Madhusmita Mohanty (Certified Scrum Master)

Summary

Madhusmita holds a Bachelor degree in Engineering specializing in Computer Sc. She has around Ten years of experience in the IT industry. She has deep expertise in driving solutions successful deliveries across waterfall and scrum methodologies. She has managed and worked on project across technologies (Java and .Net). She is also a Certified Scrum Master.

Currently she is working as a Project Manager in Nihilent Technologies Inc. In her previous engagement, Madhusmita was playing the role of a Scrum Master for multiple teams for last 2 years.

Her responsibilities include:

Educate team on scrum adaption and guiding them to adhere to the scrum principles

Ensuring team understand business requirement and set up right expectation with business

Design and review solutions along with the team and cater customer requirements

Facilitate client meetings, and understand business and technical objectives.

Building a strong working relationship with business and work closely with stakeholders on business needs

Oversee and manage multiple projects for smooth delivery

Guide and assist project teams to create solution design and review their work

Recommends areas of improvement in technology, practices, processes, and personnel development to improve the team’s maturity

Conduct periodic project reviews with client and project team. Serve as a bridge to manage and exceed client’s expectation

Work with team to build POCs/solutions which can be used as re-usable components across different solutions

Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify any business problems. Jointly work with project team and business to resolve them.

Domain knowledge:

Media & Communication, Banking, Mobile Wallet, Retail.

Tools Knowledge:

TFS, Trello, Scrummy, Agilefant, Eclipse, Tomcat, SoapUI, WebSphere, JIRA

Microsoft Office Suite (Visio, Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.), SharePoint

Programming Language:

C, C++, Java, Struts, Hibernate, J2SE, J2EE, EJB, Oracle 10g, SQL 2012, MYSQL, Test driven development, JavaScript, Web Services, JSP, HTML, AJAX, XML.

Employment

Nihilent Technologies Inc. Apr 2017 – Till Date

Project Manager (Apr 2017 – Till Date)

Responsible for managing a team of 9 people to adhere quality processes across all internal projects and make sure that all ISO:9001 processes are followed across the projects.

Coordinate with all team members to understand existing processes

Optimize processes along with team members

Document optimized processes and distribute with team members

Keep track of all the project activities

Adhere and implement ISO processes within all projects

Nihilent Technologies Ltd. Oct 2007- July 2016

Scrum Master (Jan 2014 – July 2016)

Client: MultiChoice

Responsible for managing and leading 2 scrum teams and delivering solutions for a leading media domain organization in South Africa.

Guide and mentor scrum teams on scrum adaptability and best practices

Focused on timely and quality delivery

Identify improvement areas and work as a team to improve on those items

Align business needs on to delivery priorities to meet business expectation

Review team delivery and make sure it’s aligned to sprint deliverables

Mentor and guide team members to align to a common goal

Act as a bridge between business and team to understand business need and plan sprint deliveries accordingly

Guide the team on the product backlogs and its estimations

Facilitating meetings for the team: preparing, moderation and postprocessing

Conduct sprint planning and retrospection

Facilitating the daily standup

Helping team maintain their burn down chart

Removing impediments that affect the sprint

Encouraging collaboration between scrum team and product owner

Driving the demos at the end of the sprint

Help in writing user stories or splitting up of user stories

Helping to order product backlog items

Involved in release planning

Keeping in touch with stake holders regularly

Reporting in terms of weekly and daily basis

Giving learning opportunities to people in the organization and letting them learn Agile concepts.

Provide First line UAT support for the product delivered.

Be a part of each and every stage of product stating from its initialization till it is delivered successfully.

Conducted Scrum of Scrums and drives the meeting.

Senior System Analyst - Scrum master(2011-2014)

Client: MultiChoice

Responsible for collecting business requirements and work with teams to design solutions and present to business and drive the execution along with the team.

Gather business requirement and do the solution mapping exercise

Work as part of the team and explain them the business needs and help them understand what business needs and how that can be mapped on to a solution

Help team keep aligned to business needs and meets business expectation every time.

Create and manage the project schedule and budget; oversee project testing, and gain acceptance sign-off

Document business requirements and assist in the development of technical requirements to ensure continuity

Develop Project Definition Documents, Functional Specs, and workflow documentation based on business requirements. Obtain stakeholder concurrence and sign off prior to starting the Design phase.

Capture and maintain a list of application issues/defects; tracking them

Act as point of contact for Client projects

Interface with business stakeholders to transform perceived needs into concrete implementation designs

Coordinate with developers for any code changes needed to accommodate customer and business needs

Oversee testing QA environment and testing in Production

Provide business stakeholders and IT Management with project status updates

Assist in researching application issues to determine root cause and possible remediation

Support application deployments, through post deployment testing

Monitor client implementation feedback after deployments ensuring prompt resolution for issues discovered during the Production testing.

Communicate information to IT and business stakeholders

Senior Developer (2009-2011)

Client: Fundamo (VISA),

Responsible for developing a module in a mobile wallet project which was later acquired by VISA. I was part of the bigger VISA team and was responsible for delivering on my module.

Responsible for working on my payment solution module

Worked as a team member and coordinated with other team members on the solution delivery

Made sure that to maintain all quality standards as part of my development work

Did peer review of other modules

Act as Subject matter expert for Fundamo project when it was migrated to SAP.

Developer - (2007-2009)

Client:

RS group (Purchasing Manager), UK,

Nihilent Pune Internal Project used by Nihilent employees

Responsible for working on a Library management module of a bigger information management system

Responsible for working on a Purchasing management site on its different payments and audit modules.

Worked on JAVA struts, Hibernate, EJB

Education

Bhubaneswar, India ABIT College of Engineering 2002 - 2006

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Sc.

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