PRASANNA RAMAMOORTHY, SA, A-CSM, CSPO

Scrum Master Team Building Strategic Planning Agile Project Management

,Raleigh, North Carolina

Impact

Strategic IT leader utilizing 14+ years expertise in leading teams, collaboration, managing software development projects to deliver business value, improve processes and maximize team potential, product quality and efficiency

Significant Accomplishments

Successfully managed multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements and product stability

Implemented organization standards successfully to establish the lean principles and procedures tailored to Agile and DevOps models that saved time and increases production stability

Built a team/squad to support high profile products, resulting in increased production stability that enabled firm to bring on large client with multimillion-dollar revenue stream

Professional Experience

Sr. Scrum Master, BASF, Durham, North Carolina Feb’2018 – Present

Lead multiple teams for an Agricultural, Petrochemical, and Catalyst products

Implemented Agile processes across an organization to deliver a quality product within budget & time

Lead the programs and team globally that involves front end application, SAP middleware, Database migration, 3rd party labs, vendor systems, and infrastructure activities

Worked closely with the Business/Product Owners and Users to understand the requirement, and guided the team to convert those requirements into a product backlog

Introduced “Agile Analysis Board” to the product scrum team to maintain the complete set of backlog items – with a detailed user story and acceptance criteria; backlog refinement and prioritization

Estimated the work and efforts for “Story & Tasks” and helped the team to update their time against an original estimate in JIRA, to keep track on each issue efforts

Organized Sprint Planning meeting to ensure the backlogs are aligned rightly for different sprints

Setup JIRA project space with Scrum and Kanban Boards to track all the issue types for different sprints – Epic, Story, subtask, Test case, and Bugs

Created Confluence space to maintain the project documents – Product Requirements, Stakeholder register, Meeting notes, Decision logs, Roaming items, Retrospective, and Task Report

Facilitated Daily Scrum meetings to keep track on all the issues and to remove the impediments & team conflicts to maximize the productivity

Managed the insight and opinions of multiple stakeholders including 3rd party vendors and ensured all stakeholders agreed with the scope and roadmap of the product

Submitted the project bookings report (forecast vs actuals) every month

Conducted Sprint Review/Sprint Demo meeting to present the product functionalities

Coordinated Retrospective meetings to improvise the process and to motivate the team

Determined the team capacity (velocity) from historical data

Tracked and communicated the team status and progress to the business, product stakeholders, vendors, squads, and executives via JIRA Dashboards – task report, burn up & burn down charts

Reviewed and provided feedback on user stories, QA Test plan, Regression and BAT test cases

Provided JIRA and Confluence trainings across the organization

Coached the product team to transform into fully Agile successfully and mentored the team members on agile/scrum processes and standards

Agile Program Manager, Wells Fargo, Raleigh, North Carolina Nov’2016 – Dec’2017

Project Coordinator and QA/UAT Planner for the Wells Fargo Branch International (WFBI) Program, which is to establish Wells Fargo as the choice provider of International banking services for commercial customers in the middle market segment

Responsible for managing an overall program in the agile platform - Planning and coordinating the project efforts for GBF system and 80 different interface partners and downstream systems to deliver the quality products

Prepared the Project Plan and End-to-End strategy for the overall program to support the applications like Flexcube, Middle-ware service, and business service to deliver the parameterization of Foreign Exchange and Money market modules for different branches – Dublin, Frankfurt, London

Conducted daily standup and cross functional team meetings to resolve the environment, batch cycle, defect fixes, code deployment, transactional data flow and testing related issues

Tracked program progress and reported overall status to the Senior management, Business & Tech partners, vendors, and Product owners through ALM/JIRA metrics and status report

Fidelity Investments, Durham, North Carolina July’2007 – Oct’2016

Scrum Master

Managed a project with multiple teams for the managed accounts and big data products – Private Wealth management, Fidelity Portfolio Planner, Electronic Trading Functions, Portfolio advisory services, FBSI and Mobile applications, Rep Profile, and Customer notification

Provided strategic and technical leadership on a high-profile projects and programs ($500K-$15M) in planning, designing, executing, automating, and reporting for personal investments, workplace investments, and managed accounts products

Worked with the Business, Product owner, Senior management, and Release management to understand the vision of the product, prioritize the backlogs, and to develop the sprint release plan

Organized Daily Scrum, Sprint planning, Sprint Demo, and Retrospective meetings for managed accounts and customer rep profile projects

Enforced lean 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 and tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction

Collaborated with the Product owner and scrum team for backlog grooming and planning sprints

Worked with the cross-functional team that develops database, mobile apps, platforms, web services, batch services and architecture roadmaps to estimate the sprints and to resolve the issues

Monitored the development progress throughout each sprint to ensure project was within scope

Created Work Break down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks)

Monitored the System Integration Testing & UAT through Test metrics (ALM QC & JIRA)

Agile Project Manager

Managed multiple projects, development organizations and vendors for the Money Movement & Journal products, Brokerage applications, and Remote check deposit system (4.6 Trillion dollars) that involves with a globally distributed team (20-30 resources; 4-8 teams)

Headed projects to develop and enhance multiple systems across financial services with multi-tier architecture using Java, J2EE, Message Broker, Web services, and ODM Rules Engine within a heterogeneous database environment using Oracle and DB2 databases

Managed project budget, billing, resources, schedule and unmet demands using PPMC

Served as an IT Project management liaison to the business client, and performed hands-on analysis of the business and technical environments

Define and Deployment of PMO Strategies that align with overall business objectives for vendor management, to include process improvements, and customer relationship management (CRM)

Partnered with development and cross-functional teams to define Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment strategy

Tracked defects through resolution and prepared defects metrics using ALM Quality Center

Participated in the change management and process improvement initiatives as well as provide recommendations to improve/enhance existing procedures and controls

Prepared and Managed Implementation/Release Plan, Business continuity, and Disaster Recovery plan documents using MS Project

Performed technical & data analysis for status reporting, financial reporting, operations metrics and statistics using SharePoint, dashboard and confluence

Created change management tickets as required by compliance for all production and non-prod

Directed monthly services and quarterly products-based production installs

Published project weekly status with hot topics and metrics through email and dashboard to the Business, technology partners, operations, Release and Program management team

Technical Project Manager, Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond, Virginia July’2006 – May’2007

Managed all phases of the SDLC for Treasury system and services

Operated with Procurement, Cybersecurity, and Risk Management team to successfully complete the RFI and RFP process

Developed the detailed project budget and monitored the capital and expense

Prepared the Integrated Project Plan. Documented scope changes and managed the change management process for prioritization and impact assessment

Periodically monitored, analyzed, reported metrics actionable KPIs to attain the SLA

Conducted project presentations and coordinated with all project stakeholders to make sure that appropriate project controls are instituted, and developed federally required documents, procurement documents and project status documents

Lead Analyst, Deutsche Bank, New York Aug’2005 – May’2006

Understanding the requirements, discuss with business team and translate into use cases

Worked with business stakeholders to design the system work flow

Technical Skills

Project Management Tools

MS Project, MS Visio, Requisite Pro, RTC, PPMC, JIRA, Confluence, MS Office, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, HP Service Center, ALM, Quality Center, IBM Clear Quest, WebEx, SharePoint, SQL developer, udeploy, Putty, SOA Test, SOAP UI, Source Tree, GIT Stash, Jenkins, SAP Cobalt, ERC Dashboard

Framework/Methodology

SAFe Agile, Lean, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, RUP, Iterative

Languages

C, C++, C#.NET, VB, ASP.NET, JAVA, J2EE, SQL, Mainframe

Database

SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MySQL, Hadoop

Education/Certifications/Trainings

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics, Bharathidasan University, India, 1998-2002

Executive Education – Business Negotiation, Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business, 2017

Certified SAFe Agilist (SA)

Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM)

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

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