SamarjitChavan 619-***-**** aday1x@r.postjobfree.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samarjit-chavan-5b035ab7/
Professional Summary:
Experienced Project management professional with proven success in building engineering applications, work streams and implementation with continuous improvement,Continuos development using agile methodology.
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ROLE
10/2018
Current
American Express inc, Phoenix.
Technical Project Manager
09/2017
07/2018
Restaurant365 inc, Irvine, CA
Scrum Master
11/2016
07/2017
Dell Technologies Inc, Austin, TX
Technical Project Manager
07/2015
06/2016
First Allied Securites, San Diego, CA
Scrum Master
08/2013
06/ 2015
Canadian Pacific, Calgary, Canada.
Project Manager
07/2011
08/2013
ASPEN MARKETING, Chicago, IL.
Project Manager
02/2009
04/2011
RMS Solutions Inc, Canada.
Project Manager
07/2007
01/2009
AgatLabs,Canada.
Team Lead
05/2003
06/2007
Direct Cash ltd, Canada.
Web Developer
Education:
●M.B. A Systems & Marketing AIMSBschool.org 1998
●B.Sc ComputerScience SKUniversity 1995
Certifications:
●SAFe - Scaled Agile SP4 Certified Scaled Agile 2018
●CSM - Certified Scrum Master ScrumAlliance.org 2018
●PMP - PMP CERTIFICATION PMI.org 2009
●JAVA - Certified Java Programmer 2005
Oracle Corp ORACLE 9i - Oracle 9i Certified develop 2003
Technical Skills:
Software development tools: Java,J2EE, Spring boot, SOA, DevOps(GitHub, Splunk),CI/CD using Jenkins Pipeline, GitHub, ELK, ASP.Net, C#, SqlServer, Jira, Visio, Microservices,Scrum, salesforce.com,JSON,MVC, Couch base, Cassandra, Kibana, Dynatrace, Grafana,Hybrid Cloud. Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Scaled Agile
Professional Experience:
American Express Inc., Phoenix, AZ Project Manager 10/2018- Current
●Worked on Modernizing the Payment network for AMEX, like migrating all the banking applications real time data to cloud and hybrid cloud environment with the help of micro services.
●For this project, SAFe Scaled Agile was the framework choice and maintained PCI data security standards.
●Built a system to ingest millions of transactions and to store the transaction data into cold storage,hot storage and operational data purposes.
●Handled Cassandra data project to process the authorization or clearing messages (like 200 million transactions/day) from all over the world through bidirectional Kafka queues, storing all the detail and summarize tables into Cassandra Transaction repository.
●Managed 3 Scrum teams for each PI to participate in Scaled Agile with 25 other teams headed by RTE.
●Ran Daily Stand-ups, Retrospective, Story grooming, System demos every 2 weeks and I was also a backup RTE.(Release Train Engineer).
●Collaborated with high performance teams & drive sprints to achieve project milestones.
●Its Micro based solution for building APIs for each service, also have to bundle the java micro services to reduce multiple hops for completing tasks.
●I was also Scrum Master for defining devops process starting from building branching strategies or introducing trunk based model instead of git, deploying application code using Jenkins for all the microservice application teams, adopting gating methods for generating quality like code coverage,behavioural test cases,code vulnerability checks.
Environment: Java, J2EE, Kafka Queue,SAFE Agile,Couchbase,Data Engineering and Analytics,Springboot, CI/CD using Jenkins Pipeline, GitHub, Json,Kafka,Cassandra,Spark ElasticSearch.
Restaurant365,Irvine,CA Technical ProjectManager 09/2017-07/2018
●Helped the company to convert the Waterfall SDLC into Agile Scrum practice by introducing Scrum Roles, Scrum Events and Scrum meetings into Product life cycle.
●Resolved several quality challenges while analyze, adopt and deliver full scrum framework.
●Empower team to make system, process improvements captured in sprint retrospectives
●Used key metrics like control charts, Team velocity to help deliver committed work
●Coaching and mentoring about Agile Development principles and practices to development teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and program-level leadership.
●Collaborated with high performance teams & drive sprints to achieve project milestones
●Assessed Kanban dashboard and scrum framework Epic and release burn down charts.
Environment: ASP.Net, C#, SqlServer, Jira, Visio, DevOps (GitHub, Splunk), Angular, Scrum, JSON, MVC
Dell Inc, Austin, TX Technical Program Manager 10/2016-07/ 2017
●As a Program manager, I have introduced the high profile Dell.com Loyalty rewards program to 13 different countries and increase the customer base from 10 million loyalty customers to 100 million. I have conducted Scrum Daily stand ups, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings. Used Jira to manage the status updates.
●Develop, Optimize and support informatica power center components to provide MDM ETL processes for data extraction, Transformations and loading of data.
●I was Managing the web project for Dell.com Rewards program, introduction of global payment type to issue rewards for EMEA, ASIA Pacific, Latin. Worked with Product Managers, Architects, Developers and Testers to ensure that product is being designed, engineered and launched with highest bar of engineering excellence.
●Scrum Master: Coordinated all the scrum ceremonies including Sprint planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint retrospective, Sprint Demos and release planning.
●Work with Product Management, Business Analyst, Architects, and UI designers to plan ahead and ensure product backlog is prioritized, groomed, and has sufficient detail, so that it is ready to be worked on by Scrum teams.
●Followed both waterfall and Agile Project management methodologies and produced high quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.
Environment: C#, SqlServer, Jira, Angular J, DevOps (GitHub, Splunk, Team city), MVC
First Allied Securities Inc., San Diego, CA 07/2015-06/2016
Project Manager/Scrum Master
●Since this is a Cloud migration move, managed internal initiatives for creating methodologies around new datacenter and cloud Readiness Assessments and Portability.
●I was SAFE Agile Scrum Master, leading the self-directed balanced team of 8 to participate in the scrum meeting to get shippable product in each iteration. I have tracked and help PO to manage the Product backlog, User story Refinements, burn down metrics, Define Team Velocity and help the dev team in task break down.
●We have scaled out the advisor’s android mobile app which is handling millions of web user requests on daily basis. We have used Elastic load balancers, Built Restful Services, Scaling the postgres databases by introducing logical shards from db to another.
●Successfully integrated and provided data of global application system of 5 different countries for launching new data center in San Diego and tested their interfaces for integration of data.
Environment: C#, SqlServer, Java, Android, Jira, Visio, MS project, DevOps (GitHub)
Canadian Pacific Rail, Calgary, Canada Project Manager 08/2013-06/2015
●Upgrading security mechanism was part of this project, I myself being a software engineer background, and think like an attacker when designing or rebuilding(also request Architecture vulnerability assessment ) new piece of software in order to address the range of functions that software should do, and how software can better resist, tolerate, and recover when under attack. Code Review is done to review the code vulnerabilities.
●Managed large scale data warehouse integration solution for railroad business through several iterations, involving DB2, SQL Server using ETL tool Informatica Power center and Qlik View, for establishing online repository of history data.
●Leading developers on $500,000 primavera project using .Net, Restful Web services and also used Qlik view for first time for real-time in-memory processing of reports.
Environment: C#, Oracle 11i, Qlik View, Informatica ETL, MS Project Server 2013, Agile Scrum.
Aspen Marketing, Chicago, IL Project Manager 07/2011-08/2013
●Managed a mobile app for automobile dealers to find the target customers with social filters (used social media to grab the customers who participate in the discussions), written in Xamarin to run natively on Android and IOS. Involved in strategize and implement technical working solution with different business teams, Automobile Dealers and Data provider Teams and came with innovative practical solution by tailoring different social media streams and aligning them to customer needs, and drive more customers and revenues to the auto dealerships in case of any special events.
●Built the custom .NET application to connect to Amazon EC2 running enterprise SQL Server or SharePoint Server on Windows Server.
●Managed the Micro sites and Program Builder Software services teams provided to Canadian and United States arms of auto manufacturers with revenues of $1M. Built from ground up and oversaw a team that created online systems which have delivered $2M in annual revenues.
●Perform stakeholder analysis, obtain project approvals and communicate project status.
Environment: ASP.net, MVC, Oracle11i, Ajax, SMS, HTML5, jQuery, SharePoint, Telerik, Dundas
Direct Cash Ltd, Calgary, Canada Lead Developer 05/2003-06/2007
●Lead the team by interacting with MasterCard USA technical and business teams to implement MasterCard Simulator.
●Implemented several system test cases for the getting through the MasterCard requirements and got the certification in 6 months time.
●Enhanced interface for exchanging security keys for ATM (Automated teller machine)
Environment: Oracle 9i, JSP, Java SE 1.4, JDK 1.4.2, Web Services, Ajax, RUP, Agile, J2EE