SUDHEER KUMAR REVURU

Scrum Master Agile Delivery Lead Release Manager Project Management

Cromwell, CT Mobile: 860-***-****

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A highly experienced 23 years and influential lean and agile expert and proven transformational leader with an extensive experience in software technology, program and product development. An expert in strategy, transformation and deliver significant business value for enterprise organizations. Services to lead world class performance in Waterfall / Agile software development functions. Worked with executive & leadership team for developing product, program road maps and leading cross-functional software teams from prototype to release. Worked as part of PMO team to build & develop high quality programs to solve business problems and provide tangible results for systems and workflows. Results driven professional with strong client centric skills and an agile approach to managing teams. Excels at project cost planning, continuous improvement, waste elimination and creating a culture of empowerment within large teams to deliver business value. KEY COMPETENCIES

Scrum Master Project Management SAFe Agile DevOps AWS Release Planning Security

Compliance Infrastructure SAP Cloud migrations.

End-to-end management of SDLC (Scrum, Kanban, Iterative, Waterfall, scaled Agile) and concurrent enterprise level system development.

Experience across multiple domains - Health care, Commercial Real Estate, Finance, Technology, Manufacturing, e-Commerce, SAP Implementation, PLM, Mobile applications, Data Migrations, Cloud migrations.

Leading programs involving cross functional teams across multiple verticals & matrix organizations.

Managing projects involving multi-site, cross functional teams from offsite, onsite and geographically distributed staff (off shore, Onsite and delivery models).

Vendor management including project outsourcing, staff augmentation.

Administrator for Atlassian Cloud – Jira, confluence.

Expert in using project management tools – Jira, Confluence, Rally, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project plan, Lucid charts, MS Visio, Product plan, Smart sheet. CERTIFICATIONS

SAFe Release Train Engineer

SAFe Advance Scrum Master

Certified Scrum Master by Scrum Alliance.

Academic Qualifications

Master of Technology in Machine Design from REC Warangal, India in year 2000.

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from PES Institute of Technology, India in year 1997.

Career History

Release Manager – Tata Consultancy Services (Client: Carnival Cruise Line) Sep 2023 – Till Date

Responsible for delivering technology using Agile principles to product organizations. Lead Release Train Engineer for e-Commerce portfolio, UX/UI designing, application development, integrations, release and deployments.

Collaborate and develop cross functional global teams located at offshore and onshore with more than 45 resources engaged for high-speed agile delivery in e-Commerce software development.

Program-level planning, execution, and continuous improvement. Facilitate the agile release train (ART) events, run the Program Increment (PI) Planning Event, and acts as the next level escalation for obstacles reported by the individual development scrum teams.

Resolve cross ART/value stream dependencies, address train-level risks and issues, and guide teams in resolving cross dependencies in complex initiatives

Partner with other leaders within and outside of value stream to ensure transparency of the program initiatives.

Track and report on key performance indicators (KPIs), delivery metrics, and progress against targets to stakeholders and leadership.

Drive continuous improvement through the facilitation of retrospectives quarterly, or more often as needed, to improve backlog management, release train reviews, sprint reviews, or release train coordination and higher- level function.

Help with team adoption of development industry and departmental best practices and processes related to SAFe

Provide Agile coaching to all members of the ART, as needed, to ensure proper program execution and program/feature grooming, including guidance on work breakdown for user stories, prioritization, estimation of work, evaluation of team velocity, decision-making, resourcing, removing impediments, and ultimately, delivery of value.

Agile Delivery Lead – iTechStack (Client: TransAmerica, Piscataway NJ) March 2023 – August 2023

Collaborate with Product Management and System Architects to assist in the identification and prioritization of features and enablers for upcoming sprints and releases.

Guide teams in estimating, prioritizing, and sequencing the work to be accomplished.

Facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.

Tracking overall schedule, progress, and impact to program delivery

Ensure sprint team plans work, executes work and meets commitments for each sprint, release and ultimately deliver the projects on time.

Identifying team’s impediments and appropriately resolves using network of peers and formal channels.

Partnering with Product Owner & team on backlog refinement and prioritization.

Ensure sprint team plans work, executes work and meets commitments for each sprint, release and ultimately deliver the projects on time.

Drive collaboration and communication necessary to ensure delivery success, including success management of risk and dependencies with senior leadership & stakeholders.

Coaching teams to improve collaboration and self-organization

Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders. Project evaluations and assessment of results.

Agile Delivery Lead / Sr Scrum Master – Unisys (Client: Capital One, Richmond VA) Oct 2021 – March 2023

Ensure that PI objectives and priorities align with the overall business strategy and roadmap.

Facilitates ART level ceremonies such as PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, Sprint Demos, Inspect and Adapt

Generate necessary Inspect and Adapt metrics for the scrum teams on the program.

Support product owners with various requirements gathering and scrum activities as needed.

Ensure teams maintain focus on quality, continuous delivery and continuous improvements.

Help with team adoption of development industry and departmental best practices and processes related to SAFe

Well managed, understand and coach teams on delivery controls or compliance to minimize operational risk.

Help team identify risks, issues and dependencies and drive to conclusion or remediation.

Coordinate cross-initiative alignment activities within the program and between other projects/programs

Utilize team feedback and metrics to identify areas of opportunities and work with teams and continuously improve.

Coaching teams to improve collaboration and self-organization.

Mentoring other scrum masters.

Actively participating in community of practice, classroom trainings and independent study to further develop self and agile community.

Project Manager / Sr Scrum Master – LightBox, Shelton CT July 2017 – Sep 2021

Ensuring healthy product backlog at ART level by working with product owners, solution architects, and other stakeholders as needed.

Tracking, and resolving escalated issues at a program level by working with appropriate owners. Tracking and handling feature dependencies within an ART.

Continuously work with teams and to deliver PI objectives.

Facilitate PI planning readiness, pre- and post-PI planning events. Summarize PI objectives and communicate for visibility and transparency.

Facilitate ART team’s refinement of features to be prioritized for future PI’s to meet the feature definition of ready.

Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders. Project evaluations and assessment of results. Gather and report performance information and metrics.

Facilitated solution demos to stakeholders & leadership.

Served as owner of the program release communication plan, schedule and facilitate program release planning activities. Update and communicate release plans to leadership & stakeholders.

Acted as single-point-of-contact in periodically communicating feature status to client stakeholders.

Drive cross team, ART, and departmental impediments, planning, collaboration, and coordination. Provide regular and open communication across the program and stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediment.

Administrator for Jira & Confluence on cloud.

Coach business, managers, scrum masters, project manager & teams in adoption of Agile & SAFe processes.

Help teams to improve agile maturity towards achieving higher performing teams & lean-agile mindset. Project Manager / Scrum Master – Y&L Consulting (Clients: Dun & Brad Street - Allentown PA, Cigna HealthCare – Bloomfield CT)

Oct 2015 – June 2017

Work with Product owner for defining the user stories & done criteria.

Removing impediments for the team by finding the right solutions or personnel.

Facilitating scrum ceremonies at team level.

Facilitating team in preparing the estimates for the user stories.

Coaching the team on agile frameworks & scrum principles.

Continuously monitors team throughput and/or velocity to achieve iteration goals and commitments; leads the team to deliver high-quality software.

Creating and reporting various indicators for monitoring team’s progress.

Collaborates with the line leads to provide guidance to the team in the areas of analysis, design, development and testing, and ensures that best practices are leveraged

Assisting team in making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing & task definition.

Ensured effective quality control processes & checklists are in place to monitor deliverables produced.

Ensured high quality code is delivered by pair programming and having refactoring sprints.

Ensured that test cases have the highest coverage on the code and are automated.

Facilitating team discussion, decision making & conflict resolution.

Drives team performance to deliver high-quality software by eliminating waste and fostering an environment of continuous improvement, including facilitating decision making, conflict management and protecting the team from outside forces and distractions.

Technical Project Manager – Geometric (Client: Gerber Technology – Tolland CT) April 2011 – April 2015

Setting budgets and agreeing projects time scales and deadlines with customers.

Manage scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed upon time, cost, and quality parameters.

Responsible for resource planning, work with resource partners to support fulfilment.

Understanding customer requirements & processes and document technical specifications for the development team.

Liaison between end-users & development team in the analysis, design, implementation, testing and maintenance of the product.

Manage the product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities.

Anticipating & communication of technology & resource requirement.

Tracking modifications for functional and business specifications, detailing procedures for permanent records and training purposes.

Ensuring effective quality control processes are in place to monitor deliverables produced.

Proactively manage and mitigate issues and risks.

Ensuring that all the projects conform to required standards. Follow processes and methodology set forth by the PMO

Maintain project management documentation including risk and mitigation activities, keeping aware of the status of the project and the need to employ mitigation measures for compliance with project objectives and timelines.

Provide guidance to project team members throughout the project life cycle and confer with project staff to outline work plan.

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