GITA TALASU EMAIL: ac3rtm@r.postjobfree.com

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Professional Summary

11+ years of professional experience (including 2.5+ years in Toulouse, FRANCE for client Airbus and 1.3+ years in Manheim, Germany for client BASF, currently in Seattle, USA for client T-Mobile since May 2017) in agile project management, project management office, software quality assurance and tool & process consulting.

In depth experience in agile project management techniques, specifically Scrum methodology. I have also used traditional project management techniques including risk analysis, change management and requirements gathering.

Facilitate and coach key Agile events including project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, and demos to ensure teams are practicing proper Agile principles.

Usage of agile project management tools like Rally for release planning, iteration planning, for scheduling all or parts of requirements from release backlog, and for managing other QA activities.

Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.

Facilitating discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution.

Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.

Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.

Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.

Drive project and program-level continuous improvement via retrospective events that promotes continuous improvement and inspires creative solutions that eliminate waste and/or improve team throughput.

Generation of Sprint Reports for listing of issues in each sprint, for projecting to senior management and making use of these reports for Sprint Retrospective meeting, and for mid-sprint progress checks.

Strong knowledge in Communication & Collaboration Skills with Client and Offshore. GITA TALASU EMAIL: ac3rtm@r.postjobfree.com

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As a client PMO, guided project managers in project planning, staffing, budgeting, tracking, monitoring and support. Added value in Project Facilitation - Participated in Project Kick- Offs/Closures and Regular/ Monthly Project Review Meets.

Extensive use of project management tools like MS Project Professional 2010 and MS Visio.

Defined, Implemented and deployed CMMi L4 and L5 processes for IT Japanese major. Also, supported in implementation and integration of CMMi L4 and L5 with Level 3 Processes.

Consulted and worked on Metrication & Statistical Process Control - Formulation of Process Performance Models (PPMs), Probability to meet Goals, Process Capability Baselines (PCBs), Usage of Control Charts and Root Cause Analysis.

Was able to independently perform Internal Process Audits & Configuration Items Audits, prepare Reports and tracked the Non-conformances to closure.

Prepared and reviewed Training Materials & able to train resources on Process Quality.

Lead & participated in various Process Improvement Initiatives.

Lead a team ranging from 1 to 20.

Employment Summary

a) Tech Mahindra experience

Organization Tech Mahindra

Band-Sub band/ Designation Agile Scrum Master

Duration 12/2008 – Till date

b) Pre Tech Mahindra experience

Organization Honeywell Technology Solutions (HTS)

Band-Sub band/ Designation Senior Software Engineer & Internal Quality Team Member

Duration 07/2006 – 11/2008

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Education

DEGREE SPECIALIZATION UNIVERSITY

YEAR OF

PASSING

BACHELOR OF

TECHNOLOGY

ELECTRONICS &

COMMUNICATION

ENGINEERING

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL

UNIVERSITY(JNTU)

2006

Board of

INTERMEDIATE

EDUCATION

MPC SRI CHAITANYA JUNIOR COLLEGE 2002

BOARD OF

SECONDARY

EDUCATION

- ST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL 2000

Certifications

APEX (Aspiring Project Management EXcellence) – TechMahindra

SAFe Agilist Certification – TechMahindra

SCRUM Master – Tech Mahindra

ITIL - Tech Mahindra

Quality Management System - Tech Mahindra

Six Sigma Green Belt – Honeywell Technology Solutions. Achievements

State 5th at university (JNTU) level & received Gold Medal for 4 years of Engineering.

Awarded Bravo by Tech Mahindra for successfully driving trainings on agile concepts.

Got best team award and Pat on back award twice in BASF in recognition towards the Customer Appreciation in Delivery and Quality Excellence.

Received customer appreciations for implementing various process improvement initiatives in Airbus organization.

Awarded Bravo by Tech Mahindra for successful implementation & deployment of CMMi L4 and L5 processes in DTS organization.

Awarded as Best Performer by HTS.

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Awarded spot award and team achievement award by HTS for timely delivery of project. Skills

SOURCE SKILLS

Primary Skill

category

Agile – SCRUM, Project Management Office (Project planning, staffing & resourcing, performance tracking, Coaching & Mentoring)

Process Implementation and deployment, Process & tool Consulting Domain Skills Agile, Project Management Office, CMMi V1.2, CMMI L4 & L5 process definition, implementation & deployment, Statistical Process Control, Six Sigma, ISO 9001:2000 and ITIL

Tools Agile Project management tool – Rally, MS Project Professional 2010, MS Visio, MS Office (Word, Excel and PPT), VSS, CVS, HP Quality Center, HP PPM, and Reqtify

Databases, Web

related & GUI

Oracle 10g, 11g (SQL, PL/SQL), MS-Access and MySQL

PHP, C, AJAX, JavaScript, HTML, XML and VBA, CSS, PHP Tester, Apache web servers, Zend server

Macromedia Dreamweaver, Edit Plus and HTML Editor Trainings

Agile Scrum & SAFe Agilist - Tech Mahindra

Project Management Office – Tech Mahindra

CMMI V1.2 – Tech Mahindra

ISO 9001: 2000 - Tech Mahindra

ITIL V3 - Tech Mahindra

Six Sigma – Honeywell Technology Solutions

Quality Management tools – Honeywell Technology Solutions

Operational tools like HP Quality Center and Reqtify – Airbus

Internal Quality Auditor - Tech Mahindra

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Project Details

Client : T-Mobile

Project Name : Warranty Exchange Maintenance (WEM) tool Position : Agile – Scrum Master

Duration : May 2017 – Till Date

Location : Seattle Washington, USA

About:

T-Mobile US is a major wireless network operator in the United States. Its headquarters are located in Bellevue, Washington, in the Seattle metropolitan. T-Mobile is the third largest wireless carrier in the United States with 72.6 million customers as of Q1 2017. T-Mobile US provides wireless voice and data services in the United States. One of the service offered to Tech Mahindra to develop micro application for business users to manage apple and non-apple products information from front end UI & to offer replacements to customers for the devices that are under warranty and extended warranty. Project Description:

This project involves

Development of web application namely “Warranty Exchange Maintenance tool” for the business users to Add/Edit/View products (Apple Vs Non Apple); Identify Replacements; Perform Bulk replacements and View & Update Secondary information of the products.

Database/schema creation “Warranty Exchange Matrix” and data upload into tables.

Development of Micro-services for communication between Frontend UI and Database to show case data in the front end.

Front end Design & Development: Using Angular 2, Java Script, HTML, JSP

Backend development: Using Java

Database: MySQL

Build/Integration/Deployment: Using Jenkins EDP Pipeline

Code Management: Using Bitbucket server

SPLUNK to search, monitor, analyze and visualize the data logs.

Agile management tool: Rally & Kanban board

Reports generation for project status using Rally

Development of an external micro service namely “GetReplacementDevice API” for identifying and extracting the replacements for a particular device when customer brings to the front-end channel (QVXP) which interacts with the database “Warranty Exchange Matrix” via middleware

“ESG”.

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Managing communication between front-end channels (WEM tool) – which is the part of System of Engagement (SOE) and backend interfaces (Warranty Exchange matrix) – which is the part of System of Aggregation (SOA).

Publish of events/messages to Non-SAP BI – which is part of System of Record (SOR) through Deep.IO asynchronous enterprise bus.

Responsibilities:

Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.

Work collaboratively with Product Owners, cross-functional development teams, and Project Managers to support development and software delivery.

Assist the Product Owner in user story creation/prioritization and product Backlog grooming via emergent requirement elicitation while supporting overall organizational goals.

Track and report Scrum team velocity and manage Sprint capacity.

Manage high-level budgeting and time tracking.

Resolve or escalate blocking impediments as necessary.

Coordinate dependencies between teams with other Scrum Masters.

Work with Development managers to manage team capacity.

Ensure development team is working efficiently towards Sprint goals.

Coach the development team on how to use Agile/Scrum practices.

Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

Ensure cross functional coordination (analysts, developers and testers) is occurring early and often.

Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.

Create an environment that empowers and energizes team members, with a focus on accountability, adaptability, and collaboration.

Client : BASF IT Services

Position : Agile – Scrum Master

Duration : Jan 2014 – Apr 2017

Location : Hyderabad, India

Position : PMO Lead /Cluster Manager for Project Support Services Cluster Duration : Sept 2012 – Dec 2013

Location : Manheim, Germany (for 1.3 years) and Hyderabad, India About:

BASF is the world’s leading chemical company with more than 110,000 employees, six Verbund sites and approximately 380 additional production sites worldwide we serve customers and partners in almost all countries of the world. One of the services namely PMO has been offered to Tech Mahindra for guiding Project Managers in terms of planning, budgeting, tracking, monitoring and support. The other service offered namely Scrum has been offered to Tech Mahindra to lay out agile principles/framework. GITA TALASU EMAIL: ac3rtm@r.postjobfree.com

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Responsibilities as scrum master:

Facilitate the team for better creativity and tries to improve the efficiency of the development team.

Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in agile methodology.

Responsible to remove the impediments for the scrum team.

Arranged daily stand-up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.

Help product owner to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint.

Responsible to conduct retrospective meetings.

Organizes and facilitates the sprint-planning meetings.

Acts as safeguard for the team.

Responsibilities as Cluster Manager:

Interactions with BASF Cluster Manager on demand planning, resource tickets creations & their extensions, pre-approvals and invoicing, timesheets & efforts approvals, service delivery committee meetings, data validations, KPIs/metrics generation & presentations to senior management.

Led a team of 1 to 20 and supported resources (Subcontractors or internals) on topics related to project support.

Responsibilities as PMO lead:

Helped Project managers in project Planning, staffing of resources and schedule of tasks.

Tracked project parameters and created various dashboards to project to the senior management.

Trained Project Managers in usage of MS Project Professional 2010 for project planning by conducting power hour sessions on scheduling, staffing and updating the project plan.

Helped project managers in creating budgeting templates for project approvals.

Regular status meetings with teams and tracking Issues/Risks.

Provided project cycle support during entire life cycle of the project.

Maintained share point site for the projects with the necessary documentation.

Migration of Share point from 2007 to 2010.

Supporting ongoing involvement in project management.

Booking efforts for the resources in the team in SAP BOSS Interface. Project Details

Client : Airbus

Project : Quality & Process Deployment and Optimization Services Position : Quality Responsible & Process Consultant Duration : Jan 2010 – August 2012

Location : Toulouse, France for entire project duration Tools : HP PPM, HP QC, REQTIFY and Microsoft (Word, Excel and PPT) GITA TALASU EMAIL: ac3rtm@r.postjobfree.com

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About:

Airbus, the world’s leading aircraft manufacturer has long term goals to significantly reduce IT costs, while improving the effectiveness and efficiency of IT operations. It also aims to reduce complexity and provide flexibility while integrating operations across its multiple European entities. In order to accomplish this, we as a team realized that Quality and processes can be significant enables to achieve these objectives by reducing rework and establishing effective processes and artifacts by ensuring end to end quality of the projects and aligned to organizational practices. Responsibilities:

Conduct Process Analysis in the following areas: o Requirements Management and Design

o Peer Review

o Project Planning, Project Tracking and Monitoring o Configuration Management

o Conduct Milestone Review and Quality Reviews

o Monitor process compliance on an ongoing basis

o Plan/conduct internal audits/assessments

o Perform non-conformance analysis

Facilitate metrics implementation and analysis

Facilitate defect prevention/ causal analysis

Identify best practices, lessons learnt in projects

Establish metrics and KPI for projects and operational activities etc

Monitor and control quality of project deliverables using tools like HPQC, Reqtify etc.

Document guidelines for project managers to quantitatively manage projects

Provide training on tools like HP PPM, HPQC and Reqtify for the users. Project Details

Client : DTS – Japan

Project : CMMI Level 4 & 5 Consulting

Position : CMMi Consultant

Duration : Apr 2009 – Dec 2009

Location : Hyderabad, India

About:

DTS is a CMMI Dev v1.2 Level 3 customer who wants to achieve CMMI level 5 in March 2010. We are helping build the processes for the customer for High Maturity processes. The objective of this project is to establish, define and implement CMMi Level 4 and Level 5 processes for their CMMI L5 Journey and help them in integrating CMMi L4 and L5 processes with L3 processes. Responsibilities:

Actively involved in discussions with project management department to understand the gaps in the process & generated As-Is Analysis/Process analysis report. GITA TALASU EMAIL: ac3rtm@r.postjobfree.com

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Performed customer need analysis and prioritized requirements.

Identified measurable metrics and their effect of process variance.

Studied closure reports of various projects of DTS and derived baselines and dashboard for the organization.

Identification of Organization’s Quality Sub processes, their measures and Objectives for Quantitative Analysis & in line with their business objectives.

Performed statistical analysis on the historical data of DTS using tools like Control Charts, Eyeballing technique, Regression Analysis, Monte Carlo Simulation technique so on.

Established Process Performance Baselines and Process Performance Models for the selected measures.

Prepared Process Mapping & policy documents for CMMi L4 and L5 process areas.

Created Project Manager’s Guidebook, Organizational Innovation and deployment Guidebook for use by the DTS projects.

Created Reusable component for Causal analysis Framework for use in DTS client projects which Includes Brainstorming tools, Fishbone diagram and Pareto Analysis tool.

Implementation and integration of CMMi L4 and L5 Processes with the Level 3 processes of DTS Client organization.

Successful deployment of CMMi L4 and L5 processes in client organization’s measurement repository.

Project Details

Client : Tech Mahindra (Internal)

Project : Building Reusable Process Assets for Organization Position : Quality Responsible (QR)

Duration : Dec 2008 – Mar 2009

Location : Hyderabad, India

About:

This project focus on creating Reusable Process Assets/Templates for Process Improvement Consulting using ASPIRE Methodology. These templates are highlighted in XSELL Portal for use by the Tech Mahindra Associates in Client Engagements.

Responsibilities:

Created Reusable Process Assets for SE Improvement Consulting using ASPIRE Methodology.

Involved in reviews and incorporated the changes required.

Followed defined standards mentioned in the Organization’s measurement repository.

Designed the scope of the entire Configuration Management processes. GITA TALASU EMAIL: ac3rtm@r.postjobfree.com

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Conducted reviews and evaluation of current process systems. Also, designed and implemented improvements to current systems [including monitoring and reporting progress].

Responsible for the preparation and planning of all Configuration Management activities.

Established naming styles and conventions for the configuration items that are to be managed and controlled.

Single point of Contact for changes & owner for the change management process.

Review of logged change requests, filtering & assessing the impact.

Obtain necessary approval for changes and facilitating CAB and also develop recommendations for implementation and improvement in Change Management processes based on ITIL best practices and company standards. Project Details

Client : Honeywell (Phoenix)

Project : Cabin Services

Position : Senior Software Engineer & QA Engineer

Duration : July 2006 – Nov 2008

Location : Hyderabad, India

Languages : PHP, JavaScript, HTML, Ajax and XML

Database : Oracle 11g – 11.1.0.6.0 Version

Tools : Zend Studio for Eclipse – 6.0.0 Version

About:

Cabin Services provide voice and data communications for the customers travelling in the aircraft using OneLink and OneView services. Cabin Services is a full life cycle project. The main modules are back end databases processing application/tools and the web interface for the Customers, Account Management Representatives, Business Leaders, Field Service Engineers and Original Equipment Manufacturers. Responsibilities:

Analyze, design, development, test and maintain web application based on requirements provided by the client.

Track project progress, analyze Quality of deliverables, and impose necessary measures to minimize defects.

Captured Metrics on a month basis and performed analysis & report to senior management in case of any variations.

Ensuring that standards and guidelines are followed as per SEI CMMI V1.2.

SPOC for Configuration management & ensured configuration, change, build and release processes are followed by the team.

Focus on Process Improvement and Problem Solving. GITA TALASU EMAIL: ac3rtm@r.postjobfree.com

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Was responsible to monitor the weak Process areas in the projects and provide improvement suggestions and derived process capability baselines.

Institutionalized processes like Quality Management system, customer satisfaction and complaint handling and use of tools in the teams.

Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project. Personal Details:

Name: Gita Talasu

Personal email id (if any) ac3rtm@r.postjobfree.com

Type of Visa holding (if any):

H1B Visa Valid up to year 2020

France Work Permit Valid up to Mar 2013

German Business Visa Valid up to Oct 2013

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