Agile Program Lead / Scrum Master / Agile Coach

• Seeking texplore challenging opportunities with top-notch companies tadd further business value
• Result oriented professional over 12 years of versatile experience in complex Project and Product Development across diverse organizational domains like Healthcare, Travel Hospitality, Ecommerce, Finance, Education, HR etc.
• Over 10000 hours of work experience on Agile / Scrum / Kanban / XP Projects as Agile Project Manager Agile Program Lead/Scrum Master.
• Coach and assist Scrum Teams, Senior Executives, Product owners tdeliver Software Projects by removing impediments, fostering team self-management and reinforcing agile project management and engineering practices.
• Proficient in Agile Project Management with XP engineering practices like TDD, Continuous Integration, Pair Programming, Automated Test, Continuous Delivery, ATDD.
• Experienced in SDLC for Waterfall, Iterative Agile SCRUM/KANBAN/XP
• Adroit in conducting periodic reviews, identifying mitigating risks, measuring metrics, tracking project progress and submitting status reporting.
• Efficient Team Leader Player, combining communication, interpersonal problem solving skills with analytical, decision making and leadership capabilities tenhance organizational objectives.
• Having experience thandle max. over 35 team members including Scrum Team, Product Owner, Architect and Executives.

Managerial Competencies include

• Project/Program Management
• Business/ Requirement Analysis
• Stakeholder Management
• Vendor Management
• Reporting Documentation
• End User Support
• Client Relationship Management
• Cross Functional Team Coordination
• Team Management Training

IT FORTE Languages PHP, Java, J2EE, .Net, C , VB6.0 Scripting HTML, JavaScript, XML Database MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle8i, MS Access Other

• MS Visio, MS Office, Oracle Siebel on demand
• PMS
• Basecamp, Jira, Mingle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Key Accountabilities:

Coached teams on Agile principles and practices tincrease team effectiveness, level of commitment, and focus on collective ownership, with measurable increases in quality and successful delivery.

Prepared and presented classroom training as well as highly interactive workshops conducted on various topics for various levels of management, teams, and individuals. Significant transformations include:

• Implemented Release Management Process improved Testing Process by allocating testers teach Scrum Teams and transformed them from manual testers tExploratory and Automation Testers.
• Established backlog grooming practices that resulted in value-add transparency and predictability for a runaway project affecting a key strategic customer.
• In the beginning, there was lots of resistance especially from senior team members, tech leads and architect tnew processes / changes due tinsecurity about their roles but that went away by addressing their concerns openly, constant coaching, and clarity on roles, open communication, and the successes seen by team members in shorter sprints during transformation.
• Established Kanban practices tProduct/Customer Support Teams enabling them prioritize focus on important tickets/problems.
• Facilitated the establishments of team Working Agreements, Definition of Done, Sprint Commitments, and Working Transparency. Provided mentoring and coaching support tDevelopers, Testers, Product Owners, BA, Management, IT-Ops, UI Team and HR functions with coaching spanning all organization areas.
• Improved the Employee Appraisal Process by implementing Agile Performance Management Framework that enables Quarterly Feedback temployees on performance goals, areas of improvements, reviews / ratings / skill inventory for each quarter.
• Conducted Agile Assessment Survey by getting feedback from Development Teams / Sales / ITOps / Support on Strengths/Weaknesses/Areas of improvements for coming quarter.
• Facilitating the Scrum process, resolving team impediments, shielding the teams from interference, and advocating improved engineering practices including the following.
• Keeping the backlog for the area of responsibility groomed.
• Leading all scrum Ceremonies meetings .
• Leading daily scrum meetings and providing daily burndowns.
• Managing sprint team level risks and issue.
• Maintain the Scrum team capacity plan, Scrum board, sprint backlog, velocity charts and burn down charts.
• Identify help tremove impediments tthe success of the Sprint.
• Lead the team tbe accountable for the commitments they make.
• Teach the business how tmaximize ROI and meet objectives through scrum. Continually look for ways timprove software delivery.
• Drive the team timprove their engineering practices and tools sthat each increment of functionality is potentially shippable.

Confidential

Project Manager / Scrum Master,

Key Accountabilities:

• Handling projects within the constraints of scope, quality, time and cost tdeliver specified requirements.
• Implemented, monitor Agile-Scrum processes at Enterprise level.
• Remove impediments or guide the team tremove impediments
• Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team thigher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
• Provide all support tthe team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example
• Define the project iterations strategy. Manage and evaluate iterations
• Develop and review estimates and assumptions for the project's schedule, effort and cost using best practices and past experience. The resulting estimates account for all activities in the project scope, including project management and application development tasks, software quality assurance reviews, and vendor contract management activities.
• Measure and monitor progress at clearly defined KPI's points in the process tensure that the project is delivered on time, within budget, and that it meets or exceeds expectations. Make adjustments as necessary.
• Prepare and maintain project plans as the project progresses. Develop and manage project budgets.
• Identify stakeholders and communicate effectively. Track and report project progress including realistic forecasts of final target positions .
• Document, obtain approval and track all changes tproject parameters. Manage tradeoffs between scope, quality, time and cost. Ensure all project requirements and/or objectives are properly documented.
• Identify and document project risks. Develop and execute appropriate mitigation plans. Escalate issues tthe next level of management.
• Close all project documentation and archive appropriate records. Have good knowledge and experience with project management tools and techniques.
• Organization level initiatives like Recruitment, Purchase, Finance etc that allows trun the company effectively and efficiently, within budget Active member of Process Improvement Group.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst,

Key Accountabilities:

• Involved in collection/ analysis validation of requirements.
• Implemented process improvement initiatives based on assessment of commercial implications.
• Liaised with project manager in ensuring compliance tproject delivery schedules other SLA parameters.
• Documented SDLC through business process/analysis.
• Monitored performance of team members and rendered productivity enhancement feedback.
• Functioned as key interface between IT development teams and business users.
• Set up applied tools/ methodologies for application development through testing.
• Prepared Functional Specifications and Test Plans with data analysis skill.
• Gathering business requirement, documentation and process flow.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst,

Key Accountabilities:

• Coordinated with offshore stakeholders in collation of requirements, analysis/validation of requirements.
• Developed customized solutions based on identified business issues.
• Prepared Project BRD, feature list with time estimation. Tested modules with QA team.
• Liaised with Developers, Architects, Development Managers, Business Teams in rendering qualitative service delivery.
• Worked on ERP modules tsearch, study document modules functionality and use in different Business Verticals.
• Managed projects related tecommerce Solution, 3D Animation, Live Streaming, Hospitality, Travel, Fashion, Flash Game, Information Social Networking websites etc.
• Monitored bidding analysis for bidding portals Guru Elance .
• Led 25 members Project Development Team.
• Assisting in Project Management, Hiring Skill Resource, Technical Facility Provide tResource, Project Cost Management, MIS Reporting.
• Preparing Project Documentations like BRD, FSD, feature list with time estimation etc. Test the modules with QA team. Monitoring bidding analysis for bidding portals Guru Elance .
• Worked on different Industry Vertical Projects: ecommerce Solution, 3D Animation, Live Streaming, Hospital Management, Travel, Fashion, Flash Game, Information Social Networking websites, and many more.

Confidential

Web Developer,

Key Accountabilities:

• Coordinated with USA based Clients conducted demonstration of CRM features for customers.
• Developed customize web service on java technology for Oracle Siebel On Demand CRM.
• Managed PHP Programming for web pages and yahostore.
• Maintained website on JSP, Servlet and PHP Technologies.

Confidential

Software Engineer,

Key Accountabilities:

• Built maintained website on open source like PHP, MySQL, CMS, etc.
• Developed customized java swing desktop application projects.

Confidential

Sr. Associate Sales,

Key Accountabilities:

• Managed product wise market analysis, prepared sales plans and product inventory.
• Assisted business partners in management of corporate deals and government bids.

Confidential

Executive Project Engineer,

Key Accountabilities:

• Coordinated with various clients on on-site turnkey automation projects for Cognex Image Processing Systems and Service Department of HMI IPC range products.
• Managed projects like Tata Holeset, Avasarala Automation, Tetrapak, IFB, FCI OEN, TycElectronics, etc.