SUMMARY:

• Technology and business professional, with 16+ years of progressive experience in managing enterprise software and certified scrum master. Hands on Design, development, implementation and operations, with more than a decade of supervisory experience and five plus years of project management experience.
• Accomplished in delivering projects on time and budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams while adoption and enforcing Scrum rules and adopting self - management.
• Expertise in Agile Principals like Tasking Meetings/Retrospectives, Relative Estimation, Story-Based Development, Iteration/Sprint Planning Meetings
• Responsible for managing projects with offshore and onsite teams as well as mentoring and coaching team members in Agile process, business processes and customer management.
• Expertise in cross-functional people management dealing with teams of stakeholders, designers, developers, and other personnel.
• Provide full range of advice, guidance, and leadership for creative services clients including Client Acquisition & Bidding, Contractor & Project Management, and Customer Service.
• Broad IT corporate leadership experience in handling software design, development and operation teams, with focus on automation & optimization
• Proficient in IT governance standards such as Agile, Six sigma, Lean, ITIL, software development methodologies and enterprise change management processes
• Proven ability to deliver results, motivate teams, and foster innovation, in challenging and often stressful environments
• Have led large multi-country projects for implementation & software support projects for various customers across the globe.
• Across several Business Areas including Insurance, Banking & Finance, Manufacturing, Shipping, Investment Banking, Entertainment, Advertising.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Agile, Lean, Scrum SDLC, Waterfall.

Project Management: MS Project, Jira, Rally, MS Visio, MS Office.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As an Agile coach mentored project managers/Associate directors to adopt Agile methodology.
• As an Agile coach coached multiple teams’ co located and remotely located also coached BA’s and Executives on Agile methodology.
• Created material and standards for all Agile standard process
• As a Scrum master helped the teams identify and Increase velocity 250% (77 pts to199pts) and the quality of deliverables by 22% by incorporating best practices, capacity planning, and implementing improvements of Retro.
• As a Scrum master empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• As a Scrum master helped the team to maintain Story board, Action board, charts, backlogs, etc. in JIRA.
• Facilitated scrum services daily stand-ups, grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives and monitored project progress, understand issues and risks and reporting status appropriately.
• Managing project execution from vision through implementation involving vendor resources

: Scrum Coach/Scrum Master

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

• As a Scrum master helped two teams to reduce the Cycle time by more than 20% thus increasing team's quantity in less than 4 sprints (8weeks).
• As a Scrum master facilitated scrum services daily stand-ups, grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc.
• Facilitating Agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with outcome leading to enhanced performance.
• Helping the team in delivery commitments by identifying and tracking hidden risks there by increasing customer satisfaction.
• Converted the conventional PMO team into Agile PMO Coached/Mentored team
• Helping the team to maintain Story board, Action board, charts, backlogs, etc. in Rally.
• Managing and monitoring project progress, understand issues and risks and reporting status appropriately.
• Removed obstacle for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution. Customer provided positive feedback.
• Managing project execution from vision through implementation involving vendor resources

: Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a Scrum master facilitated scrum services daily stand-ups, grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow for cross-functionality and to ensure the successful of each sprints.
• Helped the team to maintain their Scrum tools such as Story board, Action board, charts, backlogs, etc.
• Managed the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Coordinated and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Communicated with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress and motivated the team to come up with quality shippable product and meet the product goals.
• Managed the scope changes, monitored tracked project progress, understand issues and risks and reported status appropriately.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully migrated more than 12 projects from Waterfall to Scrum within 6 months
• Created project plan, appropriately incorporating milestones, resource loading.
• Managed the scope changes, monitored by tracking project progress, understood issues and risks, and reported status appropriately.
• Work with client to understand the demand forecast for the development projects in pipeline and enable timely resource loading.
• Delivering services in accordance with the agreements while communicating any changes to members.
• Managed offshore teams in different geographical locations and ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Educated the team and facilitated Daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective
• Tracked and managed product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task break-down and addressed problems through risk management and contingency planning.
• Managed a team onshore and offshore, Established effective communication and ensured task completion to the specification
• Resolving escalations in timely manner to ensure project obstructions are resolved as quickly as possible.
• Ensure that each change request has appropriate supporting documentation for assigned releases according to internal service levels.

Associate scrum master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Providing weekly and monthly status report for each of the projects in a consolidated report program’s status to executive team to both client and internal
• Assisted the Product Owner with various activities including communicating updates and impediments as well as assisting with backlog and release plan maintenance.
• Was a part of coordinated Daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.
• Communicated with other management, engineers and support specialists on product issues
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress

Junior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the business application system & a team of 11.
• Working with leadership team & developing the vision, road map, strategy for business applications.
• Managing the on-site and offshore team and providing appropriate estimates and maintaining the scheduled timeline by ensuring the deliveries are done by the respective teams on time to clients.
• Coordinating with client side IT Team and Business Users to performed Requirement gathering activities.
• Ensuring that the organizational processes, based on CMMi Level 5 standards, are adhered to in the project.

Technical Leader/ Onsite coordinator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led a 6 member team, for change from VBA to Oracle for the Client to check for analysis and data discrepancy. Coordinated with offshore team on creating the LLD and HLD, development and testing activities.
• Conducting regular meetings with Development, QA and Business Analysis team for regular updates onto the project plan.
• Mentored developers in SQL and PL/SQL.

Technical Project Leader

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Led the database migration from legacy DB2 to Oracle 10g using SQL script and was involved in extensive managerial activities including hiring.
• Developed ER and Dimensional Models, Logical and Physical Database Design data model for the database using Erwin,
• Migrated database from legacy DB2 to Oracle 10g using SQL script and multiple stages for population. Prepared and executed Sanity, Unit, Integration

Technical Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed Complex SQL queries using various joins and Oracle PL/SQL scripts (packages, functions & procedure) for Multi Lingual on Multi Org environment.
• Along with Shell scripts and SQL control files to load data through SQL Loader.
• Support, maintenance script and make reusable script for the customer with Information Security Management Best Practice BS-7799.

Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead for Install & upgrade, oracle 9i to oracle 10g.
• Created and improved Database Audit Triggers (PL/SQL) and monitored concurrent Managers, with Diagnostic scripts.
• Developed and maintained SQL, PL/SQL scripts, Stored Procedures & Triggers

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Development team member for launch and maintain an e-commerce troubleshooting all Oracle backend related issues and managed users and privileges and Prepared and executed Sanity testing, Unit testing, and Integration testing.