Management Project
Resume:
AMRUTA BERI
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
PMI /CSM Certified- Agile Certified Practitioner with recent experience as a Professional Scrum Master.
Extensive knowledge, expertise and involvement in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in Waterfall, Scrum, Agile and Scrum-Waterfall Hybrid software development life cycle environments with 12 years of experience.
Certified Scrum Master and internationally Certified Information Mapping Professional with ability to manage multiple projects/releases of multiple products at the same time.
Well versed with backlog prioritization techniques (MoSCoW, Business Value, Kano, And Technical Risk) and estimation techniques (Planning Poker, T-Shirt sizing, Affinity Mapping) to help product owner in picking Product Backlog Items (PBIs) to commit to in the iterations (Sprints)
Supported the product owner to provide company an efficient employee and ensure efficiency in client servicing and process operations.
Strong experience in assessing project risks, taking ownership and resolving the issues by engaging the right teams to mitigate it beforehand.
Proven experience in driving corporate initiatives involving different departments to make it a success.
Extensive experience in developing performance improvement plans to improve the efficiency of team.
Good experience in working with senior Executives, SMEs and cross-functional teams to drive projects to completion.
Good communication skills with ability to support multiple clients at the same time.
Experience in coordinating with teams and motivating team spirit in order to achieve organizational goals.
Proven ability to support and resolve critical issues.
Excellent analytical, communications, planning, problem resolution & customer service skills.
Off-Shore team experience includes both managing teams and participating as an off-shore team-member
BS in Computer Science, Master of Management Science
Local Edison NJ candidate available immediately for contract or hire
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Citigroup, Warren, NJ Jan 16 to Present
Scrum Master
SCOPE: The scope of the project included developing an enhancement to a Mortgage Processing web based system. The application facilitates in consolidating all aspects of borrower’s personal credit history through credit reports, thus evaluating risks which helped in improving the ability to measure risks specifically related to mortgage collateral management. The system helps in calculating and evaluating the eligibility of the mortgage with the intention of closing more mortgage application in less time.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Interviewed Subject Matter Experts and performed extensive Document Reviews to develop a thorough understanding of legacy business processes to aid Business Processes Improvement (BPI).
Collaborated with Compliance and Finance teams for requirement management from project initiation through implementation.
Devised complete process model of state of the art processes and to-be processes.
Helped PO and PM in ROI Analysis, Cost-Benefit Analysis and SWOT analysis in order to be prepared for potential business and technical risks to the system.
Led high level requirement gathering activities involving elicitation practices like JAD Sessions, Focused Groups, One-to-one Interviews, and Document Analysis.
Analyzed, modified and documented functional and non – functional requirements. Identified project, requirement, process and data dependencies.
Conducted User Story Writing Sessions to decompose BRD into User Stories and determine Acceptance Criteria for Potentially Shippable Product Output.
Used SOAP UI tool to test SOA based architecture application to test SOAP services and REST API
Assisted the product owner in prioritizing and estimating Product Backlog Items (PBIs) to pick Sprint tasks by incorporating suggestions from cross-functional IT teams.
Facilitated, conducted and established agendas for Sprint Ceremonies
Used JIRA for issue tracking, user story management and requirement traceability
Created Data Models using Logical and Conceptual Entity Relationship diagrams
Strong knowledge of client side validation and server side validation.
Communicated effectively across company contacts and clients, internal team about the project requirements, schedules and launches.
Tieto Software, Helsinki, Finland Nov 09 to Jan 16
ScrumMaster
Originally hired as a Java developer, promoted to Team Lead, and promoted again to Scrum Master position
Promoted to Scrum Master because of excellent Client relationship management, and written, oral communication, and presentation skills
Worked as a Java developer and was promoted with progressively increasing responsibilities to Team Lead and then to Scrum Master
As a Scrum Master managed two teams comprised of seven members each
Acted as a Specialized Scrum Master managing each sprint in terms of handling ceremonies, Sprint planning meetings, complexity point estimations, future story analysis, task breakdown, and retrospectives
Responsible for Sprint planning, daily stand-up, retrospectives, backlog grooming, burn down charts and velocity reports, and release plans
Responsible for demonstrations to product owners
Led an initiative of implementing DevOps throughout Banking and Finance projects which was recognized at an organizational level for one of the Best Initiatives of the Year
Utilized tools such as Jira Strong experience in working with the agile lifecycle, and/or tracking, and process management
At time was responsible for Project Management activities during Initiation, Planning, Executions, Monitoring & Control and Closing phase
Lead a team, defining systems analysis approach, deliverables and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and creating project plans using Microsoft Project tools
Facilitated JAD sessions
Coached team in the use of JIRA in order to track the use case mapping to estimations, executive briefings, reporting of scrum metrics, burn up and process improvements
After the burn in period, the team was able to execute 80%-90% of user stories over multiple sprints with either steady or increased velocity
Initiated and Reviewed migration plans, resource plans and technical transition plans while coming up with a blue-print to be followed by all future migration projects
Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd, India Aug 08 to Oct 09
Scrum Master
As a team lead was responsible for Project Planning, Requirements Analysis, Resource Management, Risk Management, Management of Compliance Management and Delivery Management.
Created and maintained Resource Management plans including learning plans, schedule and technical training sessions with the help of Cognizant Academy
Conducted Team Member mid-year and year-end appraisals and nominated them for promotions based on performance
Created resource transition plans for multi-locale teams based out of Pune, Mumbai, Chennai and Berlin
Created service proposals and sheets for profitability, resource loading, productivity and effort estimates
Identified risks and prepared risk mitigation and contingency plans.
Maintain the Risk Portal and monitored risks to closure
Provided weekly and monthly status reports to the PMO team and respective project stakeholders
Administered Change Control procedures and formulated guidelines for the Change Requests in terms of SLA (Service Level Agreements)
Conduct recruitment drives for project requirements based on technology and domain experience and the magnitude of the project to meet the timelines of the project. Prepare detailed feedback documents and co-ordinate Client interviews for short-listed candidates. This also includes forecasting staffing requirements so that it could be aligned with the budget fitment of the project
Used Cognizant 2.0 to ISO and CMMI for adherence to processes to maintain quality standards identified by Cognizant
Measured project KPIs and accordingly prepared High Maturity Practices (HMP) documents such as control charts, causal analysis graphs, Fishbone charts and Gap analysis difference sheets
Tracked the progress of the project plan based on a planned to actuals matrix and identified deviations, if any and accordingly prepared contingency and mitigation plans
Involved in designing user interfaces and usability experience aspects
Clients included Unifocus and Global Collect
Environment: Oracle Database, Oracle SQL Developer, SDLC, Mercury Quality Center, JIRA, MS Visio, JSF, GWT, Spring, Maven, Hudson, Jenkins, ClearCase, Svn, Java/J2EE, MS Office, XML, Web-services.
August 2007 – January 2008
Persistent Systems Ltd. India
February 2004 – July 2007
Patni Computer Systems Ltd.
Responsibilities Included:
Application Development
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Enterprise Implementations
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Release Management
B2B Integrations
QA and UAT Management
Team Building & Leadership
Clients Included:
IBMCedara
Software Corporation
AT&T
GE Financial Assurance – AWS (Auto Warranty Systems)
GE Financial Assurance
Environment:Java / J2EE, JDBC, JSP Servlets, SQL, Struts, Spring, Swing, MyEclipse, NetBeans, HTML, CSS, Jquery, JSF, GWT, RichFaces, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server 8.0, MS Access, Informix, JPA, Hibernate.
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