SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager with over 13 years of rich professional experience working as End to End Project Manager, Scrum Master, Sr. Business Analyst, solution architect, technical lead & Developer.
• Experience in performing servant leadership for multi - million dollar IT Programs/Project that consist of multiple, high-profile and complex projects that span multiple fiscal years, several business units and carry significant enterprise-wide impact.
• Proficient at managing product backlogs, facilitating the scrum meetings, including sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective and daily scrum meetings and creating scrum artifacts.
• Executed Scaled Scrum - Scrum of Scrums at portfolio level.
• Sterling experience in performing Project Planning, Budget Management, Resource Management, Risk Management, Release Management, stakeholder Management and vendor Management.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting with business and IT individuals at all levels which includes the executives and sponsors.
• Liaison between IT leadership and senior business leadership to communicate program & project strategy, direction and changes.
• Partners with senior leadership of the business community for the prioritization of the business and enterprise goals & objectives.
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands.
• Expert in writing User Stories and managing the Requirements Churn as part of backlog grooming.
• Usage of RTC for Story documentation, task management, building dashboard for project burndown, burnup charts.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to translate complex technical concepts into understandable terms and is able to tailor communication to audience, mediate and facilitate communications to all levels of business and IT communities.
• Extensive experience in creating Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Change Management, Quality Management, liaising with the executive management and Issue and Defect Tracking.
• Experience in conducting interviews, focus groups, requirements workshops, surveys/questionnaires and other elicitation techniques to successfully gather requirements from users/clients.
• Awareness of SAFe Agile Software Development framework.
• Proficient in Product Vendor evaluation Process.
• Organized demonstrations
• Conducted interviews
• Built evaluations templates
• Dealt with some of the service providers like State Street Bank & Bank of New York Mellon for ETF; Fiserve - APL, Advent & Odyssey for High Networth Individuals portfolio management; Scvinatage for CostBasis - Equities, Mutual Funds; Sungard - Phase3 for Brokerage accounts; NYSE/NASDAQ for exchanges etc..
• Good experience in conducting gap Analysis, SWOT Analysis, Risk Analysis, RFS (Request for solution), RFP(Request for proposal)andImpact Analysis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Modeling Tools: MS Visio

RDBMS: Oracle 8i/9i/10G, SQL

Packages/Suites: Microsoft Office Suite

Languages/API: SQL, PLSQL, Pro* C, Java, C, C++, UNIX Scripting, Oracle Application Basic

Web & Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports

Platforms: Windows, UNIX, Linux

Version Control: StarTeam, VSS, RTC

Log Monitoring Tools: Splunk

Database Tools: Enterprise SQL developer, Toad

Application server: Oracle Express Server

Scheduling Tools: BMC Control-M

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organizes and facilitates the SCRUM CEREMONIES such as Sprint Planning, daily stand-ups, Show & Tell and retrospectives at the end of each sprint, and creates an environment in which the team is continuously learning from the past
• Ability to lead multiple complex projects ranging $100 K to $5M involving 30+ resources globally located.
• Strong leadership, communication, planning & organization skill can effectively mitigate risks.
• Experience of working in partnership with Product Owners, and the core and extended team to create and prioritize the product backlog
• Responsible for tracking iteration progress, actively contributing to design discussions, issue resolution and removing obstacles to ensure iteration commitments are met
• Coaches teams to adopt SDLC methods, Agile values, principles and practices, and actively encourage teams to reflect and improve their delivery capacity
• Work in coordination with the Product Owner & Business Stakeholders to fully understand and support Epic Vision, Problem Statement, Epic Segmentation to create and Prioritize Product Backlog, Feature definition & Define Acceptance Criteria for User Stories.
• Responsible to work with Scrum Team to ensure Product Backlog is estimated
• Accountable for Completed Product According to Acceptance Criteria
• Breaks down barriers and shields the team from impediments precluding engineers from making progress against sprints and deadlines
• Tracks and communicates team velocity, financials, and other KPIs in relation to the plan and published progress reports
• Felicitated sessions with SMEs to evaluate vendors.
• Facilitates discussions and looks beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities
• Conducted stakeholder interviews to build business objective document, organize vendor demonstration and build evaluation templates.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organizes and facilitates Sprint Planning, daily stand-ups, Show & Tell and retrospectives at the end of each sprint, and creates an environment in which the team is continuously learning from the past
• Lead the project which is $1M involving 18+ resources globally located.
• Experience of working in partnership with Product Owners, and the core and extended team to create and prioritize the product backlog
• Responsible for tracking iteration progress, actively contributing to design discussions, issue resolution and removing obstacles to ensure iteration commitments are met
• Coaches teams to adopt SDLC methods, Agile values, principles and practices, and actively encourage teams to reflect and improve their delivery capacity
• Work in coordination with the Product Owner & Business Stakeholders to fully understand and support Epic Vision, Problem Statement, Epic Segmentation to create and Prioritize Product Backlog, Feature definition & Define Acceptance Criteria for User Stories.
• Responsible to work a Work with Scrum Team to ensure Product Backlog is estimated
• Accountable for Completed Product According to Acceptance Criteria
• Breaks down barriers and shields the team from impediments precluding engineers from making progress against sprints and deadlines
• Tracks and communicates team velocity, financials, and other KPIs in relation to the plan and published progress reports
• Facilitates discussions and looks beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organizes and facilitates the SCRUM CEREMONIES such as Sprint Planning, daily stand-ups, Show & Tell and retrospectives at the end of each sprint, and creates an environment in which the team is continuously learning from the past
• Conducted stakeholder interviews to build business objective document, organize vendor demonstration and build evaluation templates.
• Felicitated sessions with SMEs to evaluate vendors.
• Strong leadership, communication, planning & organization skill can effectively mitigate risks.
• Experience of working in partnership with Product Owners, and the core and extended team to create and prioritize the product backlog
• Responsible for tracking iteration progress, actively contributing to design discussions, issue resolution and removing obstacles to ensure iteration commitments are met
• Coaches teams to adopt SDLC methods, Agile values, principles and practices, and actively encourage teams to reflect and improve their delivery capacity
• Work in coordination with the Product Owner & Business Stakeholders to fully understand and support Epic Vision, Problem Statement, Epic Segmentation to create and Prioritize Product Backlog, Feature definition & Define Acceptance Criteria for User Stories.
• Responsible to work a Work with Scrum Team to ensure Product Backlog is estimated
• Accountable for Completed Product According to Acceptance Criteria
• Breaks down barriers and shields the team from impediments precluding engineers from making progress against sprints and deadlines
• Support the Product Owner in enforcing processes. Continually Groom Product/Release Backlog.
• Tracks and communicates team velocity, financials, and other KPIs in relation to the plan and published progress reports
• Facilitates discussions and looks beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Scrum Master/Business analyst

Responsibilities:

• Ability to lead multiple complex projects ranging $100 K to $500K involving 15+ resources globally located.
• Strong leadership, communication, planning & organization skill can effectively mitigate risks.
• Experience of working in partnership with Product Owners, and the core and extended team to create and prioritize the product backlog
• Responsible for tracking iteration progress, actively contributing to design discussions, issue resolution and removing obstacles to ensure iteration commitments are met
• Coaches teams to adopt SDLC methods, Agile values, principles and practices, and actively encourage teams to reflect and improve their delivery capacity
• Work in coordination with the Product Owner & Business Stakeholders to fully understand and support Epic Vision, Problem Statement, Epic Segmentation to create and Prioritize Product Backlog, Feature definition & Define Acceptance Criteria for User Stories.
• Responsible to work a Work with Scrum Team to ensure Product Backlog is estimated
• Accountable for Completed Product According to Acceptance Criteria
• Breaks down barriers and shields the team from impediments precluding engineers from making progress against sprints and deadlines
• Support the Product Owner in enforcing processes. Continually Groom Product/Release Backlog.
• Organizes and facilitates the AGILE CEREMONIES such as Sprint Planning, daily stand-ups, Show & Tell and retrospectives at the end of each sprint, and creates an environment in which the team is continuously learning from the past
• Conducted interviews with SMEs to understand the business flow, capture requirements.
• Planned and documented procedures for data processing and prepared data flow diagrams for the application.
• Built SIPOC (Supplier, Input, Process, Output, Customers) and context diagrams.
• Served as a liaison between business team and the project team by assisting the business in identifying, understanding, and documenting their business needs.
• Responsible for writing functional and business requirements for planned and ad-hoc enhancements
• Build reports in RTC for higher management.
• Coordinate system test activities & perform UAT.
• Develop user test cases and validate test results during user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Handled release process to ensure code is delivered to production.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Technical lead/Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted interviews with SMEs to understand the business flow, capture requirements.
• Captured data requirements for migrating data from Internal System to Third Party Vendors.
• Designed the complete data flow.
• Served as a liaison between business team and the project team by assisting the business in identifying, understanding, and documenting their business needs.
• Assessed client needs utilizing a structured requirements process (gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing changes) to prioritize immediate business needs
• Responsible for writing functional and business requirements for planned and ad-hoc enhancements
• Responsible for project coordination assist in development of project estimates etc.
• Communicate project details to various levels of management.
• Reviews exception conditions & determine appropriate course of action.
• Coordinate system test activities & perform UAT.
• Develop user test cases and validate test results during user acceptance testing (UAT).

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Requirements Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Client interaction for identification of the business requirements, functional and non - functional requirements.
• Conducted interviews with SMEs to understand the business flow and capture requirements.
• Built SIPOC (Supplier, Input, Process, Output, Customers) and context diagrams.
• Served as a liaison between business team and the project team by assisting the business in identifying, understanding, and documenting their business needs.
• Assessed client needs utilizing a structured requirements process (gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing changes) to prioritize immediate business needs
• Communicate project details to various levels of management.
• Ensures strict adherence to procedures and critical time frames.
• Reviews exception conditions & determine appropriate course of action.
• Coordinate system test activities & perform UAT.
• Develop user test cases and validate test results during user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Responsible for writing functional and business requirements for planned and ad-hoc enhancements

Confidential, Hyderabad, India

Developer/Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• System Designing based on the gap analysis.
• Development and Reviews of Low Level Design Documents, code walk through and Inspections for software components.
• Development of GUI for data entry and manipulation in Oracle Express Objects.
• Performing Unit, Integration and System testing for software and performing reviews for the same.
• Installation of Oracle database server and Oracle Express objects.
• Oracle database administration activities like creation of Production and Test Databases, Monitoring and management of various database components (logical & physical) like table spaces, data files, segments (tables, index, rollback), User creation and enforcing security using privileges and roles, Backup and Recovery of databases, network configuration and administration for Oracle.
• Oracle Express Server MDDB administration activities like designing and creating the structure of the Multi-Dimensional Database, Tuning the Multi-Dimensional Database for optimum performance in terms of MDDB build time and response time.
• Performance Tuning activities for the overall application such as Database monitoring and OS monitoring, Hardware sizing and capacity planning, Proactive and reactive tuning for memory (SGA) and disk I/O, tuning sort areas, SQL/PL/SQL Query tuning and application tuning