SUMMARY

• 16 years of experience in IT industry
• Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science
• 10+ years for experience in Agile projects
• In - depth knowledge and experience in Waterfall, Agile, Scaled Agile, Lean and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban etc
• Coaching and Mentoring PO, Dev Team, Leadership and other Scrum Masters in Agile Methodologies
• Predict team risks and escalate it on time
• Identify Areas of improvement, Risks and Dependencies
• Experience in People Management
• Experience in managing projects through all phases of the life cycle Initiation, Planning, Execution and Closure
• Facilitate Agile ceremoniesand establish practices related to visualization, WIP limits, flow management, feedback loops, and continuous improvement.
• Work with Product Owners and Stakeholders to identify and clarify priority and manage Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog.
• Document team agreements, decisions, process, knowledge transfer and other item
• Experience in organizing Team events and Hackathons
• Remove impediments and fostering self-management
• Timely escalation and demonstrate progress of the team to leadership using Burnup Chart, Burndown Chart, Velocity chart, Cumulative Flow Diagram etc
• Timely escalation and communication with the leadership
• Represent the team in the Scrum of Scrums
• SupportChange Management
• Influence and guide the team to handle critical issue
• Manages Project budget, forecasting, resource management, Invoicing
• Experience in working with Confluence, SharePoint, Jira, Agile Craft (Jira Align), Service NOW
• Interaction with Customer and Negotiating on the deliverables
• Experience in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) tools
• Part of teams supporting DevOps, AWS Infrastructure, BlockChain, IoT, RPA, AI
• Problem solver who ensures projects are delivered on time, within budget
• Strong communication and analytical skills as well as the ability to work well in teams.
• Experience as Program Manger Banking Finance Domain Competence that generates $450 M revenue
• Author, Toastmaster Public Speaker and Standup Comedian

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Scrum Master / Sr Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Ensure project goals delivered in time and in budget
• Remove Impediments and Timely escalation
• Participate in requirement gathering
• Interaction with Customer and Negotiating on the deliverables
• Influence and guide the team to handle critical issue
• Handle Risks and Dependencies in the Project
• Track project performance using appropriate KPIs, metrics, tools, and techniques, submit deliverables and ensure they adhere to quality standards
• Overseeing daily activities of the project team
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Coach and mentor PO and Dev team
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum team
• Facilitated preparation and readiness for Release Train events
• Represented team in Scrum of Scrums
• Empower teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects
• Addressing and resolving critical issues within 24 hours
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Support Change Management
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues

Confidential

Sr. Scrum Master / Sr Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manages project through full-life cycle
• Influence and guide the team to handle critical issue
• Remove Impediments and Timely escalation
• Handle Risks and Dependencies in the Project
• Track project performance using appropriate KPIs, metrics, tools, and techniques, submit deliverables and ensure they adhere to quality standards
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Coach and Facilitate Product Increment planning
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum team
• Facilitated preparation and readiness for Release Train events
• Represent team in Scrum of Scrums meeting
• Empower teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects
• Support Change Management
• Addressing and resolving critical issues within 24 hours
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress

Confidential

Scrum Master / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Coach and Facilitate PI planning
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum team
• Facilitated preparation and readiness for ART events
• Represented team in S2 meeting
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects
• Addressing and resolving critical issues within 24 hours
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planning and monitoring program execution.
• Project coordination and managing project interdependencies.
• Creating and managing a budget.
• Cross-project resource management.
• Identifying and addressing problems and risks.
• Program documentation.
• Sales
• Stakeholder communications, negotiations, and problem-solving.
• Aligning or realigning deliverables with program outcomes.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Creating Project initiation document
• Identifying Stakeholders
• Project Planning
• Defining Scope
• Understanding Business requirements and providing suggestions
• Manage offshore team actives and provide assistance for the team
• Gather requirements from onsite and communicate to the offshore team
• Coordinate daily meetings
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Ensure issues and risks are informed are logged in tracker.

Confidential

Owner

Responsibilities:

• Complete ownership of the product
• Understanding the trends in the market and making changes in the product based on that
• Gathering Business information from vendors
• Involved in end to end sale of the product and services
• Involved in end to end Software Development
• Ensure the development and production environment is intact
• Maintain Cash flow

Confidential

Senior Consultant / Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated daily stand up meetings, managing tasks with teams involved
• Identified business needs and prioritize the most valuable reports;
• Participated in Agile project inception, iteration meetings. Writes stories/acceptance criteria. Manage product backlog and user story priorities
• Worked with cross functional team members to define and track the most impactful business metrics;
• Work with UX team for UI mock-ups and work with business to finalize them
• Coordinated and monitored the offshore teams, ensuring that necessary milestones are achieved in a timely manner
• Gather business requirements
• Managed Business expectations, facilitating communications and contributing to Business satisfaction during and after implementation.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Hands on experience in converting business requirements into actionable requirement for development teams.
• Engage with executive leadership to advice of guidance/direction based on independent data analyses
• Analyzed consumer surveys and gave technical inputs in Business meetings
• Worked with the BI team leader to manage and optimize the analyst team, with the goal of providing insight that drives better business decision

Confidential

Project Coordinator / Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the requirements and providing consulting services to client
• Coordinating daily Scrum calls
• Developing and maintaining software products
• Communicating the requirements to team
• Consolidate and document the requirements
• Created monthly Status Reports to keep the Business Lead informed about developments.
• Mentoring junior team members
• Coding

Confidential 

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Software Development
• Coordinating with manager
• Understanding requirement