Scrum Master Project Manager

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I am a Senior Technical Program Manager/Product Owner, Agile Practitioner/ Certified Scrum Master with a proven record of managing product engineering initiatives building intuitive, user centric products in Finance, Retail, Banking and Telecom domains. I am looking for a challenging work opportunity, offering my professional expertise and dedication.

Key Highlights of my expertise:

20+ years of international experience across Technical Product Management, Program Management, Product Owner, Agile Coaching, Scrum Master, Software development.

Extensive experience in internal project audits that includes identifying the risks to be reviewed, planning and carrying our audits and reporting to project sponsor and leadership on findings made and overall rating of the audit defined by the organization’s audit function

Effective leader and communicator with strong relationship management, excellent team management and problem-solving skills.

Extensive experience with System Development Life Cycle methodologies (Agile and Waterfall) including Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework.

Expert in Jira with creating and managing Epics and User stories, Business Requirements Documents, Use Cases etc

Enable clients with Agile & Lean best practices.

Expert in managing transformation and migration programs.

Agile Frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean

Experience Project Review Elements: Project definitions and requirements, Org and governance, Risks management, procurement, Change control, PMO, Planning and scheduling, performance management, stakeholder management and communication.

Productivity Tools: Confluence, JIRA, Product Plan, Slack, Rally, MS Office Set, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, SharePoint, Expert in Fieldglass

Managed Projects in technology areas like EPM-OneStream, Java, Mainframe, Bigdata Hadoop, Microsoft based technologies.

Certifications:

Certified SCRUM MASTER

Certified - ITIL V3 - Information Technology Infrastructure Library Foundation.

Certified Project Manager from ITC Infotech PMCOE

Certified SIX SIGMA – Yellow Belt

Certified in Basics of Banking Foundation Course by IIBF

KEY SKILLS

Governance:

Establish the PMO role and create a Center of Excellence in alignment with Project Management Institute (PMI) guidelines, quality standards and company requirements.

Seek implementation efficiencies to meet or exceed the financial expectations established at project initiation.

Develop, implement, and govern program management processes, tools, templates, policies and metrics.

Monitor compliance with project policies and standards.

Team Leadership:

Coach and mentor project management practitioners and share knowledge of best practices.

Establish the PMO organization structure, hire and manage project staffing requirements in line with project objectives.

Coordinate project deliverables with Project Managers, Analysts, Market Leads, Regional Directors and support contractors in a direct and indirect reporting structure.

Set annual performance targets for direct reports and conduct performance reviews.

Oversee Project Managers for the delivery of projects/programs on time, within scope and on budget.

Tracking and Monitoring:

Track and provide project status and audit reports.

Manage the risk, issue and change resolution process, and work with other leaders to take corrective action as needed.

Ensure contract compliance and reporting to the donors.

Prioritization:

Provide executive leaders with the information needed to assess and decide which proposals have the highest potential value, impact and strategic alignment.

Interface with executives to define project priorities, implementation opportunities, challenges and communicate project risks and opportunities.

Experience Summary:

Walmart Inc, Bentonville, AR Feb 2016 – Current

Feb 2016 – Present Day (Current role: Senior Manage I, Technical Program Management)

Feb 2016 to Jan 2022: Walmart as Client

Feb 2022 to Current: Walmart Full time

I program managed MDS(then DPA) in FinTech area, specifically responsible for the entire OneStream(FP&A) Program across all segments.

2022/2023 OneStream S4 Implementation was the biggest program I have managed across all of OneStream in FinTech alongside MEC and AOP cycle from 2020 to 2023.

Currently I am in IBG(Intelligent Business Growth) managing the end to end program management and project auditing, working with partners that include Financial Data Factory, UX and Data Science Teams. I manage the product roadmap, PI Planning, Product backlog prioritization, Quarterly Planning, SteerCo status reporting and day to day Scrum & Sprint based execution. I managed multiple teams and respective scrum masters. I also own end to end Vendor SOW’s and Vendor management.

My Program manager responsibilities in Walmart include,

Program & Project management activities involving preparation of Program/Project plan, Program/Project scope, Project schedules, Resourcing and Execution

Plan and manage multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains

Created Migration strategy for Product Documentation, ensuring the release is aligned with Product Release

Developed Migration Plan and Estimation thus gaining the trust of management & development for approval.

Constantly interacted with cross functional teams to release dependency and led the Project to completion

Calculated resource utilization, allocated resources based on Business requirements, hence ensuring 100% utilization

Lead Backlog Sprint Review sessions including Demo on the Sprint deliverables; Regularly conducted Sprint Retrospective sessions, collected open feedback from team and ensured to have action items & Completions

Identified and created metrics that measured and reported on team performance, Backlogs health and continuous improvement; Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

Adequate experience in dealing project activities on Business Requirements Gathering & Analysis

Experience in Scope Management, Schedule Management, Cost Management, Resource Management, Stakeholder Management, Vendor Management, Risk Management, Communication Management, Execution, Monitor & Controlling; Experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously

Create short-term goal & long-term goal and road mapping to presenting to stakeholders.

Creating the quarterly report for Leadership.

Streamlined release execution by migrating to the corporate defined planning and execution model

ITC Infotech - Client: Optum (UHG), Eden Prairie, MN Jan 2014 - Jan 2016

Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master

Customer Communication for Roadmap reviews, project status and review short term and long-term goals via Weekly touch base meetings

Stakeholder Management across teams /vendor partners by owing Definition of Done aligned to project/product scope and vision

Interaction and Discussion with clients for enhancements. Coordinating various enhancement activities at the client location, between the client and the offshore team

Conflict Management during scope creep, new changes, Technical Debts, Priority changes & Staffing via logical reasoning approaches Program Consulting Manager

Responsible for Scheduling, Estimation, Budgeting, Defining Requirements, Developing Functional

ITC Infotech - Client: Danske Bank, Copenhagen, Denmark Aug 2007 - Dec 2013

Scrum Master/Tech Lead

Task Manager/People Manager / Onsite Lead (24 Months)/, Project Lead, Technical Architect

Full Delivery Responsibilities, People Management, Stakeholder Management

Onsite Leadership & Task Manager (For 2.0 years in the Denmark).

Understanding Danske DW Application, Interfaces and Business involved.

Interaction and Discussion with clients for enhancements. Coordinating various enhancement activities at the client location, between the client and the offshore team

Hard Core Development and Enhancement. Program Coding, Debugging and Testing.

Analysis and evaluation of alternatives to formulate the mode of implementation of the Change Request (CR).

Preparing detailed High level and Low-level design as per the requirements.

Involved in setting up the test environment, test Execution.

Completion of all customer requests/bugs/enhancements requests promptly and accurately.

Implementing code changes, Review and System testing of impacted components.

Cognizant - Client: MetLife, Morristown, NJ & Bangalore India Aug 2002 - July 2007

Tech Lead

I worked as a Sr. Consultant/Legacy Mainframe Developer/Business Analyst.

I developed Insurance Underwriting legacy systems and led Legacy to Web Application migration

initiatives a web-based Audit system.

Maintenance and Enhancement. Program Coding, Debugging and Testing.

Analysis and evaluation of alternatives to formulate the mode of implementation of the Change Request (CR).

Preparing detailed low-level design as per the requirements.

Involved in setting up the test environment, test Execution. This ensures that software components run end to end and meet the technical requirements and standards

Completion of all customer requests/bugs/enhancements requests promptly and accurately.

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