SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of diversified experience in Software Project Management, Scrum Master and Program Manager.
• CSM certified Sr. Program Manager/Scrum Master wif practicing AGILE Scrum project framework for 3 years.
• Extensive experience leading multiple cross - functional product teams simultaneously in Agile as well as traditional project management environment.
• Excellent noledge of standard industry methodologies and practices like Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile, Continuous Integration.
• Experience in obtaining a grasp of teh business process and acting as a bridge between teh Management and Development teams.
• Managed and Facilitated wif Business Directors, IT Directors, Business & IT Project managers, Developers, Testing Teams and other SMEs.
• Experience in coordinating, negotiating and motivating project participants in support of time line and project deliverables.
• Experience in working wif cross-functional team on project related issues on a daily manner to TEMPeffectively track discrepancies.
• Worked as a Sr. Project Manager/ Scrum Master role in providing sustained leadership throughout all phases of teh project's lifecycle using teh Agile and Waterfall Methodology from kick-off to implementation and ensuring that product is fully integrated into an organization's business practices.
• Possessing exceptional Communication and Interpersonal skills to build productive relationships wif team mates, clients, vendors and other stake holders, providing focused project management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Cold Fusion, XML, HTML, JAVA, JSP, C++, ASP .NET

Version Control Systems: CVS, SubVersion

Project Management: Microsoft Project, Jira, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, SharePoint

Web Services: Tomcat, Apache and WebLogic

Database Tools: Teradata MySQL, SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle 10g, DB2

Reporting Tools: Business Objects, Mercury Quality Center 9.0

Microsoft Tools: MS Excel, MS Power point, MS Word, MS Visio, MS-Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Sr. Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Elicited business/project requirements along wif estimating project cost, schedule and staff requirements to execute teh project wifin constraints.
• Responsible for project planning, scheduling, resource management.
• Perform Project prioritization based on strategic objectives.
• Lead and manage a team of 5 Project Managers and their projects.
• Implemented AGILE policies, procedures, and templates and coordinating AGILE projects across various teams.
• ConductProjectmeetings, attend and represent changes in Change Management.
• Manageprojectdocumentation, Status Reports, deliverables, milestones, resources, cost and schedules.
• Play a lead role in identifying and documenting business processes and practices.
• Conduct daily scrum for teh team and halp them resolve any outstanding issue that may delay teh sprint.
• Work wif cross functional teams to get as much support for getting any roadblocks cleared.
• Participate in change request meetings to re-analyze and document teh scope of teh new requirements.
• Participate in formulating UAT planning and strategy.
• Conductinvestigation, root cause analysis, and trending against recurring problems and issues.
• Responsible in managing and maintaining teh defect tracking process.
• Conduct status meetings to discuss teh projectmilestones and major issues.
• Involved in teh discussions wif senior management regarding teh upcoming product releases.
• Foster a good team environment that would encourage every member of teh team to halp each other.
• Managed and led teh halpdesk team.

Confidential, Farmers Branch, TX

Sr. Project Manager/Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration wif management and stakeholders
• Responsible for developing project plans and associated communications documents and reports for all stages of teh process
• Responsible for providing business requirements wifin an Agile software development Agile Scrum environment
• Assisted wif teh analysis, design and implementation of a tool suite that will provide product life-cycle management for cross-channel projects.
• Led meetings wif external and internal stakeholders including Subject Matter Experts, and members of teh development team to define and document business and system requirements.
• Assisted in managing teh full project life cycle, from initiation through implementation, including requirements gathering and prioritization, defining scope and schedule, obtaining approvals, managing development and testing tasks and troubleshooting. Validated teh clients’ requirements by doing a detailed analysis / feasibility study.
• Involved in teh Test strategy meetings and planning which include UAT and User acceptance queries.
• Reviewed user manuals from teh functional perspective on teh product changes.
• Responsible in managing and maintaining teh defect tracking process.
• Anchored status meetings periodically to discuss teh projectmilestones and major issues.
• Assisted teh off-shore portfolio management team to determine teh feasibility for implementing different solutions.
• Analyzed teh client’s requirements and proposed a new process flow to their current syndication process.
• Created programs in Cold Fusion 9 and JavaScript to run various tasks such as user validation, parsing etc.
• Extensively involved for developing and using Stored Procedures, Functions, Packages, and Indexes in SQL Server 2008.
• Documentation and Testing developed components.
• Writing and executing unit test plans for individual modules and system plans for teh application.
• Lead and co-ordinate between offshore team for all teh deliverables.
• Extensively involved in resolving end user issues.

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Sr. Technical Associate/Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Identify user requirements and prepared functional specification.
• Participated in requirement gathering sessions from users and preparation/modifying of teh requirements in requirement specification document.
• Involved in teh analysis, design & development of teh project.
• Created programs in Cold Fusion 8 and JavaScript to run various tasks such as user validation, parsing etc.
• Created programs in Java, JSP to run various tasks such as user validation, parsing etc.
• Writing and executing batch jobs in Unix/Linux.
• Extensively involved for developing and using Stored Procedures, Functions, Packages, Indexes in SQL Server 2000 and Oracle 10g.
• Design UI and Creating Data Access Objects, Prepared Sql Queries.
• Documentation and Testing developed components.
• Writing and executing unit test plans for individual modules and system plans for teh application.
• Lead and co-ordinate between offshore team for all teh deliverables.
• Interact and Solve End user queries.
• Participate in review meetings of various deliverables for releases/projects.
• Coordinate wif other vendors across engagements and conduct status meetings.
• Assist and work closely wif teh onsite System test team during System testing/User Acceptance testing.
• Review all Test documents including test cases.
• Provide support to System Test / User acceptance Test team during teh testing phases.
• Be an interface between offshore delivery team and customer ( Confidential &T).

Confidential

Technical Associate/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Identified /documented data sources and transformation rules required to populate and maintain data warehouse content.
• Participated and contributed in discussions about parameters for reporting capabilities.
• Designed Diagrams and web page mock ups using modeling tools. Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Assisted wif user testing of systems, developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place Prepared Mock Up screens in MS Visio and created presentations for teh Business Users in PowerPoint. Coordinated and mentored various tools and process flow of teh application.
• Developed test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and /or product noledge. Translated business requirements into Design Document for functional coding.
• Participated in requirement gathering sessions from users and preparation/modifying of teh requirements in requirement specification document.
• Enhancements in various technologies like ColdFusion, Java/J2ee,Unix, Oracle 9i, SQL, PL/SQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2000
• Involved in teh analysis, design & development of teh project.
• Created programs in Cold Fusion 8 and JavaScript to run various tasks such as user validation, parsing etc.
• Created programs in Java, JSP to run various tasks such as user validation, parsing etc.
• Responsible for Writing and executing batch jobs in Unix/Linux.
• Extensively involved for developing and using Stored Procedures, Functions, Packages, Indexes in SQL Server 2000 and Oracle 10g.
• Design UI and Creating Data Access Objects, Prepared Sql Queries.
• Documentation and Testing developed components.
• Writing and executing unit test plans for individual modules and system plans for teh application.
• Interacted and Solved End user queries.
• Participated in review meetings of various deliverables for releases/projects.
• Coordinated wif other vendors across engagements and conducted status meetings.
• Assisted and worked closely wif teh onsite System test team during System testing/User Acceptance testing.
• Created various documents like requirements specification, functional specification, High Level Design, Low Level Design, Unit/Integration/System Test Plans.
• Conducted SQA activities.
• Participated in Quality Audits for CMM.