SUMMARY:

• Innovative, result - driven, self-motivated and energetic Agile professional having 21 years of experience in Information Technology leading high profile projects.
• Delivered products on time with quality while at clients in a variety of business sectors including wireless, pharmaceutical, healthcare, e-commerce, insurance and financial services (Banking, Investments and Brokerage) bringing subject matter and Implementation experience across all the phases of (SDLC) technology project life cycle.
• Has extensive Agile Process & Engineering experience along with J2EE server side, application development, and Integration experience.
• Leadership and management experience coupled with strong technical back ground, along with excellent Analytical, Presentation, and Communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Scrum, Scrum @ Scale, LeSS, SAFe, Nexus, Lean Kanban, XP, TDD, ATDD, RAD, BDD & Waterfall.

Languages: Java JDK 1.5, C++, C, SQL Perl

Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, Windows

Databases: Oracle,DB2 8.x, MS SQL Server 3.x e-Commerce / Verticals Expertise: Wireless,Pharmaceutical, Health Care, Financial, Banking.

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, VXML, WML, XSLT, Servlets, JSP, JavaScript, Applets and CGI with Perl.

Application Platforms: IBM Web Sphere 5.x, Jboss 4.x, WebLogic 8.1, Tomcat 5.x, JRun 3.0, JWS 2.0,Sonic MQ Server, Oracle Service Bus and IIS.

Tools: JIRA, Rally, Version One, Scrum Works,TFS, TOAD, DB Visualizer, ClearCase, SVN,CVS, VSS, PVCS, Anthill, Jenkins & Cucumber, WSAD and Eclipse.

Frameworks: Spring, Hibernate, Web Flow, Struts, JSF, ICEFaces, MVC, Selenium IDE.

Middleware: WS,EJB,SOAP,RMI,JMS,CORBA.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr Enterprise Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Coaching and Training Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Agile Teams.
• Contribution to Confidential Agile Playbook
• Multiple Agile Program kickoffs (Inventory, FIOS, Capacity, Migrate Data, One Network & One Fiber)
• Facilitation of Large Scale Agile Planning
• Facilitation of various Agile CoP’s & Agile Leadership corner
• Conducted Agile Workshops & Boot camps
• Facilitation of Value Stream Analysis & Mapping Workshops
• Facilitation of Portfolio Planning Sessions

Confidential, Westlake, TX

Portfolio Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Facilitation of EI-Compute Strategy Capabilities Value Stream Analysis & Mapping
• Facilitation of EI-Compute Strategy Program Portfolio Planning Sessions
• Facilitation of Lean economic estimation & prioritization of PBI’s using WSJF & Nine Square tool
• SAFe Agile Architecture & Architectural Runway coaching @ Portfolio, Program and Team levels
• Agile Consultation on needed basis, to Product Directors/Technical Architects and Delivery Managers for adapting best agile practices.
• Conducted training for Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Agile Teams.

Confidential

Program Portfolio Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Facilitation of Foreclosure and Loss Mitigation Value Stream Analysis & Mapping Workshops
• Facilitation of Portfolio Planning Workshop / Sessions
• Facilitation of Agile Release Management using - SAFe ART PI
• Facilitation of Inspect & Adapt Workshop / Sessions
• Coaching & Mentoring - RTE’s, Managers and Leaders.
• Helping with the SAFe related Metrics collection
• Coaching/Training Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Systems & Agile Teams.
• Coached Leadership team at Agile Portfolio, Program and Project Level(s)

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr Enterprise Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Agile Workshops & Boot camps
• Conducted Value Stream Analysis & Mapping Workshop / Sessions
• Conducted Portfolio Planning Workshop / Sessions
• Distributed Agile Release Management
• Coached & Trained Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Agile Teams.
• Coached & Trained Leadership team at Agile Portfolio, Program and Project Level(s)
• Conducted workshops for Organic Agile Scaling and Agile Governance

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Agile Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Training Scrum Masters and Product Owners.
• Agile and Lean Foundation training to teams
• Agile Engineering training to teams
• Conducted Agile Workshops & Boot camps
• Mentoring new Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Agile teams in the practices and principles of Agile
• Developing Customized Agile Training material.
• SAFe training & Agile Release Train implementation at various client locations
• Facilitation of large cross functional scrum team and cross product release impacts.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Agile Process & Engineering Traininer

Responsibilities:

• Agile process customization
• Distributed Agile Program Management using SAFe.
• Mentoring cross functional teams in executing SCRUM principles.
• Facilitation of Daily stand up meetings, SoS, Sprint planning, Sprint Review/Demo and Retrospection sessions.
• Agile Consultation when needed, to other projects ensuring knowledge transfer and adoption of best practices.
• Help foster continuous improvement via retrospectives and process tailoring/improvement initiatives.
• Agile Process & Engineering training to teams
• Promote Agile Engineering practices

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Agile Portfolio & Program Management Coach

Responsibilities:

• Change agent from traditional project /program Management to Agile.
• Agile Dashboards and radiating updates to senior management, on multiple milestones like Release, Epic, Feature, and Story levels to assess health of product releases.
• Facilitated Agile Release Planning ceremonies for DocEx - MU2 and ensures adherence to SAFe
• Mentoring cross functional teams in executing SCRUM principles.
• Trained Scrum Masters & Program Mangers on facilitation of Daily stand up meetings, SoS, Sprint/Release planning, Sprint Review/Demo and Retrospection sessions across various programs.
• Guided onsite and off-shore scrum teams using distributed SCRUM model (Scrum of Scrums) Facilitation of Epic/Features Prioritization
• Help foster continuous improvement via Inspect & Adapt workshops and process tailoring/improvement initiatives - constant demonstration of a Kaizen mindset.

Confidential, Woodbridge, NJ

Sr Technical Delivery Manager / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Agile Project/Program & Release Management
• Distributed Agile Project Management using Scrum/Kanban approach
• Facilitated Traditional to Agile Transformations.
• Servant Leadership
• Worked with Business Analysts/PO and Product Managers (Product Management) finalizing the product backlog for upcoming releases.
• Facilitated both offshore and onsite teams.
• Cross functional team management to resolve daily issues.
• XP & Agile Engineering practices - TDD,Pair Programming,Continuous Integration
• Mentoring and coaching technical resources on Agile Engineering practices.
• Designing, Architecting and implementation of Java based web/ecommerce applications

Confidential

XP - Technical Leader

Responsibilities:

• Onsite offshore project delivery management
• Implementation of Iterative Software Development.
• Architecting multi tiers of J2EE platform including middle/web/business/database layers.
• Implementation of Middle & Web tier using MDB, Hibernate, Spring MVC/Web flow/Struts frameworks.
• Code refactoring, design and code review.
• Collaborated with Architecture, Development teams to manage change requests across the board.