Project Manager
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FREDERICK BENJAMIN
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SUMMARY
Experienced professional with strong technical and communication skills. Result oriented and highly motivated with over 15+ years of diverse and extensive IT experience in analysis, design, developing applications. Certified Scrum Master with expertise in Agile practices. Coached the team to transform to Agile Scrum methodology. Expertise include, full Life cycle development, administration of high performance mission-critical distributed database systems, multilingual software and migration projects. Primary industry experience includes financial, insurance and securities markets. Recognized for innovative, hardworking, problem-solving and successful delivery of projects on schedule.
TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
Methodologies: Agile Scrum, Kanban, XP
Web Development: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, C#, AJAX, JQUERY, JSON, NHibernate, Entity Framework
Design Patterns: MVC, MVP
Database / RDBMS: MS SQL Server, Oracle, PL/SQL, T-SQL
Others: JIRA, Rally, HP Agile Manager, WIKI, SVN, MS SharePoint, MS Team Foundation Server, LINQ, Crystal Reports, MS Office, Visio, MS InfoPath, MS, MS Project, Interwoven Mail/Work Site, IBM MQ Series, LDAP, HPE ALM, MS CRM Dynamics, TOAD, ERWIN, IIS, Windows 10/2000
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Hewlett Packard Enterprise [HPE] Jun, 2013 – present
Scrum Master, Server Provisioning Automation[SPA] project (Jun, 2013 – present)
The application on boards client configuration details and builds customized VMware servers for clients. Kept the development team in alignment with Agile values and principles and ensure the team is focused on continuous improvement.
Led the stand-up meetings and enabled the team delivery commitments and capacity planning by identifying and tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.
Tracking, escalating and remove impediments.
Facilitate planning, retrospective meeting and product demo to stakeholders/leadership and guided teams resulting in enhanced performance.
Implementing issue tracking and effectively track impediments against user stories.
Working with Product Owner to groom the product backlog and plan sprints and delivered valuable features every sprint.
Felicitated Scrum of Scrum meetings.
Maintain Release Burn Down Charts, Sprint Burn Down Charts and Defect Logs.
Enforce Agile principles that resulted in improved team’s velocity and product quality.
Coached the team to transform from Waterfall to Agile Scrum methodology and improve efficiency in delivering by 30% in less than 14 weeks.
Led the team whenever opportunity was provided and also mentored other team members.
Helping the team in completion of sprint activities for design, development and testing efforts.
Received excellence award in setting up various environments and setting up a process for release deployment thus minimizing risk during releases.
Environment: JIRA, C#, ASP.Net, WCF, .Net Framework, ADO.NET, Visual Studio.NET 2013, Visual Studio Test, Entity Framework, XML, SQL Server 2012, SharePoint 2010, MS Team Foundation Server, Rabbit MQ, IIS 7.0.
Scrum Master, Interface Feed to CRM Dynamics project (Dec, 2012 – May, 2013)
The Windows service application parses the data from 32 different interface files with different formats like xml, csv, word and updates CRM dynamics Entities. Lead daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies. Worked closely with product owner, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation. Support deliverables which included Burn Down charts.
Utilized Agile Scrum practices and improved team velocity by 30%.
Facilitated release planning, sprint planning, backlog grooming and retrospective meeting.
Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
Guided the Product Owner in writing effective User Stories and maintaining the prioritized Product backlog.
Guided the Scrum development team to improve productivity and self-organize.
Maintained Release Burn Down Charts, Sprint Burn Down Charts and Defect Log.
Supported and educated the product owner on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
Provided technical insights to stories and helped in prioritizing the stories.
Ensured the development team is practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility.
Updated agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product and Sprint backlogs.
Delegated and led development and testing efforts to in-house & offshore resources.
Helped the team in completing development and testing tasks.
Environment: Rally, C#, XML, .Net Framework, ADO.NET, Visual Studio.NET, Visual Studio Test, SQL Server, SSIS
Package, MS Team Foundation Server, IIS
Scrum Master, Content Management System[CMS]project (Aug, 2009– Nov, 2012)
The National Exam Program (NEP) Content Management System (CMS) is used by the Examination Program Group (EPG) to develop and maintain the regulatory content for the exam program. The content produced is input to Exam Workspace (EW) and is used by the examiners to scope and conduct examinations on firms. Helped the team to transform from Waterfall methodology to Agile Scrum.
Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings and Monthly Reviews meetings. Conducted sprint retrospective and followed up on action items for continuous improvement.
Followed the agile methodology and Scrum practices for responding more effectively to changing business needs.
Successfully guided other teams to transform from Waterfall to Agile Scrum methodology.
Maintained Release Burn Down Charts, Sprint Burn Down Charts and Defect Log.
Coordinated and participated in planning meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
Managed project team’s Jira Board.
Facilitated positive change by providing advice and input on technical direction, processes to help demonstrate the value of Agile Scrum.
Helped in completing SharePoint deployment solutions, developed InfoPath editors, automated Unit Test, Test Plans and Tested the application.
Environment: JIRA, SVN, SharePoint, SharePoint Designer, C#, ASP.Net, XML, .Net Framework, WCF, WPF, LINQ, NHibernate, SQL Server, Oracle, MS Team Foundation Server, IIS, MS InfoPath, Interwoven Desk Site, TOAD
Scrum Master/Senior Information Specialist, Exam Element Toolbox [EET] project (Aug, 2005 – Nov, 2010)
The National Examinations Program (NEP) was developed to improve the member exam process and it consist of 4 projects (a) Exam Element Toolbox (EET) (b) Content Management System (CMS) (c) Exam Selector (d)Easy Transfer. EET is an application used to generate, administer periodic examinations on member firms. Helped the team to transform from Waterfall methodology to Agile Scrum.
Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings and Monthly Reviews meetings. Conducted sprint retrospective and followed up on action items for continuous improvement.
Followed agile methodology and Scrum practices for responding more effectively to changing business needs.
Successfully guided other teams to transform from Waterfall to Agile Scrum methodology.
Maintained Release Burn Down Charts, Sprint Burn Down Charts and Defect Log.
Coordinated and participated in planning meetings to provide high-level estimates for backlog items.
Worked closely with the product owner to maintain product backlog, adapting readily to the customer’s feedback and the changing needs of the project and delivering the product.
Felicitated Scrum of Scrum meetings.
Helped the team proactively to identify and resolve impediments.
Received excellence award for leading the Selector Project and delivering it on schedule.
Implemented MVC pattern and designed and developed services for Entitlement, Data Access, Configuration, context aware Logging and to query Active Directory.
Delegated and led development and testing efforts to in-house & offshore resources and handled support calls.
Developed custom reporting tool, controls, front-end UI using ASP.Net 3.5 controls and AJAX Extensions.
Developed WCF Services to Transfer data from server to client and back to server for Easy Transfer module.
Developed Web Services for reports, check-in/out files and to read and write to Queues.
Environment: JIRA, SVN, C#, MVC, XML, XSD, .Net Framework, WCF, WPF, ADO.NET, LINQ, SQL Server, Oracle, Sub Version, IIS, MS InfoPath, Interwoven Mail site, ERWIN, IBM MQ Series, LDAP, Application Lifecycle Management.
Saven Technologies Oct, 2004 – Jul, 2005
Senior Programmer/Analyst, DECE (Data Extraction and Conversion Engine) project
Marsh Financial Services Sep, 2003 – Sep, 2004
Programmer/Analyst, Deferral PACT (Policy Administration and Client Tracking) project
Software Galleria Inc. Nov, 2000 – Aug, 2003
Programmer/Analyst, Incident Management & Reporting System (NIMRS) for New York State, Production Gallery Tool for Moody’s Investors Service, Marketing Operations and Production Systems (MOPS) projects
Orbits Technologies Feb, 1998 – Aug, 2000
System Manager, Financial Accounting, Call Accounting, Time Attendance projects
Indo European Computers Dec, 1996 – Jan, 1998
Programmer/Analyst, HawkEye, HawkPay projects
EDUCATION
Master or Business Administration (University of Phoenix)
Bachelors in Economics (University of Mumbai)
Certified Scrum Master
Microsoft Certified Professional
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