SUMMARY:

• Verifiable 5 + years of experience as a successfully leading Projects while using Agile methodology
• Certified Scrum Master Certification completed from Scrum Alliance.
• Experience of working on Business, Technical and Functional Requirements.
• Expert facilitator of all Scrum ceremonies including Sprint and Release Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Daily Scrums.
• Experience with Agile tools including Rally, VisionOne, KanBan, GitHib - Waffle, TFS-Team Foundation Server and JIRA.
• Knowledge in PlanView, Clarity and Clarizen
• 5+ years onsite Confidential Experience
• Strong background and experience with application development, data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytics projects
• Insightful experience in the area of Travel, Payments, Telecommunication, Trading and Healthcare
• Experience in leading program / project budgets of $2M +
• Excellent in doing Business System Analysis and also helped business for forming the business rules
• PMI from Confidential .
• Knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Managing multiple scrum teams and aligning them to meet organizational business and technical goals.
• Experience in coaching other scrum masters.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Enterprise Project Management directing Cross-Functional teams
• Big Data Project implementation, HANA SAP Project implementation, Data Quality and Data Warehousing
• Team Leadership
• Software Implementation Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager/Scrum Master

• Ensure project activities are planned, staffed and executed according to D&BI project methodologies.
• They will have hands on delivery-focused responsibilities guiding D&BI deployment analysts, designers (both for Data and BI), and developers in the execution and completion of project activities to meet key milestones, quality and budget targets.
• Lead partnering and collaboration activities across D&BI pillars and ensure D&BI Leadership and key stakeholders are kept informed of project activities and status.
• Create baseline cost and schedule
• Ensure release plan aligns with business case defined by Product Owner and Business
• Track benefits realization
• Partner with business to understand impact of scope change on cost and schedule estimates
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrum, demo and sprint retrospectives
• Manage risks and issues
• Coach team on agile methodology
• Coordination with Project Management organizations/teams - both SAP and Global IT - to ensure alignment across project deliverables.
• On time, on budget for ALL D&BI deliverables
• Ensure all allocated resources have time & tasks allocated in PWA assigned to them, in partnership with the project PM.

Project Manager/Scrum Master

• Enable teams to manage the health of their Sprints
• Iteration Burndown (per Sprint) - reviewed daily - Displays how many hours remain - how many story points remain
• Iteration Burndown Cumulative Flow (per Sprint) - reviewed daily - Displays active work compared to total work. How much work is being work on concurrently
• Assist the teams with Release Planning and Tracking
• Contributes to the team's drive for transparency. Simple, very visible progress charts serve as helpful tools for communicating how far the team is toward the completion of their goals.
• Providing project leadership of large, high-value application development, data integration, and analytics projects to achieve key business objectives.
• Guiding teams to complete projects on time, on budget, and on-scope.
• Providing clear and concise management and executive-level communications on status, issues, and risks.
• Participating in the creation and improvement of project management processes
• Working with the Source team and Identifying and analyzing the Source database & tables of the source data.
• Facilitate and co-ordinate the Installation process of the CDC and other infrastructure set up needed for the implementation.
• Support to development team to build Data Capture (initial- Apache Sqoop & change - Change Data Capture) migration scripts for the applicable data acquisition patterns
• Facilitate working session with QA team to validate the data and migration process in Non-Prod environments (source to Lake)
• Support to Production data ingestion to Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), monitoring and validation through file watcher of BDPaaS (Big Data Platform as a service)
• Ensure team provides the Raw and Latest Snapshot of the source data to consumers
• Ensure team provides Security views (Hive Data Model) based on the source /consumer demands

Project Manager/Scrum Master

• Facilitating impediment removal.
• Facilitating daily stand-ups, retrospectives and demos.
• Facilitating discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Offered work-around as needed for real-world problems that preserve agile benefits
• Shield the team from external interferences.
• Advocate for the best use of Agile Tools (Backlog Management, Business Value definition, defects, Requirements, etc.)
• Group status Representations to Program Management.
• Encouraging continuous Integration adoption Building Team Culture.
• Encouraging team self-organization, getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating.
• Assessing the Scrum maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged.
• Enable close cooperation across all roles and functions
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Worked to adapt interface expectations between the agile team and traditional waterfall project staff.

Scrum Master

• Lead all phases of Information management projects, from concept through deployment, including needs assessment, system requirements determination, planning, scoping, scheduling, budgeting, development, testing and implementation
• Lead implementation of Payments and Billing projects, Profile UI Redesign, Service Layer API development and migration.
• Established Project Milestones, Managed Project Budget, Procured resources from cross-functional teams, Identified and Mitigated Risks, Issues and Dependencies
• Delivered projects using Waterfall and Agile Methodologies. Lead Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, Prioritization and Retrospective Meetings.
• Managed scrum teams, facilitated scrum process, deliver high quality, high impact scrum ceremonies including: planning, retrospective and grooming sessions.
• Tracked, resolved and escalated impediments, promoted impediment management process across scrum teams and leadership structures.
• Helped the team determine their velocity and use this to help PO/architect/team perform the release planning.
• Lead Sprint Iteration Planning, Daily Scrum Standup, Customer Demo and Retrospective meetings and maintained detailed Project Plans.
• Created Project Prioritization Process, Resource Allocation/Management Matrix, Budget Tracking various templates/tools including Reporting Templates, Planning Tools, Vision Templates, Project Communication and Delivery/Handover document.
• Effectively communicated Project Status via weekly and monthly reports to stakeholders and executives including updates to Project Timelines, Scope and updated Mitigation Strategies.
• Work with End User Business Community, Architects and Various Team Managers to define enterprise strategic roadmap and framework that enables an end-to-end approach for organizations data capture and reporting need through Use Cases, User Stories and Business Process Models.
• Facilitated end users requirements sessions for user stories/requirements, wireframes/comps, data, reports, analyses, metadata, training, and data quality.
• Collaborated on requirements and development of web analytics reporting using site catalyst.
• Established requirements, defined long-term strategy as well as short-term scope, technical architecture and data architecture for multi-phased Data Warehouse and BI effort.
• Track internal and external vendor deliverables to ensure that they meet committed scope, schedule and budget for Implementation using MS Project
• Define Enterprise Data Warehouse and Reporting Strategy that enables an end-to-end approach for report creation, security, distribution, and presentation.
• Worked with Developers to track design of Informatics ETL mappings, enabling the extract, transport and loading of the data into target tables.
• Collaborated with cross team architects, DBA's and infrastructure engineers to define Data Models and ETL strategy to capture new data, store historical data and update data warehouse in the most efficient way.

Project Manager/Scrum Master

• Responsible for end-to-end management and delivery of SOR (System of Records) implementation
• Developed project strategic and tactical roadmap, cost and benefit analysis; and delivery of these to project governance and financial approval bodies as necessary to achieve funding.
• Developed framework and managed the tracking of interdependencies (start to finish relationships) within or across projects within BI program.
• Managed coordination across multiple stakeholders from both IT and Business to ensure project objectives are met. Balanced schedule, scope and budget within the program and re-negotiated with sponsor as needed.
• Responsible for accurate time reporting for a program; Responsible for tracking, reporting, and explaining *on budget* metric for a program.
• Developed and implemented full-scale project plan and associated project communication and training plan.
• Lead cross-departmental project teams, coordinated with third-party contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan, created and executed project communication plans, and oversaw quality control activities throughout the project life cycle.
• Effectively communicated project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 22%
• SAFe implementation (Program Level and Team Level)
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Exercise different retrospective methods
• Managing multiple scrum teams and aligning them to meet organizational business and technical goals.

Business System Analyst

• Manage the offshore team
• Gather any existing process maps or flow charts from all business units (If exists)
• Identify other systems and associated linkages involved in the current process
• Document Overview, Business Objectives, Measurable Goals and Needs (Core and Non-Core)
• Document Audit, Reporting, Hardware, Decommissioning and Disaster Recovery requirements
• Document Assumptions, Risks, Dependencies
• Document POD Process Map for each business unit (Both Impacted and Not Impacted)
• Document Process GAPS found in each business unit and get concurrence from Business Owner
• Create a POA Process Map for each solution option.
• Work with Business Owner to identify and Document Target Audience Impacts and Signoff stakeholder Ownership Details.
• Work with Tech teams to create Logical and Physical Diagrams

Project Lead/Programmer Analyst /Test Analyst

• Responsible for all project communication, including project status reporting and organizing project meetings and documents discussion and action items.
• Ensures all project documentation is complete, accurate, and current.
• Ensure that Project Management enterprise standards, guidelines and methodologies are in place and adhered to.
• Bug Fixing in Production Issues with in SLA Time on RPG IV
• Developed programs using RPG/400 and CL/400 on AS/400 platform
• Leads projects by ensuring scheduling, delegating and monitoring project tasks, and reviewing project deliverables
• Carried out the detailed analysis of the existing system developed on AS/400 using RPGIV, RPGLE, and CL.
• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
• Preparation of test case Documents as per AMEX standards
• Increased the Quality of deliverables
• Writing test cases and executing test cases using HP Quality Center.
• Create brief technical specification documents according to verbal and written functional requirements and other requirements. Adhere to the Project Execution Process to meet all department process standards
• Preparing the Matrix Report at end of every Module completion, which will show the flow of the module.
• Transporting Developed Module and Changed Module to UAT BOX as Well as to Production BOX using Turnover.
• Fixing the complicated issues while Transferring the Object to Production and UAT BOX
• Create a Test strategy and plan

Programmer

• Involved in designing and creating logical files and physical files with DB2.
• Used structured programming input/output and logic control operations using RPGIV, RPGLE and CL.
• Understanding Client Requirement on IFM System and disturbing the knowledge to offshore team and preparing the supporting document for client as well as for technical teams
• Involved in designing and creating the Reports using SDA and RLU
• Validate and manipulate data using Query/400 and SQL/400
• Developed programs using RPG/400 and CL/400 on AS/400 platform
• Functional specification preparation
• Unit and integration Testing and preparation of test results documents.
• Co-ordinate with UAT Team and fixing the defects raised by UAT team