SUMMARY

• Experienced in design & implementation of organisational processes
• Excellent analytical and communication skills, cross functional and cross organizational skills
• Over 8+ years of experience with Agile Project Management techniques
• Managed over dozen technical teams
• Certified Scrum Master
• Hands - on team leader, mentor and coach. Successful delivery of multiple projects
• Strong ability to grasp new things quickly
• Tasking Meetings, Retrospectives, Iteration/Sprint Planning Meetings & Sprint Demos
• Story based development
• Discuss requirements and stories with the development team
• Conflict resolution & conflict management
• Break down requirements into user stories
• Maintain a pleasant fun filled atmosphere at work

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: Scrum Certification, Agile Methods, MS-Office

Presentation: Power point, Excel, Word

Technical: C, Java fundamentals

Web Technologies: PHP

Operating Systems: MS-Windows, XP, Linux, MS-DOS

IDE: Eclipse, Edit Plus

Project Management tools: Version One, Jira, TFS

Issue Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, Quality Center

Version Controls: CVS, Sharepoin

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Confidential, Atlanta

Responsibilities:

• Sprint retrospectives
• Worked closely with the team in estimating user stories, breaking down the user stories into tasks and estimating hours required to complete each of the tasks
• Worked closely and proactively with the onsite leads
• Worked closely and proactively with the onsite client Project Manager on Artifacts such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint burndown, Release burndown
• Tracked the deliverables and provided sprint metrics to the client at regular intervals
• Generated Sprint report and burn down charts from Jira and shared it with the client
• Protected team from over/under commitment and helped team resolve issues/impediments
• Prioritized, addressed and resolved issues
• Communicated with the client manager in prioritizing the issues and ensured that the high priority bugs are issued within the given time frame.
• Prepared presentation for Sprint demos.
• Co-ordinated with the product owner and setting up meetings with the team in understanding the requirements
• Handled two different scrum teams working on two different set of requirements

Agile Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Trained and mentored teams at JDA, Bangalore in Agile methods.
• Groomed and facilitated the teams in the Scrum ceremonies like-
• Release planning sessions
• Transform requirements into user stories
• Sprint planning meetings
• Assisted the team in breaking down the user stories into independent tasks
• Assisted the team in providing estimates for the tasks in hours
• Assisted the team in picking up the right amount of user stories for the sprint and protected the team from over/under commitment
• Daily stand-up meetings
• Sprint reviews
• Sprint retrospectives
• Assisted the team in understanding Version One.
• Identified gaps in the process and recommended changes to existing methods
• Resolved conflicts and helped the team in resolving impediments

Senior Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinated with customers and onsite Engineers during the POC and Deployment stages
• Includes but not limited to the following activities with clients
• Respond to the RFPs
• Close interaction with clients for the smooth running of POCs and deployments
• Status meetings
• Weekly & bi-weekly deployment planning meetings
• Constant communication with the customer
• Worked closely and proactively with project manager at the customer site.
• Worked with the customer to gather and freeze requirements.
• Facilitated weekly status meetings to review the progress and impediments (if any) at the customer sites and make sure that a solution for the impediments is provided by the team
• Tracked the deliverables and provide updates to the customer

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Trained and mentored internal and client teams in Agile best practices.
• Organised and facilitated Sprint planning, daily stand up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning and other scrum related meetings
• Taught the team in writing clear and concise epics/stories
• Assisted the teams in breaking down of user stories into small independent tasks and estimate them in hours
• Worked with the team on definition of done, share it with the product owner and get a sign-off
• Assisted the team on making appropriate commitments for the team
• Resolved conflicts efficiently
• Participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards
• Worked closely and proactively with product management, technical and cross-functional counterparts on process, product and control system development
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Worked on presentations for Sprint Demos
• Developed processes to improve quality & efficiency of teams
• Worked with the product owners to gather and freeze requirements
• Identified gaps in the process, recommend changes to existing methods
• Assisted the team in providing test data
• Motivated the team by creating a fun-filled atmosphere at work place
• Worked with Product Owner on Scrum Artifacts such as Product Backlog, Release Backlog, Sprint burndown, Release burndown
• Handled three different teams working on different projects

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Planned, directed, and managed traffic management software products.
• Ensured company objectives were met.
• Responsible for project management and financial management, facilities development.
• Applied Agile methods effectively to deliver projects successfully.
• Managed technical and non-technical team members through effective delegation of duties
• Delivery of weekly and monthly project reports to internals & clientele.
• Participated in all Scrum Activities as a Scrum Master.

Confidential

Keshava Reddy Residential

Responsibilities:

• Trained the class 9th and 10th standard students in Mathematics and English.
• Delegated responsibilities to the other staff members
• Interacted with Management and constantly update them about the school management.
• Arranged Parent and Management meets
• Responsible for the weekly, monthly and yearly syllabus planning.
• Coordinated and ensured smooth functioning of the examinations.
• Interacted with parents regarding the performance of their wards.
• MC for cultural and sports programmes.
• Trained the class 9th and 10th standard students in Computer Fundamentals, BASIC and C languages.
• Responsible for the successful completion of student projects.
• In-charge of Seminars conducted by various schools and organizations.
• Authored ICSE Model Papers 2000 for Goyal Brothers Prakasan Publications.
• Served as Head of the Department of Computer Sciences for a period of five years.