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 teh 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 wif agile methodology and achieve sprint goals wif 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 teh ART events PI planning, ART Sync, System Demo, Inspect and Adapt
• Great verbal communication skills wif a strong scrum master background wif experience in directing, coaching, and training.
• Engineers and Manages at teh portfolio level, halping teams realize teh benefits of Agile transformation.
• Ability to work wif any team on cross-functional agile projects and communicate effectively wif both technical and non-Technical individuals.
• Very comfortable presenting ideas and concepts
• Expert wif 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 principals and increase their velocity by 50% wifin teh 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 dat provide visibility into sprint health progress. Manifesto/Principals/methodologies, daily meetings, planning, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, managing flow, being cross-functional and coordination wif other teams for continuous integration, improvement, prioritization, resolution of software defects and delivery of quality products.
• Experience in identifying and removing impediments/roadblocks for teh Scrum teams, escalating issues at teh appropriate management levels and halping 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

Sr. 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 teh release, including sprint pipeline grooming, release planning, sprint planning and daily stand-ups. Facilitate PO/PM sync.
• Worked wif 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 principals 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 teh team.
• Aggregate Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives and publish them for visibility and transparency
• Collect & share team metrics wif teh 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 teh ART and teh teams through teh delivery of software and services, embracing and casting teh Agile mindset across client spaces
• Program planning and delivered critical business value on time using Agile Methodology
• Helping teh Scrum Teams to understand teh 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 teh ART events right from PI planning to Inspect and Adapt events
• Facilitate grooming sessions wif teh product manager in backlog refinement.
• Coordinated wif teh System Team, UX, DevOps, Shared Services, security, etc.
• Helping teh team in removing Impediments and ensuring smooth progress
• Monitored schedule and velocity, escalate to teh key stakeholders for deviations
• Engaged in using Atlassian products and worked wif developers on a daily basis for workflow (Jira and Jira Align).
• Assists teh team’s progress in achieving their commitments through strong issues, risk and dependency management. Collaborates wif partners external to teh team, including other Scrum teams for delivering, resolving prioritization, conflicts and synchronization.
• Coaches teh team in Lean-Agile practices, creating an environment of mutual influence by guiding teh team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
• Closely working wif 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 principals of Test Driven Development (TDD) & Behaviour Driven Development (BDD).

Confidential, VA

Sr. Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Schedules and facilitates all relevant meetings for teh release, including sprint pipeline grooming, release planning, sprint planning and daily stand-ups/huddles.
• Protects teh team, facilitates teh removal of issues/blockers/impediments, and halps teh team resolve dependencies.
• Responsible for facilitating teh sprint pipeline grooming dat gets teh User Story to a Ready state.
• Participate in Scrum of Scrums forum and Responsible for teh SAFe adoption across teh programs handled.
• Manages teh 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 teh Scrum team’s velocity for teh upcoming sprint and tracks teh sprint’s health.
• Facilitates teh sprint review and demo, sprint retrospective. Captures and distributes feedback.
• Provides status updates in necessary discussions - generally internal to teh 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 teh test environment properly.
• Coordinated environment setups, maintenance, code deployments and production releases in CI/CD DevOps environments.
• Coached teams on principals 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 principals and provide guidance on methodology.
• Identify and engage all other cross-functional teams/stakeholders and make them align wif project scope/schedules. Leading scrum teams along wif 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 wif 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 halp teh 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 teh 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 wif recommendations and contingency plans.
• Responsible for teh other typical project management activities - co-ordination, monitoring & control teh all work items, managing project financials including budgeting, forecast and spending, production implementation planning & execution, project status reporting to leadership wif necessary metrics, following teh 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 wifin teh train
• Aligned stakeholders on teh 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 wif product development
• Responsible for teh DevOps (CI/CD) implementation in all teh programs handled.
• Responsible for Designing, modifying, developing, implementing, and debugging software programming applications using Mainframe and JAVA.
• Delivered technology solutions by working wif 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 wif Product Owner to define project scope and objectives and mediate teh 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 teh team like planning, daily standup, review and retrospective.
• Helped teh team to make decisions, fostering teh developer team’s self-organization.
• Facilitated teh team to get rid of impediments, halping to write or split user stories, and halping 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 wif every stakeholder regularly; Reflected issues to teh team through observation.
• Helped teh team to maintain their Scrum tools.
• Exchanging constantly wif other Scrum masters in teh organization.
• Conducting sprint planning sessions and daily stand-ups
• Manage risk, blockers, mitigation and contingency action planning, remove program impediments
• Worked effectively wif stakeholders to remove delivery team roadblocks
• Gatheird 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 teh Agile teams in its Scrum adoption
• Organized and facilitated overall release and sprint planning
• Ensured User stories followed INVEST

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Followed teh 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 teh 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 teh quality of teh 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 teh application.
• Performed Bug review and adhered to Bug tracking lifestyle.
• Performed Test results in Analysis and health check of teh 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