SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master with over 13 years of experience in Enterprise level projects, Web Development, Content Management Systems and Project Management.
• A diverse background in technical and managerial areas. Agile/SCRUM Leader with the skills to translate the business requirements into user stories ready for development.
• Excels in building/leading teams in high - pressure environments.
• 3+ years of experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and good understanding of Software Development Life-cycle.
• Managed Enterprise level Projects having team size varying from 10 - 15.
• Proficient with Onsite and Offshore delivery model and methodology
• Extensive experience in coordinating with different Payment Service Providers across regions which include USA, Australia, India, Europe etc…
• Proficient with Onsite and Offshore delivery model and methodology
• Experience with front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, AJAX and JQuery.
• Extensive experience in executing web/application projects based on Open Source technologies and frameworks such as PHP, Joomla CMS, Ruby on Rails, Zope & Plone.
• Lead development role in design, development and implementation of end-to-end web applications, ensuring they meet quality standards and deliverable requirements.
• Excellent verbal, written and listening communication skills with an ability to influence and develop relationships with key stakeholder.
• Made Several Business Trips to Santa Clara, CA (2010), Washington DC (2011), VISA headquarters- Foster City, CA (2012) Gallagher Headquarters - Chicago (2014, 2015).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Web Technologies: XML, HTML4/5, CSS2/3, JQuery, Ajax

Back-end development: PHP 4 & 5

Operating Systems: Windows XP, NT, 2003 Server, Linux.

Databases: MySQL, PHP MyAdmin

Development Tools: MS Office, Crucible Review, JIRA Tool, Eclipse IDE CVS, SVN, Git

Other Software Libraries: (PHP) Zend Framework, PEAR, Smarty, (JavaScript) Prototype, Zope Framework, Rails Framework.

CMS: Joomla, Drupal, Plone

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Single point of contact for all Salesforce development work from Confidential .
• Interface with Product Owner to understand the Business priority and high level requirements.
• Coordinate with the distributed offshore team across the centers in India. Help team resolve issues and remove roadblocks
• Scrum Master for more than one complex, software development project
• Guide development teams and product management on the use of agile practices
• 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 35%
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Communicate with the team about the sprint activities, guidelines, delivery status, and overseeing the delivery of technical work within the agreed timescales.
• Tracking tickets, issues, bugs, features etc… via Microsoft Team Foundation Server tool
• Monitoring project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance
• Lead daily checkpoint sessions with the offshore team to address any questions or concerns. Set up a demo with Business for their quick review and feedback.

Environment: Apex, Visual Force, JQuery, SOQL, Sales forces CRM, Kendo UI, HTML, and CSS.

Confidential

Agile PM/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for estimation, planning and execution while continuously identifying and mitigating underlying risks, with specific focus on requirement analysis and design
• Facilitate product development and fulfillment by adopting ‘Scrum’ Agile development methodology.
• Responsible for People Management, including goal setting and providing performance feedback
• Monitored Scrum team progress using tools such as sprint burn down charts and release burn up charts
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Thoroughly analyze and understand the Payment Service Providers API Integrations doc and gateway configurations and services.
• Interacting with the key stakeholders for requirement gathering and technical specifications
• Tracking tickets, issues, bugs, features etc… via JIRA tool
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning & demos.
• Working with product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint.
• Communicating with the team about the sprint activities, guidelines, delivery status, and overseeing the delivery of technical work to very high standards within agreed timelines.

Environment: PHP 5, Zend Framework, JQuery, Drupal, Smarty engine, Java, My-SQL, Apache server.

Principal Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include UI development in support of various web applications. Technologies used include HTML, CSS, JavaScript (jQuery) and PHP.
• Developed standalone user interface file management system with auto login feature using Joomla and integrated with the LF1
• Cleaned up and rewrote front end HTML and CSS to meet browser compliant requirements.
• Worked with back-end developers to convert HTML/CSS non-functional pages into dynamic JSP pages.
• Involved in fixing Front-End issues with the layouts
• Developed client side validation code using JavaScript and JQUERY
• Developed and implemented user interfaces as per latest W3C standards
• Extensively used/modified JQUERY to perform AJAX calls for creating interactive web pages on JSON response.
• Attended daily client meetings to gather requirement and give updates about the proceedings.
• Demonstrated excellent communication skills through working in a team environment.
• Tracking key project milestones and adjusting project plans and/or resources to meet the needs
• Communicating with the team about the project related activities, guidelines, delivery status, and overseeing the delivery of technical work within agreed timescales.
• Responsibilities of allocating tasks to the team members for development and testing.
• Worked closely with off shore technology team to assist in the integration of templates and back end application.

Joomla Content Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Custom programming websites/projects using Joomla CMS & PHP
• Created custom Joomla template, installed & customized components, modules &plugins
• Front-end web development (HTML, CSS, jQuery, Ajax)
• Design/modify custom php files, templates, and themes.
• I was responsible for all the life cycle stages such as Software Installation, template designing, development, bug-fixing, code review, deployment and maintenance support.
• Trained team members/clients in subsequent website maintenance, particularly the use of Admin Control panel, Content Management Features, Mail server settings, FTP configuration etc….
• Interface design / development - used jQuery form manipulation for special effects.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, without constant supervision.
• Involved in all levels of testing from unit level of testing to integration testing and took care that the final product is delivered with good quality and efficiency to customers.
• Strategically planned and programmed applications which helped to manage the site with lot if ease and effortlessly.
• Cleaned up and rewrote front end HTML and CSS to meet browser compliant requirements.

Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop consumer based features and applications using Ruby on Rails, HTML and CSS.
• Created and maintained web-based stock, sales management and billing solution.
• Resolved the complexities and bugs raised by customers and closed in timely manner.
• Collaborate with Product Management and User Experience experts regarding product definition, schedule, scope and project-related decisions.
• Develop best practices.
• Manage, collaborate and coordinate the work of an offshore development team.

Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the design and development of web application for UNCHC with python scripting, DTML, HTML, ZSQL, ZPTs.
• Database design with ERD, normalization, data export and import from CSV formats
• It has a web based administration module to update the unch Faculty information.
• Hand Coded front end HTML, CSS & JS to meet client side validation requirements.
• New product development called ‘Smart Forms’used in the website.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Development of web application using Zope/Plone, python scripting, DTML, HTML, ZSQL, ZPTs.
• Authenticated users are allowed to create separate networks, which facilitate to coordinate and conduct various advocacy activities at the regional and global levels to create visibility to the issues of PLWHA.
• It has a web based administration module to update the content dynamically.
• Customization of discussion form.
• Coded front end HTML, CSS & JS to meet client side validation requirements.
• Testing the application & preparing the test plan doc.
• Creation of forms using TTW-Type.