SUMMARY:

• 15+ years of IT experience with 8 years in project management/leadership using Agile Framework.
• Evangelist of agile/scrum principles and methodology as a Senior Scrum Master & Program level Agile Coach.
• Experience in the Banking - Finance domain, Retail E-Commerce, Healthcare and Manufacturing.
• Accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale software and Web development projects by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams.
• Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, 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.
• 10 years of strong technical background as developer, Technical lead and Technical manager primarily on Java/J2EE,Appian BPM, Mobile, DB2/Oracle, Autonomy and Verity based technologies.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Agile Coach & Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Working with Confidential as a Fulltime scrum master &program level scrum coach.
• Worked with one of the Confidential Healthcare clients as a program level Agile Coach in terms of transitioning teams from waterfall to scrum and then transition the scrum team to SAFe.

Confidential

Agile Coach & Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Established Scrum Team governance framework.
• Team level coaching to development, testing and product teams for transformation from Waterfall to Agile.
• Mentoring junior scrum masters and helping them in their day to day activities.
• Facilitating effective and efficient meetings including Agile/Scrum ceremonies
• Maintain transparency into the team's work through metrics
• Works as servant leader to each team member and support the removal of blockers
• Coach and guiding the scrum teams, product owners about agile, scrum process and support continuous improvement within the team.
• Helps the team to increase in the velocity.
• Help identify and mitigate any external dependency risks in feature or product development
• Coordinated with other upstream/ downstream Scrum Masters to resolve the dependencies.
• Acting as the primary interface between a specific business/functional area and their IT partners.
• Identify and resolve operational issues with business areas.
• Establishing scrum delivery process, identifying the gaps in the process and focus continuously improvements the process. Handled multiple teams.
• Working independently and effectively with scrum teams and at all levels from multiple divisions.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to prioritize the tasks and manage multiple priorities and deadlines. Managing multiple projects, multiple scrum teams in multiple engagements.
• Conduct Scrum of Scrums.
• Coached technology and product teams at program level about the roles in scrum and handheld the teams during the transformation from Agile to Waterfall.
• Organize and conduct the Scrum Master COP.
• Involved in Release plan, project planning and scheduling.

Confidential

Agile Coach & Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Team level coaching to development, testing and product teams for transformation from Waterfall to Agile
• Mentoring junior scrum masters and helping them in their day to day activities.
• Spearheading and transforming the teams into the path of Agile and working closely with them to attain the maturity.
• Conduct Scrum of Scrums.
• Handled multiple teams. Organize and conduct the Scrum Master COP.
• Facilitated Scrum Planning, User Story grooming, Scrum execution and retrospectives with team comprising of Business analyst, Architects, Technical leads, developers, Testers, security architects. Performance team. Led WAR room calls as needed during UAT phase.
• Tracked complete execution in IBM RTC tool - EPIC, Features, user stories, estimation, assignment, progress, impediments, approvals, closure and retrospectives.
• Co-ordinated showcases and sign offs from Regional & APAC country business stakeholders.
• Managed backlogs, deliverables, walkthroughs, and risks. Tracked burn down charts & team velocity for continuous improvement.
• Led Sprint Retrospectives meetings to identify learning's, improvement areas and best practices.
• Weekly reported to Senior Management. As a Scrum lead tracked team progress and handle escalation and kept technical and business stakeholders in sync for targeted quarterly/monthly releases as per Release Calendar.
• Coached technology and product teams at program level about the roles in scrum and handheld the teams during the transformation from Agile to Waterfall.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand - ups, etc.)
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress

Confidential

Scrum Master and Lead BA

Responsibilities:

• Performed requirement collection for the retail banking (credit card application workflow) project for the Confidential .
• Developed Functional Specification Document (FSD) and Requirement Trace Ability Matrix (RTM).
• Established comprehensive feasibility analysis study in terms of technology and identified process flaws in the current system and recommended business process automation in the new system after analyzing and documenting as - is system and to-be system.
• Coordinated with testing team in tracing the requirements from RTM and performed the UAT
• Managed various test cases, stored test information, reviewed and analyzed test results.
• Functioned as a scrum master and performed agile ceremonies.

Confidential

Scrum Master / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the organizational transition from Waterfall to Agile Methodology.
• Involved in the necessary steps from inception through production deployment.
• Utilized agile methodology (Scrum) to effectively plan, monitor, control and report on project of high visibility.
• Defined workflow and processes for Product Management features intake like patch processes and overall development (Waterfall and Agile) processes.
• Implemented Agile process and trained staff to maximize benefits
• Reported project status to key stakeholders and executives.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Utilized agile methodology (Scrum) to effectively plan, monitor, control and report on project of high visibility.
• Administered all Agile/Scrum process and assisted junior staff on same.
• Ensured effective implementation of agile process and trained staff to maximize benefits.
• Performed scope management, interlocking business needs with project processes.
• Led 15 members (Onsite 3, Offshore 12) meeting key milestones and deliverable target dates.
• Reported project status to key stakeholders and executives.
• Performed requirements gathering. Responsible for Managing Onsite and Offshore Resources

Environment: Java, J2ee, Web Services, Oracle 10g, Eclipse 3.2, UNIX, SQL Developer 1.0, JUnit.

Confidential

Scrum Master - Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Performed scope management, interlocking business needs with project processes.
• Management of Onsite and Offshore Resources.
• Reported project status to key stakeholders and executives.
• Involved in design, coding and testing.
• Responsible for interacting with the business users and converting the business requirements into software technical design by creating sequence diagrams and activity diagrams.
• Involved in the requirements gathering of retail banking functionalities like EMT (electronic money transfer), Bank the Rest, Custom Payee Addition, Money Transfer.

Environment: Java, J2ee, JSF framework, Spring-1.2.9, Oracle 10g, Eclipse 3.2, UNIX and Apache Axis web services 1/2008 - 7/2009

Confidential

Lead Java Technology Lead - Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Followed the Java Patterns and Practices. Used Web Sphere Data Sources for consistent access to Oracle and DB2.
• Used Regular expressions, JavaScript and patterns to perform client side, server side validations.
• Deployment of the Solution to the Development/Integration/Production Servers and Database Schema to the Database Server.
• Code reviewing of the team members Responsible for mapping between domain objects and database tables.
• Business Analyst communication Functional Testing.
• Ensuring quality and timely delivery of the assigned tasks. Used Peregrine for tracking Issues/Defects

Environment: JSP, Servlets, AJAX, JAVA, XML, XSL, Struts Framework, Hibernate, Apache Axis web services, x64 Windows 2003 Servers, DB2 7.0, Oracle 8, WAS, RAD, CVS, Central Project Server (CPS).

Confidential

Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Led the team to execute the assignment.
• Followed the Java Patterns and Practices.
• Responsible for mapping between domain objects and database tables.
• Used Web Sphere Data Sources for consistent access to Oracle and DB2.
• Responsible for mapping between domain objects and database tables.
• Used Web Sphere Data Sources for consistent access to Oracle and DB2.
• Used Regular expressions, JavaScript and patterns to perform client side, server side validations.
• Deployment of the Solution to the Development/Integration/Production Servers and Database Schema to the Database Server.
• Mentoring and code reviewing of the team members.
• Business Analyst communication Functional Testing.

Environment: Struts Framework 2.0, Hibernate, Java, JSP, XML, XSL, Servlets, DB2 7, Oracle 8, Verity Search Server, Plumb tree Portal Server, WAS, RAD and Apache Axis Web services.

Confidential

Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Functional Specification, use cases and prototype for every functionality in the business process
• . Extensively used JSP, Java Script, CSS and HTML developing presentation layer. Developed various reusable Helper and Utility classes.
• Extensively wrote Stored Procedures, Triggers, Rules and Functions in SQL SERVER
• . Used VSS for version control and source code maintenance.
• Carried out UAT, building, packaging and shipping of the application to the production environment.
• Involved in track the defects using Bug tracker.

Environment: JSP, SQL SERVER 2000, Developer 9, CSS, WebSphere 3.5, Crystal report 8.5, VSS, Bug tracker.

Confidential

Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Extensively used JSP, and Java Script, CSS, HTML for UI development.
• Extensively worked with JAVA, JSP, XML, and XSL.
• Created support for multi lingual.
• Delivery/Deployment and Rollout.
• Involved in test case creation and execution.
• Involved in bug fixing.

Environment: JSP, Servlets, WPS, CVS, Java Script, HTML, ANT.