SUMMARY

• Project Management Professional with 10+ years of Professional experience with Solid understanding of Business Requirement gathering, planning, scheduling, controlling, budgeting and cost control
• Certified SCRUM MASTER
• Trained in Primavera P6, SAP - PS, RALLY and JIRA
• 2 Years of experience working as Agile Scrum Master and coaching teams on Agile methodologies
• Primary liaison for handholding requirement gathering and testing related communication with key stakeholders of the project- Customers, Project Manager, POC from dependent/ impacted teams
• Worked in various domains such as construction, façade, oil and gas and insurance wearing multiple hats as Assistant Project Manager, Business Analyst, project planner/controller and Project Coordinator
• Seasoned professional with a balanced combination of business acumen, thought leadership & Capable of providing effective solutions as process consultant in a high-pressure environment within set guidelines
• Facilitates iteration planning meetings, lead work within individual sprints and coordinate retrospectives and demos.
• Lead daily stand ups, evaluate progress and provide support as needed on remediation of impediments to support commitments to product.
• Provide to scrum team to ensure Agile scrum is understood and practiced from Planning to Implementation.
• Actively worked with the Product Owner and Stakeholders to monitor and prioritize product backlog on an ongoing basis to meet release timelines and value to the business.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing for each release, assisting cross functional subject matter experts with new functionality and the Scrum process.
• Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Domain: Energy & process, Insurance(Reinsurance)

Areas of Expertise(Agile): Communication, Project Management, Conflict Resolution,Iteration/Sprint Planning Meetings, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives

Tools: Visio, SharePoint, Microsoft Project Server, Documentum, JIRA, Rally, Primavera P6, SAP-PS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TX

Scrum Master/Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.) smooth transition between offshore and onsite teams
• Gather requirements from customers regarding the volume of data migration to estimate the size of project, time and resources required for execution.
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by a third of the total time
• Responsible for removing impediments blocking execution, Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Responsible for preparing work plans with detailed schedule of activities, identified resources, milestones and deliverables
• Collecting and consolidating Status Information about the project, issues and changes from project leads at routine intervals, usually every two weeks and implementing corrective action through change management process.
• As PMO lead, responsible to provide a centralized customer focused office that not only plan, negotiate and analyze projects, but also redress the project related concerns of the client, sponsor, and staff;
• Established communication protocol and methods to liaise with customers to request clarity on requirements in case of any roadblocks experienced during migrations, communicate project information and issues among team members
• Track the incident /change request backlog, prioritize the plan, provide resolution to responsible analyst with clear requirements and bring it to a closure.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Agile Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead daily stand ups, evaluate progress and provide support as needed on remediation of impediments to support commitments to product.
• Worked with Product Owner to identify the best approach to prioritize the high-level Features
• Slice features in to functional requirements that can be developed and delivered in the form of Minimal Viable Product
• Develop user manuals, BRDs, FRD, Change request Documents, AS-IS TO-BE process Documents, presentations and manuals as per project specifications and timelines while excessively using MS Word, MS Visio, MS Excel, and MS Power Point etc
• Responsible for writing the user stories and the corresponding acceptance criteria for the user stories
• Engage the business stakeholders and product owner in every process step ranging from discovery to deployment
• Work with the PO to connect the DBT team with the business needs and providing the right guidance to on the functionality to be delivered, based on the criteria’s
• Responsible to ensure delivered features meets the customer business outcomes.
• Constantly re-prioritize the product backlog by discussing with the product owner for future releases
• Supporting the scrum master whenever needed and help identify the potential issues when they arise to ensure efficient working of the team
• Perform all the updates, discussion threads and meeting conversations in Rally, to keep the program leads informed of the status
• Mitigated issues and sheltered team from impediments and scope creep by managing stakeholders
• Performed GAP analysis to identify the gap between the optimized allocation and integration of the inputs, and the current level of allocation.
• Responsible for coordinating production support, track and schedule change requests.

Confidential, Hoboken, NJ

Project Lead/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Collected, consolidated, analyzed, and monitored the project scope, cost, and schedule control information to ensure overall project status was assessed and to identify potential problems for corrective/preventive actions
• Serve as the single point of contact team to liaison with GC Marketplace Broker team and external customers via email with respect to external Market customers
• Manage the BAU delivery of a subset of client’s 24x7x365 application support and maintenance functions by the effective performance of 20 resources at onsite and offshore
• As a Scrum Master, I was involved in facilitating the ceremonies such as Sprint Planning Meeting, DailyScrum Meeting, Sprint Review Meeting, and Sprint Retrospective Meeting.
• Maintained and prioritized the product backlog based on priorities of the business.
• Responsible for eliciting the functional requirements from the Subject Matter experts and transform them in to a specification requirements document and obtain customer approval prior to implementation
• Responsible for ensuring that the agreed management controls and administrative procedures are adopted across the teams at onsite and offshore to maintain consistent and repeatable delivery and to support the day-to-day service
• Assisted the project manager with activities like effort estimation, resource management, issue/risk analysis, milestone tracking and associated documentation.
• Strong Knowledge of SDLC and project life cycle and extensive working experience in managing requirements through Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Identified key business functions and stakeholders to participate in procurement activated and invited themto scrum calls and sprint planning sessions.
• Regularly coordinate with the Business users, vendors, other support teams and track status of requirements during every life cycle
• Regularly keep the key stakeholders informed of problems, issues, and status of on-going project activities, as per the communication plan
• Assisted in prototype development and screen mock-ups using MS Visio to facilitate interactive discussions with stakeholders and developers.

Confidential

Project controller/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managing Canada Business Unit with projects related to applications development worth approximately US$ 100 Million
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and elicit the business requirements in developing the project charter and Business case
• Preparing various Project Documents like the Functional Specification Document, Business Requirement Specification documents, Business Process Flow Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Interface and Reports
• Interact with Organization Change Management specialist to Prepare As-Is and To-Be process appraising the changes in the requirements in between the project life cycle
• Create project plans as per requirements, direct a team of 6 resources and coordinate the team’s activities to manage and implement projects throughout every phase of project/Software Life Cycle
• Conducting Regular interaction with Project Managers during the project planning discussions to plan and schedule the project tasks to arrive at schedule and cost
• Responsible for conducting a detailed risk analysis to list out the project risks, probability of such occurrences, possible impact and mitigate as necessary, as per plan by conducting regular meetings
• Analyze financial data collected from program status information, compare results with baseline and communicate performance parameters to the stakeholders, management for review
• Regularly keep the key stakeholders informed of problems, issues, and status of on-going project activities, as per the communication plan
• Responsible to ensure project deliverables have met business requirements
• Drive the change control process and managing unexpected changes in requirements and scope creep to the project without unduly affecting the stated objectives and benefits

Confidential

Project Controller

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reviewing the actual processes within the organization and suggest a more efficient model and work flow process
• Gather functional requirements from the Subject Matter experts and transform them in to a specification requirements document and obtain customer approval prior to implementation
• Create project plans as per requirements, direct a team of 6 resources and coordinate the team’s activities to manage and implement projects throughout every phase of project/Software Life Cycle
• Responsible for proactively manage foreseen project risk and mitigate as necessary, as per plan by conducting regular meetings
• Track the critical path and determine the cause of deviations from the plan if any, take corrective actions to address deviations and regularly keep the stakeholders informed of problems, issues, and status of on-going project activities as per communication plan
• Analyze financial data collected from program status information, compare results with baseline and communicating performance parameters to the stakeholders, management for review
• Identify potential gaps that may compromise the success of the project and facilitate remediation activities

Confidential

Project Controls Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of 4 resources as team lead, thus directing team to implement product as per client needs
• Responsible for planning, execution, monitoring and controlling onsite/offshore technical deliverables of multiple simultaneous projects under Honeywell‘s high visible Cabin Management Systems and Integrate Supply Chain Programs
• As analyst, responsible for ensuring effective IT governance procedures are used
• Tracking project flow/schedule for tasks and milestones as per scope
• As part of the supply chain team, responsible for liaising with vendors and suppliers regarding delivery timelines of products
• Calculate the program earned value metrics and analyze the schedule variances and cost variances to find out the root cause and make recommendations for corrective actions
• Work with Finance team to setup project cost structure and cost management system and track the project spending
• Updating the schedule weekly with the percentage of work complete and thus providing the performance and project status report to the stakeholders
• Drive the Change control process (Baseline Change Management) to manage the project scope
• Set up communication Interface with stakeholders and customer regularly to apprise the program status and ensure all program artifacts are maintained and updated periodically
• Identify the program risks and track the status of them by conducting Risk Management meetings