SUMMARY:

• Experienced Scrum Master/Agile Project manager offering 16+ years of success leading all phases of diverse technology projects;PMI - ACP, SAFe credentials; bachelor’s degrees in Computer science Engineering; and five plus years of computer programming and design experience. And 10+ years of project management experience.
• 5+ years of Scrum master experience including 1+ years of experience in scaled agile; Involved in transformations of waterfall to agile for 2 projects; strong knowledge in Agile & Lean values, principles and practices.
• 2 years of real world Agile coach/Trainer experience; conducted several workshop sessions; agile games; guiding teams; advisor to teams; track metrics and building trends for improving teams.
• Holding basic and scaled agile s with adequate knowledge in agile transformations; practical experience employing techniques for identifying and filling gaps left in implementing Agile & Lean approach.
• Capable of leading mixture of Agile and traditional projects; of medium to large size and complexity; as a Lead Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer, Agile coach and Sr. Project Manager.
• Business domains; exposed to various domains like Health Insurance, Mobile Insurance, Health care services(ROI), Banking, Finance & Investments.
• Business strategist;plan and manage multimillion-dollar projectsaligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Excellent communication;leverage technical, business acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.
• Production support; good exposure to production support for large scale enterprise applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Language: Java (J2SE, J2EE & JDO; EJB 2.0 & JDO Specs Implementation), C#.NET, XML, C, C++

Service: Web Service, RESTful API

Modeling: Conceptual, Logical, Physical

Operating System: Windows, XP, Linux, Unix

Databases: Oracle 9i, SQL Server, DB2

UI Technologies: Angular JS, Swing, JSP, HTML, AWT, JavaScript, Struts, Spring, Servlets, JSON, AJAX

SDLC: Water fall, Scaled Agile, Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban

Object Oriented Tools: UML - Rational Rose, TogetherJ, EA

OR Mapping tools: FrontierSuite, Hibernate

Tools: and Utilities: JIRA, Rally, RTC, RQM, Confluence, MS-Project, VISIO, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint (MS Office Suite), GIT, GITHUB, CVS, SVN, Clear case, Jenkins

Web & Application Server: Tomcat, WebSphere, JBoss, WebLogic

ETL: Humming Bird

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Agile Project Manager/ Program Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead 2 scrum teams under one of the 6 Agile Release Train (ART)
• Understand the dependencies both to and from the trains; work with the cross teams/trains to ensure interdependents are aligned to meet Program objective
• Help the team plan at the five levels of Agile planning (Vision, Roadmap, Release, Iteration and Daily)
• Facilitate with Product Owner & Team to prepare Release Road map based on release objectives
• Facilitate release planning readiness and the release planning meeting (Program Increment)
• Conduct/part of Scrum of Scrum and publish reports on cross train/team dependencies
• Help team to arrive PI Objectives and construct Program Board.
• Track metrics and help to build high performing team to yield maximum velocity
• Conduct Iteration planning/capacity planning coordinating teams
• Assess the need for grooming and help facilitate setting up calls
• Keep focused on business value and Insist team the importance of business values
• Assist in program execution and tracking
• Interface with Release management team
• Ensure collaboration within and across trains
• Escalate impediments and helps team rolling on with stories
• Help drive program-level continuous improvement
• Conduct program level System Demo and retrospectives
• Track progress and generate metrics
• Conduct retrospectives in different formats (Iteration retrospective and release retrospective)

Environment: Software: CA L7, IBM IIB, IBM ODB, IBM Extreme scale, Marklogic, Hadoop, Member central IBM Rational Team Concert(RTC), Rally, IBM Rational Quality Manager(RQM), IBM Rational ClearCase, Microsoft SharePoint, VISIO, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint (MS Office Suite)

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Lead Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager /Mobile Insurance/ Production support

Responsibilities:

• Chief Scrum Master for 3 scrum teams, acting as Scrum Master for one team and mentor for other 2 teams.
• Coach 3 scrum teams and educate process, tools & techniques, roles and responsibilities
• Responsible for 3 teams in ensuring the agile process is been followed in alignment to the program objectives and goal
• Leading 25+ people both onsite and offshore (virtual teams)
• Conduct Scrum of Scrum thrice a week to align 3 teams dependencies
• Facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, sprint review and demos
• Conduct workshop sessions to ramp up new agile teams, coach individuals/teams towards agile values, principles and practices
• Arrive and Implement situational based process to manage the risks, conflicts, onsite offshore communication, IT business communication, stakeholder communication
• Help in developing estimates, both high-level and detailed, for project work, schedule, cost, and resources
• Build overall project road map, release plan, sprint plan and manage resource and deliverable dependencies
• Ensure that risks are identified and managed proactively; develop and implement risk management plans including mitigation activities as part of sprint road map
• Interface with business and product owner to manage product backlog and value based prioritization and delivery
• Remove obstacles and manage risks to enable team efficiency and effectiveness
• Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing, and leveraging metrics to continuously improve the team’s efficiency and performance
• Ensure appropriate staffing for assigned projects or tasks
• Financial/ Budget - Own the budget, update monthly and quarterly forecasts (capital and expense), Review monthly combined charges, perform variance analysis, perform accruals and Gate funding presentations
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery/TDD

Environment: Software: JBoss 6.x, MS SQL Server 8, Java, spring, Opnet, KeyNote, Omniture, ClickTale, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Gradle JIRA, VISIO, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint (MS Office Suite), Confluence, Clarity

Confidential, Alpharetta GA

Lead Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead Onsite Scrum Master and Offshore Scrum team; leading offshore team with offshore scrum master
• Leading team of size 20+ both onshore and offshore team
• Facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning
• Ensure capacity based planning with planning poker approach
• Focus on communication being virtual team involved with different style
• Setup war room to bridge communication gaps/ production support/ team building activities
• Responsible to ensure the process is understood and followed. Help and motivate team for process
• Remove impediments/road blocks to the team’s progress
• Shield the team from internal and external interruptions
• Help team with agile techniques for effective agile implementation
• Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Causing change that increases the productivity of the team
• Manage risks and dependencies
• Influence and facilitate conflict resolution
• Monitor and communicate team metrics
• Setup information radiators to team and organization

Environment: Software: JBoss 6.x, MS SQL Server 8, Java, spring, Adobe Analytics, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Gradle JIRA, VISIO, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint (MS Office Suite), Confluence

Confidential, Riverwoods, IL

Scrum Master/Mobile Applications/Appstore Deployment

Responsibilities:

• Onshore and offshore model coordinating at different time zones; different styles
• Conduct all Scrum related activities sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, sprint retrospective, and sprint reviews.
• Part of scrum of scrum to align the team goals
• Integrate and coordinate between scrum teams, business and IT; sync on project visions, goals and manage expectations
• Schedule grooming session in alignment to PO(business) and team in accordance to roadmap
• Help to remove impediments
• Be as Servant leader and coach team on need basis
• Represent as Project manager in monthly score card meetings to provide status
• Manage Backlogs, epics, features, user stories and tasks
• Publish sprint notes and reports across wider group on stake holders

Environment: Software: JBoss 6.x, MS SQL Server 8, Java, spring, Jenkins, Maven VISIO, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint (MS Office Suite), MS Project

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• $4.8M+ capEx with a team size of about 40+ people, both onsite and offshore. Project is expected to save operational expenses (OPEX) by $12M for the next three years
• Typical Waterfall project management following Rational unified process(Inception, Elaboration, Construction, Transition & maintenance)
• Handle day to day task tracking, managing schedules, project plans, coordinate resources
• Help define project scope and schedule while working with Confidential Functional and Technical Teams. Organize, lead and facilitate project status and working meetings; prepare and distribute Project Plan, progress reports; manage risks and issues; correct deviations from plans; and perform delivery planning.
• Coordinate regression test planning, identify acceptance criteria and manage the validation process. Distribute test scenarios and test cases coverage summary with details
• Work closely with Confidential PMO group interfacing with business and IT in all 5 phases of the project.
• Develop, maintain and use of standards - estimating template, requirements gathering template, test standardization
• Assess system needs, plan roll-out, finalize release plans and communicate to release management team, coordinate development activities with the offshore team and Track progress of development and testing efforts.
• Forecast and mitigate the resource changes proactively
• Resource Management and development - Manage resource allocation, train and mentor resources, set goals and objectives and conduct performance reviews
• Report status to client PM/VP, escalate issues, communicate possible delays and mitigation plans, submit weekly status reports, provide metrics data for monthly governance meeting
• Established process for collecting and reporting on organizational key performance indicators (KPI’s); define, develop, implement and maintain organization performance measures and metrics including reporting of key performance indicators on projects and initiatives on a regular basis.
• Conduct Project Steering committee meeting monthly to report the project status, escalate issues that need attention, communicate possible delays and mitigation plan, provide metrics data

Environment: Software: AIX, DB2 9.5, JBoss - 6.x, spring, Java and Hibernate 3.0 Microsoft Project, VISIO, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint (MS Office Suite)

Confidential, Alpharetta GA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Offshore Scrum master responsible for facilitating Scrum ceremonies
• Help offshore team align with onsite scrum ceremonies
• First scrum team and first agile project for the organization
• Help coordinate agile from onsite and at offshore
• Set up a new team from ground up, define scope, plan knowledge transition and manage seamless transition into steady state. (transition from waterfall to agile)
• Facilitate to scope out the Requirements and Functionality
• Mitigate the functional, resource, onsite & offshore travel challenges
• Integrated this system with external system built in .Net Environment.
• Facilitate in Requirement Gathering, Building the Functional Use Cases & System Prototype
• Defined the development technical artifact templates and environment setup for the development team.
• Involved in research and development of new technology and provide solution for technical issues
• Identify and manage risks. Publish Risk mitigation plan, action items follow ups
• Established continuous integration and deployment

Environment: Software: Windows, Oracle 10g R2, Jboss 4.0.4, spring, Java, Axis 1.4, Hibernate 3.0, JUnit, Emma, Ant MS Project, VISIO, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint (MS Office Suite)

Confidential

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement collection
• Involved in product analysis to help understand the current system
• Studied the expectations of the new systems from compliance and regulatory perspective
• Performed Fitness to use - mapping study between old and new application
• Tailored the gap; obtained the approval of new system implementation
• Coordinated offshore team in understanding to new system modeling
• Involved in Planning and tailoring the new system needs of the existing system
• Delegated the work (bring onsite PM)
• Performed client coordination to validate the product at regular intervals
• Onsite and Offshore Team management
• Implemented the new system and UATed
• Scheduled meeting with BSP to meet regulatory requirements and approved
• Generated SPR and CTR Reports and analysis of the data.

Environment: Software: Eclipse, EJB, FrontierSuite, HTTP, Java, JavaScript, JBoss, JFreeChart, JSP, JWrap, Oracle DB, Servlets, Struts, TogetherJ, Tomcat and Win 2000, XML VISIO, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint (MS Office Suite)

Confidential

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Ensure coverage of RTGS, NEFT, SWIFT Specifications for implementation
• Domain knowledge transition for entire team
• Conduct reverse presentation and tests for specification coverage
• Involved in requirement collection
• Client coordination
• Involved in designing, planning and work delegation
• Track daily progress and update plan
• Prepare deliverables and deploy
• Attending production fixes

Environment: Software: CVS, DB2, Eclipse, EJB, FrontierSuite, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JBoss, WebSphere, JFreeChart, JSP, JWrap, Rational Rose, Servlets, Struts, Sybase and Tomcat VISIO, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint (MS Office Suite)

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understand the Interfaces of Corporate banking application (Payment system)
• Analysis and Design of Specific Functional Units
• Designed and developed MLI Interfacing component
• Integrated this system with Corporate banking application
• Unit and Integration Testing
• Ascertaining quality standards
• Generation of Reports and analysis of the data
• Co-ordination with clients
• Client support

Environment: Software: HTML, Java, JavaScript, Websphere, Servlets, Struts, Oracle VISIO, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint (MS Office Suite)

Confidential

Programmer/ Technical Lead/ EJB Implementations/Persistence & Transaction Manager

Responsibilities:

• Understand J2SE, J2EE and JDO Specifications
• Knowledge on lifecycle of the objects is essential
• Involved in Design, development
• Conduct and participate in code review
• Prepare artifacts and deploy
• Involved in Java byte level coding (assembly programming) to inbuilt the business the logic
• Part of FS Runtime engine
• Complete understanding of the J2EE and JDO way of handing the objects
• Detailed study and behavior of leading application server to integrate FS applications
• Involved in Benchmarking FS Runtime engine with market wide available persistence engine to enhance performance
• Helped team to build various enterprise applications on the FS models to prove the capability of FS(Sales strategy)

Environment: Software: J2SE, J2EE and JDO, Websphere, WebLogic, Jboss, IPortal, Eclipse, Ant VISIO, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint (MS Office Suite)