SUMMARY:

• PMP Certified project manager as well as Technical Scrum Master with over 18+ years of total IT experience, strong technical background (JAVA/J2EE) and management skills; success leading all phases of diverse technology/ecommerce projects; worked mostly with Major Financial institutions.
• Accomplished servant - leader capable of delivering large-scale software and Web development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams. Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management. Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
• Business strategist: plan, manage, assist, execute multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Expert in both Agile & Waterfall project management methodologies: Able to manage large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets. Expertise in SAFe Agile, Agile and work in hybrid (waterfall & agile) Matrix environment.
• Exposure to AWS ( Amazon Web Service) Cloud Computing Infrastructure and Automation.
• Quality Controls: In corporate change & continuous improvement increasing the productivity of scrum teams and the quality of deliverables. Enforce Quality, measure quality and watch for maturity over a period. Defined and implemented processes and tools (Quality) best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technical: AWS Cloud computing (Amazon Web Services) - EC2, Cloud Formation, Chef/puppet, Auto scaling

Java/J2EE.: Java (core/Security), EJB, C, C++. Ext-JS, Angular-JS, Struts, JSP, JSF, HTML5, JavaScript/ JQuery, Spring, Hibernate/JPA, SOA, python, SOA REST/AXIS Web services.

Messaging: JMS/MQ series.

DB: Oracle, MongoDB.Weblogic, websphere, Jboss, Tomcat.

Tools: /Env: Unix/Linux, Maven/Ant, Subversion, Jenkins, GIT repo., MS Project, Clarity.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Newark, DE

P.M/Scrum Master

• Responsible for managing the successful implementation of large-scale and complex project that impact multiple systems/areas across the bank. Responsible for the oversight and execution of multiple projects and project managers. Define Project phases, set deadlines and Manage staff.
• Develop project plans with milestones, manage overall delivery of project cross functionality through each project phase including requirements gathering, design, build/customization, integration, testing and post implementation.
• Strong Credit Card Domain Knowledge - ICDP Credit Acquisition, ECC. Overall downstream/upstream Systems in Credit Card Space . Knowledge with TSYS System
• Mentoring teams on Agile practices, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospective, release & spring planning, capacity planning, demos. Create/manage project artifacts( Rally ) - product backlog, user stories, Tasks and performance report, cost, release plan, user guides, implementation plan .
• Coordinate all meeting and interface with business units, staff and service providers. Lead meetings, Conduct JAD sessions with various impacted teams for Brainstorming and deep dive into requirements. set agendas, drive decisions & negotiate “win/win/ solutions. Identifying, resolving and removing Impediments. Coached/promoting management, team and vendors on the agile frameworks and using scrum for development & coaching/implementing engineering best practices
• Participate in Product backlog & User Stories (Agile projects) meetings along with the Product Owner to effectively capture Product Backlog and User Stories. Follow/Streamline SAFe Agile practices, Attend Scrum of Scrum meetings, Release planning and portfolio planning working with SA’s, Architects, Cross functional teams, Project Management, Business/Epic Owners at Program and Portfolio levels to achieve company goals.
• Identify risks and assess the potential effect on the project. Develop & recommends plans to mitigate risks.
• Track & reports on project progress to Stakeholders, Management, sponsors weekly, monitor risks throughout the project & inform key audiences of these risks . Present project Goals, timelines, accomplishments, issues, critical actives, Risks, watch items, to stakeholders in monthly portfolio meetings. Detailed problems, risks, changes and next steps to team are stakeholders. Develop & recommends plans to mitigate risks. Met goal of addressing and resolving Severity issues within 24-48 hours. Create and manage all project Artifacts - Project charter, implementation plan, current/future state, Use cases. Define, track and Ensure completion of project milestones and deliverables.
• Proactively managed project budget of over $10M project and due diligence to cut down the cost of project by 200k to 300k. Monthly forecast of actual effort, Direct & indirect costs using Project Management tools (PCM web, PPRT, PDWARE, Nexus).
• Create /maintain repository for project artifacts such as status reports, schedules, meeting minutes, issues/risk logs, decision etc. Manage & control project tollgate activities & project quality assessments.
• Responsible for the accuracy & timely processing of issues, risks, monitoring & follow up on the status & ensuring resolution. Manage all aspects of the project phase (Initiation to Rollout).
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment. Defect/Issue resolution and Management. Focus/enforce on Quality deliverables by implementing all Quality Controls.
• JAVA/J2EE - JSP, STRUTS, REST, Oracle 11, UNIX, Hibernate, JPA, Spring, JUNIT, MOCKITO, Maven, GIT, UNIX SHELL SCRIPTING, CRON JOBS, FTP, SSH, JMS, RALLY, CLARITY, HP-ALM.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Development Manager/ Scrum Master

• Combined role of Development Manager and Scrum Master, responsible for product deliverables and success. As Scrum Master, Direct & managed scrum teams with resources located in multiple locations. Facilitate scrum ceremonies - Release & sprint planning, Grooming, product review & demo’s retrospectives, daily stand ups.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality. Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects.
• In corporate change & continuous improvement increasing the productivity of scrum teams by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 25 %. Enforce Quality, measure quality and watch for maturity over a period. SONAR for quality reporting, SSAP & dynamic scanning for security of software and code vulnerabilities. Work on remediation & security with development teams & vendors.
• Frame Stories, tasks & maintain all Scrum Artifacts (burn down/burn up chart, performance, cost etc.) JIRA . Coaching team on effective use of the tool. Led teams to overcome dysfunctions, improve creativity and continuous delivery. Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects.
• Define, track and Ensure completion of project milestones and deliverables.
• Follow/Streamline SAFe Agile practices, Attend Scrum of Scrum meetings, Release planning and portfolio planning.
• Coordinate and manage/support code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Business meetings, gather requirements, reporting status on weekly basis to management/stakeholders and manage risks pro-actively. Conduct defect calls/triages with cross functional teams and run with release.
• Install, Configure & Maintain infrastructure, Jenkins, Sonar, FAST (deployment tool), Maven/GIT repo.
• Migrating legacy apps to new technologies/infrastructure, Pilot phase to aggregate customer Data to cloud (AWS), Spark, Mongo DB.
• Responsible for Maintaining Build, Deploy, continuous integration in all Environments - DEV, TEST, PROD.
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues.
• JAVA/J2EE - Ext-JS, Angular-JS, REST, Oracle 11, UNIX, Hibernate, JPA, Spring, JUNIT, MOCKITO, Maven, GIT, MongoDB, Python, AWS (Cloud computing), Dynatrace, UNIX SHELL SCRIPTING, CRON JOBS, FTP, SSH, JIRA, CLARITY.

Confidential, DE

Dev Lead/Scrum Master

• Facilitated Agile adoption and transformation of team from Waterfall to Agile environment, coached the team of agile practices resulting in enhanced performance and productivity.
• Conduct Spring ceremonies, create user stories, Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Responsible for Leading ATLAS Scrum teams (Design and development of the CPATH Web services using Axis2. Maintaining Scrum Artifacts, facilitation scrum ceremonies, primarily owned (Analysis, Design, coding, testing, bug fixing). Developed/Designed interfaces to GAI for User Enrollment, Re-enrollment, Disenrollment, Downgrades and Copy/Merge user profiles using Spring (AOP, IOC), Spring JMS template.
• Involved in Triages to solve cross platform issues. Provided Technical leadership on troubleshooting/ resolution of issues. Prototyped mock GAI responders to get/put messages to MQ queues to make testing easy for the team avoiding network issues increasing team productivity. Setup SDLC process and best practices across the teams. Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Concentrated on quality delivery with Code Quality, continuous testing), build, code coverage, code quality. Key player in process development and improvement,
• Developed /Managed release of new technology services (REST WebServices) for mobile space.
• Successfully migrated from legacy third party applications (windows, ipad, blackberry...) to BOA applications using HTML5 to maintain a single UI for all platforms migrate applications to Akamai data servers to increase speed and performance of the applications.
• Created test cases using Junit, Easy mock, JMock. Develop Groovy scripts for Webservices Functionality Automated testing.
• Define, track and Ensure completion of project milestones and deliverables.
• Create project presentations and presents to business, management and to technical teams.
• JAVA/J2EE - HTML5, JSP, STRUTS, JQUERY, AXIS/REST Web Services, SPRING CXF, Oracle 11, UNIX/LINUX, Hibernate, JPA, Spring, JUNIT, Mockito, SOAPUI, JMS Messaging, Java Security, WSDL, SOAP, XML, JSON. Maven, Dynatrace, FTP, SSH.

Confidential, DE

Project Lead

• Directed and executed from Project Initiation thru release for the new OTC Channel for both offline and online mode.
• Introduced Agile and XP models to the team supporting continuous Integration testing and team work.
• Facilitation of release & Sprint planning, daily stand up, sprint review, Demo and retrospective. Evaluating & recommending appropriate Scrum tools and best usage. Using standard Agile tracking (Version one).
• Developed prototype for the new OTC Channel product and delivered in incremental cycle ( REST/Spring/JPA ).
• Participated in Analysis, design -Conceptual modeling of the system using Use cases diagrams, Sequence diagrams and Class diagrams. Design/development and support of all tiers.
• Involved in refactoring old legacy systems (PCC OTC and TGANET) to new OTCNET channel.
• Developed the core API components (persistence layer) for the New OTC channel Using Spring, Hibernate .
• Used JAXB, JSF Navigation to display Menus, JAXB generates the sets of java objects from the menu xml file and vice versa (parsing), tomahawk tree for displaying hierarchies.
• Used JMS for verification records refreshing, LVD refreshing, location policy modification, manual image forward file creation, RPF processing, to trigger batch processing.
• Organized and actively participated several group activities to identify project, product requirements, resolve challenges in online/offline mode - Brainstorming, JAD Sessions, Group Decision making, managed conflicts.
• Implemented Security features for the new OTC (SSL, Encryption/Decryption, message level security). Worked extensively in Creating Java Security API for Encryption, Decryption, Key Management, Digital Signatures and Digital Certificates. Java Security API (JCA/JCE) AES 256 for generating key, Cipher for Encryption/Decryption, encryption, decryption was done using certificate keys. Apache Base64 for Encoding/Decoding, SHA-256 for hash service of PI data. Used Java Keytool and Java Security API for creating keystore, loading, storing keystore, and adding certificates to keystore. Used various Message Digest Algorithms SHA1, SHA256 and SHA 512 for password and personal information stored as hash to the database. HMAC is used for Message Integrity and verification.
• Worked on webservices security API using Weblogic Annotations and Apache axis2. Messasge level security to the web service as specified in WS-Security standards. Encrypting and signing the SOAP message for confidentiality and integrity using public and private key certificates.
• Used Embedded Jetty server for offline mode and JavaWebStart to download and launch the application exe on the client site distribution and checking versions. Weblogic Server for online web application
• Hibernate, JPA, JMS, spring (Spring JMS, AOP, IOC), Web Services (Axis, REST), MQ Series, Websphere MQ server, JBOSS 5, ORACLE 10g, Linux, Perforce, Maven, SOAPUI, Spring Batch Framework, JUnit, JMockito, FTP, SSH.

Confidential, PA

Vendor Maintenance, DEV Lead

• Worked to establish a True Agile Environment leading scrum calls and effectively act as servant leader mentoring the team as well as assisting with technology, project/business issues and proactive participation to remove impediments.
• Worked with product management team to connect & to build an agile company and culture to deliver value both to customers and stakeholders.
• Major achievement with writing all frameworks API with MVC Spring Framework, Struts (Tiles, Validation, JSPs in the presentation tier for Vendor maintenance. Create/Maintain Scrum Artifacts ( Version one ).

Confidential

Lead Developer, DE

• Designed, developed tested and deployed server-side web-based applications and product features for MQ Bridge and CPS System. Worked to build a highly motivated Agile team participating in daily scrum calls, effectively collaborate & work as a team. Peer programming, peer review and product demos. Worked on refactoring and redesigned Legacy MQ Bridge to new platform using JMS and MDB to improve performance.

Confidential

Dev Lead, PA

• Involved in designing using Use Cases Diagrams, Sequence diagrams and Class diagrams.
• Used STRUTS TILES templates for Front end presentation, STRUTS validation Framework for Client and Server side validation. Educating team members providing technical assistance.
• Used EJBs (Entity beans and Session beans) in the architecture to update and to retrieve data from the database tables, developed various business logic to process around 150,000 ~ 200,000 claim messages that flow every day. The messages arrived into the large database (Oracle) using IBM MQ Series.
• Assist and help the development team with Technical issues helped team migrating from STRUTS1.0 TO STURST1.2.8. Developed Oracle Stored procedure for Qrouter process.
• Used Message Driven Beans and JMS API for handling the Claim Flow Messages.
• STRUTS1.2.8, TILES, JSP (JSTL), EJB2.0, J2EE Design Patterns, JMS, MQ Series, XML (parsers), Web Services WSAD5.1, CVS, JavaScript, HTML, Oracle9i, Toad (7.6), Visio 2003, Windows NT, Clearcase, UNIX.

Confidential, MA

Development Lead, Siebel Systems

• Designed, developed, documented, tested, and deployed server-side Web-based applications, platforms, and product features for authoring content and features for a Confidential (Enrollments & Payments) Billing system using JSP, STRUTS, EJB, HIBERNATE.
• Developed UNIX Shell Scripts to Push (FTP) the output file from Confidential to Paymentech (payment) server and to pull the output file from the Paymentech server.
• Used XML DOM Parsers. Used Xstream parser for parsing XML Documents, Used XMP Spy to generate Java objects from XML documents. Worked with the formats of Periodic Bill Data and other Billing formats.
• Created Message Driven Beans which made entries into the audit/log tables and are actually invoked as and when the updates are pushed onto queue in JMS Server.
• STRUTS, TILES, J2EE Design Patterns, JSP, EJB, XML (parsers), JMS, HTML, JavaScript, UNIX (SunOS 5.8), Weblogic 8.1, Clearcase, Eclipse, HIBERNATE 3.0, Spring, Oracle9i, Toad (7.6), Rational Rose 2000, XMLSPY, Spring.

Confidential

Lead Developer

• Supervised a team of software engineers at onshore/offshore responsible for maintaining and developing new features for Railsync website
• Played Lead role managing/coordination onshore/offshore team providing technical assistance.
• Participated in Analysis, Design, Customization, Coding, Testing and production support.
• Developed/Designed end-user screens for Price Management, Freight billing and Revenue Waybill Manager using STRUTS Tiles Framework.
• Supervised and support all release work. Handled recruitment, training and performance management of team members.
• Java (JDK 1.4), JSP 2.0, STRUTS 1.1, J2EE Design Patterns, JMS, EDI (Electronic data interchange), JavaScript, HTML, Oracle 9i (PL/SQL), Tomcat 4.0.1, WSAD5.0, Webshpere Application Server, JDO, WINCVS 1.2, GNATS 4.0, Windows 2000.

Confidential

Programmer

• The project was developed to computerize all the functions of the bank. It includes Loans, Savings Account, Foreign Exchange and Security. V isual Basic 5.0, Oracle 7.1 on Windows NT.