Qualifications Summary
Expert in Agile software development, release management and results-
driven information technology professional, with over 15 years of
comprehensive experience IT support desk application, developing and
delivering technical solutions as well as in leading and supporting high-
performance teams. Dedicated and hands-on leader with in-depth knowledge of
software development life cycle. Armed with well-developed interpersonal
skills along with the ability to motivate and direct others in a supportive
and cooperative team environment. Proven track record in rendering support
and service with knowledge in providing guidelines and assisting
organizations to migrate all support activities under a organization.
Highly capable of coordinating well with management and cross-functional
teams in executing daily tasks and functions.
Core Competencies
Startup Planning Scoping Scheduling Budgeting Delivery Skills
Problem Resolution and Decision-Making
Coordination and Collaboration Documentation and Presentation Roadmap
Development Risk Management
End-User and Application Support Software Development (SDLC-
Waterfall/Agile)
Functional Skills
. Service Management - Adeptness in establishing effective service desk and
application service goals and solutions encompassing major incident
service level to optimize cross-functional performance improvement across
the organization.
. Innovation, Strategic and Tactical Planning - Talent in identifying
organizational competitors and support methodologies and designated task
to appropriate individuals to promote efficiencies and quality.
. Policies and Standards Compliance - Skill in creating an inventory of all
existing support worldwide and development of projects in compliance with
the organization policies as well as in appointing and designating tasks
to appropriate personnel.
. Communication and Interpersonal - Effective application of interpersonal
and communication skills in coordinating with business partners in
resolving and supporting related issues in the entire organization as
well as in working closely with the technology group to secure effective
support regarding the information and statistics and ensured migration to
a similar platform and develop process to expedite delivery in current
and future tool.
Professional History
B2BSoft New York, NY
IT Product DEVELOPMENT MANAGER SENIOR SCRUM MASTER AGILE COACH 2012-
Present
Developed and implemented product roadmap vision based on company's
business, competitive analyses and market insights. Directed and closely
collaborated with cross-functional teams (merchants, design, marketing and
development) in managing the full product development cycle across all
business verticals. Executed Agile-product driven processes to ensure speed-
to-market of development at desired timeline.
Carrier Highlights :
V Effectively led the team of product owners to define and prioritize
enhancements to the application as well as team of designers,
technical communicators, and user researchers to ensure clear and
correct definition of product enhancements utilizing Scrum best
practices.
V Introduced Scrum/Agile practices to the organization.
V Successfully collaborated with the executive team in developing and
maintaining the 12-month product roadmap.
V Proactively participated as the member of Agile steering committee
that took charge for defining Agile implementation.
V Worked closely with product development, operations, editorial,
product management, and product marketing teams to the delivery as
well as to rollout the applications and services.
V Took charge of providing excellent people management to team
members.
V Coach the Product Owner,New Scrum masters, Development team
members and delegates'
V Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-ups, print
planning meetings, Scrum of Scrums and retrospectives.
V Brought out the entrepreneurial spirit by leading new initiatives
and programs across department boundaries to drive success against
company goals and objectives.
V Actively involved with the new overseas IT team that enhance the
building infrastructure and informing proper procedures in the
workplace.
Millhouse 1889, LLC. Computool Inc.-New York, NY
Sr. AGILE Technical Project Manager 2009-2012
. This position was met and exceeded by managing and leading new product
enabling activities, to ensure the effective transfer of developmental
products from concept to development, while reporting directly to the
CTO and CEO..
. Hold full accountability for guiding the full life cycle testing of
web, client-server based software for the insurance industry.
Collaborate with software development, business and project management
teams to monitor progress of product releases, assess risks and
impacts on project deliverables, and recommend mitigation
strategies. Delivered and performed comprehensive knowledge in data
modeling, data flow diagramming, UML, web services, SQL, performance
tuning, and analytics.
. Supervised the release schedule, customer communication, as well as
the technical documentation for new and existing projects through
Agile/Scrum methodology.
. Presented and applied the enterprise-level release management, project
management, and issue tracking tools to global sites (JIRA and
GreenHopper).
. Delivered and performed comprehensive knowledge in data modeling, data
flow diagramming, UML, web services, SQL, performance tuning, and
analytics.
Career Highlights:
V Assumed a pivotal role in the establishment of offshore office in
Minsk, Belarus, reporting to the CTO and Sr. Product Director,
responsible for directing and leading the Development team from pre-
pro to full scale development.
V Took part and played a major role in the creation of database
design models, structural designs, and data indexes in numerous
categories.
V Eliminate an 2 million dollars loss by proposing a new product that
met the client original needs, also provided a new state of the
art solution for Mobil solution; thereby signing a new contract
with sufficient funds to deliver projects
V Improved existing software development efficiency 45% in six months
that delivered fixed prices software solution
V Raised sprint planning accuracy from 60% to 108%; reduced the
requirements inventory by 40%; and decreased the sprint planning
time by 33%.
V Defined and implemented software development and QA process to move
the company from startup mode to a more repeatable, predictable
development model.
V Presented information on quality assurance practices to upper
management and showed how a focus on quality is important to the
company's success.
V Initiated the set-up of lagging Agile/Scrum process.
Fidelity Investments-New York, NY
Project Leader Senior Software Engineer Developer 2000-2009
. Led the development of the database systems as well as developed user
interfaces through Visual Basic 5, Visual Basic 6, XML, ActiveX, DLL, and
SQL; and stored all data in Informix.
. Constructed web services using centralized image storage solutions
including FileNet and fidelity image management system, where the latest
web service enhancements for DIME attachment manipulations were being
used.
. Spearheaded and managed direct communication between Alternative
Investments workstation (an Oracle, ASP. Net / VB.Net application
developed to support the Alternative Investments group under the Mutual
Fund Division of Fidelity Investments used to store trades, ACAT
transfers, non-ACAT transfers, dividends, and reconciliations) and
private offerings and mainframe systems associated with AI trade and
transfer processing; wherein the links were real-time allowing for shadow-
posting across customer and processing accounts and intra-day money
movement.
. Presided over the development of rules-based alternative investments
workstation project, a $3.5M fidelity initiative for processing and
improving transactions across several groups which included non-listed
REITs and private equity and debt and hedge funds.
. Made use of Oracle 10 backend, ASP.NET/VB.NET front-end and sub-
applications, including GUI for third-party brokers and corresponding
business units to design and develop front-end application architecture.
. Piloted the establishment transaction processing systems for over 4.5
million brokerage, institutional, and mutual fund accounts through the
introduction of new technologies, hiring of key technical resources,
streamlining of software development lifecycle, and training of staff.
. Rendered leadership to multiple cross-functional teams as well as
supervised and directed the development of trading systems through .NET
and XML web services.
. Supported, developed, and coordinated with MIS Fidelity Investment of
India in the daily supervision and communications of all existing MIS
application.
Career Highlights:
V Established the software development methodology and quality
assurance operations to secure high level of efficiency in the
entire development lifecycle by designing, developing,
implementing, and maintaining the organization's Alternative
Investments Workstation system.
V Utilized Microsoft .NET technologies and data manipulations on
Oracle, Sybase, Informix, and other platforms in constructing,
supervising, and implementing web services for MIS applications for
the centralization of security repository.
V Promoted improvement in the quality of software products by
introducing complex design and testing standards, resulting in a
more error-free product being handed to quality assurance.
V Developed and established imaging workflow client-server-based
application for more than 50 trade professionals of restricted
stock certificates.
Earlier Career
Matsushita Electric Corporation of America (Panasonic)-Secaucus, NJ
Senior Programmer/Analyst (MIS Department) 1997-2000
CompUtech Consulting, Inc-New York, NY
Programmer / Analyst (Consultant) 1995-1997
Education and Credentials
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Computer Engineering 1992
Military Engineering University-Moscow, Russia
Computer Programmer Certification 1996
Chubb Institute-Jersey City, NJ, USA
Learning Tree International-New York, NY-1999
Panasonic Training Center-Secaucus, NJ-1998
Hyperion Software-Stamford, CT- 1997
Certifications
Scrum Alliance -Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Agile Evolution Inc NYC, NY:
Member: 000209423 Expires: 29 Aug, 2014
Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Pinnacle 3 Learning-
NYC, NY: Oct, 2012
Oracle 7 SQL Language Hands-On Certification ( Hyperion Technical
Administration Certification
VB6 Developing Com Object Certification
Web Site Development Certification (HTML, IIS, ASP, CGI, PERL)
Affiliations
Project Management Institute (PMI), New York City Chapter
Technical Acumen
Enterprise Web-Based Applications CMS Solutions ERP Systems
Microsoft Development Technologies and Architecture:
C#, ASP.NET, XML, SQL Server, JavaScript, HTML, AJAX, and Web 2.0)
Sr. Agile Technical software development project
manager