SUMMARY:

• An experienced Senior Software Engineer and a certified Professional Scrum Master specializing in Business Intelligence, Data Visualizations, and Data Science Technologies.
• Expertise involves working with Business Users, Controllers, Directors, Senior Managers, Executives, Department Heads, and Project Stake Holders.
• Focus on optimizing the delivery of highest priority deliverables by facilitating the Scrum ceremonies (i.e.) Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand ups, Sprint Demos, and Retrospectives.
• Also motivating product owners, sponsors, teams, and stakeholders to collaborate, communicate and maintain a constant pace without burn out while focus on delivering customer value.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Functional: Excellent team management/building skills, Good business acumen, Good team mentoring, Great training skills, Quick learning, understanding client best - practices and report standards, Strategic/Tactical Planning, provide visualization alternatives, Excellent Communication and Interpretation Skills, Business Analysis and Development, Attention to Detail, Great Problem-solving skills, Excellent Team player and Ability to meet deadlines. Strategic-minded project contributor who is responsible for the direction of globally diverse software team(s)

Technical: Tableau Desktop, Online and Server, Power BI, Oracle BI Cloud Service, Oracle Fusion Analytics, and Reporting, OBIA, Data warehouse, Oracle, Oracle BI Server, Oracle BI Answers, BI Scheduler, Oracle BI Interactive Dashboard and BI Publisher, Multi User Development Environment (MUDE); Unit Testing (UT), System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Scrum, Agile Methodology, Kanban, Jira, Rally, Confluence, EBS, Endecca, SQL, Microsoft s Team Foundation Server (TFS) AGILE automation tool, HPQC, HP ALM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager Scrum Master

• Managed a team of 12 developers - onshore / offshore delivery model
• Guided the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers
• Prepare and deliver client presentations and work products/prototypes; attend and lead meetings/ceremonies and provide project status reporting to management
• Worked with the Product Owner to define the product by identifying requirements and thinking critically about what will make it successful; write user stories that effectively communicate the Product Owner's requirements and that are easily consumed by software development teams and provide guidance on prioritization of stories
• Become the functional and subject matter expert for the solution and act as the liaison between Product Ownership, Project Governance, and the Development/Implementation Team
• Guided the team on how to get the most out of self-organization
• Analyzed and led the discussions on report requirements based on existing reports/dashboards in Tableau, OBIEE and legacy systems, Functional and Technical Specification documents design and customer sign-off
• Actively managed program progress and dependencies, mitigated risks, resolved issues and made critical trade-off decisions to meet aggressive release requirements.
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment
• Lead the creation and execution of test plans, verify sprint release features, assist in triaging defects for engineering and QA teams
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving
• Coached the Scrum Teams on Scrum principles, implemented and supported scrum best practices
• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
• Helped the team meet their daily and iteration objectives
• Assembling project plans and teamwork assignments, directing and monitoring work efforts daily, identifying resource needs, performing quality review; and escalating functional, quality, timeline issues appropriately
• Facilitated Scrum events and ceremonies
• Coordinated solution implementation and delivery with other Scrum Masters when working on solutions that cross multiple teams
• Ensuring the Scrum Team is protected from outside influences that could cause the team to lose focus on the spring goals
• Sharing best practices developed with other Scrum Teams to ensure learnings are shared and brought back
• Participate and contribute to product roadmap and release plans
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

Sr Business Analyst Scrum Master

• Interpreted written business requirements, functional requirements, and technical specification documents to design and develop technical solutions that meet business needs.
• Mentor clients, work on projects independently, participate as a team member, or lead teams of consultants and/or clients to successful project delivery
• Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
• Govern the “Definition of Done” process to ensure product and engineering goals are being fulfilled
• Proactively manage issues, mitigate risk, escalate impediments appropriately
• Identify potential people-side risks and anticipated points of resistance, and develop specific plans to mitigate and address concerns
• Contributed as a key technical subject matter expert and resource in delivering improvements to company’s Business Intelligence strategy, processes, technical architecture, subject area design, and user interface design (OBIEE, Tableau & ETL)
• Experience working with data warehousing, ETL, operational reporting, business intelligence concepts, tools, and procedures
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Focused on optimizing the delivery of highest priority deliverables by facilitating the Scrum ceremonies (i.e.) Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Ensuring Scrum, Kanban and other agile methods are being followed as agreed to by the team
• Assisted product owner with management of backlog
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example

Sr Technical Lead

• Collaborate and led the gathering and development of business requirements for Business Intelligence projects, working with managers, business analyst and users in an Agile environment
• Designed innovative approaches to view and interact with data for analysis and created POCs to show different visualizations using various BI and Data Visualization tools (Tableau, OBIEE)
• Shared best practices developed with other Scrum Teams to ensure learnings are shared and brought back
• Maintained System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and related documentation as required by relevant regulatory standards
• Work with minimal supervision
• Maintained BI and Data Warehouse infrastructure at high standards of performance, security, and reliability -- including installations / migrations.
• Participated in Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospectives
• Design guidance for multiple Tableau implementations across different sub-businesses in the company

Software Engineer

• Lead the development, configuration, and administration of Tableau and OBIEE dashboards, catalog objects, and reports in an Agile Methodology environment
• Coordinate with business users and engineers to plan, design, and implement appropriate ETL process to seed the data warehouse and OBIEE
• Experience in Developing Performance Dashboards, Score cards, Metrics, what if analysis, Prompts, Drills, Search (using Add-ons), Reports/Dashboards for all the functional areas including Finance, Change Management
• Developed various Dynamic and Interactive Dashboards/Reports with intuitive drilldowns, drill-across and drillable charts using Oracle Answers, global local filters and page/dashboard
• Responsible for ongoing support and maintenance to resolve technical problems and ensure maximum performance of BI solutions
• Worked with developers on all BI tasks and deliverables in an Agile and Scrum Environment.