SUMMARY:

• An experienced IT Project Manager, Scrum Master & AGILE Coach with more than 20 years of Software Project Management & Development experience, highlighting his experience in software Project Management, General Agile implementation & leading projects on their Agile transformation. Progressed through technical discipline into Project Management leadership role.
• 15+ years of Software development life cycle (SDLC) experience in Project Planning, Defining & Managing IT Projects as per the guidelines from the PMI’s PMBOK. Solid hands on experience in balancing the competing projects constraints like scope, quality, schedule, budget, resources & risk, making fact based recommendations to the steering committee and making project level decisions as a project manager. Proven ability to conceptualize, develop, communicate and present project documentation and reports to various stakeholders.
• 8+ years of hands on experience as Tech Lead in RDBMS Design and Development, Maintenance & Quality Assurance /testing of client server and/or WEB based applications including GUI, Open System architecture and Structured Applications. Simultaneously managed multiple projects with 70+ Associates.
• 10+ years of Business Requirement & System Analysis, Risk Analysis & Quality Processes
• 6+ years of hands on experience of the building scrum teams & facilitating as a Scrum Master/Agile Coach using JIRA, TFS, Agile methodologies, Software Estimation & Quality Processes (CMMI & ISO 9000, Lean Six Sigma Methodology)
• Highly experienced with Kanban and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe 4.0) - supporting a successful SAFe Program. He has worked on numerous projects with an Agile Team & Agile Technical Software Practices. Throughout his career, he has trained Software Engineers, Scrum Masters & Product Owners across multiple scrum teams and led a (SAFe) program as an experienced Release Train Engineer (RTE).
• Excellent time management, organizational, and prioritization skills and ability to balance multiple priorities. Have proven project/program management track record with experience in a highly complex matrix environment, on shore/off shore model, across multiple geographical locations with different time zones
• Proactively conceptualized & built several process improvement tools necessary for improving software development efficiency.
• 20+ years: Knowledge and experience in Building Software applications/products in the Financial Services Domain (Investment Banking, Mutual Funds, ACH, Registrar & Transfer Agent, 401(k), Manufacturing & Automobile Industry & Healthcare Domain (340B Program)
• 13+ years: in IT Project Management. Scrum Methodology, Working / participating in an Agile Team with Agile Technical Software Practices
• 2 years: Leading Projects on their Agile Transformation, Leading a (SAFe) program as an experienced Release Train Engineer (RTE)/ Leading Program Increment Big Room Planning Events for global organization ( Confidential, Confidential ), Training Software Engineers across multiple teams

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• IT PM
• Kanban
• Lean
• Scrum
• SPC4
• SAFe
• ART
• RTE
• Agile development Methodology
• Microsoft Project 2010
• Microsoft Office Suite (Excel
• Outlook
• PowerPoint
• Visio
• Project)
• PMI’s PMBOK
• SDLC
• PMLC
• Business System Analysis
• JIRA
• confluence
• TFS
• Oracle
• PL/SQL
• OBIEE
• EXA Data
• PostgreSQL
• Data Modeling
• DevOps
• PL/SQL Estimations
• Conceptualized
• designed & executed domain & Software Estimation Training. Data migration & conversion
• Vendor Management
• Change management
• Investment Banking
• 401(k)
• Mutual Funds
• Registrar & Transfer agents
• Lean Six-Sigma Methodology
• DMAIC
• DFSS
• CMMI
• ISO
• SharePoint
• Pencil
• Wireframe
• Cloud
• AWS
• eCommerce

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

IT Project Manager / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• I’ve performed dual roles: as a Lead Business System Analyst as well as a Scrum Master. As an Analysts, I created the core functional framework of the product, defining the core configuration set up, creation of drug list and formulatory item masters, midspan, Item catalog, Pending Inventory accumulation & replenishment.
• The development environment is in AWS cloud. As a Scrum Master, I facilitate the Planning, Review and retrospectives, daily standups, release plans and backlog refinement.
• I am also responsible for quarterly product build. On a weekly basis, I prepare project status report which I present to the management.
• I participate in the monthly management review meetings to provide project progress, to identify potential risk areas with the management team.
• I've established an effective change management process to incorporates changes into the current execution plan after due impact analysis and approval from the senior management.

Confidential, Morrisville, NC

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Established the annual calendars for Sprints, Program Increments, & other Agile and SAFe artifacts
• Conceptualize and build the Daily Stand up processes & to provide the Weekly progress reports
• Identify core skills needed for each role, analyze current gaps, and provide on the job training to Product Owners, Scrum Masters & Development Teams on agile development methodology
• Provided Organizational & skills recommendation for the group
• Conducted Agile training across multiple geographies. (15+ individuals)
• Helped clearly define & enhance the Agile processes, Review & Retrospectives
• Proposed optimal organization structure and sprint execution model, Tools, capabilities & agile best practices

Confidential, Durham, NC

IT Project Manager/ Sr Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Working as a Sr Project Manager/Scrum Master & Coach for Data Engineering projects, accountable to build the next generation Data Warehouse & Reporting System for the 401(k) Business.
• Also, Conceptualized, designed & implemented the Estimation & planning process, built the flexible development system with monthly data rollout to production along with processes for adequate causal analysis while building the Next Generation Data Warehouse for the Retirement Services business (Defined Contribution).

Confidential

Tools & Technology: JIRA, TFS, MS Project, SharePoint, Oracle Exadata, PL/SQL, Unix, Informatica, OBIEE UNIXDirector(Technology) for the Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence & Analytics projects using Agile Development Methodology in the Retirement Services area(DC/HSA) in the Workplace Investing Division in a Global

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for Project Planning, Scope Definition, Resource assignment, Managing Change Control, Risk management, Tracking & Monitoring, Quality Assurance of the project delivery in a DevOps environment.
• Tracking Budget (Overall Project budget for 2014: $3.6M, 2015: $3.0 M & 2016: $5.4 M)-myself responsible for tracking about $1.0 M - $1.5M yearly
• I used to create/publish product roadmap for visibility & transparency,
• Assisted with economic decision making & program execution,
• Established the annual calendars for Sprints, Program Increments, & other Agile and SAFe artifacts
• Facilitated PI Planning Events, Scrum of Scrums, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand ups, Product Demos, Retrospectives, & backlog refinement
• Responsible for status Reporting to various stakeholders (Weekly, monthly, Quarterly)
• I used to drive program-level continuous improvement process via retrospectives, Inspect and Adapt workshops, and constant demonstration of Kaizen mind. Helped the team build estimation tools.
• I coached/guided the development team (by creating awareness about Scrum, SAFe, providing training)
• We collected several metrics around - overall team competency levels, Program Level Risk Identification & action plan, Continuous Integration improvement at the program Level

Confidential

Tools & Technology: JIRA, TFS, MS Project, Oracle Exadata, PL/SQL, Unix, Informatica, OBIEE UNIX

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Discretionary projects using both agile & water fall methodology) in the 401(k)-business domain, responsible for Vendor Management
• Worked as Scrum Master/Development Manager. Trained around 200+ associates (Tech Leads/Managers/Directors) on Software Estimation Processes using Function Point Analysis/Agile Methodology, Scrum Concepts (prepared the entire training material & two-day course design)
• Conceptualized and executed DCEP (Domain Capability Enhancement Program) Program within Confidential to train associates & build Domain knowledge capability in the 401(k)/Retirement Services Business
• Actively participated in providing class room training/designing course Curriculum for Retirement Services business 401(k), for the Confidential.

Confidential

Project Manager / Business System Analyst

Tools & Technology: Oracle, PL/SQL, Unix, Java, JSP, IBM WebSphere, Informatica, UNIX

Responsibilities:

• Scoping, effort estimation & capacity planning of various custom requirements
• SOW based software development like Custom Reports, Technical Consultancy etc. Vendor Management
• The Product Support Group: Data migration and Conversion
• The Product Data Modeling & DBA group: This group is primarily responsible for
• Data Engineering/Data modeling of the aggregation Product. (RDBMS)
• Maintaining the development/QA/UAT and production Databases (E.g. About 97 Development /QA Databases are being supported in 4 Solaris Server having a Total RAM of 10 GB)
• Development stored procedures using PL/SQL, Oracle Performance tuning, Capacity planning
• Product Deployment Group: This group is primarily responsible for deploying the customized product for various customers. Major deployment activities:
• Apart from the above responsibilities also built up the Technical Support Group of 10 persons

Confidential

Tech Lead / Data Architect / System Analyst / Developer

Tools & Technology: Oracle, PL/SQL, Java, JSP, BEA WebLogic, PRO*C, UNIX

Responsibilities:

• Planning, designing, construction and implementation of Payment module. The module generates different instruments (PAP Checks, Demand Draft, Direct credit, Electronic clearance) through which there is a cash outflow from the Asset Management Company.
• Conceptualized the data migration & conversion strategy from the legacy system to the new System.
• Development stored procedures using PL/SQL and PRO*C, Performance tuning of the entire application and implementation.
• Various Modules worked on:
• Purchase of mutual fund instruments
• Redemption of mutual fund instruments
• Switching (At Scheme level as well as across the scheme)
• Checks/Demand Draft/ECS/Direct Credit/ PAP Processing
• Dividend Processing & Reinvestment
• Brokerage Calculations and Reports
• Brokerage Payment Processing
• Fixed Maturity Plan for Initial Public Offers
• Redemption process automation
• Brokerage module re-engineering and implementation

Confidential

Software Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Open Investment Portfolio Accounts
• Place orders on the stock exchange (Buy / Sell)
• Route the orders to the order routing system/ broker
• Order Settlement
• Execute transfer instructions (Transfer In, Transfer Out, Transfer Out/In)
• Calculate Taxes on various transactions (Stock exchange tax, With-holding Tax, Value Added Tax)