OBJECTIVE

• Seeking a Scrum Master position in an environment which offers a greater challenge and where I can use my expertise, experience, and education for the continued growth and benefit of the company.

SUMMARY

• A diverse Delivery Management Professional, result oriented, quality focused with strong communication, attention - to-detail and financial skills.
• Proven leadership and project delivery management experience in deployment of Information Technology solutions in a fast-paced environment.
• Possess an extensive work experience of 10+ years in implementing multi-million dollar business transformation initiatives.
• 10+ yrs. of IT experience, driven integrated teams to deliver technology solutions to support key product initiatives by working closely with directors, product owners, architects, engineers, and quality assurance with projects above $500,000
• Successfully managed and delivered the project and programs of IT service Organization for fortune customers across multiple geographic locations
• Responsible for project scoping, project estimation & delivery, client relationship management, project management, IT consulting and business requirement analysis
• Collaborate with business, operations and product development for a successful implementation of the product
• Broad technical and functional expertise to oversee, organize and manage project, quality control, process improvements, business analysis and implementations of different products
• Map, measure and improve the underlying business processes to ensure effectiveness and efficiency within the structure of the process, continuing to evolve the framework as the business changes
• Research best practices to establish benchmark data, and use continuous process improvement disciplines to achieve results.
• Good knowledge of Agile, waterfall software development life cycle including requirement analysis, project planning, project design, project execution, issue tracking and reporting for onsite - offshore delivery model

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: CA Clarity,CA Rally for Agile Development, MS Project, Visio, MS Office, Share Point, Powerpoint, Microsoft Project Plan

Languages: .NET, C, C#, SOAP, HTML and DHTML, ODBC, UML, JavaScript, Eclipse, COBOL, IMS, CICS, JCL, Mainframe Tech

Application Development Suites/Tools: Lotus notes, FTP,Tumbleweed,SFTP, SQL, PL/SQL, File Net, SQL Explorer

Business Portal / WebTech: XML, XSLT, WSDL, XML Schema,SOAPUI

Environment: Windows 2003, Windows 7,Mainframe

Databases: Oracle 11g, DB2, SQL Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Planning and presenting the kick off meeting with the Technology and Business teams and senior management team
• Presenting the execution approach to the Business and Technology Directors and getting their sign off
• Establishing the roles and responsibilities for the resources
• Scoping, scheduling and budgeting for the project, establishing processes for sign offs, communication strategies, escalation processes and improving them during the course of the project
• Onboarding the resources and enabling them to produce effective results, resolving challenges early on
• Worked closely with the Scrum teams and Technology leadership to align on the deliverables, conducting walkthroughs of the deliverables with the business teams
• Presenting Status Dashboards with the Technology and Business leadership to reflect the project progress
• Perform risk analysis and document assumptions
• Worked at the portfolio level activities while aligning the priorities and analyzing the scope and schedule impacts for the different projects

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the initiative kick off by bringing together all the impacted teams and finalizing the charter
• Work with members of senior management team- Directors, PMs to set the overall strategy and objectives for a group of projects
• Conducted presentations for directors and technical architect to align on the scope and approach
• Worked with stakeholders to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule and scope for different releases
• Created and baselined the Project plan and follow up closely on it to ensure the scope, schedule and budget are under control by assessing the Cost and Schedule Variance
• Presented periodic dashboard reports on the current project updates and opportunities to Directors.
• Actively initiated continuous improvements initiatives in terms of issues resolution, status reporting, process improvements etc.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Driving enterprise wide strategy(from Waterfall to Scrum development) to upgrade portals and code based in .Net, Java, SOA and Mainframe Technologies to support the new products
• Laying the foundation for the project execution while envisioning and defining different releases
• Creating and aligned business/strategic objectives with the Themes, Initiative and Features, mapped to actual work objects in Rally
• Conducted backlog grooming sessions and planned sprints for continuous delivery while prioritizing the backlog
• Defining and creating the project structure in Rally(Portfolio Management), rally tracking and administering access management for scrum teams
• Conducting sprint ceremonies (planning, daily standup, retro and review etc.), tracked, escalated and remove impediments track Burn Down charts, estimate velocity, analyze issues and accepted points for the sprint
• Rally reporting for leadership with status updates for sprints and releases
• Analyze the proposed design, identify edge cases and suggest possible solutions
• Established Program Governance, Steering Committees, Initiated bi-weekly steering committee reviews, change control boards

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for coordinating two Agile Scrum teams and one Kanban team
• Successfully guided three development teams through transition from Waterfall to Agile development
• Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts
• Removed impediments and protected team members from distractions to maximize productivity
• Worked closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and user story estimation
• Responsible for conducting various sprint ceremonies(Show and Tell- Review, daily stand up, Retrospectives, Sprint planning)

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Conducted release planning and envisioning sessions.
• Conducted Daily Standup, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Created the project structures in Rally and administered the workspaces by providing adequate access rights to users
• Mentored and guided the scrum teams to shift from Waterfall to Agile smoothly
• Determined the team capacity (velocity) from completed sprints data. Created Work Break down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks) with assigned estimates for each task
• Monitored the project progress and reflected the information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis
• Worked with Senior Management, Business & Release Management to understand the vision of the product, prioritize and develop software release planning
• Monitored the Quality through quality metrics and mentored team through the project management processes

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the scope, HLBN, E2E business flow and objectives while closely working with the business architects
• Facilitated the kick off meetings and define the charter and high level business goals
• Created and worked on the impact requests to identify the different teams impacted for the initiative.
• Facilitated meetings with different stake holders, technical architects. QA teams to align the expectations and deliverables
• Worked with stakeholders to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major releases
• Created high level project plans by aligning with different stakeholders and tracking the activities on the plan
• Identify risks and issues, planning and executing the mitigation approach, if required, follow-ups for risk closure
• Worked on the implementation plans and oversaw the successful implementation at Confidential
• Driven and managed integrated teams( approx. 5 teams) to deliver technology solutions to support key product initiatives by working closely with technical architects, engineers, and quality assurance

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

BUSINESS SYSTEM ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Drove integrated teams to deliver technology solutions to support key product initiatives by working closely with product owners, architects, engineers, and quality assurance
• Works within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major releases
• Led planning and implementations for improvements for development and service management
• Anticipated issues and risks implementing preventative measures to avoid them, actively managed open risks & issues to resolution
• Tracked and monitored the project progress closely and published reports to leadership
• Worked on implementation plans and oversaw the deployment of the solutions

Confidential

BUSINESS SYSTEMS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Schedule business analyze sessions with business and technology teams.
• Participate in the business analyze sessions capturing action items and updates to the requirements (functional and non-functional requirements) and use cases, if any.
• Consolidate Method of Changes (MOCs) from the technology teams and conducting walkthrough with technology and business teams.
• Initiating the workflows using share point and ensure that the signoff process is complete for all phases and for all deliverables.
• Ensure all application teams are following all SDLC processes and all project documentation is stored in SharePoint.
• Coordinate with impacted teams to get their completed deliverables for each phase.

Confidential

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Developed business components using C# and SQL Server
• Working on code bases for upgrading the system to support multiple products
• Worked on the language controls in .Net so that website is translated appropriately based on the region
• Worked closely with the Technical Architect to define the design and the upgrade approach for the .NET 3.0 based application

Confidential

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Created and worked on the custom controls using C#
• Developed business components using C# and SQL Server
• Implemented Single Sign on the application for ease of Access to the customers
• Working on code bases for designing the frontends ASP pages using CSS, JavaScript and connecting them to the databases by creating ODBC connections
• Creating and defining control events using C#.
• Participated in the unit testing of the application
• Resolved the defects found in the SIT And UAT and updated the AP ALM for the same