SUMMARY

• Over 9 years of management and hands - on experience in teh information systems in teh area of project management in teh IT field
• Worked in various industries such as Financial, Health Care, Airlines, Commerce and Retail.
• Managed projects, practicing Lean Six Sigma discipline wif various SD methodologies.
• Followed methodologies such as Waterfall, RBPM and Agile SCRUM
• Certified Scrum Master - Managed development of social media & mobile apps, and network management software using Agile scrum software development methodology
• Experience managing distributed development teams spanning multiple geographies and time zones
• Experience wif publishing technical documents, content development of websites and software quality improvement
• Strong education background wif Masters in Business Administration
• Proven managerial and interpersonal skills, quick to learn new concepts, and customer focused
• Played a positive role in transitioning technologies on enterprise level, encouraged, halped and mentored teams in adopting change which lead in career building for many of my peers.
• Carried out multiple projects as a Scrum Master/project lead, coached and mentored teams on Agile methods, Scrum adoption and better collaboration.
• Contributed to Scrum noledge base by writing procedures and reviewing articles in place.
• Developed and documented business processes. In depth experience in developing methodology of successful quality assurance, planning, implementation and management.
• Knowledge of complete Project Management lifecycle and Release Management.
• Motivated and industrious wif sound business judgment, solid work ethics and excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Effective in creating a positive and productive work environment while Striving for continuous progress on individual, teams and organization level.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 2012 Server, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows 2008 Server R2, Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP Pro/Home, Windows 2000

SDLC Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Iterative, and Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services 2008

Programming Languages: JavaScript, PL/SQL, T-SQL, HTML/DHTML, Unix/Linux Shell Programming.

Quality Assurance/Test Management Tools: IBM Rational Quality Manager 2.0.1, IBM Rational Requirements Composer, IBM Rational Functional Tester, IBM Rational Performance Tester

ALM Software: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio ALM, IBM Rational Team Concert, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas, TX

SCRUM Master / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating Scrum of Scrums
• Envisioning and grooming product backlog wif product owners
• Facilitating Sprint planning sessions
• Facilitating Story grooming sessions
• Working in collaboration wif PMO and business leadership to drive program Road Map
• Driving release planning
• Working wif multiple Scrum teams
• Driving War room
• Mentoring teams for better self-organization
• Help Business to understand Scrum Framework
• Schedule and facilitate daily stand up Sprint meetings
• Sprint and Release Demo
• Sprint and Release Retrospectives
• Participate in Scrum of Scrum
• Remove impediment
• Facilitated team meetings.
• Tracked project status.
• Successfully led Agile software development of two projects simultaneously wif each team comprised of 12engineers
• Managed project teams across different countries and time zones
• Facilitated Sprint planning, daily Stand-ups, Demo, and retrospective meetings
• Shielded teh team from interruptions and removed obstacles during teh sprint
• Tracked progress on a daily basis to eliminate potential issues and risks, and present overall project status and metrics to management
• Use Kanban approach to manage, prioritize and allocate resource to address issues in a timely manner

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Drove Revenue and ASP forecasting through information gathered from Sales, Quoting, Backlog, Customer Forecasts and Cross Functional Teams
• Led cross functional teams reviewing engineering yields, operational lead times, financial and forecast data, to identify and resolve quality or other logistics issues across multiple time zones; to enhance time to market deliverable for customers
• Prepared and presented monthly product presentations and metrics to upper management on forecast and overall product position, including engineering, manufacturing and customer activities.
• Managed product life cycle including publication of Product Change Notices (PCN) and Product Discontinuation Notices (PDN)
• Involved in gathering teh business requirements and created test plan.
• Involved in preparing test plan and test cases based on teh functional specifications and execution of teh test cases.
• Conducted GUI automated testing using Win Runner.
• Conducted Regression testing and functional testing for subsequent versions of teh application using Win Runner.
• Involved in testing of GUI by inserting checkpoints in Win Runner scripts for single or multiple objects and text.
• Parameterized teh data using data table and data drivers in Win Runner.
• Helped maintain Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix.
• Assisted in teh testing process, bug reporting, analyze teh test results, track teh progress of system testing,and provide daily status to Test Manager.
• Involved in documentation as to how to maintain and run scripts for future enhancements.
• Identify, analyze and document defects, questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in application
• functions, outputs, online screens, and content.
• Participated in weekly meeting wif teh management team and walkthroughs.

Environment: Retail, MS Visio, UML, MS Project, MS-Office, XML, Agile, RUP Methodology, HTML

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Project Associate / Business Analyst (Waterfall Methodology)

Responsibilities:

• Obtained business requirements, documented, and established a 14 members development team offshore
• Oversaw all facets of project life cycle, resource identification, define work break-down structure, planning and management
• Worked in high pressure atmosphere, multiple projects delivery
• Project prototype, project implementation through waterfall methodology
• Database programming, DTS Packages
• Project publication (Web-site hosting) and distributable or project installers
• Analyzed business processes to identify challenges and halped create solutions using analytical skills.
• Elicited requirements to design teh model calculating return on investment on teh life settlement policiesand presented it through Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOD (Object oriented Design) using UML.
• Performed Gap analysis by identifying existing technologies and subsequently documented teh enhancements to meet teh end state requirements.
• Lead teh user interview process at both in-house and client locations. Gathered and analyzed requirements using Requisite Pro - RUP.
• Compiled packages of documentation to fulfill due diligence and business process requirements of funding firms. Involved wif business groups to give hands-on training and subsequent support for Business
• Intelligence toolsets like OBIEE, Business Objects.
• Helped facilitate discussion sessions and meetings wif development team to discuss related issues.
• Assisted in teh preparation of timely and accurate SEC financial reporting information so that importantbusiness decisions can be made based on teh results.
• Prepared several training materials and assisted in user training across teh teams.
• Analyzed teh existing reporting systems and used Rational Clear Case/Quest as change control tools.