SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Professional with 15 years of IT experience
• Agile coach experienced
• 5+ years of experience as Scrum Master
• Experienced in handling backlog grooming sessions
• Experienced in Conducting Daily Standup meetings
• Experienced in driving Sprint Planning meetings
• Experienced in handling Sprint Demos
• Experienced in handling Retrospective meetings
• Experienced in Removing impediments and dependencies to development
• Experienced in mitigating and monitoring risks to delivery
• Well experienced in managing team resources during the delivery process
• Working with the team to evolve the Definition of Done and implement it
• Well experienced in handling Scrum team located in different geographic area
• Experienced in driving Continuous Integration
• Protecting the delivery team from distractions and helping them focus on delivering working software
• Well experienced in driving continuous competency improvement plans to make Scrum members with good competency all the time
• Experienced in Coaching the development team on agile principles
• Experienced in removing the barriers between development and the Product Owner so that the Product Owner directly drives development
• Ensuring that the team improves the engineering practices and tools so that each increment of functionality is potentially shippable
• Experienced in encouraging some stakeholders to adopt Agile methodologies
• Experienced in Kanban method for Support deliverables
• Experienced in using JIRA boards to create Burndown charts
• Good experience in Telecom and BFS domains
• Good knowledge in BigData Architecture and BigData ecosystems (MapReduce, Hive, Pig, Oozie, Sqoop, Spark, Scala, YARN)
• Experienced in working on BigData POCs
• Extensively worked on Core Java, JavaScript, JDBC, HTML and SQL
• Worked in all phases of SDLC, requirement gathering, design, development and maintenance of applications
• Participated in preparing requirement documents, HDD & LDD
• Good experience in Configuration Management, deployment and delivering the packages
• Development experience in UNIX, Linux and Windows environment
• Strong leadership, team management and global delivery experience, delivering high quality services to global clients
• Exposure to AWS, Azure Cloud
• Worked in different geographies (Sweden, Hungary, Ireland, Japan & USA)
• Good team player, continuous learner, self motivated and dependable

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hadoop Ecosystems: HDFS, MapReduce, HBase, Pig, Hive, Sqoop, Flume, Oozie, Zookeeper, Scala, YARN, Impala, Kafka

Hadoop Frameworks: Cloudera, Hortonworks

Databases: Oracle, MySql, Hbase

Java Technologies: Core Java, JavaScript, Servlets, JSP, Java Beans, JDBC

Cloud: AWS, Azure

Languages: C, C++, Java

Scripting Languages: Shell Scripting, Perl, Java Script

Source code control: Clearcase, CVS & Github

IDE: Eclipse

Application Servers: Weblogic, Tomcat

Operating Systems: UNIX, Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Windows XP/Vista/7/8

Tools: JIRA, Sablime, Confidential Proprietary tools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Oak Brook, IL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed 3 teams across 2 different time zone
• Coached the teams in Agile Methodology following the Scrum framework
• Responsible for the Core metrics of the project
• Responsible for preparing project cost/resource estimates, delivery schedules, and coordinating implementation
• Speculated the Vision and the road map for the project with the Chief Product owner and Product owners
• Responsible for Release planning and Iterative planning's for the project
• Resolved cross functional dependencies and impediments for the teams
• Involved in getting consensus for story estimation in the Scrum team
• Worked closely and assisted Scrum masters in conducting all the Scrum ceremonies right from the sprint pre - planning to sprint retro
• Worked closely with the Source System Analysts and Data Architects in identifying the attributes and Data Design to convert the Business Requirements into Technical Requirements
• Responsible for Stakeholder management
• Responsible for the sprint deployments that was recurring every 2 weeks
• Active participation in Product Backlog grooming session
• Responsible to eliminate impediments and facilitate the team optimum performance
• Responsible for escalation handling
• Lead Kanban during production period
• Responsible for continuous competency improvement
• Responsible for implementing CICD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment)
• Responsible for implementing Test Automation

Confidential

Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed projects in fast paced IT environment working with complex team structures and aggressive deadlines.
• Provide guidance to customers on User Acceptance Test, conduct product demonstrations and support team for a successful transition of project post production.
• Review product deliverables for accuracy, and notify client and management of any risks, problems, and recommended solutions.
• Drive product road-map and feature prioritization based on the client strategy and vision.
• Liaison with technology teams to coordinate agile delivery between teams, change requests, resourcing needs, and maintain budgets. Prioritize and juggle projects as necessary.
• Drive development, QA, and UX/UI teams spread across multiple locations (USA and India). Indirectly managed 48 member team.
• Consistently meet client expectations utilizing project management best practices and processes with high degree of integrity.
• Organize and facilitate daily stand-ups, review sessions, retrospectives, sprint, project planning, demos, risk management, mitigation plans, kick-offs, client reviews, and other Scrum-related sessions.
• Review the project scope, Statement of Work (SOW), and contract terms.
• Promote and maintain a positive working relationship with client directors, managers, and technology team to identify and close new and expanded business opportunities.
• Regularly evaluate project progress against project plan, report progress and motivate team members to stay on schedule.
• Develop detailed project schedule, estimations, forecasting reports. resource plan, and project status reports, managed task assignments to project resources
• Ensuring defect free ticket resolution & project delivery with 100% compliance
• Technical guidance and assistance to the technical /Project teams
• Provide assistance in technology and business road maps.
• Stake holder management, Escalation Management, RFC management and Change Management

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Conducting backlog grooming sessions
• Conducting Sprint planning meetings
• Conducting daily standup meetings
• Participating in stakeholder review meetings
• Conducting Sprint demo
• Removing impediments
• Helping scrum members in resolving blockages
• Actively participating in story prioritizing discussions when two customers in need of delivery
• Conducting retrospective meetings
• Maintaining dashboards to present to customer
• Handling Jira boards
• Responsible to eliminate impediments and facilitate the team optimum performance

Confidential

Java Technical Lead, Onsite Coordinator, Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Participating in Requirement review meetings
• Creating HDD, LDD documents
• Development and delivery activities
• Code review activities
• Document review activities
• Responsible for Team competency
• Coordinating activities between Client and Offshore team
• Delivery activities
• Document version control activities from Onsite
• Running test activities on customer servers
• Participating in customer issue discussions
• Developer activities
• Tech Lead activities
• Agile coach activities
• Sprint delivery activities
• Attending product backlog grooming sessions
• Conducting Sprint planning meetings
• Creating tasks in JIRA tool
• Conducting daily stand up meetings
• Responsible to eliminate impediments and facilitate the team optimum performance
• Conducting Sprint demo to PO and Customer
• Conducting Retrospective meetings
• Helping the team from interruptions during sprint
• Removing obstacles that affect the team
• Burn down chart discussions with Customer when required

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the functional, design, source code and test specifications
• Involved in developing the complete front end development using Java Swing
• Author for Functional, Design and Test Specifications.
• Implemented the presentation layer with HTML, XHTML and JavaScript
• Used JDBC for database access
• Written and executed the Test Scripts using JUNIT
• Participated in System Testing activities
• Prepared the Installation, Customer guide and Configuration document which were delivered to the customer along with the product
• Participated in Code Review activities
• Participated in Bug fixing activities

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Participated as a observer in Requirement discussions
• Developing JUnit Test cases
• Testing on Simulator
• Participation in Test Case and Test Spec documentation
• Manual testing of NEC Handsets