Summary Business professional recognized for strong follow-through, analysis of financial as well as other data, creation of comprehensive reports, database administration, project management, and product/process development to ensure optimal efficiency and productivity. Team player, always willing to provide support and guidance to peers at all levels. Strong motivator with excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communications skills.

Computer Skills JIRA, Rally, Team Foundation Server TFS , HP Quality Center - Test Director, Caliber, Microsoft SQL, MS Access, Microsoft Office including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint , Visio, MS Project, Service Center, PVCS, Mercant Tracker, Visual SourceSafe, Crystal Reports, BRIO, and, ClearCase, Requisite Pro, and Tivoli Service Desk

Supported Technologies Oracle, SQL, Unix/Linux environments, Client/Server, JAVA, J2EE, .NET, and HTML

Certifications Certified Scrum Master for Agile software development

Candidate for PMI's Agile Certified Practitioner ACP Certification

Work Experience

Confidential

SCRUM MASTER / IT PROJECT MANAGER contractor

Scrum Master / IT Project Manager Information Technology Center ITC contract assignment

• Lead multiple cross-functional teams using Agile/Scrum on various modernization software development projects within the FCC serving as the scrum master
• Facilitating daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective meetings for multiple teams
• Working with product owner on artifacts such as product backlog, spring backlog, sprint burn down, and release burn down reports
• Working with product owners and stake holders to prioritize user stories for the sprint/product backlog
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and resolved them
• Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and resolved them
• Coach and mentors agile team members and provides constructive feedback to improve team performance and efficiency
• Liaise between the Scrum team and the Product Owner/User Experience team/Technical team to foster better communication between the disciplines
• Ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget
• Coordinated and conducted software developments for completed work for each release
• Produced a collaborative experience to drive decisions

Confidential

IT PROJECT MANAGER / SCRUM MASTER

• Worked in a digital content division managing an online content management system and served as the Scrum Master/IT Project Manager
• Facilitating daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective meetings for multiple teams
• Working with product owner on artifacts such as product backlog, spring backlog, sprint burndown, and release burn down reports
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and resolved them
• Facilitating Scrum of Scrum for offshore Scrum teams in the United States and India
• Managing the overall performance and delivery of cross-functional teams within the organization
• Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and resolved them
• Coach and mentors agile team members and provides constructive feedback to improve team performance and efficiency
• Working with product owners and stake holders to prioritize the requirements for sprint
• Ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget
• Coordinated and conducted software developments for completed work for each release

Confidential

IT PROJECT MANAGER / SCRUM MASTER

• Support the Agile/Scrum process and provide coaching and training at the team and department levels to maximize its benefits
• Facilitate the efforts of multiple scrum teams for various product line's development efforts.
• Own, communicate, and manage the project status and risks
• Facilitate sprint planning, review and retrospectives in support of Agile Scrum methodology
• Created product backlog and sprint tasks in Team Foundation Sever TFS to streamline the work of the delivery team and provide reports based on development process ie. Sprint and release burn-down charts, team utilization reports, etc.
• Facilitate communication and negotiation within the team and external entities
• Conduct post-implementation reviews and communicate lessons learned to appropriate groups
• Aid in the establishment of project scope and business road map items
• Manage changes to scope, expectations and deliverables
• Identify and manage dependency between the delivery teams
• Mitigate any risks associated with projects by discovering issues as they arise

Confidential

IT PROJECT MANAGER / RELEASE MANAGEMENT contractor

• Release Management/Project Manager for Office of Transformation Coordination OTC Transformation Program Office TPO contract assignment
• Direct and manage activities for building and maintaining software releases for ELIS Electronic Immigration System formerly named IOE Integrated Operating Environment in a matrix environment to ensure quality standards and objectives of the program using Scrum methodology for agile development.
• Define, plan, coordinate and direct the development of the system across multiple work streams
• Support agile development teams to prioritize/schedule/direct work, remove impediments that prevent work, and provide communication to the rest of the program
• Provide support to the product owner of the agile teams
• Prioritize user stories for sprint planning by defining story values and velocity
• Provide velocity and burn-down reports to show progress of the development effort
• Conduct project and sprint kick-offs, sprint planning sessions and sprint reviews/demos
• Worked with the product owner and business to ensure requirements are developed as intended
• Conducted daily stand-up meetings and adhoc meetings to discuss work for the day, identify any impediments and overall goal for the day
• Collaborate with subject matter experts SMEs to determine business needs to support system development activities
• Provide leadership in the areas of project management, technical, and logistical support to the business unit personnel, development teams, and IT organizations including infrastructure, architects, testers, subject matter experts, data migration, data cleansing, security, standard operating procedures SOPs , change management and configuration management to support system engineering life cycle SELC
• Lead and served on several integrated product team IPT groups and working integrated product teams WIPTS
• Serve as project coordination lead for deployment and testing efforts as well as a point of contact POC for testing evaluation and deployment efforts
• Perform risk and issue management
• Involved in COTS products for evaluation by the program
• Identify track and report issues as well as ensure they are resolved in a timely manner.
• Created test strategies and test plans for quality assurance/testing
• Propose solutions to enhance applications and/or business processes
• Involved in strategic plans for application development and program management by offering analysis and best approach scenarios to benefit the program
• Prepare a host of briefs, reports and summaries to be consumed by senior management to provide information to compose decisions on the program.

Confidential

LEAD CONSULTANT contract assignment

Lead Consultant

• Performed project management duties to facilitate the software development process to include creating project plans, managing tasks/resources, interfacing with the customer, and problem resolution.
• Develop business requirements and business process methodologies for software projects within Veterans Affairs.
• Initiate negotiations and manage relationships with vendors to provide services to support the program.
• Project management/coordination of various activities and tasks to support the software development efforts
• Facilitate business unit meetings for requirements gathering team meetings
• Define data standards and data logic for the program
• Worked closely with the software development team, engineers
• Define requirements for the ideal system
• Created software development life cycle SDLC documentation to include requirements documents, test plans/scripts, and requirements traceability matrixes

Confidential

IT PROJECT MANAGER / SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST contract assignment

IT Project Manager/Business Analyst

• Performed project management duties to facilitate the software development process to include creating project plans, managing tasks/resources, interfacing with the customer, and problem resolution
• Project management/coordination of various activities and tasks to support the software development efforts
• Develop business requirements and business process methodologies for software projects within NASA.
• Facilitate business unit meetings for requirements gathering team meetings
• Gather requirements and documented requirements utilizing the SMG process
• Worked closely with the development and engineering teams to ensure that project tasks were met
• Provided support to the project/program management team
• Identify track and report issues as well as ensure they are resolved in a timely manner.
• Created test strategies and test plans for quality assurance/testing