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New York, United States

● Managed and facilitated communications on all business requests and issues to ensure client programs were operating with maximum efficiency and profitability. ● Was responsible for creating the Weekly Status dashboard and presenting to senior client leadership (Director and VP level). ● Served as intake point for multiple client issues and prioritized issues working closely with clients and the technology team. ● Coached teams to perfection transitioning from waterfall to Agile. ● Designed and created the Jive site for the Confidential program. ● Developed and continued business relationships with key clients and their stakeholders by addressing new customer requirements and recommending solutions that optimize value for the customer. ● Prepared, maintained and distributed client status reports; both internally and externally. ● Hosted recurrent client status meetings and work sessions as needed for program requirements review; communicated status to the management team. ● Managed the quarterly software cross functional release planning, design, execution strategy and process for multiple releases. Responsible for creating program release timelines including cross functional dependencies and owning key deliverables for each milestone. ● Ensured smooth handover between business and IT during critical phase gates. Done overall scope management, Dev & test planning and execution activities. ● Manage capability & resource assessment and scoping activities for given release. ● Created the release manager playbook to give transparency to all stakeholders.● Worked with the head Internal Audit’s department and Internal Auditors to clarify audit point and scope.● Worked with IT owners of the audit point to ensure the deliverable of the audit was understood and that the solution to close the audit as achievable with available resources in the stated deliverable date.● Utilized MS/OCE Suite of MS/Project, MS/Word, MS/Excel, MS/PowerPoint, MS/Visio, SharePoint.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

● Acted as a Servant Lead, Coached and facilitated all the Scrum ceremonies like Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, Product Backlog Refinement, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective and was involved in every scrum ceremony ● Successfully handled the role of Scrum Master and having expertise in conducting Backlog refinement, ● Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective Meetings using Agile Methodology● Handled issues in production by prioritizing them accordingly with minimal effect on the team’s timeline ● Trained newly formed teams with basics of Agile and helped them with laying foundation in scrum. ● Conducted Iteration Review Meetings along with the Product Owner, SMEs to demonstrate completed components making sure the user story met the Definition of Done (DOD) from Definition of Ready (DOR) ● Interacted on a regular basis with business and development team during the different stages of the project ● Provided guidance to the Agile teams on the Version One tool so it is used to their maximum efficiency ● Managed all aspects of end-to-end release process.● Managed project vision, strategy, prioritization and scope between development teams and business to ensure projects met business goals and objectives. ● Defined project Governance with central PMO and produced weekly global Repo work stream status reports/dashboards by business entities.● Accountable for the Program delivery of individual Compliance and Regulatory focused multiple work streams Delegated Access, Identity Vetting, Risk Trust Matrix, e-Verification.● Devised and implemented the overall program strategy, PMO Metrics and the Program Charter, which resulted in defining the appropriate program management methodology and supporting internal practices.● Evaluated JAD / RAD Business Specification sessions regarding requirements specifications, architectural design, Program Work Plan and other pertinent artifacts needed for the Investment Banking Services program.

Dallas, Texas, United States

● Responsible for defining weekly iterations and coordinating with the delivery team to resolve defects and accept user stories ● Work directly with the delivery team to ensure Product/Programs are on track and address defined scope ● Agile Product Owner role on geographically distributed scrum/kanban delivery teams ● Developed the product roadmap and worked closely with Key stakeholder ● Become the voice of the customers and ensure the necessary product is delivered ● Planning sprint release and making sure team has a crystal-clear understanding of sprint goals ● Working in tandem with Product Owner in finding ways to effectively maintain prioritize the Product backlog and release plan ● Worked with the development team to Automate Trade order processing (both order placement and execution and auto save), Trade Data based on EOD XLS file from brokers into Trade Data Repository ● Actively participate in Product Backlog grooming sessions, retrospectives, defect management and release ● Facilitating daily scrum meetings, enforcing timeboxes and responding to the impediments, tracking baseline, sprint planning and sprint retrospective ● Making sure complacency doesn't set in team, at same time avoiding overcommitting to stakeholders.● Ensuring Product backlog is of manageable size, preparing Product Release Burndown charts ● Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and help eliminate them ● Helping team in self-management by creating artifacts like team task board, sprint Burndown chart, impediments list etc. ● Partner with business stakeholders, technical architecture, and software engineering teams to deliver the highest value features first, and with high quality. ● Prioritize and maintain technical product backlog.

San Antonio, Texas, United States

The objective of the undertaking was to make a vault to flawlessly permit all duty related data (which is the single wellspring of truth) to be incorporated with the downstream result of Assurance. Guaranteeing adjusting great information and shortening terrible information for the end clients to properly utilize the duty related data.● Conducted weekly sprint planning meeting with the developers and quality assurance analysts to review user story, assign story points and assign cards to a respective sprint.● Worked with different business users to develop Vision Document and Business Requirement Specifications and gathered Business and Functional Requirements.● Identified and highlighted risks/issues and identified mitigation plans.● Partnered with PM project team and Stakeholders to successfully complete Business Org Readiness tasks● Authored Data Flow diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams and State Diagram using MS Visio● Managed all the requirements and made requirements available to all team members.● Worked with Product Owner on Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint and Release Burnup/Burndown charts.● Worked with multiple teams and had an opportunity to get the best hands-on tool experience, on both ADO and Jira.● Facilitated meetings to iron out blockers, conducted JAD sessions with the Product owner and other stakeholders on regular basis and helped the team to make better use of these time and estimate more effectively, thus ensuring a healthy sprint progress● Communicate team status/progress via Release/Sprint Burndown charts, Story Acceptance rate and defects and make sure the stakeholders are aware of what is going on.● Worked with different business users to develop Vision Document and Business Requirement Specifications and gathered Business and Functional Requirements.● Identified and highlighted risks/issues and identified mitigation plans.

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