SUMMARY

• Management professional with 15+ years of experience in key client facing roles, and an extensive global experience in leading Digital Transformations and Agile methodologies
• Certified PMP, PMP - ACP, Scrum Master, Prince2 and ITIL professional with strong project management and scrum experience in handling complex projects and managing large teams at onsite and offshore
• Driving SAFe Agile adoption in data transformation in the organization to lead to better alignment between business and technology in delivering the target data platform.
• Dev ops, Agile Next Gen and Agile Scaling consulting for large clients in US geography.
• Played Agile and Design Thinking coach for the Development teams encouraging collaboration while playing Scrum Master on the teams.
• Facilitate the Portfolio Kanban system, a mechanism that assesses, analyzes and prioritizes large future initiatives/investments.
• Driving Hackathons, Bootcamps and Growth Hacking events with the Product Managers and other stakeholders for quicker turnarounds on blockers and innovation.
• Key Roles played - Agile Coach, Project Management for complex engagements.
• Domain Knowledge: Agile Methodologies, Business Analyst, Project Management and ITIL Service Management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential - Fort Worth, TX

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Chief Product Owner to prioritize work, groom backlog, negotiate with stakeholders, plan, inspect and adapt.
• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meeting.
• Worked with multiple teams to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery with Jenkins nd Puppet enterprise.
• Act as a facilitator between team members and stakeholders and coach team members in this task.
• Collaborate with Product Owner to understand high level user requirements and prepare a prioritized product backlog with user stories with required mock ups.
• Established a new self-organizing scrum team by training on agile fundamentals and coaching team for sustaining changes introduced.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress and maintain process documentation.
• Participated in Project Meetings to determine Timelines, goal and new architecture of the Projects.
• Operating as single point of contact (onsite) for the client in a large project/program.
• Help team resolve any issues and solve problems throughout the agile project life cycle.
• Track and report on project milestones and provide status reports to sponsor.

Scrum Master

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master in a data warehouse feature team leading a cross functional team of Product Owner, Data Modelers, BI Developers and QA to deliver on business value, time criticality, opportunity enablement and risk reduction on transformation goals in the data strategy program.
• Collaborate with Product Owner to understand high level user requirements and prepare a prioritized product backlog with user stories with required mock ups.
• Worked with DevOps teams in automating using Jenkins as CI tool for setting up continuous delivery pipeline.
• Established a new self-organizing scrum team by training on agile fundamentals and coaching team for sustaining changes introduced.
• Facilitate the development of continuous feedback loops and encourage a continuous improvement mindset at all times.
• Facilitate User Story elaboration sessions with the Scrum team and provide coaching on user story development where necessary.
• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meeting.

Scrum Master

Confidential - Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities:

• Agile Just In Time Design Coaching
• Just In Time Coaching in pain areas of Teams
• Agile Scaling At Program & Portfolio Level using Spotify Model
• Agile Maturity Assessment And Road mapping with Teams
• Dev ops Maturity Assessment And Road mapping with Teams
• Agile Request For Interest & Request For Proposal for potential client
• Facilitate the development of continuous feedback loops and encourage a continuous improvement mindset at all times.
• Facilitate User Story elaboration sessions with the Scrum team and provide coaching on user story development where necessary.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress and maintain process documentation.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for talking the product owner through more technical user stories and removing any impediments that obstruct a team’s pursuit of its sprint goals.
• To serve as a facilitator for both the Product Owner and team to make sure Sprint task board re ect what the team is actually doing.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meeting.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress and maintain process documentation.
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal.

Agile Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided daily communications, scrum notes, sprint reviews reports, project retrospectives, and regular snapshots of project velocity and budget burn rate to provide a feedback to key stakeholders.
• Update agile tracking systems “JIRA” to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal.

Agile Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented agile process for re-platform, re-hosting data projects by training team to use Jira. Ensure the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially shippable.
• Team designed and trained to follow Kanban methodology to minimize cycle time to make visual metrics and implement continuous delivery which helped in increased efficiency and helps in reduction of wasted work and time.
• Executive briefing and reporting on scrum metrics, burn-up and process improvements periodically.
• Wrote User Stories based on the requirements gathered from all the stake holders.
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution and empower the teams to self-organize.
• Improve the productivity of the teams in any way possible.
• Conducted training for 35 people on Agile fundamentals increased the number of existing bugs fixed per week by 70%

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Handover Service Delivery Management to Service Delivery Manager to manage steady state services.
• Initiation of Transition Meetings and Kick-off, setting up of Governance Structure and Reports.
• Resource ramp up, Knowledge Transfer, Managing Travel plans and cost, Conduct periodic Risk-Mitigation meetings.

Sr. Business Consultant

Confidential - Deerfield, IL

Responsibilities:

• Translate business and user requirements into accurate system requirements specification documents through systems and data analysis.
• Responsible for planning, coordination and implementation of requirement engineering process
• Complete business readiness deliverables and Change Plan Execution.
• Responsible for conducting walkthroughs to gain an understanding of the process
• Convening emergency CAB meetings and Generating Change Management reports.

Business Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Detailed Design of the proposed system, including common processes and individual modules.
• Created unit test cases, Integration Test Scripts, QA metrics reporting and test data for all possible scenarios outlined in the technical and functional documents.
• Participated in creation of Ab initio Development Guidelines including common Tuning & Performance Tips.