SUMMARY

• Overall 15+ years’ experience in Project Management, Iteration Planning and Management, Delivery Management, Stakeholder Management, Requirements analysis with rich Onsite Client facing Experience (USA) of around 5 years, presently working in a Delivery Management role with wide exposure to the below mentioned areas.
• 10 years of Project Management Implementation Experience in both Waterfall & Agile Environment. Managed mid to large size critical projects concurrently from concept through implementation.
• Experience as Iteration Manager / Scrum Master for the Agile team
• Implement Scrum methodology and facilitate ceremonies like IPM / Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, 3 Amigos discussions, Daily Standups etc.
• Maintain Visual Boards with Story cards and respective status
• Create integrated project plans and definite the mile stones for each Project, track the Project timelines.
• Manage the Resource forecast and track Financials throughout the Sprint/Iterations.
• Conduct Release retrospection, document the Lessons Learnt and Best practices
• Well experienced working on SOA environment and Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Experienced in project planning, estimation, preparing Gantt charts, project metrics, risk assessment, defect metrics
• Certified PMP (Project Management Professional), CSM (Certified SCRUM Master), Accredited “Associate Project Manager” by the Confidential accreditation board.
• Experienced in client relationship management and stake holder management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: C, C++, Java, Html, ASP, XML, Mainframes, Confidential Master Data Management (MDM)

Process: Agile/Scrum, Waterfall model, V model, IRUP( Confidential Rational Unified Process)

RDBMS: Oracle, DB2, Healthcare Transaction base (HTB), SQL Server 2005, TOAD, SQL Developer, Initiate Inspector, Initiate Workbench

Operating System: WinNT, Win95, Win 98, Win2k, WinVista, Unix

Tools: CA Clarity, Open workbench, Microsoft Project professional 2013 (MPP), Microsoft Team foundation Server (TFS), SOAP UI, Fitnesse, Rational Suite of Tools( Rational Requisitepro, Rational Robot, Rational Clearquest, Rational Clear case, Rational Test Manager), HP Quality Center 9.2, ALM, JIRA

Monitoring Tools: Coradiant, Gomez

Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports, Omniture, Yantra, Request Tracker, Clarity.

SCM Tools: Rational Clearcase, PVCS

Portal: Orion Concerto Portal

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Columbus OH

Iteration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand - ups, etc.)
• Maintain Visual Management Boards with the latest story cards and the status
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams and the quality of deliverables
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of 15 major initiatives
• Met goal of addressing and resolving Blockers/issues within 24 hours
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time
• Organize IPM (Iteration Planning Meeting), 3 Amigos, Restrospectives, and release planning
• Story card management - ensuring that the cards are correct and are included and prioritized correctly for the release and iteration
• Enabled individual project teams to share their learning with the organization

Confidential, New Jersey

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepared a schedule plan for the Support activities for the team.
• Represented Confidential India team in the Status meeting with the entire Vendor project Managers.
• Designed Ticket handling procedure for the support project and communicated to the Client and Vendors (Orion, Initiate and Oracle)
• Involved in preparing AID (Application Information Document), ASCP (Application Support Control Plan) and ASMP (Application Support Migration Plan).
• Participated in the Conflict Resolution within the team.
• Support accurate asset management accounting and control.
• Management activities including project/program planning, executing, monitoring, controlling and risk management.
• Assisting in design to our Dev lead by providing data on risk analysis.
• Generation of design documents in Test Director against the Prototypes and Functional specification.
• Analyzing requirements for the design and development.
• Reviewing the Requirement documents and assisting Dev lead on Design documents
• Analyzing the defects and working on root cause analysis
• Fixed and Resolved the Defects and updated in the defect tracking tools
• Reporting of Defect status.