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Chicago, Il, Us

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Responsibilities as a Product Owner:• Worked with business, IT and enterprise stakeholders to create product road map which fulfilled customer needs and aligned with company’s vision.• Made data driven decisions to prioritize features to achieve the highest business value• Created a set of KPIs to measure performance and usage of platform, to effective compare performance in terms of meeting strategic and operational goals• Ensured that product backlog is prioritized on continues basis, ensuring backlog clearly articulated all aspects of user requirements and well-defined acceptance criteria.• Defined a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) which delivers maximum business valueResponsibilities as a Sr. Scrum Master:• Expert in organizing and facilitating all Scrum ceremonies, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and daily standup. • Played key role in resolving business and team conflicts, creating a safe environment for team members so that they can enjoy working and express their views without any fear.• Increased productively of teams by removing impediments • Coached the team to adopt a continuous delivery mindset• Developed, tracked, and communicated metrics and reports (e.g. Iteration Burn Down, Team Velocity, and Release Defect Trend) to measure and improve team effectiveness and maintain transparency.• Praised by management and clients for strong interpersonal communication, positive attitude and Coaching T-shaped skill development• Good technical understanding of modern software delivery, cloud platforms Amazon Web Services (AWS) & Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Micro-Services, CI/CD and TDD• Ensured deliverables were meeting requirements, on-time, in an incremental fashion with quality that meets customer expectations • Ensured that team is focused by shielding team from outside distractions and interferences

Responsibilities as a Product Owner:• Collaborated with the Business, IT, PMO and other stakeholders to create a product roadmap which aligns with company vision.• Leverage data, customer insights and analytics to drive decisions in support of the product roadmap• Groom the product backlog to ensure stories are prioritized, sized appropriately and have enough definition for accurate estimation• Prioritize and assess impact of all work items, such as new features, defects, etc. providing decision to create, fix or defer features at project and program level.• Verified functionality to accept or decline output of development to ensure functionality met acceptance criteria.• Translated functional and nonfunctional requirements into epics and user stories.• Led full product life cycle from conception to launch through iterative and incremental product releases. • Prioritize all stories to ensure work being done is of maximum business value that align with product strategy• Collaborated with the development teams to define, design and accept features, ensuring each iteration delivers expected resultsResponsibilities as a Scrum Master / Technical Project Manager:• Effectively facilitated all Scrum ceremonies, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and daily standup. • Instrumental in creating a collaborative environment that cultivates Innovation and is customer focused• Ensure expectations and priorities are clearly defined by proactively engaging all stakeholders• Deliver product demonstrations to clients on bi-weekly basis to gather feedback and ensuring product is meeting client’s expectations • Proactively distributed project information, status, and feedback to all stakeholders• Organized hackathon events in partnership with clients to create a better product and understand each other’s challenges• Expert in collaborating in distributed project team.

• Lead Agile ceremonies with distributed development teams• Coach teams to transition from waterfall methodologies to Scrum, with strict adherence to agile principles and Scrum practices• Communicated goals for each sprint to all stakeholders ahead of time• Ensured user stories are granular enough for a sprint.• Enabled continuous innovation via hackathon events within company• Defined and managed release plans articulating when features will be released• Challenged the “way things have always been done”, enjoyed challenging myself every day to find new ways to improve product and experience for clients.

Master Of Computer Applications - Mca, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcom, Business/Commerce, General