SUMMARY:

• Confidential is currently working with Confidential as a Sr. Project Manager/Agile Scrum Master and has previously worked with companies like Confidential, Confidential ( Confidential ), Confidential prior to joining Confidential .
• Rich exposure to Agile Project, Program Management and Delivery Management practices through strategy, design & development.
• Confidential has extensive experience in Software/ Application Development (SDLC), Project Management in Health, Finance, FMCG and Retail Industry.
• Proven ability to achieve results in very high pressure complex work environments and to keep teams motivated.
• Experience developing strategies for achieving client business goals, including the development of maturity models, product roadmaps and strategic short - and long-term plans.
• Rich exposure in project coordination activities entailing Planning, Scheduling, as well as application maintenance & enhancement, project progress monitoring, regular reporting to various stakeholders and delivery as per quality, time and budgetary norms.
• An effective leader with proven abilities in leading teams during the project phase, guiding team members and enabling knowledge sharing among the team.
• Effective in managing in all phases of the SDLC (Requirement analysis, development, testing and troubleshooting), with strong analytical and application support skills.
• Proficient in developing & streamlining process with pain areas with proven ability to enhance operational effectiveness and meet operational goals within the cost, time & quality parameters.
• Excellent customer feedback on high quality delivery, enhanced customer satisfaction and excellent team building skills.
• Strong knowledge of several agile frameworks like Scrum, XP, Pair Programming, TDD, ATDD, and Kanban.
• Certified ScrumMaster & good exposure on Agile tools like Rally, Jira and VersionOne.
• 8 + years of experience in Project, Program Management through strategy, design & implementation.
• 2+ Years of experience as Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master.
• 1+ years of experience on SAFe Agile implementation
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from ScrumAlliance
• Program and Project Management process and tools like MPP experience.
• Agile Development & Methods (Scrum/XP/Kanban/Lean/SAFe)
• CMMi, Six Sigma Methodology, IT Quality Processes experience.
• Strong experience in a program/project management from evaluation, conception and completion.
• Strong experience on Agile (Rally, JIRA) and waterfall software development methodology, SDLC, and Business Analysis practices
• Proficiency with MS Office (Including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access)
• Proficiency with MS Project
• Proficiency with MS Visio
• Strong analytical skills and understanding of delivery metrics reporting.
• Proficiency with CA Clarity project management software.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Extensive knowledge of application development platforms (Java/J2EE).
• Experience managing end to end projects that entail complex technology design, development and integration efforts.
• Java, J2EE, Mule ESB, Hibernate, Struts, JSP, XML JavaScript, Junit
• Big Data, Cloud based platforms, Hadoop, MapR, Data warehouse and Data Lakes
• Hibernate, Spring, MVC Application Framework
• Apache, MULE, ATG & WebSphere Application Server (WAS).
• Code version CVS, GIT Hub
• SOAP Based Web services Development
• E-Commerce application development (ATG, DHTML, CSS)
• UML (Unified Modelling Language), Rational Tools, FP Based Estimation.
• Oracle, PL/SQL
• Good Experience in implementing DevOps using CI and CD tools (Hudson, Jenkins, XL Deploy)
• Scrum based tools like Rally, JIRA.
• Agile (Scrum/XP/Kanban/Lean/SAFe) & Waterfall

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager and Scrum Master

Skills: Program and Project Management, Agile, Scrum, Big Data

Tools: & Technology: MPP, Rally, ALM, Plan View, Hadoop, MapR, Hbase, Hive,Ilog, Data Lake, Visio, MS Office, Confidential Cloud.

Responsibilities:

• Playing the role of an Sr. Project Manager and Scrum Master, responsible for managing and leading execution of development project comprising of 6 scrum teams under Confidential RQNS portfolio.
• Key responsibilities include tracking product deliveries, product management and reporting product status using Rally, MPP and other reporting tools
• Responsible for all budget planning and tracking activities for a yearly budget of $4 million.
• Working closely with Dev Team, PO and other external team and tracking the risks, issues on a regular basis.
• Actively involved in facilitating evaluation and estimation any new intake request/CR.
• Responsible for tracking the project deliverables in Rally.
• Responsible for all Rally related admin tasks like creating releases, sprint iterations, time boxes, milestones, adding team velocity/capacity, enabling and disabling team members in Rally.
• Responsible for conducting Daily Scrum, Sprint planning sessions, Backlog refinement, Sprint retrospective and generating reports like team burn down charts, project health assessment etc.
• Role also demand playing the Role of an RTE (Release Train Engineer) and coordinate PI planning events, conducting/facilitating Scrum of Scrum (SoS), Inspect and adapt session as part of SAFe implementation.
• Identify and resolve problems, roadblocks, and distractions to meet assigned goals within the team(s)
• Working actively to create a highly satisfying team environment providing opportunities for collaboration, individual growth, cohesion, productivity, creativity, innovation, recognition, empowerment, and accountability.
• Review the project deliverables, design, quality metrics and provide feedback in terms of ongoing improvements.
• Provide coaching/mentoring/ training to team members and other employees to assist in the transition to a more Agile/Scrum environment, to help with Agile and Design Thinking concepts, and to help with the use of Agile software and tools.
• Work closely with management in helping and driving other Agile implementation’s.
• Achieve project success by identifying, assessing, mitigating, managing and communicating risks/issues that impact project’s cost, schedule, and/or scope

Delivery Manager

Skills: Program and Project Management, Agile implementation, PBM

Tools: & Technology: MPP, Clarity, Fieldglass, ALM, Java/ J2EE, JBPM, Angular JS, Spring Boot, Mule ESB, Spring, SOAP, Visio, Rally

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of an onshore Delivery Manager, responsible for managing and leading technical execution of development project for Claims Midrange service.
• Managed a team of 70 + resources based at onsite, offshore and near-shore.
• Responsible for overall budget planning, forecasting and tracking yearly expense of $5 million.
• Managed and tracked project risks closely, escalated timely to stakeholders and ensured a risk mitigation or elimination plan is in place and regularly reviewed/actioned.
• Was actively involved in evaluation and integration of complex Applications for Express Scripts and Medco during their merger for Claims division.
• Was actively involved in any new work evaluation, creating RFP’s (proposals), evaluating and estimating any new intake request under Claims midrange portfolio.
• Tracked project deliveries, project management using MPP, creating details plan with WBS and reporting project status.
• Maintained scope control, reporting the impact of changes to requirements or new requirements
• Scheduling resources against development records.
• Was actively involved in streamlining all delivery, technical and quality management process to help Client in improving operational effectiveness and business effectiveness.
• Worked closely with Solution Architects and ESI Application Engineering team to define Java/J2EE technology best practices, standards and define future technology roadmap.
• Was actively involved in requirement gathering with business, defining technical solutions/approach and lead the design/development.
• Was actively involved in design, reviews and ensuring high quality of deliverables.
• Proactively interacted with business teams to understand the pipelines. Maintain and plan for all incoming Project Pipeline.
• Everyday activities included interacting and providing regular updates to Client leadership on program/project status, pipeline, resourcing, finance and key challenges in form of weekly, monthly reports.
• Supervised continuous improvements efforts related to delivery, issue management and project processes.
• Supervised work of other managerial employees and other leads.
• Analyzed all pain areas in current team/department and implement roadmap/strategy to streamline the process.
• Also supervised other contractors and vendor partners of ESI as a delivery lead for the engagement and was responsible for tracking/managing their deliverables/outcome.
• Provided subordinate professionals with a clear sense of direction and assist the direct reports in developing work plans and work effort estimates.
• Developed client relationships and manage client expectation related to services provided.
• Created work standards for project; established and defined roles and responsibilities, specific outcomes, and clear measures for quality.
• Carried out active adaption of Agile implementation and was the first team in Claims division to transform some of key projects into Agile based Scrum implementation using Rally.

Project Manager

Skills & Tools: MPP, Java, Mule ESB, Oracle, Eclipse, CVS

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead and managed a team of 20+ resources.
• Formulation and implementation of Project Plan in MPP, created detailed WBS including identifying scope, resource planning & allocation, cost estimation, configuration management plan, quality plan & risk management.
• Monitored and tracked projects closely in terms of scope, schedule cost, risk and work closely to understand any deviations and work to get the project on track.
• Requirement gathering, System Analysis and Designing.
• Prepared Functional & Technical Specs
• Reviewed the Design
• Prepared Effort Estimates.
• Guided the team in understanding the Functional & Technical aspects of the requirement.
• Coordinated Implementation, Testing and Deployment
• Coordination with onsite team

Project Manager

Skills & Tools: Java, JSF, Spring, Hibernate JBoss, WebShere, Oracle.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Worked as the project lead for Retail engagement for Nordic, Asia Pac and UKperations of SpecSavers.
• Involved in the knowledge transition with existing client's vendor team and SME's atnshore (UK) for entire Retail engagement.
• Formulation and implementation of Project Plan including identifying scope, resource allocation, cost estimation, configuration management plan, quality plan & risk management.
• Review project timelines & scope.
• Monitor project progress, identify & mitigate project risks
• Involved in setting up the Service management process, environment and tools for SpecSavers engagement.
• Worked closely with client team and Confidential transition team in understanding client existing process, methodology, involved gap analysis and recommended solutions.
• Involved in day to day coordination of Application Support Maintenance activities and ensure adherence to service level SLA's agreed with client
• Involved in publishing weekly/monthly operational report to client team.
• Internal reporting of the engagement using EBS, DART.
• Worked on creating PMP, QMP and Blue book for the engagement.

Technical Project Manager

Tools: MPP, Rational Suite, Requisite Pro, ALM, Java, EJB, Oracle, WebTrend, VisionPlus

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Managed the entire project life cycle such as Requirement Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, Review, Documentation, Maintenance, and Application Support.
• Interfaced with business for analyzing the requirement & help the implementation team understand the requirements.
• Estimated the project requirements in terms of timelines and cost.
• Prepared RFP, SRS and Technical approach docs.
• Formulation and implementation of Project Plan including identifying scope.
• Reviewed project timelines & scope.
• Monitored project progress, identify & mitigate project risks.
• Review Functional Specification, Technical Design & guide the team.
• Setting up the web-analytics for public facing websites using Omniture and WebTrend.
• Managed Infrastructure requirements for projects.
• Reviewed quality of project deliverables
• Involved in Application support and maintenance activities
• Involved in Project planning, monitoring and estimation activity.
• Vendor team management, task allocation & execution.
• Proposed and review project technical design.
• RFP preparation and negotiations with vendor
• Involved in production deployment, post production support and manage infrastructure requirements for projects.

Skills & Tools: WebSphere, SVN Java, EJB, Servlets, Struts, PL/SQL, Hibernate, Design Patterns, Oracle

Senior Tech Lead

Roles & Responsibilities

• Requirement gathering, System Analysis and Designing.
• Project Scheduling and Planning.
• Prepared Functional & Technical Specs
• Prepared Effort Estimates.
• Project Planning & Scheduling
• Guided the team in understanding the Functional & Technical aspects.
• Implementation, Testing and Deployment
• Coordination with onsite team.

Skills & Tools: Rational Rose, Java, Struts, JSF, EJB, WebSphere, Eclipse, PMD

Tech Lead

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering, System Analysis and Designing.
• Prepared Effort Estimate's, Functional & Technical Specs.
• Guided the team in understanding the technical aspects of the project.
• Development using J2ee, Struts, Oracle and Design Patterns framework.
• Project scheduling and planning activities using MPP.
• Prepared Use Case Review of the Applications
• Code Review, Unit and Integration Testing.
• Coordinated with onsite & global teams to drive the project initiative.
• Designed layout and coding front-end and backend layers.

Skills & Tools: ATG Dynamo v5, Java, EJB, Servlets, Struts, PL/SQL, Design Patterns

Senior/Software Developer

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Designing Layout and Coding front-end Using JavaScript and HTML.
• Developing components using Java Based technology.
• Worked on the database - creating procedures, functions, triggers etc.
• Involved in deploying application on Application server WebSphere/ATG Dynamo
• Integration Testing, Unit Testing & Deployment
• Gap Analysis and Preparing SRS.
• Worked as an onsite Coordinator
• Also Worked in Application development & support for P&G on ATG Dynamo Application Server