OBJECTIVE:

Visionary and innovative technologist seeking challenging position in the high - tech industry to make the most of my technical background, project management, analytical capabilities, customer focus, creativity, passion, industry experience, and leadership skills.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Leadership: Hands on experience building and leading project teams and stakeholders group from project initiation through project operations.
• Experienced Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Program Consultant and Certified Scrum Professional with very in-depth knowledgeable of Agile methodology which includes roles like Project Manager, Scrum Master (Certified), Release Train Engineer (RTE), Product and Epic Owner. Very in-depth knowledge and experience of DevOps, Extreme Programming (XP), Test Driven Development (TDD), Automated Testing, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and Continuous Deployment.
• Provided training and coaching in Agile Development principles and practices to development teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and executive leadership.
• Strengths: 20 years of IT experience; Very well balanced technical and project management background. Extensive experience with Project Management, Scoping, and Requirements Elicitation. In-depth knowledge of onsite - offshore model.
• Communications: Excellent communicator with verbal, writing and presentation skills attuned to project goals and stakeholder needs.
• Collaboration and Integration: Routinely collaborates with a diverse group of subject matter experts during project initiation, scope development, and project execution.
• Multi-tasking: Managing multiple scopes, schedules, budgets, and stakeholder communications.
• Negotiation and Problem Solving: Conversant across multiple engineering disciplines, understands complex problems and capable of negotiating mutually acceptable solutions.

EXPERTISE (CORE COMPETENCIES):

• Project Management
• Onsite - Offshore Model
• Process Engineering
• Business Strategist
• Requirements Analysis
• Vendor Management
• Budget management
• Team Leadership
• Business Intelligence
• Technical Background
• Solution Architect
• Customer focused

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

RDBMS/DBMS: Oracle 12i/11i/10G/9i/8i/7.x, DB2, SQL Server, Informix 7.x and INGRES 6.x

Operating System: UNIX, IBM Mainframe, Linux, Windows NT, VMS and DOS

Programming: C/C++, Pro*C, HTML, VBScript, Java, PL/SQL, Shell, COBOL, Informix 4GL

Special Software: Google Cloud, TFS, Microsoft Project, LEANKIT, TEAMFORGE, Clarity PPM, TOAD, Putty 0.49, VSS 6.0, SQL Navigator

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. Project Manager, Lead Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managing the software development and implementation of program called GAC (Global Activities Capture) that will provide an accurate capture of past, current and primarily future oilfield activities and enable client to improve its market forecasting, positioning and profitability through better planning and sharing of resources. This program is being developed using Agile methodology.
• Playing critical liaison role between Business and IT management, assuring adherence to the SDLC. Serving as Sr. Project Manager and also playing a critical role of Lead Scrum Master.
• Defining processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
• Establishing and maintaining all the financial / earned value controls (budgets, estimates and actuals) and led all financial aspects (budgets, proposals, analysis, and reporting).
• Created teams consisting of onsite - offshore model and internal SMEs.
• Leading teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Also making sure to meet business objectives and tracking progress to ensure project milestones are getting completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Providing weekly status to management including progress and action plans to addressing risks / issues / changes.
• Mitigating risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipating and managing change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.
• Acting as a lead driver of the project success, facilitating the resolution of day-to-day business, technical and general project issues.
• Streaming team processes to improve KPI’s and accuracy to meet service request deadlines.
• Leading and facilitating all scrum ceremonies for two scrum teams. Working with product owners to groom the backlog and plan for release. Tracking burn down, issues and progress and working with component teams to resolve issues.
• Tracking, escalating and removing impediments. Protecting team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity. Encouraged and implemented process improvements. Created team-building opportunities. Maintaining task board and produced daily burndown charts.
• Practicing ‘Servant Leadership’ concept to help the team to increase their velocity.
• Coaching new Scrum Master as and when there is a new Scrum Master on board. Also training teams across the globe which resulting early delivery of features and reducing process waste caused by lack of common understanding.
• Enabling the team's build their capability on various tools in the delivery pipeline to enable Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment.
• Promoting and coaching teams on the effective application of Extreme Programming (XP) practices, Test-Driven Development TDD) and DevOps culture and the joy it can bring to development.
• Implemented MVP and Feature Driven Development (FDD) approach to develop the product.

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Project Manager, Sr. Scrum Master, Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• To maintain effective relationships with product owners and scrum members.
• To administer all communication with product management and development teams.
• To able to merge customer and user needs with business requirements, budgetary restrictions and logistical considerations to meet project deliverables.
• For project planning, execution and coordination between all the stakeholders.
• To monitor project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identify solutions to address them in advance.
• To oversee development, test, deployment, and production support activities and provide estimates for resources. Also responsible for resource allocations and task assignments.
• To communicate status with stakeholders and resolve issues in a timely manner.
• To administer all Agile / Scrum process and coach team members as and when require.
• Assisted Quality Assurance team and developed strategies and solutions for testing.
• To perform all Clarity work, adding promise date, stage gate, time sheet changes, update risk / issue etc.

Sr. Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with Product Owner and Program Manager to prioritize the features and call out the dependencies, impediments and risks well in advance so that teams can plan accordingly.
• Participate in Program Increment (PI) planning to identify objectives of the PI.
• Facilitate all 4 ceremonies Sprint Planning, the “Daily Stand-up”, Sprint Retrospective and Sprint Review / demonstrations.
• Responsible for leading the early stage adoption of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Actively coach and mentor multiple teams (including distributed teams and stakeholders) from Waterfall to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Work with Product owner on artifacts such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burn down and Release Burn down.
• Facilitate Scrum of Scrum (SOS) with other Scrum Masters and Leadership.
• Maintain teams’ performance and velocity metrics. Also, maintain task tracker, release schedule and program board in synch. Maintain (update) task board on daily basis.
• Actively participate in agile community and making sure to follow best practices in industry.
• Incorporated Extreme Programming (XP), Test-Driven Development (TDD) and DevOps culture and methodologies for Application development. Also implemented Continuous Delivery (CD) and Continuous Integration (CI).
• Conducted in-house training and seminars for Agile Development, Extreme Programming (XP), Test-Driven Development TDD) and DevOps culture.
• Encourage team to be self-organized and try to come up with reusable elements.
• Encourage team to actively participate during story time and break down the stories as granular as possible.

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• To perform as a liaison among business stakeholders to understand business problems and opportunities in the context of requirements and recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
• To elicit, analyze, and document the requirements for business processes, policies, and information systems. Also, provided business analysis expertise in comprehensive extraction and development of detailed functional requirements, process diagrams, report specifications, and prototype. Identified, captured and provided business/data definitions and rules.
• To conduct several user interviews and/or facilitate group sessions to identify business requirements including decision process needs, information sources, access privileges, and company standards. Also, to conduct user story sessions, discuss user stories, capture story points and acceptance criteria.
• To deliver Business Process Model, Business Requirements Documents, Business Requirements List and Business Use Cases. Work with project manager to deliver project charter. Plan and develop feasibility study, requirements and risk analysis.
• To create “As is” and “To be” process flow using Visio and UML, create the prototype if require, manage requirements prioritization and requirements change process.
• To work closely with product owner to prioritize the features and mitigate any available impediments.
• To make sure that LEANKIT is up to date and reflecting accurate status.
• To make sure all the stories (Agile) and requirements (Waterfall - BRL) are available correctly on HPALM.

Confidential, Wayne, NJ

Sr. Business Analyst, Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and supported merchandise applications to secure long-term business, optimizing levels of productivity and sustaining overall projects success.
• Gathered business requirements, analyze data / workflows. Defined the scope, financial projections and Cost / benefit analysis. Progressed from Problem Statement to well-documented Designs. Wrote Business Requirements Document (BRD).
• Interacts with the developers on resolving the reported bugs and various technical issues.
• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect requirement and business process information.
• Reviewed and edits requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution.
• Participated in the identification and development of functional systems requirements and take ownership of the related tasks to support the IT and Operations goal of developing a solution.
• Managed a portfolio of small to large scale strategic and systems related initiatives. Assists in enforcement of project deadlines and schedules. Identifying and managing project stakeholders
• Worked with business unit leaders and cross-functional team members to facilitate the initiation and implementation of assigned project(s).
• Developed detailed project plan(s) related to assigned initiatives, created project scope and project deliverables.
• Proactively identify and report on risks, issues and dependencies for the project.

Confidential, Harrisburg, NJ

Project Manager, Scrum Master, Sr. Architect

Responsibilities:

• Very well balanced role between technical and project management tasks including making sure all enhancements related tickets are getting done at time, and interaction with management to understand the exact need and requirements.
• Implemented Agile development methodology using Kanban / Continuous Flow. Administered all Agile / Scrum process and ensured effective implementation of agile process and trained team members to maximize the benefits.
• Make sure work to be broken down into manageable chunks and uses a Kanban Board to visualize that work as it progresses through the work flow.
• Encouraged the team to collaborate and chip in when any one person becomes overwhelmed.
• Make sure that products and processes are delivered continuously on an as-needed basis (with due dates determined by the business as needed).
• Excel in liaising between business and technical areas to achieve on-time, on-budget and on-spec project completions.
• Uses a “pull system,” or a systematic workflow that allows team members to only “pull” new tasks once the previous task is complete.
• Allowed for changes to be made to a project mid-stream, allowing for iterations and continuous improvement prior to the completion of a project.
• Make sure to measures production using “cycle time,” or the amount of time it takes to complete one full piece of a project from beginning to end.
• Participated throughout the project life cycle, from planning to production implementation, with emphasis on technical requirements, analysis and design.
• Developed and maintained vital relationships across multiple internal and external departments with stakeholders, partners, and customers.
• Gather detailed business and technical requirements, including mapping to the source and applicable data marts/extracts.
• Coordinate and execute user acceptance testing (UAT) with internal business partners.
• Identify, trouble shoot and facilitate quick resolution of operational and customer impacting issues that may arise.

Confidential

Lead Database Administrator, Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led Team of Oracle DBA’s and architect for various projects.
• Performed logical and physical modeling, developed and maintained ER diagrams and data dictionary to show the relationship between business components to map data with various fields and other business components with the given data requirements.
• Responsible for database analysis and design, including physical and logical layout of Oracle database servers (>500GB in size and >100Million transactions) with thousands of concurrent users.
• Design the Process Flow Diagram using Visio, Data Flow Diagrams (DFD), coding standards and wrote pseudo code for the implementation of customization.
• Extensively worked on Oracle Packages, procedures and functions using PL/SQL, SQL and UTL packages for file I/O. Design, Develop, Customized various Reports using PL/SQL and SQL.
• Tuned application's SQL statement for efficient uses of Indexes, Index creation & maintenance, used SQL Trace, TKPROF, Analyze, Explain Plan utilities, TOAD.
• Created an automated, enterprise wide monitoring infrastructure using several key technologies including UNIX shell scripts, Java, and SQL. This allowed our operational DBA team to efficiently gather database metadata, exceptions, and performance statistics.
• Oracle 10G/9i/8i server installation on Sun Solaris UNIX 2.8 environment. Oracle configurations, connectivity, post installation troubleshooting and up-gradation of Oracle server software.

Confidential

Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Assisted with process design, database analysis and design, including physical and logical layout.
• Database creation in Oracle 8i. Creation and modification of primary database storage structures.
• Reorganization of large tables to reduce fragmentation and improve performance.
• Extensively used ERWIN for logical database modeling.
• Tuned complex SQL statements and debugged PL/SQL packages. Minimize fragmentation and raw chaining. Planned growth and capacity planning.
• Installation of VERITAS File System and testing of high availability for fail over. Supported mirrored database for high availability i.e. server level clustering by using VCS.
• Setup Oracle in a high availability environment (fail-over systems using Stripping, mirroring and concatenation RAID 5, RAID 10) using VERITAS Cluster Server.
• Developed and implemented backup strategies. Created DB failure scenarios and verified backup strategies.
• Designed and implemented high availability solutions by using standby database.