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• Lead the implementation and management of a large-scale DevSecOps project for the Department of Veterans Affairs.• Oversee the strategic direction, execution, and delivery of secure, automated software development and deployment processes.• Manage a cross-functional team of engineers, developers, and security experts to ensure alignment with the client’s objectives.• Drive continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, ensuring rapid, secure, and reliable software releases.• Collaborate closely with client stakeholders to ensure project goals align with the broader mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs.• Facilitate risk management, resource allocation, and performance monitoring for project success.• Provide leadership in adopting and implementing DevSecOps best practices across the portfolio.• Responsible for securing VA approval on staffing and resource allocation, ensuring efficient contract performance.

• Managed a portfolio of seven complex DevSecOps projects, ensuring alignment with the Department of Veterans Affairs’ mission and objectives.• Lead project teams in the design, development, and implementation of secure software development and operational processes.• Oversaw the integration of DevSecOps practices across multiple projects, ensuring seamless collaboration between development, security, and operations teams.• Ensured timely delivery of project milestones and adherence to budget and resource constraints.• Developed and maintained strong relationships with client stakeholders to ensure alignment with business needs and objectives.• Coordinated risk management, resource allocation, and performance tracking across all projects in the portfolio.• Facilitated continuous improvement of processes to enhance security, efficiency, and automation across the project lifecycle.• Provided strategic direction and leadership to ensure that all seven projects contribute to the successful realization of the VA’s goals.

United States

Worked as a Business Systems/ Sr. Functional Analyst & ScrumMaster for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Job responsibilities included:• Enabler for the DevOps transformation on VA projects.• Analyze requirements for Mobile Application Program Support (MAPS). • Translate requirements into Epics and their corresponding user stories.• Manage various Sprint ceremonies (Product backlog grooming, Sprint backlog grooming, Sprint review and Sprint Retrospectives.• Proactively monitoring and removing project impediments. • Create Sprint Schedules.• Formulate Program Dashboards.• Imbibe and propagate Agile methodology of software development.• Conduct demos for Business Owners for requirement sign off.• Part of the end-to-end process initiating from requirements gathering thru product go-live.• Liaison with various stakeholders in order to ensure closure and finalization of project deliverables.

Gurgaon, India

Product owner for design teams that use agile methodology for implementing new features/customizations in Ericsson Wallet Platform. Responsibilities:• Product owner for new requirements/customizations to core product.• Requirement gathering from internal client (Strategic Product Manager).• Change request process owner, entrusted with keeping up the SLA’s set for managing and closing multiple change requests.• Break down of requirements into BUCs and user stories using Mingle.• Lead and organized demos with SPM and Solution Architects to validate features being developed vis-à-vis requirements.• Reviewed and finalized customer product documentations (feature descriptions & user manuals).• Proponent of agile methodologies and managing the tasks with regards to it.

Gurgaon, India

Handled seven Mobile Financial Service implementations for different Telecom operators having presence in LATAM & Africa regions. Responsibilities include:• Gathered business requirements by conducting detailed discussions in kick off workshops with business users, stake holders, product managers and Subject Matter Experts (SME’s).• Prepared business requirement document and traceability matrix to manage, analyze, and convert business requirements into functional specifications.• Developed use cases from requirements and created sequence diagrams to illustrate and finalize requirements. • Designed process flow diagrams along with USSD and web page mock ups using Microsoft Visio and Microsoft office tools. • Managed schedules and collaborated with different teams working on the project.• Communicated and interacted on a regular basis with project manager and development team during different stages of the project.• Worked with development team comprising of 12 team members offsite to get product developed as per client’s requirement. • Gave training to various teams of client in order to make them aware of complete functionality of the product being delivered. This also involved training a sizable team from their call center which was trained to handle queries related to mobile financial services.• Resolution of bugs found onsite during UAT along with their re-testing and final acceptance by client.• Working offsite on an ongoing basis with client product team to keep updating product with new services basis functionality needs of the local market.• Currently involved in account management activities and coordination between client and development teams for running the system successfully along with managing delivery of new CRs.

Gurgaon, India

The consulting role involved being a part of complete product life cycle for Control Office Automation tool developed for Indian Railways. Second project invloved implementation of a change management project at the Largest telecom operator of India. Management team which was institutionalizing a seamless migration of various manual processes of the client to an electronic platform. Responsibilities included:• Gathered business requirements from all business users, stake holders, and product managers to understand the current system.• Performed in depth gap analysis with different business groups on order to ensure system requirements were covered and initiatives met.• Assisted in modeling and documenting end user’s AS-IS workflow and TO-BE business processes.• Assisted in preparing business requirement document and traceability matrix to manage, analyze, and convert business requirements into functional specifications.• Performed initial testing of COA. • Gave training to controllers at all locations so as to familiarize them with the automation tool.• Implemented COA tool at all locations mentioned above.• Regularly participated in meetings for formalizing change management process and its implementation.• Created campaigns to familiarize staff with all changes that were to happen in a phased manner.• Analyzed trends of uptake of new processes introduced and included strategy changes to fast track adoption of changes being introduced.

Navi Mumbai, India

Development of a mobile based application in all the below mentioned projects involved me in the business development team. Responsibilities included • Capturing business requirements, • Mapping the requirements to standard product, • Preparing documents related to the product, • Conducting business acceptance tests,• Account management activities including conducting UAT and getting UAT signoff thereafter.Project 1: Telco Wallet,Client: Motorola IncProject 2: Payment Wallet; Client: MasterCard IncProject 3: Payment Wallet Client: SMCC, JapanProject 4: M-Banking Wallet, Client: HSBC, Mumbai Project 5: Ticketing Wallet, Client: MTNL, Mumbai