Ramyasudha Ramasamy Govindasamy

SUMMARY:

Having 7+ years of experience in Scrum Master with knowledge of Agile Principles, Scrum ceremonies and practices.

Demonstrated experience leading teams from waterfall to agile with a deep commitment to Servant Leadership and an appetite for continuous learning and development.

Worked closely with project stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to understand business requirements and analyse specifications for new applications, and to modify existing applications.

Motivated, thoughtful, dependable and well-organized team player with good interpersonal skills.

Always take the lead to resolve impediments as and when identified and protect the team from any external influences, thereby capable of creating high performing teams.

Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies including Waterfall and Agile.

Deep understanding and Hands on experience in Agile Methodologies and experience in leveraging Scrum as a delivery framework, especially in Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe).

Successful Scrum Master with extensive experience in facilitating daily Scrums, Sprint Grooming/Planning, Sprint Demo and Retrospective ensuring quick inspect and proper adaptation processes contributing to the successful deliveries by the team.

Expertise in coaching Agile practices by ensuring the correct use of Scrum with very good knowledge of Scrum theories, rules and practices.

Improve team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions and responsible for the adoption. Implementation and sustainability of the agile principles and practices.

Collaborated with the team members of the product, Business and Dev team to develop and maintain the product backlog.

Mentor and pair with Teams to become true Agile & SAFe Champions by revisiting and refining new & existing process thereby improving overall productivity and reducing waste in every stage of product/project development & delivery.

Expertise in using agile lifecycle management platform tools such as Jira and Rally.

EDUCATIONAL DETAILS:

Master of Science in Biotechnology completed in 2004 from SRMC & RI, Chennai, Tamil Nādu, India.

Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry completed in 2002, Madras University, Tamil Nādu, Chennai, India.

Diploma in Computer Application and Internet completed as an integrated course in 2001, SRM Infotech, Chennai, Tamil Nādu, India

CERTIFICATIONS:

Certified Scrum Master Credential ID: 1539283

Certified in Scrum master (Foundation) from studysection.com, Credential ID: 508741

Certified in Agile Methodology (Foundation) from studysection.com, Credential ID 542849

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Domain

Mobile, Healthcare

SDLC Methodologies

Waterfall, Agile (SCRUM), Kanban, Hybrid.

Project Management Tools

JIRA, Rally, Miro

Markup Languages

HTML

Content Management Tools

MS SharePoint

Document Management Tools

MS Office, MS Project, Outlook, Office 365

Utility Tools

Office 365, Open Office, Windows, Mac OS

Operating Systems

Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS

Reporting/BI

SharePoint, Microsoft Planner, Power BI, Tableau

Defect Tracking/ Testing Tools

JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Position: Scrum Master (Remote position)

Company: Encompass Health Corporation

Address: Birmingham, AL

Date: August 2020 - till date

Description: Encompass Health Corporation (formerly known as HealthSouth) is one of the US largest providers of post-acute health care services. Deployed as a Scrum Master of one agile team. This team acts as a tool to the company from the backend to guide the process(s) by membership enrolment Plans for both Retail (Individual) and Group Plans connected with varied Business and Non-Business participation.

Responsibilities:

Facilitated the Various Scrum meetings, which included Daily Scrum meetings, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Refinement with the Scrum development team.

Shielded the team from impediments, both Organizational and team impediments.

Used Planning Poker technique for team story points estimation for a user story.

Guided the Product Owner in prioritizing the Product Backlog.

Maintained Sprint burn down chart, Product burn down chart, Time boxed the Sprints and Daily Scrum meetings for the record.

Managed Product Backlog with the help of Product owner and Scrum development team by using JIRA also generated reports to analyze the performance of the project.

Facilitated meeting between the Product Owner and development team in negotiating the Acceptance Criteria for the user stories.

Led the break down EPICS into smaller user stories by applying INVEST model.

Worked with the Product Owner, supporting them and also mentoring the PO in maintaining a healthy backlog.

Ensured teams had a clearly defined and enforce Definition of Ready (DOR) & Definition of Done (DOD).

Ensured the team focused on improvement items by helping the team add improvement items from retrospectives, to the sprint backlog.

Ensured the outcome of retrospectives implemented towards continuous improvement.

Environment: Scrum, JIRA 6.1 MS Office 2013 (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint).

Motive Inc, Austin, TX Nov 2018 - July 2020

Role: Scrum Master

Project Name: Mobile Device Management

Responsibilities:

Worked as a Scrum Master with Verizon DM Portal Management project team to replace the manual Mobile Device Management (MDM) Firmware upgrade and device testing to an automated online process.

Conducted Grooming meetings, Scrum Daily Standup, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings.

Determined the team capacity (velocity) from historical data. Created Work Break down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities(tasks).

Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.

Worked with product owners to prioritize and validate User Stories.

Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery.

Communicated the progress to senior management through Burndown, velocity Charts and configured Jira boards.

Ensured team maintain focus on quality and continuous delivery. Encouraged self-organization so that team could resolve impediments where necessary.

Environment: Scrum, JIRA 6.1 MS Office 2013 (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint).

Tech Fort, Hyderabad, India April 2012 – October 2014

Role: Scrum Master

Project Name: Profile Swapper

Description: Profile swapper is an android application used for versions 4.0 and above. Users who want to switch between mobile profiles like ring, silent and vibrate will need to send a text message with the assigned unique security code to enable swapping feature.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the business aspects of the project, including ensuring the right product being built, in the right order within the budget and by the deadline, meeting specific release criteria.

Part of the Agile team charged with the transformation from Waterfall to Agile.

Guided and coached development team in self-organize to achieve their objectives.

Worked with the product owner for product backlog techniques and its effectiveness.

Serves as the Agile or scrum delivery team’s primary contact for information, work prioritization and decision making.

Facilitated daily stand-ups, scrum, sprint planning and retrospective meetings.

Coordinate and monitor the scrum process from initiation through delivery.

Ensure team members understand project objectives. Maintain product backlog and release plan and facilitate productivity by setting up meetings, discussions, coaching and removing impediments that may obstruct the pursuit of the team’s spirit of the team’s sprint goals.

Preserve flexibility and ability to rapidly respond to changes.

Monitored progress and completion reports on a weekly basis, utilized creative problem solving, negotiation skills to resolve issues, manage timelines, and deliver a quality product.

Environment: Waterfall methodology, Scrum, MS Word and MS office PowerPoint, UML.

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