SUMMARY:

• Dynamic, hands - on, Senior Scrum Master with 8 years of total experience managing large enterprise software development projects that meet demanding time restraints and exceed all expectations.
• Demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach Scrum teams across multiple locations, with a proven track record of managing complex projects while delivering on time, under budget and above expectations.
• Ability to manage many projects at once while working within strict deadlines and maintaining professionalism.
• Skilled in providing effective leadership in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments, with outstanding oral and written presentation and communication skills.
• Promoted to positions of increasing authority and responsibility because of strong leadership skills, teamwork, customer service and overall performance.
• Excel at turning individuals into teams that work efficiently and exceed expectations.
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of software development, testing, change and project management methodologies, concepts, practices, procedures, and standards.
• Experience in developing and executing plans, meeting deadlines and operating under tight time constraints.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills including analytical, problem solving, organizational, issue resolution, and customer relationship management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Scrum Tools: JIRA & Rally Waterfall Project Management Tools - MS Project, WBS,, MS Visio, TFS Incident/ Defect Management - HP QLM

Languages: - Cobol, JCL, VSAM

Databases: - DB2, SQL

Operating System: - OS/390

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Project Leader/Scrum Master

Confidential

• Proficiently organized and facilitated daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning.
• Worked closely with product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria were agreed upon and stories were ready for sizing.
• Collaborated 6 Scrum teams and performed role of scrum of scrum master for the project worth of 6.5M/year
• Effectively tracked team’s progress, including burn down, velocity and release forecasting.
• Worked with Scrum Masters across four sites to prepare for and facilitate potentially shippable increment planning sessions.
• Managed complex software development, architecture, and integration projects in a fast paced, constantly changing client environment.
• Participate in iteration planning to create acceptance criteria and tests that define “done” for developed features.
• Responsible for effectively initiating, planning, scheduling, estimating, forecasting, coordinating, controlling, managing and delivering all activities for projects and related release initiatives.
• Provided leadership, direction and integrated activities with other client IT departments to ensure successful implementation and support.
• Monitored and reported to IT and project management on the status of project efforts (including weekly time reporting, weekly budget tracking, monthly forecasting, reconciliation and problem prevention/mitigation).
• Aligned with Technical Management and Architecture to ensure that systems are developed to comply with architectural and testing standards and established methodologies.
• Aggressively managed risk and issues; and mitigation efforts as appropriate.
• Used innovative problem solving and critical thinking approaches to proactively solve a broad range of problems across technologies.
• Acted as a role model for PM professionalism, critical thinking and setting productivity pace as well as promoting a financial focus with emphasis on business value metric.
• Encouraged de-centralized decision-making within teams, but acted as an escalation point when consensus decisions cannot be reached.
• Provided status reports, presentations and demonstrations to all levels of management including customers and board members.

Sr. Software Engineer

Confidential

• Designed, coded, developed, tested, documented and debugged of applications to fulfill the requirements of one or more user areas
• Provided support for enhancing and maintaining existing applications
• Coordinated with the operations areas and lines of business to spot out and specify complex business requirements and processes
• Supported for troubleshooting Mainframe environment for telecom domain
• Integrated system on allocated software projects
• Reviewed designs for custom application and execute features and functions
• Coordinated with varied systems and integration infrastructure

SR. SYSTEM EXECUTIVE

Confidential

• Interpreted business requirements and delivered design solutions for healthcare sector.
• Evaluated, tested and coded complex modules
• Developed solutions using agile methodologies
• Reported daily status to technical delivery managers
• Performed coding, component integration testing and unit testing
• Created and updated system's functional and reference documentation
• Offered support during the testing phase
• Train new staff and transition teams to agile-scrum framework

TECHNICAL TRAINER

Confidential

• Conducted theory and practical sessions on IBM Mainframe (OS\ 390) and its Modules i.e. COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2 database along with SQL queries.
• Prepared training manuals, feedback forms, and support materials.

Software developer

Confidential

• Analyzed Business requirements given by the Client & Business users.
• Prepared technical and business specification, coded and tested
• Interacted with the business users and translated business requirements to technical specifications.
• Set up timelines for the execution of the project
• Provided regular status updates to the client and ensuring that the project is on track.
• Coordinated with the onsite team leader, resolving the onsite queries & ensure timely deliverables of the project
• Participated in the quality control process to ensure that the deliverables meet the quality standards of the project.