SUMMARY

• Project Manager with Certified Scrum Master with 10+ years of overall experience and capable of delivering Financial, IT software and Web development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams.
• Perform Project ManagementDuties for a large globally dispersed development team based out of USA and India using SharePoint as PMO Portal for Product Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, the Daily Stand Up, Retrospectives, Management Reporting, including presentation of sprint results to the customer.
• Promote and support the project adoption of theWaterfall and Scrum Development Framework.
• Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self - management.
• Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
• Hands on experience in directing and supervising support resources for project activities
• Strong background in mapping business process, flowchart, entity modelling using Microsoft Visio and Word
• Strong management experience in all phases of life cycle, including requirements gathering, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, issue log/defect tracking, management, and reporting.
• Strong communication skills and excellent note taking ability to track & report meeting minutes
• Strong business stakeholder collaboration skills, ability to extract requirements from business stakeholders and use Microsoft Visio to map the business process using flowcharts & wireframe techniques
• Excellent communication skills, leadership qualities and people management skills to build strong team environments and ensure maximum personal contribution.
• Gather and analyze requirements, improve and support clients businesses with my business analysis skills
• Strong Business, Project Management, QA, Sales and Technology background with ability to work in a fast paced diversified environment.
• Acted as a Project Lead in my enterprise project engagement using an offshore, near- shore and onshore team
• Excel in dynamic, demanding environments while remaining pragmatic, focused contribution to clients and overall success
• Expertise in Legal and Professional services
• Strong in Legal and Professional services
• Strong client service experience and a passion for rebuilding and structuring business processes and documentation

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Technologies: Microsoft SharePoint, Office 365 SharePoint Online

Cloud / Online Services: Office 365.

IDE / Tools: Excel

Operating Systems: Windows 8/7/Vista, iOS, Android.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with key business stakeholders to map business process
• Played an important role on selecting Vendors for the different ELC projects
• Coordinated Daily scrum meetings, Sprint planning, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective
• Worked on User Stories and burn down charts in JIRA.
• Created KANBAN Board in JIRA for Issues and Task tracking.
• Radiated information and ensured the team's progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself.
• Facilitated creativity and empowerment for the Cross functional development team.
• Improved the team's engineering practices and tools as required. Fully facilitated productivity, and make sure teams have the tools and know-how they need to succeed.
• Worked on creating set use cases and test cases utilizing Requirements
• Working with Senior Project Producers/Program Managers in overall management of all aspects of the project through effective coordination in completion of tasks.
• Responsible for creating a complete Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Tasks and Issues List in the JIRA
• Creating and maintaining/updating the Project Schedules using internal software of ELC
• Schedule and facilitate weekly, bi-weekly and monthly stakeholder meetings.
• Following up of Action items in timely manner with team members/individuals.
• Monitoring issues and when necessary, escalates to Project/Program manager and help resolve in timely manner.
• Effectively communicate with all Project Teams and team members on a daily basis.
• Ensure the tasks gets completed on time by effectively managing Team members
• Create release plans with deployment strategies to move the developed components from development to system testing to validation testing to UAT to production.
• Provided a detailed DEMO on the completed tasks on each Sprint Cycle to client during the Weekly Client Meeting.

Confidential, Washington DC

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with key business stakeholders to map business process to wireframes using VISIO. Also documented key process workflows using flowcharts in Microsoft VISIO and business rules documented in Microsoft WORD.
• Coordinated Daily scrum meetings, Sprint planning, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective.
• Radiated information and ensured the team's progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself.
• Supported the Product Owners sitting offshore. Assisted the Product Owner with various activities including communicating updates and impediments as well as assisting with backlog and release plan maintenance.
• Facilitated creativity and empowerment for the Cross functional development team.
• Improved the team's engineering practices and tools as required. Fully facilitated productivity, and make sure teams have the tools and know-how they need to succeed.
• Created a full set use cases and test cases utilizing Requirements by Example.
• Managed the offshore Scrum teams in USA, Australia & Asia.
• Working with Senior Project managers/Program Managers in overall management of all aspects of the project through effective coordination in completion of tasks.
• Responsible for creating a complete Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Tasks and Issues List in the SharePoint Project portal.
• Maintenance of the project artifacts in SharePoint responsible for keeping it updated throughout the life of the project with the help of project team staffs.
• Create and update Visio wireframes based on project requirements showing multiple data streams by following up with the teams for senior leadership.
• Creating and maintaining/updating the Project Schedules using SharePoint Project portal.
• Schedule and facilitate weekly, bi-weekly and monthly stakeholder meetings.
• Taking notes and saving out Meeting Minutes in the SharePoint Project portal.
• Keeping and maintaining a RAID (Risk, Action items, Issues, Dependencies/Decisions made) log.
• Following up of Action items in timely manner with team members/individuals.
• Monitoring issues and when necessary, escalates to Project/Program manager and help resolve in timely manner.
• Maintaining Defect log.
• Effectively communicate with all Project Teams and team members on a daily basis.
• Ensure the project gets completed on time by effectively managing Team members
• Create release plans with deployment strategies to move the developed components from development to system testing to validation testing to UAT to production.
• Provided a detailed DEMO on the completed tasks on each Sprint Cycle to client during the Weekly Client Meeting.
• Provided end of the week Status Report to the client every week

Confidential

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business stakeholder, ran workshops and got agreement using meeting minutes on key business requirements for the product
• Defined project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies.
• Facilitating the daily scrum meetings, Sprint planning, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective.
• Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management. Presentations, recommendations and updates provided regularly to the Director office.
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them
• Coaches and mentors agile team members and provides constructive performance feedback
• Trained and coached a development team of 6-8 and management team of 12 to utilize Agile Methodology with Scrum
• Encouraging the team for self-organization to boost the efficiency and coordination
• Working with stake holders / product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint.
• Encouraging the team to come up with reusable elements and use the best practices.
• Helped the product owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development.
• Motivated the team to come up with quality shippable product and meet the product goals.
• Tracks and reports status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis
• Managed offshore teams in different geographical places.
• Ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget.
• Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it. Created Business requirements and Visio wireframes as per the app process flow and feature requirement, as per consulting with the team and the management
• Created project plan in the SharePoint Project portal
• Worked on creating a complete Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Tasks and Issues List in the SharePoint Project portal.
• Creating and maintaining/updating the Project Schedules using SharePoint Project portal.
• Saving Meeting Minutes in the SharePoint Project portal after every team meeting.
• Following up of Action items in timely manner with team members/individuals.
• Tracking issues, and getting it resolved by Team in a timely manner.
• Effectively communicate with all Project Teams and team members via daily status team meetings/standup.
• Developed test cases and conducted UAT.
• Wrote User Guide module for the Annotate101 app for helping the users buying the Annotate101 app through Windows Store
• Implement a fully responsive website www.annotate101.com using SharePoint 2013 and parallax scrolling effects

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Created and documented deliverables and documents such as: requirements definitions, functional specifications, hosting and maintenance agreements, RFPs, presentations, engagement contracts, strategy decks, gap analysis, project plans, budgets, schedules, risk assessments, style guides, creative briefs, site maps, storyboards and wire-frames, user manuals, online marketing plans and project post-mortems.
• Protect the team from distractions by removing impediments at all levels of management
• As Scrum Master and Assistant to product owner, created a comprehensive set of non-functional and functional requirements, prioritized requirements for all Sprint Meetings,
• Created and managed project plan to manage end to end development of the logistics system. This includes, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Tasks and Issues list.
• Created and followed project management plan in the SharePoint Project portal which involves all new HTML/CSS style enhancements to the Ansor site.
• Worked with business users to gather requirements by conducting meetings and group discussions, converted the requirements in to functional and technical specifications.
• Conducted status meetings to address project progress and risks and prepared dashboard and presentations to report to the executive management.
• Managed the system integration testing and user acceptance testing.
• Managed the release of the system in production environment.
• Interacted with different internal UI developer, SharePoint developers and Client for successful roll out of the delivery.
• Provided a detailed DEMO on the completed tasks on each Sprint Cycle to the client during the Weekly Client Meeting.
• Managed Production Support Activities
• Managed Maintenance/Enhancement Requirements
• Provided end of the week Status Report to the client every week

Confidential, New York, NY

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created and documented deliverables and documents such as: requirements definitions, functional specifications, hosting and maintenance agreements, RFPs, presentations, engagement contracts, strategy decks, gap analysis, project plans, budgets, schedules, risk assessments, style guides, creative briefs, site maps, storyboards and wire-frames, user manuals, online marketing plans and project post-mortems.
• Protect the team from distractions by removing impediments at all levels of management
• As Scrum Master and Assistant to product owner, created a comprehensive set of non-functional and functional requirements, prioritized requirements for all Sprint Meetings,
• Created and managed project plan to manage end to end development of the logistics system. This includes, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Tasks and Issues list.
• Created and followed project management plan in the SharePoint Project portal which involves all new HTML/CSS style enhancements to the Ansor site.
• Worked with business users to gather requirements by conducting meetings and group discussions, converted the requirements in to functional and technical specifications.
• Conducted status meetings to address project progress and risks and prepared dashboard and presentations to report to the executive management.
• Managed the system integration testing and user acceptance testing.
• Managed the release of the system in production environment.
• Interacted with different internal UI developer, SharePoint developers and Client for successful roll out of the delivery.
• Provided a detailed DEMO on the completed tasks on each Sprint Cycle to the client during the Weekly Client Meeting.
• Managed Production Support Activities
• Managed Maintenance/Enhancement Requirements
• Provided end of the week Status Report to the client every week

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Project Coordinator/Operations Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Member of change management process migrating counterparty related information to new process. Primary responsibility includes data gathering and consolidation.
• Hands on involvement with Testing & QA
• Documentation of counterparty & account information on Standard Settlement Instructions for Interest Rate and Cross Currency Swaps.
• Collecting data for future payments to implement it into a new process
• Constant liaison with external Clients on the account verifications
• Constant interaction with counterparty for outstanding confirmations
• Confirming payments of different counterparties.
• Gathering data on any kind of changes transactional or static for a new System
• Calling clients on confirming revolving credit transaction, commitment fee invoices

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Operations Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibilities include Reviewing/Acknowledging, Documentation and Drafting Equity derivative confirmations, vanilla products, ISDA definitions, Structured Drafting, Variance and Total return Swaps
• Helped Change Management team to identify the breaks and assisted the appropriate teams to fix these breaks in the system to facilitate the STP processes.
• Responsible for tracking and Generate daily outstanding trades report Chase Counterparties for all outstanding confirmations for execution Verifying Key trade economic details on Equity trades.
• Constant Liaison with Traders, Legal, Compliance and Front office Sales for confirmation related matters
• Process Re-Engineering to the Derivative confirmation function through analysis of current workflow and process maps to determine strategic approach for Straight Through Processing (STP)
• Documentation of various functional specs to the on-boarding of new products
• Actively involved in mentoring and training new joiners and offshore team
• Writing and Sharing Procedures to offshore team
• Served as a SME and mentored offshore team.
• Served as a SPOC on manual confirmation and complex drafting
• Extensive experience in solving issues and fixing breaks that causes confirmation failures
• Generate reports on confirmations and performance numbers.
• Maintenance and weekly cleanup of systems (Expired Deals, Full closed trades etc.)
• SARs Report: Weekly monitor & process on unsent trades in Excel spreadsheets.
• Excellent knowledge on DTCC and Bloomberg

Confidential

Operations Analyst/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for a variety of client service functions
• Reviewed and cleared status of dormant customer accounts
• Activated customers preferences
• Quality control reporting
• Detecting and analyzing ACH Fraud
• Customer asset verification
• Financial reporting
• Interaction with senior managers including daily updates.
• Verify new customer accounts.
• Detect and report fraudulent activities
• Complete cold calling with customers for verifications.
• Complete funds verification
• Employed proactive sales techniques to increase enrollment in all bank products and services
• Consistently met and exceeded all established performance metrics