SUMMARY

• 15+ Years of real time IT experience with strong development background
• 8 years of Scrum Master Experience alo ng with 3 years of Agile Coach
• Administrator for the Scrum Alliance’s user group in Minneapolis - “Agile Minneapolis”
• Regular contributor on Article on “Approach to transition Waterfall projects into Agile/Scrum”
• Coach traditional waterfall project managers and teams to transform into Agile
• Experienced in implementing Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) on Organization level.
• Acted as Release Train Engineer to lead an Agile Release Train (ART) and facilitate PI planning meetings
• Deliver multiple projects through Agile/Scrum in Siebel, WebMethods, Salesforce, Java/J2EE, and Big Data
• Extensively used Planview, Livelink, Version One, Rally, JIRA, Project Tracker, Microsoft Project, SharePoint, Microsoft Office, Visio and PowerPoint
• Managed IT projects for offshore-onshore, diversified and cross functional team of 60+ resources.
• 4 Years extensive experience in Rally and 3 years in JIRA and 1 year in Version One
• An MBA, Finance graduate from Tulane University (Top 10 Finance Business School in the US)
• Organized and facilitated Scrum of Scrum, Sprint planning, daily Stand-up, Reviews, Retrospectives, Release planning, Demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Proficiency in managing multi-million budget scrum teams, creating and maintaining product backlog/stories, and planning releases
• Experience with ATDD, TDD, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration
• Worked on Portal creation, Infrastructure setup, Product, Migration and other projects
• Adept in understanding Release/Sprint Burn-down chart and manage velocity
• Effectively coordinated with the project stakeholders to facilitate Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions to gather and record the Project Scope Statement, Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Risk Breakdown Structure (RBS), and Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
• Planned schedule management, resource management, cost management, communication management, along with performing quality assurance, and directing and managing the project work
• Monitored and controlled the project Schedule, Scope and Cost through Reserve Analysis and prioritize risk using Probability and Impact Matrix
• Excellent Global exposure with different cultures and team. Worked in Italy (Bologna), Argentina (Buenos Aires), and China (Beijing) during MBA program
• Highly knowledgeable in software development life cycle (SDLC), scheduling, requirements analysis, project planning, strategic planning, systems analysis and Technical design
• Prepared project budgets using Critical path method, Schedule compression techniques and Leads and lags
• Extensive experience in gathering and documenting business, functional and non-functional requirements
• Experience in preparing and managing Issue logs, Risk logs and Stakeholder Register

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MN

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Tools: Used: JIRA, Confluence, J2EE, Angular JS, Excel, Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities:

• Managed client interaction for Mercury program to implement centralized printing platform for Confidential .
• Facilitated PI planning for an Agile Release Train of 3 teams to create 5 sprints worth backlog for each.
• Coached waterfall project managers to manage Scrum teams, and the team members on agile principles.
• Implemented SAFe framework and created 4 ARTs to align 20+ teams.
• Influence PMO to transition projects from Waterfall to Agile (Scrum and Kanban) to align with Client’s teams.
• Setup teams in JIRA and helped to create the product backlog with defining themes, epics and versions (PIs).
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs.
• Help team to define and procure the infrastructure in client’s environment to install product.
• Led the Infrastructure team to build the infrastructure from the scratch- install/configure Kafka, Elastic search, Mongo DB, F5 Load balancer.
• Help team to resolve the impediments and monitor the burn down chart and velocity.
• Perform scrum master duties, and facilitate Planning, Grooming, Retrospective, Review and daily Stand-up.
• Help teams to move from manual to automated testing through implementing Jenkins.
• Prepare weekly status reports, status dashboards, and status presentations for the leadership and sponsors.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Tools: Used: Rally, Scrumwise, Salesforce, Livelink, Excel, Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities:

• Transform $12 million waterfall project into Agile (Scrum).
• Setup teams in Rally and helped to create the product backlog with defining tags.
• Help team to size the product backlog items (PBIs) to provide schedule to the leadership and sponsors.
• Map the product backlog dependencies in Rally to align Scrum teams.
• Coaches teams to understand Scrum and led two teams as a Scrum Master.
• Work with PMO to incorporate company’s best practices in the teams.
• Perform scrum master duties, and facilitate Planning, Grooming, Retrospective, Review and daily Stand-up.
• Coached traditional waterfall project managers to manage multiple Scrum Teams.
• Facilitate SOS (Scrum of Scrum) to coordinate with multiple teams to align the two weeks commitments and remove blockers.
• Train teams to affectively use Rally and utilize charts and reports within it.
• Empower teams to have open communication within a team and work internally to resolve impediments.
• Collect sign-offs from the stakeholders on completed deliverables and hand over to Ops team
• Ensure project is on time and on budget by meeting milestone deliverables

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr. Scrum Master/Agile Coach/PM

Tools: Used: Planview, Rally, Project Tracker, MPWR, SharePoint, Excel, Big-Data, Hadoop, BDPaaS, Pivotal, ETL, Visio and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities:

• Manage portfolio of over 6 million dollars that includes 8 projects and 4 scrum teams.
• Scrum Master for two teams along with overseeing 2 Scrum Masters.
• Perform scrum master duties, and facilitate Planning, Grooming, Retrospective, Review and daily Stand-up.
• Forecast and acquired resources for the project and managed their level of effort and activities in Planview.
• Helped teams to incorporate in Agile Release Train (ART) and attended PI planning meetings.
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition
• Coordinate with the program and other applications in Sprint 0 to prepare PRD, SAD and DUR.
• Facilitate bi-weekly Sprint Planning session to coordinate with multiple teams including Tech Leads, SMEs, Business Analysts, Development and Testing teams to groom and assign stories from roadmap.
• Helped BAs to go through the data usage and rights council to get DURs approved.
• Monitor and Control Risk, Cost, Schedule, Scope and Stakeholder Engagement.
• Prepare weekly status reports, status dashboards, and status presentations for the leadership and sponsors.
• Negotiated with other team to borrow critical resources for schedule compression (crashing).
• Pro-actively manage project risks and issues and minimize their impact on the project. Escalating issues and areas of concern to senior management.
• Setting budgets and agreeing project time scales and deadlines with clients.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress

Confidential, Plano, TX

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Tools: Used: Version One, Rally, Clarity, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos.
• Responsible for the project management throughout the entire project lifecycle, including project initiation, project delivery, business liaison/stakeholder management, post implementation review and project closing.
• Work closely with the product owner and team to groom product backlog in preparation for work.
• Remove the impediments to complete the story and maintain velocity.
• Monitor and Control Risk, Cost, Schedule, Scope and Stakeholder Engagement.
• Monitored process compliance and recommended process improvements; resolved project road blocks.
• Formulated regular and on-demand executive reports on project status, risks and issues, scope, defects and resources for senior management.
• Executed project in agile methodology and ensured projects meet the triple constraints - scope, time and costs.
• Instructed and modeled core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise.
• Extensively used Clarity, Version One, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint.
• Prepared Lessons Learned documents at the completion of a section of the project.
• The JAVA/J2EE project utilizes SOAP web services, JavaScript for UI, and spring framework.

Confidential, New Orleans, LA

Scrum Master

Tools: Used: Microsoft Project, JIRA, Excel, Visio, SharePoint and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities:

• The project budget was 1.2 million dollars and was completed before schedule and under budget.
• Groom the product backlog and prioritize the stories in JIRA.
• Conduct daily stand up to track the estimate and actual efforts along with tracking sprint impediments.
• Regular meeting with SMEs, Product Owners, Sponsors and Business Analysts to groom the product backlog.
• Ensure project is on time and under budget by meeting milestones.
• Coordinated with the key stakeholders to identify the key resources for the successful completion.
• Formulated regular and on-demand executive reports on project status, risks and issues, scope, defects and resources for senior management.
• Effectively managed change orders by conducting impact analysis on change of scope to identify need for additional funds, level of effort and resources.
• Conduct Retro session to document lessons learned and further improvements.
• Collect sign-offs from the Product Owner on various completed deliverables.

Confidential

Project Manager/Siebel Certified Consultant

Tools: Used: Microsoft Project, Excel, Visio, SharePoint and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing a Microsoft Project to implement the Siebel CRM for more than 45 clients globally with the budget of 1.5 million dollars for each year.
• Responsible for working with Technical Lead/Architect, functional analysts and other developers to implement and maintain Siebel CRM.
• Responsible for managing assigned project throughout the system development life cycle including: analysis, design, coding, testing and implementation.
• Identify business objectives and measurable goals, expected schedule, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing the project, staffing requirements and allotment of resources
• Provided technical guidance to analysts, gather and convert requirements into technical specifications.
• Track project milestones and deliverables. Responsible for ensuring all SLA's executed correctly.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stake holders in a timely manner.
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts with in project team.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Adapter Notification, Adapter Service, and Unit testing, and building the Integration end to end.
• Installing and configuring WebMethods 6.1, Integration Servers and Broker Servers, Trading Networks.