SUMMARY

• 12 years of rich and insightful experience as an Certified Scrum Master in Banking and Financial Services and Manufacturing. Experience delivering in DWH, Informatica, .Net, Java, Hyperion and Pega projects on time without schedule slippage under budget.
• Currently heading as Scrum Master for Confidential, Columbus, Ohio. Leading 3 simultaneous initiatives for complexity programs /release.
• Experience running Scrum with JIRA, Rally and Version One.
• Managed offshore/onshore teams and executed well.
• I am expertise includes facilitating daily standups, prioritizing product back - log, managing sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives. Additionally, enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints, by identifying and tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.
• Tracks and communicates team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• I have assisted teams with making appropriate commitments through user story selection, sizing, and capacity of every sprint, as well as gathering appropriate metrics and facilitating team maturity.
• Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments, and fostering self-management. He has also facilitated and actively participated in SOS and has evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption.
• Determined the team capacity and monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders.
• Communicated the progress to team and stake holders thru metrics like Burn-Down charts and Velocity charts.
• Escalate as required conflicts and identify key risk areas or impediments impacting projected delivery dates
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders eliminating impediments on the team.
• Assist the Product Owner and keep the backlog work effectively prioritized.
• Expertise in the Scrum Framework and Agile Methodology, including strong working knowledge of Agile Principles and Values.
• Maintain the balance of aggressive delivery targets to insure suitable utilization while insuring adequate time allocation to permit required analysis, design and implementation (including unit testing where required)
• Facilitate effective communications between product owner and core team.
• Provided training to the team on the agile process; training will continue all the time during the project execution and continuous improvement on velocity, quality, processes etc.
• Sizing and Planning Poker techniques as needed based on the length of the backlog and priorities.
• Release management, code deployment across various environment and support/maintenance.
• Ownership of overall deliverables, handle work distribution, time management, prioritizing work and assist in all the supporting tasks to ensure completion of project on time.
• Management experience of the full project life cycle including requirements gathering, creation of project plans and schedules, obtaining and managing resources, managing budget, and facilitating project execution, deployment, and closure
• Practical experience of successful Scrum based development team management as an Agile Project Manager and Scrum Master

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Waterfall
• Agile
• Jira
• Rally
• Version one
• Clarity
• Plan view
• Informatica
• Ab Initio
• Pega
• JavaScript
• HTML jQuery
• AngularJS
• XML
• XSLT
• CSS
• MVC
• SOAP
• SQL Server 2012/10/08/2005
• Oracle 9i/10g/11g
• SQL Programming
• C & C++
• HPQC
• Control M.
• Microsoft IIS 8.0/7.0/6.0
• TFS
• PVCS
• BFS
• Manufacturing
• Windows 2012R 2/2012/2008/2007/2003 Server/XP
• UNIX.
• Microsoft Office
• Visio
• PowerPoint Excel.
• Confluence
• MPP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organizing/facilitating Scrum ceremonies (i.e. standups, Sprint planning, Show and tell and retrospectives) for multiple project tracks and removing impediments by interacting with appropriate personnel, thereby ensuring that the teams are fully functional/productive.
• Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes.
• Assisted with internal and external communication, improved transparency, and radiated information.
• Built relationship with Product owner and other stake holders to facilitate team's interaction with them.
• Closely working with Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog
• Collaborated closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.
• Assisted the team with the estimating of user stories and prepared them for the same.
• Participated in daily calls with the business and Product Owners to ensure product success.
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint release progress.
• Following the metrics to monitor the progress and measure the efficiency of our product development effort.
• Managed the day-to-day activities, including user stories and tasks, using Agile tools and techniques through Jira.
• Partnered closely with QA to ensure that all user stories were verified before the end of the sprint.
• Ensured the quality and completeness of the product, through unit testing and regression capabilities.
• Coordinating with all internal and external support teams for smooth delivery.
• Involving 1st and 2nd level code reviews with Technical lead and Technical Project Manager.
• Involving QA test plan review and test cases with tech lead and QA lead.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint release progress.
• Manage day to day activities -user stories, tasks, using agile tools & techniques through Jira.
• Working closely with QA to ensure that all user stories are verified before the end of the sprint.
• Ensure quality and completeness of the product through unit testing and regression capabilities.
• Involving Audits/Breaks work for across payments LOB.
• Involving release readiness activities
• Responding to client requests and inquiries, as appropriate.
• Identify improvements for processes, standards, deliverables, etc.
• Escalate issues/risks when required.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, the daily stand-up, reviews, retrospectives, and release management, including sprint demo of sprint results to the customer.
• Facilitated and actively participated in SOS and evangelized the benefits of Scrum, to ensure its smooth adoption.
• Assisted the team with making appropriate commitments through user story selection, sizing, and capacity of every sprint.
• Prepared and followed “DOD” for every sprint.
• Protected the Scrum team from outside distractions, including other work assignments.
• Facilitated discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution.
• Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Collaborated with the Product Owner to ensure the product backlog was in good shape and ready for the next sprint.
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions, to maximize productivity.
• Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog
• Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology
• Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team
• Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
• Facilitated getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
• Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos.
• Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions.
• Interfaced with Program Management Office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings
• Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and led by example.

Confidential

Scrum Master / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Working very closely with internal team as well as with the implementation team. Active participant in people leadership sessions with a focus on team dynamics
• Empower associates through paired programming and cross training initiatives to help team members expand ventures outside of their comfort zone
• Updating agile tracking systems to provide transparency on sprint backlogs and supporting the Product Owner with grooming backlogs, using process tools such as Version One.
• Engaging internal stakeholders in critical discussions and facilitating them build consensus for decision making
• Orienting teams to work with agile techniques: User stories, automated testing, continuous integration, and guiding teams to become self-organized
• Partnering with Product, Development teams to set appropriate release dates and ensuring successful rollout of product to customers
• Facilitating discussion and conflict resolution at all levels of the organization to improve team productivity while promoting continuous improvement and helping teams understand retrospective outcomes/information radiation
• Facilitating teams on fixing deployment issues, enabling close collaboration among all roles/functions (including both collocated & distributed teams) and ensuring consistent quality and on-time delivery of projects
• Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress to management
• Communicating cross dependencies among teams and aligning these on timing.
• Experience on creating User stories, velocity and burn-down charts.
• Removing impediments or road blocks to resolve issues on time and get the best out of team effort.
• Involved writing SOW’s
• Involved Project Management review with Customers.
• Involved internal and external Audits
• Involved writing mapping documents
• Involved requirement gathering
• Involved code reviews
• Involved QA test plan review with Testing team.
• Handled offshore and onshore teams.

Confidential

Sr. Informatica Developer

Responsibilities:

• Working very closely with internal team as well as with the implementation team.
• Involved in complete lifecycle implementation of the project from gathering user requirements, preparation of technical specifications documents, designing and developing reports, Integration testing, Unit testing to Go live production support.
• Performed Informatica code reviews.
• Participated in DBA reviews to get sign-off on database objects.
• Participated in meetings with ETL Engineer to get sign-off for ETL objects.
• Created mappings and participated in performance tuning.
• Tuned the TD queries to improve load performance.
• Performed unit testing and collaborated with business users during UAT.
• Developed the control jobs for scheduling the loads.
• Deployed the code to Production.
• Supported the loads during the stabilization period.
• Performed the performance and tuning at source, Target levels using Indexes, Hints and Partitioning in DB2, ORACLE and Informatica.
• Designed and developed various PL/SQL stored procedures to perform various calculations related to fact measures.
• Converted the PL/SQL Procedures to Informatica mappings and at the same time created procedures in the database level for optimum performance of the mappings.

Confidential

ETL Lead

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in the requirement analysis, data modeling and technical implementation.
• Responsible for Design the FDD's and TDD are based on business requirements.
• As a developer and Technical Lead, converting old ETL template used in Informatica to Release-7 common Template.
• Performance tuning for the workflows which are taking longer time for execution.
• Split Source to Stage ETL and Uprocs into two ETL
• Source to Flat file
• Flat file to Stage
• Removal of hard coding of scripts in the Dollar Universe Uprocs
• Add new $U session for Source to Flat File
• Addition of new uprocs based on the new requirement of current Releases.
• Change workflow as per the naming convention.
• Change Connection Names as per naming standard.
• Make use of all Release-7 template parameters.
• Working with Scheduling tool (DOLLOR UNIVERSE) to add the new uprocs/sessions.
• Taking care of production support activities like loading the data, monitoring and improve the System Performance.
• Worked on Data Modeling Considerations.
• Updating the Marketing attributes from BW to CRM Using APD Interface.
• Worked on Customer 360 view to increase the effectiveness of employees who are interacting with Customers.

Confidential

Informatica Developer

Responsibilities:

• Created Data Maps / Extraction groups in Power Exchange Navigator for legacy IMS Parent sources.
• Staged Data from legacy Proclaim IMS system into Oracle 9g Master Tables
• Performed CDC capture registrations
• Assisted in building the ETL source to Target specification documents by understanding the business requirements
• Developed mappings that perform Extraction, Transformation and load of source data into Derived Masters schema using various power center transformations like Source Qualifier, Aggregator, Filter, Router, Sequence Generator, look up, Rank, Joiner, Expression, Stored Procedure, SQL, Normalizer and update strategy to meet business logic in the mappings
• Reusable transformations and Mapplets are built wherever redundancy is needed
• Performance tuning is performed at the Mapping level as well as the Database level to increase the data throughput
• Designed the Process Control Table that would maintain the status of all the CDC jobs and thereby drive the load of Derived Master Tables.
• Used Teradata utilities like BTEQ, fast load, fast export, multiload for data conversion.
• Created Post UNIX scripts to perform operations like gunzip, remove and touch files.
• Investigating and fixing the bugs occurred in the production environment and providing the on-call support.
• Performed Unit testing and maintained test logs and test cases for all the mappings.
• Maintained warehouse metadata, naming standards and warehouse standards for future application development.
• Parsing high-level design specification to simple ETL coding along with mapping standards.