• Facilitating Scrum Ceremonies of daily stand up, sprint planning, retrospective, sprint review and backlog review. Facilitate Product Owner to create Product Backlog and prioritize stories.
• Assist team members to resolve impediments and protect them from outside distractions there by maintaining focus on Sprint goal.
• Coach team members about importance of following Agile Practices and frame works and also train new team members on ways to implement and follow Scrum framework to achieve better performance.
• Conducted workshops for Business teams to understand creating Agile Stories from BRD's.
• Create burn down charts with the efforts updated by team members. Also come up with correct Sprint velocity to estimate work for upcoming sprints in sprint planning meeting.
• Developed the roadmap for the team to evolve toward predictive velocities
• Ensure that the team is able to complete the estimated work with sustainable pace in each sprint without getting over loaded. If the team is over or under utilized, velocity is adjusted to ensure that team is appropriately utilized.
• Managed dependencies between other scrum teams, third parties and also the other non-agile waterfall teams.
• Working on various project management activities like creating project plan, generating monthly milestone reports and quarterly metric reports, invoicing and several resource management tasks.
• Creating resource procurement as well as training plan to carry out the development activities.
• Tracking progress on various project phases as per the plan and incorporating any learning as the project progresses.
• Setting goals for the resources and conducting regular feedback sessions to track their performance.
• Understanding business processes / requirements and translating them into technical requirements, Implementing TDD by creating test plans to procure as well loading data after doing data validation steps.
• Creating automation scripts to implement Continuous Integration in order to catch the defects early.

• As an offshore Scrum Master educated offshore team about Scrum frame work and importance of executing the project using Agile Principles.
• As the team was new to using Agile at offshore, started practicing Scrum Ceremonies of Daily stand up, sprint planning and spring retrospective at offshore.
• Co-ordinate with onshore Scrum Master about offshore work status so that entire offshore team don't have to stay back to dial in the onshore stand up.
• Co-ordinate with onshore PO to understand doubts related to user stories raised by offshore team. Also facilitated PO to update the product backlog with any technical debts identified by offshore team.
• Working on various project management activities like creating SOW, project plan, generating monthly milestone reports and quarterly metric reports, invoicing and several resource management tasks.
• Created resource procurement as well as training plan to carry out the development activities.
• Worked on the space and hardware allocation as well onboarding for the resources.
• Since this is a new project starting from scratch, worked on getting various processes and documents created to meet CMMI standards.
• Tracked progress on various project phases as per the plan and incorporating any learning as the project progresses.
• Set goals for the resources and conducting regular feedback sessions to track their performance.
• Track all the activities till project closure

Project is about migrating the referral reporting database from SQL server to Oracle platform. The project will require migrating existing stored procedures and script to execute on oracle database. The project will also have Datastage as an ETL tool and Cognos as reporting engine.

• With guidance from Scrum Master, initially participated in Sprint Reviews and later on took the ownership to conduct Sprint Review with client stake holders without the presence of Scrum Master.
• Learned to create Burn down charts and calculate Sprint Velocity with Scrum Master.
• Participated in monthly client planning sessions at onsite and provided status updates and forecast resource requirements. Also work on the monthly billing details based on the actual consumption.
• Worked on RFP and bidding for the project.
• Co-ordinate with offshore team, manage work allocation and track the delivery timelines
• Track monthly production support incidents and work on the incident prevention strategies to reduce the incidents.
• Have done performance appraisals for the resources.
• Manage network connectivity issues for offshore development centers and work with client network team to minimize offshore development impact due to connectivity issues.
• Conducted regular meetings with clients to receive feedback and to provide solutions to reduce development cost and improve bandwidth utilization.
• Worked on various transition activities and tracked the transition to new vendor.
• The Project used agile methodology for all the life cycle stages and used mpp and excel to track various milestones.

• As a Technical Lead analyzed the impacts for upgrading the version of Unica campaign tool from 7.2 to 8.1. As a manager prepared the list of all the tasks involved in upgrade and worked closely with onsite and offshore resources as well as Unica consultants to track the closure of each task.
• Came up with the effort as well as resource estimation details based on the requirements. Also worked on the cost estimate for procuring new hardware and software licenses.
• Worked closely with the clients to conduct UAT for the new environment to confirm that no data or functionality is lost due to upgrade.
• Managed the setup of automated campaign scheduling using control-m tool
• Worked closely with disaster recovery team to set up disaster recovery for the new environment.
• Created process to provide technical resolutions for campaign failures and co-ordinate with business customers to ensure timely campaign execution as a production support lead.
• Responsible for co-ordination with offshore management to get status on the offshore development activities and take bottom line for tracking production rollouts.
• Have done performance appraisals for the resources.
• Manage resource forecast and allocation, Project Billing, track project status and deliveries and work on RFP for new bidding.
• Collect and create account level metrics report used by Infosys and Client engagement mangers. Report provides account level details for effort utilization, billing details and resource head counts.
• Used Microsoft excel to track various project management tasks.