Lavanya K V

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Professional Summary

** ***** ** ********** ** IT industry with 4 years of experience in project management, 6 years of experience as a Scrum master and 7 years of experience as a Mainframe developer and lead.

Certified Scrum Master (CSM), PMP certified and working as a conduit between the delivery teams and various management layers within the organization.

Good exposure to Project Management aspects and Quality including Project Execution Process, Quantitative Project Management, Agile Metrics, Configuration Management.

Domain expertise in the areas like Insurance & Healthcare, Retail, Information Management and Industrial automation.

Work experience in all the stages of software development lifecycle with proven skills in Agile framework.

Received Client recognition in proposing and implementing several automation ideas which reduced several Business days of effort.

Extensive experience of leading & executing multiple large scale IT projects with experience of directing all aspects of software project lifecycle with different project methodologies like Waterfall, Agile frameworks such as SAFe,Scrum and Kanban.

Manage resource acquisition, project budgeting and billing, forecasting of the project.

A strategic thinker with excellent stakeholder & client relationship management and trained PMP professional

Experienced in implementing project management best practices, organizational communications, key metrics and dashboards.

Ability to understand client business model and proactively create opportunities to drive value

Strong organizational, analytical, and problem solving abilities

Worked directly with executives, stakeholders and program owners to gather and communicate project status.

Skill Highlights

Certified Scrum Master

PMP Certified

Communication

Risk Management

Conflict Management

Active Listener

Mainframe Technologies

Agile Project LifecycleManagement

Resource Management

Budget Management

Problem solving

Time Management

Azure DevOps

JIRA/Confluence/Sharepoint/Teams

Experience

Scrum Master /Agile Project Manager (10/2021 to 01/2023)

Employer: Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited – Bangalore, Karnataka

Project: Location Intelligence

Facilitated PI planning, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, daily scrum, Backlog grooming, Sprint Review, and handled resource planning, schedule management, mitigation of risks and issues.

Facilitated Project kick off, prepared Project plan, Quality management plan, and Risk management plan and executed, monitored the project progress as per the plan.

Agile Tools: TFS, JIRA, Confluence, Burn down chart.

Facilitated and coordinated with the team in PI planning and estimations.

Continuous Integration: Increased quality by helping team implement/run daily automation tests.

Coached and helped the team with Test-Driven Development and Test automation.

Worked with the PO and team to ensure the stories are groomed and ready by n-1 sprint.

Continuous collaboration and process improvement implementation.

Responsible for project budgeting, billing and forecast of the estimates for the project.

Responsible for the performance appraisal,helped and guided the team with their career aspirations and growth.

Acted as an agile coach and ensure collaboration between the team, product owner, stakeholders.

Track cross team dependencies and removed obstacles for the scrum teams.

For every release collaborated with the team to identify the potential risks and developed risk mitigation plan.

Coached the team to be self-organized to continuously improve the processes and ensure the team adheres to scrum principles.

Ensured the team adheres to the DoR and DoD.

Regularly monitor and control the metrics to meet project/product goals.

Ensure that the deliverables adhere to the quality and regulatory guidelines.

Helped the team deliver at high performance levels with quality.

Effective communication and collaboration, Problem solving and conflict management.

Ensured customer satisfaction.

Organize workshops to emphasize and help the teams learn and adapt different soft skills.

Responsible for organizing and facilitating the Town hall for our sub segment once in every two months.

Protected team from external interference, over-commitment, managed backlog, and prioritized resolution of defects/bugs

Scrum Master /Project Manager/Technology Lead (11/2016 to 10/2021)

Employer: Infosys Limited, USA and India

Client: North western mutual Insurance (05/2018 to 10/2021)

Walmart (11/2016 to 04/2018)

Worked in Scaled agile environment managing two teams.

Effectively guide and Facilitate agile ceremonies with Team/PO/Stakeholders to consistently achieve iteration goals.

Work/collaborate/communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.

Regularly monitor and control the metrics to meet project/product goals.

Ensure that deliverables are adhering to the Quality and regulatory guidelines.

Playing an SME role whenever required.

Removing obstacles for the teams and holding them responsible for their work.

Helping the team deliver high performance levels with quality.

Effective communication and collaboration, Problem solving, Conflict management with the team.

Empowering team members to be self organized and take ownership.

Track deadlines to meet the release goal and ensure customer satisfaction.

Coached the team to be self-organized.

Responsible for resource planning, schedules, mitigation of risks and issues.

Track cross team dependencies and removed obstacles for the scrum teams.

Responsible for training new SMs and team members to follow the agile.

Protected team from external interference, over-commitment, managed backlog, and prioritized resolution of defects/bugs

Mainframe developer Lead (06/2010 to 09/2013)

Employer: Value source Technologies Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India

Project: RDB

Mainly involved in the major and minor enhancements of the project.

Delivered new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements

Translated customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.

Involved in production support monitoring the batch jobs updating the database with the policy changes.

Also, involved in the Design, Development and testing of the modules.

Mainframe Developer (09/2006 to 04/2010)

Employer: Cognizant Technology solutions Pvt Ltd

Client: Walmart

DNB (Dun & Bradstreet Corporation)

Mainly involved in the major and minor enhancements of the project.

Delivered new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements

Translated customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.

Involved in production support monitoring the batch jobs updating the database with the policy changes.

Also, involved in the Design, Development and testing of the modules.

Education

B.E. Computer science and engineering from Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, India.

Technical Skills and Qualifications

Mainframe: COBOL, JCL, CICS, SAS, PL/1, Mainframe RESTful API

Others: OOPS Concepts, C++

Database related: DB2, PL/SQL,IMS DB

Mainframe Tools: TSO, Changeman, Endevor, File Manager, File-Aid, QMF, Xpeditor, Trace Master, CA7 Scheduler, Platinum tool

Agile Management Tool: TFS,JIRA, Sharepoint, Confuence

Quality Tools: Casual Analysis, Velocity Improvement Prediction Model

Microsoft office suite (Word, Excel, Power point, MS Project, Visio)

Awards and Recognitions:

Received Delivery excellence award from the client in project “NM – Life products”.

●Received Insta award as a performance appreciation in Infosys.

●Received the Best Agile Practitioner Team Award.

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