SUMMARY

• Around 20 yearsof professional experience on Software & Infrastructure projects, Software systems analysis/design and development.
• Skilled Sr. Project Manager - PMP certified & Certified Scrum master
• Working with cross functional teams, Development, QA, Business, Operations to define requirements, stakeholders, schedule, risks, communication, Design, Implementation & run books
• Evangelist of agile/scrum principles and methodology with ability to educate & reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
• Facilitating the sprint planning meeting, Daily Scrum, sprint review meeting, and sprint retrospective meeting.
• Strong Insurance & Healthcare domain knowledge with hands-on work experience partnering with Pharmacists & nursing staff.
• Handled multiple roles - Project Manager, Scrum Master, Business Analyst, Program Manager,Developer and Lead.
• Holds hands on experience on C#.Net, Java script, XML, HTML, MS-SQL Server, Java concepts.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Implement Agile methodology, principles and practices ensuring enterprise vision of the Data Excellence is delivered for Confidential Big Data Platform
• Helping various teams to transition into Agile by Coach agile teams and Product Owners on Agile practices, techniques, and semantics ensuring that all team and program-level ceremonies take place and those who attend understand their purposes while maintaining the ceremony time-box.
• Identify and resolve impediments and conflicts with the project team.
• Ensured being on top of Product Burn-up and burn-down charts, Velocity trends, to monitor and measure project success and identify/mitigate impediments during Sprints
• Participate in Scrum of Scrum meetings and present team status, impediments to the Program Management
• Train team on Agile principles practices and tools
• Managed projects while helping PO and team prioritizing requirements, creating user stories, setting milestones, ensuring improving team velocity and communicating project status with leadership
• Liaison between Business and Technology to smoothly run the project and release schedule for the application
• Effectively conducted Agile ceremonies such as Backlog grooming, story sizing, Sprint Planning, Standup Meetings, Retrospectives

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Communications with the Program director, PMO office and Steering Committee.
• Directly responsible for providing oversight and input into the estimating, RFP, vendor evaluation, tracking and reporting, deliverables, deployments, engaging with 3rd party stakeholders and quality
• Communicating, advocating & onboarding various LOB’s of the risks & moving them to the required platform.
• Working with various Project Mangers to get different projects executed & retrofitting in the bigger project.
• Using tools like Service Now & Prosight for Project Life Cycle Management, Project Reporting & Management.
• Working & building relationship with different technology groups & Business for Scope, Project Plans, ROI, Risk, development, communication, interfacing & integration of applications
• Working with vertical directors for resource management & planning.
• Understanding & freezing on requirements.
• Facilitating Scrum ceremonies - the sprint planning meeting, Daily Scrum, sprint review meeting, and sprint retrospective meeting.
• Worked with the Scrum Team, stakeholders and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery
• Ensured being on top of Product Burn-up and burn-down charts, Velocity trends, to monitor and measure project success and identify/mitigate impediments during Sprints
• Identifying process deficiencies, introducing them & making sure they are adhered by team.
• Also, the process results are monitored & evaluated for improvements, quality of deliverables & efficiency. Documentation for Audits for compliance.
• Prioritizing & executing work items with IA’s, SA’s & business users.
• Working with geographically dispersed teams.
• Coaching & mentoring the team.
• Managing & coordinating deliverables from development till deployment & production checkout

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Taking various project’s from concept to closure.
• Fostering Agile methodologies
• Facilitating Scrum ceremonies - the sprint planning meeting, Daily Scrum, sprint review meeting, and sprint retrospective meeting.
• Work with clients to define the product vision and initiate the product road map, articulating the epics and features that should seed the product backlog
• Worked with the Scrum Team, stakeholders and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery
• Ensured being on top of Product Burn-up and burn-down charts, Velocity trends, to monitor and measure project success and identify/mitigate impediments during Sprints.
• Communicating across teams & business partners.
• System documentation & approvals
• Supporting various departments in Confidential & Co. to interface & process their transactions through GSMOS
• Working with geographically dispersed teams.
• Coaching & mentoring the team.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with development team and Release Train Engineer to ensure enterprise expectations are delivered by the development teams.
• Ensured being on top of Product Burn-up and burn-down charts, Velocity trends, to monitor and measure project success and identify/mitigate impediments during Sprints.
• Train fellow Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Development Teams in Agile practices, Values, Ceremonies, and fundamentals.
• Liaison between Business and Technology to smoothly run the project and release schedule for the application.
• Implemented Agile project management best practices such as Backlog grooming, story sizing, Sprint Planning, Standup Meetings, Scrum of Scrums, Retrospectives etc.
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts with in project team. Managing & coordinating deliverables from development till deployment & production checkout

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Product Road map along with Product Owner
• Taking the project from concept to closure.
• Understanding & freezing on requirements.
• Schedule, Risk & Communication planning.
• Monitoring & controlling the project activities.
• Maintaining responsibility for all resource planning and recruitment.
• Tracking team member performance against schedule and targets, providing feedback, resolving issues, and coordinating changes to enhance project performance.
• Research, design, developing & documenting various modules
• Code review, adhering to coding standards using Code Analysis, bug tracker management, maintaining release notes, traceability matrix.
• Working with documentation team on product documentation, Release engineering team for builds & Beta team for Field validation.
• Design, plan, coordination of work teams & taking project decisions at corporate level.
• Provide technical & product support and training to client, cross functional teams & team members.