PRIYANKA YADAV

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Professional Profile

Senior Scrum Master /Google Certified Project Manager/ PMI Agile Certified Professional (PMI-ACP) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Expert in Agile methodology, skilled team leader and coach. I have a passion for thinking "outside the box" to identify effective solutions and increase team efficiency.

Leading cross-continental teams, making successful presentations on the value of Agile to senior executives, and 16+ years of success delivering high-quality client-server software.

Accomplished Servant leader having experience of 10+ years in Agile Software Development. Proven ability to work and deliver in large-scale software and web development projects by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading, and coaching multiple Scrum teams.

Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments, and fostering self-management. Capable of bringing 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.

Strong Communicator with excellent facilitation & communication skills (written, oral & social) and the ability to interface with senior leadership (CXO, VP) with confidence.

Worked closely with Product Owners for Release Planning and prioritizing work in agile methodology. Point of Contact for customers for ongoing releases including feature updates, tracking Bugs/JIRA, risks, and dependencies. Involved in all technical decisions and release activities including.

Key Clients: Apple, Applied Materials, Cisco, Verizon, Experian

Key Expertise

Project Management, Coaching, Empowerment, Servant Leadership

Stakeholder Management, Management, Dependency Management

Cost Management and Risk Management

Scrum, Safe Experience, Kanban, Agile Project Management

Skill & Certifications Summary

PMI-Agile Certified Professional

Credential ID PMI-ACP-2994369

Google Certified Project Mangement, Generative AI

Credential ID YXU89J5N9YS7

Credential ID for Generative AI 6846578

CSM – Certified Scrum Master

Registration Number: 00380045

Computer Languages

VB, C, C++, HTML, Java, Java Script, SQL, Python

Operating Systems

Unix/Linux, Windows

Databases

SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres

Project Management Tools & Technologies

MS Office, MS Excel, JIRA, Rally, Microsoft Project Plan, PowerPoint, Bugzilla, Atlassian confluence, Azure DevOps

Configuration Management Tool

ClearCase, CVS, GIT, GitHub

Build Tool

Apache Ant, Apache Maven, Gradle

Publication

White paper on “Product Management and SDG’s”:

Product Management & Sustained Development Goals LinkedIn

Current Role

Program Management: planning, tracking, coordination, execution, and reporting of the product deliverables and identification and mitigation of product risks & dependencies.

Scrum Management: facilitation of scrum ceremonies, Obstacle Removal, essential adherence to scrum.

Implementation of Agile process, principles, and practices across all levels.

Agile coaching and Agile transformation

Awards

Best Scrum Master FY’18

Awarded the Best Scrum Master award out of 15+ scrum master's across Cisco Business unit by the Agile committee.

Snap Award Nov’18

Awarded the coveted Altran Snap Award for demonstrating ownership, team spirit & extraordinary commitment towards delivery of critical features of Smart Licensing.

Project Summary

Project Title

Experian

Role

Technical Project Manager

Duration

Dec 2022 - Dec 2023

Brief Description

Experian Verify provides secure employment and/or income information to credentialed verifiers (mortgage companies, lenders, pre-employment screeners, etc.) on behalf of your employer.

Responsibility

Technical Project Manager supporting three major projects like Verification Solutions & EES

Supporting Experian's Agile transformation journey into Agile and Scaled Agile (SAFe).

P&L Management · Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) · Time

Management · Scheduling Management · Problem Solving · Critical Thinking · Contract

Management · Confluence · Jira · Unified Communications · Software Defined Networking

Vendor Management · Risk Management · Cost Management · Leadership · Backlog Management

Project Title

Development and Sustenance for Unity Connection

Role

Engineering Project Manager/Senior Engineering Project Manager

Duration

October 2017 – Nov 2022

Brief Description

Cisco Unity Connection lets user access and manage messages from an email inbox, web browser, Cisco Jabber, Cisco Unified IP Phone, smartphone, or tablet. Unity Connection also provides flexible message access and delivery format options, including support for voice commands, speech-to-text transcription, and even video greetings

Responsibility

Managing a team of 30 Members.

Working in a servant leadership mode to empower 6 Agile Scrum teams.

Working closely with Product Owner for release planning and prioritizing work in Agile Methodology.

Point of Contact for Customer for ongoing Releases which includes (Feature updates, Tracking Bugs/JIRA, Risks, Dependencies etc.)

Involved in all technical decisions for the product.

Taking care of Release activities for a product.

Risk Management for project

Dependency Management

Project Management

Client Management

People Management

Delivery Management

Worked with UX Design teams on a regular basis.

Project Title

Avril – Cloud Solution of Voice Mail

Role

Scrum Master /Engineering Project Manager

Duration

Jul 2015 – September 2017

Brief Description

Cloud based Voicemail system where a user can drop a voicemail to the called party and Avril delivers it on his spark room, mail and TUI interface

Responsibility

Hiring, Team formation, Effort Estimates, Project Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Tracking, Risk Management, Stakeholders Management, Project Closure.

Various Demos and Trainings to the customers and at Organization

Process compliance as per CMMI standards and Audits at internal and external levels.

Cost Management and Optimization. e. Performance Evaluation and Compensation Management of the Team Members

Facilitating all the scrum ceremonies (Daily scrums, Planning Meeting, Review, Retrospective)

Following Scrum framework for managing software projects and product or application development.

Involved in Release Planning, Backlog management & resolving impediments facing Dev Team.

Provide guidance to the team on Scrum Values, Practices, and Rules, essential adherence to Scrum methodologies.

Participate in various Scrum activities such as: Release Planning, Scrum of Scrums, Dependency

Metrics Meeting, Mid Sprint Planning Meeting and Inspect &Adapt Meeting.

Interaction with business groups, stakeholders throughout the PSI (Release) and with other IT teams as appropriate.

Facilitate daily Scrum activities such as: Updates to Burn-Down charts, Backlog reviews, as well as other meetings as needed.

Remove roadblocks reported by the team, which could require cross-team collaboration and or escalation, possibly up to executive management.

Facilitate a good and respectful Scrum environment, conditioning and empowering the team to be self-managed.

Communicate and work directly with the client Product Owner to consistently maintain the Product Backlog, handle changes both to the product backlog as well as changes to the executing sprint.

Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks

Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem solving.

Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.

Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information

Project Title

Cisco Unity Connection

Duration

Jul 2011 – July 2015

Role

Senior Software Engineer: July 2011 – Dec 2012

Documentation Lead: Jan 2012 – Jan 2013

Scrum Master: Jan 2013 – June 2015

Brief Description

Cisco Unity Connection lets users access and manage messages from an email inbox, web browser, Cisco Jabber, Cisco Unified IP Phone, smartphone, or tablet. Unity Connection also provides flexible message access and delivery format options, including support for voice commands, speech-to-text transcription, and even video greetings

Responsibility

Technically leading team for Media module for transition from US.

Worked on new feature development, defect fixing in the media module.

Led a team of 4 documentation writers and handled tough customer escalations in enterprise domain.

Generated Online help from Adobe Frame Maker for Unity Connection

Traveled to US to transition from Waterfall to Agile Methodology

Performed daily Rituals (Daily Stand Up), Sprint Ceremonies, Obstacle Resolution, creating sprint burn down charts and reports.

Project Title

Cisco MGX

Duration

September 2006 – June 2010

Brief Description

MGX 8880 is a Media gateway which was completely owned by Aricent for feature enhancement and maintenance

Project Title

Aricent Soft Switch

Duration

May 2005 – August 2006

Brief Description

Media Gateway Controller which supports MGCP and SIP. I was involved in Regression testing of new features and development of new services.

Education

Qualification

Year

University

M.Tech Computer Science

2005

Banasthali Vidyapith, India

MSc. Computer Science

2003

Banasthali Vidyapith, India

BSc. Computer Science

2001

Delhi University, India

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