SUMMARY

• Scrum Master with over 5+ years of experience and overall 13+ years of experience in Software Technology with PMP, PSM®, SAFE Scaled Agilist and ITIL® certified. Well versed with and practiced the PMI - PMP, ACP processes in Projects.
• Excellent knowledge of industry standard methodologies like Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Very knowledgeable in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for implementing agile practices at enterprise scale and the operations of Project Management Offices (PMOs).
• Maintained storyboards, organized charts within JIRA and influenced best practices to team.
• Held retrospective meetings to guide cross functional teams improving future sprints for success
• Mediated conflicts, fostering team and coached individuals improving team dynamics
• Prioritized product backlog for grooming and sprint planning while product owner was absent
• Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings.
• Facilitate the Daily Scrum and remove the obstacles to meet the sprint goals.
• Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Act as a reference point for PMO queries and information and an advocate for best practices in project management.
• Communicate project status to all external and internal stakeholders through management all of project documentation, regular status updates, and use internal project and product management tools.
• Highly trained and tremendous expertise in agile product life cycle (SCRUM) methodologies. Proven track record to transform non-Agile teams to agile teams.
• Project management experience includes client management, customer interaction, scope definition, project planning, and change control, integration and release management.
• Experience working with PMO office and PMBOK guidelines.
• Excellent presentation skills in preparing contingency plans, review logs, forecasting and planning work schedules with excellent comfort level in using Microsoft Project.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project cycle.
• Highly motivated team player with ability to lead, manage and work in all environments to meet deadlines.
• Strategic leader, team builder, and technical specialist contributing to corporate profitability, productivity, and service delivery.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Analysis Technologies: Agile methodology, Waterfall methodology, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Risk Analysis, Gap Analysis

ERP Application: SAP R/3, SAP Business Objects, SAP Netweaver, SAP ECC 6.0, EHP6, SAP Net weaver 7.1, 7.3 with EHP1, 7.4, BI, Solution Manager 7.0, 7.1

ETL Tools: SAP BODS

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Win 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Windows 7/8 Linux, UNIX

Defect Tracking Tools: Jira

Business Modelling Tools: Share point, Microsoft Visio

Reporting Tools / Dashboard: Xcelsius, Crystal Reports, MS-Project, Project Server

Data Bases: SQL Server, Oracle, SQLITE

Languages: C, C++, SQL, QT(GUI)

Debugging Tools: Lauterbach, gdb, Source Insight, Digi-debug

Workflow tools: MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Word

Project Management: Microsoft Project, PMBOK, PMP, PMI-ACP, Visual Studio

Agile: Kanban, XP, RUP, FDD, ATDD, TDD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Managing geographically dispersed Scrum team members from India, Belgium, Brazil and Germany.
• Providing guidance and advice to the larger audience, including senior mgmt. and other Scrum Masters in best practices and aligning the team to follow the basics of Agile/Scrum principles by acting as an Agile Coach.
• Working with the Agile PMO in bringing new and innovative ideas to capture realistic scrum metrics such as "Happiness Index" as part of retrospective, custom-built excel Burn down/Burnup charts.
• Leading weekly Scrum of Scrum meetings with Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Senior Mgmt. and capturing the features/impediments in a dependency matrix board.
• Adopting and gearing towards Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) at the program and portfolio level.
• Structured and organized the framework of the project setup in JIRA by presenting to Sr. Mgmt.
• Co-ordinated in setting up the entire JIRA environment before the inception of the project, which included creation of dashboards, components, roles, permissions for each project team and trained and educated the entire team in using JIRA.
• Reporting status of project to the Agile PMO dept. and exec. management by gathering burn down metrics from JIRA and a custom excel file.
• Providing Product Release Burn down charts at the end of each sprint to provide an overall program level update to project sponsors.
• Coaching on scrum principles, mentoring peers, conducting the morning stand-up, organizing and facilitating the scrum ceremonies (stand-up, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint review/demo), loosely overseeing off-shore resources assigned to team(s) and providing organizational updates on team progress.
• Experienced in handling Onsite - Offshore model projects both from offshore and onshore with well proven track records.
• Collaborated with business to groom the feature backlog.
• Ensured that Features accurately contribute to an EPIC, value stream and corporate initiative
• Represented Features during WSJF ranking with other Product owners.
• Assisted teams during grooming to break down the Features in to workable, well-formed user stories.
• Working continuously with the team and other stakeholders to remove any impediments which are blocking the progress of the sprint to make sure that user story delivered as committed in sprint backlog.
• Oversee all agile project management activities and process management across all project teams.
• Determined the team capacity (velocity) from historical data. Created Work Break down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks).
• Arrange and facilitate Scrum project meetings (daily Standup, Sprint planning, Sprint review, backlog refinement, Sprint retrospective).
• Maintain a close working relationship with Product Owner and team for backlog grooming, prioritization, defining scope and disaggregation of user story.
• Help teams develop their definition of done, and working, team, and meeting agreements.
• Planned, moderated and facilitated scrum ceremonies keeping team honest with processes. Managed burn down charts and motivated team members working toward goals
• Provide assistance to maintain and update the project management framework and disciplines necessary to support a PMO.
• Prioritized product backlog for grooming and sprint planning while product owner was absent
• Worked with PMO to maintain processes to ensure project management documentation, reports and plans are relevant, accurate and complete.
• Encouraging the team to inspect and adapt the best practices at regular interval and maintain a sustainable pace
• Actively participating in release planning with PO and scrum team for smooth release of planned user story.
• Continuously Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and coaching them to higher levels of maturity.
• Communicate status, risks and release definitions to the management team.

Environment: Microsoft Office tools, JIRA, Share point, Scrum. HP-ALM, Enovia PLM, Matrix Query Language, Java, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Confluence, JIRA, SaFe.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Chair daily and weekly SCRUM meetings. Present and discuss the burn-down chart and the release burn-down chart.
• Coached scrum teams in agile values and practices. Acted as facilitator / mediator between the teams and outside influences. Facilitated scrum events, removed impediments and kept team focused on the delivery of their commitments. Provided Agile Methodology training to new team members.
• Managed and delivered accurate, complete, relevant templates and other mechanisms as needed across teams to speed up the development process.
• Prioritize tasks, manage multiple projects and workflows and work with cross-functional teams - domestic and international.
• Provided the core principles of Scrum to our team of 12 on-shore and off-shore associates, promoting the core agile principles of collaboration, self-organization, prioritization, team accountability and visibility.
• Motivated teams to accomplish objectives despite obstacles.
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, and demos.
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint / grooming / release progress.
• Removed roadblocks / impediments to teams’ progress.
• Assisted the team in story selection and task definition to ensure appropriate commitments
• Assisted with backlog maintenance, prioritization and resolution of defects / bugs
• Provided guidance and metrics to team members on the practice and execution of projects.

Environment: Microsoft Office tools, JIRA, Share point, Scrum

Scrum Master

Confidential, Lake Forest, CA

Responsibilities:

• Addressing impediments to the ability of the team to deliver the product goals and deliverable.
• Ensures that the Scrum process is used as intended and chair key meetings.
• Reiterates the concept of servant-leader to reinforce these dual perspectives.
• Maintain constant communication with product team to check what needs to be done in preparation for future sprints.
• Coach, train, and mentor Scrum teams responsible for delivering product & software projects, reinforcing best practices, helping teams identify while removing impediments, and fostering team self-management.
• Make sure the team follows the processes they have collectively agreed.
• Enriched with knowledge of agile way of work and ensuring the team/organization follows the same religiously.
• Successfully initiated and lead the Scrum in developing the Business intelligence.
• Managed 10 offshore developers and architects in two different sprint teams simultaneously
• Planned and successfully rolled out in six three week sprints
• Involved in jointly prioritizing user stories to be delivered inSprintsConducted daily stand up meetings maintaining and updating thesprint backlog/ burn down burn up charts
• Conducted sprint planning and release with a high degree ofstakeholder acceptance.
• Tracking the project on a daily basis with points and velocity
• Working with Product and Engineering Managers commonage release cycles and escalate impediments improvements
• On ongoing basis provide scrum status updates on projects to PMO Engineering management and Peers
• Provide analysis of risks to maximize likelihood of project success
• Primary for organizing and creating deliverables including Burn down charts Weekly/Sprint Status Reports and also Summary Analysis of impediments and their root causes

Environment: Microsoft Office - MS-Excel, MS-Project Plan (MPP), MS-Power Point, MS-word, Share point, Jira.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led and coached a twelve person team as Scrum Master to organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Interactions with product management to build Epics and Features, and architects to build the architectural runway with team sprint plan and stories.
• Working with Product Manager and Release Train Engineer on release planning and schedule.
• Facilitation of Sprint and Release Planning, Daily Stand up, Review, Demo and Retrospective.
• Creating Scrum artifacts and information boards of Burn up, Burn Down, stories, tasks, etc.
• Identifying, resolving and removing impediments.
• Evaluating and recommending appropriate Scrum tools and best usage.
• Responsible for time-boxed (2-4 weeks) sprint planning and execution
• Anticipate and proactively track, record, remove and escalate impediments.
• Facilitate the team in identifying and managing interactivity dependencies within product development.
• Facilitate the estimation of product backlog Items and other Scrum activities.
• Serve as a mentor and coach for agile methodologies to members of the scrum team, product owner, and other agile project leaders.
• Proactively resolve conflicts between people and, if necessary, escalate appropriately.
• Enable close cooperation across roles and functions and remove barriers.
• Shield team from external interferences during sprints.

Environment: Microsoft Office - MS-Excel, MS-Project Plan (MPP), MS-Power Point, MS-word, Share point, Jira.

Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed projects with multi-million dollar budgets through strategy, Project charter, Project planning, requirements, RFI, RFP, schedule, budget, scope, risk, and quality management.
• Worked on the requirements, design and testing for both SIT and UAT cycles for ETL and Report testing.
• Responsible for management activities such as - Planning, budgeting, status reporting, resource management, Escalation and stakeholder management.
• Skilled at Presentations, Joint Application, Joint Application Development (JAD) Sessions, Prototyping, Training, Gap Analysis, Business Application Support, Use Case Development.
• Interacted with internal business clients and development team to generate required project documentation.
• Document and maintain written client communications, project documents, and strategic analysis.
• Worked with SMEs and system architects to define the specifications for an application and communicate them to the system architects and write clear, concise specifications that accurately reflect business needs to system architects.
• Works very closely with stakeholders: Business Process Management, Solution Architect, Infrastructure, Business Analyst, Development, Testing, and Production support teams.
• Involved in converting the User requirements into business requirements, functional requirements and technical requirements and also created business process models from the requirement specs.
• Created detailed project plan for project build phase for the defined requirements to hand off to offshore developers, and managed the work of these resources.
• Creation and running of effective Steering Committee, who make focused decisions, based upon accurate and timely status, performance reports.
• Involved in the process of Defect resolution process, Retesting Defects and Release management.
• Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.
• Track and prepare the report of testing activities like testing results, test case coverage, and required resources.

Environment: SAP Business objects, SAP BI, ECC, SAP Netweaver, MS Visual Studio, SQL Server, Oracle 11, MSExcel, MS-Power Point, MS-Project.

Senior Software Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience in managing working with and leading onsite, offsite and overseas teams, preparing and running calls and meetings.
• RFI and RFP developed to select 3rd party vendors
• RFI and RFP developed to determine appropriate direction and vendor. Decision and direction determined and hardware and software purchased and installed on all environments.
• Managing open issues and working cross-functionality to facilitate resolutions.
• Responsible for project execution and status tracking/reporting.
• Author and manage project schedules including key deliverables, milestones, dependencies and resource allocation.

Environment: Pace set top Box, C, C++, Linux, Set top Box Testing, Lauterbach, gdb, Source Insight, Digi-debug, Source In Sight, Cygwin, Hyper terminal, TS-Reader Lite, Teraterm, BBS, Stream Express, XTV-Harmonizer, HFL Studio.

Sr. Software Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed development and testing device drivers for EPOS terminal - R&D
• Assisting the technical team in their design and development tasks.
• Producing project definitions to include validated functional requirements, scope, rules, responsibilities, budgets, timescales and resources.
• Managing staff to ensure that all milestones are achieved with in the agreed timeframes and maintaining client relationships.
• Responsible for identifying, analyzing, measuring and managing project risks.
• Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.
• Produced an effective plan & risk assessment so that timescales and project costs are underwritten, understood & accepted by all stakeholders.

Environment: C, C++, QT (GUI), Linux Device Drivers, Testing, SQLite, XLib.

Senior Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed all Technical Configurations, Planning, Staff Training, and Documentation. Reviews development and test effort estimation and plans deployments accordingly.
• Responsible for leading and directing high priority projects with high levels of functional integration.
• Interact with business users and gather functional specs. Formulate scope and analyze the resource requirements.
• Assign tasks to the team and follow-up with daily update meetings. Create and maintain project plans.
• Ensure all needed tasks are performed according to high quality standards, project planning and contractual SLAs.
• Review status reports prepared by project personnel and modifies schedules or plans as required.
• Builds very strong relationship with customer and regularly highlights how the projects that are being executed are adding value to the bottom line of their organization.
• Work closely with operations teams for successful rollout of new initiatives and project/issues.
• Managed issues, risks and change control for any changes to agreed scope.

Environment: C, C++, Linux Device Drivers, Linux Device Drivers, UNIX, QT