• Demonstrate strong leadership by guiding a globally diverse team supporting a multi-million-dollar product lifecycle management project.• Lead sprint reviews, planning meetings, and daily scrums with a focus on encouraging full team engagement.• Decrease the average time to deliver new features by leveraging resources to improve capacity for project work.• Partner with product manager, developers, team members, and other scrum masters to help define solutions and drive progress.• Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity by 45% within the 1st year of Agile adoption.

• Coached and guided 2 new Agile teams; removed roadblocks and outside distractions.• Engaged Kanban methodology and facilitated Sprint Ceremonies including Daily Stand-up, Refinement, Sprint Planning, Demos and Retros.• Created and managed release forecast, partnering with Release Management to ensure smooth release cycle as part of full software development life cycle (SDLC).• Developed product backlog with product owners and IT stakeholders to capture product priorities.• Implemented a monthly release schedule that increased the number of work items released by 35%.

• Verified quality of deliverables and conformance to specifications before submitting to clients.• Obtained needed resources by strategically negotiating with stakeholders and outside suppliers.• Built successful project plans covering objectives, resources and staffing to meet schedules.• Pioneered the efforts across handling the entire gamut of functions pertaining to facilitating daily scrum meetings, Backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.• Worked with the Agile Release Train Engineer to drive the definition and refinement of the program and team backlogs, assist with PI planning activities.• Guided and coached both the Scrum Team and the Development team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.

• Documented requirements, business cases, project charters, stakeholder impact assessments, and process documents.• Coordinated meetings, work with sponsors, vendors, project managers and subject matter experts to ensure successful completion of the project.• Prepared thorough and accurate technical and business management reports, effective correspondence, accurate documentation, and easily understandable presentations.• Project coordination & execution role for Plan and Define as part of the System Development process.• Development of business process models, business requirements/user stories (functional and non-functional) and product backlogs

• Conducted detailed transaction analysis on customer’s account on a case-by-case basis to investigate any AML regulations violations and made recommendation as to remediation plan or termination of business relationship where necessary.• Participated in all compliance elements of the AML/ATF program such as assessing and monitoring high risk clients, investigation of Unusual Transactions (UT), processing Suspicious Transaction Reports (STR), conducting Due Diligence reviews etc.• Reviewed alerts from transaction monitoring system and other internal system of the bank to ascertain if they require further investigations or can be closed as false positive.• Prepared and sent Request for Information (RFI) to branches after all alternatives have been taken into consideration.