SARAVANAN MUNIANDI

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Agile Scrum Master

Results-driven Agile Scrum Master with 10 years of IT experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software products on time and within budget.

Proven expertise in implementing Agile methodologies, fostering a collaborative team environment, and driving continuous improvement.

Adept at facilitating Scrum ceremonies, removing impediments, and ensuring transparent communication between team members and stakeholders.

Strong advocate for Agile principles and values, with a focus on delivering business value and exceeding customer expectations.

Possesses excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, with a track record of successfully guiding teams through complex projects.

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with a deep commitment to enhancing team productivity and achieving project goals through Agile practices.

Good at all these tools and technology, JIRA, Rally, Confluence, SharePoint.

Java / JEE, Micro services, Spring boot, Oracle, AWS Cloud, REST / Web services, JSON, Big data / Hadoop, HIVE, HDFS, HBase, MangoDB, Python, CI / CD tools, Tableau, Amazon Connect, Kafka Streaming, Jenkins, SonarQube, AppDynamics, Splunk, Talend

Professional Experience

Agile Scrum Master

Citigroup (Opensystems Technologies) - Irving, TX 03/2021 – present

Client / Project

Citi PBWM Data Governance Platform - Metadata Management (Data Catalog Data Lineage ADS)

Roles & Resp

Lead and facilitate various Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.

Ensure that these events are productive, time-boxed, and follow Scrum guidelines.

Identify and address impediments or obstacles that hinder the team's progress.

Actively work to resolve issues that affect the team's ability to deliver high-quality increments of work.

Foster a safe and collaborative environment that encourages open communication and continuous improvement.

Coach the team on agile principles, values, and practices and the Scrum framework.

Mentor team members, Product Owners, and stakeholders on agile practices and mindset.

Ensure transparency by making information about the team's progress and obstacles visible to all relevant parties.

Embrace a servant-leadership approach, focusing on serving the team's needs and promoting a self-organizing culture.

Encourage collaboration, cooperation, and a shared sense of responsibility within the team.

Work with the team to identify areas for improvement and implement changes incrementally.

Support the team in making decisions and taking ownership of their work.

Facilitate regular retrospectives to reflect on the team's processes and identify areas for enhancement.

Keep track of the team's progress using relevant metrics and key performance indicators.

Use data to help the team make informed decisions and identify areas for improvement.

Work with other Scrum Masters or teams to promote coordination and alignment in larger organizations.

Apply agile and Scrum principles to address challenges and improve the team's performance.

Ensure transparent communication within the team and with external stakeholders.

Promote a culture of openness, where information about progress, challenges, and changes is readily available.

Track relevant metrics to assess the team's progress and performance.

Use metrics to identify areas for improvement and guide decision-making.

Collaborate closely with the Product Owner to ensure a well-maintained backlog and a clear understanding of priorities.

Facilitate communication between the team and Product Owner to optimize product development.

Technology

Java, API, Microservices, Collibra, Python, JSON, Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, MongoDB, Amazon S3

Agile Scrum Master

Verizon (Virtusa Corporation) - Irving, TX 02/2020 – 02/2021

Client / Project

Verizon – System of Insights / Analytics (Omni Channel Phase 3)

Roles & Resp

Lead and facilitate various Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.

Ensure that these events are productive, time-boxed, and follow Scrum guidelines.

Identify and address impediments or obstacles that hinder the team's progress.

Actively work to resolve issues that affect the team's ability to deliver high-quality increments of work.

Foster a safe and collaborative environment that encourages open communication and continuous improvement.

Coach the team on agile principles, values, and practices and the Scrum framework.

Mentor team members, Product Owners, and stakeholders on agile practices and mindset.

Ensure transparency by making information about the team's progress and obstacles visible to all relevant parties.

Embrace a servant-leadership approach, focusing on serving the team's needs and promoting a self-organizing culture.

Encourage collaboration, cooperation, and a shared sense of responsibility within the team.

Work with the team to identify areas for improvement and implement changes incrementally.

Support the team in making decisions and taking ownership of their work.

Facilitate regular retrospectives to reflect on the team's processes and identify areas for enhancement.

Keep track of the team's progress using relevant metrics and key performance indicators.

Use data to help the team make informed decisions and identify areas for improvement.

Work with other Scrum Masters or teams to promote coordination and alignment in larger organizations.

Apply agile and Scrum principles to address challenges and improve the team's performance.

Ensure transparent communication within the team and with external stakeholders.

Promote a culture of openness, where information about progress, challenges, and changes is readily available.

Track relevant metrics to assess the team's progress and performance.

Use metrics to identify areas for improvement and guide decision-making.

Collaborate closely with the Product Owner to ensure a well-maintained backlog and a clear understanding of priorities.

Facilitate communication between the team and Product Owner to optimize product development.

Technology

Pega PRPC 7.1, Java, Microservices, Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, MongoDB, ETL, Oracle

Agile Scrum Master / TPM

Citigroup (Virtusa Corporation) - Irving, TX 10/2018 - 01/2020

Client / Project

Citigroup – FinTech Data Science (Data Science, Data Ingestion, Data Visualization.)

Citigroup – Customer Graph (Analytics Platform & Business / Marketing).

Roles & Resp

Program and Project Management, include Scrum, release planning, sprint planning, User story decomposition, effort estimations, daily scrum meetings, sprint reviews meeting, Risk assessment and Mitigation plan & control actions

Planning, controlling, monitoring, managing and directing the assigned program and project to best meet program and project objectives

Collecting metrics data (such as baseline, actual values for costs, schedule, work in progress, and work completed) & reporting to stakeholders about project progress and others project specific information

Create and execute development plans and revisions as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements

Leading technical team, architecture team, mentoring team members on technical issues and resolutions

Participate in Architectural review sessions, participate in design review sessions, suggest alternative technical solutions to meet client requirements more efficiently, and/or with greater reusability, and/or longer life.

Conduct defect triage meetings to ensure quality of deliverables and solicit periodic client feedback for continuous improvement

Successfully planned and aligned our PROD deployments with the organization release cycle

Managed and delivered 10 PROD deployments (CG Platform / Business features) successfully and much appreciated by business / sponsor.

Successfully integrated with Omni channels, IVR, Sawgrass

On boarding of microservices into PCF platform for internal / external customers.

Successfully migrated from HBase to MangoDB to address Storage / Retrieval, performance issue by switching from key-value pair to filtering and aggregate functions.

Planned and delivered the Kafka Streaming App to read and writes the Topics into MangoDB to have near real-time data for all the features of CG Platform.

Planned and delivered complete test automation (CI / CD) and our application was the first to receive Silver APP award on the DEMO Day.

Led and managed project teams of up to 30 employees.

Technology

Java, Springboot, REST, Microservices, Pivotal Cloud Factory (PCF), Glassbox (Customer data analytics / Insights), Amazon Connect, Kafka Streaming, Docker containers, CI/CD, Jenkins, SonarQube, AppDynamics, Splunk, Tableau, Python, Talend, Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, HBase, MongoDB, ETL, DataLake, Oracle

Technical Project Manager

New York Life (Virtusa Corporation) - Clinton, NJ 07/2017 - 09/2018

Client / Project

New York Life – NYL Digital Transformation

Roles & Resp

Drove Agile technical projects spanning multiple business divisions, budgeting $2M.

Spearheaded this Digital Transformation program while serving as primary contact for client.

Authored complex functional and system-level test plans, test cases and test reports for NYL digital transformation and its development process.

Innovated new processes and workflows that realized 50% improvement in efficiency of delivery team.

Increased team efficiency by 30% by inspiring motivation, spins and changes for quality and timeliness.

Technology

Java 8, Spring, Amazon Webservices, Amazon ECS, Elastic Search, Mulesoft API, Mulesoft Anypoint Studio, DevOps CI/CD Automation, Jenkins, Docker, Terraform, GitHub, Dynamo DB, Zookeeper, Kafka, LogStash, Kibana, JIRA, Confluence, SonarQube, JMeter

Scrum Master

Anthem BCBS(Virtusa Corporation) - Wallingford, CT 08/2016 - 06/2017

Client / Project

Anthem BCBS / ACMP FEP

Roles & Resp

Responsibilities include Scrum, release planning, sprint planning, User story decomposition, effort estimations, daily scrum meetings, sprint reviews meeting, Risk assessment and Mitigation plan & control actions.

Technology

Java / JEE, Spring, Hibernate, MongoDB, DB2, REST Web services, WebSphere Application Server

Technical Project Manager

American Express (Virtusa Corporation) - Plantation, FL 08/2015 - 07/2016

Client / Project

American Express / Fraud CIA

Roles & Resp

Delivered 3 projects on time and within budget, overcoming all planning, resourcing with the dependency team and the data challenges, obstacles and hurdles.

Responsibilities include Scrum, release planning, sprint planning, User story decomposition, effort estimations, daily scrum meetings, sprint reviews meeting, Risk assessment and Mitigation plan & control actions

Strong understanding of project management methodology and PMO standards.

Technology

Pega PRPC 6.1 SP2, IBM Web Sphere Application Server 7.0, Oracle11i, Linux, RALLY, and Clarity

Agile Project Manager

BNP Paribas (Virtusa Corporation) - Chennai, India, Tamilnadu 12/2013 - 07/2015

Client / Project

BNP Paribas / CIB Transversal APAC

Roles & Resp

Defined workflows and processes in fast-paced, Agile and distributed models using tools such as whiteboarding, mind mapping, JIRA, and Confluence.

Monitored and facilitated scrum processes and team meetings for development.

Led daily scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.

Trained and mentored team members on best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency and reduce production times.

Technology

Business Objects Enterprise XI 3.1, Autosys, Oracle11i, RALLY, and Linux

Senior Project Development Manager, Citi Private Banking & Royal Bank of Scotland

Polaris FT - Chennai, India, Tamilnadu 02/2010 - 11/2013

Supervised and directed team of 3 project managers in coordinating, sharing the action items to achieve the desired results to meet the milestones.

Documented new features and strategies as well as user stories and criteria for acceptance.

Assessed team metrics and worked to drive improvements and innovate new approaches.

Evaluated projects for issues, alleviating problems and distractions to meeting team goals.

Coordinated operations and communications between cross-functional areas resulting in enhanced.

Reported project statuses to facilitate delivery schedules and manage bottlenecks.

Consistently worked to identify project risks, initiate risk mitigation and implement risk reduction action plans.

Managed production tasking across functional areas to maximize operational efficiency.

Prepared deliverables to drive continuous improvement resulting in zero defects.

Delegated tasks to each team member, regularly assessing workloads to complete tasks on time and within project parameters.

Lead Technical Architect

Wells Fargo (Marlabs Inc), Western Union (Opus Software), CitiStreet (RealSoft Inc.,) 01/2006 - 12/2008

Designed and implemented development for Reconciliation Application Service Framework.

Administered application stacks and executed performance tuning.

Redesigned and developed architecture, resulting in 20% increase in productivity for clients.

Created customized infrastructure for businesses.

Defined technical integration strategy and developed integration plans.

System Analyst, GE Insurance (iGATE Global Solutions) - Bangalore, India, Karnataka 03/2001 - 12/2005

Analysed requirements and implemented systems to deliver comprehensive system development life cycle solutions.

Collected and defined customer requirements to produce product scopes.

Initiated efforts to migrate legacy applications to Java / J2EE platform.

Coordinated system installations, testing and code corrections.

Met with stakeholders, contractor product teams and customers throughout entire system development life cycle.

Education

Madurai Kamaraj University - Madurai, Tamilnadu, India 06/1997

MBA: Management Information Systems and Marketing

Madurai Kamaraj University - Madurai, Tamilnadu, India 06/1995

B.Com.: Commerce

Training and Certification

Certified Scrum Master from ScrumAlliance

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