Program Management

• Program managed multiple IT engagements for Cognizant's diverse customers including Price water house cooper.

Project Integration Management

• Have extensive experience in leading and managing different projects/program on various clients for the last 6 years. Have hands on experience in Project planning, Monitoring control.

Project Cost Management

• Having worked extensively under NTT Data office, which is essentially a Cost Center, was successfully able to close the year end books, well within the allocated budget.

Project Resource/Procurement Management

• As a Program/Project Manager for NTT Data, Cognizant , I have executed large programs that involved multiple project work streams, Vendors apart, performed Multiple Vendor evaluation, Contract Negotiation Planned, Administered IT Resource requirements.

Project Quality Management

• Have faced the SQA Software Quality Audit for the Property Management System
• Facilitated to Enable PMS application face the Quality audit.

Project Management Tools

• Microsoft Project, RALLY For Agile
• Used the Project Management tools for Resource, Cost and Schedule tracking to track planned numbers against the actuals.

Programming Languages

• J2EE, JSP, Struts Framework, Hibernate, JSTL, FTL, AJAX, JSON, DOJO, Servlets, Java-Beans, Java-Script, JDBC 2.0, XML, XSLT and UML

Databases Tools

• SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9.0.

Technical

• Agile, SDLC, PMLC and ITIL.
• Rally, MS Project Plan, Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio
• Travel Hospitality, Healthcare, Logistics

Confidential

Position- Project Manager Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with internal and external customers to develop software solutions using Agile methodologies, and oversee the design, development, and testing, and troubleshooting of applications.
• Facilitating the daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by a Sprint of 2 weeks.
• Helped the product owner to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development. Also worked with them on Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burndown, Release Burndown.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them.
• Trained and coached a development team of 6-8 team members to utilize Agile Methodology with Scrum.
• Motivated the team to come up with quality shippable product and meet the product goals.
• Managed offshore teams in different geographical places.

Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of 33 major initiatives
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams in India.
• Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption.

Confidential

Position Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with internal and external customers to develop software solutions using Agile methodologies, and oversee the design, development, and testing, and troubleshooting of applications.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories.
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise.
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams in India.
• Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption.
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time.
• Used Rally for monitoring and controlling on daily basis.

Confidential

Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed projects thorough all the phases from initiation, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing
• Worked with enterprise sponsors and stakeholders to initiate and manage several medium and large projects
• Created project plan baseline by analyzing current documents and set up benchmarks on achieving deliverable
• Developed comprehensive communication plan and oversaw transition to support to ensure a seamless deployment
• Directly responsible for the recruiting, management, and career development of project staff
• Manage a team of developers, QA Analysts, Business Analysts as well as contract workers and an administrative group
• Coordinated, approved, and tracked all project related expenses including hours, materials and services
• Provide project leadership to employees including budget control, production timetables, status reporting, client/project team coordination, risk analysis and quality assurance
• Analyzed project risks, developed risk management plan and mitigated subsequent issues
• Continually seek opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships
• Worked closely with internal and external customers to develop software solutions using Agile methodologies, and oversee the design, development, and testing, and troubleshooting of applications
• Worked with product owners as a Scrum Master in agile methodology for the Software as a Service offering during development phases
• Coordinated across all departments and disciplines to ensure timely and quality product and service deliverables to the project
• Standardized policy and process documents related to Software Development Life Cycle SDLC project management
• Worked as Hands on developer and tester in developing and executing project and software development frameworks in Java, .NET and Oracle platforms
• Coordinated development of training courses and materials

Confidential

Project Name:

Description:

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with client and Subject Matter Experts to identify business requirements warehouse processes and implementation objectives.
• Managed technical platform implementations and integration with third-party software.
• Supervised software installation, system configuration, and testing at client locations.
• Knowledge sharing with offshore team on daily bases to keep whole project team in sync.
• Configuration of Yantra as per the Warehouse requirements.
• Handled post production issues.

Confidential

Project Name:

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Description:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement Analysis Reverse Engineering of present application, developing use cases, communicating with the client for understanding the application on day-to-day basis .
• Designed class diagrams, sequence diagrams and high level technical documents.
• Worked with STRUTS framework that uses MVC2 design paradigm
• Oversaw requirements-gathering and proposal, which won the follow-on work for company.
• Work with team in construction of converting to web based application based on J2ee environment.
• Delivered excellent customer service and gained respect of client management and end-users.

Confidential

Project Name:

Project Description:

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design of the application using UML
• Prepared the sequence and class diagrams
• Involved requirement gathering and functional design
• Prepared Functional Design and Technical Design Documents
• Analyzing and providing solutions for critical issues
• Designed and developed business layer which includes the creation of action classes, VO/beans to handle user interactions through forms and integrated with the struts framework to handle backend functionality.
• Involved in production deployments and postproduction support.
• Identify process bottlenecks, constraints, and improvements to enhance the design of the process and continue value cycle
• Status reporting to Sr. Management

Project Name:

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Project Description:

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the complete life cycle of the project.
• Interacted with the business users for requirement gathering and with Stakeholders for functional specification validation.
• Designed and developed the front-end with STRUTS and JSTL to modularize and stream line web page code.
• Involved in writing unit test cases for various screens of the project and review of integration test cases and system test cases.
• Took part in the QA Meetings to resolve the issues raised by the QA Team.
• Worked on enhancements, maintenance and production support activities after the completion of project.
• Integral part of the team in Production Support.

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Responsibilities

• Prepared System Requirement analysis SRS , understanding the project, designing, modular division
• Responsible for writing Validations using JSP/ WML, WML Script.
• Involved in creating distributed database for efficient management of data.
• Responsible for deployment of component based architecture under WAP Technology.