SUMMARY:

• Application Development Leader with a clear vision to produce high quality results that exceed organizational expectations and goals in Health Care, Investment Banking, Trading and Retail Banking sectors. Both influential leadership and results - oriented management experience in IT Strategy, Coaching Agile Best Practices, IT Planning and Project Delivery. Successfully and simultaneously lead and directed multiple large-scale, multi-million dollars Mobile, Web Application Projects that are already in production.
• Experienced in building Agile engineering/management teams, committed to execute planned strategies to achieve successful development of products, applications and services;
• Seasoned Agile Coach who has successfully transitioned a large number of Product and Application development teams from Waterfall to Agile;
• Experienced in setting up the expectation of scope of development from Product/Business Owners, and setting guidelines for development plan and timelines between Development Teams, Testing Center of Excellence (TCOE), Usability Center of Excellence (UCOE), Mobile Center of Excellence (MCOE), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Release Management (RM) Teams;
• Currently Leading and Managing multi-functional and geographically distributed technology teams for technology efforts totaling over $100MM;
• Well versed in building roadmaps, business case and leading development of web-enabled Integrated Customer Platform in hybrid Agile/iterative discipline;
• Experienced in successfully delivering multi-million-dollar project development for Web Based, Cross Platform, iOS and Android Mobile Applications using Java and .Net, Swift. Objective C, Eclipse, SDK, NDK, Xamarin, html for diverse Institutions within North America and Europe;
• Highly experienced in creating and negotiating yearly budgets and making decisions towards multi-year development goals;
• Experienced in creating pipeline version release of the applications and maintenance of approximately fifty applications consisting of multiple technologies, supporting thousands of clients and hundreds of business partners;
• Experienced leader who understands how to build and maintain third party vendor partnerships with companies while diplomatically negotiating cost and delivery agreements and resolving issues;
• Experienced leader in establishing Enterprise wide guidelines for Business Processes, Code Development and Testing, Defining the definition of done, Team accountability and Core Performance Processes;
• Skilled in SAFe, Lean, Agile Processes like Creating Product and Feature Backlogs, Monitoring overall development Team Velocities.
• Experienced Scrum of Scrums Leader who has overseen and ensured successful Cross and Inter-Team Communication.
• Experienced Strategic Planner who has successfully executed plans of parallel development of applications through multiple teams and inter-dependent business groups;
• Experienced in managing relationship with PMO, Business and Product Owners and communicating the right strategies to the teams;
• Excellent oral, interpersonal, presentation and project documentation skills and strong attention to detail.
• Enterprise level Admin experience in Rally, QC, Jira, Sharepoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CA

Application Development Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Director

Responsibilities:

• Currently leading multiple Healthcare projects for one of the largest healthcare providers in the nation, managing ten (10) geographically distributed technical development teams totaling over $100MM, for technology efforts to in corporate nationwide changes due to healthcare reform;
• Responsible for building Agile Engineering teams and communicating technical direction and vision of the organization to teams consisting of Architects, Developers, Infrastructure Engineers, Designers, Business Analysts, Testers, QA Leads, Project Managers, and Delivery Managers through full SDLC delivery cycles;
• Responsible for bringing in Enterprise level Agile implementation and changes to follow the current Agile best practices;
• Successfully lead and transitioned multiple Mobile, Web Application Projects to Agile from Waterfall, Hybrid Agile processes;
• Managing the relationship with the Executives, PMO, Product and Business Owners and Negotiating commitments to achieve long term partnerships;
• Managing program level cadence and driving program level ceremonies (e.g. PI Planning, Product Management Council, Scrum of Scrums, release train retrospectives, HIP Sprint);
• Sourcing and executing numerous change request projects (CRs) for the teams and providing a sense of value add to many of the organization’s leaders, without having to largely reinvest in new applications;
• Contributing and influencing development of the overall healthcare national strategy by integrating technology;
• Responsible for maintaining metrics that provides visibility to stakeholders on program-level plans, progress and quality.
• Responsible for facilitating alignment dependencies between the program team and third parties, release managers, or between the team and other Scrum Teams

Confidential, New York City

Core Application Development Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Director

Responsibilities:

• Successfully lead and managed multiple teams and projects across several geographical locations for the Confidential Group, the world’s largest exchange company incorporating trading, exchange technology and public services across the globe. As part of NASDAQ’s global expansion strategy, directed the multi-year program code-named DRAGON, to build a common platform for all NASDAQ products based on a single technology stack including Single Sign On, Geographical Penetration, News Publishing, Intelligence Services and Comprehensive Reporting;
• Lead the transition to Agile application development through the full project lifecycle of the DRAGON platform;
• Lead the effort on developing execution leaders (RTE and Scrum Masters) and closely partnered with the Product and IT Delivery Owners to guide agile release train;
• Provided direction to the teams for formulating project plans and financial estimates for the technology efforts totaling over $30 million, across 5 business units in the US, Europe and Asia;
• Managed project delivery and led multiple Scrum Teams with over 70 team members including Architects, Developers, Infrastructure Engineers, UI Designers, Business Analysts, Testers, QA Leads, Project Managers, and Delivery Managers;
• Communicated extensively with customers on the Product requirements of the Release plan for DRAGON;

Confidential, New York City

Client Application Solution Services Product Owner, Agile Coach - Product Management

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed and lead the Confidential Corporation application development team, a leading Enterprise Data Management company that integrates and EDM platform for securities and investment management industry;
• Managed the Requirements and Design phase towards identifying mutually agreed solutions with technical teams and business partners;
• Created Agile roadmap and rollout implementation plan for multiple projects with the end clients of Confidential ;
• Mentored and coached resources in Agile Methodology and incremental use and customization of Confidential Data Model to suit individual client needs;
• Proactively managed changes in project scope, identified potential crisis and devised contingency plans;
• Managed all aspects of Project Planning for Confidential and its client implementation partners including budgeting, allocation of resources, contract negotiations between the clients, external vendors and Confidential, SLA negotiations, in and out of scope definitions, and training and release commitments to the clients;
• Worked with program leaders to drive the definition and refinement of the program backlog and established program level cadence and program level ceremonies;
• Worked with asset managers to suggest how to efficiently manage information of their securities, products, customers, transactions, and other operations. Steered the Data warehouse team to centrally position the data to manage risk, performance and regulatory compliance;

Confidential, New York City

Corporate Information Technology Group VP Application Development

Responsibilities:

• Managed and lead the development teams through the consolidation of multiple sales credit systems across the globe into a single Global Processing Unit;
• Prepared project deliverable and managed the resources and their allocation of time for the project;
• Screened and onboarded top tier team members for multiple development teams and allocated them to contribute to the development of the projects;
• Coached development teams in Agile best practices and lead efforts of transition of various development groups from waterfall to Agile.
• Managed process improvement and recommended modifications / improvements to various financial processes so that data could be made available on T+1 basis;
• Supervised team that recognized data quality issues in feeds from external providers like LoanIQ, Bloomberg and GMI using Rational ClearCase;

Confidential, VA

Shared Technology Services Principal

Responsibilities:

• Managed the EOS Development Projects involving merging various servicing platforms and providing a single centralized front-end servicing platform;
• Managed project documentation in accordance with AGILE (SCRUM) methodology (Backlog, User stories, Sprint progress plans, etc.);
• Lead communications with vendors to define solutions (requirements, designs, services) to business/systems problems and to assist in system integrations;
• Managed the teams responsible for Scope gathering and documented the requirements & impacts to the Enterprise Data warehouse services and performed Data mapping between systems;
• Ensured the teams followed proper Definition of Done (DOD) before committing the code to a higher environment;
• Lead the Team of Scrum Masters and reviewed weekly progress and impediments of the Scrum teams;
• Conducted monthly Agile Training and group discussion sessions with the development teams;

Confidential, NC

Integrated Trading System Development Sr. Associate

Responsibilities:

• Identified, researched, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes for Fixed Income, Bonds, Equities and Derivatives - Options, Futures, Forwards, etc. for leading global wealth manager;
• Performed analysis on historical trade position data, trading trends and opposing trade positions for fraud detection and trading limit violations;
• Identified requirements to access and store a variety of market, reference and pricing data related to fixed income products so that the results could be published to the trading applications;
• Maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) across the deliverables of the project;
• Contributed to the integration of Wall Street on Demand and NASDAQ streaming quotes with the front end systems.