Scrum Master/technical lead/application architect

Qualification Summary

Results-oriented professional focused on analyzing business problems, designing appropriate solutions to business needs and managing business application development and rollout. Strong collaborative leadership coupled with “hands-on” IT experience. Proficient in performing as a scrum master/ development manager/application architect with excellent communication skills and the ability to easily adapt to environmental and organizational change, take direction, think fast, and execute with precision. Proficient in Agile methodologies, scrum and DevOps technologies.

Skills Summary

Competencies:

Scrum Master, Architecture, Product Owner, Requirement Analysis, Technical Team Lead, Development

Languages:

Java, Shell Scripting, Oracle PL/SQL, SQL, JSP, HTML, XML, J2EE, Unix Angular, REST.

Software/Tools:

RAD, Eclipse, ERWIN, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Outlook, MS PowerPoint, SharePoint, SQL *Plus, TOAD, MS Word, and Visio

Databases:

Oracle, MySQL, MS Access, DB2

Operating Systems:

Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X

Business Analysis:

Experience collaborating with business owners and end users to elicit and develop requirements, developing user stories, developing as-is/to-be process models, managing meetings, identifying issues and risks, creating test plans and test cases, developing process flows and diagrams, managing requirements via traceability matrix, creating screen mockups, utilizing Agile and Waterfall methodologies, performing data analysis, and developing data dictionaries

Project Management:

Experience with end to end project management (planning through implementation), tracking milestones/issues/status, identifying resources, developing and managing project plans, and communicating with stakeholders and team members via presentations and meetings. Participated in agile transformation of teams.

Experience

AT&T, Schaumburg IL September 2011– Present

Senior Technical Architect / Senior Technical Team lead/ Development manager/ Scrum Master

Played multiple roles in At&t for multiple applications

PED ALM and Ped TFW which is used for wireline, Ovals/Nsp, Ovals Mldb and Ovals/Nsp RI which is used for Uverse ordering.

Primarily served as Scrum master / application architect/ development manager for Ped ALM,TFW, Ovals/nsp, Ovals Mldb and Ovals/Nsp RI .

Primary responsibilities include:

Involved with the lead architects of the organization and technical architects of the team in defining the solution and ensuring solution is strategic and in alignment with the vision of the lead architects.

Transformed current team who worked in waterfall methodology to be proficient in agile.

Lead agile transformation for large development team. Created parallel scrum teams to deliver projects in consecutive months. In addition, mentored agile transformation efforts and coached team members to transform from waterfall to agile.

Facilitated scrum events such as backlog creation, grooming, prioritization, standup meetings, estimation, iteration planning and retrospective sessions as needed.

Collaborate with Product Manager to plan roadmap execution based on estimates and capacity; also identify risks to the plan.

Clarify deliverables and assignments to the scrum team and remove impediments.

Facilitate documenting, publishing and executing the teams continuous improvement plan (based on retrospectives).

Publish the teams agile metrics to management and stakeholders.

Facilitate the documentation of working agreement, definition of ready and definition of done for the scrum team.

Engage Product Owners, Portfolio Leads, and PMs to fulfill their individual roles. Attend status meetings with the LPMs for multiple projects conveying progress of the team.

Participating in the requirements analysis phase of the project by involving with the clients, collecting details, analyzing the details with the team. Also assisting in the collection and documentation of user's requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans.

Involved in Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards by collaborating with the team of software developers, business analysts and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and deploy the application.

Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery.

Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.

Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.

Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.

Involved in Design, develop, and unit test application in accordance with established standards.

Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.

Package and support deployment of releases.

Involved in design, develop, test and deployment of interfaces with other applications

Analyze and resolve technical and application problems.

Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget.

Provide third-level support to business users.

September 2011 – December 2016

Primarily served as the Technical Team Lead on the OVALS MLDB, Ovals Nsp and Ovals/Nsp RI Applications.

OVALS Mldb Application – Technical Team Lead for a mission-critical application that is mainly used for address validation while UVERSE and DSL orders are being attempted. This team was composed of a project manager who usually tracks the finances of all the applications involved, three requirements leads, sixteen developers, ten testers with test lead, two architects, deployment managers and production support teams. The role included conducting weekly staff meetings, project planning, task identification and assignment, deployment planning, coordinating staff application support, providing input into performance reviews and directing

AT&T, Hoffman Estates, IL April 2006– Aug 2011

Senior Technical Architect

Primarily served as a combination of requirement analysis/designer/developer on the OVALS Nsp Application.

OVALS NSP Application – Designer, developer, requirement analysis for a mission-critical application that supplied customers with qualification information for both AT&T U-Verse and DSL. This application is comprised of an Oracle database saving network related attributes for living units. UVERSE and DSL ordering related living unit attributes for networking is managed and maintained in this application. Developed and maintained new software modules to load new living unit data, maintain the data through web pages, modules to gather network related attributes from 11 different interfaces, real time JMS based interfaces to handle order details,

oThe application team received a Quality and Innovation (QI2) Award for the key business benefits delivered in the October 2009 release.

AT&T, Hoffman Estates, IL September 2004– March 2006

Technical Architect

Meds Application – Lead developer for MEDS application maintaining details of ESOI while orders are being created. Involved in working with the team leader and clients to gather requirements, design and develop the different modules to handle ESOIs.

IBM, Schaumburg, IL September 2004– March 2006

Senior Software Engineer

The project is aimed at developing an application for SEARS. This system is for the Sears Asset Management purpose.

Responsible for:

• Analysis of Business requirements, Involved in the framework design of the enterprise application project by following Struts and Core J2EE patterns.

Bluesuit consulting, Naperville, IL May 2002– December 2003

Senior Software Engineer

June 03 - Dec 2003, May 2002-Dec 2002

SBC Communications April 2002 – December 2003

Senior Software Engineer/Analyst/WebSphere Engineer

The project is aimed at developing an application which provides sales support to the various contracts of the system. Involved in analysis of business requirements, gathering requirements from the client, Object oriented Analysis and design of the whole system. Responsible for deploying the initial release of the project in the three remote servers and administering them.

Jan 03 - June 03

ADP, Hoffman Estates, IL

Senior Software Engineer

The project is aimed at the maintenance and enhancement of myautogarage.com. MAG website provides the users to enter his/her vehicle information and receive periodic information about the services need to be performed for the vehicle. Was responsible for Maintenance and Support of the current system,making enhancements and involved in the initial phase of the release involved for the website, worked in developing the MAG jobs module for enabling real time transactions and for obtaining weekly, monthly reports for the business people

Blackwell Consulting Services, Chicago, IL July 2001– April 2002

Senior Software Engineer

July 01 - Apr 02

City Of Chicago, Chicago, IL

This project is aimed at the development of a Voter Notification Module and Moratorium Module for the City of Chicago Department of Revenue, Mayor's Liquor License Commission. As an Application analyst/developer responsible for:

Designed, Developed and deployed Voter Notification and Moratorium Module for the project using Java 1.3.1, J2EE, Design Patterns, Servlets, JSP, Oracle and Java Beans. Used PL/SQL for database inserts and updates .Wrote stored procedures and triggers for validation of the addresses. Developed the front end of the application using HTML and JSP. Coded JavaScript functions.

Infoobjects Inc, Fremont, CA Jan 2000– June 2001

Software Engineer

Jan 01 - Jun 01 Ranch Networks Inc

Ranch Networks is a company that is into building a Networking Device. The project is aimed at creating a GUI representation of the Element Management System for the device.

As a team lead responsible for:

Requirements gathering, Planning and elaboration, Analysis and creation of design specifications

July 00 - Dec 00 Quantros Inc.

CQIWeb.com is an online rapid-cycle environment for conducting Continuous Quality Improvement projects for the healthcare industry. The product needs to be used by healthcare institutions for managing the data.

Developed JavaBeans and serialized java objects for communicating with database.

Deployed the application in both Weblogic and Websphere.

Apr 00 - June 00 Transending.com

Transending.com is a company that will allow merchants for on-line processing of credit cards. Involved in the development of ACH module for the transending project.

Jan 00 - Mar 00 Indiapost.com Inc

The project is aimed at developing a site called www.indiapost.com. The site is an Ecommerce market place where customers can buy products online.

Aug 98 - Dec 99 Sierra Infosys, Coimbatore India

This project is for the Customer Service Subsystem module for a retail store called GOLDEN. This involved developing a generic package for the retailing system,

Education

Bachelors in Computer science and engineering - India

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