AREAS OF EXPERTISE

SDLC (Waterfall, Agile)

Project Management

Change Management

Vendor Management

Automation Testing

Training

PROFESSIONAL

SCRUM Certified

Preparing for PMP Certification

EDUCATION

Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Technology

MANAGEMENT TOOLS

Jira

Rally & TFS

Agile craft

MS SharePoint

MS-Project

MS-Office

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Primavera, Open text’s Live Link Document Management System, API, Visio, Confluence, Team Foundation Server (TFS), VSTS, GIT, GitHub, OctopusDeploy, Jenkins.

SOFTWARE & LANGUAGES:

JAVA, R, JavaScript, Visual Basic, VB Script, ASP, HTML, SWIFT, XML, Oracle SQL, IBM WebSphere, Web Services, Tableau, Google analytics, AWS, MSBI - Microsoft business intelligence, Data Science Tools

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Windows, LINUX, UNIX, Mac OX.

SUMMARY

An ambitious Project Management Professional and Certified Scrum Master with about 5 Plus years of experience who values teamwork, integrity and accountability to help drive teams to exceed beyond their current limitations. Skilled at meeting the demands of business objectives, by way of identifying, clarifying, scheduling and tracking projects throughout the project life cycle. With proven solid understandings of the agile development methodology and leading both technology and technologically challenged teams in the agile framework. Adept at juggling the demands of complex projects to meet the scope of their deliverables, through strong leadership, data analysis, communications and creative problem solving. Seasoned at working with culturally diverse teams across the globe, from early-stage requirements gathering and procurement of services to project follow-through and completion.

An enthusiastic Agilest who has helped teams to acquire an Agile Mindset through Servant Leadership practices

Manage multiple teams of (20+ resource both onsite and offshore) throughout the SDLC process.

5+ years demonstrating performing the duties of an analyst and project management on successful IT projects that are providing tangible benefits in production.

Transitioned teams from Waterfall mindset to Agile (Scrum) culture

Well recognized for mentoring teams struck with ‘Defect backlog’

Maximizing business value by helping Product owner in prioritizing stories based on ROI

Successfully enhanced scrum teams’ productivity through co-ordination and collaboration techniques

Active member of Project Management Institute, Agile Certified Practitioners

Knowledge on the ATDD, TDD

Involved in covering a wide range of strategic topics, methodologies, modeling and cascading the implementation of strategic plans

Hands on experience using Jenkins for CI/CDs.

Communicated and maintained information radiators for transparency on project progress for PM Office

Prospective PMI ACP certification 2020 metrics

Excellent business scripting skills:

Agile: Epics, Features, User Stories and Retrospectives

Waterfall: Business Case analysis, Business Requirements Document

Proven success eliciting requirement, GAP analysis, Risk assessment, and SWOT analysis.

Collaborating and analyzing with all the strategic business units to define the areas for implementation of Business re-engineering.

Expertly promote continuous improvements by creating an effective communication channel between the team, product owner and the stakeholders.

Effective application of industry standard techniques to effectively track team’s progress, including burndown, velocity and release forecasting.

Representative for the entire Engineering department in Nielsen for the Scrum of Scrum meetings where all the new development activities are discussed and are implemented for the project.

Broad experience gained within various software development environments (Waterfall, V-Model, Agile-Scrum, XP, Kanban).

Demonstrated responsibility and leadership capabilities at all the deliverables.

Lead, manage and drive teams in agile methodology in Product based companies to effectively deliver on schedule and budget.

Active participation in product requirement meetings with the stakeholders.

Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for gathering requirements, analysis and design.

Extensive knowledge on developing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Technical Specification Document (TSD), Scope of Work (SOW).

Manage, review and execute manual, automation and performance test strategies, test plans and test cases.

Design of project checklists, risk registers, issue trackers, communication plans, change management plans and implementation plans.

Conduct and manage demo of products to business team and management.

Provide additional adjudication processing assistance to team members with complex reimbursement and client-related questions.

Closely worked with procurement team and involved in vendor management for resources. Managed and executed custom support activities.

Developed Risk management document, Disaster management documents, Change management documents and Vendor management documents.

Analyzed the existing release process and submitted multiple reports to improve the process and efforts.

TECHNOLOGY UTILIZED / IMPLEMENTED DURING THE CAREER

CORE COMPETENCIES

Big Data

Global Delivery Model

Client Relationship Management

Business intelligence

Process Improvement

Delivery/Release Management

Agile & Traditional (SAFe)

Team Building

PMI Project Management

Data Science

SDLC

Product Integration

EXPERIENCE

Nielsen Media Research, Oldsmar, Fl

Scrum Master/Project Manager Sept 2018 – PRESENT

Responsibilities:

Responsible for defining the agile transformation strategy, led a team of agile coaches (onshore/offshore) to execute the strategy by providing coaching and training support to over 90 teams across 4 geographic locations (including India).

Engage project sponsors and facilitate discussions with stakeholders to make complex decisions including preparing and presenting written and oral presentations to senior executives on project status, as well as managing other project communications including 1) status reports to stakeholders, business units, vendors, project team and 2) metrics / assumptions on budget, time and risk.

Facilitated Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Retrospective, stakeholder discussions and Sprint Reviews

Partner with the Product Owner to ensure the product backlog provides clarity of direction, and maximizes business value (Agile)

Created a collaborative ecosystem between the team members and product owner to efficiently realize the business value and technical complexity thus helping in PBI prioritization

Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings

Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise

Working across teams/disciplines to ensure release readiness and quality deployments

Achieved 25 percent efficiency improvement by identifying and removing impediments to prevent distractions and introducing new time management technique by managing the product team and ensure they focus on sprint goals.

Developing status reports and dashboards, including metrics-informed analysis

Working closely with the cross functional business teams to identify and communicate dependencies if any

Development capacity planning and helping in release scheduling

Support/Collaborate with team members to implement Agile/Scrum best practices Providing and supporting the implementation of business solutions

Led sessions to aid co-creation of Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, and Team Values & Working Agreements.

Participated in Enterprise Agile Community of Practice where successes and challenges were openly discussed.

Challenges were openly shared creating a learning and collaborative perspective on the 20 different Scrum teams.

Worked with the team to prepare compliance deliverables: Business Workflow and process analysis, user requirement documentation (Use Cases, Features, User Stories)

Helped team to coordinate defect triage and prioritization until it became a standard team common practice

Responsible for three distributed Scrum teams which we transitioned from Waterfall to Scrum

Tracked and communicated team velocity, sprint/release progress, sprint burnt down and other metrics that helped business in release planning. Maximized resource utilization resulting in 40% increase in productivity.

Environment: Jira, Agile Craft, BitBucket, Terraform, Spark, Machine Learning, Hadoop, Octopus, Business Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, Reporting, Java, NodeJs.

Capstone Consulting, Omaha, Nebraska

Scrum Master/Project Manager APRIL 2018 – Sept 2018

Responsibilities:

Mentored and coached four teams new to Agile in Scrum and Lean Best Practices developing firmware for hardware integration and shipping

As Scrum Master, helped team in writing user stories, worked closely with the Product Owners to manage complex backlog of stories, continually kept sufficient set of stories defined and estimated for Sprints, aided Scrum team in determining suitable commitments.

Worked with stakeholders, operations Finance, accounting, Marketing, IT and vendors to understand work and processes -in-place vs. delayed as well as globally distributed teams to meet deliverables.

Developed and presented high-level roadmap and project plan in Steering Meetings using Jira and MS Project.

Responsible for managing onsite/offshore globally-distributed team members and product teams, conducting Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Retrospective and Sprint Reviews sessions and managing functional testing, regression.

Coordinated work with a cross functional team of technical and business owners to deliver world class solutions to business problems.

Proactive identification of problems and opportunities followed by effective communication across an interdisciplinary project team.

Motivated team to ensure best results in the agile development environment, as well as the regression team For efficient and effective testing of products.

Communicated the progress to senior management thru 'Burndown Charts' and mentored team through the project management processes.

Working on the Business problems cited by the Account management team and provide Data backed recommendations/insights.

Responsible for regular analysis and tracking of budget between the multiple development teams’ part of multiple vendors. Monitored and communicated health of the project through metrics.

Initiated and developed Automation framework for Web Applications, coordinated automation testing using Selenium.

Developed processes to streamline testing efforts for the new releases. Promptly communicated the testing status and follow up on issues for customer releases.

Improved the quality of products by better QA practices and adherence to standards. Functional and non-functional testing of web-based applications.

Written the Gherkin format (Given, when, then, and) acceptance criteria for the user stories and have worked on ATDD and TDD frameworks.

Assisted developers with the requirements as needed. Verified that requirements are testable and generated testing objectives. Closely worked with QA on organizing Test Plans and training rollout, preparing Test Cases and UAT scripts, actively participated in testing to ensure successful implementation and project sign-off.

Worked with the offshore team in parallel to ensure timely delivery of the product.

Interacted with Users and Stakeholders to identify business system needs, evaluated solutions for business problems.

Environment: JIRA, Confluence, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Angular.js, JSON, JQuery, PHP, iOS, Android, Coda, GIT, Jasmine.

Swiss Tech India Pvt LTD, Hyderabad, India

Scrum Master/Business Analyst JUL 2012 – Nov 2015

Responsibilities:

Managed multiple projects and responsible for planning the project strategy and work in close coordination of individual PMs of multiple departments.

Managing the Sprint Planning process by assigning specific user stories to Iterations, sizing the Epics and User Stories, determining and reporting the Velocity of the team using Burndown Charts.

Conducting Daily Stand-Up meeting, removing impediments and ensuring that the team is on track for delivering the Sprint commitments and meeting all Acceptance Criteria.

Leading Sprint Retrospective Sessions, documenting Lessons Learned and applying the retrospective knowledge to subsequent sprints with a view to further fine-tune the Sprint planning and execution.

Facilitated a release planning meeting that translates project vision into a very rough plan that has buy-in from entire team; helped product owners in creating a product vision; creating a release roadmap via story mapping/ process mapping.

Facilitated the identification of resource needs to support the project portfolio, and feed into the overall resource planning process (including BSA, PM, Development, QA)

Working within a formal corporate PMO, which provided project governance utilizing standard project management methodologies.

Part of Steering committee to monitor and review the project status and deliverable rollout.

Coordinated as needed with other internal Project Managers and external vendors for the delivery of components.

Worked closely with the Business Users to develop requirements, receive sign-off, communicate with development team and enable communication via regular stakeholder meetings.

Determined release readiness based on release criteria and managed the approval process.

Worked with Business groups, assisting them in transition to a new web-publishing model, processes and use of web content management software.

Weighed business needs against security concerns and articulate security issues to business lines and management.

Performed risk assessments, audits and examinations of existing business unit functions.

Prepared Business Process Models that includes modelling of all activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level. Followed top down, leveled technique for building Business Process Models.

Analysis of business requirements and converted to high-level Use Cases, Activity and Sequence diagrams.

Prepared Requirement tractability matrix to ensure all the requirements, features for the project were gathered and mapped as per the requirement in BRD.

Gathered requirements, organized team meetings requirements from business users and generated business process models, & use-case models, and created the business requirements document (BRD) & functional requirements document (FRD).

Environment: Rally, CSS, HTML, Java script, Angular JS, bootstrap, Typescript, Ajax, Rest web service, SourceTree, Git, Grunt and Npm & Bower.

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