SUMMARY

• Over 11 years of experience in IT Industry, including 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master
• PSM 1 certified (Professional Scrum Master) from scrum.org
• Experienced in transforming the Program from Waterfall to Agile delivery model
• Experienced in coaching team members and promoting within the organization, the Scrum framework, artifacts, events and ceremonies
• Experienced in working with a cross - functional team, matrix organization structure, onshore-offshore model,
• Expertise in facilitating scrum ceremonies like daily stand up/scrum, release/sprint planning, sprint demo, retrospective and backlog grooming sessions
• Expertise in identifying and clearing up impediments for the development team and overall scrum goal
• Experience in maintaining Burnup/Burndown chart, cumulative flow diagram, enhanced velocity chart, Release/Sprint planning, capacity planning
• Trained and Experienced with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe 4.0)
• Experienced in establishing an end to end processes and governance model for Waterfall projects\portfolios
• Experience in planning, forecasting, monitoring and tracking projects and expertise in Risk analysis, and Change management
• Involved in all phases of SDLC, with an emphasis on analysis, design, development, installation, configuration, deployment and performance tuning for both OLTP and OLAP systems
• Expertise in SQL database designing and development with Business Intelligence, using MS SQL Server, SSIS (Integration Services), SSAS (Analysis Services)
• Involved in resource hiring and year-end performance evaluation process
• Knowledge of Dev Ops model, continuous integration and deployment (CICD)
• Exposure to cloud computing (Azure and AWS)
• Exposure to Big Data-Hadoop ecosystem, HDFS, Map Reduce, Pig, Hive, Sqoop,
• A practitioner of PMP \ PMBOCK guide principles. Member of www.pmi.org

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: Jira, Confluence, MS Project Server (MSPS), MS Project Plan (MPP), MS Excel, Plan View, SharePoint, Team Site, Nintex Work Flows

Technologies: Data Warehousing, MS BI-ETL, Big Data Hadoop, Cloud Computing(AWS)

Development Tools: MS SQL Server, SQL Azure, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS),SQL Server Analysis Service (SSAS)

Visualization Tools: Power BI, Power View, Power Pivot

Languages: SQL, MapReduce, Pig, Hive, Sqoop

Versioning Tools: Visual Studio Team Foundation (VSTF), Visual Studio Online (VSO) Team Foundation Server (TFS) and GIT

Project Delivery: Agile (Scrum) Methodology, Water Fall Methodology, and Dev Ops Delivery Model

Functional: Financial Industry

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential, Chicago IL

Responsibilities:

• Helping Product Owners to maintain Product Backlog: I work with Product Owners to understand the high-level scope of upcoming Epics\Stories across 3 Functional Groups of Credit, Enterprise Operations, and Marketing, help them to maintain the order of user stories in the product backlog
• Facilitating Scrum Events: Facilitates the scrum meetings like Backlog grooming sessions, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective, Scum of Scrums across multiple scrum teams.
• SAFE Framework: Participates in PI planning, coordinates with RTE (Release Train Engineer) for the successful schedule of Agile Release Train. Exposure of SAFE 4.0 framework
• Scrum Enhancement: Works with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
• Coaching Team: Coaches and promotes the scrum practices among development team and Product Owners
• Remove Impediments: Resolves any road blockers for the development team to improve their productivity
• Maintains Burnup/Burndown chart, cumulative flow diagram, enhanced velocity chart, Release/Sprint planning, capacity planning
• Managing Stakeholder Communications, both internal and external. Regular portfolio status reporting, via dashboards. Handling Client Escalations
• Reviewing Invoice reports: Reviewing monthly invoice reports and resolving any financial disputes.
• Waterfall to Agile: Played a role of Agile coach, while transferring 5 programs from Waterfall to Agile delivery model.
• Helped team to maintain user stories on Jira dashboards
• As a new vendor for a client, took the challenge to take a transition and establish a more streamlined process in place for delivering, monitoring and controlling the various aspects of project management, gained efficiency of 30% and have been able to deliver efforts worth of $5M in the year 2017
• Established Scaled Agile structure across 5 programs (moved from waterfall to agile)

Scrum Master

Confidential, Redmond WA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for enabling and delivering Microsoft's New Product Launches into the market for end customers.
• I was responsible for maintaining Project Backlog via Portfolio Governance meeting
• Prioritizing and reporting of approved projects via burndown charts, burn up charts, PowerPoint presentations & Power BI reports.
• Supervising Scrum Planning and Daily Scrum Meetings
• Monitoring team progresses and unblock them from any functional or technical obstacles for delivery.
• Managed the program, which was responsible for operational delivery of weekly/monthly Microsoft product launches,
• Responsible for maintaining cumulative flow diagram, enhanced velocity chart, Release/Sprint planning, capacity planning
• Managed automation projects to gain efficiency, reduce the time to market and to reduce the cost involvement
• Monitoring project health and handling any escalations
• Achievement: Reduced the Product launch cycle of the majority of Products by 30%, by centralizing the requirement collection from Business groups, which shaved off Five business days from a Monthly cycle.
• Tools: VSO, VSTF, SQL, SSIS, SSAS, Power BI, Excel, PowerPoint, Scrum, MPP, SharePoint.

Developer/Dev Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team size of 15 Developers, responsible for analyzing, technical designing, developing, deploying and testing of OLTP and OLAP systems
• Extensive knowledge of T-SQL queries (DDL and DML) and expert in using stored procedures, triggers, user-defined functions, joins, sub-queries, CTE’s, temp-tables, transactions, and indexes
• Experienced in using SSIS for extracting, transforming the data using lookup, execute SQL task, fuzzy logic, sort, merge & union all transformations, and load it into OLEDB/ODBC/File destinations
• Integrated and transformed data from different data sources like Excel & Flat Files to SQL Server using OLE DB connection providers by creating various SSIS packages.
• Performed several transformations and data cleansing on data including fuzzy lookup, slowly changing dimension, union -all, merge join and checkpoints/break points in SSIS.
• Experience in testing and validating data, performance tuning by using execution plans, database engine tuning advisor, and SQL Server Profiler.
• Experience on Data Modeling-Star/Snowflake Schema design for DWH systems.
• Experience doing build, deploy and processing SSAS cubes to store data for analysis.
• Tools: SQL, SSIS, SSAS, DWH, VSTF, Waterfall methodology