SUMMARY:

Proactive servant leader that has counseled multiple executive teams and project managers in the implementation of Agile best practices. Has excelled in leading teams to consistently achieve fast software development results through the strategic usage of sprints ceremonies. Eager to partner with a company that is passionate about cross - functional collaboration from IT, finance, PMO and other key departments to achieve project goals on time and on budget.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE INCLUDE:

• Agile/Scrum/Kanban
• Team Motivation & Coaching
• SDLC
• Budget Management
• Meeting Management
• Project Management
• Software Development
• Operations/Process Management
• Process Improvement
• KPI/Metrics Tracking
• Project Risk Management
• Program Portfolio Management
• Organization and Governance
• Vendor/Client Management
• Leadership Presentation

EXPERIENCE & NOTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS:

Confidential, San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Program manager/Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Establishing the PMO to develop operational processes, methodologies and helping the delivery team to understand and apply these processes.
• Consolidating the Program portfolio information and developing Program roadmap involving delivery schedule, scope, project milestones and budget based on the input provided by the project managers.
• Presenting the key performance indicators of Confidential 's Program portfolio to C-level executives to make better decisions for current and future projects
• Transforming 20+ project teams from Waterfall development to Agile Software Development.
• Supervising a team of 12 project managers in enhancing Vendor/Client Communication, Delivery risk management and Operational processes.
• Mentoring a team of 35 professionals in executing processes and software development methodologies for timely and successful delivery of software solutions.
• Preparing operational templates for project kick off meetings, project acceptance and other project key milestones.

Tools: Used MS Project, Smartsheet

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Fostered strong team collaboration by mastering the usage of daily standup meetings and sprint planning in order to motivate teams with quick, measurable project accomplishments.
• Mentored product managers and key contributors in all aspects of Agile project management resulting in the creation of process champions for every project that ensure adherence to key principles.
• Diligently analyzed and identified long-term project risks during sprints, designed laser-focused risk management strategies and tactics to protect the overall accomplishment of project objectives.
• Quickly improved the company’s software development processes by leading the transition to Agile environments by conducting workshops totaling 800+ professionals at various organization levels.
• Excelled at attaining onsite and offshore team unity while managing multiple projects.
• Facilitating Sprint ceremonies and empowering the team to make process improvements captured in Sprint Retrospectives
• Fostering a culture of Continuous improvement and Continuous Delivery
• Intervened on an as-needed basis to help team members that may have moved off track of overall project goals by personally contributing to task completion.

Tools: Used: JIRA, MS Excel

IT Operation Portfolio Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ensured the PMO, financial analysts, program managers, strategy leads and executives were abreast of critical project trends through in-depth portfolio analysis and reporting.
• Counseled project team leaders in operational areas for improvement by providing insight regarding the performance and accomplishment of key performance indicators.
• Developed extensive budget and resource management reports to ensure the correct level of funding to complete R&D projects.
• Honored with an innovation award for designing and implementing a new real-time project reporting mechanism that eliminated the previous two-day process.

Tools: Used: Spotfire, MS Excel, Jira, R

Full Stack Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Mentored a team of five software engineers in best practices related to forecasting, estimating and tracking project deliverables.
• Effectively gleaned important project and technical business requirements during regular meetings with key technology users.
• Experienced in various Behavior Driver Development practices by implementing Jasmine, jBehave and jUnit tests and streamlined software testing process by 300% by eliminating the previous manual practice
• Continuous Integration practices with Automated build runs in Jenkins and deployments without any manual efforts
• Collaborated with release managers and systems engineers to eliminate any environmental issues during the project lifecycle.
• Enabled Confidential to have better insights into critical crop performance by designing code allowing for automated calculation and statistical analysis of crops.
• Extended the reach and scalability for users to run data flow reports through the development of a new mobile web application.
• Extracting and Interfacing the Reports from the Database, to represent it in graphical and tabular forms in the Mobile Application

Technologies Used: Java, SQL, Coherence, Weblogic, R, Spring, Hibernate, Angular JS, CoffeeScript, SVN/GIT, Jenkins/ TeamCity, Cloudfoundry, Jasmine, REST, Apache Kafka, Splunk

Android Application Developer

Confidential, Columbia, Missouri

Responsibilities:

• Developed the first Android Scheduling Application for IRE’s, Computer Aided Reporting conference 2011
• Maintained the database for schedule, speakers and events in XML
• Dynamic updating of application with change in event schedule

Technologies Used: Android SDK, Eclipse, JAVA, XML, DDMS

Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Updated the Database of CVS pharmacy from 4 Digit Store Number to 5 Digit Store Number
• Developed code to accommodate the user data records with the updated store number
• Testing the code to ensure the same functionality with updated store number using Expediter test framework
• Prepared and Maintained the requirement analysis and test plans for the codes developed and tested
• Well Versed in various cycles of Waterfall model of Software Development

Technologies Used: MVS, DB2, CICS, COBOL, JCL, Oracle, Microsoft VSS