Software Development Life Cycle for Quote to Cash automation - suit of e-commerce tools.
• Managed delivery of complex eCommerce projects on time by adding creativity to current process and providing ideas on how to improve it by sharing knowledge.
• Explained ERD for the relational databases (SQL) and Object Oriented Design for a high level understanding of how systems interact with one another and how data is transmitted and works within systems.

Technologies: ERD, SQL

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed web design and content management projects and Offshore and onsite development team. Used team site to upload the content to servers.
• Managed client and cross-functional communication from various function groups owning different web sites.

Technologies: Web design, ePub, TeamSite 5.0, Oracle8i, Java, J2EE

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed, Planned, analyzed, designed project and onsite and offshore team of developers. Provided risk assessment and mitigation.
• Migrated, tested and coordinated the preparation of financial statements in response to project manager’s requests through ART (Participate in User Testing)
• Managed J2EE web application development that used Servlets, JDBC, JSP, Java Script and Struts as web application frameworks.

Technologies: ART, Servlets, JDBC, JSP, JavaScript and Struts, J2EE