SUMMARY:

• Highly experienced and Certified Scrum Master, experience leading and managing Agile teams and projects in Confidential 500 companies.
• Displayed strong experience in overcoming organizational challenges of transitioning to Agile methodology from traditional project management and development.
• 16 + years of practice in Project Management, consulting, Product Development, global delivery and Agile methodologies.
• Participated in all phases of Software Application Development (Agile and Water Fall). Successfully managed teams of onsite & offshore members.
• Knowledge of project management methods and experience in SAFe environment
• Strong leader and communicator experienced working with business and IT. Recognized as a collaborative and effective leader that builds high performance cross - functional teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Primary Skills: Scrum Master, SAFe Practitioner, Project Management- Delivery, Resource, Release planning etc.

Secondary Skills: Dot net, C#, ASP.Net. Java, Ajax, Webservices, WCF

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle

Tools: Used Rally, Version One, TFS/VSTS, Jira, MS Project, Visual Studio 6/2012, XMLSpy

Domain knowledge: Mortgage, Banking, Mobile Application Development

EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master

Confidential, Indianapolis

Responsibilities:

• Leading two Scrum teams, responsible for creating new SallieMae application to disburse funds.
• Supported teams in transitioning from waterfall to Agile.
• Representing teams in Scrum of Scrums and PI planning sessions.
• Generating, monitoring and tracking Burn-down charts, Planning, Reviewing and estimating backlogs with the scrum teams. Facilitating daily stand up meetings, release planning and release reviews
• Addressing issues rose by the team and worked quickly to remove the impediments and conducted retrospective at the end of the 2-Week Confidential cycle to help identify what went well in the current Confidential and what could have been done better.
• Setup grooming sessions with product owner and come up with stories for each Confidential with acceptance criteria. Setup Confidential reviews, Confidential planning, retrospectives sessions with agile teams.
• Encouraging collaboration between the Scrum teams and product owner. Updating VSTS to provide transparency on product and Confidential backlogs.
• Tracking and communicating team velocity and Confidential /release progress to higher management. Involving in staffing, reporting and problem resolution.

Scrum Master

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Lead and coached a twelve-member team as scrum master to organize and facilitate scrum ceremonies.
• Organized and facilitated overall Confidential planning- including daily stand-ups, reviews/demos and retrospectives.
• Encouraging collaboration between the Scrum teams and product owner. Updating Rally to provide transparency on product and Confidential backlogs.
• Tracking and communicating team velocity and Confidential /release progress to higher management.
• Coach and train team members on Agile tools and techniques.

Scrum Master

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• As Scrum master facilitated all agile ceremonies to support CRS To EI Migration project in Confidential .
• Represented team in Scrum of Scrums and PI planning sessions.
• Tracking and communicating team velocity and Confidential /release progress to higher management.
• Updating Version One to provide transparency on product and Confidential .

Project Manager

Confidential, Los Angeles

Responsibilities:

• Led a cross-functional team of developers and QAs to develop features and fix product defects in three Bankruptcy Administration Applications.
• Developed accurate development estimates and drafted project resource plans.
• Worked closely with QA to review test cases and track feature bugs.
• Coordinating with Offshore and delegation of work to Offshore
• Responsible for creation and submission of weekly status reports.
• Assessed the risks, issues and worked with respective stakeholders to mitigate the same.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Served as the scrum master in the delivery of CoreLogic's mortgage servicing project
• Organized daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, Confidential, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed multiple large projects simultaneously with global teams within CoreLogic
• Identifying resources required, select appropriate project personnel and assign individual responsibilities.
• Maintaining scope control, reporting the impact of changes to requirements or new requirements
• Staffing, Reporting and Problem Resolution, driving project execution
• Team Building and Team Ramping.

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• As the lead developer, coordinated and negotiated timelines and priorities of the technical aspects of project management with various business groups and stakeholders.
• Developed web applications in 3-tier architecture.
• Developed data access layer and business logic layer using ADO.NET and C#.