SUMMARY

• 8+ years of experience as Mainframe Developer/ /Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master/Agile Coach/Program Manager.
• Technology Leader in managing and leading large strategic development projects and migration projects using various methodologies such as SAFe, Scrum, DevOps, Kanban and Waterfall.
• Experience in managing multiple scrum teams at Citi - Data and Analytics portfolio using various technologies using ETL, Teradata, Cognos, Kafka stream, Real-time Insights (Mongo DB) and Tableau teams.
• Comprehensive understanding and experience in Agile/SAFe Transformation DevOps and CICD Implementations.
• Experience in coaching Product Owners to maintain the Product backlog more efficiently.
• Experience in facilitating Scrum/Kanban/SAFe ceremonies (Portfolio/Solution/Program/Team/Program Increment.
• Deep knowledge of Agile and Agile Frameworks: SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, XP
• Ensure team compliance with agile methodology and achieve sprint goals with release milestones. Experienced in conducting and facilitating all scrum ceremonies: sprint planning, daily standups, release planning, backlog grooming sessions, product demo reviews, and sprint retrospective. Feature, backlog, and user story prioritization.
• Actively took part in all the ART events PI planning, ART Sync, System Demo, Inspect and Adapt
• Great verbal communication skills with a strong scrum master background with experience in directing, coaching, and training.
• Engineers and Manages at the portfolio level, helping teams realize the benefits of Agile transformation.
• Ability to work with any team on cross-functional agile projects and communicate effectively with both technical and non-Technical individuals.
• Very comfortable presenting ideas and concepts
• Expert with Jira, TFS, and QC for bug tracking, issue tracking, and task planning and organizing projects
• (PI)/Release/Resource/Capacity Planning, Product Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospectives, Innovation and Planning (IP)).
• Coached teams on Agile principles and increase their velocity by 50% within the first year of Agile adoption and reduce process Waste caused by communication gaps.
• Experience in Organizing Product backlog features, epics, stories, estimations and tasks in Rally.
• Experience in Maintaining metrics, Information Radiators that provide visibility into sprint health progress. Manifesto/Principles/methodologies, daily meetings, planning, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, managing flow, being cross-functional and coordination with other teams for continuous integration, improvement, prioritization, resolution of software defects and delivery of quality products.
• Experience in identifying and removing impediments/roadblocks for the Scrum teams, escalating issues at the appropriate management levels and helping teams to deliver Portfolio/Solution/Program/Sprint Goals on time.
• Technical standpoint-Architected and designed at BNY Mellon- WM M/F based applications from scratch to end. Having good exposure to Eagle products PACE, STAR Web Panels & Reports, JAVA-Spring, S Spring, SOAP, Rest and Angular js. Having exposure and experience on Big Data Hadoop. Good knowledge of HDFS, HIVE, HBASE, MongoDB, Kafka & PIG.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Databases and Tools: DB2, IDMS, CA-7, REXX, OPC, CSF (Custom Statement Formatter), ESP, SPUFI, APC, XPEDITER, IDCAMS, FILE-AID, ENDEAVOUR, DFSORT, CATS, OPC, SQL tools, JIRA, Rally, Clarity, Confluence.

Languages: Mainframe (JCL, MVS, VSAM, COBOL, ADSO, CICS, EASYTRIEVE). Java/J2EE, Spring Framework, Big Data, Hadoop, Mongo DB, Kafka. .Net

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TN

Senior Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Managing Multiple scrum teams at Citi-Data and Analytics Portfolio using technologists/teams using ETL, Teradata, Cognos, Kafka stream(Event Hub), Real-time Insights (Big Data-Mongo DB) and Tableau.
• Dashboard (Scrum and Kanban) creation using Confluence and JIRA for Directories and above.
• Schedules and facilitates all relevant meetings for the release, including sprint pipeline grooming, release planning, sprint planning and daily stand-ups. Facilitate PO/PM sync.
• Worked with over six Agile teams and launched Release Trains.
• Mentor and coach various Agile teams including other Scrum Masters on SAFe, Lean-Agile mindset, Agile frameworks Scrum, Kanban and XP.
• Provided training and coaching in Agile Development principles and practices to development teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and program-level leadership.
• Coached on SAFe, Agile, Lean, Kanban, Scrum at a large social network startup during a transition.
• As Scrum Master, I facilitate Scrum events (all ceremonies) and ensure User Stories and other artifacts are captured, prioritized, communicated, and properly sized by the team.
• Aggregate Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives and publish them for visibility and transparency
• Collect & share team metrics with the team, suggest new metrics, and drive improvement using metrics
• Drive adoption of Agile mindset and framework best practices in teams.
• Help to guide and manage the ART and the teams through the delivery of software and services, embracing and casting the Agile mindset across client spaces
• Program planning and delivered critical business value on time using Agile Methodology
• Helping the Scrum Teams to understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items
• Maintain Release Burn down/Up Charts, Sprint Burn Down/Up Charts and defect logs up-to-date
• Participated in all the ART events right from PI planning to Inspect and Adapt events
• Facilitate grooming sessions with the product manager in backlog refinement.
• Coordinated with the System Team, UX, DevOps, Shared Services, security, etc.
• Helping the team in removing Impediments and ensuring smooth progress
• Monitored schedule and velocity, escalate to the key stakeholders for deviations
• Engaged in using Atlassian products and worked with developers on a daily basis for workflow (Jira and Jira Align).
• Assists the team’s progress in achieving their commitments through strong issues, risk and dependency management. Collaborates with partners external to the team, including other Scrum teams for delivering, resolving prioritization, conflicts and synchronization.
• Coaches the team in Lean-Agile practices, creating an environment of mutual influence by guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
• Closely working with Senior Management for Program level grooming for healthy backlog 2-3 sprints ahead and providing training to leadership on SAFe Agile framework concepts.
• Criteria, Definition of Ready (DOR), Definition of Done (DOD) & tasks in JIRA
• Maintains release information in Plainview and JIRA.
• Coordinated environment setups, maintenance, code deployments and production releases in CI/CD DevOps environments.
• Coached teams on principles of Test Driven Development (TDD) & Behaviour Driven Development (BDD).

Confidential, VA

Sr. Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Schedules and facilitates all relevant meetings for the release, including sprint pipeline grooming, release planning, sprint planning and daily stand-ups/huddles.
• Protects the team, facilitates the removal of issues/blockers/impediments, and helps the team resolve dependencies.
• Responsible for facilitating the sprint pipeline grooming that gets the User Story to a Ready state.
• Participate in Scrum of Scrums forum and Responsible for the SAFe adoption across the programs handled.
• Manages the release and sprint timelines, and follows up on key action items.
• Provide guidance in Agile, Scrum, and SAFe and leads Agile delivery teams consisting of a mix of organization and possibly contractor/vendor staff
• Assesses the Scrum team’s velocity for the upcoming sprint and tracks the sprint’s health.
• Facilitates the sprint review and demo, sprint retrospective. Captures and distributes feedback.
• Provides status updates in necessary discussions - generally internal to the team/ART.
• Facilitate PI (Program Increment) and sprint planning processes, as well as all other scrum ceremonies, and empower team commitment to PI and sprint delivery.
• Completes Product Development Process (PDP) documentation.
• Criteria, Definition of Ready (DOR), Definition of Done (DOD) & tasks in JIRA, and Rally.
• Maintains release information in Clarity and Rally.
• Coordinate to set up the test environment properly.
• Coordinated environment setups, maintenance, code deployments and production releases in CI/CD DevOps environments.
• Coached teams on principles of Test Driven Development (TDD) & Behaviour Driven Development (BDD).

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Followed Scaled Agile Framework and involved in PI sessions for release planning at enterprise level train programs.
• Educate team members on Agile principles and provide guidance on methodology.
• Identify and engage all other cross-functional teams/stakeholders and make them align with project scope/schedules. Leading scrum teams along with other cross-functional dependent teams located geographically at different locations/time zones.
• Organize and facilitate scrum daily standup, spring Planning, sprint Review, Sprint Retrospection, product backlog review and other scrum-related meetings.
• Collaborate with Product owner, team members, other dependent teams & groups and manage product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity and task breakdown.
• Protect development team from outside distractions and over-commitment, remove impediments and help the team to maintain focus on sprint goals.
• Identify project risks and keep an adequate mitigation plan in place and ensure delivery is not compromised. Manage Issues, Dependencies and Change requests.
• Facilitate team & cross-team retrospectives to build good working relationships.
• Monitor the overall functioning of processes, identify improvement areas and implement adequate measures to maximize customer satisfaction level.
• Makes good decisions in ambiguous situations and provides stakeholders with recommendations and contingency plans.
• Responsible for the other typical project management activities - co-ordination, monitoring & control the all work items, managing project financials including budgeting, forecast and spending, production implementation planning & execution, project status reporting to leadership with necessary metrics, following the organization/industry-standard processes etc.

Confidential, Chicago IL

Scrum Master/Technical PM

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated sprint planning, sprint review, retrospective meetings, daily scrum meetings, and worked on deliverables for each sprint.
• Improved teamwork by identifying and maintaining dependencies among scrum teams within the train
• Aligned stakeholders on the documented framework, release/deployments and developed training material
• Increased value by planning deployment, unit testing, system integration testing, regression testing, end-to-end UAT, and PIV (post-implementation validation)
• Improved efficiency by planning capacity, and velocity and maintained reports like iteration burndown and velocity charts
• Managed escalations, impediments, risks, and challenges associated with product development
• Responsible for the DevOps (CI/CD) implementation in all the programs handled.
• Responsible for Designing, modifying, developing, implementing, and debugging software programming applications using Mainframe and JAVA.
• Delivered technology solutions by working with product owners, architects, engineers and quality assurance
• Manage Clarity updates- Forecasting, variable and fixed. Financial plans, Risks and Issues updates, OPC booking, Team and Task updates. Billing Recons, OPC accruals and SLA details updates.

Confidential

Scrum/Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Work with Product Owner to define project scope and objectives and mediate the general conflict of goals between development team and product owner.
• Effectively tracked team’s progress, including burn down, velocity and release forecasting
• Facilitated scrum meetings for the team like planning, daily standup, review and retrospective.
• Helped the team to make decisions, fostering the developer team’s self-organization.
• Facilitated the team to get rid of impediments, helping to write or split user stories, and helping to order product backlog items.
• Facilitated production release and planning.
• Facilitating Scrum ceremonies i.e. Iteration Planning, Daily Stand-up, Backlog Refinement, Review & Demo, Retrospective Meetings as per cadence
• Keeping in touch with every stakeholder regularly; Reflected issues to the team through observation.
• Helped the team to maintain their Scrum tools.
• Exchanging constantly with other Scrum masters in the organization.
• Conducting sprint planning sessions and daily stand-ups
• Manage risk, blockers, mitigation and contingency action planning, remove program impediments
• Worked effectively with stakeholders to remove delivery team roadblocks
• Gathered and updated project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents
• Liaison between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines
• Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives
• Helping various stakeholders understand to enact Scrum and empirical process
• Leading and coaching the Agile teams in its Scrum adoption
• Organized and facilitated overall release and sprint planning
• Ensured User stories followed INVEST

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Followed the Agile/Scrum model, participating in activities like daily status updates, sprint planning and retrospective meetings.
• Designed thorough test plans and implemented test cases based on the product requirements for manual and automation testing.
• Reviewing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases for module, integration and system testing
• Preparing Suggestion Documents to improve the quality of the application
• Participated in document Reviews, and inspections; reported daily status to customers.
• Responsible for understanding test scope, test strategy, test entrance and exit strategy and defect management strategy.
• Build and execute manual and automation test cases.
• Actively involved in functional, system, integration, and positive and negative GUI testing of the application.
• Performed Bug review and adhered to Bug tracking lifestyle.
• Performed Test results in Analysis and health check of the Product and performed CRM Business Analysis and provided Test Sign
• Worked on horizontals like Accessibility, Localization, devices, upgrade, Backward Compatibility
• Participated in customer business meetings and go-live planning discussions