SUMMARY:

• Possess overall 15+ years of IT experience.
• 7+ years of experience in Project Management and various Agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban and Lean.
• Experienced working on scaled Agile (SaFE) and managed multiple scrum teams.
• Experienced in driving program level ceremonies (e.g. PI Planning, PMO check in, Scrum of Scrums, release train retrospectives, HIP Sprint).
• Experienced with agile engineering practices and techniques such as TDD, ATDD, BDD, Continuous Integration, Pair programming, Continuous Deployment, DevOps and Automated Testing.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) by Scrum Alliance and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) by Scrum Alliance.
• Experienced in Project Management tools JIRA, Rally, Confluence, Clarity and MS Project Plan.
• Experienced in assisting the teams from transforming waterfall projects into Agile methodology.
• Worked primarily in the domain of Banking & Financial Services, Healthcare, Airlines, Telecom services

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: SUN O/S 2.6, HP UNIX, WIN - NT, Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux 6.0, IBM z/OS

Languages: Core Java, XML, PL/SQL, HTML

Development Tools: Eclipse, Net Beans, Symantec Visual Cafe, Websphere studio Application developer v 5.1.2 (WSAD), VSS, SOAP UI,Hudson, Sonar, Tortoise SVN,CVS

Technology: Struts framework, Spring framework and Spring Batch, JMS, JMX, Servlets, JSP, JSF 2.0, EJB 3.0, JDBC, Web services, RESTful Webservices, SOAP,Hibernate 3.0,JPA, UML,XSD,Ant,Maven,Junit,Apache CXF,Apache Camel,Apache ServicemixIX,BigData,Hadoop,Pig,Hive,Impala,HDFS,HDFS2,Scala, YARN,Tez,Map Reduce Framework,HBase,Jenkins

Databases: Oracle 9i, MySQL, MS SQL SERVER 7.0, Sybase 11.9, IBM DB2, Oracle 11g

Application Server: BEA Weblogic 6.1, Oracle WebLogic 11g, IBM Websphere 6.0, Tomcat 7.0

Framework: Map Reduce Framework, Struts framework, Spring framework and Spring Batch

Project Management Tools: JIRA, Rally, Confluence, Clarity, MS Project 2010

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, Sprint Grooming, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum related meetings
• Manage multiple scrum teams across the clients. Have managed up to 3 teams Confidential a time. The teams are geographically distributed.
• Lead the Scrum of Scrum calls and track dependencies across cross functional teams
• Facilitated teamwork and continuous improvement of the team's agile and XP engineering practices
• JIRA administration, tracking backlog items in JIRA, setup and maintain Information radiators and dashboards.
• Ensure the teams stay focused on sprint commitments.
• Coaching team on Agile principles and Scrum.
• Deliver training, mentoring and coaching around agile engineering practices and techniques such as TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Automated Testing and DevOps.
• Apply fun retrospective techniques.
• Build self organized and highly motivated team.
• Ensure collaboration in the teams using collaborative tools. Also ensure high degree of transparency in the team.
• Proactively identified impediments and appropriately resolves using network of peers and formal channels (including escalation if required).
• Release Planning, Backlog grooming, burndown metrics, capacity planning.
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to defining and prioritizing the product backlog
• Ensure cross-team coordination
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Preparation of weekly status report and reporting to senior management through portfolio review meetings.

Confidential, NYC

Senior Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Managing multiple scrum teams.
• Coach the teams on Agile principles and Scrum.
• Facilitate release planning, sprint grooming, Sprint planning, Sprint retrospective and Sprint demo.
• Facilitate collaboration between scrum teams and PO, and other stakeholders.
• Administration of JIRA for the teams and maintain up-to-date information in JIRA and tracking.
• Create dashboards in JIRA tool.
• Worked with Product owner closely on grooming the product backlog.
• Report project metrics to Senior leadership as and when needed
• Ensuring high morale and motivation of the project team.
• Coaching team on Agile principles and Scrum.
• Deliver training, mentoring and coaching around agile engineering practices and techniques such as TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Automated Testing and DevOps.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Release Planning, Backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity.
• Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, Sprint Grooming, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum related meetings
• Lead the Scrum of Scrum calls and track dependencies across cross functional teams
• Setup and maintain Information radiators and dashboard
• Ensured that impediments to the team’s progress are removed
• Acted as a coach for the Scrum Team, helping them to execute the Scrum process.
• Ensure cross-team coordination
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Preparation of weekly status report and reporting to senior management through portfolio review meetings
• Tracking and updating the user stories, subtasks, Impediments using JIRA tool.
• Tracking issues and having regular follow-ups

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, Backlog grooming sessions, meetings across other interfaces, internal discussions, functional discussions with PO etc.,
• Ensured that impediments to the team’s progress are removed.
• Acted as a coach for the Scrum Team, helping them to execute the Scrum process.
• Ensure cross-team coordination
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Report project status in the daily PM check-in calls

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Release Planning, Backlog tracking, burndown metrics.
• Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum related meetings.
• Ensured that impediments to the team’s progress are removed.
• Acted as a coach for the Scrum Team, helping them to execute the Scrum process.
• Ensure cross-team coordination
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage the end to end delivery of the project
• Planning and delivery tracking. Preparing project plans, track progress and ensure all issues are tracked to closure
• Managing project teams across different geographic locations Confidential Onsite and Offshore
• Ensure overall quality of the project and on-time delivery
• Reviewing Stakeholders expectation on regular basis and discuss day to day matters and issues, publish action plan to resolve any challenges/concerns
• Manage the resources and make decisions on upsize or downsize of the team
• Review scope changes and ensure change request mechanism is followed whenever applicable
• Track resource utilization and expenses closely to keep project on-budget
• Responsible for goal setting, performing mid-year and year end appraisal to cognizant team members and set path for career progression
• Ensuring high morale and motivation of the project team
• Ensure appropriate processes are being followed by the team members which helps in optimization and enhancing the overall delivery excellence

Confidential

Java/J2EE Environment Manager

Responsibilities:

• Perform the role of Java/J2EE Environment Manager in the project
• Ensure on-time and quality deliverables
• Identify and report dependencies, issues/risks
• Track action items on issues and risks to closure
• Make periodic communication and right time escalation to stakeholders
• Report project status periodically to all the stakeholders
• Reviewing Stakeholders expectation on regular basis and discuss day to day matters and issues, publish action plan to resolve any challenges/concerns
• Maintenance of the UAT, QA and DEV environments
• Involved in Analysis, Design and development activities, unit testing and deployment.
• Analysing and troubleshooting the environment issues like Out of Memory error and other environment related issues
• Planning and Coordination for Disaster Recovery test

Confidential, USA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Release Planning, Backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
• Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum related meetings.
• Ensured that impediments to the team’s progress are removed.
• Acted as a coach for the Scrum Team, helping them to execute the Scrum process.
• Ensure cross-team coordination
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Release Planning, Backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
• Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum related meetings.
• Ensured that impediments to the team’s progress are removed.
• Acted as a coach for the Scrum Team, helping them to execute the Scrum process.
• Ensure cross-team coordination
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of "servant leader," helping the rest of the Scrum Team follow their process.
• Backlog tracking, burndown metrics and capacity management.
• Leading daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum related meetings.
• Ensured that impediments to the team’s progress are removed.
• Acted as a coach for the Scrum Team, helping them to execute the Scrum process. Help the team them to work together and to learn the Scrum framework and protects them from both internal and external distractions.
• Ensure cross-team coordination
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Technically manage the offshore team during the SIT, End to End and UAT phase
• Acted as a single point of contact with Onsite team
• Coordinate for the SIT, End to End and UAT phases
• Coordinating with the team to solve technical issues
• Closely track the project status.
• Status reporting to management

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Define architecture based on business and functional requirements
• Preparation of Design Document
• Interacting with the Client
• Technically Manage the team during design and development phases Confidential Offshore
• Coordinating with the team to solve technical issues
• Involved in preparation of Quality Documents
• Technical Reviews