scrum master

Innovative and Trusted Technology Leader

Project Management

Process Improvement

Strategic Leadership

Software Development (Agile, Waterfall)

Enterprise Architecture

Resource Management

Business Process Management

Business Intelligence and ETL

Team Building

SUMMARY

Project Management: Repeatedly have been tapped on the shoulder to come into a situation with numerous problems. Each time providing leadership and direction to bring about solutions those address the problems and increase productivity. Provided strategic and tactical direction to develop world-class IT systems that align with the organization’s focus on delivery of adaptive software solutions.

Technology Implementation: Directed and executed IT technical projects (COTS and custom) that achieved great success and internal cost reduction. Earned a reputation as a technology leader providing high-level services and customer support.

Proven Leader / Team Builder: Agile/Scrum enthusiast with the proven ability to lead development team to success. Have had the privilege of leading, influencing and mentoring several outstanding self-organized teams

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS

COTS Implementations: Successfully led the team as a Scrum Master/Project Manager to implement a Content Management System (CMS) that replaces manually coded NIEHS’s website. This has enabled content owners to make changes to the site on their own. Project was completed on time and has earned high praises from the customers. Developed technical design and project specification for Cognos reporting at NIEHS to replace custom reports. Led a team of developers (internal, external) to develop CIO dashboard in Cognos

Leadership of technology teams: In two instances I was brought in to lead teams that had morale issues and lacked vision. I was able to influence the team with direction and increased productivity that allowed them to grow to the next level and implement the next generation of applications.

Building Innovative Application Portfolio: I was brought in by the Project Officer of National Toxicology Program (NTP) to lead migration of legacy applications to newer and stable platform. Served as technical lead and project manager to migrate several VAX based legacy systems to web based ColdFusion & Oracle applications while maintaining the existing systems. I was instrumental in developing project plan and technical specifications and completed the project in record time.

Improvement of development process and environment: Effectively led the efforts to implement JIRA and Confluence at NIEHS to reduce costs and ensure compliance with CMMI and ITIL standards. Mentored and facilitated development team to start utilizing best practices and tools (sprint plans, unit testing, continuous integration etc.)

Skills

Fast learner with ability to thrive quickly in a new environment.

Excellent team player possessing strong analytical and problem-solving capability, able to listen and provide guidance.

Excellent knowledge of project management standards (preparation of the PMP Certification in progress).

Experience working in matrix environments with tight timelines and limited resources.

Able to take into account multiple constraints to prioritize the tasks and drive the Team accordingly. Experience preventing scope creep by managing the changes following the organization processes and coordinating the impacts.

Expertise in monitoring and tracking the project results, and presenting them in a readable format to the management.

Proven ability to identify and prioritize the risks. Strong experience in defining proper contingency plan to control the potential impacts.

Proficient in using UML to create and maintain Activity diagrams, documenting use cases, designing use cases and wireframes (extensive use of MS Visio),

Technical Skills

Methodologies / Frameworks

Waterfall, Agile Scrum, CMMI, SAFE, Kanban, Lean

Requirements Management Tool

Rational RequisitePro, jira, Confluence, Rally, TFS

Modeling Tools

Microsoft Visio (UML notation), Rational Rose, Protoshare

Web programming

HTML, Javascript, XML, PHP(High level Knowledge)

Database

MS SQL Server, MySQL(Basic)

Defect Tracking Tools

Quality Center, DOORS, FootPrint

Other

MS-Office/MS-Project, Primavera

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Anthem Inc., Atlanta, GA Oct 2017 To Present

Facilitating three Software Implementation teams and one data migration team.

Coordinated Scrum Ceremonies: sprint planning, stand up, grooming, review/demo and retrospectives.

Eliminated gaps in between sprint ending and sprint planning.

Created processes to insure that Sprint Goals were being met.

Successfully bridged the disconnect between the Senior Leadership and Development Teams, resulting

in one shared vision.

Utilized Scrum and Kanban Agile methodology tools to track project management processes.

Coached/trained team members and PO's on agile processes, insuring consistency across all teams.

Managed financials and project schedule to insure timely deliverables.

Worked closely with the Stakeholders to establish priorities, then filtering to the delivery team.

Troubleshot impediments or blockers, in order to increase the teams' velocity.

Monitored the development progress throughout each sprint and communicated risk to stakeholders.

Continually came up with new strategies, in order to energize the team and create bonding.

Created a reliable team to address production issues and eliminated teams interruptions

Managed Vendors (Work Order, Negotiations, Interviews-New Hires, Budget etc..)

Facilitating projects from the inception phase- Creation of spike stories, Portfolio Epic’s, Features, Epic’s and User Stories)

Helped in creating the Agile framework for the organization

Helped in the migrating from a waterfall frame work to following true agile practices.

Experience in handling very experienced cross functional teams to teams which are geographically separated.

Helped in defining the Defect lifecycle management, Story lifecycle management, DOD and DOR,

Project Manager/Agile Coach / Scrum Master

Molina, Long Beach, CA Sep 2014 to July 2017

Project

Working on multiple internal projects with the Information Management team. Current project involves analyzing and Querying Data for the healthcare analytics team and care management teams tracking Medicaid plans, prescription drugs and providers in a county. Also in making User Interface changes to display reports added to the company tool.

Molina reports to Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) following National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) standards. The collection of standardized Performance Measures in the Managed Care Industry helps in ensuring that the public has the information to reliably compare the performance of health care plans. We used CAHPS surveys from the patients to asses our internal Healthcare providers.

The main domains involve effectiveness, availability, experience of care, utilization and relative resource use, and health plan descriptive information. Based on these domains, the prime focus was on Analyzing HEDIS Measurement Information in support of Care and Service Improvisation Strategies.

Responsibilities

Led the strategic implementation of a 3rd party software suite to equip our external sales team of 6,000 brokers with an advanced lead management system, a full-fledged commission system and an online on-boarding system.

Provide leadership to ensure the Teams are working efficiently together: when necessary, provide guidance on the approach/tool used or support with conflict resolution.

Keep track of the risks and interdependencies with other projects within the Program, and ensure that mitigation plans are available when necessary. Manage costs, timeline and resources allocated.

Risk and constraints: very aggressive deadlines with a high degree of interdependencies.

Working as a Coach to help with product delivery process for Molina involving 100+ Teams. Customized software development process to help reach the end goal of High Quality Product Delivery leading to Happy Customers.

Built the release plan and the Scrum (Iteration) Plan.

Facilitated sprint planning and sprint back log grooming as Scrum master for multiple Scrum teams.

Conducted sprint retrospective with the team so as to inspect, adapt and improve the

process.

Helped the product owner with product Backlog grooming with KANO prioritization matrix and release planning meetings.

Participated in the daily scrum of scrums.

Owned the blocker board and helped the team to identify and remove blockers.

Facilitated and conducted the sprint demo/sprint review of the latest code deployment of the

software with business users and stake holders.

Provided visibility to team impediments/risks and helped eliminate them Tracked the teams

daily progress/ Sprint Burn down, Release Burn down using “Rally and Jira “Worked with Product

owner On Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog.

Conducted daily scrum meetings (agile approach) to get status updates Publicized the team's

progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner /

stakeholders Established a lightweight Scrum project management process and helped team

meet sprint goals.

Conducted data gathering necessary for the analysis and documentation of the company's

existing processes.

Updated the visible charts in the room including the story card wall.

Analyzed existing process and its relationship with other processes and departments

Facilitated focus group sessions with the stakeholders to identify process improvements, risks and possible solutions.

Created training documents and facilitated in training the end users to the new application.

Coached, trained & helped with successful adoption of Agile practices (Scrum/Kanban) in CSG/ CVG in alignment with Organization’s goal.

Worked with WANO leadership team to help transition the true Agile Values / Principles impacting positive cultural behaviors.

Project Manager/ Agile Coach

Malwarebytes, San Jose, CA Sep 2013 to June 2014

Created Agile Transformation Backlog. Shared the vision of Agile Transformation at Company Meeting. SM for 2 teams. Worked with executive team for successful adoption.

Conducted daily stand up’s, resolved issues and helped in providing clarity.

Helped create user stories and the story board. Also helped in assigning the tasks.

Helped the product owner in the backlog grooming process.

Conducted the sprint planning, sprint review and the sprint retrospective meetings.

Helped the team in the understanding of the present achievements and future goals.

Our teams were highly motivated to drive, build, and scale repeatable business processes to continuously improve operational efficiency, effectiveness, and cost.

Handled all the ad hoc requests in collaboration with the business analyst.

Managing multiple cross functional teams to function harmoniously.

Owned and developed internal process for collaboration with inside and field sales teams.

Built and optimized the Partner Program; On-Boarding, Deal Registrations, Partner Orders, NFR and Trial Usage, and Renewals.

Defined and designed all sales and channel dashboards providing executives with metrics on customers and partners growth.

Assisted channel leadership with all process definitions, process documentation, channel data analysis, and roadmap prioritization.

Coordinate prioritization discussions with channel Leadership, channel Account Managers and our Business Unit Tools teams.

Assisted in development of all Partner Portal initiatives including new partner tools, Salesforce and Channel Operations processes.

Triage & resolve channel support issues comprising of portal troubleshooting, Purchase Order processing issues, and channel conflict disputes.

Project alignment based on Line of effort provided along with task alignment within a project, including aligning with external teams to meet the scheduled project milestones.

Daily interactions with different groups including the management, internal teams, external applications and Enterprise release management teams.

Project initiation, planning including project budget and vendor procurement, execution, control and closing.

Tracked and reported project and budget performance to lifecycle management.

Daily updates to SharePoint and Clarity to provide detailed project status to different teams including internal team, management and enterprise teams.

Performed risk assessment and mitigation, release management; project change requests impact assessments and notices

Analyzed end to end process and created workflows to compare talking points and interactions between previous systems and new system

Assisted the Business Analysts in end to end documentation of requirements in the form of Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD) and Statement of Work (SOW).

Worked with operational leaders within the business to provide recommendations on opportunities for process improvements and revenue enhancements.

Conduct Release Review meetings to track progress of each project within the release, to identify risks and help facilitate to resolve issues.

Track deployment night activities, enable resolution of issues and provide detailed, timely updates to management.

Manage resources of the team to allocate appropriate members to projects based on level of effort (LOE) for the project and knowledge base of the resource.

Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Cisco Systems Augest-2010 to July-2013

Started off as BA then moved to BA lead / SM after getting CSM. Progressed towards full time Scrum Master / Agile Coach.

Worked with a local eight member scrum team and a multi-site scrum team (four members in San Jose,

four in Atlanta) to develop and deploy cloud based microservices (VMWare, Open stack, AWS) and client

applications (iOS, Android, and Reference Design Kit (RDK) set top boxes)

Encouraged experimentation and innovation - Allocated time for the team to create proof-of- concept prototypes of their ideas in the form of spikes

Emphasis on Continuous Improvement - Used retrospectives to find ways to strengthen the team, and minimize team weaknesses in a constructive, bonding experience. Encouraged team to

learn new things. Diversified knowledge on the team over time helped to build two of the strongest,

high-performing teams in the program.

Deliver value with quality - Team was coached not to accept work until it had passed the Definition of Ready (DoR). Ensured that code reviewers collaborated closely with the developers throughout the sprint so that there were no major design surprises at the end. Hosted sprint end demos as part of Definition of Done (DoD) after feature passed the tests in the Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) deployment pipeline.

Foster a collaborative work environment - Leveraged many tools to make collaboration easier,

especially with remote teams: Jabber, Spark, Slack, Jive, Wiki, Jira, CA (Rally), GitHub, Box,

WebEx, Web Whiteboard, Telepresence. Made sure collocated teams had a scrum room with all the tools and toys to help make collaboration easier and fun.

Unblocking impediments - Coached the team to ask for help from peers when they get stuck,

and not wait for the daily standup to bring it up, unless they could not get the help they sought.

Focused on program level impediments that were not in the scrum teams' sphere of control. Built

personal bonds with key members of each of the geographic development sites to facilitate

communication with remote teams.

Grace Hopper Women in Technology Conference (GHC) - Selected by the executive team to represent Cisco at GHC for two years in a row (2015 and 2016). Helped to interview and recruit

rising stars at the Cisco GHC booth.

Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master that resulted in reduction of Cycle time by 20% thus increasing team's throughput in less than 8 weeks.

Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.

Facilitated Agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership.

Removed obstacle for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution. Customer provided positive feedback.

Coached new SM and trained global teams, which resulted in early delivery of project and reduced process waste caused by lack of common understanding.

Sr. Manager Learning & Development September 2005 – December 2009

Uncanny Services - www.uncannyservices.com

Chennai/India

Responsibilities

Designed a competency mapping system for all trades and grades to identify the TNA and organize the training required to fill the gap.

Working in a team to produce Programs that are satisfactory to all relevant parties in an organization, such as line managers, accountants and senior managers at board level.

Implemented an individual learning plan based on the competency mapping.

Managing the delivery of training and development Programs and, in a more senior role, devising a training strategy for the organization.

helping line managers and trainers solve specific training problems, either on a one-to-one basis or in groups

Effectively implemented a system of remote monitoring the post training evaluation and assessment of trained employees thereby minimizing logistic expense.

Conducted classroom training on Basic and advanced level English language for executives and administration officers for their effective business functioning. There by reduced the cost of hiring external training agencies and through flexible training hours.

Reduced the overhead expenses of external training by hiring the trainer alone and providing the required ambience for the training in-house.

Established the training center with the required ambience and converted it as a revenue generation unit by accommodating external trainings.

producing training materials for in-house courses

Conducted cross functional training Programs.

Strategically planned and aided in the grade revision of laborer’s and office boys to staff cadre by increasing their level of competence by imparting language techniques and developing their personality.

Solely responsible for facilitating & coordinating the Training requirements for the entire business group of employees & conduct Pre-process training

Handle Soft Skills Training programs such as Bottleneck analyses, Time management, Stress management, Leadership Skills, Expense Management and more…

Management, Coaching & Feedback, Presentation Skills & Team Dynamics

Responsible for handling a team of Sr. trainers, Trainers, Scholars & SMEs to plan and conduct

process training, refresher training, and remedial training

Ensure compliance of all Training policies & adherence to Training Schedules

Approve Training Calendar every month based on individuals & groups in consultation with Managers & VPs

Identify & conduct Training Need Analysis for individuals, teams and plan training programs accordingly

Planning, Coordinating, Scheduling Training and evaluating Training effectiveness, Trainer utilization and Training metrics

Review SOPs, Designing Course curriculum, Content Development, Competency matrix, Training manuals & hand-outs.

Ensuring maintenance of Training documents & documentation for internal & external audit compliance

Facilitate Train the Trainer program for SMEs and identify potential trainers from within the service delivery team

Set certifying parameters and certify employees & elimination of single point failures

Prepare and maintain MTR, training trends, training reports, FPY (quality) scores that explain the individual and group progress of Trainees and Training Team

Facilitate and implement process improvement ideas to improve efficiency

Assist the HR Team in recruitment for current projects

Dy. Manager: Training & Performance Solution March 2003 – August 2005

Bharti Learning Systems Ltd. (Now Known As Centum Learning http://www.centumlearning.com/ )

Chennai, India

Responsibilities

Responsible for getting business and creating content for the client (internal and external).

Planning and implementing content strategies for Education Programs (Campus Learning Programs).

Establishing tie-ups with content writers, freelancers, educationist, and experts in various fields to author content for Training Programs.

Preparing content for Products and Processes of Bharti Airtel Ltd.

Analyzing customer/product requirement/profile from requirement/design document.

Implementing National Training Strategy in sync with Business Head’s Needs.

Developing training modules and roll out of modules Pan India.

Creating and developing content for Bharti Infratel Limited.

Spearheading a team of 8 trainers and analyzing their performance.(TTT Program)

Analyzing training needs and conducting programs to enhance efficiency in operations towards accomplishment of corporate objectives.

Identifying training, learning and development needs for the business which could lead to performance enhancement.

Conducting training programs for client for various product, process, soft skills and sales training module as per the requirement; conducting coaching to ensure improvement in sales and customer satisfaction.

Conducting performance reviews of the participants and the programs with the business.

Ensuring improvement in CSMM scores as per the KRAs.

Working on various modules with the LCD team to develop content for various projects.

Creating design documents that translate the requirements and specifications into a workable format that forms the basis for content design.

Supporting SME / Team Member instructionally by explaining the content strategies or design document and suggesting appropriate instructional strategies.

Finalizing the participant’s / facilitator’s manual & integrating course based on defined requirements.

Ensuring closure of content from instructional point of view.

Highlights

Merit of having coordinated with other functional teams during the launch of major projects of Airtel like Platinum Call Centre at IBM – Daksh and Telemedia Outsourcing at FSL, Bhopal.

Successfully launched FTA (First Time Activation) in Southern & Central India, 5 Circles.

EDUCATION

B.Tech From Vinayaka Mission University (DE)

MBA In HR – Anna University.

Certified Scrum Master

TRAINING SESSIONS HANDLED/CONTENT DEVELOPED

Leadership

Time Management

Stress Management

Problem Solving

The Altitude of Attitude

Team building

Attitude with Customers & Sales

Decision making

Personality Development

Motivation

Presentation skills

Corporate Etiquette

Art of Communication

Effective Delegation.

PERSONAL DOSSIER

Date of Birth : 07-14-1981

Gender : Male

Languages: English, Tamil, Hindi, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Marvadi, Dogri.

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