Sound 20 plus years of IT Industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill set.
Executed software projects for Travel and Transport (Delta Airlines), Telecom (AT&T), Manufacturing (Navistar), Petroleum & Chemicals (Shell India), Sales & Distribution industries (Lawson).
Extensive experience in organizing and facilitating all aspects of Scrum framework including Release planning, Backlog grooming, Sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, Sprint reviews, retrospectives, Bug Triage, Sprint demos, Demos to external stakeholders and all other Scrum-related meetings.
Extensive experience with Industry solutioning, analysis, design, development of software applications. Having solid Java Full Stack Development experience in Frontend, Backend, Server side and API development.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to communicate effectively with management, delivery team, and customer.
Committed to building and leading internal teams to drive project productivity and success.
Proficiently organize and facilitate all aspects of Scrum framework including Release planning, Backlog grooming, Sprint planning, Daily stand-up meetings, Sprint reviews, Retrospectives, Bug Triage, Sprint demos, Demos to external stakeholders, Innovation and Planning and all other Scrum-related meetings
Collaborate closely with Business owners and Release Train Engineers on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing
Convert Epics and Features into sizable User Stories and create backlog for upcoming Iterations
Remove team impediments daily to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables by having an understanding the control and release processes
Track and manage product backlog, burn up/down metrics, velocity, and task breakdown
Evaluate project constraints to find alternatives, alleviate risks, and perform process re-engineering if required
Proficient in coaching and influencing teams at all levels to drive increased agility and velocity, people friendly & approachable with strong interpersonal, communication skills, also skilled in leading & motivating team members
Expertly promote continuous improvement and help teams increase productivity and foster innovation
Continuously researches emerging technologies and proposes changes to the existing architecture.
Team Lead/Technical Analyst
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
02.2005 - 01.2019
Adopted and served multiple roles in this tenure
As a Team lead, responsible for team coordination, mentoring, production support and delivery of change requests
Worked as a Business analyst/Onsite coordinator, responsible for translating end user requirements to technical specifications, assign the tickets to offshore team and track the status on a day-to-day basis
As a Developer, responsible for development, peer code review, test case review
As a Support Analyst, analyzing new Incident record created in Maximo tool, determine its severity and impact, Analysis of issues and determine errors, interfacing with client to communicate analysis, impact, and resolution time
Planning, Defect fixing, tracking and implementation of defect fixes, Root Cause Analysis for reoccurring issues and documenting the same.