SUMMARY

• Advanced Certified ScrumMaster(A - CSM), CSM, SAFe 4 Practitioner and PMP Certified experienced Project Manager and Scrum Master with 15+ years mainly in managing and leading project teams for both Agile and Waterfall Projects whilst Confidential all times managing triple constraints of scope, time and cost. A proven track record of successful project implementation for FIS, Confidential &T, Phigenics, Nokia and BT.
• 10+ Years of experience as Project Manager IT
• Over 08+ years’ experience as Scrum Master
• Managed multiple concurrent large projects (both T&M, Fixed Price) of higher complexities through the initiation, planning, execution, control and closing phases. Controls all Project activities for scheduling, estimating, forecasting, budgeting, monitoring, analyzing and reporting costs
• Develop and Driving execution of project and program deliverables activities related to end-to-end project management, including project plans and estimates, scoping and requirements through implementation and deployment. Worked on Identification and Prioritization of work items
• Understand project objectives and balance against constraints of cost, schedule, scope and quality throughout SDLC.
• Strong in problem solving and in analytical skills.
• Extensively worked with Tools including PRIMS, ATTCR, ITUP, CMPM, PeopleSoft, MS Team, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, JIRA, HP ALM/ QC, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook), Rally, Planview
• Developing and reviewing estimates, determine project approach, staffing, responsibilities, and schedule Review.
• Obtain appropriate approvals and sign-off from senior management
• Accountable for management of scope for the Project and gaining agreement and approvals
• Measure and monitor/track progress to ensure project is delivered on time, within budget with quality
• Prepare and publish various reports on project progress and update status reports for leadership
• Rich experience in tracking and overseeing that all Project members adhere to the Project Plan.
• Review and manage all changes to requirements through a formally defined scope change process
• Coordinate work between different teams Confidential different locations
• Accountable for the establishment and compliance to the Metrics Plan for the Project,
• Accountable for approval of all Phases/milestones and Project closeout activities
• Experienced as Scrum Master - Planning and Hosting Agile ceremonies which includes Sprint/Iteration Planning, Iteration Grooming, Release Planning, Retrospective Meetings, Scrum of Scrum
• Accountable for establishing and managing the framework for governance of Scrum, manage team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Development teams to refine, organize, and prioritize requirements
• Work closely with Scrum Teams and managers across organizational unit boundaries to drive productivity and deliver solutions
• Manage project Risks, Actions, Issues and Defects through tracking tools
• Proactive, have excellent communication skills, work well in a matrix organization, and adapt well to change in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in guiding teams from Waterfall to Agile transition.
• Team Player, work with team and facilitates to get things done instead of dictating the work.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Software: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, MS Team, SharePoint

Operating Systems: UNIX, LINUX, HP-UNIX, Solaris, Windows

Language / Technical Experience: JAVA, J2EE, Web applications, development, mobile Applications development, ASP.Net, C++, C#, .Net, HTML, CSS3, JavaScript, SharePoint

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PL/SQL

Web Servers: Tomcat, Apache & JBOSS

Backup Utilities: RMAN, EXPORT/IMPORT, tar, dump, GZIP

IDEs/Tools: Eclipse, MS Visio, Wireshark, Seagull 1.8.2 linux, GDB, X-Late, Selenium, Jenkins

Other Tools, IDE, Automation Tools: Selenium, Quality Centre/ QC, JUnit, LoadRunner, JIRA, Perfecto Mobile, Mobile Lab, EggPlant, Rally, QTP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St. Petersburg, FL

Project Manager Senior (Technology) and Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Executing End-to-end project management for both Waterfall and Agile Projects including project plans and estimates, scoping and requirements through implementation and deployment.
• Defining project work legacy system modernization, migration of platforms
• Developing WBS/ work break down structures that enable management of critical path activities on project schedules
• Documenting and review risk management plans during team meetings.
• Managing program and project-level risks and communicates with internal and external stakeholders
• Documenting and coordinates changes to scope, cost, schedule, or quality across the entire program/project
• Developing plans for analysis, design, construction, testing, implementation, QA, and systems acceptance
• Identifying project risks and ways to mitigate these risks
• Estimating project resource needs and costs
• Developing detailed Project plans and planning activities
• Defining team roles and responsibilities
• Working as Scrum Masters for 03 Projects in in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment
• Work with Scrum Masters (SoS/Scrum of Scrum) for multiple agile scrum teams
• Preparing and Publishing different Agile Metrics for projects - Burn up, CFD/ Cumulative Flow Diagrams and Burn down charts
• Communicating with and facilitating decision-making among stakeholders
• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices, guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments
• Collaborating with Stakeholders to conduct RFPs for systems design, development and implementation
• Managing project budgets and schedules
• Managing/leading multi-disciplined project teams and resources
• Guiding and providing mentoring project team members
• Managing external consultants and contractors
• Assigning and monitoring task completion
• Conflict resolution
• Project status reporting and executive sponsor briefing
• Extensively working with Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, HP ALM/ QC, Microsoft Office Suite, Project and SharePoint, MS Team, AGILE, JIRA, Planview, SQL Server, UNIX, Java, SOAP, XML, Webservices,

Confidential, Chicago, IL and Austin, TX

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• End to End Project Management includes planning, understand business requirements, feasibility analysis of new enhancements/ project, Drafting, discussions and approvals on SoW/Change Requests/ CR, Scheduling, Project issues, risks, deliverables, track milestones, timelines and resources.
• Managed Multiple Projects from Requirement, Development, System Test, Interface Flow Testing, End to End Testing and Defects.
• Developed, implemented, and maintained Project Management Plans, including the configuration management, risk management, issue management, change management and communication plans
• Planned and Hosted Daily Team Meetings, Publishing Weekly Status Report and Project’s Health Status to all the stakeholders
• Used Decision making skills with ability to quickly adapt to changes in team and be able to plan accordingly.
• Utilized Leadership skills to be able to push back late scope changes.
• Understand and use various reports to track project progress and update status reports for leadership
• Anticipated, mitigated and removed impediments based on expereince.
• Lead team issue management and resolution.
• Measured and communicated progress to committed plans for scope, schedule and budget, monitoring earned value, and proactively escalating impediments to meeting team commitments.
• Worked with the team to establish definition of done for each committed deliverable including specific criteria and approvers.
• Planned and facilitated daily stand up, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings.
• Helped the product owner regularly groom and improve the product backlog including regular review and improvement of high priority user stories.
• Facilitated continuous improvement of the team to improve the team’s efficiency, quality, and velocity.
• Acted as an escalation point to drive collaboration with program and project team members to resolve conflicts, team issues, and deviations and drives them to resolution.
• Worked with other project managers and scrum masters to drive consistent processes, deliverables, and communication across teams.
• Involved in interaction with clients for understanding business requirements, vision.
• Dealt with conflicts
• Extensively worked with PRIMS, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, HP ALM/ QC, Microsoft Office Suite, Project and SharePoint, AGILE, Rally, UNIX, Java, SOAP, XML, Webservices, JIRA, Unix shell script, SQL Server, Selenium

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Project Manager, Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• End to End Project Management with team of Onsite and Offshore (Offshore - India and China) - includes planning, understand business requirements, feasibility analysis of new enhancements/ project, Drafting, discussions and approvals on SoW/Statement of Work/ Individual Agreement/ Change Reuest/ CR, scheduling of projects’s resources, design review, and user testing, all project issues, risks, deliverables, track milestones, timelines and resources, track invoices
• Stakeholder Management, Cost Management.
• Interactions with project stakeholders, resolving any conflicts and following for their approvals.
• Developed requirements specifications.
• Back end database maintained in Oracle and SQL.
• Also working as Scrum Master - Host daily Scrum Calls, Iteration’s Demo, Retrospective meetings, weekly meetings with Client, Track User Stories through Rally and Projects through PRISM and ITUP Processes, Worked with product owners to groom the backlog and plan iterations, ensure that Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered
• Tools used: JIRA, Redine, Assembla, MS Project
• Managed Project Budget, Margins and completion within timelines. Ensure timely invoice submission to Client and resource allocation into project to avoid Revenue Leakages
• Planning and Hosting Daily Team Meetings, Publishing Weekly Status Report and Project’s Health Status to all the stakeholders.
• Managed and Contributed in writing and Executing of UNIX Shell Scripts (Install, Start, Uninstall Scripts) of key modules and performance and Functional testing, User Interface testing and Regression testing.
• Coordinated with different teams and streamline processes to prioritize work for the team and remove any impediments by collaborating with required personnel.
• Used Administrator level skills in any of the Agile Tools (Rally, JIRA) to set up projects, Sprints and dashboards for team.
• Strong experience in business analysis and business process reengineering.
• Majorly tools and Environment: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, JIRA, Microsoft Office Suite, AGILE, Assembla, Redmine, SQL Server, TestLog.

Confidential

Lead Project Manager (LPM), Project Manager and Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As Scrum Master - Host daily Scrum Calls, Iteration’s Demo, Retrospective meetings, weekly meetings with Client, Track User Stories through Rally and Projects through PRISM and ITUP Processes, Worked with product owners to groom the backlog and plan iterations, ensure that Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered
• Plan and hosted Go LIVE Meetings.
• Plan and host weekly Scrum of Scrum meetings
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into iteration planning sessions.
• Track burn down, issues and progress through Rally
• Developed requirements specifications
• Create, Facilitate, manage, and oversee the development of the detailed Project Plan, including a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and schedule
• Managed Projects using PRISM, ITUP, Rally, JIRA.
• End to end project management experience.
• Develop, implement, and maintain Project Management Plan, including the configuration management, risk management, issue management, change management and communication plans
• Overseeing all the end-to-end activities related to the project deliverables.
• Strong experience in business analysis and business process reengineering.
• Good experience in dealing with conflict management and negotiation skills.
• Accountability for Program Budget, Margins, Milestones and completion within timelines.
• Invoice submission to Clients and resource allocation into project to avoid Revenue Leakages.
• Manage, coordinate different Projects, hold progress and review meetings
• Preparing and delivering presentations regarding program status to key stakeholders.
• Managed and Contributed in writing and Executing of UNIX Shell Scripts (Install, Start, Uninstall Scripts) of key modules and performance and Functional testing, User Interface testing and Regression testing
• Weekly Status meetings with stakeholders, Prepare and Submitting Project Health Status Report, Worked with Multiple 3rd parties/ Vendor/ operators for deployments and troubleshoots on LIVE networks.
• Continuously monitored projects for risks and issues, taking steps to mitigate.
• Created communications process to ensure stakeholders are aware of status, risks, and opportunities. Formulated mitigation strategies and recommending solution
• Daily Team Meeting and weekly Meetings with Senior Management
• Manage Quality deliverables to Confidential &T
• Interacting with Finance for sharing Milestone approval and trackign invoice with Client.
• Extensively worked with PRIMS, PeopleSoft, Microsoft Project, ITIL, Microsoft Visio, HP ALM/ QC, Microsoft Office Suite, Project and SharePoint, MS Team, AGILE, PeopleSoft, Rally Tools for Management, SQL Server, UNIX, Java, SOAP, XML, Webservices, JIRA, Unix shell script, SQL Server, Selenium

Confidential

Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Worked on both Waterfall and Agile Environment
• Role: Worked as Team Leader for Requirement Gatehering, HLD and LLD, Coding and Functional Testing for Protocol stack development for UMTS Mobile Handset (RRC, Layer-3)
• Development of RRC anc RLC protocol for UMTS MS based on 3GPP standards.
• Strong experience as a technical team lead with hands-on experience as a developer
• Protocol stack development for UMTS Mobile Handset (MAC, Layer-2)
• Preparation of High Level Design of RLC layer (TM, UM and AM modes) and RRC
• Worked on Use Case Documentation

Environment: C++, STL, Design Pattern, Unix shell script, Redhat Linux and Window XP