SUMMARY

• 18 years of vast progressive experience in IT Industry from hardcore developer, team lead, to project lead and further as a Technical Product Owner / Business Analyst / Scrum Master
• Coordinating and facilitating sessions with the business and IT to identify the gaps. Document business requirements To be against As is and drive completion.
• Led sizeable teams and managed several assignments from inception to execution, focusing on customer value and business impact.
• Successfully implemented 200+ Reporting System for Finance service community which includes Financial Reporting (Includes Cost and Management Accounting Reporting), Planning & Budgeting Reporting and Forecast Reporting.
• Issue analysis and getting to root cause analysis and arrive at long term solutions.
• Worked for multiple software development teams together to apply Waterfall methodologies, helping build business case, creating vision, planning deliverables, helping teams to convert requirements into technical language, facilitate quality assurance and accepting the requirements to UAT.
• Primarily responsible for conversion of projects to Agile Mindset to stay in adherence to Firmwide policy. Ensuring communication across all levels, creating User Stories, managing sprint planning, sprint demo, retrospective meetings, and daily stand - ups, and managing the product backlog.
• Presented Agile metrics to the stakeholders like Velocity, Sprint and Release Burn up and Burn Down charts, Control Charts, Cumulative Flow diagrams.
• Led integration of cross functional streams to deliver the product together thru effective program management by ensuring getting right team members on the communication channel.
• Efficient in real time data extraction using MS SQL, presented data flow from multiple sources into the application and worked on data visualization projects.
• Extensive end-to-end experience managing & delivering technical business solutions for Confidential ’s esteem client Confidential (Professional Services), LLP and International SOS (Healthcare).
• Used multiple Microsoft tools and technologies like TFS, ASP.NET, SQL Server, SSRS, SSIS
• Trained for JIRA, KANBAN framework.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Alpharetta GA

Technical Product Owner / Business Analyst / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Self-trained and successfully converted all the Projects into Agile Mindset using Scrum Framework.
• Facilitated Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective via effective presentation skills.
• Using Team Foundation server, ensured Agile Dashboard is established and easily available for Stakeholders any time.
• Reported Burn up and Burn down charts, Velocity reports.
• Continuous grooming of backlog and prioritization with stakeholder to provide maximum value.
• Timely responding to queries from technical team members to avoid sprint delays.
• Managed multiple Sub Programs and assisted various project stakeholders in planning, tracking, monitoring milestones and deliverables.
• Maximize the team productivity by timely mitigating the requirements related impediments.
• Set appropriate expectations between team members and stakeholders while mitigating the impediments.
• Built an accurate release plan that sets a realistic and predictable timeline for key project deliverables. Assists in identifying cross-program/portfolio dependencies, tracks and monitors resolutions.
• Timely Risk assessment and mitigation plans.
• Facilitation with self-organizing team thru the mechanism of continuous coaching
• Coordinated the Integration work for above suite of projects with external applications Hierarchy Management Tool, Master Data Management and Enterprise Data Warehouse by using scaled scrum.

Confidential, Alpharetta GA

Technical Product Owner / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on building Business Case, Project Charter, Vision and Scope, Requirement Traceability, Use Case documents, Business, Functional and Non-Functional requirements.
• Prepared User Requirements Specification (URS), Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), end to end traceability matrix, Functional testing document, User Guides
• Wrote technical documents like Design document, database designs, Multiple Sources to target mapping, Data Mapping, data validations / comparative sheets.
• Worked on As is (Current) vs To be (Future) process. Worked on Gap Analysis between the process to build better product.
• Created Process Flow diagrams and Data flow diagrams for stakeholders.
• Worked with transition management team for Business Impact Analysis, Operation Manual for successful implementation of all the releases on production environments.
• Effective handled the Change Management to separate issues from changes.
• Facilitated quality assurance and accepted requirements to UAT.
• Involved in complete SDLC of the project to ensure smooth delivery from inception to production deployment.

Confidential, Alpharetta GA

Technical Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Successfully implemented 200+ Financial Reporting System called GFT in 2 years which includes Financial reporting, Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting. This was one of the major digital transformation within EY Finance Services division.
• Used multiple Microsoft tools and technologies like TFS, VSS, ASP.NET 2.0, SQL Server, SSAS, MDX, SSRS, SSIS, SQL Server data tools 2012, MDS/MDM.
• Led the initiatives from Requirement gathering, Designing the product, working with stakeholders to explain process flows, data flows. Constant demos of the product.
• Managed cross functional teams like data flow team, reporting team, SharePoint Front end team.
• Plan system releases and ensure proper SDLC is followed as per CMMi Level 5 standards.
• As project manager on client’s side, created project plan with resource assignments. Understand resource requirements and move resources based on client’s needs.
• Provide time and effort estimation based on client’s budget requirements. Manage client escalations and grow client relationship for better service and business.
• Manage project resources including hiring, firing from project team and vacation requests. Perform annual performance appraisal for team members.
• Attending Senior Management reviews, providing weekly status of entire team to customer and upper management. Raising people, project, and task schedule delay risks in time.
• Worked on custom proprietary EY ExecuteMDX tool.
• Suggested training and process improvements in the department.

Confidential

MS Technical Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked for world’s leading Healthcare Provider International SOS for their Emergency Travel Assistance Program across the globe using WCF technology to send data asynchronousfrom one service endpoint to another.
• Wore multiple hats like Subject Matter Expert, Solution architect, leading day to day activities, assisting project management activities.
• Involved in Demand Planning, Resource Requirement, Workload Analysis. Keeping governance around various work streams to maintain right data related to IT demand and resource requisitions.
• Assisted the project and program managers in Planning, tracking, monitoring, Prepare plan-driven agendas, minutes, and action lists for team meetings.
• Collaborate with Technical and Business Managers in estimating, planning and scheduling changes to application.
• Assisted in multiple work streams and cross-functional teams and coordinated across teams within organization’s matrix environment.
• Worked to ensure project is compliant with CMMi level 5 as it was selected for the audit.
• Providing training and coaching of staff along with ensuring compliance of the project management process

Confidential 

MS Sr. Developer / Technical Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Extensive end-to-end experience managing & delivering technical business solutions for Confidential ’s esteem client Confidential, LLP
• Managed work assignment to several team members and collaborated with external stakeholders for requirement gathering, design and development of the assessment system.
• Worked as Subject Matter Expert for external reporting application based on data produced out of the application.
• Used multiple Microsoft tools and technologies like TFS, VSS, ASP.NET 2.0, SQL Server, SSRS 2005, SSIS 2005
• Responsible for maintaining the development timelines and reporting project status to Senior management reviews and to the stakeholder’s reviews.
• Built knowledge repository for project artifacts and maintained it for quality audits and other governance reviews.
• Also lead initiative to build a custom code generator tool called “HEYCodeGenerator” that automated several tasks to add to basic code project. This was recognized at organization level and widely adopted for several projects.
• Trained internal team to implement and use proprietary tools to maintain standard code and process.