SUMMARY

• Accomplished leader capable of delivering software development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching Scrum teams.
• Expert at driving 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 IT experience in Scrum Project Management, Delivery Management and implementation in full cycle operation.
• Strong domain experience in Financial and Banking applications.
• Good working experience with Scrum methodologies (Backlog refinement, Story grooming, Sprint planning, Daily Scrum Meeting and Sprint Retrospective).
• Experienced in transforming business requirements into solutions.
• Experienced in AML monitoring standards.
• Experienced in setting up and implementing scrum methodologies.
• Experienced in regulatory and compliance standards.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and coordinate within the Scrum team.
• Experienced in shielding the development team from external interferences and remove impediments.
• Hands on experience in creating and tracking project plans using MS Project tool.
• Hands on expertise with collaborative tools like JIRA, Confluence SharePoint.
• Excellent knowledge in project management processes Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Control and Closing.
• Experienced in developing Project Plans, Designs and Executing them based on User Needs.
• Designed and implemented Agile frameworks to help drive organizational efficiencies.
• Experienced managing Web Applications, client-server and data warehouse projects.
• Strong problem solving and trouble shooting skills and an ability to come up with creative solutions.
• Extensive experience in coordinating project effort, responsible for deliverables, status reporting to high level management, issue escalations.
• Build trusting relationships with team members, providing coaching and feedback.
• Capability to apply wide technical and practical skills to manage functional, regression, system integration (SIT), acceptance (UAT), browser compatibility and data warehousing testing.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, self-starter and quick learner.
• Good experience with working on Onsite-Offshore model.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed complex IT programs with cross functional team within schedule, budgets, and time.
• Completed 9 project successfully with in the budget allocated and time.
• Responsible for leading SDLC phases (requirements, planning, scoping, scheduling, budgeting, development, testing, release planning and implementation) in agile mode to ensure deliverables on time.
• Creating long and short-term plan for projects including setting up targets and milestones and adhering to deadlines.
• Assigning tasks to team members and project employees best positioned to complete it.
• Making decision according to the circumstances with multiple options for how to progress with the project.
• Serving as a point of contact for the team and the global team with vendor for performing any change,
• Communicating with the leadership team to update about the project progress, budget, and deadlines.
• Performing quality control on the project throughout development to maintain the standards expected.
• Adjustments of Schedule and targets on the project as needed or changing the financing of the project.
• Monitor and ensure all the deliverables are as per the agreed SLA and quality.
• Maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders and communicating requirements clearly and concisely
• Resolve the issues and road-blocks during the project execution
• Manage project budget, and resources as required
• Empower subordinates by allocating decision-making authority and task responsibilities to appropriate individuals.
• Establishes project priorities/risk identification, differentiating levels of urgency

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Scrum Master/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed complex IT programs with cross functional team within schedule, budgets and time.
• Responsible for leading SDLC phases (requirements, planning, scoping, scheduling, budgeting, development, testing, release planning and implementation) in agile mode to ensure deliverables on time.
• Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking tasks that increased customer satisfaction.
• Facilitated agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance.
• Removed obstacle by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution.
• Coached and trained teams, which resulted in early delivery of project and reduced process waste caused by lack of common understanding.
• Resolved a complex issue by creating and utilizing a professional network of Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Technical Leads within Client Environment
• Plan and establish agile COE enterprise-wide as part of modernization initiative for 2020.
• Facilitate Daily Stand Up, Backlog Grooming, Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo and Retrospective meetings
• Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs
• Monitored the development progress (Sprint Burn down, Release Burn up Chart, Defect Burn Up, Velocity Metric) throughout each sprint to ensure project was within scope and budget.
• Identified potential project risks and helped developed a mitigation plan to resolve potential issues.
• Managed the insight and opinions of multiple stakeholders and helped to ensure all stakeholders agreed with the current scope and roadmap of the product.
• Successfully guided SCRUM teams through transition from waterfall to agile development.
• Published weekly/biweekly/governance report to Sr leadership.
• Balanced various stake holder’s expectation and maintain strong working relationship with business partners, internal staff on a daily basis to ensure delivery quality in alignment with global initiatives and requirements across the enterprise.
• Actively participate in business development initiatives including RFPs and RFIs to expand existing accounts and secure new business.
• Facilitate discussions related to TDD, BDD, Test Automation in CI/CD model to improve efficiencies in delivering workable software in short period of time.

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Scrum Master/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Owners and Business to develop and maintain Product Backlogs.
• Coordinate product backlog grooming and story estimation with the team.
• Facilitate Daily stand-up, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings.
• Maintain story board and Issue tracking in JIRA to effectively track impediments against user stories.
• Remove impediments on daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Participate in daily meetings with stakeholders and discuss project testing progress, issues/risks.
• Conduct sprint retrospective and follow up on action items for continuous improvement; implementation of process improvement ideas learned from retrospectives.
• Improve team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Ensure that the project meet corporate SDLC standards, compliance and industry best practices.
• Coach and empower teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally.
• Track daily progress using Burndown Chart metrics.
• Protect team from over-commitment beyond team’s average velocity.
• Manage changes in Requirements and Schedule.
• Coordinate with Upstream & Downstream Teams to identify dependencies.
• Share best practices and lessons learned in Scrum of Scrums (SOS).
• Coordinate End of Sprint Demo/ Feedback sessions at end of sprint.
• Helping the team to determine the definition of done for the product, with input from key stakeholders.
• Assist production support team for rapid response during release deployment.
• Identify project issues and escalate accordingly.Index and Archive project artifacts in SharePoint/Confluence.

Confidential, Fort Wayne, IN

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Act as Scrum Master/Project Manager with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
• Manage and Execute Projects in Waterfall or Agile (Scrum) depending on the nature of the project.
• Organize and facilitate Product Backlog refinement, Story grooming, Sprint planning, Daily Scrum Meeting, Sprint Demos and Sprint Retrospective.
• Act as a servant leader and provide the necessary support to the team to accomplish project goals.
• Assist Product owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog.
• Protect team from over-commitment beyond team’s average velocity.
• Coach team members on Agile principles and provide guidance on the methodology.
• Remove impediments on daily basis to allow the team to deliver the project on time and within budget.
• Implement suggestions/improvements discussed in Sprint Retrospective meetings and monitor the same.
• Ensure project meets requirements and delivered on time and within budget.
• Work with multiple scrum teams in a distributed and cross functional environment.
• Encourage collaboration between product owner and the team.
• Ensure JIRA Scrum board is timely updated to provide transparency on product development.
• Conduct retrospective and follow up on action items for continuous improvement
• Implementation of suggestions/improvements learned from retrospectives.
• Coach and empower teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally.
• Track and publish project Burndown Charts to stakeholders on daily and weekly basis.
• Perform risk analysis and migration. Archive project documentation in SharePoint and Confluence on release basis.

Confidential, New York, NY

Jr. Project Manager/Program Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Following up with the Project Leads to update the Rainier Program status deck, covering all the projects, on weekly basis for the senior management.
• Helped with project planning, task tracking/completion by the planned dates.
• Helped Program Manager in developing project WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) and tracking changes to the project.
• Monitored project progress and updated plans using MS Project.
• Responsible for sending RTC (Rational Team Concert) Status Reports covering Milestones, Epics and Full Backlog every Friday to the Project teams.
• Responsible for migrating all the program documents from SharePoint tool to Confluence successfully.
• Facilitated Sprint planning, execution and retrospective. Ran daily Scrum calls to go over latest updates, any roadblocks, risks/issues, dependencies and focus for the next day.
• Recorded Action Items, Risks/Issues and followed up with the assignees on the latest updates/progress towards resolution by the due date/timely manner. Measured and tracked team progress and provided metrics.
• Represented all the program related changes in the weekly Change Advisory Board meeting and published the report to the higher management.
• Created needed project status and budget/forecast/spend reports for the higher management for the Project Management Review meetings.
• Escalated program level Risks/Issues for critical decisions in timely manner.
• Helped with new resource on-boarding/orientation, escorting them from the security desk, getting them building access badges, requesting access to the SharePoint sites and applications they would need for their assignments etc.
• Helped with resources ID card maintenance, email distribution list creation and following up with resources on the completion of mandatory trainings e.g. New Hire and the other Compliance trainings for the consultants and FTEs.
• Helped with time tracking on A-track.
• Monitored and ensured all the resources were posting time against the correct/assigned projects tasks and followed up with the resources to ensure timesheets are submitted by the given deadline.
• Maintained resource PTOs (paid time off)/time off calendar on the SharePoint site, so that project manager and leads know the resource vacation/time off plans in advance and plan for the project activities/resources accordingly.
• Generated Port issue tracker report on weekly basis and shared with QA leads and updated the comments/mitigation plan columns of the issue tracker with the latest updates.
• Generated Benchmark comparison report on daily basis and shared with the QA leads.
• Helped with tracking actuals/spend against the forecasted/approved budget.
• Making sure the burn rate (monthly spend) is as expected/in-line for project completion within approved time and budget.
• Performed ad-hoc analysis on budget/forecast/spend as and when requested.
• Helped with managing resource availability/ allocation, by making sure all the resources are 100% allocated based on program priorities.
• Coordinated activities between the offshore and the onshore teams for status reporting and other project activities.
• Responsible for providing building and floor access to the resources in various offices.