Advisory Cloud eDelivery Services (ACES) - is a suite of services that will be responsible for bundling and compressing of groups of Document files based on the master account and delivering those compressed document file bundles via SFTP to advisors and vendors who are enrolled in the ACES delivery system. There are many types of document Files to be processed including custom month end statements and tax documents.

Responsibilities

• Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes
• Assisted with internal and external communication, improved transparency, and radiated information
• Assisted with prioritization and resolution of software defects
• Built relationship with Product owner and other stake holders to facilitate team's interaction with them
• Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog
• Coached team members on agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology
• Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team
• Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
• Facilitated getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
• Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos
• Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions
• Interfaced with Program Management Office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings
• Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and led by example
• Removed impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment
• Took responsibility of delivery and management of the tasks
• Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management
• Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
• Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery.
• Created JIRA workflow, dashboards for time tracking, velocity chart, burn down chart, sprint health, active sprint status, etc.

The project was to develop a reporting system to generate annual reports and to monitor the customer's aging profile, customer transaction processing. Data is loaded to a central database from existing operational databases. Backend system manages the all the data comes in from the other systems. All the data that comes in needs to be processed and send to DBA and Informatica team to be loaded in the data marts.

Responsibilities:

• Responds to daily questions/issues from the client on CSR/Project requests.
• Gather requirements from the different business groups
• Provide technical solutions and day-to-day oversight of a Mainframe offshore
• development team
• Provide guidance and mentoring in Mainframe development best practices.
• Prepare estimates for design, coding, and testing.
• Perform impact analysis to existing programs.
• Create technical specifications document.
• Create test plan, test case document.
• Modify existing COBOL code and write new programs as needed.
• Perform peer code review.
• Perform unit testing.
• Support integration and user acceptance testing.
• Provide production support for existing and new applications.
• Prepare technical specifications.
• Work with various teams to research and resolve production issues.
• Help developers perform testing and debugging of Mainframe code.
• Assist team with the design and coding of complex programs.
• Resolve issues of moderate to high level of complexity whenever necessary.
• Provide off hours production support as required.
• Analyse the source data upon user requests.
• Create/Update the data dictionaries, test document and run book/operations manual.
• Manage and own all the work assignments to offshore team.
• Share status reports and timesheets on a weekly basis with the project management.
• To be reachable for any offshore / onsite coordination 24x7 as necessary.
• Communicating and mitigating risks in case of any critical issues at offshore.

GMAC Financial Services is a global, diversified financial services company that has operations in auto finance, insurance, real-estate finance and other commercial businesses. As a result, General Motors Acceptance Corporation was formed in 1919 to provide GM dealers with the financing they needed to maintain their vehicle inventories as well as give dealers' retail customers the ability to purchase new vehicles easily and conveniently. Insurance products soon followed. In the fourth quarter of 2006 GMAC Financial Services opened its doors today as independent global financial services. 

Responsibility:

• Creating Technical design.
• Create unit test plan.
• Performing Impact analysis.
• Setting up test environment.
• Performing implementation.
• Provide post implementation production support.
• Performing Coding, Unit Testing.
• Supporting UAT.
• Performing peer review & Documentation.

• Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes
• Assisted with internal and external communication, improved transparency, and radiated information
• Assisted with prioritization and resolution of software defects
• Built relationship with Product owner and other stake holders to facilitate team's interaction with them
• Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog
• Coached team members on agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology
• Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team
• Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
• Facilitated getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
• Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos
• Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions
• Interfaced with Program Management Office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings
• Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and led by example
• Removed impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment
• Took responsibility of delivery and management of the tasks
• Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management
• Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
• Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery.
• Created JIRA workflow, dashboards for time tracking, velocity chart, burn down chart, sprint health, active sprint status, etc.