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Bashir Sudi

Bashir Sudi

New Haven,CT

Summary

Experience in software development, Agile/Scrum methodologies, and project management. Oversaw multiple cross-business teams, coordinated planned sessions, tracked progress, and facilitated key agile ceremonies. Possesses excellent communication and organizational skills, crucial for collaborating with product owners, coaching teams on Agile principles, and removing impediments to enhance team efficiency.

Professional dedicated to agile project management with focus on delivering high-quality results. Recognized for fostering collaborative environments and effectively managing team dynamics to meet project goals. Adaptable and reliable, consistently aligning strategies with evolving business needs while leveraging strong organizational and communication skills.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Consultant Admission Advisor

NUR COLLEGE PREP
10.2024 - Current
  • Led the creation of the website and development of marketing materials and strategies to increase visibility and attract applicants.
  • Provided guidance and support to prospective students throughout the admissions process.
  • Reviewed and provided feedback on student applications.

Sr. Agile Scrum Master

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS
10.2019 - 03.2024
  • Scrum of Scrum Master for multiple cross-business FI Crypto teams.
  • Coordinated and ran Quarterly Planning or Big Room Planning sessions in the Transaction Solutions Product Area and Crypto squads. Successfully worked on predictable releases of the Crypto app, delivering value to customers.
  • Managed and collaborated on schedule, scope, risks, issues, dependencies, and release activities.
  • Facilitated daily scrum, product backlog refinement, sprint review, retrospective, and sprint planning.
  • Collaborated with product owner and squad members on product backlog to prioritize, document stories and acceptance criteria. Used Kanban to prepare user stories.
  • Coached Team on Agile Principles in a collaborative, continuous and fun approach.
  • Empowered and supported the team to track and remove impediments, identify, and mitigate risks, prioritize stories and epics, and continually increase efficiency.
  • Agility Health Champion, running Product Area Debriefs and helping facilitate the progress of Organization Growth Items.
  • FI Crypto Teams won Award – Collaboration across Cross-Business Units.
  • Environment: Windows 10, Jira, Jira Align, Zoom, MS Teams, Mural, Confluence

Scrum Master

EXCELLERENT SOLUTIONS
11.2017 - 10.2019
  • Scrum Master for several projects including Corporate Reports, Dashboards, texting platform, and Mobile App.
  • Facilitated daily scrum, product backlog refinement, sprint review, retrospective, and planning.
  • Presented proposed features to be developed for Mobile App to steering committee for approval.
  • Led preparation and conducting of periodic demos of new functionality to stakeholders and CIO.
  • Collaborated with product owner on product backlog to prioritize, document stories and acceptance criteria.
  • Provided defect reports with breakdown of defects by priority and components.
  • Managed updates to Mobile app to provide biometric authentication, dynamic messaging and implementing load balancing.
  • Environment: Jira, Slack, Confluence, Sybase, .NET, Xamarin, C#, Microsoft Azure, Katalon Studio

Software Engineer

INTERSECTIONS, INC
03.2009 - 08.2017
  • Member of pilot Scrum team in 2015 that applied Scrum process to a billing project.
  • Led cross functional team implementing insurance provider changes for Intersections customers.
  • Provided project status updates to the product owner and the client services director.
  • Prepared and executed production release plans and post-release verification.
  • Managed the process that sent 2 million notification emails/letters to customers.
  • Facilitated daily standup meetings, code review sessions.
  • Designed modules for financial applications that handled Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) regulated environment.
  • Led developer for customer enrollment via major mortgage client using Eligibility web service & file transfers.
  • Led a billing remediation project for a major Intersections client.
  • Designed, developed, coordinated release, performed post-production verification of projects.
  • License Renewal project, using Entity Framework, loaded the DB schema and adjusted mappings keys as needed in the IDE then generated context classes.
  • Created SSIS packages for importing, parsing, and validating data in flat files from third parties.
  • Provided main production support/troubleshooting and was SME for a product configuration campaign management application developed in ASP.NET.
  • Reviewed and adjusted deliverables for each sprint.
  • Created and maintained process flow diagrams and other design and development documentation.
  • Maintained and enhanced legacy applications using VB6 and SQL Server.
  • Environment: NT, .NET, MS SQL Server 2014, LINQ, Entity Framework, C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET, Jira, Confluence, MS Project

Agile Project Manager

ALLEGIS GROUP
01.2005 - 09.2008
  • Managed the maintenance and enhancements of an applicant tracking system used by thousands of recruiters.
  • Developed and maintained project plans, priorities, and schedules.
  • Managed issues/risks list and change requests and liaised between developers and project stakeholders.
  • Represented the recruiting services team on the change control board, where dependencies to other projects were identified and managed.
  • Created, managed and executed the implementation plans for deploying to production.
  • Coordinated build schedule with onsite and offshore teams.
  • Created Micro Focus Quick Test Professional (QTP) automated system validation test scripts to validate the application during production release for a Java-based applicant tracking tool.
  • Environment: Windows, UNIX, JBoss Application Server, J2EE, Java Servlets, JavaScript, Oracle 9i, Oracle, TOAD, MS Project

Education

Master of Science MSc. - Systems Engineering

University of Pennsylvania

Skills

  • Problem-solving
  • Attention to detail
  • Team leadership & development
  • Client relationships

Certification

  • CSP-SM - Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Professional Scrum Master
  • CSM - Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master
  • ICP-ACC - ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching
  • PMP - PMI Certified Project Management Professional
  • CC - Competent Communicator Toastmasters International

Timeline

Consultant Admission Advisor

NUR COLLEGE PREP
10.2024 - Current

Sr. Agile Scrum Master

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS
10.2019 - 03.2024

Scrum Master

EXCELLERENT SOLUTIONS
11.2017 - 10.2019

Software Engineer

INTERSECTIONS, INC
03.2009 - 08.2017

Agile Project Manager

ALLEGIS GROUP
01.2005 - 09.2008

Master of Science MSc. - Systems Engineering

University of Pennsylvania

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