SCRUM Master

Certified Scrum Master

Continuous Improvement….Coaching….On time Delivery

12+ years of expert level IT experience in Development, Team Management, Agile Scrum Management, Devops, Operations Management, delivering products in various domains including Airlines, Healthcare, Digital Marketing. Expert at utilizing Agile principles and Scrum methodologies to deliver innovative, working software. Strengths include initiating and leading change, ensuring teams maintain focus and deliver success, and removing impediments in order to achieve sprint goals. Experience working remotely with distributed, cross-functional teams in startup environments as well as Enterprises. Excellent communication, problem solving, people management, and interpersonal skills. Have Java Web development and working experience in Big Data Hadoop projects.

Work Experience

Scrum Master

Catalina Digital Marketing

January 2016 – Present, San Jose, CA

Company offers digital platform to deliver millions of coupons every week. Supports a network of 22,000 stores across US. Digital platform offers various web based REST/SOAP API services. Platform offers and consumes services from various retails/merchants.

Facilitated Scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint planning sessions, sprint reviews, retrospectives, etc.)

Prepares for and facilitates Agile planning sessions with delivery teams and assists with prioritizing user stories.

Works with team and Product Owners to maintain a healthy backlog and plan releases.

Managed and reported on team’s lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment.

Tracked velocity and protected teams from over-commitment

Removed impediments to allow the team to deliver sprint goals and deliverables

Managed stakeholder and vendor expectations, working with multiple business units based around the globe.

Acted as a Release Manager for various iterations of development and managed all program activity during Release period.

Coordinated and managed deployment of the Release to the production environment.

Coordinated and managed daily code deploys to multiple QA environments.

Mentor team members and other stakeholders on Agile best practices.

Scrum Master

Cerner Corp (Health Care)

January 2015 – December 2015, Kansas City, KS

Handled highly regulated health care data. Facilitated Software development across geographic locations using Scrum methodologies, including requirements gathering, epic planning, backlog creation and prioritization, story sizing, task definition, sprint planning, release planning and deployment. Supported Production and DevOps activities.

Facilitate discussion with Business team and Product Owner and achieve backlog prioritization and user stories elaboration based on the business value and dependencies

Plan releases based on the capacity of the team and complete each release with high impact requirements thus delivering high business value in the first few releases

Coached and assisted the Scrum team with relative story sizing, task definition, Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Ready ensuring high value requirements are delivered faster.

Ensure ongoing product backlog grooming with developers and QA Personnel, BAs, Architects so that developers and QAs are aware of the holistic view of the product so as to limit costly rework.

Affective use of Rally for project management and reporting on measurable KPIs for real time project view to stakeholders and Project Sponsors.

Conduct retrospective meetings to improve the upcoming sprints and also make the team accountable, self-regulated and transparent.

Remove impediments such as per the availability Environment, time commitment from the developers/testers/architects. Identify and mitigate risks during sprints, UAT and production releases.

Scrum Master

Major Airlines Client, June 2011 – Nov 2014

Dallas, TX

Monthly releases include codes fixes for production defects, enhancements, new program releases, Design Change Requests. Handling regular program maintenance tasks and new changes against business flows and their financial transactions in backend systems. New changes involving 2 GDS systems and backend Customer related financial tracking systems.

Handled geographically distributed Offshore and onsite teams.

Closely interacted with product management and external customers to assure most effective project execution.

Managed multiple small projects simultaneously with high efficiency in very aggressive release schedules.

Wrote feature requirement stories for developers. Prioritized and groomed team’s backlog of stories with our Technical Lead

Tracked team’s velocity via burndown and burnup charts, number of open bugs, etc. Managed stakeholder expectations and used data to estimate and communicate when features were expected to be delivered

Met frequently with all department heads to gather new requirements, understand features, provide t-shirt estimations, remove impediments, and identify cross-team dependencies

Coordinated and managed daily code deploys to multiple QA environments

Lead Developer

Mindtree Ltd, Semanticspace ltd

March 2004 – May 2011, India

During these 7 years of period, I progressed from Developer to Lead Developer. Worked for various Fortune 500 clients from India. I have developed web development projects for Banking, Insurance, and E-Commerce and Supply chain management domains.

Experience summary:

Experienced in Waterfall, Agile approaches, including Extreme Programming, Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development methodologies

Worked on Java, J2EE/JEE, and its open source frameworks in building N-tier applications.

Experienced in building products from requirements gathering, analysis, technical architecture design, application design, development, and test and deployment stages.

Experience in Data modeling, Database design and development using different RDBMS (Oracle10g, MySQL 5.0, and SQL Server2K) in various projects.

Mentored new junior developers, building teams, process standardization by implementing code reviews.

Extensive experience in various SDLC methodologies such as Water fall, Iterative, RAD-RUP, Agile scrum, adopting User stories with TDD.

Experience in developing applications using different IDEs like Eclipse, NetBeans, RAD, IntelliJ, JDeveloper and TOAD, SQL Developer.

Proficient knowledge in JDBC and writing SQL Queries, PL/SQL Stored Procedures, Triggers and SQL packages.

Extensive experience in writing SQL to validate the database systems and for backend database testing.

Build/support/maintain the continuous integration & Continuous Delivery pipelines for software delivery. Experience in creating Deployment guidelines, authoring cookbooks.

Education

Master in Computer Applications. 2000-2003

Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, TN India

Professional Certification

Certified Scrum Master 2013 (Scrum Alliance – Member ID: 000299436)

Business Professional Programmer July 1997

ERNET India, Department of Electronics & IT (DeitY), MC&IT, Govt. of India

Core Competencies

● Agile Scrum ● Servant Leader ● Team Management ● Conflict Resolution ● Leadership

● Project Planning, Estimation & Delivery ● Velocity/Burndown Tracking ● User Story Based Development ● Cross functional Team Leadership ● Continuous Deployment ● Requirements Gathering & Analysis ● Code Management Branching, Tagging ● Problem Solving, Critical Thinking

Technical Skills

Very Efficient in Microsoft Office Suite • Experience coding in Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL • JIRA • Confluence, Rally, Git, Maven, Bamboo, Jenkins.

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