Roy Thomas

• Scrum master in the Agile Transformation Office.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives in Microsoft Agile Dev Ops(ADO).
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams.
• Communicated project updates to stakeholders at all levels.
• End to End scheduling of projects for Business & Technology.
• Liaise with multiple IT teams to gather effort estimates & project timelines.
• Identify dependencies & interrelations between development teams, Building an optimal schedule using Microsoft Project.
• Map resource allocation pools in PPM for all scheduled projects & maintain the resource database.
• Liaise with Department team heads to prioritize critical projects & Re-plan projects based on customer priority or internal resource allocation.
• Liaise with multiple project managers to collect project status, progress, issues, risks and other project parameters to report & maintain repositories.
• Work with Project managers and stakeholders for configuration management and accurate tracking of projects , Portfolio level management, tracking and reporting of projects for senior management.

Period: October 2020 – February 2023

Project: S4 HANA implementation + Support

Role: Project Scrum master / Data migration Consultant

Key Result Areas:

• Worked on SAP Activate methodology
• Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
• Worked closely with Product Owner to ensure product backlog is visible and prioritized towards business value
• Facilitated various Scrum activities such as : Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives
• Identifying critical issues and maintaining documents on root cause analysis.
• Worked in Data team for migration of OTC related objects (Customer Master, Credit Master, Collection Management, CMIR, Customer Node, Sales Pricing Conditions etc.).

Client: flydubai

Project: Oracle ERP System Upgrade & Enhancements, RPA initiatives

Role: Project manager Scrum master

Description : Flydubai, legally Dubai Aviation Corporation, is a government-owned budget airline in Dubai.

Key Result Areas:

• Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload
• Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
• Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.

Client : CMA-CGM (Container shipping group)

Responsibility Domain : SAP data management

Key Result Areas :

• Analyzing, planning and developing scheduled projects.
• Establishing and implementing training processes for all technical personnel.
• Determining and defining clear deliverables, roles and responsibilities for all staff members.
• Migrating data from legacy systems to SAP CRM, Finance and Transportation Management modules.
• Outlined work plans, determined resources, wrote timelines and generated initial budgets as part of project scope determination.
• Contributing to the design, development, testing, troubleshooting, configuration and debugging of the solutions.
• Ensured thorough understanding of processes, applications, databases and functional architecture.
• Managed the work for a team of developers for the project "SAPHIR" data migration.
• Defined technical solution and write technical design document for ETL using SAP Business Object Data Services (BODS), IDOC, LSMW and Data Migration Cockpit.
• Participating in client discussions for business gathering, conducting system analysis, and finalizing technical/ functional specifications and high-level design documents for the project; building rapport with customers and managing customer relationships.
• Working with onsite & offsite tasks within a project scoping document, including design, specification, management of resources & integration of software products to implement the changes and resolve the technical issues resulting post implementation.
• Performing impact analysis & proposing technical solutions for the enhancement requests; undertaking defect & issue management for production support projects.
• Adopt tools used in development life cycle (Dimensions, HP ALM, SAP Solution manager and so on).

The global delivery center responsible for overall software development of CMA-CGM, world's 3rd largest container shipping group, headquartered in Marseille (France) and operates out of over 650 offices and agencies in more than 150 countries.

Role : Technical Project Lead

Key Result Areas:

• Analyzing, planning and developing scheduled projects.
• Establishing and implementing training processes for all technical personnel.
• Determining and defining clear deliverables, roles and responsibilities for all staff members.
• Analyzed client business processes to propose optimal software applications for unique requirements.
• Partnered with architecture team to develop wholistic technology roadmap, accounting for departmental priorities and overall business goals.
• Fostered strong relationship between Technology team and Business team by holding meetings to align efforts.
• Offered technical leadership to junior personnel and other team leaders, providing expertise on Shipping application, Oracle application development , SAP business object data services and data migration.
• Designed documentation protocols and standard operating practices to unify technology management efforts across CMA Systems.
• Maintained authoritative knowledge on Shipping application, Oracle application development , SAP business object data services , data migration and team management through continued education and ongoing training.
• Developed technical requirement documentation for new software products compatible with the current landscape/platform.
• Developed and maintained strong client relationships to deliver exceptional customer service and problem resolution.
• SAP Data migration scope - Migrating data from legacy systems to SAP CRM, Finance and Transportation Management modules.