SUMMARY:

• 13 years of professional experience in Digital Transformation/financial services in the USA.
• Worked as Scrum Coach, Agile Transformation Lead, Project Manager, Scrum Master.
• Familiarity with JIRA, VSTS, Confluence, AWS Cloud, CRM, Microsoft Azure, Jenkins, authorized to work in the US.Successfully delivered Confidential Mobile banking App as part of Digital Transformation initiative.
• Led cross functional team in the creation of a NEW web - based product that would involve the integration of some existing technology and solutions with NEW technology (Micro services, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Created a proven market solution using Agile practices. Successful migration of a Legacy prime brokerage Lending product on J2EE platform using Agile Principle and Manifesto (Inspect/Adapt/Transparency).
• I have also coached executive leadership about Agile best practices and helped resolve numerous problems regarding Predictability, Transparency, Estimation and deployments.
• As an Agile coach working at the Enterprise level, I have advised and guided leadership at the executive level to adopt truly Agile ways of thinking and operations (CI/CD Process).
• Transition 15+ teams into scrum methodology from waterfall. Lead scrum training for distributed teams across globe. Lead Scrum Community of practice (COP) and Scrum of Scrum (SOS).
• Identified and Eliminated Agile Anti-Patterns for Successful Agile Adoption.
• Increased team productivity by 20% using different level of Agility Health Matrix ranging from Team level to Individual level.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Agile coaching & delivery
• Continuous Improvement
• Stakeholder Management
• Digital & Agile transformation
• Kanban / Scrum/ JIRAs
• Dev-Ops (CI/CD)
• OKRs
• Reporting & Governance
• Agile finance & budgeting
• SAFe 5.0
• Change management (CAB)
• Risk Management
• Portfolio Management
• Modelling and Forecasting
• Communities of practice

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Product Owner to define project scope and objectives.
• Gathering and updating project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents.
• Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives
• Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning.
• Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master that resulted in reduction of Cycle time by 20% thus increasing team's throughput in less than 8 weeks.
• Coached new SM and trained global teams, which resulted in early delivery of project and reduced process waste caused by lack of common understanding.
• Collaborated closely with the Product Owner (PO) with respect to managing the product backlog.
• Manages the health of the team.
• Works with Product Owner to define project scope and objectives (PO Synchronization).
• Works effectively with others to remove delivery team roadblocks.
• Guides team through continual improvement process.

Senior Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully migrated projects from Waterfall to Scrum.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories.
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of Agile methodologies across the enterprise.
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams in India.
• Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption.
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%.
• Managed new product features and improvements in terms of scope and quality.
• Coached and mentored all features and principles of Agile methodology.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation, theater and so on to help the team become a high-performance team.
• Empower the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings
• Remove obstacles for developers and testers.
• Use key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity) to help deliver committed work.
• Manage sprint backlog items and tasks.
• Gathering and updating project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents.
• Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives.
• Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning.
• Coaching and mentoring other Scrum Masters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams.
• Assist in defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes.

SYSTEMS ANALYST

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led multiple nation-wide programs such as the evaluation and recommendation of a Billing Application solution for financial claims processing, and the design& implementation of full application monitoring from hardware to application transactions with full governance setup of all “critical” business and financial applications.
• Project management services included Gathering requirements, Design and Implementation of monitoring tools - with the use of many Agile-Lean approaches to meet very aggressive timelines and uncertain project scope.