Scrum Master Project Manager

ANOY ANTONY PMP, PSM-I, SAFe * POPM, ACP-MJCP, CSSGB

www.linkedin.com/in/anoy-antony/ 732-***-**** **********@*****.*** Eatontown, NJ 07724

PROJECT MANAGER/SCRUM MASTER

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

PMP, Scrum, SAFe POPM, Jira and Six Sigma certified Scrum Master /IT/PMO Project Manager with 20+ years of IT experience in Insurance, Banking, Telecom, Airline, and Retail industries, involved in all phases of project life cycle using Waterfall/Agile software development methodologies.

Experience leading agile development team within the SAFe framework Innovative thinker who can quickly assess complex application, development and architectural issues and perform root cause analysis to provide resolution.

Directly manages, coaches, and motivates teams both onsite and virtual. Managed cross-functional teams and projects with multi-million dollars delivering cost effective technical solutions to corporate strategies and goals.

FUNCTIONAL EXPERTISE

Project Management

Agile/Scrum/Kanban

Data Migration

Collaboration

Business Case Development

Process improvements

Reporting

Resource Planning

Scheduling

Leadership

Requirements gathering and Data Analysis

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

MS Project / Workfront/Smartsheet

Oracle

MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint

MS SharePoint

IBM DB2

JIRA / Rally/Confluence

Quality Center

TOAD

IBM Cognos

SQL Server

MS Visio

Business Objects / Hyperion

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS:

Master of Science - Computer Applications, Indira Gandhi National Open University, India - 2003

Post Graduate Diploma - Computer Applications, NICT, India - 1994

Bachelor of Arts - Economics, MG University, India – 1992

PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) – 2020

Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I) - 2020

Certified SAFe 5 Product Owner/Product Manager (SAFe 5 POPM) – 2021

Atlassian Certified in Managing Jira Projects for Cloud (ACP-MJCP) - 2023

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals - 2022

Certified Six Sigma Green Belt (CSSGB) - 2021

IBM Certified Solution Expert - 2010

Microsoft Certified Professional - 2006

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Verizon – Basking Ridge, NJ

Project Manager/Scrum Master February 2021 – Current

•Facilitate daily Scrum of Scrums meeting with teams. Prepare and manage meeting minutes and follow-ups.

•Lead the Scrum team in achieving higher levels of agile maturity

•Facilitate self-organization within the Scrum team and support the team in removing impediments

•Responsible for Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) strategic initiatives, deliveries, and organizational impediments

•Utilizing Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) practices and implementing the software development effort

•Worked on SAFe framework with other scrum teams.

•Lead the organization and acted as a change agent in implementing Lean-Agile techniques, processes, and principles. Helps the other team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate; with the goal of assisting the team meet their Iteration Objectives

•Develop and manage project plans, project schedules and deliverables, team goals and success criteria and tracking multiple and concurrent projects and milestones, integrated with Smartsheet, JIRA, Confluence, Clarity, and SharePoint.

•Interface with business clients to understand business needs and requirements. Gather and analyze these requirements. Verify budget and priority of the project.

•Responsible for the end-to-end project intake, evaluation, and prioritization process.

•Manage Apple Arcade and Google Play pass partner integration and Reconnect 1 to 1 projects.

•Track the impact of the projects across Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Security, Data Governance, Data Architecture, AI Center and Legal teams and which ones we have the capacity to support and those that we don’t.

•Responsible to establish tracking tools and databases for requests and a process to ensure the project is evaluated by across Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Security, Data Governance, Data Architecture, AI Center and Legal teams across the organization.

•Work with the cross-functional teams to create an automated prioritization process.

•Coordinate internal cross-functional resources and vendors for the execution of project activities and deliverables.

•Track and oversee project change, dependency, and risk management activities.

•Create a centralized database of all projects with relevant Project Management information.

•Report project progress on a regular basis to ensure the project’s overall direction and integrity.

•Work with finance to track the budget performance of the projects across the organization.

•Regularly meet with different business unit front door organizations to ensure proper communications and prioritization.

•Identify obstacles and roadblocks and proactively develop approaches to overcome them.

JetBlue – New York, NY Airlines

Project Manager/Scrum Master June 2019 – March 2020

•Led 2 teams' transition from waterfall to Agile development in 2 months, meeting 100% SLA.

•Managed multiple Projects that are using standard Waterfall and Agile project management methodologies and governance model, phase gates, change request and issue escalation.

•Successfully coordinated updates to stakeholders, metrics, and materials needed to support deliverables and developed new processes and organization effective routines.

•Lead the organization and acted as a change agent for implementing Lean-Agile techniques, processes, and principles. Helps the other team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate; with the goal of assisting the team meet their Iteration Objectives

•Lead the Scrum team in achieving higher levels of agile maturity

•Facilitate self-organization within the Scrum team and support the team in removing impediments

•Responsible for Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) strategic initiatives, deliveries, and organizational impediments.

•Utilizing Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) practices and implementing the software development effort.

•Worked on SAFe framework with other scrum teams.

•Coordinated with business stakeholders, documenting requirements, gathering input and feedback.

•Developed and managed project plans, project schedules and deliverables, team goals and success criteria and tracking multiple and concurrent projects and milestones, integrated with MS project and JIRA.

•Identify business and functional requirements by working with application end-users, and lead the collection, analysis, documentation, and coordination of those requirements.

•Work with the vendor in implementing TIBCO Spotfire Data Visualization and Analytics Software.

•Collaborated with other Project Managers, Product Owners, peer technical managers, architects, and other technical leads to deliver enterprise grade reports.

•Manage the end-to-end migration of on-prem DB to Microsoft Azure cloud DB, Data Center migration and implementation of TIBCO Spotfire Data Visualization and Analytics Software.

•Manage risks, issues and dependencies and escalation when necessary.

•Identification of the data migration impact on the current application.

•Driving integration and collaboration across functional teams. Collaborate with other Project Managers for the datacenter migration.

•Weekly & monthly activity summaries provided to Senior Leadership, Business and PMO.

•Identified and Managed project team resources, goal setting and providing performance feedback.

•Facilitated daily stand-up meetings and scrum activities. Prepared and managed meeting minutes and follow-ups.

•Create and maintain all documents that support the PMO Methodology and recommend for improving the current processes.

Cigna - Philadelphia, PA Healthcare/Insurance

Project Manager/Scrum Master - Consultant May 2017 – June 2019

•Managed software development from requirements through implementation. Extensively used Cigna's Project Life Cycle processes.

•Managed and successfully converted 600+ STD/LTD/Disability/PTR reports to a new tool to save licensing cost and to consolidate reports wherever possible to save development time and maintenance.

•Managed the data migration for different databases/data sources and validated the application behavior.

•Work with the ETL team in the source data analysis, design, and creation of data mappings for extraction of bulk data from heterogeneous sources.

•Engaged with external vendor for the implementation of the new tool.

•Developed and organized work breakdown structures, project schedules and task management system in an agile fashion that is easily understood for the team and the project stakeholders.

•Drive change management and assess impacts to scope, schedule, and budget.

•Reduced manual efforts and time in the conversion process by 80% and enforced Kanban usage, cutting cycle time by 25%.

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

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

•Shortened delivery time and reduced project risk by modifying delivery methodology, including development of templates and training materials.

•Create and maintain tool sets used by the PMO. Meet with Portfolio managers/stakeholders and review data and work with senior management to agree on yearly timelines.

Citi Group N.A. - Warren, NJ Banking/Financial Services

Project Manager/Sr. Technical Lead - Consultant Sept 2014 – May 2017

•Collaborated with business owners/stakeholders to understand business needs, project specifications, business case development, and data sources. Translates business needs into clearly defined and documented detailed, high-quality requirements, functional designs, and system supplemental specifications for new applications or analyze change requests/enhancements in existing applications.

•Collaborated with business partners and IT leaders to establish project roadmaps, project prioritizations and scopes, and delivery dates. Worked with project teams to clarify scope, deliverables, timelines, milestones, and release dates.

•Facilitated daily stand-up meetings and scrum activities. Prepared and managed meeting minutes and follow-ups.

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

•Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on a daily basis.

•Improved product delivery by developing SDLC based best practices and knowledge management initiatives.

•Developed MS Project plans, MS Excel based reporting and analysis tools and repeatable processes to support current and future outsourcing initiatives.

Prudential - Roseland, NJ Insurance

Sr. Architect / Modeler - Consultant Nov 2013 – July 2014

•Developed a practical roadmap for an enterprise-wide BI reporting and analytics platform.

•Provide senior technical leadership to BI/Middleware incidents, driving technical teams and incident management bridges to resolve client incidents.

•Responsible for managing Functional, Integration, Performance and User acceptance testing. Involved in Quality assurance phase planning, coordination, and implementation of QA strategy for overall project.

JP Morgan Chase - New York, NY Banking/Financial Services

Sr. Business Analyst - Consultant Feb 2013 – June 2013

•Conducted stakeholder Joint Application Design (JAD) interviews and facilitated meetings with project teams.

•Translated business user concepts and ideas into comprehensive business requirements and design documents.

•Created Business Requirement document (BRD) and Functional Requirement document and maintaining the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) related document.

•Developed test scripts and validated the reports as a part of User Acceptance testing. Planned, facilitated, and reported on quality assurance testing efforts.

Prudential - Newark, NJ Financial Services

Sr. Architect - Consultant Jan 2012 – Dec 2012

•Gathered and analyzed business requirements from users and business community and designed Functional Requirement Specifications for report development.

•Be a solutions provider for the client with respect to providing data, and suggestions to improve business processes and decision making.

•Work closely with the Data engineering team to make sure data structures and process in place for development.

•Guide and coach developers, share best practices, perform code reviews.

LFUSA - New York, NY

Sr. Business Analyst - Consultant Jan 2011 – Dec 2011

•Designed Functional Requirement Specifications for report development, modified relationships between different database tables and built models using Framework Manager.

•Developed/maintained project level documentation and communicated plans, status and issues to senior leadership.

•Develop business plans, determine Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and coordinate the measurement result.

•Evaluate risks related to requirements implementation, testing processes, project communications and training.

Deutsche Bank - New York, NY

Business Analyst/Specialist - Consultant Sept 2008 – Dec 2008

•Involved in identifying functional and Non-Functional requirements and create the Functional System Design document (FSD). Also Involved in functional testing of the application.

•Performed business process analysis of current business processes and provided recommendations for improvement.

AT&T - Middletown, NJ

Business Analyst - Consultant April 2006 – July 2008

•Involved in stakeholder requirements into different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams.

•Identified and reconciled errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements.

•Development of functional specifications and functional testing.

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