Summary

• A Technocrat with total of 12 years of professional IT services and product development experience.
• 5 years of Project Management Experience.
• 1 year of Program Management Experience and Scaled Agile Framework SAFe .
• 4 years of Agile experience leading and coaching various teams.

Work Experience:

Confidential

Project manager

Key Responsibilities:

• I perform regular duties of Scrum Master like facilitating Sprint Planning meeting, Daily standups, Sprint reviews and Retrospectives.
• I helped 3 sprint teams transform from waterfall to AGILE.
• I manage Agile Programs for Medical Imaging team using Scaled Agile Framework SAFe
• I actively facilitate Product Strategy and Product road map meetings.
• I'm mostly busy with cross portfolio communication with various Product board group meetings with key stakeholders.
• I help team members to enhance their product knowledge by facilitating the training sessions with the Product owners.
• I prepare and present Release Burn-downs and Velocity projections.
• I facilitate and actively participate in the Scrum-of-Scrums
• I lead Scrum Community and internal online Scrum forums for knowledge sharing
• I coach new product teams on agile team dynamics.

Environment: Java, PL/SQL J2ME, Rally, Jenkins, Pair programming and Scrum

Confidential

Project manager

Key Responsibilities:

• End-to-End project management from kick off to closure.
• End-to-End technical involvement in every release and mentoring the team members
• Cross communication with internal and external Stakeholders.
• Performing effort estimations and forecasts.
• Assisting in process improvement at the program level.
• Identifying and performing Change management and updating the change register.
• Cost financials management EAC ETC and timesheet management.
• Tracking mile stones and updating project plan and other artifacts.
• Coordinating with Test manager on the bug status and planning for a release
• Quality Control, Configuration management and defect tracking.
• Maintaining Issue tracker and resolving dependencies
• Knowledge management and induction training for new joiners.
• Managing complex integration issues.
• Agile Training to different product groups

Environment: Java, Eclipse IDE, Kony development Studio IDE, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, J2ME, Digite, Microsoft Office Suite 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010

Confidential

Key Achievements:

• Chrysler Transport Management system CTMS launch assessed as the great success story of 2010, which has a cost saving of at least 2M per year to Chrysler Transport Inc.
• Great recognition for bringing trouble ticket count for all time low, since last 20 years.
• Initiated Small Group Activities SGA for identifying transformation opportunities.
• Successfully played an active role in identifying and developing reusable components.
• Strict compliance to Quality gate reviews and internal audits of Chrysler.

Responsibilities:

• Project domain area on Chrysler group's central supply chain management and Logistics applications for production support of assembly plant.
• Manage knowledge transition phase through shadow, reverse shadow and playback activities.
• Managing multiple SLA's and multiple projects, dealing with unplanned and planned work, interacting with business line for scope, change control, approvals, negotiations
• Developing and controlling integrated project plan and individual project plans, Integrated Schedules, dashboard
• Managing Team, Risks, Issues, conflicts, allocates resources, sets priorities, coordinates interactions with Business Partners and PMO
• Establishing best of practices that ensure the integrity and quality of project metrics
• Prepare and maintain backup plans for Business Continuity testing, Disaster Recovery Testing.
• Managing budgets of over 3M, reporting the projects health and metrics to senior management.
• Designed and Implemented Configuration management plan for parallel development of unplanned and planned at portfolio level

Environment: .NET Framework 3.5, Windows mobile, CN50 hand held device, Web services, SSRS, SSIS, Report builder, mainframe interfaces, SOA, VMWare, SLA, Microsoft Project 2010, Oblicore, Microsoft Office Suite 2010, Serena Dimensions, VSS, SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

Confidential

Key Achievements:

• Managed budget of US over 1.5M and implemented best practices.
• Managed a new initiative called Defect Management and reduced the pending defects to 0 as per the scope of initiative.
• Facilitated process and the execution of Scrum and also acted as Scrum master to monitor day to day activities.

Responsibilities:

• On time deliveries with high customer satisfaction.
• Managed the 3-Tier architectural Web projects on with Falcon as hand held device.
• Successfully delivered the deliverables as per the schedule of enterprise release milestone calendar.
• Maintained continuous alignment of program scope with strategic business objectives. Communicated to leadership on program strategy, direction and changes.
• Provided leadership and direction to team members to manage the risks, issues, planning.
• Generated metrics in Microsoft project 2007 and prepared dashboard for senior management reporting.
• Managed offshore deliverables as per statement of work. SOW
• Planning and organizing of Sprint retrospective, updating daily sprint backlog, burn down chart, product backlog refinement, sprint planning etc.
• Responsible for resource loading, project schedule prioritization, strategy planning towards execution.
• Part of multisite scrum team between offshore and onsite and coordinating with multiple product owners across multiple groups.
• Included prioritized projects in program plan after ensuring with business segment leader and portfolio manager.
• Resource planning, project schedule prioritization, strategy planning liaison with EPMO.
• Prepared and reviewed the project financials, resources, scope, assumptions, dependencies, issues, risks, potential change controls, defects and milestones with stakeholders and presented to steering committee
• Data management plan, risk management plan, assessed risks at program and project levels
• Reviewed the Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM to ensure all requirements have documented the same.
• Managed and conducted project level Gate reviews.
• Responsible for managing integrated project plan, manage and track plan, execute burn rate analysis report to support senior management analytical decision.
• Managed UAT along with Test manager, Business Unit. Implemented best practices for the projects.

Environment: C .NET on Windows Mobile 5.0, SQL Server CE, VSS, Falcon SDK, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, Microsoft project, Visio, MS Outlook, Microsoft office.

Confidential

Key Achievements:

• Gained competency in Xerox multi-function devices, business processes, document management systems, Scrum framework through training on job learning.

Responsibilities:

• Documented service proposals RFI / RFP s, specifications, statement of work SOW, and communication with stakeholders.
• Understanding business requirements and mapping to technical requirements.
• Making knowledge transition plan and providing transition status report to senior management.
• Part of Xerox development team in understanding and developing the code and responding to end user questions and customizations as required during the tenure at onsite.
• Responsible for Scrum iterative development, planning sprint's and sprint touch sessions daily at offshore.
• Coordination and daily meetings with the product owner on product backlog and updating the scrum artifacts.
• Quality Assurance plan, review of Use Cases, Test strategy, Test Plans, unit testing, pair wise testing and integration testing.
• Planning and organizing of Sprint retrospective, updating daily sprint backlog, burn down chart etc.
• Responsible for resource loading, project schedule prioritization, strategy planning towards execution.
• Part of multisite scrum team between offshore and onsite and coordinating with multiple product owners across multiple groups.
• Exploring typical problems and solutions through effective development tools, software code review and build and test environment.
• Prepared Risk management plan, qualitatively and quantitatively assessed the risk at the project level.
• Ensured effective coordination and collaboration of project management and quality practices. Responsible for client relationship management at the requirements specifications level.
• Took part in process improvement meetings.
• Technical documentation.
• Discussion with customer manager and documenting the SLA's for fixing the trouble tickets of end user problems.
• Team member of offshore PMO, to monitor the trend analysis of cost variance, time variance and sending alerts as required to the senior management.
• Played a major role in setting up the printing Center of Excellence COE for developing domain capabilities to capture future business opportunities.

Environment: Microsoft: Microsoft .NET, SQL Server, C/C, Linux, CVS, Clearcase, IIS5.0, Xerox multi-function devices, Microsoft excel and Microsoft project