Summary

Senior Business Analyst / Scrum Master / Project Manager with 6+ years of experience across diverse industries such as Finance & Banking, Railways, Ad-Tech with an impressive record of managing 3 Scrum teams while delivering and implementing the project as per scheduled deadlines; extending post implementation and maintenance support to the technical support teams and client. Highly skilled in coaching, mentoring and leading technical project management, and leadership teams in adopting Agile/Scrum, Kanban and Agile best practices with strong business results

Years of Experience

6

Work Experience

Integral Ad Science

Scrum Master

December 2020 - December 2022

  • Worked with cross functional & distributed teams in Europe, US & India to successfully guide them through continual improvement process
  • Collaborated with Product Owners and Project Managers in preparing and refining the backlog for Large Scale Plan, and preparing Risk Mitigation Plan, that would foresee risks/challenges/impediments during quarterly planning
  • Involved in development of a complete project accounting system through Jellyfish. Merging JIRA, Jellyfish and payroll data into a complete explanation of where IAS’s R&D budget is being spent
  • Worked with Jellyfish platform, and helped integrate with JIRA & Git that allows capturing of engineering signals and contextual business data, which provides complete visibility into work done by engineers, efforts spent, and capturing capitalizable vs non-capitalizable budget
  • As Jellyfish Admin, helped cleanup of incorrect data linkages by working with different teams and brought down the numbers from 25% to 4% in past 6 months
  • Configure Dashboards for the key stakeholders enabling the Product Owners and SLT to keep track of the information that matters for them at any time

MTA Long Island Rail Road

Assistant Project Manager/Scrum Master

January 2020 - July 2020

  • Kept the teams focused on sprints priorities, business values, and protecting the team from over committing.
  • Led a cross functional team of engineers BI and UX designers to develop features and fix product defects in InforEAM suite
  • Managed QA, IT and Engineering teams with 28-30 resources (managers, SME’s, developers)
  • Led cross-functional teams to ensure projects were delivered on schedule while meeting performance, design, and regulatory requirements.
  • Coordinated all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning

JP Morgan Chase

Scrum Master/Sr. Business Analyst

September 2018 - December 2019

  • As a Scrum Master for 2 separate teams (15+ people), identified process changes required to accelerate development and removed major impediments
  • Worked with Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters and Project Managers of different teams with various levels of maturity to influence cultural change throughout the organization to adopt Scrum and its best practices.
  • Kept the teams focused on sprints priorities, business values, and protecting the team from over committing. Oversee Risk management from a regulatory perspective
  • Ensured API Testing is done to verify message flow and documented JSON, XML request/responses for REST API using Postman for the future reference.
  • Communicated team status/progress via Release/Sprint Burndown charts, Story Acceptance rate and defects and make sure the stakeholders are aware of it
  • Used JIRA to track defects, report defects, writing user stories, linking documents using Confluence and maintain log for the system

Eclerx Services

Data Analyst

October 2013 - July 2015

  • Created Feasibility Analysis Report and Migration plans with Technical Architect and created UML Class diagrams using MS Visio
  • Involved in creating Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Process Checklists and Workflows. The checklist helped in reducing the amount of re-work by 15%
  • Experience in Data Modeling (logical modeling and physical modeling) using Erwin, implementing them in SQL, Entity-Relationship diagram (ERD) development/normalization and physical database schema design using MS Visio and Erwin
  • Used Informatica Power Center 8.6 for extraction, transformation and load (ETL) of data in the data warehouse
  • Developed Tableau data visualization using Cross tabs, Heat maps, Box and Whisker charts, Scatter Plots, Geographic Map, Pie Charts and Bar Charts and Density Chart

Education

University of Texas, Arlington

Business Analytics - Masters

2015 - 2017

University of Mumbai

Information technology - Bachelors

2008 - 2013

Skills

  • Project Management

    Project Accounting

    Change Management

    Project Accounting

    Organizational Roster Management