SUMMARY

• Project Manager and Scrum Master wif 12 years of experience in transforming business through Process Re - design and technical solution implementation.
• Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - Waterfall and Agile framework including Scrum and Kanban and Waterfall-Agile hybrid model.
• Leverage robust strengths in project management and business analysis to define requirements and drive projects to completion in Agile Framework.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, project deliverables, and drive teh project to completion achieving positive outcomes.
• Actively support program governance process. Communicate TEMPeffectively wif senior leadership to provide visibility into project status, issues, and matters requiring strategic support/direction.
• Manage customer interactions and ensure satisfaction while minimizing project risk.
• Collaborated wif Development, User Experience, IT team (ServiceNow) and Quality Assurance teams for project deliverables, and negotiation across cross-divisional consensus.
• Highly efficient in facilitating and coordinating SCRUM ceremonies such as Sprint Planning Meeting, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review Meeting, Retrospective Meeting and Product Backlog Grooming.
• Served as Scrum Master for two or more teams as part of a larger Agile Release Train. Demonstrated a strong ability to integrate Agile principals into team practices and work products.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Help define and implement portfolio management policies and processes to support fact-based decisions on investments (IT Project Governance) into Information Technology projects wifin teh Demand to Delivery (D2D) Framework. Facilitate request intake and ideation process.
• Manage implementation schedules to ensure on-time delivery.Work directly wif teh respective business subject matter experts to ensure that applications are implemented per design and schedule.
• Develop and produce roadmaps for teh application lifecycle of relevant systems and teh consolidation of overlapping applications where applicable.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, project deliverables, and drive teh project to completion achieving positive outcomes.
• Supported and coordinated teh configuring of Smart meter program mapping to AMI head end and MDM systems, VEE of meter read data in MDM and posting of billing determinants for billing.
• Coordinated wif vendor support teams for root cause analysis and rollout planning.
• Work wif business and IT to facilitate communication to project stakeholders (Business Unit, Work groups, PMs, Architects, Leads, etc) via publishing of deployment schedules, prioritization of requested enhancements and status reports.
• Participate in discussions and activities regarding IT project funding, resourcing and prioritization while advocating for teh business as it relates to programs and projects.
• Constantly analyzed current agile practices and suggested improvements and consistently made changes to Definition of Done as teh team and work evolved.
• Responsible for acting as teh liaison between teh project team/business stakeholders and Information Technology groups such as Middleware, Servers and Storage, Database Administration, Quality Assurance, System Architecture and Governance, and interfacing Application Support Teams.
• Supported teh installation, configuration, patching and upgrade of assigned applications.
• Facilitate meetings wif user groups, customers, and stakeholders to gather and analyze workflow and user requirements.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for partnering wif security senior leadership to establish a strategy and roadmap for enablement as well as leading large-scale integration initiatives for risk management technology.
• Defines strategic direction, establishes business needs and priorities, and draws on business acumen to scope, size, and resource program/project initiatives.
• Works closely wif management team to develop and implement staffing and operational plans. Participates in teh development of short and long term goals for teh department.
• Executed Gap Analysis of business rules, business and system process flows, user administration and requirements.
• Conducted a detailed SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis, As-Is and To-Be analysis and ROI analysis.
• Collaborated wif Development, User Experience, IT team (ServiceNow) and Quality Assurance teams for project deliverables, and negotiation across cross-divisional consensus.
• Owned and managed teh scrum process using Kanban boards and dashboards for managing scrum ceremonies.
• Worked wif Product Owners, SMEs, Architects, and PMs to develop user stories and acceptance criteria and ensured they are ready.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies including: Release planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospectives.
• Encouraged and halped teams to identify impediments and provided guidance on resolving them when required.
• Was part of PI planning and worked closely wif RTE on resolving dependencies across multiple release trains.
• Facilitated team and cross-team Retrospectives to build good working relationships among teh 7 Agile teams across 3 states.
• TEMPEffectively set own/team priorities in ambiguous environment and leveraged on data to measure and monitor progress against commitments.

Environment: HP ALM, Rally, SQL, Confluence, Nice Actimize RCM, Actimize visual Modeler 4.7, SOA, MS Project 2010, Balsamiq (wire frame), MS-Office 2010, Sharepoint, Cognos, Tableau.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Carried out in depth business impact analysis of FATCA on existing AML, MIFID and KYC processes and related IT systems.
• Performed detailed Gap Analysis and complimented it wif SWOT analysis. Identified stake holders based on impact analysis reports and halped in creation of change implementation plan.
• Updated teh project changes and status to teh stakeholders daily, ensuring each change goes through a systematic project impact analysis.
• Facilitated Test planning and Test data gathering and assisted QA team in Test case creation.
• As a Scrum Master, facilitated Release planning, Sprint backlog grooming, Daily stand-up meeting, sprint review and retrospective meetings.
• Lead teh adoption of early stage Scaled Agile Framework.
• Eliminated impediments, blockers, and provided a trusting and safe environment for teh team.
• Assisted wif internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information and minimizing risk.

Environment: J2EE, MS Project, HP AML, XML, MS Office, Rally, MS Sharepoint, MS Visio, Unix, Tablaue

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from teh stakeholders and provided solutions liaising wif teh product/project team.
• Identified teh project deliverables and further tracked project dependencies.
• Developed User stories and prescribed acceptance criteria working wif cross functional teams.
• Facilitated teh creation of product backlog and sprint backlogs.
• Documented requirement gathering, use cases and functional and Non-functional requirements.
• Created teh Business Requirements Document in conjunction wif teh business SMEs and facilitated teh sign off by teh business sponsors.
• Worked on Business Rules and Statutes and defined best practices wif SMEs.
• Collaborated across functions to modify Workflow by using Business Reengineering Process.
• Prepared business reports, schedules, communication plans and selected communication mediums by leveraging on teh right technology wif stakeholders.
• Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and wif desired results.

Environment: HP ALM, MS Visio, Jira 5.1, Confluence, Tableau, Cognos, MS Sharepoint, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel - V-Lookup, Pivot table), J2ee

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and gathered requirements for teh enhancement and integration of HomeSaver / Priority banking application wif Standard Chartered Bank online banking systems.
• Responsible for requirements gathering and facilitating workshops for documenting business requirements from teh stakeholders, users, and SME’s for complete understanding of teh process to transform them into functional specifications.
• Used JAD sessions to capture business requirements to develop and design teh application, discussed and resolved gaps identified, facilitated change request process and maintained change request logs.
• Prepared and documented High-level BRD documents and derived FRD and SRS from business needs.
• Developed wire-frames and coordinated wif UX team to convert them into prototypes and visual designs.
• Analyzed teh business model and proposed multiple possible solutions to support teh stakeholder’s needs.
• Developed and documented work flow processes and procedures.
• Responsible for converting functional specifications to user stories for teh scrum team along wif product owner.
• Liaison wif business and technology team to create product backlog and sprint backlog.
• Assisted executives and technical team in building and managing project plans using PM tools and manage schedules, deadlines, resources for teh project.
• Scheduled documentation and requirements briefing session wif external stake holders such as vendors to demonstrate their system compatibility in addition to their RFP documentation.
• Worked wif QA team to develop Test plan and Test scripts and assisted teh QA test team to fix bugs and resolve issues found during teh system testing phase.

Environment: Oracle, Java, XML, Java Script, Oracle Warehouse Builder, Jira, TFSMS Access, MS EXCEL, MS Word.

Confidential

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, documented and segregated them into high level and low level documents. Created activity diagram, Uses cases and Sequence diagram using MS Visio following UML methodology.
• Derived Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) based on User Requirement Specification URS. Understood and articulated business requirements from end-user interviews and converted requirements into technical specifications.
• Reviewed Test plans, Test cases, Test case execution using specification documents and Rational Test Manager.
• Studied teh as-is process by interacting wif teh SMEs and to arrive at to-be or desired business process.
• Performed Smoke Testing to ensure that teh compiled software components of teh Applications adhere to Performance Criteria and Functional specifications and ensured feasibility of built solutions.
• Conducted JAD sessions wif SMEs and projects stakeholders such as users, QA analysts, and project management team and compiled High Level Document (BRD).
• Assessed scope and impact of business needs throughout by analyzing new application features and functions that needs to be built along wif enhancement specification or needs.
• Liaison wif corporate departments, including Executive, Legal and Information Services to monitor, track and communicate project status and handled vendor relationships.

Environment: UAT, JAD, J2EE, UML, RUP, MS Project, Hyperion Essbase, Visual Basic, Quality Center, XML, MS Office, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Unix.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Elicited and gathered user and business requirements through open ended discussions, brainstorming and prototyping.
• Assisted in designing, building, and maintaining data repository wif reporting capability that enabled analysis and insight to user behaviors and interactions for Equity, Index, Options, and Bonds.
• Defined teh scope of teh project by gathering requirements from key stakeholders, customers, and subject matter experts for Asset Management portals middle office needs.
• Performed GAP analysis on Settlements and Clearing house and worked closely wif traders.
• Performed Data analysis, data mapping, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams.

Environment: MS project, MS office Tools, MS Project, MS Visio, UML, AJAX, JAVA, Oracle, Spotfire and JIRA, Informatica, Eclipse, Hibernate Spring, Bloomberg B-Pipe.