OBJECTIVE:

Obtain an Agile Program / Project Manager / Scrum Master job in Software Engineering departments to engage in roles that help the company achieve its strategic and financial goals.

SUMMARY:

• Successful CSM from Scrum Alliance Organization. Managed successful deliveries from release planning to launches by playing necessary roles from inception to deployment, with a goal of transitioning teams to Agile methodology with ease.
• Successful Stanford Certified Project Manager. Managing delivery from its inception to deployment with a track of completing the projects within budget and on time
• 7+ years of experience in Enterprise class software application development and project management in Scrum Master role
• Management of release scope, deliverables and adequately resourced to meet the goals to produce the deliverables needed for the project completion
• Proactively Manage compile and communicate status, highlighting achievements and trouble spots using the information artifacts and lines of communication to the stakeholders
• Management of team building, assign and monitor work of team members and provide guidance and leadership train, develop, coach, and mentor team members
• Management of developing detailed plans including phase and activity schedules within the appropriate framework to manage Action Items, Risks and Issues. Management of identifying and removing obstacles in meeting goals and production of deliverables
• Proven SCRUM master with Sprint achievements averaging 95% of project schedules over a 7 - year period
• Expertise in Software Development life cycles, Distributed Application Architecture

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Application servers: Working knowledge of WebLogic, WebSphere Application & Portal Servers and used Eclipse & NetBeans in project as a IDEs.
• Software Development Models : AGILE, Iterative, Waterfall and SCRUM.
• Project mgmt. Software Tools: Microsoft Project, Clarity (project planning and budgeting), PowerPoint, Publisher, VISIO, Access, OmniPlan, OmniGraffle, Numbers, Excel, SharePoint, Confluence, JIRA Agile, and JIRA.
• Software Languages: C++, C, Java, ESQL/C, SQL, ACE reports, JavaScript, Informix 4GL, Informix-SQL, PL/SQL, Power Builder, COBOL and FORTRAN.
• Relational Databases:
• IBM: Informix IDS Server, Informix Dynamic Server Developer Edition, Oracle, and MySQL.
• Oracle RDBMS Tools: Sqlplus, PL/SQL and Oracle Call Interface (OCI) library calls in C/C++, Enterprise Manager, Triggers and Stored Procedures.
• Data Connectivity Tools: OLAP, JDBC, and ODBC.
• Operating Systems: UNIX--Most flavors (Linux, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, SCO UNIX and HP-UX, Microsoft Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP, NT, 95/ 98 and other older versions.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Project & Program Management, Risk Management, Strategic Management and Alignment of culture, business & strategy and Organizational Project Maturity Management Model and Corporate Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technology Manager

Confidential, Glendale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managing development activities of POS related projects in the retail division of Disney as part of Technology Engineering team.
• Playing program manager and scrum master with the responsibility of revamping web and mobile applications.
• The application environments include java.
• Confidential platform and Oracle point of sale ayatems. In this role, I have successfully completed few 2 week sprints and few maintenance releases along with few .x releases.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Redwood City, CA

Responsibilities:

• As a Technical Project Manager, on a contract basis thru Jade Global, managed development of Origination and Disbursement team.
• I got hired on a temporary basis till the existing project manager was on vacation.
• I have played a project manager and scrum master role.
• The project is to develop the web application that would take a new loan application and disburse the loan to the client in the end.
• I have successfully completed 2 two week Sprints and 2 releases along with few maintenance releases.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• As a Technical Project Manager, on contract basis thru Confidential, manage client development of Litghow project.
• My role was to manage the client Team development activities.
• The project involved to develop the Confidential Application got apple mobile devices.
• This application mimics (with additional features) the CASSWeb features on mobile devices.
• Environment included Xcode, Java, and integration with existing customer systems.

Technical Project Manager and Scrum Master

Confidential, Campbell, CA

Responsibilities:

• As a Scrum Master and Project Manager, I had managed multiple projects at any given time.
• The Business messaging is an app like Whatsapp which is meant for paid enterprises subscribers.
• Had more features than Whatsapp like, deliver secured messages, delete on read, schedule messages and broadcast messages to 20000 people at a time, can work on mobile phone and web seamlessly.
• Product was built on Android, IOS and most web browsers.

SCRUM Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• This is an add-on product to provide messaging gateway using the core Syniverse Developers Center product.
• It allows any app developers to broadcast campaigns to their customer base via Confidential to their mobile numbers all over the world.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• This is an independent product that will allow hotel managers and agents to communicate with hotel customers via a 2 way chat.
• The product uses short / long codes with keywords to facilitate a 2-way chat between customers and hotel agents. This product integrates messaging from a phone to a web based chat application.
• This product is meant for Syniverse customers.
• My responsibilities as a project manager and scrum master included, facilitate and unblock issues they hit upon on daily basis, make sure the teams work smoothly, project planning, escalations, Infrastructure and network requests creation and status reporting along with the Release and Sprint planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint retrospective meetings and daily stand ups. As a JIRA admin create the boards and created / closed sprints.
• Had completed the product development from scratch and completed 5 major releases for Business messaging and 2 releases for Confidential and one release for Confidential chat.
• The teams were located in multiple countries while developing the same product.
• The teams included a Product owner, Engineers, and QA Engineers. Team size was over 50 engineers.

Project Manager

Confidential, Cupertino, CA

Responsibilities:

• In a consultant technical project manager role at Apple, thru Exilant, managed the team who does the development of the software for different areas.
• The application is global business intelligence relatedwarehouse project to produce, top 10 and top 100 charts for different assets to be presented in a dashboard.
• The data comes from worldwide iTunes radio usage and reports are generated for the songs played or purchased by the iTunes users.
• The team I am managing has on shore and off shore team operations.
• The team supports multi releases at any given time. My role is to provide planning, monitor, execute and close the project using Agile methodology.
• The environment included Tomcat, Java 6 EE and Oracle database, Terradata database, JMX, JSon, Java script for dashboard.
• I have used Numbers, Pages, Confluence, Radar, Espresso, OmniPlan professional and OmniGraffle professional.

Confidential

Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the team who does the development of the product.
• Team consists of developers and quality assurance team, from multiple vendors.
• The team I was managing has on shore team operations.
• The team supported multi release Development for internal application teams.
• Since I came in team has released 3 versions of software and one major release, released in April 2013. My role is to provide planning, monitor, execute and close the project using Agile methodology.
• The environment included Tomcat, Java 6 EE and Oracle database, SQL database, JMX, JSon, Netty DBCP, Java script for dashboard. I have used Numbers, Pages, Confluence, Radar, Espresso, OmniPlan professional and OmniGraffle professional.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the team who provided continuous integration of development of Confidential .
• Worldwide development team included multiple vendor development and quality assurance teams.
• The team had on shore and off shore team operations supporting 24hour builds. The continuous integration process would automate the builds and deployments.
• The team supported infrastructure, build and deployments in development, IT, UAT, and Staging environments.
• The environment included Jenkins, RunDeck and XProvision servers, JBoss server and Java 6 EE, Oracle as database, used Confluence, Radar, Espresso, JIRA, OmniPlan professional and OmniGraffle professional as tools for the project management.

Project Manager

Confidential, Kirkland, WA

Responsibilities:

• I managed SDLC of project from beginning-to-end.
• Responsibilities included project plan, implementation, and managing day-to-day activities of the development, design and quality team.
• The project was in its development stage. My involvement on this project was a contractor role.
• The team used SCRUM and AGILE methodologies in the SDLC with monthly sprints as the release frequency.
• The team used .net, c sharp with WebSphere as the web server with SQL 2008 database server.
• The team used Microsoft project for planning and Accurev system as source repository.

Project Manager

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed the projects for the team who developed POS systems for worldwide Confidential compliance implementation.
• As a project manager, part of the EPO team, was to manage the team Intake, managing the estimates, schedules and project execution for the team by coordinating with QA, release and deployment teams. I played the SCRUM master role for the team using Agile development methodology.
• Project was to release product in a) two week maintenance and b) monthly new features releases.
• The environment was JIRA, Java 6 EE and Oracle database, using Confluence, Radar, Espresso, Pages, Numbers, OmniPlan professional and OmniGraffle professional.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Re-architected the web site for the customers so that the usage is very direct and reduced 50% of the wandering around the website before getting to what they are looking for.
• Re designed the information and processes behind the website to make the site 200% efficient.
• Manage project scope and deliverables and assurances that delivery team resources are adequate to meet the goals and produce the deliverables required by the project.
• Manage well-defined contracts for services prior to start of work. Team resource management. Management of providing required inputs to team member tasks within schedule.
• Manage scope and scope change requests; complete cost/benefit analysis, Plan and direct schedules and budgets.
• Proactively Manage compile and communicate status, highlighting successes and trouble spots using the information artifacts and lines of communication defined within the document to the stakeholders.
• Identify and develop contingency plans to mitigate and address risks.
• Take responsibility for benefits realization and meet milestone and budget targets
• Develop new project management tools and methods
• Administrate project close outs.
• Extensively used SCRUM and AGILE methodologies in whole of the software development life cycle with monthly sprints completing on time and in budget. Achieved more than 90% of scheduled tasks within budgets on an average for over 2 years, on all the monthly Sprints for the company.
• The projects were developed in NetBeans IDE environment with Java EE 6 with MySQL database in the backend.

Project Manager

Confidential, Cupertino, CA

Responsibilities:

• As a project manager, built cross-departmental relationships to manage project/support objectives, design application solutions, prioritize deliverables, determine implementation strategy and coordinate resources allocation in developing software for internal departments. The responsibilities and achievements included the following:
• Author Concept Documents, Vision Scopes, Roadmaps, Project Plans, Presentations, Online Surveys and Knowledge capture systems.
• Hands-on project management using MS Project.
• Manage project scope and deliverables and assurances that delivery team resources are adequate to meet the goals and produce the deliverables required by the project.
• Manage well-defined contracts for services prior to start of work. Team resource management. Management of providing required inputs to team member tasks within schedule.
• Manage and prioritize application development, communications and support activities of the staff engineers.
• Recognized for leadership skills, planning and organizing skills, and clear understanding of enterprise-wide perspectives.
• Extensively used SCRUM and AGILE methodologies in whole of the software development life cycle with monthly sprints completing on time and in budget. Achieved more than 90% of scheduled tasks within budgets on an average for over 2 years, on all the monthly Sprints for the company.
• The projects were developed in NetBeans IDE environment with Java EE 5 with MySQL database in the backend.