SUMMARY:

• SPC4.5 certified Senior Scrum Master.
• Seasoned Scrum Master with over 27 years of solid IT experience with outstanding project planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing skills with ability to support multiple simultaneous projects in a matrix organizational structure evaluating various solutions and in choosing the best solution that maximizes the ROI.
• Over 11 years of Agile experience with 10 years of Scrum Master experience including bi - modal delivery, Agile release planning for multiple Scrum Teams across geography using TFS, VERSION ONE, RALLY, Lean Kit, JIRA, Clarity, Confluence, MS Project.
• 7 years of DEVOPS with PLAN (Git, Jira), CODE, BUILD (Maven, Ant, Gradle ), TEST(Selenium, JUnit), DEPLOY ( Puppet, Chef, Saltstack, Ansible, OPERATE, MONITOR ( New Relic, Sensu, Nagios ) and INTEGEATION (JENKINS). Continuous Integration, Continuous testing and delivery.
• 11 years of vertical slicing of user stories.
• 11 years of Agile matrices reporting.
• Agile team Coaching with TDD, ATDD and BDD practices with relevant tools/frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, SoapUI, Appium, Cucumber.
• Successfully deployed multiple business solutions in Healthcare, Insurance, Finance, Information Technology and Manufacturing domains while working for fortune 500 companies using waterfall, agile and bi-modal methodology.
• Over 15 years of Project Management experience in SAP and ORACLE APPS and SALESFORCE projects with 15 complete life cycle implementations budgeted from 2 to 25 million dollar.

SKILL:

• Scrum Coach and Scrum Master, Agile from SCRUM Alliance.
• Assisted Senior Management in business case development, strategy management, change management and quality Mgmt.
• Managed multiple vendors and helped them integrate their applications with each other and with the Enterprise Applications
• Budget and Financial Management for projects and programs with ROI.

TECHNICAL:

Databases: ORACLE, HANA

Methodology: Waterfall, Agile, SCRUM,KANBAN, XP.

ERP: Oracle Financials and SAP

SAP: BW, HANA, PM, FICO, SD and MM Modules.

DATA Warehousing: Oracle, SAP BW, SAP HANA.

PM Tools: MS Project, JIRA, RALLY, VERSIONONE and TFS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coached Global Data Integration & BI Analytics & other teams on adoption of the Agile methodology & the JIRA tool.
• Provided Business Value via development of operational, predictive analytics Dashboards for IM, Job safety, CAPA, Risk, Audit, Compliance & Regulatory Reporting on Amazon Cloud DW / Redshift, Teradata, Tableau, MS SQL.
• Delivered Global Data Integration (Workday HR application) related projects & enhancements with working knowledge of PMx
• Delivered SUMMIT (Learning Management System) / competencies / Performance Management pilot to Ethicon & Procurement.
• Worked closely with the Business, vendors Product Owner, Development,
• Quality & Compliance teams and OCM (Organizational Change Management) for Enterprise & Communications.
• Provided Project Management support for projects with BIG DATA / Data Lake, MDM & Data Analytics projects in healthcare / life science domain involving Hadoop Ecosystem. Provided project governance, plans depending upon elected technology architecture & tools such as (Infomatica, Oozie, Control-M, Hive-HQL, Mango db, HUE, Cloudera, SPARK, SOLR, Netezza, Cognos )
• Managed End to End development of E-Orders BI Analytic platform (Data Lake, Hue, Squoop, Hive, Impala, Cognos & Tableau)
• Developed Business Requirements Matrix, Testing strategy & conducted test planning for Healthcare client (Quest diagnostics).
• Developed project plan template for MDM project (Informatica, IBM Infosphere, Collibra DG, Talend DQ).
• Developed project plan/ template for Data Science development by working with Solutions Architect & Data Scientist.
• Managed portfolio of projects / programs related to healthcare standards, integration and strategic initiatives having significant cross-organizational & business impact. Lead new company initiatives by working with Chief Lab Officer & Medical directors.
• Developed & provided financial management for $3 million CapEx/ P& L of Enterprise Service Bus/ Integration Initiative.
• Lead development teams on complex projects performing role of scrum master, project manager & program manager as appropriate
• Provided $1 million ROI by introduction of IBM WebSphere / ESB as IT integration platform & led the program for 5+ years.
• Managed / executed Agile projects using rally tool to create back log, user stories, plan releases & sprints.
• Worked with Quality Assurance to manage defect, conduct UAT, Regression, Performance & Load testing on Web/mobile projects.
• Lead large cross-functional / multidisciplinary project teams consisting of 10 managers, corporate lawyers & multiple vendors.
• Formed / lead steering committee, participate in strategic planning, budgeting, for mission critical projects.
• Managed multiple initiatives covering Integration, Interoperability, standardization, supporting MDM & Data Governance.

Software Domain and Projects Environment: Various modules of SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Salesforce and .net and JAVA, SAP Applications like HANA, BW 7.3 to 7.5 (Cloud version), SAP BPC 10.1, SAP FICO, MM, S & D, BW,BPC etc.

Confidential

Senior Scrum Master, Atlanta, Detroit

Responsibilities:

• Coached Agile teams on Lean & DevOps principles and practices
• Creating infrastructures for TDD, BDD, ATDD and DEVOPS ( Continous Integration and delivery pipeline).
• Managing the procurement and Installations of the required tools and .
• Team Foundation Build Extensions and TFS sidekicks for Java builds.
• ANT, MAVEN as build tools.
• JIRA (zephyr for Jira) for maintaining the Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect Management, and Bug Reporting.
• JMeter for performance Testing and API testing.
• Groovy and Griddle for test creation.
• Jenkins, GIT, TestNG and Maven for Continuous Integration (CI)
• JIRA, TestRail, Rally, Bugzilla for for executing the test cases.
• Maven to manage the framework dependencies.
• Cucumber, Gherkin as Behavior Driven Tools.
• SoapUI-PRO, SOAP UI, SOAP, REST, XML, WSDL, JSON for API Testing Tools
• Updating senior management on setting up of organization agile goals & metrics
• Defining dependencies with Waterfall lifecycle projects and cadence of collaboration.
• Attend Scrum of Scrums and Scrum Forums
• Coach and provide guidance to Scrum Masters
• Worked with the Audit and compliance teams project reviews.
• Perform initial Agile team assessments and recommend and assist with the implementation of Agile team structure for the teams and associated resources.
• Be a successful change agent both motivating the change and making it happen.
• Identify need and provide as necessary structured and ad-hoc in Agile principles and practices, including Scrum, Product Ownership, and Program Management.
• Engage Product Owners, Portfolio, and Program Managers to fulfill their individual roles, including but not limited to, communicating the Project Vision, Goals and Objectives,
• Establishing a strategic thinking perspective, regular attendance at Agile Ceremonies, and prioritization of Backlog Items. Liaise with project stakeholders including HR Product Owners, Portfolio, Program Managers to help coordinate Agile across the large Program
• Provide guidance for the project team and key stakeholders in the definition of the Project Vision.
• Support the Agile teams in tracking Agile projects milestones and deliverables.
• Establish an environment that ensures pro-active identification of changes in project scope and potential risks. Facilitate the project team’s process of devising contingency plans.
• Facilitate SAFe practices in collaboration with the IT Portfolio, Product Owners and Release Train Engineer as it pertains to the Eagan SDC Agile teams
• Facilitate Scrum of Scrum ceremonies for example Standup meetings, Retrospectives.
• Recommend and implement the use of Agile metrics to provide feedback and monitor trends on productivity, quality, predictability, and value of Agile activities.
• Implementing relevant Scaled Agile Framework metrics at the team, program, and portfolio levels; evaluate the results, and recommend course corrections.
• Mentoring and assisting the coaching staff in helping the teams with effective backlog grooming sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews and retrospectives (capture retrospective results with an eye on process and practice improvement; provide coaching where needed), and resolving impediments that prevent agile teams from completing sprint commitments
• Used PM tools like JIRA, Confluence, CLARITY,MS Project, MS Excel etc.

Confidential

Senior Scrum Master, Bridgewater, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Performed an active coaching role for a enterprise wide Scaled Agile implementation handling multiple programs & managing over 10 SCRUM teams & 100 Agile team members at a time. Played a key role in building &executing strategic scaled Agile adoption model & worked diligently for a successful rollout across the enterprise. Applications like DUCK CREEK (Policy, Claims and Billing) and GUIDEWIRE ( Underwriting and Policy Administration, Claims Management, Billing and Receivables Management ) was used extensively.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, DEMO meeting.
• Lead daily stand-up and scrum ceremonies for multiples scrum teams.
• Work with product owners, System Engineer, DEV APMs at groom the backlog and plan sprints. Track, escalate and remove impediments.
• Scheduled and coordinated system DEMO across various teams in the Train.
• Aggregates team objectives into Program PI Objectives, creates and publishes roadmap for visibility and transparency.
• Assists with economic decision-making with estimations and prioritizations at Program level.
• Assists with program execution and PI feature completion tracking (see Metrics).
• Constantly inspects the SAFe process, discover and address the major concerns
• Trained multiple Teams on Scrum, Agile Requirements, and SAFe Principles. Worked with different Coaches to identify Scale Agile process improvement.
• Coached Product Owners in creating and maintenance of Product Backlog. Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology. Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team.
• Engaged with other Scrum Maters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
• Removed impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.

Confidential

PM and SCRUM Master, Plainsboro, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings and software demonstrations.
• Created release plans, burn-down metrics, business logic documents, release notes, post-implementation logs, action summary logs, pre & post validation documents, & manuals, managed, velocity and task break-down.
• Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project time line.
• Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile frame work to team members and key stakeholders.
• Directed and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product. Planned and monitored project budget/spending. Guided projects to completion on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Managed project scope to ensure delivery was compliant to scope commitment.
• Managed various Projects related to Oracle E-Business Suite - Implementations, Conversions and Upgrade. Involved with following stages of Oracle APPS Implementation step.