Curriculum Vitae

Prabhodh Mekala E-mail : acyfm2@r.postjobfree.com

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Dublin-15, Ireland.

Profile:

I am an experienced Scrum Master/ Lead Engineer, certified in Scrum Master(Scrum Alliance) and Prince2 (Foundation) with 10+ years of experience in the commercial IT industry including Intranet, Internet and portal applications. Throughout my career I have built up excellent programming skills, management skills, designing and problem solving skills, all of which allows me to deliver the best results.

Highlights

Certified Scrum Master and Scrum Professional.

Evangelist of agile/scrum principles and methodology.

Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.

5 years as Scrum master.

Employment History

Scrum Master @ Ammeon from Aug 2016

Responsibilities:

Act as Agile leader

Support and reinforce the rules

Facilitate the team's progress towards project and product goals

Facilitate all team meetings

Facilitate gathering of RCA and additional external FSA data for customer issues

Facilitate healthy team dynamic

Responsible for removing impediments

Lead improvements

Builds a high-performing team

Protect the team

Provide regular info/reports to key skate holders, e.g. PM, Ammeon Program Team, etc.

Scrum Master @ AppsBroker,UK June 2016 to Jul 2016

Responsibilities:

Coaching the team members, technical and non-technical clients on agile approaches in Agile and DevOps (Scrum, TDD, JIRA, Jenkins etc. ) .

Facilitating the scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint review, retrospectives meetings and product backlog refinements).

Working closely with senior members of staff, senior stakeholders, lead project staff.

Supporting the team and start-ups of projects giving advice to improve Agile etc.

Protect the development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project time-line.

Work closely with product owner in backlog management.

Delivering the project on time in the client environment

Helping the business users (client facing) in writing user stories and the story estimations using Poker planning

Strong and effective inter-personal and communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group in the organization

Smart Working Portal

SmarterWorking is a comprehensive suite of business solutions designed to streamline any business and create Smarter Workers.

Scrum Master @ DELL / AIB(QPTech) Nov 2015 to Feb2016

Responsibilities:

Coaching the team members, technical and non-technical clients on agile approaches in Agile and DevOps (Scrum, TDD, JIRA, Jenkins etc. ) .

Facilitating the scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint review, retrospectives meetings and product backlog refinements).

Working closely with senior members of staff, senior stakeholders, lead project staff.

Supporting the team and start-ups of projects giving advice to improve Agile etc.

Protect the development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project time-line.

Work closely with product owner in backlog management.

Delivering the project on time in the client environment

Helping the business users (client facing) in writing user stories and the story estimations using Poker planning

Strong and effective inter-personal and communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group in the organization

Payments Transformation

This project helps the AIB customers(Individuals/Business) to settle down the on-line payments within SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) zone using SCT(SEPA Credit Transfer). AIB bank receives the SCF(Settled Credit File) from SEPA payment engine. AIB Payment Transformation process the SCF file and credit the amounts into AIB customer accounts using the BIC(Bank Identifier Code) and IBAN(International Bank Account Number). AIB implementing this new application to replace an old legacy application which uses Polarlake ESB engine, the new application (service framework) works through DOVETAIL payments engine. This project is the replacement of legacy system.

Scrum Master/Lead Engineer - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Jul 2011 to Oct 2015

Responsibilities:

Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.

Protect 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.

Responsible for planning, processing and delivering the projects in an efficient manner.

Responsible for development of process/tools development for current and next generation products.

Working with offshore teams and organizing the Scrum events.

Delivering the projects on time, on budget, and on value

Requirements gathering from stakeholders in HMH, designing and developing the application to match the specifications.

Designing the flow diagrams, wireframes based on the requirements and providing high level estimations like software/hardware management, resource management, risk management and time management etc.

Strong and effective inter-personal and communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of HMH internal clients and staff.

Provide recommendations to management concerning issues of programmer productivity and software development management.

Projects handled in HMH:

Data Visualization

Data visualization is a visual representation of data in graphical form(charts). Currently HMHCo.com data has been visualized using sitecatalyst(https://sc.omniture.com), but the graphical representation, accessibility and custom features are not great hence the need for the Data Visualization web application. We have implemented a new web application using the latest web frameworks (Twitter bootstrap, HTML5, Groovy/Grails etc). This web application visualizes the HMH platforms (25+platforms) data in customized pages. This web application reads the HMH platforms data from different platform databases, webservices, through online web pages and finally store the data into the local databases. Finally, this web application renders the data in different charts using Google Visualization charts, Fusion charts and High charts. Some of the HMH platforms are: HMHCo.com, TCK6, HMOF, Science Fusion, Data Manager, Curious George and HMH Player platforms.

CDM(Content Deployment Manager)

HMH engineers release the TCK6, HMOF platforms digital content using the CDM web application. The engineering team prepares the digital assets to schools and colleges and place the digital assets in SVN repository. The release engineers use the CDM web application to deploy the digital assets from SVN onto deployment servers. The CDM web application checks out the content from the given SVN repository, reads the metadata files, validates the metadata and transfers the digital content files onto deployment servers.

Writesource / MyWriteSmart - Web Content Management System

It is a Web Application which interacts with the Write source content APIs. This Web Application automates the Content ID Management workflow (i.e. BOM mappings), the Content Release workflow and the API supported CRUD operations on manifest files (will support the 4 Content types: Bookshelf, Grammer Snap, Net Text, Whiteboard). Using this web application, the content and release engineering team releases the digital content onto different environments.

Knewton Metadata Generator

HMOF and TCK6 are 2 HMH platforms to provide online education to the US schools. Each of these platforms are having 7 environments (e.g. Cert, Prod-Review, Prod etc).Each Environment has input Excel file with a different UUID numbers, user manually generate 6 x CSV files from the excel sheets. The CSV files are zipped and uploaded to the Adaptive Content Upload Server associated with the environment. The current process is manual and it is estimated that it takes 4hours per environment, so 7 environments will take 24 manual hours. We are providing an end to end solution to automate the process. The automated solution will hardly takes 2 to 3 minutes per environment.

SAP Wrapper

This application will consume some of the Apache Camel WebServices, the application will be an improvement over the existing ISBN look-up in HMH and offer users additional Services related to Customer details and potentially Transaction details. This is a web based application to provide metadata info about ISBNs.

WebLinkCrawler

This application is an automated web solution to identify the broken links on HRW platform. The web application reports all the broken links so that the support team can fix if any links are broken.

TCK6 Planner XML Generator

The purpose of the "TCK6 Planner XML Generator" is to automate the creation of planner XML files from the source Excel files in SVN.

Technologies used:

Java, Groovy, Grails, Junit, XML, Web services, Google Visualization Charts, Fusion charts, High Charts, Selenium, MySQL, Tomcat, GEB(Selenium flavour of grails) and Twitter Bootstrap.

Software Engineer @ IBM Oct 2002 to Apr 2011

Industry toolbox for IBM WebSphere Portal Mar 2008 to Apr 2011

Responsibilities: Designing and implementing the reusable web content management solutions for IBM Portal Industry templates. Creating web2.0 features, workflows, authoring templates, presentation templates, various wcm components using JSP and implementing the wcm content using the WCM templates. Implemented the rich web UI features such as “Fisheye”,”Slider”,”Tooltips” and “Carousel” menu components using Dojo,Javascripts,JQuery etc.

Below are the few wcm content templates I have created in various Portal projects:

News templates, Event templates, Course Announcement templates,FAQ templates, Job Offer template, Feeds capability of News, implemented custom action servelet to publish wcm content to lotus connections blogs and many more.

Below are the few IBM Industry templates where I have provided web content management solution for these projects.

Government to Business Template, Banking Template, Retail Template and Insurance Template.

Technologies and tools used:

Windows XP,IBM WebSphere Portal6.1/7.0, Lotus Web Content Mangement6.1/7.0, WCM API’s, Javascripts,CSS,JSP,Servlets.

Lotus Workforce Management: Aug 2007 to Mar 2008

Worked as software engineer. My responsibilities were to create a complex set of WebSphere Portlet Factory integration builders for SAP. These specialized builders provided direct access to SAP data, known as SAP Infotypes. Other responsibilities were to fix the bugs created by testing team.

Technologies used.

Windows XP, Portlet Factory Designer, Selenium, Portal Server6.1, WAS6.1, and SAP JCOs.

E-Care (Health Care Solution) April 2007 to Aug 2007

Worked as software engineer. This project is a solution development project for hospitals. A user interface is required to be written for end-users and for administrator users. The UI will be deployed via WAS and will incorporate some graphing and calendar functionality. This project is mainly focused on reading the range of parameters of a patient like BP readings, PULSE rate, Weight and Sleep monitor and send these parameters to Hospitals and Doctors by GPRS system. This project was an innovative idea given by extreme blue participants.

Technologies used:

Windows XP, Java Collections, Junit, Selenium, Beans, JSP, and DB2

Podsmart Jan 2007 to April 2007

This was an Extreme Blue project of year 2006. PodSmart is new technology from IBM

that allows you to have your work and personal e-mail, calendar appointments and news

feeds read aloud on any MP3 player, including an iPod .You can customize play lists, so,

for example, PodSmart reads your most important e-mails, your urgent appointments and

your favorite news sources. You can even listen to music. The idea of this technology was given by interns in the Extreme Blue program, IBM's most competitive internship 15

week program. PodSmart is the brainchild of 2006 interns at the IBM Extreme Blue lab in Dublin, Ireland.

Technologies used:

Java Collections, JUnit,, Windows XP, ANT4Eclipse, SWT(Eclipse), Eclipse Plug-in

development, Lotus Notes Framework and Rome API.

MCSN Label Printing Web Application Oct 2006 to Jan 2007

This is an IBM internal project, replaces the exiting Java swing (GUI) stand-alone

Application. The main aim of this project is to print the Image label with text data. This

project is very helpful in IBM Server Group. Here the user will enter the Work unit

number of system and the application will fetch the machine type and serial number from

MFS database, and prints the label in an image format. Client-side Validation is carried

out using JSF Validator to reduce workload on Production Database, namely MFS.

Technologies used:

JSF, JUnit, Selenium, DB2, Jetty, Javax printing API, Windows XP,, ANT.

DMS(Data Management System) Sep 2005 to Oct 2006

This is a new IBM intranet web application that has the capacity to escalate problems

encountered during the manufacturing process to a variety of Engineering and support

departments. It can also display replies and further discussions for the same system. It has

an ability to do related searches for system details for different departments and store

records. DMS tool allows to search whether the particular problem has been escalated by

any department or not,if it’s escalated then user can see the solution how was it being

sloved. Once the user get login they can view all escalating problem. User can upload an

escalation problem file up to 100KB as an attachment. Developing new features and supporting new users were the main responsibilities.

Technologies used:

Java Collections, JUnit, Selenium, Windows XP, ANT, JSP, Servlets, DB2

Test Analyzer @ IBM Server Group: Oct 2002 to Sep 2005

Job Responsibilities:

Performance Testing and Debug of a large range of IBM Servers (p-Series) by

using AIX and HTX.Support Quarter end production skew and overtime needed for Manufacturing. Work efficiently from standard procedures/specifications.

Cross-trained on all areas of I/P series in server Group.

Education

2007-2009

DIT College,Bolton Street, Dublin,Ireland.

Post Graduate diploma in “Applied Computing for Technologies”

1994-1998

Dr BR Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, India.

Bachelor Of Engineering in Electronics.

Professional Certification

Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform 5.0(SCJP).

Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD).

Oracle Certified Web Service Developer (OCWSD)

Certified Scrum Master

Certified in Prince2 Foundation

Skills:

Languages : J2SE (5.0, 1.4), J2EE (5), Groovy

IDE : Eclipse, WPF(WebSphere Portlet Factory), GGTS(Groovy/Grails)

Databases : IBM DB2, MySQL

Web Technologies : J2EE,JSP,Servlets,JSF,Portlets,Web Services(SOAP / REST),Grails

JavaScript, CSS, HTML, JQuery, Bootstrap, Google Charts and XML,

WebServices, Amazon Cloud(S3)

Data Visualization : Google Data Visualization, High Charts, Fusion Charts.

Source Control : CVS, Subversion, CMVC

Operating Systems : Windows (XP, 2000/07/08, ’98, ’95),Linux

Servers : Websphere Application Server, Apache Tomcat

Mockups : Balsamiq, Lucid Charts, MS Visio and Wireframe Sketcher.

Agile Practices : TDD, Continuous Integration

SDLC methodologies : Agile/Scrum/Kanban/XP and Waterfall

Others : JUnit, Selenium, JIRA, Confluence,Rational Team Concert, Rational

Performance Tester, VMware

Visa Status : Irish Citizen

Reference : Available on Request

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