Davis Cheerotha
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Summary:
A seasoned professional, highly experienced scrum master and project manager with data, analytics and technology background.
Scrum Master, Project Manager experienced in data analytics & application/product development, backlog management and cloud migration
Years of software development experience and in leading tech teams
Skills and Certifications:
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Certified SAFe 4 Scrum Master
Scrum Product Owner Accredited Certification
PMP certification from PMI
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
ServiceNow CSA
ITIL Version 3 Foundation and Service Operations - Intermediate
Zachman Certified™ – Enterprise Architect Associate
Java J2EE, OO, C/C++, Unix, DB, D/W
Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, Git
JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, etc
Education:
MS, Computer Information Systems, University of Denver, Colorado
MBA (Executive 3-year PGDBA), Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai, India
B.Sc. Physics, Kerala University, India
Experience:
Charles Schwab Corporation, Lone Tree, CO – as an employee from Wipro Oct 2019 – Jan 2024
Scrum Master/Project Manager
Worked as scrum master for the Data analytics & Intelligence D/W program helping teams in improving their productivity, commitment and cooperation. Responsible for planning, removing impediments., facilitation, co-ordination with operational & other teams and stakeholders
Worked as Scrum master for the Thinkorswim migration project that involves migration of trading data and 700+ reports; worked with business/POs for data/report requirements. Responsible for resource allocation, budget & forecast, management reporting, JIRA/Confluence project admin activities and Release Planning
Worked as Scrum master for the Google Cloud migration QA and support team tracking issue resolution in Kanban environment
Used JIRA portfolio/roadmap for tracking program level mapping and tracking of deliverables. Participated in PI Planning sessions
Helped teams on lean and agile principles and to improve value delivery and effectiveness
Hitachi Vantara, Englewood, CO – contractor through Maxonic Inc Nov 2018 – April 2019
Sr. Project Manager/ Scrum master
Worked as Sr. Project manager/Scrum Master for AWS cloud BI migration project - building enterprise cloud data platform, unified data repository (Data Lake) and migrate data from existing DWH and other sources. Helped teams on agile adaption and data governance
PMO related activities; budgeting, resource allocation, status reporting
Travelport, Centennial, CO – employee from Tata Consultancy Services Jun 2017 - Nov 2018
Scrum Master/Project Manager
Scrum master for a major digital transformation and implementation project. Helped team in delivering business value incrementally, meeting delivery commitments on development of cloud API services, working closely with SAFe Release Train Engineer, product owner and other stakeholders – Helped team to grow in agile and lean mindset
Worked as scrum master for Card Payment services Team working closely with Product owner, BA, PM and onsite/offshore teams.
Handled Project Management related activities including managing MS PWA and reporting
Forsythe Technology, Centennial, CO Aug 2012 - Jan 2017
Scrum Master/Project Manager
Scrum Master for ITIL based products targeted for IT/Business alignment, App Rationalization & portfolio management and IT cost optimization – Improved team’s effectiveness and collaboration
Technical PM for the development of Enterprise Project/Program/portfolio and demand management dashboards for health care
Managed the development and delivery of ETLS and software
Hexaware Technologies, Chennai, India Aug 2006 - Nov 2010
Project Director/Program manager
Program/projects management of 6-8 projects with revenue, budget and delivery responsibilities.
In charge of CoE for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) & Software Engineering practices with organizational level agile training responsibilities. Helped to improve the organizational adoption agile of framework
Dev Engineering manager/Scrum master for dev teams
Jeppesen, Englewood, CO Oct 2004 - Jul 2006
Sr. Consultant
Involved in the design & implementation of flight planning, crew management and charts for the Integrated Airline Flight Operations system in Java/J2EE platform
Involved in requirement specification, architecture, design & implementation of the modules following agile/XP best practices
Momentum Resourcing, Denver, CO Sep 2003 - Oct 2004
Technical Consultant
Design, development & maintenance of e-commerce solution for Qwest (Telecom) for their product/service offerings mainly order management, tracking and fulfilment in java/J2EE following agile practices.
Tanning Technology Corp, Denver, CO Jun 1998 - May 2003
Lead Application Architect
Lead for Employee’s Compensation System - integrating many legacy systems using home grown ETL for calculating merit score and compensation
Data/Business Analyst for Internet Banking Application System and On-line shopping system and played key role in many turnkey projects