SITA MADHURI PANYAM

CSM, CSPO & PMP

Santa Clara, CA 408-***-**** aczrh8@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/sitapanyam Summary

Resourceful scrum master & technical project manager with experience in managing multiple projects & having more than 7 years of strong technology experience. Accomplished leader & strong communicator capable of delivering large-scale software projects with high visibility, effectiveness, and customer value. Motivational and tenacious leader with ability to work effectively within a matrix organization.

Work Experience

Comcast (Sunnyvale, CA) Scrum Master / Technical Project Manager, July 2015 to present Comcast Corporation is a U.S.-based multinational mass media company and is the largest broadcasting and largest cable company in the world by revenue

1. Works with Xfinity Home (IOT) (July 2016 – Present) Works with XFINITY Home allows you to connect compatible devices to the XFINITY Home app for mobile devices (iOS & Android) and interact with the smart devices you use every day from your mobile.

Drove the engineering coordination & execution focused towards launching Mobile Apps (iOS & Android) for various devices like thermostats, lights, locks, etc.

Collaborated with cross-functional engineering teams & product team in developing project schedules, milestones and risk analyses

Managed the technical backlog of software adapters already in production & of upcoming devices

Demonstrated strong communication skills by acting as liaison between various partners and the development teams to resolve any technical issues or non-technical issues

Developed reports to track planning, scheduling, issues, risks and overall status

Developed reports to track the progress & rate of development through Burn-down, Burn-up & velocity charts

Planned & coordinated various software releases to production & lower environments.

Protected development team from outside distractions & efficiently removed impediments either technical or otherwise in a timely fashion

Well versed with collaborating with 3rd party vendors & managing their technical requirements

Fostered good coding practices like unit & component testing & Automation of testing process 2. IOT Service Layer (July 2016 – Present)

IOTSL is an abstraction layer between Home Automation and various downstream services & devices.

Oversaw project development efforts to keep projects on schedule and to specification

Coordinated with stakeholders to manage, track and control project issues to ensure timely delivery of products

Ran project related meetings: kick-off meeting, daily stand-up, checkpoint meetings, post-mortem / retrospectives. Identified dependencies and managed all intra, inter, and 3rd-party dependencies

Helped drive process and communications improvements across multiple teams and functions 3. Smart Connect (July 2015 – July 2016)

The Smart Connect platform is intended to meet customer and business goals by offering the customers and Comcast a simple and easy way to start a conversation with Comcast and seamlessly continue a conversation as they pass through the Comcast Customer Service channels.

Led and drove program execution for multiple teams in partnership with Engineering, Product Management, Operations and other cross functional group to deliver successful business outcome

Worked closely with product owners to develop & groom the Product Backlog using Rally & Jira

Interfaced with PMO to ensure project goals and requirements are being met

Provided frequent communication of status report, release notes & other updates to product owners, upper management & PMO

Transitioned hybrid teams into high performing Agile (scrum) teams

Empowered distributed teams to self-organize & continually improve self & the overall process

Organized & facilitated Scrum ceremonies

Aggressive in achieving feature deadlines & maintaining high quality of the product features

Provided production support by querying various tools like Slunk, Kibana, etc

Fostered rapid self-organization of software teams to produce systems with evolving architectures Symantec Corporation (Sydney, Australia), Senior Software Engineer, Dec 2010 to June 2011

Designed and developed software modules within the Web Application "Asset Management Solution"

Created SQL queries and Stored Procedures to retrieve and modify data from SQL database

Designed, developed & maintained the Data Entry console of the product Symantec Corporation (Sydney, Australia), Software Engineer, June 2007 to Dec 2010

Delivered two successful major releases (Asset v7.0 and v7.1) using .NET, C#, ASP.NET, Javascript & HTML

Developed and maintained the Data Entry UI called Edit Page of the product.

Created SQL queries and Stored Procedures to display data on the front end of the Web Application.

Created documentations and rendered presentations on the features designed and developed.

Created and maintained Web services.

Augmented functionality as well as fixed existing functionality of "Asset Management Software." Worked on tasks of medium complexity, which are well defined with little supervision, as well as on complex task with the heavy involvement of more senior team members.

Worked with other teams to resolve cascaded issues and to incorporate integral features.

Contributed to all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for an "Asset Management Solution". Altiris (Sydney, Australia), Software Test Engineer, Aug 2006 to June 2007

Created test plans & Performed manual testing of Asset Management Solution

Configured test environments using VMware workstation, including Windows 2003 Server and Windows XP

Performed test automation using Nunit and Selenium Adaptec (Hyderabad, India), Software Engineer in Test, Dec 2004 to Dec 2005

Validated Software developed in Embedded C for iSCSI Host Bus Adapter including Driver and Firmware

Test Automation: Developed Linux scripts using Perl and VB scripts for automation Education

Master of Information Technology (Database Management Systems), University of Sydney, 2010 Bachelors of Technology (Electronics and Communications), G Narayanamma Institute of Technology & Science, 2004 Certifications

Project Management Professional (PMP) – May 2016

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) - March 2015

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) – June 2015

Volunteer Experience

The Class Consulting Group (Sunnyvale, CA) Project Manager, Feb 2015 to July 2015 The Class Consulting Group is a boutique consulting firm that provides consulting services to senior management and Board of Directors of nonprofit / philanthropic organizations & offers community leadership opportunities to professionals.

As a volunteer steered the execution of internal projects and lead by influence, negotiation and effective communication skills

Articulated project goals and scope, translated business needs into technical terms, prepared detailed work breakdown structures (WBS)

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