SUMMARY:

• Results - oriented leader, adaptable agile/scrum project practitioner meeting business needs on multiple complex transformation projects.
• Experience leading onsite/offshore teams as well as vendor’s management in new and upgrade projects initiatives.
• Proficient in Agile/Scrum and Waterfall methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Analysis: Agile/Scrum MasterRequirements elicitation and analysisData assurance-SQLWaterfallBA planning & gap analysisData Analytics

Quality Assurance and data Validation: Test driven apps developmentTraceability & monitoringData and business process models

Project/Product Management: Project BudgetsRisk & change managementDigital forensicsChange ManagementStakeholder & communication managementHP-Quality Center/Jira test and issues management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Texas

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Interface with various project stakeholders in technical and functional roles, requesting project team resources, preparation of and maintaining project documentation. Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity by 40% within the first year of Agile adoption
• Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity within the first year of Agile adoption
• Collaborate Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings
• Facilitated team and cross-team Retrospectives to build good working relationships among the 3 agile teams.
• Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlog
• Responsible for two Agile Scrum teams and one Kanban team.

Consultant/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives. Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts.
• Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
• Encouraged and implemented agile process improvements
• Enhancement of information radiators like burn down, issues and progress in Rally and Jira.
• Work with component teams to resolve issues
• Assessment of web applications vulnerabilities for common web application security vulnerabilities as defined by OWASP framework and security best practices guidelines.
• Influence and guide on site, offsite and offshore teams and project stakeholders on Software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Effective team relationship builder as well as conflict management resulting in desired outcomes.

Environment: Agile/Scrum Oracle CRM, Oracle Database 10g/118/12c, SQL Developer, HP Quality Centre, MS Project, Rally, Jira, SharePoint, OBIEE 10g/11g, Jira, Birst and Tableau 8.0 BI tools.

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• My responsibilities included interfacing with different stakeholders, project team members and end users in reviewing and certifying project scope during the SDLC phases of the projects.
• Part of my functional role involved evaluation and analysis of data and its traceability within the corporate network and using best practice to mine data.
• At the deployment of the products/project the project owners, users experienced more efficient and friendlier user interfaces and services that also resulted in improvements of customer sentiments.

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Planned, developed and managed multiple project streams Oracle/Siebel CRM/OBIEE and ERP software using agile method, with expected outcomes delivered within budget ($I mil) and on schedule.
• Work with the project team configure ERP/CRM applications to integrate with existing AML software and applications to monitor client’s activities
• Coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives.
• Worked closely with Product Owners, coordinating grooming and prioritization of product backlogs and also maintained and updated information radiators on a regular basis.
• Collaborated with direct and indirect project team members, including BA, BSA and developers.
• Responsible for leading project transition, rollout plans including solving post deployment issues using Scrum and Agile methodology.

Scrum BI Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interface and assisted product end users maintain prioritized backlog list and user stories.
• Influenced scrum team to promote and enforce time boxes as well as keep sprint artifacts visible.
• Collaborated and influenced product owners and other stakeholders to minimize external interference and distractions to shield scrum team from.
• Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs
• Worked with customers and product manager to prioritize and validate requirements.

Environment: Oracle HR Analytics, OBIEE, Teradata data warehouse, Queryman, CA Clarity, Power, Teamforge, HP Quality Centre, Informatica 8.6, MS Project Server/Project 2007, Jira and SharePoint.

BI Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated and provided professional leadership to project teams and actively involved in agile /scrum practices staff development and project governance.
• Effective guided and assisted business product owners establish good governance procedures including working on AML applications and monitoring client’s activities.
• Ensured that all project deliverables were in accordance with applicable banking standards, quality requirements.
• Influenced project team to self - organize; promote comradeship by voluntarily take sprint tasks.

Environment: Oracle EBS R12, OBIEE, AS400, DB2, Oracle 10g, Toad 9.0, Windows Adv. Server 2003, SQL, PL/SQL, MS Project 2007, MS Visio 2007 Professional, SharePoint, Lotus Notes.

OBIEE/EBS Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Delivered desired expected project outcomes including back-end quality new functionalities.
• Collaborated with different stakeholders to create and executed project work plans including revised project plans to meet changing needs and requirements, on the projects.
• Managed quality assurance phase identifying, tracking, and resolving open project issues.
• Co-ordinated pre-releases, release processes including change control, and production migration.
• Played major role of point of contact in tracking issues and communicating them to vendors, management and stakeholders.

Environment: Oracle EBS R11, OBIEE, DB2, Oracle 10g, Toad 9.0, Windows Adv. Server 2003, SQL, PL/SQL, MS Project 2007, MS Visio 2007 Professional, SharePoint, Lotus Notes.

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created, implemented project work plans, revised project plans to meet changing project needs.
• Excellent Business writing skills in writing Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), Systems Design Specification, Systems Requirements Specification (SRS).
• Conducted requirement analysis techniques such as Business Process Automation, Business Process Improvement, Business Process Re-engineering and SWOT Analysis.

Projects Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Strong knowledge and hands on experience of SDLC methodologies, and Business Process Management Models (BPM) like Waterfall, Agile/scrum and Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Understanding and working with AS-IS and TO-BE business process (GAP and impact analysis)
• Assisted QA teams in developing test cases, data mapping, conversion spreadsheets, test plans.
• Responsible for creating user stories, user cases, sequences diagrams, and data flow diagrams.