SUMMARY:

• Develop and Implement Strategies that Optimize Performance and Efficiency
• Skilled, multi - faceted professional with 18 years of experience (POPM, Scrum Master & PM) across various domains such as Data analytics, Airlines / Travel industry and Health care, Automotive, E-commerce domains.
• Effective communicator and faster learner with strong interpersonal, organizational and leadership skills with ability to adapt seamlessly.
• Strong believer in building solid relationships with business partners as well as internal / external team members.

SKILL:

SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Lean

Scrum Master

Agile Coach

Process Improvement

Product Owner

Data Analysis

Training & Mentoring

Business Strategy

Requirements Analysis

Change Management

JIRA

Confluence

TFS (Team Foundation Server)

Azure

SharePoint

Rally

VERSION ONE

Snowflake

MS Project

AtScale

DB Visualizer

Visio

Clarify

HP ALM

Clear Quest

Test Rail

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Coaching the team to transform in to Agile team at executive level and team levels by setting up processes and achieving them by following scrum ceremonies.
• Being a persistent servant leader by having meetings - cross technical, cross functional teams and with Product & design teams until each sprint reached the finishing line
• Managed the sprint refinement, backlog grooming, Sprint planning, & daily stand ups, using JIRA across three teams and eventually became RTE by grooming others for Scrum master role.
• Worked with Product Manager & Product Owners to develop collaborative product backlog and articulated the importance of product vision, value and prioritization of work to the team.
• Supported PO in meetings with Business stakeholders and customers of Client organization on product vision, PI Planning, strategy, features, and prioritization.
• Actively involved in Translating product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance criteria for development team.
• Worked closely with the UI/UX design and PO team to strategize and prioritize requirements in JIRA.
• Aligned closely with team and PO in Product backlog grooming to determining increments necessary to deliver next set of features prioritized.
• Ensure team is clearly aware of the sprint goal & monitored their progress on Scrum board by resolving the problems.
• Using JIRA effectively to track the burndown and keep the team motivated to achieve the end goal.
• Using the Sprint report, Burndown & Velocity chart, for the Slides of Product Demo at the end of each sprint & also publish weekly progress reports for PMO (with all the risks / issues & mitigation, if any)

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed the sprint releases, planning, daily stand ups, grooming & refinement sessions using JIRA
• Provide leadership and coordination with all levels of program resources is critical (managers, developers, test analysts, project managers and business SME’s will be key)
• Work with Product owners / Portfolio leads to ensure alignment with client ISO and CMMI processes/deliverables
• Actively involved in Translating product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance criteria for development team, creating healthy product backlog.
• Worked closely with the UI/UX design and PO team to strategize and prioritize requirements in JIRA.
• Aligned closely with team and PO in Product backlog grooming to determining increments necessary to deliver next set of features prioritized.
• Ensure team is clearly aware of the sprint goal & monitored their progress on Scrum board
• Using JIRA effectively to track the burndown and keep the team motivated to achieve the end goal.
• Implementing defect management & reporting processes in accordance with BMO methodology

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed the sprint releases, planning, daily stand ups, grooming & refinement sessions using JIRA
• Successful management, tracking/monitoring and reporting of several big ($ 3M) to medium size projects from inception to completion, ensuring on-time and within budget delivery.
• Managed the sprint releases, sprint planning, daily stand ups, grooming & planning sessions with team in JIRA using Scrum methodology.
• Worked closely with the UI/UX design and PO team to strategize and prioritize requirements in JIRA.
• Aligned closely with team and PO in Product backlog grooming to determining increments necessary to deliver next set of features prioritized.
• Ensure team is clearly aware of the sprint goal & monitored their progress on Scrum board by resolving the problems.
• Using JIRA effectively to track the burndown and keep the team motivated to achieve the end goal.
• Driven Estimations (L3’s), Budgeting, Funding (>$ 2M), Forecasting, Health check & variance reporting, PMLC reporting and making Presentations for PMO Portfolio for monthly meetings of VPs
• Worked with PMO team and responsible for managing several different projects across the business. Including ensuring designs, requirements, and builds are on time and accurate

Confidential

IT Project Manager & Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed the sprint releases, planning, daily stand ups, grooming & refinement sessions using Rally
• Responsible for change management, negotiations and getting stakeholder approvals
• Involved in workload calculation and estimation of work orders of the team using MS project
• Spearheaded the client meetings with the business heads and account managers
• Involved in project budgeting, planning, project scheduling, risk analysis and management
• Liaison with the business and IT PMO community and ensuring proper documentation is in place
• Interacted with actual users to understand requirements for the new product - Flight + Hotels combo.
• Ensured that business requirements are accomplished within stipulated project timelines.

Confidential

Scrum Master & Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing Business needs and translating them into Functional Specification document (FSD), System Requirement Specification (SRS) documents.
• Used JIRA for agile project management, creating product/ sprint backlog and bug tracking.
• Chaired Requirement Gathering Sessions with various schools and organizations in different cities Meeting and finalizing meetings with Suppliers and vendors for uniforms and other accessories
• Facilitated Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews-Business Case, User Stories and Sprint Retrospective.
• Involved in creating Business Flow Diagrams, Data flow diagrams, UML Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams, and USE cases diagrams using MS VISIO.
• Facilitated cross-team meetings with committees from Operation and Development to allow different stakeholders to communicate their interests and concerns and document MoM.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated cross-team meetings with committees from Operation and Development to allow different stakeholders to communicate their interests and concerns and documented MoM
• Conducted meetings with users to understand the workflow of the business and their processes
• Worked in the agile methodology-using Scrum, which has its primary focus on the management of the software development in small iterations of four weeks’ sprint.
• Active participation at the time of project proposal and SRS creation
• Created user stories for all the release, sprint planning, daily stand ups and grooming sessions.
• Involved in project budgeting, auditing, resource planning, project scheduling and analysis.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple business functions - project management, client communication & operations.
• Effectively handled project communication with senior management and center of competency
• Responsible for conducting stakeholders meeting and doing workshops to get the client buy-in.
• Performed GAP and Risk analysis of existing system and evaluated benefits of new system
• Conducted workshops, interviews, one to one meeting with users at all the levels
• Responsible for change management, negotiations and getting stakeholder approvals.
• Responsible for gaining a very satisfactory UAT from the Client and provided user training
• Created RTM to cover all the Use cases and test cases with respect to requirements
• Used MS Visio for process modeling, process mapping and business process flow diagrams.