Sreekanthi

Scrum Master Green Card

Summary:

Over 6 plus years of diversified experience in IT development, Project Management and Analysis and expertise in understanding, collaborating, stakeholder engagement and gathering the requirements from business users.

Drove adoption of Agile and Lean software development methodologies Scrum, XP, SAFe, Rally and Kanban practices across teams.

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

Scrum Agile Areas of expertise include Agile Principles, Tasking Meetings/Retrospectives, Communication Relative Estimation, Story-Based Development, Iteration/Sprint Planning Meetings and Conflict Resolution.

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

Experienced in Financial/Budget management and familiar working with content management systems.

Knowledge transfer from the client to the team - Obtain the technical knowledge and share it with the team.

Outstanding organizational, communication and presentation skills. The daily work status, Report defects, Prepare test reports, Test metric collection. Participate in the defect review and other project related meetings as needed.

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

Communicate timelines, progress, delays etc. back and forth from the team to the client and vice-versa. Experienced in handling larger Java, Oracle and Mongo based teams with much larger deadlines in onsite-offshore model.

Provides test execution guidelines. Perform the smoke and sanity test on any deployed build and gives a go ahead for the team to continue testing. Participates in the test execution.

Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization to coach the team to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.

Excellent work experience in managing global teams within a Digital Product Delivery environment.

Technical Skills:

Methodologies:

UML, Full SDLC

SDLC:

Agile - Scrum - Kanban, (JIRA, Rally, VSTS), Water Fall

Project Management:

Microsoft Project - Gantt Charts, Microsoft Office, MS Visio

Version Control Systems:

SVN, Bitbucket using Source Tree, VSS

Operating Systems:

Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, MS - DOS, Linux - Ubuntu

RDBMS and Databases:

My SQL 5, SQL Server 2005, Oracle9i

Programming Languages:

C, C++, Java, C#, SQL

Server

Apache Tomcat 5/6, My eclipse Tomcat, IIS 7.0

Frame Works

Struts 1/1.2, .Net frame work 3.5/4.0

Web Technologies

ASP.Net, HTML, XML and Java Script

Reporting Services

SSRS, BI-SSIS

BPM tool

Pega, JBPM

Certifications:

SP (SAFe Practitioner) Certified

CSM (Certified Scrum Master)

PSM1 Certified

CSPO (Certified Product Owner)

Education:

M.Sc. Computer Science, Osmania University, India.

Professional Experience:

Eastern Bank, Boston, MA August 2021 - Till Date

Scrum Master/Product Owner

Responsibilities:

Participate in post go-live meeting cadence (Sunrise and sunset calls) and triage issues for severity and work with issue owners to closure.

Responsible for ensuring all the projects where code or process is changing on CCW platform, is fully committed using the commerce portfolio, commit and release management processes.

Document the project plan and prepare recommendations for implementation of risk mitigation or process change and responsible for knowledge transfer and support to change management team.

Ensure the participation from all impacted functional teams and stakeholders (interface with functional BA/ITA/DEV/QA/Boundary POCs).

Prioritize the projects with management and work with analysts towards solution completion and reviews.

Support development leads in preparing for FPR and Go-Live activities in collaboration with PMO and ERMO.

Design an overall project plan and implement it as per the milestones from new request to go-live.

Present project in socialization meeting with all the impacted teams and stakeholders and close on open items prior to internal commit. (IT managers commit).

Confirm engagement with impacted tracks including resource assignments.

Identify risks and recommend mitigation plans.

Work with the project requestors and SMEs to complete the project socialization presentation for the projects ready for solution commit.

Assess the new project request: Understanding the requirements, identifying the impacted tracks, facilitate assessment across impacted tracks.

Plan and implement the internal and external reviews with development teams and stakeholders, respectively.

Used JIRA for allotting tasks, User Story Writing, Backlog Management, Issue Tracking, User Story Management and Forward/Backward Requirement Traceability.

Provide and highlight specific issues and risks impacting approval that need to be called out to the leadership, managers and stakeholders.

Support in closing issues from test cycle or disposition them as FRDs ahead of the release readiness review.

Consolidate and present project health status during weekly calls with PMO.

Analyze and help close any open items (if any) to secure approvals towards solution commit.

Facilitate project kickoff with all impacted teams for finalizing project and reiterate.

Environment: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Oracle, Mainframe, HIV, Jira, Conflunce, Sococo, Bamboo, GITHub

UPC Insurance, St. Petersburg, FL September 2019 – July 2021

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Supported the Product Owner to set the sprint goal and prioritize the backlog.

Supported the scrum teams in progressive improvement using the sprint retrospective.

Scrum Master to two teams of 9 engineers in different geographical locations.

Facilitated Scrum of Scrums to discuss impediments, dependencies and kaizen.

Planned and facilitated all scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, retrospectives, demo reviews and daily stand-up.

Utilized the burnup, burndown and velocity charts to plan, prioritize and keep the project on track.

Collaborated with the Product Owner, stakeholders to help manage organizational, and customer expectations.

Created information radiators and transmitted same periodically.

Coaching of Executives during agile transformation.

Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and meet the definition of done.

Motivated the development teams to work in accordance with agile values and principles.

Organized and ran workshops for continuous learning and overall team development.

Environment: Lean-Agile, CA Agile Central, MS Visio, SDLC, UML, SharePoint, Informatica, Oracle DB v11i

iTechArt Group, New York City, NY March 2016 – August 2019

Scrum Master/BA

Responsibilities:

Built an effective team culture that is collaborative and facilitates open communication.

Tracked impediments and ensured timely resolutions.

Acted as a point of contact for dissemination of project information.

Participated in Scrum of Scrums to discuss dependencies, impediments and kaizen.

Managed Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs.

Led Agile transformation by defining success factors, KPIs, training, coaching and entire roadmap.

Facilitated all the scrum events and ensured that discussions aligned with the goals of the events.

Use JIRA tool for Defect Tracking and Management.

Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity by 50% within the first year of Agile adoption.

Supported the Product Owner to ensure backlog refinement sessions helped all team members to gain a common understanding of development priorities.

Ensured the project timelines were adhered to through team optimization and resource allocation.

Supported the teams by ensuring stories were properly estimated using Agile estimation techniques and user stories were well written.

Part of a Project which used Waterfall Methodology.

Project scope was firstly defined as in Waterfall methodology with no financial surprises.

Supported the Product Owner in the documentation of the process while using Waterfall Methodology.

Facilitated meetings to ensure the impediments are perfectly, clearly addressed.

Environment: Waterfall, Scrum-Waterfall Hybrid Methodology, CA Agile Central, MS-Visio, SDLC, MS Visio, MS Project, MS SharePoint 2013

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