BRAJESH SHARMA

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Professional Summary:

•Over 15+ years of progressive IT experience in the Project Management, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Technical Delivery Lead, Business Analytics, Development and Testing

•Expertize in System Modernization, Server & Database Migration/ Decommission, Production Support, Business Continuity Plan (BCP) & Disaster Recovery (DR) exercise

•Handled successful implementation of enterprise wide complex IT projects within given time and budget constraints, and according to specifications

•Experience in product backlog grooming and creation of EPIC/ User Stories and in Agile Ceremonies Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Review, Retrospectives and Tracking Team Velocity

•Played a crucial role in System Study, Requirement Analysis, Facilitating JAD sessions, Solution Architecting, Costing & Estimation, Proposal Scoping and Client Presentation

•Able to effectively converse, relate and liaise with multifunctional teams, including business owners, stakeholders, managers, architects, developers and testers at all levels

•Extensive experience in Creation of Work and Process Flow Diagrams, Project Governance, creating change request (CR), Change Control Board (CCB) / Change Advisory Board (CAB), PMBOK Standards, Score Card & Status Report

•As a SME worked on Analysis, Design, Build, Testing and Enhancement of the Business Applications in Legacy Systems/ Mainframes Modernization, Teradata, Cloud & Hadoop/Big Data using Agile, DevOps and Waterfall methodologies

•Familiar with data architecture including data ingestion pipeline design, Hadoop information architecture, data modeling and data mining and advanced data processing. Experience optimizing ETL workflows.

•Excellent knowledge of Banking Domain & Fraud Prevention (Fraud Analytics) Applications Architecture, Reconciliation, Credit Cards, Claims, Anti Money Laundering (AML), Global Wealth and Investment Management (GWIM), Insurance & Mortgage Domains, SOX Compliance & Regulations, Risk Identification and Mitigation, Quality Assurance Procedures and Mobile & Digital Technologies

•Managed collocated as well as geographically dispersed virtual team in onshore, offshore & nearshore model

•Expertise in working with multiple internal impacted applications & vendor relationships teams to make sure all stakeholders are engaged in various stages of projects

•Experience in resources onboarding, mentoring them, work allocation, monitoring the progress of project and monitoring Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

•Excellent leadership and communication skills and capability of handling multiple projects simultaneously and ensuring continuous improvement

•Strong analytical and organizational skills & ability to handle multiple priorities

•Expertise in applications onboarding after merger and acquisition

•Currently associated as a Sr. Project Manager/ Scrum Master with Xome (Nationstar Mortgage) and collaborating with multiple teams, which are involved in Workday Integrations of all applications for better effectiveness and automate the flow which is adaptable to new changes and cost effective.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS:

Master of Technology (M. Tech) with specialization in Industrial Maintenance from Elite Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi, New Delhi, India, Year 2005

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certified

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification

Safe POPM Certification Training

IBM-DB2 Certified

Multiple Certifications in Banking Domain

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Big Data Ecosystems: Hadoop, MapReduce, HDFS, Scala, Spark API, HBase, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Cassandra, Kafka

Management Tools: Confluence, Microsoft SharePoint, Jira, Rally, RTC, HP Quality Center/ALM, Discovery, BMC Remedy, Service Now, Peregrine, Microsoft Office Products, Fieldglass, Clarity, Planview, OPPM

Methodologies: Agile (Scrum, Kanban & SAFe), Waterfall, DevOps, BDD, TDD

Operating Systems: IBM Mainframe, Windows

Languages: Python, R, Java, COBOL, JCL, MQ

Special Software: AWS, HUE, RStudio, Endevor, Changeman, FILAID, Easytrieve, CA7, TSO/ISPF, Rumba, NDM, Expediter, Eclipse, Recon Plus for Windows (RPW), Genesys (Workspace Desktop Edition)

Database / File System: NoSQL, MS-SQL, SQL Server, IMS DB, VSAM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TATA Consultancy Services Duration: Jun 2005 – Present

Title: Sr. Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master Duration: Feb 2019 - Present

Client: Nationstar Mortgage (Mr. Cooper & Xome), Dallas

Responsibilities

•Coordinating with all cross application teams to onboard new call center (IVR) system

•Assist QA environment team for quality and availability of QA test environment for each product.

•Facilitates scrum ceremonies i.e. daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, and retrospective meetings.

•Provides detailed metrics and dashboard covering tasks, assigned resources, and story points, including burndown charts.

•Provide Workday support to the Finance and Accounting departments by developing business solutions, analyzing requirements, developing and maintaining reporting needs and managing system enhancements.

•Work directly with key business, IT stakeholders and vendors to confirm requirements, consider design alternatives, facilitate discussions, remove impediments and ultimately drive requirements sign-off

•Conducts reviews of business units organizational structures, workflow designs, processes, and systems and making recommendations as to how to improve efficiencies and effectiveness, as well as, expand functionality and usage of Workday.

•Work with Business, Product Owner and ERP Functional Specialists in obtaining an understanding of the data request, mapping of data to fields in Workday, use of the data for reporting in Workday

•Work with the Enterprise Architecture specialist to define the best possible design to make the Workday platform and ERP echo system work to support future business growth.

•Contribute to the customers’ experience with Workday’s integration products, tools, and services in a way that results in high customer satisfaction

•Provide technical trouble-shooting and problem-solving expertise and solutions for Workday. Replicate issues; submit cases to Workday and follow-up.

•Coordinate assigned deliverable schedules to ensure client’s timelines are met. Provide guidance to clients or service partners on integration strategies.

•Lead the team which Design, Build, Test, and Deploy Integration solutions for Workday Customers

•Helped clients resolve integration issues requiring in depth expertise in the Workday solution

•Coordinate Securing Workday data integration with the appropriate security role and data landing area

•Manage teams of Integration Consultants on multiple projects simultaneously and mentor/coach the teams on Integration best practices

Environment: Workday, Mulesoft, Big Data (Hadoop Eco System), R, Avaya, Genesys (Workspace Desktop Edition), Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps (VSTS), Ruby, IntelliJ, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint

Title: Sr. Technical Project Manager/ Scrum Master Duration: Aug 2018 – Jan 2019

Client: Citi Bank, Dallas

Responsibilities

•Working as Project Manager/ Scrum Master and assisting applications which are associated with Platform Management

•Tracking of project status, generated project metrics and project report and follow up with various team to make sure all artifacts are available

•Manage iteration planning collaboratively, working with the Business Lead or Business Application Owner to build and maintain a prioritized product backlog

•Acts as liaison between project team and all infrastructure resources (architects, designers, developers, etc.)

•Bring together Asset and Business Application Owner(s) from the multiple assets to understand their prioritized product backlog

•Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release process and by finding the right personnel to solve the problem

•Ensures that all environments (design, development, test and production) are in place and operational when required by the team

•Assisted with internal and external communication, improved transparency, and radiated information

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

•Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog

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

•Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization

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

•Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery

•Work with the all impacted applications management to make sure all stakeholders are involved as per requirements to ensure the quality of the deliverables made

Environment: Agile Methodology, JIRA, RTC, Planview, Collaborate, Confluence, Big Data (Hadoop Eco System), Python, PCF & AWS Cloud, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint

Title: Technical Project Manager/ Scrum Master Duration: Jun 2017 – Aug 2018

Client: Nationwide Insurance, Iowa

Responsibilities

•Manage all applications under scope of System Optimization

•Bring together Asset and Business Application Owner(s) from the multiple assets to understand their prioritized product backlog

•Responsible for the overall successful implementation of IT projects initiated within IT service areas, and/or business solution areas (BSA), within given time and budget constraints, and according to other specifications

•Acts as liaison between project team and all infrastructure resources (architects, designers, developers, etc.)

•Ensures that all environments (design, development, test and production) are in place and operational when required by the team

•Use Clarity to Tracks and reports project status on a regular basis, and Tracks expenditures and manages the project budget

•Interacted with the customers and various stakeholders to gather user requirements and their expectations from the new system and present the business solution

•Provide the Estimation for new proposal, project planning, scheduling, creating the Change Order (CO) and contract management

•Continuously monitors team throughput and/or velocity to achieve iteration goals and commitments

•Resource profiles, interviews for new resources, manage the learning needs for the team, documentation and management of the share point for the team, weekly status reports and team’s performance evaluations

•Coordinate the work allocation. Monitor the progress, track issue and risk.

•Manage iteration planning collaboratively, working with the Business Lead or Business Application Owner to build and maintain a prioritized product backlog

•Work with the vendor (CEDI) and the other impacted applications management to make sure all stakeholders are involved as per requirements Ensure the quality of the deliverables made

•Perform all project management related quality activities, creating change (CR) request and getting sign-off from key stakeholders

•Participated in Agile Ceremonies Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Review (Show & Tell), Retro & 3 Amigos

•Continuously improves iteration management capabilities by identifying best practices, adopting consistent, standard work and coaching/pairing across teams

Environment: Big Data (Hadoop Eco System), Mainframe, Agile Methodology, Rally, JIRA, RTC, RRC, Clarity, Sharepoint, Java, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Powerpoint

Title: Technical Project Manager/ Lead Solution Architect Duration: Jun 2008 – May 2017 Client: Bank of America, Dallas

Responsibilities

•Analyzing system requirements, documenting the scope of the work

•Manage the applications under Day 1 Fraud Prevention (Fraud Analytics) & DTCC Re-Engineering

•Interacted with the customers and various stakeholders to gather user requirements and their expectations from the system and present the business solution

•Perform impact analysis on the present system and design the flow

•Provide the Estimation for new proposal, project planning, scheduling and creating the Change Order (CO)

•Use IPMS for all project management related activities

•Tracking of project status, generated project metrics and project reported using IRIS to reduce defect and increase productivity

•Coordinate the work allocation. Monitor the progress, track issue and risk.

•Perform all project management related quality activities, creating change (CR) request and getting sign-off from key stakeholders

•Coordinate the communication between the clients & team members for both process & technical work and make sure SLAs are met

•Manage the learning needs for the team, resource profiles, interviews for new resource, documentation and management of the share point for the team, weekly status reports and team’s performance evaluations, contract management

•Conduct test and demos and inspect to certify product readiness for quality gates.

•Work with the vendors (EWS/ Visa/ Credit reporting agency i.e. Experian etc.) and the other impacted applications for the data mapping to make sure integrity of data

Environment: Big Data (Hadoop Eco System), Spark API, Python, Data Visualization (R), NoSQL, Cassandra, SQL Server, Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, DB2, TSO/ISPF, QWS3270, Quality Center/ALM, Rally, Jira, File-Aid, NDM, Expediter, Changeman, SharePoint, Clarity, Microsoft Office Products

Title: Technical Analyst Duration: Oct 2005 – May 2008

Client: JP Morgan & Chase, India

Responsibilities

•Analyze the Design, Architecture Documents, IT Plan, and developed Software

•Interacted with the customers and internal stakeholders to gather user requirements and their expectations from the system

•Use clarity to provide the Estimation for new proposal. Coordinate the work allocation and progress

•Use IPMS for all project management related quality activities (IQA, EQA, FI & Causal Analysis)

•Coordinate the communication between the clients & team members for both process & technical work.

•Manage the learning needs for the team, resource profiles, interviews for new resource, documentation and management of the share point for the team, weekly status reports and team’s performance evaluations (half yearly basis), contract management, new project/Initiatives proposals.

•Collect various metrics on process and product quality and update the same in IRIS

•Ensure the quality of the deliverables made using IQMS

•System study and created Proof of Concept (POC) of the end to end migration process of mainframe to Teradata for the client.

•Design testing approaches by preparing Test Plans

•Testing of the migration in new Teradata environment

•Logging defects in Defect Management Tool

•Conduct Quality reviews of Test plans by using TCA

•Participation in Component Integration & System Integration testing

•Participated in Server/Database Migration/Decommission

•Performed Disaster Recovery Testing

Environment: IBM Rational ClearQuest, Rational ClearCase, Quality Center, Visual Studio, MS Share Point Services, SQL Server, TSO/ISPF, QWS3270, Quality Center/ALM, File-Aid, NDM, Expediter, Changeman, Sharepoint, Microsoft Office Products

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