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Pratap - Scrum / PM / BSA,BA

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Location: Woodbridge, New Jersey, USA

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Pratap Aaron Sukumar 551-228-0376 [email protected] Project Manager/Scrum Master at Bed Bath & Beyond, eCommerce, Mobile, Marketing Technologies, Native and Hybrid Apps Professional Summary Project manager/Scrum master, Business analyst and Quality analysis with a track record involved in leading and delivering projects, solving complex issues, and implementing simple, transformative solutions across Digital Channels and launching new innovative products. 14 years of progressive experience in technology, strategy, product development and understanding of e-commerce platforms, technologies, and best practices. Proven ability and track record to lead and manage multiple projects with multiple milestones. Strong knowledge of project methodologies (SDLC), models, and tools. Experienced in Product life cycle management, Pricing, Go to Market Strategy and Competitive Analysis. E-comm Projects - Seven major releases and a major mobile app integration in the e-commerce industry, where I have successfully led multiple projects from inception to completion TBS Next (Instore App) Howbook AR/QR/UPC code integration on Mobile APP As a Certified Scrum master facilitated and ensured that the Scrum team follows the Agile ceremonies that they agreed to follow. Sprint planning, Grooming, Tech discoveries, Readiness of ENVI, product deliverables in iterations, functional/Integration testing, retros, A/B Test and product Demo's. I was part of the risk analysis in mitigating obstacles and distractions that may impede the team from meeting goals and was a liaison between the Scrum team and cross functional teams. Leading the team in managing on-shore, off-shore, and mixed teams at different geography. Demonstrated success many times under aggressive project schedules and deadlines. Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a track record of motivating and developing team leaders and team players. Experience leading a $2M - $5M project budget with at least 15 team members across IT and multiple business units. Technical Skills: Methodologies SDLC, Agile, RUP, Scrum, Prototyping Operating System Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X Project Management /process design Tool MS Office suite, Visio, SharePoint & Project, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Lotus Notes, Confluence, GCP, Team foundation server (TFS), Teams Web Designing MS Visual Studio, Mockups, iRISE, Adobe Photoshop. Defect Tracking JIRA Database Microsoft SQL Server, MYSQL. Language C#, .net, Java., XML, ReactJS, PWA, NextJS, DevOps Certifications: Certification Name Issuing Authority/Group Validity Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Scrum Alliance Feb 2024 Agile coach certification in Progress SAFe certification in Progress Professional Experience: Bed Bath & Beyond, Project Manager/Scrum Master June 2018 - Present (5 years) - New Jersey, United States Responsibilities Experience in analyzing product vision, roadmap, product metrics and OKRs. It gives clarity of the company s most important, high-level Objectives are and, better yet, fits within their new mission statement of, to build sustainability into everything we do. Involved in implementation plans that include cost-benefits or ROI. Responsible for managing 1 Engineering team of Engineers, Business Analysts, DEV leads Onshore and Offshore team and Digital Marketing (ASO/ SEO and SEM) space with order fulfillment for BedbathandBeyond (USA/ Canada), BuyBuyBaby and Harmonfacevalues Oversaw the timely Agile ceremonies and GCP deployment of digital products, features, and process improvements. Led onshore/offshore teams to execute the program delivery roadmap, while collaborating with product managers and product owner, with full accountability for bottom-line performance, system flexibility, UI/UX, KPIs, and alignment with business needs and felicitated Retros. Actively involved in backlog prioritization, sprint planning, daily meetings, retrospectives, scrum of scrum and ability to coach and mentor the team members. Coordinate with stakeholder and cross-functional team meetings to ensure all parties understand the deliveries and milestones. Lead cross-functional teams comprising data scientists, machine learning engineers, data engineers, and other relevant experts. Overseeing the development of Tealium's products and services. This involves working closely with cross-functional teams, such as engineering, design, and product management, to ensure the successful delivery of innovative and high-quality solutions that meet customer needs. Maintained effective communication with team members, all levels of management including status reports on testing progress, impediments, and risks to project team; formulated remediation plan when needed including risk analysis, resource allocation and recommended completion timeframe and tracking vendor features, defects, and delivery timeframes and prioritizing work accordingly. Helped drive teams towards CI/CD process, define quality metrics for product/process improvement, including building dashboards and reports. Maintaining and updating squad performance metrics burn-down charts and artifacts to ensure accurate and clear feedback to the squad members and transparency to other partners. Scrum/Kanban board for delivering features and refactoring of internal applications; manage sprint deliverables with team utilizing the application. Work with stakeholders on requirements and feature enhancements; work closely with the development team on decomposing features into stories, story pointing, tasking and coordinating and support on L2 team which manages the tickets routed to them by L1 team & L3 team makes the code changes, debug and develop the solution for challenging new or unknown issues. Environment: Tealium, Adobe tags, Microsoft Office Suite, Documentum, SQL, DevOps, Selenium, In-store App (JDA), NodeJS, PWA, Reactjs, Microshell, NextJS, Jira, Confluence, Azure, GCP, SharePoint, Postman API Bed Bath & Beyond Sr. System Business Analyst/Scrum Master July 2013 - June 2018 (5 years) - New Jersey, United States Responsibilities Support the development of virtualized APIs by creating sample API request/response messages. Participated in the below projects during my tenure and successfully delivered. E-comm Projects - Seven major releases and a major mobile app integration in the e-commerce industry, where I have successfully led multiple projects from inception to completion. TBS Next (Instore App) Howbook AR/QR/UPC integration in Mobile APP Revised defect root cause analysis process to identify areas of quality improvement and lessons learned. This practice resulted in a 35% reduction in customer identified defects within 9 months. Review test cases and test strategies to ensure coverage before production deployments. Implemented core test practices to improve code delivery to production. Worked closely with development teams to increase unit test code coverage to over 90% Validating tracking pixels and tags for omniture and Tealium using tech specs provided by business. using browser extensions such as omni bug and Tealium debugger. Also performed omniture testing to help implement new omniture analytics enhancements. Hands on experience in eCommerce, POS, Mobile Web service and WMS application. Environment: Content stack BCC Content Management MySQL Microsoft Office Suite, BCC, Documentum, Windows NT/XP, MySQL, Selenium, In-store App (JDA) Avventis Inc. Business Analyst, February 2013 - June 2013 (5 months) New Jersey, United States Responsibilities Participated in the identification, understanding, and documentation of business requirements, keeping in mind the need for the application based on the project scope and SDLC methodology. Review and analyze financial performance including comparisons vs. Budget, Prior Year and Prior Forecasts. Compile and analyze short term and long-term financial forecasts, including the annual budget process. Coordinate quarterly earnings analysis related to the earnings. Assisted the project manager in preparing and maintaining the responsibility traceability matrix and updating the same throughout the project. Developed and managed the project management plan, established risk management process and metrics for the deliverables. Identified and maintained a clear and measurable development process that was deployable throughout the enterprise using RUP. Identified, suggested, and managed improvements in the process and analyzed project dependencies. Conducting knowledge sharing sessions within the teams to better understand business & domain which the essential factors are to drive & develop the project. Environment: Microsoft Office Suite, Windows XP, SQL, Selenium, Silicon Alley Group Inc (Intern) 1 years Sr. Financial Analyst, April 2012 - September 2012 (6 months) Understood the old system based on excel sheets, with many embedded formulae and calculations and the large volume of data. Studied and analyzed the client's requirements and work processes. Understood the various steps in the loan lifecycle. Developed Business Requirement Document and Use Cases. Responsible for communications between the offshore development team and onsite Project Team and other related departments. Worked closely with the client to build and implement an integrated system to manage underwriting and to monitor pipeline commercial real estate loans, to manage fewer stable loans. Skills: Financial Analysis Financial Planning Financial Analyst, April 2011 - September 2011 (6 months) Understood the legacy system based on excel sheets, with many embedded formulae and calculations and the large volume of data. Studied and analyzed the client's requirements and work processes. Understood the various steps in the loan lifecycle. Responsible for communications between the offshore development team and onsite Project Team and other related departments. Member of designed team designed the new system so as to provide the client's management quick and easy access to all current economics (i.e. construction status, leasing status, etc.) of the collateral pertaining to allhe loans in the portfolio. Skills: Financial Analysis Financial Planning Tech Mahindra - Geographic Information Systems Business Analyst July 2007 - October 2009 (2 years 4 month) Hyderabad, Telangana, India Analyzing spatial data through the use of mapping software. Discovering patterns and trends through spatial mapping of data. Designing digital maps with geographic data and other data sources. Developing mapping applications and tools. Converting physical maps into a digital form for computer usage. Creating "shapefiles" to merge topographical data with external data by layering external data over a topographical map. Producing maps showing the spatial distribution of various kinds of data, including crime statistics and hospital locations. Bharat Dynamics Limited Bachelors in Electronics - intern program January 2007 - February 2007 (2 month) Hyderabad, Telangana, India Switching of real time cameras for fast moving objects Abstract: Fast movement of objects and illumination changes may lead to a negative effect on camera images for object detection and tracking. Education Harrisburg University of Science and Technology Computer Engineering and Information Technology, Computer Software Engineering (January 2014 - September 2015) University of Northern Virginia - Annandale Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration, Management and Operations (January 2011 - November 2012) Keywords: csharp continuous integration continuous deployment user interface user experience information technology golang microsoft Arkansas