Professional Summary

** ***** ** *********** ********** in IT development, Project Management and Analysis and also expertise in understanding, collaborating, stakeholder engagement and gathering the requirements from business users.

Experienced in Application and Product Development, Enhancement & Support projects.

Exposed to all phases of software development life cycle including in-depth knowledge of RUP, CMM (Capability Maturity Model), Agile and PMBOK project management methodologies

Trained initial teams in agile scrum and JIRA scrum master for three teams & created Scrum/Kanban boards and dashboards in JIRA/Rally

Drove adoption of Agile and Lean software development methodologies Scrum, XP, SAFe and Kanban practices across teams.

Scrum Agile Areas of expertise include Agile Principles, Tasking Meetings/Retrospectives, Communication Relative Estimation, Story-Based Development, Iteration/Sprint Planning Meetings and Conflict Resolution.

Shares the FRD (functional requirements document) and works on making a test plan. Review the test scenarios/Test cases with the client team and provides a sign off. Provides inputs on the test data preparation phase

Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.

Technical Skillset:

Modeling Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, SDLC, RUP

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS-Access

Project Management: Microsoft Project, Rally, MS VISIO, SharePoint, JIRA, Confluence

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

RDBMS and Databases: SQL Server, MS Access

CERTIFICATIONS

Six Sigma Certified Yellow Belt

Scrum Fundamental Certified Credential

Scrum Master Accredited Certified (SMAC)

SAFe 5.0 Certified Scrum master (SSM)

IBM Docker Essentials

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

CLIENT: BLACKROCK, ATLANTA, GA OCT 2022 TO TILL DATE

AGILE SCRUM LEAD /RELEASE MANAGER

Project Description: The Scope of the project is to Support the Infrastructure requests for the On Prem teams to migrate to Cloud. Review the Infra Requests from the ServiceNow & onboard the AWS/GCP/AZURE requests to the Cloud Onboarding Boards on ADO (Azure Devops Boards). Review and plan the onboarded infrastructure requests and distributed across the Cloud Platform/cloud Governance/Cloud Solutions teams based on the nature of the requests

Responsibilities

Developing plan for end-to-end onboarding & Roadmap activities for the project

Assisted Kanban teams with User Stories generation and managing their progress.

Created & approved the SNOW requests and review the onboarded requests with financial board and assigned to the respective teams to implement the infrastructure requests

Created the Dashboard to capture the team metrics in the Azure Devops tracking board

Captured all the AWS/GCP/AZURE requests, reviewed them and onboarded by running the ADO pipeline by manually proving the necessary details

Made sure the created implementation requests are delivered within the TAT (3-5 business days)

Roadmap the epics each Quarter and made sure the epic follows the BLK epic standards

work with the core dev team, track the progress of the epic for Delivery

Create the CM/CR for the prod implementation and review in CAB for approvals

CLIENT: DELTA AIRLINES, ATLANTA, GA NOV 2021 TO OCT 2022

AGILE SCRUM LEAD / SR. PRODUCT ANALYST

Project Description: The scope of the project is setup the infrastructure to migrate all the on-premise application to cloud (DevOps). After the successful setup a sonatype nexus repository manager & the SonarQube in to AWS cloud followed by the swagger hub, dedomina were also migrated the infrastructure setup to cloud

Responsibilities

Work with the System architects in creating the back log for all the Delta On-premise components for Enterprise Tooling, Swagger hub, SonarQube components

Working with the system, AWS platform and service leadership teams to deliver quality

products on time, within budget and with the necessary features

Demonstrated interpersonal and leadership skills and has the ability to work and inspire others in a multi-functional team environment

Tracking the dependencies on the Nexus Enterprise Tooling & updated the resolutions based on service dates and cadence

Providing resource management for projects including team training and staff allocation for AWS / Nexus Application & SonarQube support

Lead & delivered successful activities of multiple Scrum Teams for various AWS components Enterprise Tooling, Swagger hub, SonarQube successful migration to AWS cloud

Ensured that agile principles and processes are properly implemented and adopted.

Scheduled and facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Up, Sprint Demo and Sprint Retrospective

meetings.

Removed impediments and resolved conflicts. Radiated information to ensure transparency.

Facilitated an atmosphere of team creativity to foster increased productivity and production of

higher quality products.

Ensured Burn-up and Burn-down charts are available and accurate

CLIENT : GSA, WASHINGTON, DC JULY 2020 TO OCT 2021

TECHNICAL AGILE PROGRAM MANAGER

Project Description: GSA is an independent agency established to help and support functioning of the federal agencies. The scope of the project is to collect the data that is coming from the On-premise Database and transform, validate, notify and store it in the POSTGRES DB which runs on AWS/Kubernetes cluster (DevOps).

Responsibilities:

Developing plan for end-to-end activities for the project

Assisted Scrum teams with User Stories generation and managing their progress.

Assisted teams with Impediments and Roadblocks removal, Risks and Backlog grooming.

Experience in Kanban and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) development practices.

Experience in Scrum Release Planning and Release Life Cycle.

Competent user of JIRA Agile Management Tool. Familiar with Rally, version one, Agile Craft etc.

Drove successful transformation of existing organizations from Waterfall to Agile.

Facilitated and delivered Agile training to development teams via coaching and mentoring.

Monitored trends/progress of the projects and acted as an advisor to the management.

Reported progress to key stakeholders through Release/Sprint Burn-Down, velocity target updates, schedules, risks, dependencies, etc.

Collaborated closely with the business owners/stakeholders and technical teams to identify and document detailed requirements and process flows, including budget and headcount.

CLIENT: ANTHEM HEALTH, ATLANTA, GA MAR 2018 TO JUNE 2020

SR. SCRUM MASTER

Project description: Anthem is one of the nation’s leading health benefits companies. Anthem is working to transform health care with trusted and caring solutions. NICU CM/DM (Neonatal intensive Care Unit Case management/Disease management) project is mainly focused on providing the Medicaid and Care services for the New Born and Pre-mature babies through NICU program enrollment. Maintaining the transaction services (Wealth Management) when the clients register for NICU services

Responsibilities:

Organize/facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, Scrum of scrums, stakeholder meetings and software demonstrations.

Work closely with product owner, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation, prioritize the user stories and continuous delivery of features

Establish the Scrum boards in JIRA and program boards in Agile Craft track the status from teams.

Coach and support the team throughout the agile transformation process

Collaborate with product owner and senior architect to ensure alignment on strategy and execution

Working with the development teams, ensuring they understand the vision, business requirements and acceptance criteria for feature user stories

Eliminate impediments, manage issues, and continuously ROAM risks, so the team can remain focused on delivering iteration goals, PI objectives, and PI feature(s)

Facilitate transparency by implementing JIRA Dashboards and advance JIRA Query Language (JQL) filters to promote team timeliness and completeness Jira issues, objectives, features, stories, tasks, sub-tasks, and dependencies.

Participate in PI planning meetings and coordinate with ART teams on risks and dependencies.

Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress and burn down to all affected teams and management

Coach the teams on scaled agile framework (SAFe) and agile best practices.

CLIENT: CVS HEALTH, IRVING, TX OCT 2017 TO FEB 2018

PRODUCT ANALYST/ SCRUM MASTER

Project Description: CVS Health is in the business of better health and it touches the lives of patients in virtually every aspect of healthcare. This project was mainly focused on Data Ware Housing, Data Integration, while extract, Transforming, Loading & extrapolating the claims data from source to target Database, managing the database for medical service providers in a centralized manner which could be easily accessed by the end users

Responsibilities:

Coordinate and facilitate scrum events like daily scrum, backlog grooming session, project demo, project review and retrospective with cross functional teams Coaching Scrum teams.

Working closely with the teams through agile events coaching on performing the activities, playing the roles and generating artifacts based on SAFe and Agile best practices

Worked with the business team to maintain the product backlog in a way that ensures the project is well defined and the team can continually advance forward on the project at any given time.

Ensure correct sizing and prioritization, User story grooming, release planning, manage

Plan sprints schedule for a project and ensure success in developing and rolling out a new feature / functionality after each release.

Created the work visibility of the team by pulling Sprint Reports (Sprint Chart, Velocity chart, Cumulative flow chart) in JIRA

Communicate with stakeholders, encourage collaboration with team members stressing continuous improvement through use of Kanban and Scrum

CLIENT : CLOUD EVOLUTIONS MAR 2017 TO SEP 2017

PRODUCT ANALYST INTERN

Project Description: The Scope of the project is to build Multi cloud management software. Multiple cloud services can like GCP, AWS, AZURE can be managed for provisioning, testing, operating & decommissioning through the developed interface

Responsibilities:

Organized and drive Scrum ceremonies including Grooming, Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Demos, Sprint Closure, Sprint Retrospective etc.

Gather Requirements in the Agile ways by facilitating the refinement session with the PO’s and Development teams.

Good Knowledge in writing the requirements in GHREKIN and user/feature/benefit format

Gather and interpret project specifications based on business and compliance needs to plan out required project plans.

Work with the development team to define implementation resources, timelines and deliverables.

Full project management, creation and maintenance of project plans and tracking timelines and deliverable with owners and managing all team cross planning efforts.

INTONE NETWORKS INC, FEB 2012 TO APR 2015

BUSINESS ANALYST

Project is all about the changes in Net banking GUI and to be more user-friendly and enhanced security features in order to meet the business requirements of the client.

Responsibilities:

Interviewed all user areas to elicit their requirements for the new system based on the business needs to be fulfilled in the next iteration under Waterfall.

Involved in creating Functional Specification Documents (FSD).

Helped creating business process flow diagrams and charts using MS-Visio.

Played a key role in the planning User Accepted Testing (UAT) and implementation of system enhancements and conversions.

Collaborated with key stakeholders to develop user stories, use cases, and acceptance test criteria.

Supported the program manager for multiple simultaneous projects with various tasks such as on-boarding process, program knowledge management, and tracking of schedules and deliverables.

EDUCATION:

Bachelors in Electronics & Communications, JNTU, Hyderabad, INDIA (2007-2011)

Masters in Technology Management, Texas A&M University, Commerce (2015 – 2016)

Masters in Information Systems & Security, University of Cumberland (2020- 2021)

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