SUMMARY

• A result - driven Project Manager / Scrum Master with 10 years’ experience managing team of 40+ individuals with yearly revenue of 2.5 Million Dollars;
• Co-Managed/Coordinated IT Governance by facilitating strategic alignment between businesses and technologies with effectively communicating impact and cost. Our efforts resulted into the saves of 6 Million Dollars over the period of 7 years. Expertise in analyzing the Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) and determining the Return of Investment (ROI);
• Driven application through Regulatory Audits including Payment Cards Industry Data Security Audit (PCI DSS) in year 2014-2015, Quarterly Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and yearly PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) audits and many internal audits resulted due to Operational Risk Events (ORE’s);
• Expertise in finding synergies between different projects initiatives to save overall project cost by combining analyze, design, build, testing and rollout efforts as applicable. Have implemented a release schedule (5 releases a year) for the application resulted in well balanced scope creep and better quality over the years.
• In-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle and development practices, ranging from traditional to Agile and skilled in managing the end to end project life cycle from project initiation to project closure.
• Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Agilist(SA) and Accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale software projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams.
• Expert at driving adoption and enforcement of Scrum principles, 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;
• Coached/Mentored 15+ scrum teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development to deliver quality products using Scrum Framework and Utilized Agile/Scrum practices to help increase/sustain velocity substantially within 6 months;
• Worked with program, managers, project managers, business analysts, product managers and others who are responsible for creating an agile environment. Facilitated “Leadership Retrospectives” and “Retrospective of Retrospectives” to gauge the Agile adoptions among Leaders and overall health check of Agile portfolios;
• Facilitated Release Planning, Iteration planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Retrospective meetings and Agile Maturity Assessments;
• Effectively gathered various metrics and knowledgeable in drawing well balanced conclusions to help scrum teams;
• Removed team impediments on daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables. Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs;
• Worked closely with developer helping them apply test driven development, support developers in refactoring work, help improve the continuous integration;
• Have completed training on “Kanban for S/W Development teams” and “Agile Principles & Mindset” from “Scrum Alliance” approved Registered Education Provider.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Program Manger

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Empower teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery.
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Working closely with the Product Owner to maintain the Product Backlog and release plan for FC and Confidential applications.
• Proactively work on the product backlog. Update it with new insights and ensure that there are enough ready items.
• Help team dive through the Envisioning Phase to break the Epics to independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, small, and testable user stories
• Removing impediments to the Development Team’s progress by managing the dependencies closely.
• Provide direction and make prioritization calls. Invite the right people and choose the right techniques to collect feedback and data.
• Facilitate the Sprint Planning and Implementing techniques for effective Product Backlog management and Clearly communicating vision, goals, and Product Backlog items to the core team
• Tracking the velocity and sprint burn down on daily basis using Rally.
• Coaching the core team in organizational environments in which Scrum is not yet fully adopted and understood.
• Facilitating Scrum events like show-n-tell as requested or needed including daily stand up’s.

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Working as an End to End Project/Program Manager, Managing the projects with various internal and external teams from Technology & Business.
• Manage cost at a program level across multiple projects, ensuring projects and programs complete on the initial baseline cost budgeted during the project initiation using CA Clarity.
• Tracking cost, time/schedule, events, tasks/activities, dependencies and progress across multiple projects within the Program, facilitate resolution of issues, managing dependencies and change management.
• Create and update the Project Management Plan, Risk analysis and mitigation plans, Monitoring and controlling the Project and communicating continuously with customers and all the key stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with development teams, lead architect and the business to determine technical direction and approach to system design and implementation, including both brand products and supporting systems.
• Create and execute project work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Communicate and collaborate with internal and external customers as needed in regards to project deliverables including managing expectations, presenting and interfacing with sponsors.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Empower teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery.
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Tech Lead / Developer

Responsibilities:

• Project Sizing, Estimation and Capacity planning at the project level.
• Co-ordination with Business, technology teams and Subject Matter Experts in Requirement analysis, planning and preparing Functional and Technical specifications. Preparation of deliverables like Project charter, Requirement Report, Design report, Test Planning with support of SIT & UAT.