SUMMARY

• Project Management & Business Analysis: 10 years of progressive experience in evaluating, planning and implementing complex Business and IT changes using both traditional PMP and Agile (Scrum) methodologies
• Excellent communication & team player: Proven ability to collaborate and work effectively with a diverse multi - cultural group of stakeholders; strong interpersonal, analytical and presentation skills
• Financial Services & Confidential Industry specialist: Rich experiences managing and assisting in a suite of projects that range from an application transformation initiative to an enterprise wide process and operational changes

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Software Development Life Cycle
• Application Development
• Systems Integration
• Database Design (RDBMS)
• Application Modernization
• Requirement Analysis
• System and UAT testing
• Build Management
• Business Continuity Planning
• Quality Assurance
• Project Scheduling
• Master Data Management
• Change Management
• Vendor Management
• IT Governance

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PM Tools: JIRA, MS Project, Clarity, Microsoft Office Suite including advanced Excel, Power point, Visio, Service-Now, Enterprise Contract Manager, Share-point 2010, Team Foundation Server, Tableau, Cognos

Development Environment: JAVA, Web-services, COBOL, DB2,IMS DB, Oracle, SQL, XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York

Scrum Master, Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshops with Business and technology stakeholders including branch frontline, product managers, architects and development teams to capture business and technical requirements
• Trained team members and sponsor on Agile project framework including a tool demo on JIRA
• Developed the overall Project plan and logically partitioned to releases and sprints; reviewed with and obtained sign-offs from product owner/sponsor, technology development, L3 support, testing, and deployment groups
• Assisted product owner in arriving at initial project backlog items; ensured efficient backlog refinement process by advising on effort estimation, business value assignment and prioritization best practices
• Spearheaded sprint planning sessions and efficiently facilitated daily stand-up scrums, reviews and retrospect
• Ensured the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility; protected from day to day distractions, impediment and team conflicts while, maintaining focus on product backlog and sprint timelines
• Tracked and managed product backlog, sprint burn-down and backlog burn up charts using JIRA
• Presented regular release status and ensured support for next steps in Executive Steering Committee meetings

Environment: JIRA, MS Project, JAVA, Oracle, SQL, Autos-sys, FTP, Web-logic server, MQ, Service-Now

Confidential

Scrum Master, Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Organized kick-off meetings with key stakeholders and the project team in order to ensure that all members are aware of their roles and the target business objectives, target benefits and measurements
• Conducted workshop with product owner and end users to arrive at user stories; captured all stories and logically arrived at tasks on JIRA
• Presented regular sprint progress updates to sponsor and the team including burn down charts, velocity chart and addressing any impediments to successful release
• Coordinated with test managers, and business to plan unit testing, System Integration testing (SIT), User Acceptance testing (UAT), Performance Testing, related environment setup and production release
• Responsible for organizing daily standups and resolving any team conflicts and issues
• Compiled project closure report updating on the achievement towards closure criteria, identifying scope, schedule and budget variances, Change Requests, milestone achievements and lessons learnt

Environment: JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, JAVA, XML, webservices, SOAP and MS office suite

Confidential

Scrum master, Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led Joint Application Design(JAD) sessions with developers and architects to arrive at detailed system requirements, design considerations for the application; delivered Detailed Design Document (DDS)
• Completed ETL mappings from various database sources from the lines of business. Worked with Informatica developers and production support team to setup and test initial load
• Led the internal, onshore and offshore resources to ensure the implementation and utilization of consistent processes across SDLC; managed the post implementation transition to operational support
• Orchestrated tool demo sessions for each line of business by leveraging early adopters (SMEs and developers)
• Followed all formal project gating processes to obtain a Go/No Go decision for every UAT/production release

Environment: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Informatica Power Center, MS Project, Share-point, Advanced Excel, Word and power point

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Focal point for all stakeholder communications; ensured appropriate prioritization and effective execution
• Conducted Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) sessions to determine future state process requirements; Delivered Use case documents and drafted test scenarios coordinating with business users
• Assisted project manager in building integrated project plan that combined various development, testing and deployment tasks with their timelines
• Performed detailed analysis on the changes required on User Interfaces to support new tax codes overrides
• Performed Quality Assurance, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and obtained approvals from business sponsor

Environment: DB2, CICS, Web-sphere MQ, XML, COBOL, JCL and Microsoft office suite

Confidential, Southbury, CT

Scrum team member, Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Scrum sprint planning sessions, backlog grooming, sizing, sprint retrospectives and reviews, daily stand ups, user stories and acceptance criteria
• Coded several application modules following technical design document; responsible for integrating modules, application compilation, build and execute unit and SIT testing
• Ensured successful migration from the user acceptance test environment to the production environment by coordinating migration activities with L2 team and supporting Production dry run
• Supported the project manager to successfully establish compliance with internal quality process reviews
• As a build manager, I was responsible to promote code between Unit test, SIT, UAT and Production levels.

Environment: JAVA, Web services, CICS, Oracle, XFR, Rational clear case, Rational application developer, Microsoft Office and Web-sphere Transformation Extender (WTX)