SUMMARY:

• Results - driven, customer-centric, decisive, Agile IT project manager with over 16 years of progressive leadership experience in IT industry delivering quality software projects.
• Exceptional technical knowledge, tactical and strategic planning and leadership skills combined with strong business focus specializing in agile program, project management.
• Proven ability to think strategically, and execute tactically to achieve complex business goals.
• A hands-on leader with track record of building and maintaining high-performing teams.
• A PMP professional and Certified Scrum Master, who is passionate about Agile and have successfully implemented and embraced it with enterprise level clients.
• As a Scrum Master / Agile Practioner / Agile Coach / Agile Project Manager, delivered software projects successfully by working closely with the team, customer and executive leadership. Takes pride in embedding the customer as part of the project team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Java, WebLogic App Server, .NET Framework 3.5-1.0, Visual Basic 6.0
• Expert in Agile process methodology, HL7 messaging and Oracle SOA
• An expert in UML Modeling techniques, Rational Rose and Microsoft Project
• Highly skilled user of MS Project, Rally, RTC, Visio, Merant Tracker, Team Track, Quality Center, Telelogic DOORs, Rational Requsite Pro
• Programming experience in JAVA, ASP, Visual Basic, SQL, Java Script, HTML
• Working knowledge with Oracle 10g, SQL Server, Sybase and Microsoft Access databases
• Work environment in CMM Level 4

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Agile Coach / Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Mentored and coached scrum masters towards improving team processes
• Delivered an overview of “why agile” and “how agile works” to leadership and development team
• Socialize agile through out the organization
• Observing and providing suggestions of improvement to the scrum team
• Support cross team coordination and manage dependencies
• Work with team to imbibe agile and identifying roles and responsibilities
• Ensures that the Agile / Scrum methodology is being implemented and used as intended within software development cycles;
• Work with Product Owner and the team to create program backlog; prioritize and assign complexity points to the user stories; Release planning
• Used Kanban to track the team’s task and progress
• Provide Sprint and Release metrics to leadership, team and clients
• Kept leadership apprised of Sprint and Release progress, and identified risks and issues;
• Reported risks, team progress by burn-up, burn-down charts, dashboards, velocity reporting and sprint and release progress using VersionOne and Application lifecycle management (ALM);
• Organize, facilitate & lead showcase, retrospective, sprint and release planning sessions;
• Coaching and mentoring teams in effective adoption and use of agile principles and practices.
• Escalated and managed impediments for immediate resolution and provided gap analysis.
• Based on sprint and release goals developed a road map and trained clients, scrum team of agile processes and principles
• Worked closely with customer to identify the user stories and scenarios for the sprint demos. Co-ordinated with 6 scrum teams to demo at the sprint review.
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrum calls

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Agile Coach / Project Manager

• Implemented Scaled Agile Framework principles in forming release trains and grooming the program backlog
• Provide Agile coaching and facilitation to client s project team members on Agile requirement best practices
• Backlog Generation Facilitation of Client subject matter experts ( SMEs ) to gather detailed requirements and organize them into Agile epics and user stories
• Set and enforce Agile practices and provide Agile training
• Align executive management to the goals of the Agile principles
• Contribute to the vision and roadmap for the transformation and establish appropriate measures of success
• Conduct any new and on going training
• Ensure adherence to Agile principles both with the scrum teams and when engaging non-Agile groups
• Collaborated and managed 3 Scrum agile teams constituting of developers, Continuous integration engineers, testers, infrastructure support personnel
• Overseen the software development in Sprints by facilitating daily stand-ups and escalating and removing impediments;
• Reported team progress by burn-up, burn-down charts, dashboards, velocity reporting and sprint and release progress using JIRA and Rational;
• Worked with CIS leadership to identify I-90 form business need, services and implementation strategy, priorities and risks
• Used Kanban to track teams tasks and limit the work in progress
• Monitored project progress by reviewing team’s status and reported weekly status to Agilex leadership
• Conducted retrospective to identify success and areas of improvement
• Delivered project management plan, project proposals, cost estimates, schedule, budget, LOEs, system design specs, SRS, use cases, RTM
• Ensures that the Agile / Scrum methodology is being implemented and used as intended within software development cycles;
• Work with Product Owner and the team to create backlog; prioritize and assign complexity points to the user stories based on its business value and ROI;
• Worked with Product Owner with release planning and setting up PSIs;
• Organize, facilitate & lead showcase, retrospective, sprint and release planning sessions;
• Coaching and mentoring teams and clients in effective adoption and use of agile principles and practices.

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Agile Project Manager

• As Agile project manager, stood agile teams to deliver TMIP-J Integrator capabilities as EF, Master CMS, B2 R1 Installation Wrapper, TC2 Integration, TMIP Utilities and BO Reporting.
• Managed SCRUM Team constituting of developers, testers and Confidential engineers
• Facilitated sprint planning and release planning to identify stories and epics for the upcoming sprint. Maintained the backlog and facilitated daily stand up and removed impediments. Maintained schedule and tracked risks
• Provided mitigation solutions to the risks by working with the development team
• Facilitated requirements review, JAD sessions, preliminary design reviews and critical design reviews
• Worked with analysis, development, test, CM and documentation POCs during the entire life cycle of the project.
• Mentored the test team by providing test strategies, test scenarios and monitoring the quality of testing
• Providing highest level of customer service to TMIP-J PMO as well as TMIP-J components by identifying their needs and resolving issues by providing solution to their satisfaction
• Ensuring backlog items are delivered on time

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Technical Team Lead

• Lead the analysis, development and delivery of DSO Prosthesis Website which allows collaborative teams to post papers for peer review and comments prior to release.
• Delivered SRS and system design documents in line with CMM Level 2.
• Tracked the change requests and problem reports during the development and maintenance phase.
• Assisted test group with test plan strategies and implementation.
• Analyzed post production data to ensure goal attainment and propose enhancements
• Designed and developed a web based tool used for budget process. The tool enables different users to access and edit documents depending on their access level.
• Developed word-like features for editing the document and generated reports online.
• Comptrollers could review and sign off the documents when they were completed by other users. The documents were locked when they were being reviewed by other users.
• Gathered requirements for the development of a RDDS tool which handles the 3 cycle budgeting process at DARPA. It also helps in tracking changes and formats the document according to DARPA standards. The application distributes the budget controls to the different projects. The application also populates the data into an MS Access database.
• Developed the GUI using JAVA. The applet has the ability to view all cycles, PE, Projects and Narratives in a Tree form. Reports and graphs can be generated depending on the user input. Comparison of Projects for different cycles can be done.
• Designed and developed a VB tool to combine all the word templates into a standard template used by the DARPA to present the budget to the Congress.
• Used PVCS as a configuration management tool.