Scrum Master / IT Project Manager
Resume:
OJASWITA PRADHAN, Scrum Master / Business Analyst
***** * ******* ****, ***** Land, TX – 77498 ********.*******@*****.*** 832-***-****
SUMMARY
Certified Scrum Master (SMAC)
Certified Product Owner (SPOAC)
Engineer (Computer Applications)
Over 8 years of experience in complete SDLC including Agile Scrum, Waterfall, SAFe, Lean-Agile, RUP, Kanban and DevOps methodology.
Strong experience in Oil & Gas, BFSI, BI, Life Science and Construction domains.
Proven experience working on Products, E-Commerce (B2B and B2C) and Real-Time applications.
Confident Servant Leader with strong focus on team communication and team building.
Highly experienced in leading onsite-offshore teams, in Agile Scrum and Scrum XP model with ability to multitask, while maintaining highest quality with attention to detail
Excellent communicator with ability to build and sustain good rapport with internal and external stakeholders
Positive, Energetic and Self-Motivated with ability to remediate challenging situations.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Agile scrum, SAFe, DevOps, Kanban, Project Management, Team Leadership, Business Analysis, Requirements Elicitation, Communication Management, MS Project, MS Visio, Product Development, INT GeoToolkit, Ecommerce
EXPERIENCE
Scrum Master / Onsite Coordinator
Halliburton
Aug 2017 – Feb 2018
Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
Lead multiple teams that are located in different geographical regions and facilitate scrum-of-scrums to manage the work effectively.
Adopt Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to address management of huge teams resulting in increased productivity and reduction in defects.
Shield development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.
Environment: Angular 2/4, Bootstrap, Html5, CSS3, SCSS, C# .Net, Cassandra, SQL Server, Kafka, Agile Scrum, TypeScript, TFS, Jira, Visual Studio, NodeJS, Jasmine, Karma, Gulp, TFS, Jira, DevOps, SAFe, Continuous Integration (CI)
Agile Coach
NDR Impex – Ecommerce Application
Dec 2016 – Jul 2017
Guided application development incorporating the latest frontend framework
Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
Increased client’s online sales and visibility by developing a cutting-edge commerce application targeting various modern devices.
Managed issues through risk management and contingency planning
Environment: ASP.Net C#, Html5, CSS3, Bootstrap, SASS, Angular 2, Agile Scrum, TypeScript, Git, NodeJS, Jasmine, Karma, Webpack, Visual Studio
Scrum Master
TD Bank
May 2016 – Jul 2016
Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
Shield development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
Work Closely with the UX team to create visual designs, mockups and wireframes.
Environment: ASP.Net C#, Bootstrap, Html5, CSS3, SASS, AngularJS, Agile Scrum, Git, Bower, Grunt, Jira, CMS
Scrum Master
SunLife Financials
Nov 2015 – May 2016
Guide and mentor junior team members to help them understand the agile methodology to achieve high quality deliverables.
Facilitate daily stand-up, planning poker, sprint review and retro meetings
Facilitate communication between the front end and backend teams using effective communication management.
Work with multiple teams to facilitate the scrum-of-scrums to effectively manage the project execution.
Managed issues through risk management and contingency planning.
Environment: ASP.Net C#, Bootstrap, Html5, CSS3, SASS, Agile Scrum, AngularJS, Scout, Dimensions, CMS
Scrum Master
Mphasis Limited
Jan 2015– Oct 2015
Facilitate scrum meetings including daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective.
Mentor and coach team to develop applications using Agile Scrum principles.
Manage issues through change control using preventive and corrective actions.
Develop release plans and facilitate release formalities including stakeholder demo.
Monitor work progress using sprint burn down charts and share weekly reports with higher management.
Work closely with the PO for backlog grooming and maintenance
Environment: Asp.Net (MVC), Bootstrap, Html5, CSS3, Agile-Scrum, Angular JS, SQL Server, Jira, Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Scrum Master / BA
Persistent Systems – ThermoFisher
Oct 2014 – Dec 2014
Facilitate daily scrum calls with strong focus on high quality deliverables on time.
Mentor and coach team to work in Agile XP programming model.
Work closely with the Usability team to help develop intuitive user interfaces.
Monitor project execution and control issues by using corrective and preventive actions.
Environment: Java Spring (MVC), Angular JS, Bootstrap, Html5, CSS3, LESS, GIT, Agile, MySQL, Scrum, Jira, Karma, Jasmine
Scrum Master / BA
Credit Pointe Services – Deloitte – Fidelity
Sep 2013 – Sep 2014
Lead product development team to help enhance existing application in BI space.
Conduct scrum meetings including IPM, Retro, Sprint Review Demo, daily stand up etc.
Mentor and coach team to adopt Agile Scrum methodology
Work with Sr. BA to write user stories
Managed issues through change control management and risk analysis.
Environment: Asp.Net (MVC), Java Spring(MVC), Angular JS, Bootstrap, Html5, CSS3, SVN, Agile, MySQL, Oracle, LESS, Scrum, TFS, Karma, Jasmine
Scrum Master / BA
Sainel Technologies
Feb 2012 – Aug 2013
Facilitate scrum meetings including daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective.
Mentor and coach team to develop applications on Agile Scrum principles.
Manage issues through risk management and contingency planning.
Write user stories and create product and sprint backlog.
Monitor work progress using sprint burn down charts and share weekly reports with higher management.
Responsible for backlog grooming and maintenance.
Environment: Asp.Net (MVC), Bootstrap, Html5, CSS3, Tortoise SVN, Agile, SQL Server, TFS
Team Lead
Sears / Kmart – Technosoft Global Corporation
Aug 2011 – Feb 2012
Work on portals and e-commerce applications
Lead team to successfully deliver B2B and B2C applications for Kmart and Sears.
Collaborate with the BA to write user stories
Guide and mentor technical team to complete stories and do code review.
Address cross-browser compatibility issues.
Assist project manager in meetings with stakeholders through requirements elicitation phase
Work with the BA to elicit requirements using various elicitation techniques like interviews, JAD sessions, meetings etc.
Lead scrum planning and agile development (pair programming)
Environment: Ruby on Rails (MVC), Html5, CSS3, Sass, GIT, Agile, Ubuntu, MySQL, Scrum - XP, Mingle, Jira
Programmer Analyst
Z & A Infotek
Oct 2008 – Apr 2009
Work on product development using latest web technologies.
Implemented user interface and developed web applications
Maintained existing applications by providing support for minor modifications as required
Environment: ASP.Net C#, Html, CSS, SQL Server
Sr. Software Engineer
SoftTech Engineers Pvt. Ltd.
Oct 2003 – Feb 2005
Develop web ERP product ‘Opticon’
Develop, test and integrate code.
Write stored procedures and triggers
Lead web team to convert desktop application into web-based applications.
Provide maintenance support for ERP application
Environment: ASP, ASP.Net, Html, CSS, Oracle, SQL Server
Software Engineer
ImagePoint Technologies
Jan 2002 – Aug 2002
Develop applications using ASP
Create stored procedures and triggers
Work on web-based product applications for imaging
Environment: ASP, Html, CSS, SQL Server
EDUCATION
Diploma in Advanced Computing
C-DAC
Aug 2001 – Jan 2002
Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications
M.S.University
June 2000 – May 2001
Bachelor of Engineering
M.S.University
June 1995 – May 1999
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