Avanti Mitra

Certified Project Manager/Scrum Manager

email: ad2keq@r.postjobfree.com

cell: 248-***-****

SUMMARY:

• Servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale software and Web development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading, and coaching multiple Scrum teams.

• Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

• Ability to work in a team environment or independently.

• Good at multi-tasking and working well under tight deadlines with high efficiency.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent troubleshooting, project management and problem-solving skills.

• Led multiple Cross Functional teams various diverse Projects. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager/ Scrum Master, (Feb 2022- Present), New York Life.

• Managed multiple Mainframe Infrastructure Projects to reduce licensing charges through standardization.

• Successfully led a Tech Currency project by migrating of End-of-Life application infrastructure.

• Managed enterprise-wide Time-tracking solution roll out to replace the current system of record for all contingent labor.

• Assisted in a merger of three Boutique investment firms’ application and infrastructure enablement for Day 1 Readiness.

• Facilitated distributed project teams and all aspect of Agile/Scrum development, including daily standups, Iteration and Release planning, Retrospectives, Demos and daily work.

• Ensure Scrum and SAFE framework are implemented effectively and provide coaching and training to enforce company guidelines.

• Attended PI planning workshops and facilitated system demo, Inspect and Adapt workshops for future PI’s.

• Attended Scrum of scrum, worked closely with the RTE, System Architects and System teams for coordinating dependencies between various scrum teams in the ART.

• Led discussions with Business, Stakeholders and Project Sponsors to ensure understanding of project scope, milestone and due dates.

• Used Jira to maintain Product backlog and Sprint backlog and to create and track user stories, Sprint Planning, tracking and managing Sprints, create Scrum and Kanban boards, Status reports and Burndown charts.

• Addressed and resolved project risks, roadblocks, and obstacles while securing resources to efficiently complete project deliverables. Project Manager/Scrum Master, (March 2021- Jan 2022), WEARE Infinity LLC.

• Mentored a team of cross-functional resources through all its product release, projects updates and interaction with product owners, stakeholder and clients.

• Monitor and track progress, prepare status reports, resolve issues, coordinate tasks, and activities directed toward completing the project goals.

• Closely work with product owners to ensure understanding of user stories and keeping the backlog groomed and prioritized.

• Identified and removed impediments that interfered with teams’ ability to deliver on the sprint goals.

• Facilitate and participate in Sprint planning, design, estimation, conducted daily stand up, encouraging open communication in the team.

• Coach and mentor Team on best practices and ensuring that our ways of working are consistent across organization.

• Facilitate the team to estimate story points and measured velocity to plan future sprints.

BA/ QA Analyst (November 2015-April 2018), Pearson

• Assist with UAT Planning: write and review test scripts, manage UAT testers: manage defect resolution process and participate in testing at times.

• Assist business users in coordination, development, and performance of in-depth test for User Acceptance testing and other post implementation Support.

• Responsible for analyzing the requirements gathered from the client and creating high-level design documentations for the same.

• Assisted PM in maintaining project schedule, WBS, issue /decision log, status reports, ongoing communications across all team members.

• Perform Status Reporting and communication with key stakeholders on team velocity and sprint/release progress and issues log.

• Support / collaborate with team members to implement Agile/Scrum best Practices.

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)

QA Analyst (June 2013 – June 2015), Realcomp

• Involved in verification and testing of the web pages in the application.

• Responsibility involved assistance in the development of functional requirements, testing applications, developing test plans, editing, and writing test cases and test scripts.

• Reviewed the user requirements and participates in the detailed test plan and test criteria.

• Reported and maintained product defects, verified fixed defects, and prioritized outstanding defects.

QA Analyst (April 2012 – April 2013), MeganSoft

• Created test cases from the business and functional requirements.

• Develop test scenarios and test cases, performed end-to-end manual testing of the application.

• Executed test cases and reporting the bugs.

• Attend requirement review sessions with the users and business analysts.

• Provide test status to project managers and developers.

• Responsible for communicating with management about testing status reports, interacted with the developers to resolve the defects. EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s Degree from IHM, Chennai, India

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

• Safe Scrum Master (SSM)

• Project Management Professional (PMP)®

• Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing from UT Austin(Texas McCombs)

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