Sameeran Gentyala (MBA in Project Management)

CSM, CSPO & AWS Certified

Scrum Master/Tech Project Manager/Product Manager/ Product Owner

Email: ad2j60@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 972-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

●15 + years of IT Industry experience as a Scrum master, Project Manager, Product Manager, Product Owner and DevOps Engineer exposed to AWS, Software Configuration Management, Build, Deploy, Release Management and Quality Assurance.

●CSM, CSPO Certified, Innovative and solutions focused IT professional. Specializing in leading high-performing and multi-disciplinary from product development through successful product launches.

●As Enthusiastic Scrum Master Have worked in Agile environment as a software engineer for couple of years. Worked on three Scrum teams and filled in as Scrum Master on several occasions. Proven history of successful work with cross-functional teams.

●Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.

●Implemented Issues Tracking in Version One to effectively track impediments against user stories.

●Resolved a complex infrastructure issue by creating and utilizing a professional network of Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Technical Leads within Company.

●Proficiently organized and facilitated daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning.

●Demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead, and coach scrum teams.

●Highly process oriented and demonstrated proficiency in various software development lifecycle methodologies including Scrum, Kanban, etc.

●Expert knowledge of JIRA or similar tools.

●Leads SCRUM and KANBAN teams with a clear understanding of business and IT context and develops an understanding of project synergies and dependencies.

●Practical experience in client projects and product development with agile Methods (SCRUM & Kanban).

●Ability to manage many projects at once while working with strict deadlines and maintaining the professionalism.

●Skilled in providing effective leadership, in fast paced environment dead-line driven environments.

●Facilitated team and cross-team Retrospectives to build good working relationships among the 7 agile teams across the company.

●Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.

●Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity. Encouraged and implemented process improvements. Created team-building opportunities.

●Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.

●As a Project Manager Directs internal technical teams to ensure proper configuration, setup, testing, results, etc. This includes creating job “tickets” inside JIRA, our task tracking and ticketing system. Creates and manages reporting and communication with the client.

●Oversees first line testing for completed work, prior to pushing out to client. Is everything correct? Reports regularly to executive management on project process, performance and tracking to plan.

●Master all specifications, documentation, technology, and other requirements for the project.

●Meet with clients for needs assessment, subject matter expertise, and solution architecture.

●Reports regularly to sr. mgmt. on project process, performance and tracking to plan

●Works with internal technical teams to ensure proper configuration, setup, testing, results, etc. This includes creating job “tickets” inside JIRA, our task tracking and ticketing system.

●Shares best practices with other Project Mgrs.

●As a Product Manager Identified customer pain points via, feedback, User surveys, User interviews & In-person sessions.

●Created Roadmap for the product based on the product vision.

●Acquired 200+ Customers by providing a data conversion tool for customers to convert with accuracy.

●As a Product Manager I Own & Prioritize backlog, Groom the user stories with product development team.

●Monitored daily tableau reports to help understand the customer drop off and start rates and helped in deriving experiments.

●Proposed solution and built team to solve number one cause of customer complaints and completed project.

●Good understanding of the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

●Excellent experience in documenting and automating the build and release process.

●Ability in managing all aspects of the software configuration management process including code compilation, packaging, deployment, release methodology and application configurations.

●Excellent communicative, interpersonal, intuitive, analysis and leadership skills with ability to work efficiently in both independent and teamwork environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows 98/XP/NT/2000/2003/2008, UNIX, LINUX, Mac OS

Versioning Tools: CVS, Subversion, Git, GitHub.

Build Tools: ANT, MAVEN, Jenkins, Hudson.

Languages: C, C++, SQL, Java.

Web Technologies: HTML, Java Script, XML

Web/App servers: Web logic, Web Sphere, Apache Tomcat.

Databases: Oracle, MongoDB, SQL Server, MY SQL, Cassandra, Apache Spark.

Monitoring Tools: Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana.

Configuration Tools: chef, Ansible.

Scripting: shell scripting, Python, Knowledge on Perl Scripting

Certifications:

1)Certified Product owner, Scrum Alliance, July 28, 2019 = Valid

2)Certified Safe Scrum Master course complete.

3)Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance, April 14, 2019 = Valid

4)AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate = Expired

5)AWS Certified Developer – Associate = Expired

Education

University of Wales Institute Cardiff

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Project Management

2008 - 2010

INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERINGINSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology

2003 - 2007

WORK EXPERIENCE: -

Client: T-Mobile.

Prime Vendor – Infosys LTD Oct 2022 – Present

Tech Scrum Master & Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Served product teams as a Scrum Master, technical project management and release management.

Organized and facilitated scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, grooming sessions, retrospectives, sprint and release planning and demos.

Collaborated with product, business, and technical teams to ensure deep understanding of product and ROI objectives, helped teams break down and organize work, facilitate dependencies, and reduce waste.

As a Scrum master I Drive team improvements that reduce waste, improve team culture.

Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, team accountability and ensuring the work is visible.

Guiding the team on how to get the most out of our self-organization.

Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.

Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.

Assists team in maintaining transparency concerning the team's projects, progress, and capacity management using different tools. Iteratively analyses the team progress to help project management team make informed decisions.

Successfully manage 5+ concurrent projects and timelines, including tasks, roadmaps and milestones.

As a Project manager I Analyzed and improved upon previous miscalculations to improve on-time delivery by 5% each year.

Collaborated with stakeholders and employees to provide forecasts and estimates, ensuring efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Keep stakeholders engaged and informed for the entire lifecycle of the project, maintaining positive client relationships and team morale.

Developed and maintained project plans, schedules, and budgets, ensuring adherence to scope and objectives.

Utilized Agile methodologies to streamline project processes and improve team efficiency, resulting in a 12% reduction in project timeline.

Collaborated with software development teams Managed end-to-end project delivery, developing forecasts, estimates, and timelines.

to define project scope, requirements, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with business objectives.

Client: Cisco, California.

Prime Vendor - Wipro Feb 2022 – Oct 2022

Scrum Master & Tech Project Manager

Responsibilities:

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

Collaborated with prospective global users and clients to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements.

Led the Migration process from Rally to Jira with Department executives.

Conducted various planning sessions during the process of migration for smooth take off.

Used Jira Portfolio to create roadmap & create release plan and track the work for each quarter commitment.

Directed internal, remote and vendor partner teams to operate in a fast paced and exciting environment while releasing and developing high quality Cisco product.

Supported the Product Owner & team in maintaining data in the appropriate Agile toolset to provide transparency to the roadmap and related priorities in Scrum and Kanban board.

Helped Product Owners to improve story writing, feature discovery, and requirements gathering process; walked through the Definition of ready and Definition of Done. Leading to an increase in customer satisfaction and a decrease in time-to-delivery.

Coordinated with Higher Management on product creation, design, and development.

Monitoring and evaluating product progress at each stage of the process.

Liaising with the product team and end-users to deliver updates.

Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog project timeline.

Worked closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.

Educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders.

Directed and led the development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product.

Facilitated cross-functional support regarding project management initiatives.

Continually communicated status reports to senior management and department executives for budgeting and planning purposes.

Monitored Team progress and enforced deadlines and served as the single point of contact for project scheduling changes and status.

Led regular ongoing meeting with different department executives and stake holders to review the project status and any proposed changes

Delivered all tasks given on the project to the customer on time.

Hands on experience in working with large project teams and strategic account teams.

Understood account technology and business trends.

Client: JCPenney, Dallas. April 2021 – Feb 2022

Scrum Master & Tech Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Gathered requirements, detailed the business process, incorporated the project documentation, and communicated the results and led the offshore development team to build the enchantment developed from the functional gathering session.

Responsible for a full range of tasks up to and through the design, build, test, and deployment phases of projects.

Led 12 Teams in the Offshore and Onsite in multiple projects.

Collaborates with Senior Management to support new projects across the platform. Prepare and provide status updates to senior leadership and business the progress of the project, while presenting escalated issues to senior leadership in a timely manner.

Worked on Search Engine for Jcpenny portal, and the Exact Delivery date visibility to the customer.

Worked On Feedback page, which appears on the screen after selecting the Product to the cart.

Managed to provide multiple options when you select any product without selecting the color options for product.

Worked closely with other PM's, Project Directors, Technology Leadership, and Finance leadership to ensure timely and accurate deliverables including monthly project portfolio forecasts, variance analysis and reporting, budget mitigation, and budget reduction when necessary.

Managed program-level planning to track milestones and deliverables impacting multiple projects, releases, tracks, and dependencies.

Led large complexity Programs from concept to implementation as required.

Managed Portfolio/Program/Project level Stakeholders as necessary

Utilized standard portfolio and program management processes and tools to assess status and provide recommendations and execute on course corrections as needed.

Collaborated with Engineering Team on how to work with that teams to determine path towards delivery and prioritize.

Assessed each scrum team member’s responsibility and delegated tasks to balance each employee’s workload.

Provided extensive guidance on agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.

Facilitated meetings and communication between product development team members to ensure highest value work is top priority in the backlog. Facilitate collaboration on the daily basis to remove impediments and reduce risk.

Client: 7- Eleven, Irving, Texas. May 2018 – April 2021

Tech Scrum Master & Sr DevOps Engineer

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 project timeline.

Work closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.

Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders.

Direct and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product.

Assist in defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes

Acted as Scrum Master for Product teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.

Agile Estimating - The case for story points and how to help teams get started.

Sprinting - Facilitating the daily scrum and other Scrum Master activities during the Sprint.

As a DevOps Engineer, I have Supported different Teams for launching the 7now applications in Production.

Worked on Automating the CI/CD Pipeline for React web on the 7now.

Assist in defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes.

Using Gitlab I did a POC on CI/CD Automation to deploy the applications.

Supported 800 stores for deploying the application on 7 Eleven stores.

Worked on CloudFormation templates for Pipelines, Fargate, and elk stacks.

Created monitoring alert for pipelines, Ec2 instances, and microservices.

Using New relic, created the notifications to slack channel, Email, and PagerDuty.

Analyzed, defined, and developed build process improvements using AWS.

Managed the 7Now releases and Release co-ordination during the Project roll-out.

Assisting with creating and maintaining an automation and monitoring framework

Monitored developed applications and fixed bugs.

Client:CapitalOne,Richmond.

Prime Vendor - Wipro June 2015 – May 2018

Tech Scrum Master, & DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

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

Serves the Engineering Team in its efforts to deliver value and meet expectations of stakeholders by conducting daily scrum, planning the sprints, demonstrating the sprints, and scheduling process improvement meetings.

Provides guidance on the team; helps them along the process of self-governance so they can realize the impact of Agile Scrum frameworks.

Evaluates the Scrum Maturity of the team; coaches the team to achieve higher levels of maturity and at a pace that is sustainable for the organization.

Works to remove all impediments and obstructions to the team’s progress.

Endeavors to build a safe environment and promote a productive culture for work.

Provided assistance to the internal and external communications group, advocated transparency and efficient communication channels.

Collaborated closely with the Product Owner (PO) with respect to managing the product backlog.

Provided servant leadership approach to the team; extended support whenever possible and led by example when needed.

Trident has Supported Over the different Teams in Card-Technology.

Working on CI/CD Methodologies using DevOps toolsets.

Deploy and Monitor Micro services on Amazon web Services.

Working on AWS for Creating the Ec2 Instances with Appropriate VPC, with different Subnets and Security Groups for Different Environments like Dev, QA, Prod.

Working on AWS Elastic load balancing for deploying applications in high availability.

Working on AWS Auto Scaling for providing high availability of applications and EC2 instances based on the load of applications by using Cloud Watcher in AWS.

Used AWS-S3 Bucket to store code bundles to deploy onto EC2 Instances.

POC on Zookeeper and Kafka.

Developed the Automated Python Script in Creating the Complete Zeno Stack Creation.

Created the GitHub Repository for Different Environments Dev, QA, PreProd and Prod.

Having the experience in configuring Haproxy for Different Environments and helped the developers to quickly deploy the applications on Micro services for testing.

Working on Different Open-Source Tools like Consul, ELK, MongoDB, Shipyard Master, Shipyard Slave, Splunk, Elastic Search, Cassandra, Spark, Dockerization.

Created the MongoDb Script for adding and setting up the Users and Authentication in Primary Section.

Created a Manual Script for Haproxy for Load balancing the Data on Shipyard Slaves.

Supported the Developers on Deploying the Code in Production when they are Using the Trident Infrastructure.

Worked on Chef Cookbooks for developing the different Tools in Zeno framework like Haproxy, Spark, Cassandra.

Worked with API Gateway Team, to deploy the Rest API and Micro services on Docker.

In Jenkins, created the Sample Templates for Dev, QA, Prod Jobs for deploying the applications.

Providing documentation on Install, Upgrade release guides for application to documentation team.

Coordinate with Release Management regarding appropriate system releases among other development platforms.

Work with development/testing, deployment, systems/infrastructure and project teams to ensure continuous operation of build and test systems.

Managed the entire release communication and Release co-ordination during the Project roll-out.

Involved in estimating the resources required for the project based on the requirements.

Maintained and executed build scripts by coordinating with development and QA teams.

Implement, maintain, and support reliable, timely and reproducible builds for project teams.

Environment: AWS, chef, Python Scripting, Jenkins, GitHub, Zookeeper, Kafka, Consul, Consul-Config, Haproxy, Spark, Cassandra, MongoDB, Docker, Nexus, Shipyard Master, Shipyard Slave, Elastic Search, Elk.

Client: ICT Enabled Services, Hyderabad June 2014 – Feb 2015

Role: Head of Business Development

Responsibilities:

Continually developing the E-Learning brand and increasing awareness in the marketplace

Generating and seeking out potential new opportunities

Developing and managing relationships with potential clients, influencers and key stakeholders

Evaluating new opportunities to ensure resources focus on the best opportunities

Managing proposals, submissions and bids

Monitoring competitors and reviewing your employer’s offering in light of competitors developments

Participating in new business contract negotiations

Setting targets for new business development for the business development managers and executives.

Interviewing and hiring new members of the business development team.

Devising strategies for driving sales growth across the business.

Devising strategies for driving sales growth across the business.

Setting up meetings with prospective customers to sell the company’s products and services.

Acting as a key contact for large customer accounts.

Previous experience working in a senior business development role for a similar company.

Client: NIIT Limited, Hyderabad Sep 2012 – May 2014

Role: Business Development Manager

Responsibilities:

Contacting potential clients via email or phone to establish rapport and set up meetings.

Planning and overseeing new marketing initiatives.

Attending conferences, meetings, and industry events.

Contacting clients to inform them about new developments in the company’s product.

Developing quotes and proposals.

Training personnel and helping team members develop their skills.

Developing sales goals for the team and ensuring they are met.

Having an in-depth knowledge of business products and value proposition.

Experience with design and implementation of business development strategy.

Become a subject matter expert on our business products, processes and operations, and remain up-to-date on industry news.

Promote the company’s products/services addressing or predicting clients’ objectives.

Client: Sky Broadcast, Cardiff, UK. Aug 2010 - Sep 2012

Role: Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Implement advanced strategies for gathering, reviewing, and analyzing data requirements.

Prioritize requirements and create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups.

Master strategic business process modeling, traceability, and quality management techniques.

Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.

Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies.

Effectively communicating insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.

Providing leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff.

Ensuring solutions meet business needs and requirements.

Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects.

Client: Virinchi Technologies – Hyderabad

Role: .Net Developer May 2007 – Aug 2008

Responsibilities:

Compiled and assembled software using source code and store tools

Participate to the entire development cycle (analysis, design, estimation, development, testing and deployment)

Create, execute and document necessary tests to ensure application / environment performance

Automated build processes and packing testing setup

Designed and implemented appropriate solutions for build and release processes

Maintained the repository of configuration items of all projects

Improved designing and developing processes through source code control system

Assisted in build automation and mobile technologies

Provided technical support for root cause analysis.

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