RAJESH PARIKH SAFE *.*, CSM, CSP.

Certified Scrum master and certified Scrum Professional and SAFe Agilest (SA 4.0)

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EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Highly accomplished team leader, with 25 years’ experience in IT industry; worked on all phases of SDLC life cycle.

Expertise in working/ managing waterfall Projects as well as Agile teams as Scrum Master/coach.

Passionate about motivating the team members on their strength and work thru the weakness.

Broad in-depth knowledge in managing Global / onsite offshore projects.

Demonstrated skill in budget preparation, technical support oversight, quality assurance, and resource allocation.

Expertise in managing large scale Data warehouse, Data Integration and Application development initiatives.

Achievements:

1.Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) and Working experience with SAFe development methodologies as ‘Agile coach’ and SAFe Agilest (SA 4.0). Plan to get KANBAN certification by 2019 and CTC (certified Team coach by year end 2020.

2.Managed projects costing worth $400 K to $ 3 million.

3.Worked as DW/BI manager. Managing 40+ IT professionals. 30+ offshore professionals and 10 professionals at onsite (USA).

4.Successfully introduced and managed automated Testing/QA procedure using Win Runner and Test Director, for efficient testing and increase in productivity.

Agile experience

Total 10 years’ experience in Agile/Scrum.

8 years as Scrum master

16 months as Agile coach – mentored and coached about 10+ Agile teams

Conducted training/workshops and mentored about 6 Product owner/Managers teams

Trained 4 sessions of Senior Management on Do’s and Don’t of Scrum, Why Agile?

Worked with senior management on why and how to have cross training with teams to improve flexibilities in resources.

Data Warehouse/ BI Skills

Data Integration, Data Mapping and ETL process

Business Intelligence and Analysis services

Roles:

Data Warehouse/BI Manager, Project Manager, Agile coach/Scrum master/Technical Analyst, SAP R/3 Manager.

Industry Application:

Insurance, Clinical/Healthcare, Retail, Financial and Marketing, Manufacturing

Tools/Methods:

Data Warehouse / Informatica/ SAP/ SQL Server Analysis Services

Agile Development, certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), SAFE (Scaled Agile Framework at Enterprise) /Rally/JIRA/Version one/RUP / RAD / JAD

Education: B.S., Post graduate in Business management, Systems and Finance management.

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and certified Scrum Professional (CSP) and SAFe Agilest

Sun certified JAVA professional and Oracle certified Oracle professional (2002)

Articles published:

I have published many articles and few of them are on LinkedIn- visit my profile on LinkedIn at

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeshparikh

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Role: Agile Scrum Master and Release Train Engineer at UHG

Dec-16 to to-Date

Experience

Working with 7 scrum teams as one release train

Guiding the team on how to improve velocity

Working with senior management to transform multiple teams towards Agile development project.

Facilitating/managing Scrum ceremonies

Working with team/facilitate team to have working agreement for smooth functioning.

Facilitating Daily stand up, Backlog grooming, Sprint planning, Sprint retro.

proactively identifying and removing impediments and dependencies

Work with senior management for Release planning

Working with 7 scrum teams (1 program team as one release train

Conducting /facilitating PI sessions

Work with business in understanding visionary goals and help in groundbreaking thinking.

Working and mentoring Product owner to write small user stories, Acceptance criteria

Ensuring that all teams are in Sync with commitments and progressing as per plan;

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

Employee: Accenture.

NMDP: DW Manager/BI Manager and Program Manager Sept-15 Dec-2016

Helping the organization in transformation process towards Agile/Scrum.

Working with senior management to transform multiple teams towards Agile development project.

Working as DW Manager – help them to port data and ETL process from Sybase to Oracle/ Informatica.

Helping to Sunset Sybase data base and associated application to Oracle.

Conducting agile boot camp for the teams.

Conducting workshops for POs towards User stories, INVEST model, splitting user stories; working with POs to write good Acceptance criteria.

Work with business in understanding visionary goals and help in groundbreaking thinking.

Working with Senior Management to implement Cross functional training and brining flexibilities in team members

Working on SalesForce

Role: Agile coach/DW Manager at Target Mar-14 to Sept-2015

Role: Scrum Master/Agile coach at Target -working with multiple teams (1). CD/CI and (2) Guest

Experience for Kanban/Scrum ban, Scrum Master for Cloud computing

Working with team towards CD/CI (Dev-Ops) – continuous delivery and integration and automated testing.

Help the team with front end (Jasmine), Backend (Junit) and selenium for functional/regression automated

Testing – test automation.

Working with team towards to improve on code coverage and regular build and test data management.

Track and manage the budget.

Helping the organization in transformation process towards Agile/Scrum.

Mentoring, coaching with team towards KANBAN and Scrum Ban systems

Dos and Don’ts about Kanban Vs Scrum.

Accountable for the entire project lifecycle, including roadmap planning, sprint planning, Story mapping,

story slicing backlog grooming and sprint review. Release management. Ensure projects are successfully

Delivered on-time, within budget, and to customer specifications/satisfaction.

Work with business in understanding visionary goals and help in groundbreaking thinking.

Providing metrics and graphs to measure productivity to the senior management.

Consultant at Best Buy Richfield, MN Mar ’10 to Mar-2014

Role: Program Manager for Agile projects/Scrum master/coach for NOVA and COM-API

Working with Data Warehouse project and work involving; developing and unifying multiple data warehouses and building APIs (Service oriented architecture – SOA – COM-API).

Working with business and Product capability team to identify the need for Agile/Scrum projects.

Plans all aspects of Scrum; organizational change; guidance on standard practices, training and mentoring the teams.

Responsible for team performance review and recommendations.

Track and manage the budget; help the team in bringing visibilities like Burndown chart, team velocity and other Scrum charts/ graphs.

Mentor, and coach Scrum teams towards Agility, helping them towards better Scrum practices. Mentor and motivate the teams to be self-organized and self-motivated.

Responsible for regular Scrum team performance review and recommendations

Working with team in coaching, mentoring for Story sizing, writing and story mapping.

Working with team to implement SAFE – Scaled Agile Framework.

Working with SAFE Scaled Agile Framework as scrum Master for about 1 year. Worked as ‘Value Stream Engineer’ and ‘Agile release Train Engineer (ART)’ at Program level.

Worked with team on SAFE – team on Program Increment (PI) and Program level Chartering session.

Worked as Release Train Engineer (ART) – with 7 teams; Established program level cadence and drive program level ceremonies (e.g. PI Planning, Product Management Council, Scrum of Scrums, release train retrospectives, HIP Sprint)

Leading the team to develop the DW and BI application, managing multiple technical projects.

Worked with data architect, and dba team ensuring it meets the business requirements.

Helping the team to be transparent, open and helping towards automated testing and TDD, helping team to host/organize the road shows.

Working on Scrum, Kanban, TDD (test Driven development), and SAFe. Agile methodologies

Worked with Deployment team in Performance, Security testing, and Release management.

Consultant at HB Fuller – St. Paul, MN

Role: Project Manager for SAP DW Nov ’09 till Mar’10

Key Responsibilities:

Worked with stakeholders/ users to discuss and document requirements, project schedules, and cost.

Responsible for deployment, coordination of SAP implementation for 18 locations, 4 instances.

Responsible for manage and control cost/quality/schedule of the program.

Medica Health systems - Minneapolis, MN Sep ’07 till Oct ‘09

DW Manager/Scrum Master (DW/BI).

Key Responsibilities:

Worked as Evangelist for Agile/Scrum process; worked as Scrum master and Scrum coach.

Leading the team to develop the application, managing multiple technical projects using Scrum, Agile.

Responsible for feasibility study of the project through analysis, estimation, budget management and approval.

Responsible for end-to-end project management, demonstrating ownership of the entire process from beginning to end. Worked through all phases of SDLC life cycle.

Responsible for building strong relationships, being flexible, providing timely responses, having strong listening skills and a big picture mentality.

Developed, revised complex project plan, and budgets; worked with stake holder, business users to understand problems, focused on bringing issues to resolution, and escalated as necessary to meet timelines.

Worked with data architect team for data base design; ensuring it meets the business requirement for EHR.

Data modeling, Logical and Physical design for DW projects.

Responsible for team performance review and recommendations.

Worked with business owner/product owner in marinating and prioritizing product and sprint back log.

Initiated and worked on implementing Testing/Quality control automation (Test automation) using WinRunner, Test Director and later on upgraded to Quality circle and QTP.

Environment: VB, IIS, C#, .Net, Oracle, Informatica, SSIS, Webstrat, Rate Manager, and Easy grouper, ICD-9, ICD-10, COSMOS, Galaxy, and TOPS, MyMedica.com – web portal

Pentair Inc. - Minneapolis, MN May ’05 till Aug ‘07

Data ware house manager – Filtration Division Nov ’05 to Aug ‘07

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the direction and implementation of SAP projects for the Filtration group, role: Scrum Master.

In conjunction with Senior Management, define and produce reports and dashboards regarding the current and future states of our business including production, Order, Inventory and forecasts.

Developed, revised complex project plan, and budgets; worked with stake holder, business users to understand problems, focused on bringing issues to resolution, and escalated as necessary to meet timelines.

Manage development team both Onsite and Off shore team

Responsible for end-to-end project management, demonstrating ownership of the entire process from beginning to end. Worked through all phases of SDLC life cycle.

Worked as technical Architect and also with SOA architecture.

Environment: Visio, MS Projects, Informatica, SQL Server 2005,SSIS, Oracle, JDE, Mapics 2000, Mange 2000,SAP R/3, Oracle Financials, SharePoint.

Role: Data Architect /Team Lead for ‘EMEA’ Financial Data warehouse project May ’05 to Nov ‘05

Worked as Data architect/Technical Architect

My role was to design service oriented architecture (SOA) to the data ware house project. Pentair had 14 locations and each with different hardware and software platforms. To simplify and provide robust, independent architecture we designed SOA architecture.

Prepared Data base design, Data Flow diagram,

Participated in JAD session for gathering user and business requirements.

Prepared ETL process and documented Business rule, Data mapping between source and targets.

Environment: Visio, Oracle, SAP R/3, Business objects, SharePoint.

Ambient Consulting - Minneapolis, MN

Assignment at: Express Scripts - Minneapolis, MN Jan ’05 to May ‘05

Project leader/ Manager for Pharma Portal

Developed project plan, project cost, budget and getting approval from stake holder.

Facilitate JAD sessions for gathering user requirements and working with RUP process.

Assignment at: US Bank - Minneapolis, MN June’04 to Dec’04

Project Manager for AR & AP application

Managed two projects and team size of eight.

User presentation of Process flow, requirements and wire frames (mock up screen) for review.

Environment: RUP, Use case, VB/ASP, Db2, SQL server, MS Project, Data Stage and Crystal reports,

Syntel Inc. - Minneapolis, MN Apr ‘97 to May’04

Assignment at: Target Corporation - Minneapolis, MN Nov’03 to May’04

Technical architect/Project leader for Supply Chain Tracking (SCT) project

Mentored Team member for estimating the project using Functional Point Analysis and preparing effort matrix.

Successfully introduced and managed automated Testing/QA procedure using Win Runner and Test Director, for efficient testing and increase in productivity.

Environment: IBM, Db2, SQL Server, VB/ASP, XML, ERWIN, OOAD/UML, EDI documents, GENTRAN, MQ series, VISIO, MS Project, RUP, Requisite Pro.

Assignment at: Target Corporation - Minneapolis, MN Apr’02 to Dec’03

Application development team leader for Post Distribution Audit.

Responsibilities were from front to back (complete SDLC life cycle).

Prepared project plan, directed, coordinated and delivered activities pertaining to technology and business solution. Preparing Budget and Cost management. Cost/benefit Analysis.

Quality Assurance reviews – Improved the quality of software development process.

Ensured project goals, objectives, deliverables are met. Identified and resolved issues, risks and developed solutions. Estimated project costs and tracked costs and performance.

Conducted JAD sessions for user requirements.

Met and exceeded business users (external and internal) customer’s expectations.

Carried out cost benefit analysis for buy versus make (develop) decisions.

Managed onsite / offshore global projects and with six people onsite and 16 people at offshore.

Environment: Ms Project, IBM, Db2, Oracle, SQL 2000, PL SQL, Power Builder, VB/ASP, .NET, XML, ERWIN, VISIO, MQ series, EDI documents, GENTRAN, and RUP/ REQ-PRO.

Note: Work experience prior to 2003 and small projects are not provided here; but can be provided upon request.

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