SUMMARY

IT Professional with over *+ years of experience in Software applications development and Application support projects as scrum master/project coordinator. Managed and coordinated multiple software projects involving multiple technologies/domains. Possesses in-depth knowledge of Requirement Management, Risk Management and Project Management tools to perform planning, execution and tracking of the projects. Extensive experience in interacting with Business Stakeholders, Managerial and Technical Project teams using agile methodology skill set with effective communication, analytical skills in designing the roadmap for futuristic applications using current trending technologies in enhancing the overall products within organizations. Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of SDLC to manage multiple projects within specifications, budget restrictions and fostering self-management using Agile methodologies.

MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

•In depth knowledge of the Agile (Scrum), Iterative & Waterfall Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process in implementing software projects from Inception to Transition.

•Designing the product release schedules by introducing the value-added features and visualizing the goal of the product features which enhances the stakeholder’s legacy apps.

•Handled End – End projects implementation across IT Teams on Waterfall & Agile.

•Project Control Activities such as creating weekly / monthly / quarterly Status Reporting, Burn down charts, Progress Tracking, Project deliverable reviews.

•Experience in deploying and managing the coordination of project staff across regions (onsite and offshore teams).

•Expert in Release/Change Management process for managing project scope changes in middle of project iterations.

•Tracking and reporting issues and mitigation plans to resolve the project risks on timely fashion to manage the product delivery within the stipulated project deadlines.

•Exceptional communication skills; presentation, facilitation, oral, written, listening and conflict resolution.

•Execute, Monitor and Control the project by identifying risk and prepare appropriate mitigation plan, identify variance from project plan and take appropriate actions.

•Manage Change Requests by analyzing, estimating, coordinating with Business to ensure the changes are beneficial to the project, make appropriate changes to Project Plan and responsible for execution & implementation.

•Facilities Scrum Ceremonies to engage cross functional scrum teams towards project plan.

•Empowered teams to Self-organize, Motivating the Team continuously and shared ideas within Team.

•Co-ordinate with parallel Scrum teams and Knowledge sharing across Scrum teams to adhere to Agile Methodology and product delivery within the sprint cycles.

•Sprint Iteration tracking and effective reporting/communication on progress of work to business owners.

•Work on Release planning and Capacity planning at the program level and monitor of the progress made.

•Extensive experience on Scrum Tool (JIRA, Rally) Agile reporting and metrics derivation.

FUNCTIONAL & TECHNICAL SKILLS

FUNCTIONAL

TECHNOLOGY

SDLC: Scrum,Waterfall, Iterative

Domains – Retail, Healthcare

Estimation methods – Scrum Poker, T shirt sizing

MS Tools: Visio, PPT, Excel, Word

Operating systems - UNIX, Windows (3.x, 95, NT, 2000, XP).

Agile tools: JIRA, Rally

Apps: WMS, ecommerce apps, servicenow, confluence

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering In Electronics

JNTU, India

CERTIFICATION

Certified Scrum Master (PSM I)

Scrum.org

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FiveBelow Louisville, KY

Sr. ScrumMaster Oct 2021- Current

Project(s) Summary: -

This project is about handling the distribution centers enhancements across the various facility centers. This project handles implementation and warranty to enhance the fivebelow business expansion.

Responsibilities:

Led workshops (Story Mapping, Sizing, Intake process based on complexity) and other knowledge sharing cross-team activities imparting knowledge and sharing of successful ideas/stories for improving team productivity.

Monitored Prepare the Definition of Done (DOD) and the Acceptance Criteria for the well-defined low-level functional and non-functional stories in JIRA to meet business value in each product deployment cycles.

Handle the inception ceremonies documentation across all the new projects. Plan the inception schedules as per the PDM’s guidance.

Work with development team in identifying and resolving the daily impediments on release schedule, Issues on production turns schedules, Enterprise Release management policies during release deployments in Prod.

Maintains completed product backlog with proper business acceptance criteria to publish for business leads to make sure we meet all business values during our sprint cycles.

Assisted pdm in converting high level Epics into User Stories and tasks to make sure user stories adhere to plan project schedule.

Participating in the daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.

Working with stake holders / product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint.

Tracks and reports status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis.

Establishing the JIRA reports for the EO’s and Project managers to track the project.

Work with Project coordinators/Managers to prepare the project release-planning schedule, identifying the impacted teams for release and track the progress made in each SDLC phase in achieving the project deliverables.

Assisted scrum teams with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices.

Samsung Louisville, KY

Scrum master Jan 2019 – Aug 2021

Project(s) Summary: -

This project is about developing new ecommerce site to handle the ship from store initiative. Samsung want to enable this feature to handle the multiple orders volume especially during their high sales periods.

Responsibilities:

•Made defined project scope, goals, and deliverables to ensure consistency with Organization strategy and commitments.

•Facilitating the scrum ceremonies. Conducting grooming, retro and refinement calls for the dev work.

•Worked with cross-functional teams on Product Development from planning, requirement gathering, development, testing, deployment, and performance measurement.

•Monitored operations of programs to ensure policies and procedures are being followed, goals and objectives are met, and services and projects are being accomplished efficiently and effectively Ensured products met or exceeded client expectations.

•Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management. Presentations, recommendations and updates provided regularly to the Director office.

•Planning the schedule with Implementation Teams, Postproduction maintenance teams for deployment

And drawing out the risk factors in the product delivery.

•Weekly Status reporting, Engagement Leadership reporting on projects, Metrics on user feedback to business partners/leads to plan the next vision for the product enhancement.

•Tracked and managed product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task break-down.

•Work with release managers to plan the production rollouts

•Track the incident management in servicenow to handle the support tickets and plan to plugin in the sprints.

•Maintaining the project audit documentation in Teams to handle the approvals for Go live

•Maintaining the Retro’s, Knowledge sharing across confluence pages to handle the teams knowledge level metrics.

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CVS ia & Saudi Arabia, UAE.

Project scrum master

Project Summary: This project is about handling the scrum team on pharmacy messaging system enhancement to handle the prescription notifications to customers.

Responsibilities:

Facilitated scrum ceremonies like Daily standup, Backlog refinement sessions, Grooming sessions with dev teams

Coordinating with project manager to handle the daily updates from dev progress

Maintain the project documentation in sharepoint site

Creation of tech stories for dev team and prioritize with the business analyst

Track the impediments and work with PO to resolve the blockers for team

Facilitating the project meetings with business stakeholders and scrum team

Louisville, KY Nov 2015 –Nov 2018

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