EXPERIENCE | Confidential Scrum Project Manager Planned and Managed Enterprise Platform using Scrum Methodologies Rally Software to automate the process of Creating and Managing SSOW's in Boeing via Web portal. Portal helped create a centralized location for Boeing Employees to perform tasks, monitor SSOW's completion, search for information on historical data and collaborate with peers via workflow solution built in the tool. Portal also had Business Intelligence for charting, reporting capabilities and real time analytics to monitor activity on the portal. The system was a multi-year strategic SOA-Web Services project build to provide a scalable feature rich platform to help business grow. Responsibilities: - Develop, maintain and effectively execute software development sprints/iterations using Scrum methodologies/principles. .
- Establish project vision, sprint plan, scope, budget, tasks, risk plan, resource allocation and milestones using Rally Software
- Acted as the senior technical resource defining SOA Web Services and Restful Web Services architecture.
- Direct and manage cross-functional teams in the development of plans, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures for completion of the project.
- Responsible for managing sprints, coordinating development resources, prioritizing and scheduling feature implementation with product owner, quality assurance and feature deployment
- Manage all technical aspects of SSOW product, which includes setting milestones, tracking team velocity, and reporting to management at all stages of development and testing.
- Liaise with internal consumer and product owner to define project scope and objectives, release and iteration plans, communicating requirements to development team.
- Collaborate with product owner to establish release plan and sprint plan based on feature backlog.
- Participate in product development activities, scheduling feature additions in sprint release cycles based on priority and importance.
- Drove impressive improvements by streamlining Boeing PW SSOW management process. Portal helped realize cost savings of over 45 in SSOW generation, shortened the procurement cycle by 50 and provided real-time analytics to senior management in managing procurements.
- Controlled project scope and prioritized issues to make appropriate recommendations to senior management on best alternatives to reduce risk and to meet project timelines.
- Resolved numerous project issues including staffing shortages, tactical matters, scope creep and divergent business and user needs.
- Facilitated analysis of project problems to identify viable solutions and ensure effective implementation of the decision.
Technologies Used: Scrum, Rally, MS Share Point, MS Project, JIRA, Deltek, Visio, ClearQuest, SOA Web Services, Spring, Hibernate, Ext-JS, Restful Web Services, JAX-WS, Maven, Code Coverage, CheckStyle, Continuous Integration, Configuration Management, Jenkins, FindBugs, SonarQube, PMD Leadership Alliance Assessment Portal LAAP : Planned and Managed Assessment Portal using Scrum Methodologies for Leadership Alliance to automate their Talent Acquisition/Assessment process, provide real-time business intelligence to customers and management, help offer client base a full range of talent management services. Web Portal provided Leadership Alliance centralized place in acquisition, assessment, development, and retention of high-caliber employees, allowed entire processes to be monitored and gather analytics for reporting and charting purposes. Amazon Cloud Computing was used to host the application, keeping its strategic and business needs, providing a scalable and reliable feature rich platform to help business grow, Responsibilities: - Planned, scheduled and executed all stages of enterprise software, and system implementations using Scrum methodologies.
- Assessed business implications for Product Backlog and monitored progress to meet sprint deadlines and cost targets.
- Managed Release Project Planning: Product Backlog, Sprint Planning, Change Requests, and Stakeholder Management.
- Handled coordination between cross functional teams, tracking and reporting progress using Burn down Charts, Impediments Log, and delivery management.
- Coordinated User Story Workshops, User Story estimation efforts with the Scrum Teams and Product Owners. Ensure integrity and delivery of project deliverables with respect to time, budget, and scope.
- Defined business requirements with Product Owner and Stakeholders, Risk Management plans for project lifecycle.
- Acted as the senior technical resource defining SOA Web Services and Restful Web Services architecture.
- Liaise between customers, business executives, and technical subject matter experts to ensure consistent communications and quality service delivery.
- Manage onshore-offshore model, Global Team consisting of tech leads, developers, business analyst, and testers.
- Manage operational aspects of the team, including knowledge management, coordination, and deliverables.
- Leveraged Amazon Cloud Computing Services to host the Portal, helped in driving infrastructure and software management costs down. Shortened the turnaround cycle by 50 .
- Produce project status reports, and resolved day-to-day issues with emphasis on SDLC. Maintain an accurate status of projects, and ensure resource efforts are reported in a timely manner.
- Resolve numerous project issues including staffing shortages, tactical matters, scope creep and divergent user needs.
- Facilitate analysis of project problems to identify viable solutions and ensure effective implementation of the decision.
- Monitor project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identify solutions to address them.
Technologies Used: Scrum, Rally, Amazon Cloud Computing, MS Project, MS SharePoint, JIRA, Java/J2EE Web Application, UML, SOA Wes Services, Visio, ClearQuest, Restful Web Services, Maven, Code Coverage, CheckStyle, Continuous Integration, Configuration Management, Hudson, FindBugs, SonarQube, PMD Confidential: Design and Managed a workflow-based CMS application Electronic Buyer Check List to facilitate post Purchase order compliance automation process. It incorporates Post Order Analytics engine to validate Corporate and Government compliance of orders, Execution and Approvals Analytics engine to route orders for approvals, Execution Reporting mechanism to provide reports on orders, Dashboard to report and alert on orders near delivery and Integration with SAP to receive Orders created in SAP via Web Services. Responsibilities: - Responsible for smooth execution of project and lead end-to-end delivery of project. Plan and Manage artifacts of all phase's development cycle.
- Prepare Project Plan using Microsoft Project Plan Ensure project plan is in line with signed off contract.
- Acquire project plan sign off from required stakeholders and ensure project is executed as per approved project plan.
- Coordinate to migrate Dev, QA, SIT, and UAT environments. Work with Architect and Tech Leads to design application Technical architecture.
- Work with Users BAs to define functional scope and resolve functional queries of Team members
- Created architectural and technology roadmaps that result in stronger business/IT alignment that drive adoption and usage of technology across the enterprise.
- Acted as the senior technical resource defining systems architecture and providing assistance when needed. Ensured best practice and adherence to development standards and processes.
- Facilitated analysis of project problems to identify viable solutions and ensured effective implementation of the decision.
Technologies Used: MS SharePoint, ClearQuest, JIRA, Assembla, Visio, MS Project, Deltek. Java/J2EE, JBoss, Spring, Hibernate, SOA Web Services, SAP Integration, Xml. Restful Web Services, JAX-WS, Mule ESB, Maven, Code Coverage, CheckStyle, Continuous Integration, Configuration Management, Hudson, FindBugs, SonarQube, PMD Confidential Team Lead/Enterprise Architect Electronic Payment Gateway: Worked as a lead consultant for MasterCard International on ePG System Electronic Payment Gateway Systems . A complete procure-to-pay electronic data interchange EDI system to provide expanded payment solutions to corporations and financial institutions. Responsibilities: - Collaborated and negotiated with business owners and software vendors on scope of the project as needed.
- Lead design and development of Spring, WebSphere ESB and Hibernate Framework. Extensively worked with Spring Framework for migration of existing modules and also layout the design for new modules.
- Mentored developer team to new technologies such as Spring MVC, ESB and Hibernate ORM tools and leverage synergies to eliminate risk of redundancies. Reduced coding time and accelerated project completion time.
- Provided technical vision for the team including adaptation of standards IOC, AOP. MDB, JMS and process improvements
- Assessed, identified and reported risks to program completion based on a thorough understanding of all dependent programs and organizations.
- Provided leadership in architecture, design and build of complex applications.
- Identify and manage the resolution of issues, risks and change control throughout the project lifecycle.
Technologies Used: IBM Websphere Server, Spring, Hibernate, J2EE, Messaging/JMS, XML, ESB, Rational Rose, Clearcase, ClearQuest, UML. CheckStyle, Code Coverage, Junit, Jtest, Java Architect/Lead Java Developer Confidential Rental Management Information System EAI application : An e-Business solution to create and manage car rental contracts and company's interaction with customers, vendors and business users. Event based system to organize, automate and synchronize business processes-principally sale and monitoring activities. Responsibilities: - Lead design and development of MVC-based Spring and Hibernate framework for Rental Contract application.
- Worked extensively with Spring Framework for rapid development of enterprise applications and migration of existing modules.
- Business partnership to deliver IT products within scope, function, cost and timeframe as defined and agreed.
- Earmarked initiatives to incorporate into design solutions to enhance quality and performance of Application.
- Mentored developer team to new technologies such as Spring IOC, AOP and Hibernate ORM tools and leverage synergies to eliminate risk of redundancies. Reduced coding time and accelerated project completion time.
- Provided technical vision for the team including adaptation of standards EJB, XML and process improvements.
Technologies Used: EAI, Weblogic, Spring, Hibernate, JMS, EJB, XML, Struts, JSP, Servlets, XSL, JUnit, JTest, PL/SQL, JavaScript, Rational Rose, ClearCase, ClearQuest, UML |