SUMMARY

• An accomplished Project Manager wif over 9+ years of solid experience across multiple industries.
• Demonstrated track record of excellent leadership in full product lifecycle (product envisioning, requirements, development, integration, testing, delivery and support) towards a consistent delivery of enterprise software solutions wif quality & wifin budget through collaborative cross - functional team work and dynamic leadership.
• Senior Project Manager/Scrum Master for multiple teams (Enterprise, cloud migration, cross-platform integration).
• Experienced in various agile roles including Product Owner, Coach and Scrum of Scrums SAFe Lead.
• Delivery of multiple projects using Agile / Lean / Scrum / Kanban / Scrum / Waterfall / hybrid methodologies.
• Partnering wif Business, finance teams and Customers to gather, refine, elicit and analyze Requirements.
• Expertise in Product Backlog refinement, TEMPeffective prioritizations of Product and Sprint backlogs
• Active facilitation of Sprint ceremonies (stand-ups, planning, review / demo, retrospectives)
• Creating a trusted and open agile environment for Agile teams and removing the impediments
• Supporting agile transformation of teams and organizations as they mature to higher levels of agility
• Facilitating user stories creation, refinement along wif good acceptance criteria and definition of done.
• Agile reporting, Burndown charts, managing risks & quality (ISO 9001, 13485, cGMP CFR 21 FDA QSR 820).
• Leading widely distributed software teams (different time zones, work cultures and skill sets)
• Working wif third party software suppliers, open source, AWS/Salesforce cloud-based enterprise solution Tools and Methodologies.
• Excellent experience wif project tools including, JIRA, TFS, Rally (CA), Confluence, SharePoint & MS Project.
• Agile methods including XP, TDD, BDD, UAT, Micro services, CI/CD, Jenkin builds and automated testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Hybrid

Management Tools: TFS, GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Clarity, MS Project

Tools: & Techniques: Telerik, Infragistics, SignalR, MailBee, ATDD, TDD, Agile Games, CI/CD

Test Tools: Mantis, Bugzilla, Testlink, Azure Test Plan, Bug triage, Microsoft Test Manager.

UML Design Tools: Enterprise Architect, MS Visio, Databases / BI - MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, MS Access, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS

BI Tools: PowerBI, Alteryx

Ecommerce / CMS: Magento, OS Commerce, WooCommerce, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Sitefinity, Adobe AEM.

Cloud: Azure, AWS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Franklin Lakes NJ

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed the team - Ensure that daily, Confidential, release commitments are being upheld
• Removed obstacles that are preventing the team from accomplishing its Confidential goals.
• Ensured that the team’s progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself. This information may take the form of various Scrum artifacts, from backlogs to burn-down charts.
• Followed Agile methodology to ensure that the team lives by the values and practices of Scrum.
• Plan the strategy for Scaled Agile frame work (SAFe), and utilized SAFe to implement lean-agile transformation from traditional Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as Iterative, Waterfall models.
• Participate in Program Increment (PI) Planning, a cadence-based business context event for Medicare project Agile Release Train (ART) under Government Business Division (GBD to analyze & prioritize the business requirements, workflow improvements wif business owners, vendors & other stakeholders
• Aligning development to business goals wif the Business Context, Vision, and Team and Program Objectives. Identify risks and dependencies, and accomplishing fast decision making
• Develop Agile/Scrum processes, including analysis of existing processes, status reports, velocity and capacity charts.
• Implement Agile framework to Track and manage project execution by documenting project requirements & proposals, team’s delivery also remove impediments & dependencies that may prevent teams progress
• Establish strategy and approach to transform customer software development from a traditional SDLC methodology to agile methodology. Actively contributing to Company’s Agile community of Practice and Scrum Masters Forums
• Develop Agile/Scrum processes, including analysis of existing processes, status reports, velocity and capacity charts. Analyze the indicators that have high economic impact and Evaluate how tracking progress via traditional milestones delays critical learning points
• Driving the team’s level cadence by facilitating Scrum ceremonies like, Sprint Planning, Estimation, Product/Program Backlog refinement, Story Point Evaluation, Sprint Prioritizing, Daily Scrum Calls, Retrospective, Sprint Reviews and Client Demo.
• Utilize agile team views and expectations through agility health assessments and collaborate wif enterprise agile coaches to ensure SAFe compliance, track team skills improvement, work cross functionally to align wif strategy, methodology and execution
• Extensively used Jira to generate reports on burn-down charts, performance/velocity tracking
• Worked wif deployment manager to implement workflows for operational efficiency and created procedures for verification and merging of application code.

Environment: Agile, SCRUM, JIRA, Confluence, Java, JQuery, JSF, WebLogic, Oracle, SQL, Linux, SVN, Webservices, XML

Confidential, NY

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Implemented multiple complex IT projects by meeting scope, schedule, and budget constraints.
• Led global and regional projects that add capability to the GAN platform. Projects supported include mobile wallet technology to accept at-the-pump payments in EMEA, Confidential cards for in-app payments, Confidential card use at ATM’s globally for cash advances, GAN cryptographic support for financial messaging.
• Led multiple Agile teams following Agile SAFe 4.0, Scrum, Kanban frameworks.
• Successfully delivered multiple Program Increments (PI) wifin the PI Timebox.
• Conducted daily standups, sprint planning, and backlog refinement to ensure the team TEMPhas what they need to be successful for each sprint.
• Worked wif stakeholders to ensure user stories are fully vetted and include all necessary requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Facilitated the teams in identifying and managing dependencies wifin product development.
• Updated the status to the Release Train Engineer (RTE) during the Scrum of Scrum meeting and shared the status wif Business.
• Developed Scrum reports and artifacts to include User Stories, Velocity Charts, Burn-down Charts, Sprint Retrospective notes.
• E2E Project Management wif Clarity for Financial, Risk tracking, Forecasting, SDLC tracking & reporting.
• Improved team velocity for each sprint by removing blockers.
• Removed multiple impediments to improve efficiencies and allow full focus for writing and testing code.
• Adopted various Agile Engineering techniques such as Test-Driven Development, Junit Testing, Paired Programming, Code Refactoring, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Supported SIT and UAT testing - written and executed SIT test cases and performed UAT test case execution.

Environment: Agile, SAFe 4.0, Kanban, Scrum, MS Project, Clarity, SharePoint, JIRA, Confluence, Rally, Java, J2EE, Oracle, Linux, Maven, Jenkins, SVN, GI

Confidential, Columbus OH

Project Manager/Scrum

Responsibilities:

• Leading and managing Agile product development for complex web applications using Agile techniques
• Collaborating wif Business Partners to deliver a Minimum Viable Product and to deliver product value through careful and deliberate prioritization in an iterative development approach
• Leading global teams wif mindset of business viability, technical feasibility, and customer desirability
• Coaching and championing Agile software processes, culture, standard methodologies, and techniques
• Responsible for managing and tracking all aspects of the project (initiate, plan, execute, control, close)
• Translating the product roadmap into manageable product features in the backlog through prioritization sessions / Product Increment Planning Sessions
• Redefining the backlog content to optimize business outcomes based on software product feedback
• Gathering user and partner feedback to drive improvements and owning the product roadmap
• Experienced collaborating wif Software engineers, Product designers and product owners as part of co-located team and navigating complex decision making in a rapidly changing environment
• Identifying risks, focusing on early mitigation and Contingency Plans or elimination of risks
• Working closely wif IT team to manage functional, Regression and automated Testing
• Removing impediments to Team’s progress and Coaching teams in Self-organization & Cross functionality
• Knowledge of Scrum, Agile practices and techniques - XP, Kanban, SAFe, Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Facilitating Agile ceremonies - daily stand up, Sprint planning/review, backlog grooming, retrospective
• Experienced in gathering business requirements and translating them into Portfolio, Epics, Sub-Epics, Features and User Stories and delivering a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) product
• Creating Project Scorecards, reports and Communicating project status Vs target (Schedule/Cost/Quality)
• Ensuring team understand the Goal, Scope and product domain, managing teams in empirical environment, practicing Agility and causing change that increase the productivity of Scrum Team
• Monitored migration of data for Data Warehousing using ETL tools such as Informatica power center. Also, raised SQL queries for extraction of data from different data marts.

Environment: SDLC, SQL Server, Agile, MS Visio, MS Project, HP ALM, JIRA, MS Office Suite.

Confidential, Sunnyvale CA

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Creating and Maintaining user stories for the ASR Application (Admin system replacement) in JIRA; while working in accordance wif Business requirements.
• Ran daily stand-Up meeting wif the team to review current state of development; review burndown on efforts and working on estimates for new requests.
• Responsible for promoting team accountability and mitigating team productivity issues.
• Reviewed and managed end-to-end Jenkins pipeline for build, test and deploy.
• Perform quality reviews, manage operations, and triage operational issues
• Own and manage virtualized test environments supporting development
• Established and maintained Work Breakdown Structure, release plans and schedule
• Facilitate other meetings including the Agile Release Train (ART) Sync, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos and Inspect and Adapt.
• Work directly in JIRA, Agile
• Facilitated Sprint Planning meetings, Daily scrum, sprint review, product backlog refinement meetings and sprint retrospective meetings.
• Schedule and scope management for multiple projects running using Agile / Scrum methodologies
• Providing status reports, burn down charts, velocity and business value charts to business and product owners
• Attended PI planning workshops and facilitated system demo, inspect and adapt workshops for future PIs and Release Management meetings.
• Helped the Product Owner/product Management in maintaining, refining and prioritizing the product backlog.
• Worked closely wif the Release Train Engineer for the ART in coordinating dependencies between various scrum teams.
• Helped the team in deciding the sprint backlog for every sprint. TEMPEffectively managed various stakeholders,
• Helped the team to write and split User stories, breakdown Epics.
• Actively contributed to Agile Planning Processes and Methods (Blueprinting) which included Product Vision, Product Roadmap, Release Plan, Iteration/Sprint Plan, Daily Commitment/Scrum.
• Coordinated the release definition, deployment criteria and guidelines, seeking business and information technology sponsor approvals and the resources necessary to successfully roll-out all modules projects and enhancements
• Created and drove the resolution of issue log; including description, ownership and action plan.
• Tracked scope changes (i.e., change management) and release acceptance procedures.

Environment: Java/Oracle, HPALM, JIRA, Jenkins, Altova XML, SQL server.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Present and Recommend the Agile - Scrum methodology over the Waterfall for continuous deployment and integration of the code, also recommend the development and testing tools to support the scrum process.
• Present and Guide the newly formed Scrum team on the best practices to follow in various Scrum Ceremonies - in order Sprint planning, sprint backlog, Daily standup, Sprint review and Sprint retrospectives.
• Enforces time-boxing to ensure that the time invested in the meetings TEMPhas positive outcomes.
• Supporting conflict resolution internal and external to the team through focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty and respect.
• Acknowledged for capacity to tackle challenging issues, recognize system gaps, analyze viable alternatives, and provide innovative solutions and recommendations that meet the client’s financial goal and implementation timeframe.
• Plans the work based on the priority of different projects; identifying the crucial and priority of the project to deliver on time and budget.
• Works closely wif Operations/client and the Client to define, analyze and gather requirements for several different platforms and Correspondence to assist the business owner by translating these needs into functional specifications.
• Conducted the Impediments meeting to overcome the risks and issues, and provide solutions to mitigate the challenges faced by the team.
• Generated the Velocity reports and Burn Down graph to show the progress of the team. The report helped the team define the average story points to commit for the future sprints.
• Managing teams in both SCRUM and Kanban frameworks.
• Involved in project planning and project governance through all the phases of SDLC lifecycle.

Environment: SAFe, Kanban, Visual studio Team system, Office 365 Suite, HTML, MS SQL server 2012, workday, Tableau, Power BI.