SUMMARY

• Over 13+ years of IT experience and expertise in Banking, Capital Markets and Financial Services Industry and 7+ years of Agile Project Management (Scrum/ Kanban) experience handling multi - year, multi-million dollar budgeted projects
• Strong technology, domain and process background in Paper, Card and Image based Check and Credit Card Payments Processing Systems, CPCS Mainframe Systems, Equity, Trading, Securities, Brokerage and Settlement areas
• Working as an Agile Project Manager for 7+ years, managing a team of about 30+ members in the onsite-offshore model and also as an Agile Scrum Master for 2+ years
• Experience working in multi-region with multi-vendor teams as an Integration Manager
• Proficient in ATDD, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Iterative Software Development Life Cycle Process and other models such as Waterfall and Agile (Scrum)
• Proficient in Domain Analysis, IT Requirement Analysis, Gap Analysis and in communicating with IT and Business Stakeholders at all levels
• Strong Mathematical, Analytical, SQL, Statistical and Data Analytical skills
• Expertise in Agile Project Management tools Microsoft Projects, Clarity, Excel spreadsheets, Power Point Presentations, MS Visio and Version One
• Implemented Lean Agile Techniques, Reverse Engineering, Acceptance Test Driven Development, Defect Flow Analysis and Risk Based Testing
• Excellent Communication and Client-facing skills with ability to establish a strong relationship with the Business stakeholders and align IT with Business needs

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/7, UNIX and OS/2

Databases & Tools: MS SQL Server 2000, MS Access, Oracle 9i/10G, Toad, DB2 and Sybase

Languages: Java, JSP, SQL, VBScript, C, C++ and Power Builder

Software: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, IBM Lotus Notes

Quality Management: HP UFT(QTP), HP ALM, Test Director, Subversion, GitHub, VSS and CVS

Methodologies: Waterfall and Agile (Scrum and Kanban)

Other Tools: Version One, Clarity, Jira, TSYS TS2 Mainframe systems, ALI Calltech/OnQ, Remedy AR system, Click Schedule, Ruby Mine and IBM 3890 and NCR 7780 check sorters

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Project Manager/Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Drive Agile Project Management responsibilities serving as a Servant Leader - Sprint planning, sprint review, sprint tracking, conduct daily stand-up meetings, sprint retrospective, status reporting, backlog grooming and Managed Services (MSA) engagement model responsibilities - Monthly effort estimation/forecast, scoping, budget tracking, schedule tracking, resource allocation, client billing, reporting, risk management, proposal writing etc.
• Day-to-day interaction with Product Owner, Collections business partners (cross-commit teams, upstream-downstream groups, business system analysts etc.)
• Day-to-day support POC for Collections team (answers questions, review deliverables, conduct/attend meetings etc.) deliverables using ATDD methodology
• Act as a liaison between the onsite and offsite teams
• Monitor for new ALM defects, enhancements, J projects and assign out for testing support
• For assignments outside of Collections, obtain confirmation dat those areas has accepted the assignments and understand the timelines
• Gather all BSA’s inputs, compile document and prepare BAS for review
• Maintain and update ALM/QC with the test cases and test execution results
• Ensure Knowledge Link (KLINK) folders exist to house documentation and test results for all items being tested in the release
• Conduct test results review/defect triage meetings with BSA’s and obtain sign-off of test results and document the same under KLINK/QC
• Update customers and business stake holders of the current project status by means of a daily status report and iterate the same during the stand-up meetings
• Participate in S2 meetings, monthly sprint effort estimation meetings and plan the tasks for the following month, well ahead of time

Environment: Windows7, UNIX/LINUX, Oracle, DB2, SQL Developer, HP ALM, HP Quality Center, HP UFT(QTP), TSYS TS2 mainframes, ALI Calltech/OnQ, Clarity, Version One, Ruby Mine, MS Word, MS Excel, Microsoft Project

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Onsite Technical Project Lead
• Client Interactions for functional, business and technical clarifications
• Liaison between offshore and client technical and business team(s)
• Data management test planning, test strategizing and interaction with the cross-commit business teams
• Responsible for ETL Data warehouse testing using Oracle and DB2 databases
• Preparing/reviewing System test cases and performing System testing
• Created Risk & Mitigation details and socialized with the IT platform delivery teams in the program and the Business team
• Performed and facilitated end to end Integration Testing for project delivery
• Arrived at the timelines and strategy of testing along with the platform testing teams for system testing and Integration Testing
• Provided the Test Completion status and details to the Business and IT Management

Environment: Windows XP, Oracle 10G, DB2, Toad, HP Quality Center, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Onsite Technical Project Lead
• Client Interactions for functional, business and technical clarifications
• Liaison between offshore and client technical and business team(s)
• Data management test planning, test strategizing and interaction with the cross-commit business teams
• Responsible for ETL Data warehouse testing using Oracle and DB2 databases
• Preparing/reviewing System test cases and performing System testing
• Created Risk & Mitigation details and socialized with the IT platform delivery teams in the program and the Business team
• Performed and facilitated end to end Integration Testing for project delivery
• Arrived at the timelines and strategy of testing along with the platform testing teams for system testing and Integration Testing
• Provided the Test Completion status and details to the Business and IT Management

Environment: Windows XP, UNIX, Oracle 10G, DB2, Toad, HP Quality Center, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a single point of contact and coordinated from the client location for dis multi-region project
• Client Interactions for functional, business and technical clarifications
• Liaison between offshore and client technical and business team(s)
• Analysis of the existing functionality of CPCS and prepared low level design / Impact analysis document (IAD) for Design and Development
• Responsible for coding core, client and truncation modules on C and OS/2, code promotion and deployment to staging environment
• Preparing Unit and Business Acceptance test cases, Coding and performing Unit and Business Acceptance testing

Environment: Windows XP, UNIX, OS/2, C, Assembly language, Mainframe CPCS, Oracle, Microsoft Virtual PC, HP Quality Center, JIRA system, IBM 3890 & NCR 7780 check sorters, MS Word, MS Excel

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Client Interactions for functional clarifications
• Analysis of the existing functionality of Fusion and prepared low level design / Impact analysis document (IAD) for Enhancements and Maintenance
• Preparing Unit test cases, Coding and performing Unit testing

Environment: Windows XP, UNIX, Java, C++, Oracle, Eclipse, Subversion, TortoiseSVN, MS Word, MS Excel

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Unit test cases, Coding and performing Unit testing
• Communicated with multi-region teams regarding the project activities and Status.
• Communicated with the Clients regarding the clarifications needed

Environment: Windows XP, UNIX, C++, MS Word, MS Excel

Confidential

Application Support

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the support of Click Schedule, Magenta and Data Store applications

Environment: Windows XP, Remedy AR system, MS Word, MS Excel