Gurtej Pal Singh

Current Address: # E- ***, Aditya Mega City, Vaibhav Khand, Indirapuram, G haziabad, Uttarpardesh, INDIA

Permanent Address : H.No.64, Ward No.10, Sangalpura Road, Gurdaspur, P unjab, INDIA.

Phone # +91-999**-***** (M), E- mail Id.: accxgz@r.postjobfree.com, accxgz@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Focused, ambitious & f acilitative Scrum Master seeking a position in a fast-paced, result-oriented environment, where

I can employ my skills developed through continuing education and years of experience to build successful and

talented teams, develop internal and external relationships, and achieve divisional and corporate goals.

SUMMARY OF SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Expert in agile software development and release management with overall 9.6+ years of experience

delivering enterprise applications through multiple release cycles.

Skilled at leading & mentoring team members and establishing lightweight software configuration

management and release processes to enable organizations to build st able products quickly.

I have experienced the power of the Agile philosophy to unleash a team’s full potential.

I have experience teaching Scrum to multiple groups that evolved into Agile teams delivering quality

software.

Accustomed to working well with internal and external stakeholders at multiple levels, navigating the

organization, successfully completing complex projects under tight deadlines.

Have strong understanding of SDLC, Waterfall and Agile software development methodologies (SCRUM),

values, and procedures.

W ell versed and hands on in Agile development methodology (Scrum).

PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) by PMI .

‘Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)’ by Scrum Alliance

‘Certified Scrum Master (CSM)’ by Scrum Alliance and ‘Scrum Master Accredited Certification’ by Scrum

Institute

Handling the role of Scrum Master cum Project Manager f or the team of 13 members, responsible for

managing team, measuring progress, removing impediments, and facilitating the team meetings.

Responsible for sprint completion on time. Also playing role of individual contributor as well.

Highly self -motivated and capable of managing multiple priorities and tasks as delegated.

Possess excellent analytical, problem -solving and learning skills as well as a keen interest in the emerging

technologies.

Given Agile(Scrum) trainings as an active member of Agile Community of Practice (ACoP)

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

W on “SPOT Award” at Pitney Bowes Software (India) f or outstanding performance apart from various other

appreciations

W on the prize for “Best HACK” during ‘Hack Day’ at Pitney Bowes Software (India) for three times in a row.

W on “JSE Achiever’s Award” at Accenture (India) during 1st year service with the organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Development ModelsAgile & Lean (using Scrum, XP)

Project Management Tools JIRA, Rally, SharePoint, MS Office Suite

Collaboration Tools MS SharePoint Portal Server (MOSS 2007)(Non-Development), MS Visio

Programming Languages C#

Web Technologies ASP.NET

Web Servers IIS 5.0, 6.0, 7.0 & IIS 7.5

Databases Microsoft SQL Server

MS.NET Platforms MS.NET Framework1.1,2.0,3.5&4.0;.NET Compact Framework 2.0 (WIN Mobile)

Configuration Tools Subversion, Perforce(P4WIN), MS VSTS.

Other Tools HTML, HTML5(Beginner), Sales Force(Beginner), Coverity, ReSharper

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EDUCATION

Degree\Examination University Year of Passing Marks

M.C.A. (2001-2004) Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India 2004 75.05%

B.Sc.(Honours)(4

2001 62.4%

Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India

years)(1997-2001)

CERTIFICATIONS

‘PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)’ by PMI, USA (www.pmi.org) (Licence # 1605786,Valid till: 12th

May, 2016)

‘Certified Scrum Professional – CSP’ by Scrum Alliance (Member ID: 000136108, Valid till: 11th Dec, 2015)

‘Certified Scrum Master – CSM’ by Scrum Alliance (Member ID: 000136108, Valid till: 20th May, 2015)

‘Scrum Master Accredited Certification ’ by Scrum Institute (http://www.scrum-institute.org) (Certificate ID:

012***********)

Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for Microsoft .NET (MCSD .NET)(MCP ID : 3549053)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 9.6 years + (from 19th July2004 till Date)

Organisation Designation Joined on Left on

GlobalLogic Inc.(India) Noida

November’12

Senior Lead (Engineering)

(http://www.globallogic.com )

PitneyBowes Software India Pvt. Ltd. Noida

November’12

Advisory Software Engineer July 2008

(http://www.pb.com ; http://www.pbinsight.com/)

Headstrong Services India Pvt. Ltd. Noida

Consultant June 2007 June 2008

(http://www.headstrong.com )

Accenture Services India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore

Software Engineer June 2005 June 2007

(http://www.accenture.com )

Drish Infotech, Chandigarh

Programmer Analyst July 2004 May 2005

(http://www.drishinfo.com )

GLOBALLOGIC INC. (INDIA) – NOIDA (UP)

DESIGNATION: SENIOR LEAD (ENGINEERING)

Current Project: GXS-ActiveCommunity (http://www.gxs.com/products/active_applications/active_community)

Role in the Project: Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities: As Scrum Master/Project Manager, I am responsible for

Stand-ups, Backlogs, Sprint Planning Meetings, Retrospectives, Demos, Story Board, Story Writing and

Information Radiator

Implemented Agile/Scrum as a project management methodology within Team - Coached the team in using

Agile/Scrum

Educated upper management and championed the use of Agile/Scrum

Collaborate with cross functional teams to gather business requirements related to on-going development

using Agile Estimating and Applied User Stories

Facilitated team meet sprint goals.

Facilitated the removal of impediments timely.

Participate in project and release planning and management

Organized Sprints and planned releases with the team using RALLY

PITNEY BOWES SOFTWARE (INDIA) PVT. LTD. – NOIDA (UP)

DESIGNATION: ADVISORY SOFTWARE ENGINEER (TECH. LEAD)

Current Project: Confirm(Infrastructure Team)(http://www.pitneybowes.co.uk/software/infrastructure-asset-

management/confirm.shtml)

Role in the Project: Scrum Master (Team Lead)

Responsibilities: As Scrum Master, Lead Developer/Designer, I am responsible for

Stand-ups, Backlogs, Sprint Planning Meetings, Retrospectives, Demos, Story Board, Story Writing and

Information Radiator

Implemented Agile/Scrum as a project management methodology within Team - Coached the team in using

Agile/Scrum

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Educated upper management and championed the use of Agile/Scrum

Collaborate with cross functional teams to gather business requirements related to on-going development

using Agile Estimating and Applied User Stories

Facilitated team meet sprint goals.

Facilitated the removal of impediments timely.

Participate in project and release planning and management

Organized Sprints and planned releases with the team using JIRA

W orked with product management and QA to clarify requirements into planable units of work.

Consulted with other application teams on applying scrum and using JIRA

Confirm-FBI (Mobile)

Confirm-Field Based Investigation: Smart Device based Application Developed using C#.NET,ASP.NET

WebService, XML, SQL Server 2005 & Power Builder

Role in the Project: Scrum Master (Sr. Software Engineer)

Responsibilities: Apart from my responsibilities of a Scrum Master I also was responsible for:

Analysis, Review, Design and Development of New functionality using C#.

Helping and guiding other team members.

Unit Testing of the application.

HEADSTRONG SERVICES (INDIA) PVT. LTD. – NOIDA (UP)

Morgan Stanley (UK)

Mortgage Online Origination System for Europe (MOOSE): Windows Application Developed using

C#.NET, XML, JAVA,SQL Server2000, Eclipse

Windows Application Developed using C#.NET, XML, JAVA,SQL Server2000, Eclipse

Role in the Project: Maintenance and Enhancement

Taking Requirements from Onsite PM.

Analysis and Development of the WIN forms.

Helping and guiding other team members.

ACCENTURE SERVICES (INDIA) PVT. LTD. BANGALORE.

ACA MERGE (Avanade USA)

Avanade Connected Architecture – ACA.NET 4.1, MS Visual Studio.NET 2.0, MS VSTS, C#.NET

This project is a suite of frameworks providing developers wit h a host of application blocks making application

development easier using the service oriented architecture, aspect oriented architecture along with the Microsoft

Enterprise library application blocks.

Role in the Project: Testing and Defect Fixing

United Healthcare Group – UHG (USA)

Intelligent Desktop Terminal (IDT): Windows Application Developed using VB.NET, XML, Web Services

Role in the Project: Maintenance and Defect Fixing

UNILEVER (Brazil)

Application Packaging & Migration: Developed using WISE P ackaging Studio 5.2

Major aspects of this assignment are:-

Technology/Tools Used: WISE Packaging Studio 5.2

Project Lifecycle: Packaging Life cycle with Analysis, Packaging and Unit testing phases at IDC

Avanade Deliverables: Packaged application for deployment into windows XP build

Role in the Project: Analyzing & understanding of the application on current OS(WIN NT) and after that

Converting ‘.EXE’ files to ‘.MSI’ files according to the client specific customisations so that the packaged

application runs successfully on WIN XP.

DRISH INFOTECH LIMIT ED, CHANDIGARH

Web Application for Allengers Medical System Limited (www.allengers.net) (Developed using C#.Net,

ASP.Net, SQL Server200)

It is a three tier Web application. (i) Presentation layer, (ii) XML web services (iii) Database (SQLSERVER 2000).

Note: This web site can only be accessed through VPN Client.

Role in the Project: Client Interaction (face-to-face), Coding of Administrative module, Despatch module,

Database Design.

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OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

1) Selected amongst Top 1000 at Rank#209 in Microsoft’s Secure Wars Online competition held in JAN-2007

(http://www.microsoft.com/india/securewars/TopThousand.aspx )

2) Won 1st position in Inter- varsity Quiz contest held at Plasma-2002 organized by Lyallpur Khalsa College,

Jalandhar

3) Won 1st position in quiz contest in Intra college cultural festival: Koshish2003, at PCTE Ludhiana.

4) Won 2nd prize in Choreography contest in Intra college cultural festival: Koshish2003, at PCTE Ludhiana

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: 01-MAY-1981

Passport Number: K4865893

Marital Status: Married

Languages Known: English (Fluent), Hindi (Fluent), Punjabi (Mother Tongue)

Linkedin Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gurtej -pal-singh/1/961/a03

ScrumAlliance Profile: http://www.scrumalliance.org/community/profile/gsingh18

Gurtej Pal Singh

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