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Resume:
Sethuraman Pandiyan (R am)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ram-pandiyan-b3116b140/
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Ram recently completed last assignment from Nationstar Mortgage, with approximately 10 years of working/leading Scrum environments, he is known for his skills in mitigating and solving problems. Keen on analyzing and assessing best approach to utilize information gathered in order to recommend and apply optimal solutions.
Change Management = 7+yrs
SDLC = 9/10
Continuous delivery/integration
Scrumban
Scrum
e-commerce
Confluence / Jira / Rally / VersionOne
Very good communication skills
Available to interview within 24hrs
Able to start within 1-2 weeks
Professional Skills
Observe new productive Agile methodologies and productive ROI and market changes.
● Proficient in problem solving.
● Great team player and good interpersonal communicator.
● Proficient in developing team’s chemistry.
● Retain team consistently in vibrant, highly motivational and very positive.
● Teams dynamic- influenced with forming, storming, norming and performing skills.
● Adept in Nonviolent communication skill- Observation, feeling, needs and request methods.
● Assure team follows Scrum’s principle during entire time of the sprints.
● Create cross functional and self organized teams.
● A fine impediment remover to serve the team as servant leader.
● Keep team productivity level at maximum in the sprints.
● Proficient to facilitate multiple project and team at simultaneous.
● Proficient in scrum organization tools - Jira, Rally, VersionOne, Trello and TFS.
● Expert running retrospective ceremony with varieties of techniques.
● Efficient coaching Agile methodology and clear definition of what is DONE (DOD).
● Immensely transformed waterfall teams to scrum through Scrumban framework.
● Good in database MS SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata and MySql.
● Experience in Java script, SAP-ERP, AWS, E-commerce and .NET.
● Good in MS-BIDS, SSAS, SSRS, SSIS, MS PowerBI, Microstrategy and MS Dynamics CRM.
● Good in DevOps process: Values, methods, practices and tools.
● Adept comprehension of SDLC Methodologies like Agile, Waterfall and other processes.
● Proficient in Story and Epic grooming - 3 C, INVEST and Split Story format.
● Excellent in Story Points estimation games - Comparing and Fibonacci formula.
● Adapted Agile methodology for the project with Test Driven Development (TDD).
● Encouraged team to Pair Programming, Refactoring and Continuous Integration.
● Experience working with scrum’s distributed team and distributed within the team.
● Facilitate Agile rituals- Grooming, Planning, Daily standup, Review and Retrospective.
● Persistent on improving teams effective product delivery with good development coding.
● Ability to choose proper legal format and understand the valid requirements for operating.
● Emphasis team for Spikes, Automated testing, Peer review and Scrum of Scrum.
● Excellent communicator, flexible, understand the situation with negotiation skills.
● Experience in time and cost estimation, activity and sequencing planning for the projects.
● Adept in Scrum Artifact’s vision.
● Vinster resolve in impediment complications.
● Maintain individual chart for team stories and technology debt.
● Cheer team members to involve chores on backlog and swarm in spike.
● Coached Agile frameworks to many teams when team transition from waterfall.
● Entrench Scrum values to teams- Commitment, Focus, Openness, Respect and Courage.
● Prior approval from directors, pair programming provided clean, safe, more efficient, shared knowledge, increased interpersonal skill with consistent environment among team members.
● Adept in information radiator- Sprint release burndown, sprint burn up, burn down, sprint backlog and done charts; sprint backlog vs done board.
● Manifest the behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader with a Lean-Agile mindset. Embrace SAFe Core Values, adopt and apply SAFe Principles, and implement SAFe practices.
● Coordinated with other teams to promote DevOps culture and tools, facilitate preparation for the readiness for ART events and Supports estimating for the Agile release train.
● Experience with Large scale project delivery and e-commerce.
● Efficient in TIME and results tracking in all the scrum ceremonies.
● Always look for team’s continuous improvement through inspect and adapt.
● Vibrant to work long hours and travel long distances to cultivate Agile frameworks. Technical Skills
Methodologies: Agile- Kanban, Scrum, XP, Crystal, SAFe, LeSS, TDD, ATDD, BDD, Pair Programming, Refactoring, Continuous Integration, Collective Ownership, Spikes, SDLC and DOD. Tools : MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office, Jira, Rally, TFS, VSTS, Version One, Pivotal Tracker, Trello, G oogle Docs, BitBucket, BamBoo, Pointing Poker, Google Analytics, ComScore, Clarity PMP, Cucumber, Selenium, csUnit, JUnit, Jenkins, Velocify and Encompass. Operating Sys: Windows, Linux, Java and Unix.
Technical Envi.: Oracle, Java, .NET, SAP-FI, AWS, PL SQL, SQL, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, MS-BIDS, MS PowerBI, Microstrategy, MS Dynamics CRM, Informatica and Salesforce. Professional Certification
Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Educational Background
Master’s Degree in Software Engineering (2005)
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (2003)
Member
Agile Socal
● Business Agile Principles with Keith Montgomery-May 17 2017
● Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability with Daniel Vacanti-June 14 2017 Agile Coffee
● LeSS for Descaling with Craig Larman-June 1 2017 Agile Open California
Work Experience
Nationstar Mortgage, Irvine CA JAN 2015 to June 2017 Scrum Master
● Cultivated Scrum framework.
● Build large systems in a Lean and Agile manner.
● Monitor escalations, follow up with right individual to get things get done as per the need.
● Matrix to measure and track productivity through various project management tools.
● Maintain storyboards, organized charts with best practices to support team with deliverables.
● Retain separate chart for impediment stories to be focused and get solved in 24 hrs.
● Mitigating conflicts, helping to promote good practice and scrum principles.
● Worked with team members individually to support and improve team chemistry.
● Extensively, coached teams on Story and Epic grooming to avoid over commit.
● As per self organized team, team watch for bloker tickets and technical debt.
● Coordinate daily stand up in same place, same time among team member to check progress towards sprint goal and to discover obstacle, to keep teams from roadblock.
● Resolved team members daily lateness, joining to the scrum daily stand up meeting.
● Conduct retrospective with different techniques as per current sprint fact for the team.
● Follow-up on action items from review and retro meeting results for continuous improvement.
● Overlook for team on what to improve, introduce and to stop doing for the next sprint - change increased relationship between developers and QA, cross functional team, Backlog grooming are more effective, more technical talk among the teams and mini grooming for completed stories.
● Extensively worked with SQL script to build SSRS and SSAS reports for Loan Origination.
● Promoted agile techniques-TDD, Pair Programming, Refactoring, Collective ownership, Continuous Integration, Spikes and Release sprint.
● Developed .NET reports for classification of Processors, Underwriters and Agents.
● Developed reports for agents to track loans by on demand/subscription through MS Power BI.
● Supported management- Team’s performance review; Timesheet approval and cost estimation.
● Training individuals, teams and organization into understanding implementation of Scrum and Agile perspectives.
● Facilitate sprint review for team’s sense of ownership of the work.
● Lead various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as Requirements analysis, Design, Development, and Implementation, Testing for Enterprise applications.
● Creating operative user stories, acceptance criteria for user stories and defining "Done".
● Large project delivery- scaled up teams, Product Owner and SMEs; conducted Scrum of Scrum and synchronized sprint and release.
● Agile metrics-Velocity used to find the predicted story points for the upcoming sprint, Burnup and Burndown used to track completed and remaining story points as per the team’s goal.
● Provide ‘Empirical Process Control’ as transparency across all departments to ensure smooth and efficient transition among the organization.
● Collaborate with other offices, territories to plan and implement new technology and principles.
● All teams have been transformed from waterfall to Scrum framework through completing successful initial few sprints from ‘Scrumban’ framework.
● Support to distributed teams norms, timezone, honor their holidays, embrace culture difference. Technologies and Tools: .NET, O racle, SAP ERP, MS SQL, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, MS-BIDS, MS PowerBI, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office, Jira, VSTS, B itBucket, BamBoo, Pointing Poker, C ucumber, Velocify and Encompass. Time Warner Cable, Charlotte NC DEC 2012 to DEC 2014 Scrum Master/Agile Coach
● Transformed teams from waterfall to Scrum framework.
● Guided extensively over Scrum principle and values to teams.
● Establish individual members expectation to be cross functional team.
● Provide boundaries on story comparing and estimating to avoid over committing in sprint.
● Establish self Organization team to communicate effectively, watch for blocker tickets, carry team ceremonies and ready to pick priority story from the Sprint Backlog with P.O. approval.
● Conducted ART ceremonies (Agile Release Train - Program increment, System demos, Inspect and Adapt) in programme level.
● Supported ScrumXP and Kanban rules and promoted SAFe quality practices.
● All teams have been transformed from waterfall to Scrum framework through completing successful initial few sprints from ‘Scrumban’ framework.
● Developed the application web pages using HTML, CSS, JSP, Javascript and JQuery.
● Developed sales customizable dashboards through MS Dynamic CRM.
● Informatica Powercenter used for the ETL data integration for divergent source.
● Involved in elimination of spare SQL servers for the rationalization project.
● Pair programming were used in the rationalization project with SQL Admin and Business Intelligence teams, gave increased productivity in short time duration of the project.
● Track burndown to determine remaining work, as well as providing PMO support in managing project schedules and plans, budgets and project executions.
● Removed the impediments and facilitated sprints (sprint grooming, planning, daily stand ups, sprint review and retrospective).
● Fix team conflict in retrospective by team, applaud and highlight who ever solve their conflict.
● Support to distributed teams norms, timezone, honor their holidays, embrace culture difference.
● Prioritizing user stories with Product Owner in the product backlog and helped team how to groom stories and epics.
● Used Rally and Jira, managed sprint backlog, tracked and produced key metrics (e.g., burndown, burnup, cumulative flow, velocity, etc.).
● Worked with team members individually to support and improve team chemistry.
● Collaborate with other offices, territories to plan and implement new technology and principles.
● Experience facilitate meetings and building relationship with onshore and offshore teams. Technologies and Tools: O racle, Java, SAP ERP, MS SQL, MS CRM, SSAS, SSRS, Informatica, MS Project, MS Visio, Jira, VersionOne, B itBucket, BamBoo, Cucumber, Selenium, and JUnit. JPMorgan Chase & Co, Wilmington DE AUG 2011 to DEC 2012 Scrum Master
● Responsible to manage the project end to end with Scrum framework, adheres to the Agile ceremonies. Facilitated and promoted SAFe quality practices.
● Coached and empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally.
● Worked on Java, SQL, Informatica and MS SSIS, SAP ERP associated projects.
● Used Rally and TFS for the Product backlog item and Sprint backlog for the entire teams.
● Sprint goal, closely tracked with PO and Business owner and guided the Agile methodology. Technologies and Tools: O racle, Java, Informatica, SAP ERP, MS SQL, SSAS, SSRS, MS Project, MS Visio, Rally, TFS and JUnit.
Aetna, Hartford CT OCT 2009 to AUG 2011
Scrum Master/Product Owner
● Introduced Scrum methodology to the team from waterfall.
● Removed the impediments and resolved conflicts that affected the team.
● Worked as Product Owner, gathered, prioritized requirements with business owner.
● Efficiently led the integrations activities that included starting from requirements gathering until testing and bug fix to ensure quality of product is enhanced. Technologies and Tools: SAP ERP, MS SQL, SSRS, Salesforce, MS CRM, MS Project, MS Visio, Rally, Jira. Quest Diagnostics, Madison NJ MAR 2007 to SEP 2009 Business system Analyst/Scrum Master
● Gathered, analyzed, validated and created Business Requirement documents, with converting into functional and technical requirements specifications to the BRD.
● Actively involved converting teams from waterfall methodology to Scrumban framework.
● Performed Requirements elicitation through Use Cases, Mockups and Process Flow diagrams. Technologies and Tools: M S Project, MS SQL, SSRS, Microstrategy, Informatica, Salesforce, MS Visio and Jira.
Satyam Engineering Services, India AUG 2005 to Feb 2007 Business System Analyst
● Requirement gathering and prepare business requirement document (BRD) and convert requirements into functional specifications with technical info.
● Involved in walkthrough of requirements/user stories and implementation approach to the client.
● Prepared functional design document (FDD), used MS Visio to create process flowcharts and Workflow diagrams. Worked closely with Production support and SecAdmin teams. Technologies and Tools: MS Project, MS Visio, MS SQL, SSRS, MS Dynamics CRM and Salesforce.
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