SUMMARY:

• Seeking Agile Project/Product Manager/Scrum Master role to leverage 17+ years of product & project management experience. I have hands on experience in all stages of product ideation to successful implementation. Lead multiple complex projects and teams from start to end with strong focus on P&L.
• Managed offshore and onsite teams. B uild high performance teams, Supported PMO practice for better traceability and exceeded customer’s expectation. Good domain experience in Health Care, HR, Retail, Finance, e - Governance, Transportation (emergency), e-Learning, Supply Chain and Hospitality.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Identifying potential products
• Market research­
• Competitive Analysis
• Ideation Sessions
• Design Thinking
• Product visioning and Road Map
• Generating product requirement
• Define Value driven specification
• Defining - MVP/MMP/MDP
• Drafting, filing patent application
• Validating with end user
• ROI Analysis & Pricing strategies
• Go-To Marketing strategies
• Feedback analytics/ML
• Continuous Improvement

T ECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Tools: MS-Project/PPM/Office 365,HPSM, JIRA, ConfluenceAZURE DevOps, ServicenNow.

Methodologies: SDLC, Waterfall, Agile - SCRUM,XP, Lean, KANBAN

Languages: C, C++, VB 6.0Database: Oracle, Access, SQL Server, MY SQL

Reporting tools: Microsoft Power BI, BOBJ 4.0

ERP: SAP BI 7.0

OS: Windows 10, LINUX

Cloud services: Azure

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago -IL

Agile- PM/SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Mentored team members on Scrum process from Sprint 0
• Created team agreements for DoR and DoD
• Configured Azure DevOps board and workflow for better traceability.
• Created Sprint analytics report to balance efforts & report capacity planning.
• Conducted all SCRUM Ceremonies with both onshore and offshore teams.
• Worked with Product Owner & Architect on backlog grooming and prioritization.
• Identified team collaborative issues and resolved conflicts.
• Increased the Sprint velocity from 60 SP to 83 SP
• Created new template for WSR to publish all stakeholders.

Confidential, Rosemont -IL

Agile- PM/SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Mentored team members and BRM for Value driven solution.
• Configured SCRUM board and workflow for better traceability.
• Created Advance workflow to manage big project
• Conducted all SCRUM Ceremonies with both onshore and offshore teams. Worked with Product Owner & BRM to address Legal and Security risk to address critical functionality.
• Identified team collaborative issues and resolved misunderstandings
• Increased the Sprint velocity from 30 SP to 73 SP
• Managed Timesheet & Burn rate to control project budget/estimates
• Managed Project SEED/FULL Funding approvals
• Worked with PMO to support Release Management function for Successful Deployment.
• Configured Project in MS-PPM & Status Reports.

Confidential, NAPERVILLE -IL

Agile- Delivery PM (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Worked with PMO to support agile transformation from waterfall.
• Mentored team members and Vendors for better documentation for upgrade
• Configured KANBAN board to document all tasks for traceability.
• Run daily stand-up calls with both onshore and offshore teams.
• Worked with Product Owner & SME to create Business Engagement plan for validations
• Improved communication among BA/Dev/QA teams to reduce misunderstandings
• Process of creating NetO 5.0 Feature story map to share among PM/BA/QA/BAU teams.
• Created custom workflow in collaboration with BA/QA teams to validate story status.
• Worked with QA strategy team and Vendor QA team to reduce duplication efforts.
• Created weekly project status report to publish to higher management for action

Confidential, CHICAGO-IL

Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Created ground rules and supported agile transformation from waterfall.
• Mentored and trained agile methodology to new team members.
• Managed SCRUM & KANBAN teams on value driven deliveries.
• Worked with Product Owner to create Release plan.
• Facilitated Sprint planning, daily touch point, reviews and retrospective.
• Created project artefacts to track Scrum Ceremonies
• Created Traceability matrix for project backlog and other business activities.
• Re defined BAU workflow and configured KANBAN in JIRA for better traceability.
• Created Risk log to report and work with PO and DM to mitigate upcoming risks.
• Created Capacity planning using availability matrix for velocity forecast.
• Created Sprint reports to publish to team and PO/Management team to establish clear Project management Goals.
• Worked with onshore and offshore global distrusted teams

Confidential, Westmont -IL

Sr. Product Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with the program management team to establish vision, road map and product backlog for Salesforce implementation.
• Leveraged Sprint 0 to ensure all the ducks are in a row related to backlog, team space, collaboration tools, Progress reporting tools (JIRA)
• Facilitated Sprint planning, daily touch point, reviews and retrospective.
• Ran release planning and story mapping to plan for a quarter with predefined release dates.
• Create product backlog, refined according to the business value defined by the Customer/Managers.
• Ensured that high risk, high business value items were addressed at highest priority.
• Assisted the product owner with grooming, prioritization and stakeholder management.
• Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Reviewed sales reports and Visualization dashboards defined by stakeholders.
• Designed and developed a consumer product with ROI of 20 times.
• Worked with sales team to plan Go-to Market strategy.
• Prepared Feature Analysis document to define competitive strategy.
• Used LEAN principles to define new product features.
• Prepared product report and presented new product design for portfolio management.

Confidential , Duluth, GA

Product Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with all levels of management developing ideas into projects to meet goals.
• Determined deliverables & iterative releases to provide immediate benefit to customer.
• Created and updated project plans, status updates and requirement documents
• Managed issue and action items logs throughout the projects.
• Developed out-of-scope deliverables into future projects.
• Resource alignment, managed Issues and conflicts within team.
• Led day-to-day operational aspects of a project to ensure approved scope is met.
• Managed risk analysis and mitigated.
• Reviewed UAT results to improve process flow and Scope document.
• Steered project documents are current/completed and communicated appropriately
• Monitored and tracked team hours and expenses on a weekly basis.
• Drive software and infrastructure support as it relates to projects.
• Led onshore and offshore teams.

Confidential, Deerfield IL

Responsibilities:

• Improved the business operations & communications resulting in better performance.
• Developed various methodologies to improve new clients to enhance business.
• Developed the process to identified technical and soft-skill training needs for consultants
• Developed pre-Screening and technical Interviews process.
• Developed reporting process regarding technical interview schedules & results.
• Did cost optimization for each process to improve performance and optimizing the cost.

Confidential

Business Analyst & Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to create Flow diagrams, Activity diagrams, Use cases & Project Scope documents.
• Responsible for Business process modeling, Risk management, and Rational unified process.
• Developing the leads, requirement Analysis, writing proposal, developing the scope, UML design, Project Scheduling, Defining deliverables.
• Make presentations, interacting with clients, Coordinating with Technical and non-technical team and gave Technical Presentation about the new concept.
• Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for QA testing and report / data validation.
• Participated during research and technical solution sessions to solve business problems.

Confidential

Supply Chain Management system

Responsibilities:

• Worked with customers and technical leads to gather requirements, business flow and transaction information.
• Developed Technical Diagram Process flow-charting, use case diagram, detailed scope and scheduling Project lifecycle.
• Increased the revenue from 1.0M to 8.0 M- INR.