SUMMARY

• 8 years of Professional experience in the software industry focusing on Agile, SCRUM and SDLC's for product and projects development with in - house and offshore team's solutions.
• Experienced in SCRUM based iterative incremental development showing increasing business value every SPRINT.
• Experienced in working fast paced environment & completed project tasks effectively under immense pressure.
• Experienced in techniques such as SPRINT planning, Product Backlog management, Agile estimation, daily SCRUM, metrics such as Burn-down & Velocity charts, Sprint summary report, Sprint review/retro meetings etc.
• Expertise in handling teams involved in developing data driven applications using big data tools and microsoft applications like SQL Server.
• Focused on building high-performing teams, support organization structure optimization and communication alignment to increase development velocity and quality toward business driven goals.
• Extensive experience in project/program management life cycle for large application development projects including scoping, estimating, budgeting, scheduling, data/metrics analysis, resource/risk management.
• 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.
• Expertise in Waterfall and iterative methodologies such as Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology, and Agile.
• Good exposure to Agile methodologies like XP, Kanban.
• Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.
• Excellent knowledge in waterfall to Agile transformation using Scrum at both organization and project level.
• Good understanding of data analysis techniques.
• Good Understanding of SQL Server and ETL tools.
• Expert knowledge in understanding human resource data and finding insights from them.
• Experienced in measuring Employee engagement and key HR Metrics.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Tools: MS Office, MS Project.

Software Management Tools: TFS, JIRA, RALLY/Ca

Programming & Technologies: Python, Java, SQL, SPSS, Selenium.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Product Lead for two scrum development teams handling big data analytics platforms and data mart environments. Teams are distributed with offshore and onshore team members.
• Teams work on data modeling, ETL development, data loads, report build, testing.
• Managed weekly sprints for both teams as Product Owner.
• Lead Requirement Engineering huddles before start of the sprints.
• Implementing Scrum with TFS to track the progress of project and involved in creating Product Backlogs, EPICs and User Stories.
• Getting ready for each sprint and release planning meeting by working with team to breakdown Feature Stories into small deliverable User Stories that are appropriately sized for each sprint.
• Prioritized backlog in Agile environment using TFS.
• Coaching the team as Product Owner in understanding the vision and goals of the project with each sprint in focus.
• Managed development of applications from concept/idea to live product.
• Worked to improve conversion rates by running weekly A/B tests of each product's funnel.
• Worked alongside senior management to define quarterly and yearly goals. Led weekly performance review meeting with executive team.
• Underpin the delivery and iteration of digital services through effective analysis of qualitative and quantitative user data.
• Facilitate Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Review, and Product Backlog Refinement meetings.
• Track burndowns/burnups throughout the sprint and release.
• Track and remind the team of improvement experiments from their retrospective.
• Provided weekly status reports to the customer, including sprint scope, issues, risks, mitigation plan and up and coming activities
• Adopted UX best practices to optimize and deliver the state-of-art experience across multiple channels (Web/Mobile/Tablet) to customers.
• Worked with UX team to ensure the business vision is clearly articulated in the wireframes, prototypes, etc.
• Interact and lead software development group in change control, issues resolution, requirements gathering, analysis and design, risk analysis, risk mitigation, programming/construction, unit testing, integrated, regression and performance testing and transition of applications into a production environment.
• Participated in all sprint (Iterations), Scrum, Daily stand-ups and review meetings to ensure the assigned tasks are completed on time.
• Worked with Stake Holders to prioritize the high level capabilities listed in the Product backlogs (PBI).
• Experience with Epic (Feature set - larger body of work) and Story point assignments for the product backlog.
• Ensuring story points and Estimated hours are setup with Sprint goal in focus.
• Experience with sprint and burn down charts to measure the progress of sprint.
• Helping business prioritize the product backlog (PBI) based on various parameters so the tasks for each sprint (iteration) would be completed on time.
• Align business and technology roadmaps and manage to milestones.
• Making sure Testing and integration teams got enough time from development team to perform their activities.
• Redefine user story priorities of a sprint when team comes up with new discoveries that impact size or value of work.
• Defining the definition of done and updating release backlog accordingly.

Confidential, NY

Scrum master/Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Managing projects around ETL environments and data architecture in insurance domain.
• Teams Build data models for risk and capital management.
• Managed for two teams working in observational research using real world data (Claims and electronic medical records) by setting up and facilitating various agile ceremonies and removing team blockers.
• Manage weekly sprints as Product Owner in agile environment using Rally/Ca.
• Develops and manages project schedules.
• Coaching the team on the rules of Scrum, guiding the team to self-organization, continuous improvement, and cross-functionality.
• Recognizes risk triggers and clearly communicates situation to project teams, sponsors and stakeholders.
• Communicate with stakeholders for product backlog refinement and user story prioritization.
• Creation of Product Backlog in Rally/Ca and prioritize user stories.
• Communicate stake holders for requirement gathering, analysis and validation.
• Managing web application development cycle effectively.
• Implementation of agile policies in web development team to increase the capacity of the team.
• Facilitate all the Scrum ceremonies to achieve the agility in project.
• Acted as liaison between product owner and Development team, Development team and testing team and between development and production team so as to achieve the sprint goal.
• Presenting Weekly reports to stakeholders internal and external on velocity on the project or sprint.

Confidential, Lincoln

Data Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Experience in implementing the projects in Agile software development using TFS as software management tool, and played the role of Scrum Master for more than one teams across Onsite and Offshore locations.
• Collaborate with product owner and marketing teams to understand industry trend customer needs and develop strategy for building common product/service to save overhead cost.
• Conducts analysis forecasting trends and develops reports and recommendations relating to Human Resources programs and activities.
• Conducts Employee Engagement Surveys across the organizations and analyzing the data for measuring key drivers of engagement.
• Participates in requirement analysis meetings to manage the product log effectively.
• Provides support for human capital strategies and initiatives to include measurement and tracking.
• Conducts research and analytical studies, prepares reports that include cost/benefit analyses and evaluations of various Human Resources programs.
• Identifies administrative needs and develops appropriate solutions or recommendations for implementation and maintenance
• Coordinates collection and preparation of routine and special reports such as but not limited to total rewards, headcount, time and attendance, terminations, new hires, transfers.
• Reconciles and validates data as necessary to ensure completeness and accuracy of information. Prepares quarterly statistics and analyses for Human Resources dashboard
• Analyzes procedures and workflow of a unit or program, and recommends improvements. Studies methods of improving work measurements or performance standards.
• Utilizes Process Flow to design and execute streamlined processes
• Researches issues/problems, develops and recommends solutions. Tests new applications and processes.

Confidential

Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Creating, extracting and manipulating data used for strategic business analysis and reporting.
• Analyzing the segregated data and preparing a report.
• Provide detailed designs based on user requirements.
• Suggesting clients with accurate solutions.
• Studies on competitive and market intelligence.
• Data extraction from various sources at times.
• Doing Post Performance Analysis.