SUMMARY:

• 10 plus years of IT Project Management with Scrum Master and Agile Coach experience with large US Corporations with a good understanding of their PM Methodologies
• As a Lead Project Manager, successfully delivered several projects Confidential &T for the last few years including leading a PMO with several Lead Project Managers and Scrum masters and established the PMO processes for successful intake and delivery of projects
• As a Certified Scrum Master and Agile coach, led scrum teams involving both onsite and offshore teams for 3 years and ensured success in timely delivery of the agreed to backlog of every iteration
• Performed the Scrum of Scrums Master role for 2 years in resolving impediments across Agile teams and integrate their work to meet the common project objective
• Performed the Business Analyst/Solution designer Role along with the Project Management responsibility for 4 years
• Project management experience spanning both offshore and onsite operations and several full life cycle project implementation experience including large mainframe conversion project with cross functional teams and Matrix organizations
• Large Project Management
• Professional Scrum Master certified
• Agile Implementations
• SAFe Certified Agilist
• Business Analysis & Sol. Design
• CRM Implementations
• People and Vendor Management
• SOX Compliance
• Business Process Improvements
• Risk Analysis & Mitigation

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SKILLS: Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) from the ISACA Professional Scrum Master . SAFe Certified Agilist. Proficient in Agile tools like JIRA, Rally and TDP MS SharePoint Proficient on MS office tools, MS Visio & MS Project Salesforce experience BI tools knowledge

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Dallas TX

Lead Project Manager and Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed several projects as a Lead Project Manager over a period of 8 years following both Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Also worked in an environment that started transitioning into Devops.
• Ensured on time delivery of projects and kept costs within budget greater than 95% of the time.
• Led a team of Lead Project Managers and Scrum masters for the past 3 years for the PMO and established standard processes for the successful delivery of projects.
• As a Scrum master and Agile Coach, led scrum teams for 3 plus years and ensured timely delivery of all agreed to backlog for the iteration by using Kanban board, burndown charts and scrum ceremonies.
• As an Agile coach, provided the required to the scrum teams on all aspects of scrum.
• As a Scrum of Scrums performed the role of a servant leader to collaborate between cross delivery teams to resolve impediments and ensure timely delivery
• Project Control and monitoring, status reporting, taking corrective actions as needed, reach out to leadership for help as needed to keep project on schedule.
• Contingency planning, what if scenarios, coming up with options for critical issues and making decisions on course of action in consultation with leadership
• Managed client expectations and ensured 100% satisfaction, early demos of the developed components to take feedback and provide corrective actions.
• Performed all functions of PMBOK knowledge areas - Scope, Schedule, Change, Risk and issues, Cost and Quality & People

Confidential, Phoenix AZ

Solution Designer and Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• The following programs, brought the thought leadership into Solution designing, Planning and successfully executing around 15 projects using Waterfall and Agile methodologies & processes.

Confidential

Lead - Shared Services group

Responsibilities:

• As a lead of the Shared Services group, led a team of resources who performed all the functions of SOX and other legal Compliance, Change Management, Issue and Problem management, Vendor tracking across applications.
• Directly reporting into the India IT operations head, created new common processes across towers, resolved all outstanding compliance issues (with zero noncompliance for two years)
• Created a new Problem Management process using the ITIL framework and successfully managed several projects through their implementations

Confidential

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a project lead, managed several Mainframe Application Enhancements, large mainframe conversion projects, maintenance and support Confidential StateFarm Insurance.
• Participated in the SEI-CMM level audit activities and helped with Satyam being certified as a SEI-CMM level 5 company.
• As the Program Manager designed the overall plan and sequence of applications, secured required resources and funding, planned and tracked execution of each application, encouraged reusability of components between various application, stakeholder interaction and status updates, managed issues and risks and successfully executed many applications to completion using the onsite/offshore model for StateFarm. Handled about 60 resources directly reporting to me
• As a Business Analyst/Project Manager, created requirements and prototype, through several JAD and RAD sessions, for the quick development of an internal website to view the details of all the policies, bills and Inquire payments, make payments and provide a consolidated view of a customer’s interaction with StateFarm.
• Successfully Project Managed Siebel implementation for Guardian Life Insurance Company and Cigna Healthcare.

Confidential

Accounts Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implemented an internally developed Accounting software customized for the needs of Confidential . Involved in requirements development, functional design, testing and final implementation.
• Successfully implemented a system of Monthly financial reporting of the branch office operations to the head office.
• Developed a monthly revenue recognition model for Fixed bid and Time and Material projects undertaken by Confidential based on the Purchase orders and contracts with various customers. This helped in forecasting revenue for a considerable future.
• Created Project budgets based on available contracts and forecasted pipeline and monitored the actual and did variance reporting.

Confidential

Sr. Accounts Officer

Responsibilities:

• Spartek corporate accounts finalization and publishing for two consecutive years.
• Corporate Income tax returns finalization and filing for two consecutive years.
• Complete Payroll accounting for Spartek.
• Complying with the Tax Deduction Confidential source provisions of the Income Tax Act.
• Accounting software package implementation.