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Sunnyvale, CA

SUMMARY

  • A software professional with Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance. With unwavering focus on enabling delivery of highest business value. I have 3+ years of experience in Scrum Master and Agile Coach.
  • Groomed teams in different ways of conducting Retrospectives which enables them to surface the problems and demonstrate shared responsibility in addressing the issues
  • Skilled at ensuring the importance of agile artifacts (Backlogs, burn downs, Sprint task boards Confidential and the benefits that they bring to the team, the PO and the stakeholders are well understood and appreciated.
  • Facilitated the establishments of teams working Agreements, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, Sprint Commitments, and Working Transparency.
  • Mentor: Focusing on people and Continuous Improvement all the time; provide team a platform for improvement not only during the retro but all the time.
  • Facilitating and coordinating of Scrum activities - Grooming, Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
  • Removing impediments, conflict management, make team collaborative always to help achieve sprint objective.
  • Working with Product owner and team to help write user stores, splitting user stories.
  • Proven leadership capability with respect to agile methodologies, engineering practices and deliverables.
  • Organizational and team level metrics have been implemented and monitoring project through the same.
  • Production Bugs per user story, velocity, statically code analysis, build status, uptime and downtime with respect to deployment Lead time and cycle time trend, Production Emergencies fixing cycle, Automation test coverage, and release burn down, sprint burn down.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Language: Java, SQL, C, HTML, XML, PL/SQL

Scripting Language: JavaScript, VB Script, XSL, Expect, Shell Script

Web Server: Apache, Tomcat, JBoss

Tools: Microsoft Project, Jira, RequesteDatabase MySQL 5.x, Oracle 11i

Operating System: RHEL, Linux, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-X

Agile Tools: Jira, Rally, Version One

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

  • Employed Scrum methodology within an agile development environment to improve software development processes and elevate product quality while meeting defined goals and key deadlines.
  • Conducted all Scrum Meetings with onshore and offshore teams using WebEx tool.
  • Implemented the Agile methodology and developed program and iteration/sprint backlogs. Proactively handled project issues and resolved them on daily basis.
  • Served as Scrum Master for software development team; initiated planning, demonstrations, requirements analysis and daily Scrum meetings.
  • Prepared project status and sprint metrics (Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burn-Down Chart and Velocity Chart) reports for Product Owner.
  • Involved in project planning and tracking project status using MS Project and used SharePoint for managing all the documents.
  • Coordinated with Product Owner to estimate release timelines, prioritize requirements/Product Backlog based on Delivery schedule, Business Value based on ROI calculation.
  • Responsible for providing business requirements within an AGILE software development SCRUM environment.
  • Developed the team from scratch for new technology ramp up and transition. Promoted staff collaboration and discussion to ensure the timely mitigation of risks and resolution of impediments, conflicts and obstacles.
  • Worked closely with Product owner for continuous delivery of features. Validated and made sure that all the requirements are met.
  • Facilitated Test driven development to ensure good quality and used JIRA to keep track of bugs and ensured unit testing done in development phase.
  • Conducted JAD sessions to deal with conflicts and analyzed and documented the business requirements from various teams and stakeholders.
  • Planning, Executing, Monitoring and controlling project activities. Resolved conflicts, lead self managing team and removed road blocks for the team.
  • Monitoring the progress of the releases - Burn-downs, burn-ups, End of Sprint report, Sprint plan sheet and Capacity sheet, etc.
  • Facilitating sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, Product team meetings, and Sprint Review/demonstrations.
  • Was instrumental in Agile transformation from traditional technology.Educating and reinforcing scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.

Environment: Microsoft (Office, Power point, Visio) Methodology used: Agile, MS Project, Waterfall, JIRA, WebEx, SharePoint, MS SQL Server 2005, MS Access, MS Excel

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

  • Did gap analysis to progress from AS-IS state to the TO-BE state using VISIO and MS Word and involved in filling the gaps through necessary actions.
  • Involved in creating business reports and did analysis based on historical data (patterns).
  • Worked on Business process and system modeling tools like Data Flow Diagrams, Process Models, ER diagrams, Dimensional Data Models, and Use Case Scenarios.
  • Created Wireframes and prototypes using HTML for the online help system and provided it to the designers.
  • Written SQL commands for data analysis accessing data from the data warehouse and involved with the data analysts in creating and analyzing reports.
  • Coordinated with the Product owner in defining user stories as business projects were prioritized for acceptance by agile development teams.
  • Facilitated project (Agile sprint) planning sessions with teams and business customers.
  • Protected agile development team from outside distractions.
  • Involved in build vs buy software decision and also in dealing with the outside vendors and managed their contracts.
  • Worked closely with project managers and customers to coordinate release plans; provide on-site assistance to drive seamless implementation into client operations.
  • Led process improvements, including scrum process refinement, testing specifications and user manual documentation practices.
  • Actively pursued opportunities to continue in Agile processes; facilitate knowledge sharing and sessions with staff.

Environment: Microsoft (Office, Power point, Visio) Methodology used: Waterfall, MS Project, Agile, JIRA, QC, Oracle 9i, MS SQL Server 2005, MS-Access, UML, TOAD.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Gathered user and business requirements with the product owner through open-ended discussions, brainstorming and prototyping and made documents like BRDs and FSDs using MS Word.
  • Involved in transition from Waterfall to Agile Methodology by assisting the trainer in teaching the scrum policies.
  • Knowledge and understanding of key E-commerce functions like site browsing and navigation, checkout flow, order fulfillment, payment processing, order shipment, inventory management and order management.
  • Created Wireframes and Mock ups for the UI/UX designers to give an idea of the webpage layout.
  • Performed Gap analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end state requirements.
  • Understood Java code and had interaction with developers about their issues.
  • Participated in design, development, testing, and deployment of front end applications as well as reports.
  • Facilitated JAD sessions with management, users and other stakeholders to define the project and to reduce the time frame required to complete deliverables.
  • Prepared Business Requirement document and then converted Business requirements into Functional Requirements Specification
  • Analyze business requirements and segregated them into Use Cases.
  • Created Use case diagrams, activity diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, using Rational Rose according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models.
  • Wrote SQL queries to access the data from the database.
  • Involved in integrating data from disparate sources into a data warehouse using ETL and applied analytical/BI skills to develop existing business reports, thus reducing the time to generate these reports manually by doing complete automation.
  • Assisted the QA team in designing the test plan and test cases. Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Confidential, Merrimack, NH

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Manage business project plan for the different product conversiosns to SLHIC.
  • Deliver the business rules document (BRD) and the in scope conversion design for the migration.
  • Agile Methodology was used for all SLNY SLHIC conversions.
  • Requirement Gathering for PPI - Inception Phase, Development Phase
  • JAD sessions for issue resolution
  • Bug Tracker, SharePoint and Insurance applications and tools such as Microsoft Office and Rational tools were used
  • Managed the initiation phase tasks and work Break down structure

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Worked as a project manager in managing multiple supply orders, making sure that the products meet the quality standards and are delivered to the customers on time.
  • Managed a team of 7 members and participated in team meetings from the project walkthrough meeting, product design and developmment till the project delivery.
  • Worked with the business analyst in taking the requirements from customers and communicating them with the team.
  • Provided the team with the right equipments and materials for them to reach the project goals.
  • Ensured that the products were delivered on time while meeting all the requirements and quality standards.
  • Constantly took feedback from the customers in order to improve the product design and provide the customers with the products meeting their requirements.

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