SUMMARY:

• A hands - on technical Certified Scrum Master and Agile Technical Manager; experienced in building software products targeted for scalable distributed systems.
• Over 10 years of management experience, leading technical teams through full software development cycle including the use of agile-scrum methodology.
• As an Effective leader, problem solver and collaborator, am able to clearly communicate and build consensus across functional areas and business levels.
• I thrive on a proven history of building strong relationships with customers and cross functional teams.
• Managed releases built for multiple platforms using object-oriented technologies.
• Engineering high availability, high performance applications across multiple platforms.
• Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile Methodology; Following Scrum, Kanban and SAFe.
• Facilitating Scrum ceremonies - daily standup, sprint planning/reviews and retrospectives.
• Tracking & presenting project metrics to stakeholders, budget and capacity planning.
• Managing full life cycle of projects, delivered releases on time for the first time in the product history.
• Building strong customer relationships by solving their blocking issues with the product.
• Designing software that can be integrated with other software products of the company.
• Coordinating infrastructure setup with system administrators and DevOps engineers.
• Managing data movement from data warehouse to Hadoop Environment.
• Migration from legacy to AWS infrastructure. Use of Jenkins for CI/CD process.
• Technical experience: C++, Java, Jenkins, C, Oracle DB, Sybase to Hadoop, Flume, Hive, HBase.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Architecture: Multi-tier large scale distribute systems

Languages: C++, Visual C++, C, Java, JavaScript, EJB, Ant, JunitSQL (Sybase, Oracle & Redbrick), Unix Shell Programming, Perl and XML.

Databases: Oracle DB, Sybase, Redbrick and BigSql based on DB2.

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris, Linux (SLES, RHEL), Windows-XP/7.

Software Tools: Rational Jazz Suite (Team Concert), UML, ClearCase and UNIX - Lex, Yacc, shell scripting, Regular Expressions usage in scriptsRational Purify and Code Coverage.

Management Tools: Microsoft Visio, Excel, Rational Team Concert, Atlassian Product - Jira.

BigData Platform: Hadoop, Flume, BigSql, JAQL, Hive, HBase.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, VA

Agile Delivery Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Delivered releases with key milestones in the first four months
• Managed four concurrent sub-projects with varied technologies:
• New solution for NFTS using barcode scanners.
• Migration from legacy environments to AWS.(Development, Test, Stage and Production).
• Create Migration Test Plan and Schedule and collaborate with DevOps team.
• Service Now Help Desk Tickets for the application
• Product enhancements for Business
• Manage delivery of NFTS enhancements for other Interface Partners.
• Manage a team of 20 for mission critical USCIS deliverables.
• The first manager to change the team morale to being positive and enhanced the teamwork.
• Improved Agile processes and educated Product Owner on effective use of Agile tools.
• Working with chief customer to manage expectations and drive projects to successful release.
• Effectively managed resources and risks arising from day to day running of the project.
• Facilitated daily scrums, removed impediments, setup technical discussions and directions, groomed backlog with team, conducted sprint reviews & release and sprint planning sessions.
• Participated in Scrum of Scrum, defect triage meetings, technical

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Agile Development Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Successfully delivered high quality services in my very first release in this program.
• Manage a team of 7 Developers and 1 tester to deliver web services to the front end consumers.
• Successfully delivered a release with zero defects going into User Acceptance Testing.
• Passed Quality Gate with zero defects from the services team.
• Effectively managed resources and risks arising from day to day running of the project.
• Facilitated daily scrums, removed impediments, setup technical discussions and directions, groomed backlog with team, conducted sprint reviews & release and sprint planning sessions.
• Participated in Scrum of Scrum, defect triage meetings, technical project management meetings.

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Scrum Master /Agile Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Delivered a white paper and prototype for Confidential document management system using SharePoint 2013.
• Facilitated daily scrum meetings, educating on scrum procedures and priorities, eliminating blocks, setting up sprint reviews & sprint planning sessions, groom backlog with consensus from stakeholders.
• Used SharePoint 2013 Designer to develop process flows for International agreements and their approvals and track the life cycle of both financial and reporting documents.
• Developed a web application on a Patent Change Scheme portal on the Amazon cloud. Design the web application to perform the CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) operations on the Schemes in an Oracle DB on the cloud.

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Scrum Master/Automation Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of a Scrum Master for the open source components and BigSql teams.
• Transitioned from waterfall/SDLC methodology to Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Created user stories with team and facilitated sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives.
• Participated in Scrum of Scrum meetings, removing impediments for the Agile Release Train.
• Managed potential Risks in Sprint backlog items and participated in Product backlog grooming.
• Facilitated daily scrums, prioritize product/sprint backlogs; sprint reviews; mentor team members in areas of effective test case identification, test coverage and analysis and coach effective use of the agile framework.
• Evangelized Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using tools like Jenkins, Rational Jazz and Maven.
• Managed a team of Engineers; Accountable for the end-to-end delivery of the BigSql and certain open source components.
• Captured use cases from cross functional groups of product, enablement, L3 customer support and effectively added user stories to the product backlog.
• Delivered automated test suites that resulted in 80% decrease in the run time of functional verification tests while increasing test coverage by 70%.
• Strategized regression runs for multiple platforms and configurations to get 100% coverage/week.
• Used regular expressions extensively within shell/awk/perl scripts to enhance searches to aid data analytics
• Monitored progress and manage the project using Agile-Scrum practices using Rational Team Concert (Jazz).

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Tech lead/Development technical manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the transition from Waterfall to Scum methodology- scrum master.
• Initiated Agile practices through daily Scrum meetings, actively removing impediments, managing sprint backlogs between hotfixes, fix packs and release items.
• Introduced Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration & Regression.
• Collaborated with architects managing code branching strategies for continuous delivery.
• Involved in evaluating and adapting agile practices through frequent process retrospectives.
• Architected of the first integrated business solution for Global Name Recognition.
• Built a successful team and drove projects to success on schedule.
• Effectively captured valuable features from pre-sales, professional services and product managers (Product Owners).
• Played the role of Scrum Master and facilitated backlog grooming sessions.
• Managed multiple projects within the same product.
• Defined APIs to integrate product with other Confidential products and work effectively with other teams.
• Resolved critical customer issues and escalations.
• Built trust within and outside the team through effective communication.

Confidential, Dulles, VA

Tech Manager/ Divisional Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded the setting up, migration and implementation of an environment that is exclusively for Development integration.
• Managed the development of application servers to successful deployment by actively coordinating with the business, product management and quality assurance groups.