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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Dynamic, hands-on, Release Train Engineer with experience managing large enterprise software development projects/digital transformation that meet demanding time restraints and exceed all expectations.

Successfully brought $9 million project back on track from derailing for business to gain the benefits on implementation.

Demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach Scrum teams (up to 105 members) across multiple locations, with a track record of managing complex projects while delivering on time, under budget and above expectations.

Skilled in providing effective leadership in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments, with outstanding oral, written, presentation and communication skills.

Excel at turning individuals into teams that work efficiently and exceed expectations.

Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.

SKILLS SUMMARY

Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), CSM, ICP -Agile Coach Certified, Certified Foundations Educator, (Certified Agile Leadership for Teams, Organizations & Essentials) plus Experienced with SAFe

Business Analysis Tools: Version One, Rally, Jira, Plutora, UML, Oracle Toad, Smart Draw, Microsoft Visio,

Office Tools: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SDLC

CORE COMPETENCIES

Goal Oriented

Drive for Results

Understanding others

Motivating Others

Negotiating

Integrity and Trust

Listening

Individual Empowerment

Program Oversight

Time Management

Priority Setting

Requirement analysis

Dealing with Ambiguity

Requirement gathering

Team Leadership

Continuous Improvement

Team Building

Risk Management

Process Improvement

Project Planning

Strategic Planning

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Healthfirst January 2019 – Present

Release Train Engineer

Playing a key role to strategize, plan and working with stakeholders on creating a roadmap and delivery plan.

Created detailed roadmap working alongside with Product Owners & IT partners in now, near & next roadmap in delivering the work for around 4 years in the program.

Collaboration with internal stakeholders & multi vendors teams to deliver the planned work.

Hosted multiple business workshops & working sessions to produce detailed execution plan on now, near & next.

Conducted working sessions with IT partners / multiple vendor teams in providing thought processes and solution approach for feature roll out.

Managing 12 scrum teams as RTE for the Provider Data Management Program. Prior to this, I was managing three scrum teams as Sr. Scrum Master as well as playing RTE role.

Apart from feature delivery, spearheaded enterprise deliverable on environment upgrade (PEGA/Mule/Postgres Database); planning the work with the platform team & admin team, technology plus multi-vendor teams and other teams within Healthfirst in upgrading the platforms and ensuring no impact to the application.

Led the teams from the front ensuring delivery processes and practices are adhered and leveraged the tools for tracking & delivering the work.

Mentoring Scrum Masters, Product Owners & team members on variety of day-to-day topics providing clarity and direction.

Enhancing bonding within the teams by celebrating success & executing activities.

Worked with the team members & Product Owner to realign scrum team boards to add clarity on the progress of the sprint by updating flow on Version One team board.

Continue coaching Product owners on the importance of feature & user story readiness to ensure we have successful PI/Sprint planning.

Provided consistent and clear communication between all project stakeholders and report on progress to the Executive Steering Committee.

Created a feature intake calendar template for visualizing on key dates with respect to how release calendar works to avoid last minute again as much as possible.

Cultivated and nurtured an environment built on trust, transparency, and information sharing.

To ensure every release is successful, setup a monthly meeting with Tech Lead & QA Lead to ensure everyone on the same page and any questions being addressed to avoid surprises.

Created Roles & Responsibility document for PDM Program by working with leadership to ensure everyone is aware of expectations.

Emphasized on bringing up blockers/questions as soon as possible, instead of waiting till last minute/Daily standup.

Coached Product Owner/BA on value, clarity and importance of utilizing Version One as a source of truth for user stories instead of using an excel.

Created a PI roadmap for ATLAS & PLM teams which showcase recommendation on key tasks and associated dates to ensure we are staying on top of current PI work (feature & user story creation) but also spending time to finalize Epic/features for upcoming PI planning.

For ATLAS initiative, created and provided weekly progress report to leadership; brought any blockers for their attention for quick resolution.

Emphasized & successfully implemented feature creation and user story readiness before PI planning to avoid surprises to Scrum team during PI planning.

Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.

Coached and empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally.

Coached the team on effective and constant communication to make sure information is freely flowing across the board.

Emphasized offshore team of raising the risk in a timely manner to ensure resolution is identified and risk can be mitigating.

Educated the importance of creating user stories to Product Owner for all the feature before the PI planning to ensure risk and dependency are identified PI planning.

Educated the team in importance of working through priority user stories in the sprint instead of picking a user story to their comfort level from the list.

Coached the team to not change the user stories points once sprint begins to ensure team learns from the experience and continues to improve refining/grooming session by asking questions.

Removed obstacle for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution.

Ensured team feel empowered to not over committing based on velocity to ensure work is not spilling over to new sprint.

Datto Inc March 2018 – December 2018

Scrum Master

Open Sprint Retrospective where, every single team member will be provided space to provide their input on how the sprint was based on four pillars.

Got the buy in from the team to ensure user stories are reviewed & points are added once it is refined and not to wait until Sprint planning session.

Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.

Coached and empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally.

Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.

Supporting and educating the Product Owner with respect to refining and maintaining the product backlog.

Managed changes in project scope, identified potential crises, and devised contingency plan.

Removed obstacle for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution. Customer provided positive feedback.

Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release capacity and progress, user story sizing/risk analysis to all affected teams and management

Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline

Tsunami Tsolutions August 2017 – January 2018

Scrum Master

Improved QA process and communication which lead to decease in hot fixes after production deployment.

Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings.

Coached and empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally.

Managed changes in project scope, identified potential crises, and devised contingency plan.

Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs.

Improved internal and external communication, provide transparency and disseminate information.

Interfaced with Program Management Office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met.

Advise/guide Product and Project Managers on their implementation of new projects and infrastructures including operational readiness, change preparation, change execution, and post-change development.

Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release capacity and progress, user story sizing/risk analysis to all affected teams and management.

Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.

Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.

Cigna Corporation March 2015-August 2017

Scrum Master

Responsible for championing the Agile Process and Roles throughout the firm.

Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.

Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology.

Improve internal and external communication, provide transparency and disseminate information

Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.

Guiding Product and Project Managers on their implementation of new projects and infrastructures including operational readiness, change preparation, change execution, and post-change development.

Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release capacity and progress, user story sizing/risk analysis to all affected teams and management.

Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team.

Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes.

Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog.

Assisted with prioritization and resolution of software defects.

Built relationship with Product Owners and other stakeholders to facilitate team's interaction with them.

Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs.

Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.

Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.

EDUCATION

University of Connecticut Storrs, CT

Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering

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