SUMMARY

• Dynamic and motivated professional with comprehensive skills in program and project management, interfacing technology, problem solving, analyzing and implementing business process improvements.
• Working in Agile methodology for the past 6 years as an Agile scrum master working with Senior manager and technical team memebers to coach and guide on Scrum methodology.
• Well - demonstrated ability to develop and implement highly successful short and long term strategic plans, routinely completing projects on time & within the budget.
• Excel in liaising between business and technical areas to achieve on-time, on-budget and on-spec project completions. Able to merge customer and user needs with business requirements and logistical considerations to meet project deliverables.
• Transitioned multiple projects from concept to Product launch and retirement as an Agile Change agent different locations (onshore-offshore) and kno
• Exceptional focus, follow through and co-ordination skills. Proven ability to develop and manage project schedule. Good knowledge in Quality and Risk management with experience in the tools and techniques used for them. Expertise in providing problem resolution.
• Played a pivotal role in setting the stage of Agile and Lean Transformation strategy,understanding the maturity of the organizations and rolling out the Transformation in phases. The Transformation has included the formation of the strategy, training,coaching, mentoring, implementation and adjustments at tactical level.
• Expert at driving adoption and enforcement of Agile principles, removing impediments and fostering self-management. Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: .Net,ABAP,JAVA

Technologies: SharePoint 2010/ 2013,Cloud

Database: My SQL Server 2010/ 2012,Oracle

Tools: CA Agile(formely Rally),Jira,Real time planning board,flowdocks

Applications: Sharepoint,TFS,TDD,Eclipse,MS Excel,Powerpoint

OS: Windows

Software Development Methodology: Agile and Waterfall

Framework: Scrum,Kanban and XP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Engaged with various technical Engineers/consultants to ensure smooth and successful transition from initial to final delivery.
• Played a key role in designing the solution on obtaining the requirements from the product owner.
• Involved in Managing multiple teams of more than 5 members and coordinating the sprints delivery with the client.
• Analyzed the needs of the teams and developed structure governance and metrics to support new delivery practices. Documented Roles and Responsibilities as well as team practices.
• Conducted daily stand up/scrum meeting and scrum retrospective meeting at end of each sprints and document lessons learnt.
• Identified potential growth opportunities for team members and developed skill improvement plans. Helped create current state and future state Value Stream Analysis.Created Roadmap of Transition activities with milestones by quarter
• Created and maintained a plan for continuous road mapping.
• Maintained team metrics and make visible to team (including burn down charts).
• Maintained Task Boards to provide/have more visibility to Sprint Backlog using Rally.
• Worked in a team in the adoption of various process techniques from Scrum including test driven development, and continuous integration.
• Promoted continuous improvement and help teams to increase productivity.
• Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master for DevOps that resulted in reduction of Cycle time by 20% thus increasing team's throughput in less than 8 weeks.
• Defined project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies.
• Trained and coached a development team of 6-8 to utilize Agile Methodology with Scrum.
• Implemented Kanban for a QA team and brought in alignment with higher productivity in terms of ticket resolution and productivity.
• Working with stakeholders / product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint.
• Actively contributed to the organization’s Agile and Lean Community by authoring guidance on normalized sizing guidance, effective capability, feature and user story writing and sizing, HIP sprints and Acceptance Test Driven Delivery.

Confidential, DE

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Engage with Technical Analysts and various stakeholders to understand the requirements and propose a solution for all the supporting features and business logic and facilitated user story workshop.
• Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management.Faciliatted various events to promote agile learning within the department.
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them
• Encouraging the team to come up with reusable elements and use the best practices.
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning process.
• Helped the product owners to come up with set of user stories for better understanding for estimate and development.
• Assisted the Product Owner with refining and proritizing the product backlog.
• Used Agile testing methodology for achieving deadlines in UAT.
• Maintained storyboards, organized charts within Rally and influenced best practices to team
• Encouraged the team to use agile methodology for Continuous intergration and test driven development.
• Tracks and reports status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis.
• Involved in creation Test Stratergies,Writing Test scripts and estimation efforts for test reports.
• Managed offshore teams in different geographical places.
• Facilitated Release planning meeting to chart out production deployments.
• Ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget.
• Conduct workshops for backlog refinement, user story writing and story point estimation and help the development team in daily scrum,sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective, burn-down charts, Kanban, PI Planning and Sprint Train .
• Helped the teams to be self-organized and not to be controlled by program leaders, help the team to be out from the unrealistic expectations, help the teams to work on a cross-functional teams, and help the teams to work on a common cadence delivery model. Involve in business initiation, solution capability identification, business value prioritization, solution context and solution intent practices.
• Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it.
• Promoted continuous improvement and help teams to increase productivity.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Defined project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies.
• Facilitating the daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.
• Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications.
• Planned Capacity planning and managed the product backlog,worked with the team to prioritize requirements,define and manage scope and sprints for project.
• Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management. Presentations, recommendations and updates provided regularly to the Director office.
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them.
• Coaches and mentors agile team members and provides constructive performance feedback.
• Encouraging the team for self-organization to boost the efficiency and coordination
• Encouraging the team to come up with reusable elements and use the best practices.
• Helped the product owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development.
• Motivated the team to come up with quality shippable product and meet the product goals.
• Tracks and reports status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis using JIRA.
• Managed offshore teams in different geographical places.
• Ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget.
• Involved in working with all the other parties apart from Infosys involved with the SharePoint platform to coordinate patch deployments and other activities to ensure smooth Functioning of the SharePoint environment.
• Working with stakeholders / product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint.
• Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master for few teams which resulted in reduced cycle time and increased productivity.
• Ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget.
• Provide assistance to the other team members if and when needed.
• Generate daily reports as requested by the client.

Confidential, SF

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Assisting and supporting the project manager in daily duties.
• Ensuring relevant management information is captured and analysed.
• Involved in coordinating projects from inception to completion.
• Identify, analyze, prioritize, mitigate and communicate project risk.
• Communicating with project manager to report on project status.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning,review,retrospect and daily stand-ups for 2 teams.
• Assisted teams to make appropriate commitments for story selection,sizing and task identification.
• Worked with engineer managers to identify cross-team dependencies and with product owners to groom their backlog and planned sprints.
• Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
• Maintaine task boards and burndown charts for tracking sprint backlog and team velocity using JIRA.
• Developed Test Scenarios and documented Test Plans that contains test scripts, test cases, test data and expected results for the Component Integration, System Integration, Functional, Performance, User Acceptance Testing, and White Box Testing.
• Planned various agile techniques for continuos intergration and TDD to promote high quality deliverables with deadlines.
• Managed conflicting interests and identified compromises while simultaneously delivering.
• Functioned as the Scrum Master for the Pilot teams in implementing Agile Practices.

Confidential, SF

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Was involved in the analysis of the applications to be migrated to determine the feasible mode of migration and the best suited tool for the same.
• Responsible for migration in QA and Production sites using Metalogix.
• Responsible for maintaining the sites after migration to SharePoint server 2013 and recreating the functionalities lost during migration at rare cases using visual studio.
• Involved in Testing the functionalities of the migrated sites in all the environments.
• Responsible for collecting the daily updates and co-ordinating with onsite teams with respect to client end requirements after migration and testing.

Confidential

Software Engineer /Jr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Trained and involved on the job in .Net and SharePoint 2010 to develop Web applications,site and sub sites for the company document management.
• Involved in developing custom workflows and infopath forms for specific business requirements.
• Responsible for enhancements requests from customers and site maintainence on a daily basis.
• Involved in Testing Core functionalities of the SharePoint web Applications.
• Facilitating scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-up call,sprint planning,review and retrospective for the team.
• Supported the producted owner with grooming and maintain the product backlog and working with the team using JIRA.
• Proactively collaborated with scrum masters and agile coaches across the organization.
• Identified and removed organizations and team impediments to enhance productivity and efficiency.

Confidential

Software Intern

Responsibilities:

• Developed a scalable and robust web-based solution to resolve complex business problems for a Thermal power plant.
• Studied Deeply the existing design to understand the existing process and optimized the existing feature to design a web based solution to increase the productivity and reduce the manual effort.
• Documented the developed solution based on the findings for implementation.