SUMMARY:

• Results - driven Scrum professional, with excellent track record.
• Nearly 12 years of progressive experience, enabling quality and effective solutions on time and within budget.
• Specialist in promoting the ‘business / IT bridge' by mapping the business and technology roadmaps through to implementing the solutions.
• Accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering software and web development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams.
• Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
• Solid team management skills, local and virtual, to peak performance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Project Management
• Leadership
• Agile Principles
• Scrum
• Scrum Maturity Coaching
• Change Management
• System Implementation
• Process Improvement
• SDLC
• Communications
• Conflict Resolution
• Waterfall
• Iteration/Sprint Planning Meeting
• Use Cases
• Tasking Meetings/Retrospectives
• Relative Estimation
• Story-Based Development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Integrated Agile and Lean principles into team practices
• Ensured that the team is focusing on the goal of continuous improvement by maintaining quality and continuous delivery
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies including grooming, sprint planning, pre grooming sessions, retrospectives and daily stand ups.
• Identified impediments proactively and resolved appropriately using network of peers and escalated if required
• Coached team to improve collaboration and self-organization
• Introduced Kanban board and maintained WIP limits effectively to implement lean practices
• Had a clear understanding domain architecture and upstream and downstream dependencies, and helped team in making right decisions
• Used Jira and experimented with new and advanced practices for better tracking and generation of metrics
• Utilized team feedback and metrics to identify areas of opportunity and worked with team to continuously improve
• Helped team in reducing tech debts and working on ATDD and automated deployment efforts
• Diligently worked on communication with clients using previous versions and created a plan for smooth migration to newer version
• Supported and educated Product Owner for better prioritization and keeping backlog healthy
• Assessed Scrum maturity of the team, and coached team to higher levels of maturity at a sustainable pace

Confidential

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum related meetings.
• Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks.
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing, and task definition.
• Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Worked closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Educated and reinforced Scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
• Guided projects to completion on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Managed project scope to ensure delivery was compliant to scope commitment.
• Addressed problems through risk management and contingency planning.
• Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying and tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.
• Implemented Issues Tracking in Jira to effectively track impediments against user stories.
• Created and maintained Task Progress Document to radiate updated information of the project.
• Completed plans for long term goals using Microsoft Project.

Confidential

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of 23 major initiatives
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Promoted to project manager role to plan, schedule and execute all stages of enterprise software, hardware and system implementations. Assessed business implications for each project phase and monitored progress to meet deadlines, standards and cost targets.
• Excelled in guiding the work of technical teams. Articulated project goals and scope, translated business needs into technical terms, prepared detailed work breakdown structures (WBS) and instilled shared accountability for achieving project milestones.
• Resolved numerous project issues including staffing shortages, tactical matters, scope creep and divergent business and user needs.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Excellent Business/System Analysis including requirements gathering, documentation and analyst support throughout project life cycle
• Proficient in project management and SDLC methodologies like Waterfall and Agile.
• Extensive knowledge in UML Modeling to create flow diagrams.
• Adept working in all phases of Software Engineering, with expertise in gathering, developing and documenting Business Requirements Specification (BRS), Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) and System Requirement Specification (SRS).
• Mentored new team members and also involved in task assignment for offshore team members.
• Experience in data querying using MySQL, MS Access, Toad and SQL.
• Knowledge in maintaining Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix and performing GAP analysis.
• Work equally well individually with minimal supervision and in a team-setting in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to communicate successfully and translate for audiences with varied levels of technical knowledge.
• Competent problem-solving, multi-tasking and prioritization abilities with leadership responsibilities

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements through user interviews for employer, broker & member portals.
• Analyzed business requirements, created functional specification & translated them into technical specifications.
• Developed test plans and test cases as per business process requirements to match functionality requirements and UML diagrams.
• Created Use Cases, UML diagrams and implemented processes, procedures and guidelines for the development team and QA team.
• Developed an integrated repository of current and historical data, encompassing all operational and research areas.
• Developed a user group specific data mart, based on the central repository.
• Worked closely with Senior Management to create Work-Breakdown Structure, Resource-Breakdown Structure using MS Project and managed project and resources to accomplish company's goal.
• Provided extensive metadata for a clear organization of the data.
• Responsible for identifying and documenting business rules and creating detailed Use Case.
• Used detailed knowledge of application features and functions to assess the scope and impact of business needs throughout the analysis. Fulfilled all the enhancement specifications.
• Designed and developed Use Cases using UML.

Confidential

Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collected data for marketing campaigns to penetrate potential business
• Used various Microsoft systems including, word, excel, access, powerpoint, outlook, etc.
• Conducted focus groups to collect feedback about potential marketing ideas
• Completed PowerPoint presentations illustrating new ideas and scope of business needs.
• Gathered feedback from different stakeholders regarding new and improved website.