SUMMARY:

• Seasoned and successful technology professional with 15 years of IT experience. PMP Certified & CSM (Certified Scrum Master) Certified.
• Currently employed with Confidential Confidential .
• Extensive knowledge of multiple software development methodologies, including in - depth knowledge of agile delivery practices
• Extensive experience managing the Scrum Ceremonies ( Sprint planning, Daily standup, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective)
• Extensive experience leading global, multi-disciplinary teams in fast-paced, change intensive environments
• Extensive knowledge of project and program management processes, tools, templates and management techniques
• Exceptional problem solving and negotiation skills, with the ability to work across organizational boundaries to drive closure of complex delivery challenges
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the professional confidence and credibility to effectively engage and interact with senior and executive management
• Extensive experience with blue chip clients in the Banking space like Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential . Very good exposure to client interfacing and management roles with Confidential & Confidential in US, Confidential in Frankfurt and Confidential in London.
• Extensive experience as a lead project manager/End to end project manager, managed financials & budgets up to $10M
• Vast experience with Banking clients, familiar with SOX and PCI DSS standards
• Hands on experience with the JEE Technologies
• Experience representing the team in Joint Application Design sessions (JAD) at program & project level
• Experience managing defect triage in QA & UAT
• Highly Proficient in handling projects in Onsite/Offshore/Near shore model.
• 6+ years’ experience on Clarity PPM tool

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology: JEE, JAVA, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, Tomcat, Weblogic, WebSphere, Eclipse, Hibernate, JSP, STRUTS, HTML, Java Script, JQuery, JSON, CSS, XML, SOAP, Web Services, VSS, SVN, Continuum build tool, ANT, MAVEN, HP ALM, TFS, Windows 95/NT/2000, Mac, UNIX, Familiar with Hadoop concepts and Microsoft Azure portal

PROJECT MGMT TOOLS: Clarity PPM, MS Project, JIRA, SharePoint, MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project), Visio, OneNote, TFS, VSTS

Confidential

Sr. Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked for Tech Compliance IT PMO group in Confidential .
• Drives the Scrum Ceremonies ( Sprint planning, Daily standup, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective )
• Drives the coordinated management of interdependent projects over a finite period of time in order to achieve specific business goals. Ensures the timely delivery of business value and the efficient use of organizational resources
• Partners with Business and Technology leadership to establish a solid understanding of the vision, purpose and expected business benefits of a program. Ensures measurable KPIs are defined and aligned to company goals and objectives
• Partners with Business and Technology leadership to establish and maintain program-level roadmaps. Ensures roadmap items are prioritized for delivery based on business value and/or impact. Helps drive the resolution of prioritization issues as appropriate.
• Drives the program-level decomposition of work across multiple delivery teams. Works across organizational boundaries to define program interdependencies and release plans. Ensures delivery teams are aligned to program goals, objectives, and timelines.
• Partners with Business, Technology, and PMO leadership to align resources to program delivery requirements. Ensures appropriate domain resources are engaged in dedicated or shared capacities. Helps define creative solutions to address resourcing challenges.
• Manages program delivery efforts spanning multiple internal and/or external delivery teams. Drives resolution of program-level issues leveraging scrum-of-scrums as needed. Facilitates executive-level escalations and program-level change management.
• Monitors health of program delivery. Tracks program-level status, risks, issues and dependencies. Proactively addresses delivery team impediments. Resolves program-level roadblocks to enable successful program execution.
• Manages program-level communications ensuring stakeholders are informed of roadmap changes, release plans and delivery status. Leads program-level reviews with delivery teams, stakeholders and executive management as required.
• Drives the integration and adoption of agile delivery practices across delivery teams. Facilitates program retrospectives to identify improvement opportunities. Evangelizes and integrates desired changes in order to enable continuous improvement.
• Leads by example. Actively coaches Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Delivery teams in order to promote successful adoption of agile practices. Covers key management roles as needed to ensure the success of program delivery efforts.
• Develops & manages project tracking using MS Project & Clarity
• Manages defect triage calls during QA & UAT phases
• Manages Agile project tracking & Sprint activities using JIRA
• Defines Product backlog along with Product owner using JIRA
• Manages Sprint Planning meeting, Sprint retrospective as part of Sprint initiation & closure
• Defines User stories and the estimates using T-Shirt sizing for user stories in JIRA

Confidential

API Manager& Developer

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring development activities and report project progress.
• Carried out functional & technical analysis for SEPA & EBICS and implemented SEPA & EBICS standards for the different products in the corporate banking division of Confidential .
• Distributing tasks responsibility downwards to fully empower the workforce; holding individuals accountable for activities at the lowest possible level
• Assist clients in implementing CMM Level 5 processes
• Manage vendor and involve in understanding and baselining requirements by coordinating with the business, Preparing High level design in discussion with vendor while in Frankfurt.
• Monitoring development activities with the vendor at onsite.
• Monitor development activities at offshore & handle Onsite co-ordination