I am a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Business system analyst and

information technologist having wide range of expertise spanning

engineering and information technology. Strong background in Software

Engineering including programming, methodologies, processes and Business

System Analysis combined with project management skills. Looking for

Product Owner/ Manager Position

PERSONAL INFORMATION

acepzz@r.postjobfree.com 214-***-****(M)

Citizenship: USA

EDUCATION

. M.S, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

. Graduate Certificate Information Systems & Management, University of

California, Berkeley

CERTIFICATIONS

. Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

. Certificate in Lean Six Sigma (HP)

. Non certified Agile Product Owner Courses ( Rally Soft)

MEMBERSHIPS OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

. Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

(IEEE)

o Member AdCom/ExCom Atlanta Section

EXPERIENCE

Hewlett- Packard 2010 - Till

Date

Agile Project Manager

Played the role of Agile Project Manager/Release Manger and changed call

sign to Triage Manager during Validation. Managed a Global Scrum team and

successfully led numerous key projects through iteration(validation-UAT-

Release stages

. Team Size and Details: Overall Scrum team size Team size ( 28 in all,

6 PO's, 6 different time zones ( US ( EST,CST, PST), Galway Ireland,

Ratingen Germany, Sophia France, Bangalore India, Shanghai China)

Individual responsibility of Planning and sizing of Scrum teams,

coordinating with Developmental managers for resources

. Scrum preplanning/Grooming: Talking to Business stakeholders on their

priorities. Managing HP's Agile Management tool (AGM). Coordinating

with PO's during sprint planning .Ensure User stories, Points,

acceptance criteria, tasks etc. are locked in prior to spring

iterations.

Played the role of Product Owner/Manager role in coming up with writing USE

cases, Sequence Diagram (plantUML), and also writing Stories, acceptance

criteria for the Use cases

. Sprint Stand ups: Kicking off all hands on Scrum Planning meetings,

Running daily sprint standups and overall scrum master for multiple

scrum teams to ensure the features are aligned/synced. Clearing

impediments from developers and ensuring that the scrum moves

smoothly.

. Build and Release team: Coordinating with Build and Dev operations

teams to ensure that codes are released in to pre staging servers.

Coordinating test data requests from developers for their testing.

Working with technical leads in preparing release notes for

Coordinating branch to main trunk merger

. Testing teams: Working with test teams to ensure that test cases are

developed for different user stories and are properly executed in HP's

ALM (formerly QC). Review and helping test team prepare Test Strategy

and Scrum Exit criteria documents prior to the validation and sprint

closure dates.

. Coordination and presenting Sprint/System demos to the Governance

(Inc. SVP, Directors) as well as the stake holders.

. UAT and Validation Phases: Standing in as an Overall Triage

Lead/Manager for defects during the 3 months validation and

performance testing phase prior to product release.

. Taking PO responsibilities in my capacity as a Lead BA besides the

Agile PM/Scrum Master Role. Training Existing PO's in effectively

writing User stories, Story point estimation, backlog grooming etc.

Senior Consultant/Architect - Various Clients 2007 - 2010 ( 3

years and 9 Months)

Senior Software Consultant

Client # 1 Verizon Wireless

1. Key Architect for MyVerizon web portal to support and Enhance

existing portal for 508 Compliance. Identified and fixed various

accessibility issues of Jaws software for cross browsers.

Mentored Java developers ( both front and backend) in their day

to day activities and resolving issues involving Dojo,

JavaScript, JSP pages and redirections, Struts and other web

based technologies

2. Release lead for the Bi-weekly production release and came up

with mitigation plans during build failures issues etc.

Client # 3 Infosys technology

1. Worked on a short term contract as a Technical Project Manager and

coordinated and led an India based team for a Project at Georgia

Pacific.

Client # 3 Chick-Fil-A IT

1. Solutions Architect to redesign and lead the efforts to face

lift corporate in-house portals using JSP, Struts, Tiles,

JavaScript, DOJO (1.3.2, 1.4) Tundra, XHTML, CSS

2. Coordinating with Business Owners to Translate business

requirements into product specifications and enhancements

Cient # 4 Time-Warner Company

1. Online Ads Solution architect and Technical lead for a web

portal to manage online Ads delivery for Turner Broadcasting and

its affiliate sites ( CNN, TBS, TNT, cartoon Network and so on)

2. Managed a OO Perl and JavaScript driven portal and involved in

the re-architecture of this legacy portal using Spring framework

3. Worked on Java (eclipse IDE), hibernate (oracle backend), Spring

Framework, JSLT, JSP (2.1), SQL for in house ad serving portal.

Log4j configured with the application. The MVC model replaced

the Legacy MVC driven Perl Portal

4. Application Build on Ant and deployed on Apache server. A

standalone Jetty (6.0.2) based application was released for in

house testing for the Turner customers.

5. Developing MVC pattern Object Oriented Perl, Perl DBI, Perl

Modules, Perl Templates, JavaScript API, JavaScript Objects,

JavaScript Frame works,, AJAX calls using Prototype.js and

DOJO,js, CSS, DOM, HTML, XHTML, User Interfaces

6. Maintained the database and updated various ads on turner owned

sites like CNN, TBS, TNT, PGATour, cartoon, Nascar etc.

Performing/Assisting QA process during re-launch of new site

creations.

Wegener Communications 2005 - 2007 ( 2 Years O

months)

Technical Team Lead

1. Developed C codes for front panel and Perl modules to interface

with C based codes for extracting and writing satellite relevant

data to EEPROM for the companies Audio/Video broadcasting media

Server called iPump 6400

2. Major redesign for browser support for controlling and managing

the Audio/Video set top box

3. Maintained software release portal and carried out rigorous

software development, testing and release process using Linux

CVS version control, Sub Version control and Mantis bug tracking

tools. Supervised Test Engineers during ATP and Engineering

prerelease process as per ISO requirements.

4. Played key role in project life cycle evolution, contributed to

WIKI and maintained personal blog on WordPress

5. Developed documentation for software and test procedures for the

above product for FOX news network, Jones Radio, ABC News.

Cisco Systems 2004 - 2005 ( 0 Years 9

months)

Lead Engineer

1. Developed a serial RS232 based GUI interface using national

Instruments LABVIEW to acquire and log GPS information from wireless

broadband (802.16e) base station to database during drive test. The

GPS information, Satellite and Network information are presented in a

console format using the LabView software

SiliconDisplay Inc 2002 - 2004 ( 2 Years 2 Months

months)

Senior Engineer

1. RS232 communication and transmitting video pixel data in a file (size

1-2 Gig), image reconstruction. The statistical information is being

used by the materials characterization group of this project to

develop an appropriate Flat panel display substrate that can latch

pixel intensity. Win 32 API support for BMP was utilized for accessing

image file header and raw pixel data. Serial I/O routines were written

to transmit and receive Mpeg 2 data

2. Interfaced Xilinx Spartan IIE FPGA with LSI Logic SC2005 Mpeg decoder

using Verilog HDL Codes

3. Worked on ucos -II RTOS on the mpeg decoder for UART connectivity.

4. Developed a serial RS232 interface to transmit and monitor raw pixel

data using LabView

5. Documentation and developing Company proprietary manuals.

6. Company founded by former CEO/founder of Cyrix Corporation

Skills

. Business - Agile, Scrum methodology, SDLC, Business System Analysis,

Waterfall, Use Cases, plantUML, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams,

DFDs, Life Cycle Management, Project management

. Technical - Programming languages (C, OO Perl, Java, JavaScript,

HTML), Webservices, FPGA, Verilog HDL, Real-time operating system

(RTOS), LABView, Embedded Systems

. Software Packages - MS Office suite, MS Visio, HP ALM, CaliberRM, MS

Project, MaTLab

Ongoing training and Plans for 2014

. PMI-ACP

. Scrum Alliance product Owner Certification

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