SUMMARY

• Project Manager / Business Analyst / Scrum Master with a passion to deliver and organize ventures benefiting the organization, an experienced IT Professional and recognized as a results oriented professional with exceptional communication, analytical, and creative problem solving skills, acquired from professional experiences as a consultant on various projects.
• 7 years of diversified and accomplished IT and Financial industry experience as a Business System Analyst/ Project Manager/ Scrum Master with extensive hands - on experience in business and technical field consisting GAP analysis, impact analysis, requirements elicitation, analysis, agile, management and testing.
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Agile Certified Practitioner from PMI
• Skilled in structured systems analysis and system development principles, practices and methodologies (e.g., Waterfall, Agile and iterative development methodologies).
• Skilled in Scrum, XP and Kanban framework to support complex product development.
• Experience in leading a team, defining systems analysis approach, deliverables and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and creating project plans using Microsoft Project tools.
• Skilled in Project Management activities during Initiation, Planning, Executions, Monitoring & Control and Closing phase
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels with exceptional skills in facilitating JAD sessions.
• Strong experience in documenting as-is process, analyzing business requirements, working with requirements traceability matrix, re-engineering business processes and designing.
• Excellent Client relationship management, analytical, problem solving, written and oral communication, and presentation skills.
• Experienced in planning, designing and executing System, Regression and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to work in independent and team-oriented environments with well developed organizational skills, excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Solution oriented, practical, motivated, flexible, creative with strong multi-tasking skills,unique team building and communication ability needed to drive business initiatives.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Business & Gap Analysis
• Requirement Elicitation & Documentation
• Business Process Modeling
• Project Management
• Agile Methods / Scrum/XP/Kanban
• Scrum Practices and Events
• Agile Planning and Estimation
• Client/Customer Relationship Mgmt
• Training & Development
• Resource & Risk Management
• Onsite/Off-shore coordination

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Redwood City CA

Scrum Master/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Daily stand up, Planning Sessions, Sprint Retrospective for 3 Scrum teams with 6-9 team members in each Project
• Actively involved with Product Owner and team in grooming of User Stories.
• Analyze and evaluate Product backlog, define sprint goal during Sprint Planning meeting.
• Create sprint backlog from product backlog items (user stories/features) and work with team to estimate sprint backlog in hours during Sprint Planning meeting.
• Monitor and track progress of stories in Rally and Predict blocking issues
• Track and handle defects to ensure quality of Product
• Ensure that team has committed for work within capacity for the Sprint and honest in what they are 'signing up for'
• Run with blockers as they occur and drive team to convert sprint backlog into MMF
• Coach and train Scrum team members on Software Development processes and best practices
• Facilitate team discussion to resolve any issue and remove or escalate impediments to team progress
• Communicate and collaborate with internal and external customers as needed in regards to project deliverables including managing expectations, presenting and interfacing with sponsors
• Generate daily reports, sprint reports after sprint ends to determine health of particular sprint and other reports for management in Rally as per frequency required
• Participate in Release Meetings for Production Deployment and coordinate with Release Board for Release approval.

Environment: J2EE, Confidential, Rally, Mercury Quality Center, MS Visio, Agile, Scrum, XP, Kanban, Wiki Pages

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Scrum Master/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and evaluated Product backlog, defined sprint goal during Sprint Planning meeting
• Created sprint backlog from product backlog items (user stories/features) and estimated sprint backlog in hours, managing sprint backlog using Version One
• Actively involved with Product Owner in grooming of Product Backlog
• Created and ensured that user stories are good, has acceptance criteria, business values and story points
• Worked with Product Owner to write detailed user stories with acceptance criteria and prioritize user stories for future releases/sprint
• Coordinated with development teams to break down large user stories for execution.
• Participated in JAD sessions to gather requirements for on-boarding Cloud Products and Credit Memo
• Participated in Kaizen sessions and prepared As-Is and To-Be Visio diagrams for Credit Memo workflows
• Represented management to the project, responsible for enacting Scrum values and practices
• Participated and Facilitated Daily Scrum meeting, Release/Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective
• Ensured good software practices i.e. continuous integration, refactoring, pair programming, simple design and test driven development are applied to develop high quality software system.
• Skilled in Poker Planning sessions, agile estimation and planning technique
• Facilitated Scrum events as requested or needed and Coaching the Development Team in organizational environments
• Reporting in Version one i.e. Burn down Chart, Team Velocity, Velocity trend etc.
• Actively involved in Change and Release management process
• Actively assisted QA in the acceptance and validation of the user stories by testing the delivered stories
• Served as a primary interface between the developers, testing team, Product Owner and the project manager on system issues and change requests
• Participated in Release Meetings for Production Deployment and coordinate with Release Board

Environment: Confidential (ONM), Confidential Database, Confidential SQL Developer, BRM, Cloud Technology, Version One, Mercury Quality Center, MS Visio, Agile, Scrum, XP, Confluence, Wiki Pages

Confidential, Phoenix AZ

Project Manager/Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed business requirement gathering, elicitation, analysis and specification using JAD sessions and one-on-one meetings with the stakeholders.
• Performed business process GAP analysis and identified the areas to improve the efficiency of the business process.
• Created Requirement and Use Case Specification as per the Business requirements and process flow.
• Conducted requirement review and validation sessions with users during analyze and development phase.
• Coordinated all aspects of projects such as initiation, planning, scheduling, task assignment and tracking, status reporting and risk management.
• Developed and managed project management plans, handled all kinds of scheduling, ran all status meetings and compiled various reports.
• Participating in designing appropriate DR solution for different type of applications depending upon their needs, developing new Disaster Recovery strategies
• Analyzed various DR solutions which meet the requirement of applications meeting their recovery time objective and worked with Design team for feasibility of solution.
• Analyzed and document Disaster Recovery infrastructure capabilities at an enterprise level for the optimization of existing DR environment
• Extensively involved in all phases of Project Management i.e. Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring & Control and Closing
• Created Small Project Report which contains Project objectives, High level business needs, Requirements, Technical specifications, Testing documentation for Disaster Recovery Solution project
• Managed Engagement and Consultation Project for guiding customers to identify appropriate DR Solutions by coordinating and facilitating Consultation and Engagement Calls
• Practiced Agile/Scrum methodologies in Projects
• Managed SharePoint Team site for administrative and document management
• Facilitated Lessons Learned session and Document it at the closure of the Project
• Worked closely with Senior Project manager in handling the whole project.

Environment: ESX Host, Red Hat Linux, Java, Confidential, SQL, Confidential, DB2,Mainframes, EMC Data Domain, Data Center, Quality Center, MS Office, Jira, MS Outlook, MS Visio, UML, Agile, Method 1

Confidential, Scottsdale AZ

Business Analyst/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Documented Business Alignment Document which includes strategic intent, objectives, rationale and scope of the Upgrade Project.
• Eliminated false and redundant requirements by screening out multiple versions of user input.
• Participated in daily scrum meetings, maintained Product Backlog for release team.
• Facilitated Daily Scrum, Release/Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.
• Conducted training sessions for team to ensure understanding of Agile/Scrum.
• Wrote user stories for PFF Release team and maintained Product/Sprint Backlog.
• Worked closely with Product Owner to add more details and acceptance criteria to User Stories
• Performed business requirementelicitation using JAD sessions and one-on-one meetings with the stakeholders.
• Involved in discussions with Product Owner to come up with the requirements prioritization.
• Served as a primary interface between the development team and the project manager on system issues and change requests.
• Worked closely with QA and Developers to clarify/understand functionality, resolve issues and provided feedback to nail down the bugs.

Environment: EMC Documentum 6.0, Web Sphere Application Server, Red Hat Operating System, Java, SAS, Quality Center 9.2, MS Office, Lotus Notes, UML, Agile, Scrum

Confidential, McLean VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with business unit to develop a Business Requirement Document (BRD).
• Created Prototype of web application using iRise Studio and published to a server and ran it simulation mode.
• Derived requirements from the existing legacy Tandem application in the process of migrating to current technology.
• Involved in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and acted as the main liaison between corporate business managers and IT division
• Conducted and facilitated workshops and requirement elicitation sessions with both the client as well as the IT teams.
• Interacted with client user teams at various associate levels to analyze current processes and to design business processes utilizing UML as well as documented process flow diagrams utilizing Visio
• Adopted the RUP methods for requirements and documented BRD to users as well as to the technical team utilizing RequisitePro
• Acted as a liaison with the technical team of the use cases realization to the technical design phase
• Assisted with documenting test cases for functionality testing
• Verified data integrity utilizing Sybase for backend
• Worked with business in developing a UAT

Environment: EMC Documentum 6.0, Web Sphere Application Server, Java, SAS, MS Office, UML.