SUMMARY

• Highly motivated project manager with more than 19 years of proven success leading software projects, programs, product and team management in Fortune 500 companies and start - up environments.
• Certified Scrum Professional with a proven track record of introducing agile methodologies in software applications development, devops and infrastructure projects to streamline and achieve goals.
• Dedicated team leader, agile team coach, expertise in leading and transforming teams to improve performance.
• Developed customized new strategy using agile framework for high-visibility and fast-paced projects in e-commerce resulting in 35 % increase in delivery of sprint features with improved quality.
• Analyzed cost of features in the current portfolio and suggested client to merge projects resulting in capital redeployment and saving more than $ 100,000 by delivering an interim critical updates
• Implemented strategic process improvements in multiple projects and automated processes to reduce project cost. Total cost saving estimated over $35,000 per year and recovering cost incurred in 6 months.
• Identified critical bottle-neck that was choking the flow as gating requirements in a banking client’s process. Collaborated with the client and redesigned flow. Total saving - 15% of the project cost.
• Built cross-functional by establishing a servant - leadership and matured team members by empowerment. The turn-over of the team came down considerably after establishing this relationship.
• Sprint goal success rate - achieved more than 85% consistently on multiple scrum teams by constantly removing impediments by having a strategic approach to problem solving and a strong communication.
• Released software ahead of promised date in a start-up environment leading to repeated orders critical for business. The design-to-delivery time was a week ahead of schedule.
• Developed, improved, documented processes more than 4 times when the department increased in size from start-up to public company and to an off-shore model.
• Collaborated with off-shore team and evaluated team for a 24/7 testing services saving 20% testing cost.
• Delivered consistent quality with zero major defects in 40 + releases of software product where cost of failure can result in product failures costing millions of dollars.
• Hands-on management of all projects involved at enterprise IT apps -Salesforce CRM, Cloud, SaaS, ecommerce, web apps, graphics, banking, databases, semiconductor, telecom, Guidewire, multi-media, insurance, customer-facing solution, SOA, iOS mobile apps, maintenance and infrastructure.

CORE EXPERTISE

• Project Ownership / Leadership
• Agile project management
• Process Management and tailoring
• Product Management
• Mentoring, Coaching team
• Configuration, Devops, Infrastructure
• Quality Management
• Life Cycle Planning and Management
• Scrum, XP, Lean, KANBAN
• BDD, TDD CMMi, ISO 9000
• SAFe, PMI-PMBOK, VSM
• FMEA, Root-cause analysis, documentation
• Process automation and improvements
• Team building and motivatio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, SFO, CA

Sr. Iteration Manager

Responsibilities:

• After the burn-in period, the team was able to execute 80% - 90 % of user stories over multiple sprints.
• Rapid bootstrapping of distributed team and excellent cadence build-up with-in 2 iterations.
• High-performing and motivated team created with record close to 95 % participation in agile meetings.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Agile Programs Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• 100% acceptance of sprint demos with client appreciation.
• Excellent track record of delivery of sprint goals - 95 %
• CICD project streamlined and cadence built within 10 days - restructured dispersed team.
• Team practices become benchmark for demos, mapping deliverables to project gating.

Confidential, SFO, CA

IT Technical Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• iOS mobile app - delivered to client - Phase I deliverables one week ahead of schedule.
• Rapid releases - Scrum team redesigned for weekly production releases with 100% success.
• 100% on-time delivery of demos and final delivery with zero defect.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Sr. Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Close to 90% execution ratio (sprint goals) maintained over multiple sprints and different teams.
• Reviewed 100 % translation of requirements into strategy document, test plan, test cases, traceability matrix
• Client appreciation for zero major defects in project delivery and a well-orchestrated release.
• SFDC data accuracy close to 99 %, RR pair checks in BPEL for integration with SAP - 100% (no defects)
• Maintained with-in control closure of all priority 1 (P1) issues very close to the set limits.

Confidential, Madison, WI

Scrum Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Data migrations to Oracle to ensure ETL transformations are done 100%.
• Volunteered to be a Task force member for process improvement studies - released at least 3 major changes.
• Conducted problem solving session for100% defect-free policy and claims services integrating.

Confidential, East Bay, CA

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Procure code coverage tools to reduce project debug effort for all the SaaS applications by 80%.
• 4 major process improvements designed successfully for start-up to distributed teams environment.
• Reduced development time by 30% by utilizing offshore team – training, status reviews.
• Cost reduction by automation – reduced test time from 1 week to 8 hrs. – design, outsource, implementation.