Scrum Master Project Manager
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Senior Scrum Master
Sivaprasad Inapurapu
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Professional Summary:
●Exhibit strong expertise in leading daily standups, sprints, retrospective sessions, discussions on project scope, planning timelines, improving backlogs, setting priorities, agile mentoring, managing teams across different departments, handling risks, overseeing project releases, interacting with product owners, developing product strategies, facilitating team communication, engaging with the business side, and reporting.
●Professionally certified SAFe expert and Certified Senior Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager, possessing broad expertise in managing programs, enhancing processes, overseeing delivery, handling changes, and managing risks.
●Proven history of effectively contributing to multi-million dollar projects and programs across the globe in different fields
●Expertise in managing multiple agile boards with experience in ecommerce, salesforce, servicenow infrastructure, e learning, UI engineering, digital content management and web portals
●I possess enhancing efficiency and productivity by implementing standardization and process development with sound interpersonal, motivational, and presentation skills
●Chosen by senior leadership to turnaround underperforming projects
●Trained by PMP in Project Management practices
●Skilled in overseeing programs, agile/SAFe methodologies, and initiating and integrating scrum teams for new projects.
●Proficient in directing and mentoring teams, with the ability to instruct, motivate, and encourage highly performing teams, contributing to their career development through continuous feedback
Technical Skills:
●JIRA, Confluence, TFS, Rally, MS Project, MSOffice 365
●Ecommerce, digital domain, e learning, content management, UI engineering
●Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle cloud
●CRM, Salesforce, ServiceNow
●Python, Django, .Net, PHP, MongoDB, SVN, Jenkins
●HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, jQuery, Angular js
●UI Tools (Photoshop, InDesign, Adobe Forms and Dreamweaver)
●Onboarding new project teams
Education and Certifications:
●MBA (Master of Business Administration), Andhra University
●Certified Scrum Master
●SAFe Agilist
●PMP trained for Project Management Practices
Professional Experience:
Mphasis (From May 2023, Dallas, Texas, US)
Mphasis - Charles Schwab
Role: Senior Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager
(Program management, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Cloud, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, VMs, Deployments, Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps)
Responsibilities:
●Scheduling sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinements
●Managing risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies through a RAID log
●Maintaining features and epics involves coordinating with the product owner
●Working with different migration, infrastructure teams to create acceptance criteria that effectively communicate the work to be conducted in a user story
●Managing the approvals and escalations
●Maintaining, and executing project plans according to stakeholder directions
●Interacting with globally distributed cross functional teams for team impediments and dependencies
●Collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements, address concerns, and to ensure project alignment with business objectives.
●Maintaining all information related to scrum teams in confluence
●Delivering timely sprint reports and other essential reports
●Tracking and clearing blockers/dependencies
●Collaborating closely with customers to understand their technical requirements and deliver tailored solutions. This involves identifying and detailing the specific needs for product definition
●Preparing the project scope and plan for delivering timelines.
●Managing project timelines in collaboration with the respective teams involves providing daily, weekly, and/or monthly status reports as necessary
●Cultivating a culture of continuous improvement by identifying areas for enhancement and implementing innovative solutions.
●Implementing agile/scrum framework for teams which are into application development and platforms/VMs setup
Accomplishments:
●Onboarded fresh college graduates by planning, training, certifications and enhanced team’s performance
●Coordinating release management, establishing team structure, initializing agile, scrum and kanban frameworks, setting up Jira boards and working in high risk mitigation work culture
Mphasis - Wells Fargo
Role: Senior Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager
(Program management, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Cloud, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Java, Python, Kafka, pipelines, VMs, Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps)
Responsibilities:
●Scheduling sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinements
●Maintaining features and epics involves coordinating with the product owner
●Working with different migration, infrastructure teams to create acceptance criteria that effectively communicate the work to be conducted in a user story
●Managing the approvals and escalations
●Maintaining, and executing project plans according to stakeholder directions
●Scheduling, recording and maintaining knowledge transfer and training sessions
●Closely working with software engineering managers, delivery managers and principal engineers for project execution
●Utilizing Jira boards for running all sprint ceremonies
●Utilizing Jira board for reporting and for administration
●Maintaining all sprints-related data in confluence
●Maintaining all information related to scrum teams in confluence
●Delivering timely sprint reports and other essential reports
●Arranging meetings for technical discussions and to tackle dependencies/blockers
●Tracking and clearing blockers/dependencies
●Managing the project life-cycle and ensuring that deliveries are completed with quality and within specific timelines
●Collaborating closely with customers to understand their technical requirements and deliver tailored solutions. This involves identifying and detailing the specific needs for product definition
●Implementing the scrum/kanban framework to enhance team collaboration and project delivery
●Applying Agile methodology to increase productivity and adaptability in project execution
●Enhancing team communication and decision-making processes to ensure the successful achievement of project objectives
●Implementing agile/scrum framework for teams which are into application development and platforms/VMs setup
Accomplishments:
●Onboarded new project, teams by planning, training, and enhanced team’s performance
●Part of project initialization and onboarding, teams are introduced to various technologies such as Python, Java, mainframes, and the Flink platform.
Fujen IT Solutions - DTCC, (October 2022 to May 2023) (Dallas, Texas, US)
Role: Senior Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager
(Program management, SAFe, Cloud, Jira, Confluence, Sharepoint, Java, Python, Kafka, pipelines, VMs, Microsoft Azure, Azure Devops)
Responsibilities:
●Facilitating daily-standups, sprints, retrospective meetings, Scope discussions, timelines, backlog refinements, prioritizing, agile coaching and road map discussions
●Lead program and scrum ceremonies for cloud migrations
●Executed goals in alinement with client’s strategic vision, successfully navigated through planning, prioritizing, risk management and change management
●Managed and updated information radiators as part of reporting to ensure transparency, visibility to stake holders and maintain status templates
●Worked closely with product owners to prioritize tasks and ensure necessary actions were taken to resolve issues
●Managed and prioritized outstanding defects in the reporting system using JIRA. Coordinated with the development team, product owner, and business users to address any impediments or obstacles.
●Maintained visibility into project status and executed effective decision-making, approvals, and direction.
●Coordinated timelines for execution of all global requests
●Implemented agile/scrum framework for teams which are into application development and platforms/VMs setup
Accomplishment:
●Assisted five globally distributed teams with the implementation of Scrum boards, Kanban boards, and Confluence boards as part of their agile projects
NTTData - JaguarLandRover, NationalLifeGroup (January 2020 - September 2022, Bangalore, India)
Role: Scrum Master/ Agile Project Manager
(Program management, SAFe, Scrum, Service now, Cloud, Salesforce, Jira, Confluence, Rally, Microsoft Azure, Azure Devops)
●Facilitated all scrum ceremonies (Planning, daily scrum, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, product backlog refinements), time-boxing the events, maintained product burn down chart, sprint burn down chart, and sprint burnup chart
●In the realm of risk management, we developed a comprehensive monitoring system for risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, aimed at identifying and removing potential roadblocks
●Enhanced the team’s predictability and progress through velocity, capacity planning, burn down/burn up charts, and other tools and metrics
●Coordinated with project, technology and business partners to write user stories/epics, identifying dependencies, and design optimal solutions
●Worked with distributed technical teams to implement agile and scrum process
●Managed and updated information radiators as part of reporting to ensure transparency, visibility to stake holders and the establishment of status templates and weekly status update routines
●Managed employee absences and vacations, analyzing their impact on team performance.
●Enhanced performance across globally distributed teams by identifying areas for improvement and strengths through retrospectives in the scrum process.
●Planned resource on boarding and organized knowledge transfer sessions
Accomplishment:
●Onboarded fresh college graduates to sales force platforms by planning, organizing training sessions, making resources to go through certification tests, and increased the number of salesforce platform teams
Eurofins IT Solutions, (2019, Bangalore, India)
Role: Scrum Master / Project Manager
(Scrum, SAFe, Program management .Net, TFS, Azzure Dashboard, Confluence, ecommerce )
Responsibilities:
●Coordinated efforts across various teams in e-commerce development, including e-catalogs, shopping carts, payment gateways, email marketing, and e-banner design
●Facilitated agile and scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint planning, release planning, demos, and project planning. Removed impediments.
●As a scrum master, I effectively communicated analysis, metrics, reports, and employee absences/vacations to senior leadership, while also analyzing their impact on team performance.
●Collaborated with global IT teams and globally dispersed business functions for monitoring and enhancing the quality of ecommerce web components
●Established relationships with stakeholders to prioritize and validate requirements, as well as to create and maintain the product backlog.
●Protected the development teams from distractions, removed impediments, addressed team conflicts, and maintained focus on product delivery and project timelines
●Assisted and facilitated teams for cross functional training on Agile projects
●Promoted continuous improvement and helped teams to enhance productivity
Accomplishment:
●As a Scrum Master for a globally distributed team, I was part of the SAFe program's initial setup.
Theorem India Private Limited, (2018, Bangalore, India)
Role: Lead / Scrum Master (Ecommerce, SAFe, Scrum, Jira, Confluence)
Responsibilities:
●Worked for ecommerce promotional emailers and banners development
●Facilitated scrum ceremonies for different teams, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and project planning
●Scheduled grooming sessions to provide estimates (story points) for backlog items, prioritize and validate requirements
●Coordinated the required discussions to remove impediments or obstacles
●Managed the work efforts for a 15 member team
●Assisted the business in analyzing, measuring, and reporting employee absences and vacations to assess their impact on service center performance.
●Facilitated cross functional training and KT sessions
Oracle - http://www.oracle.com, (Ecommerce, Oracle, cloud)
Role: Senior Analyst (July, 2007- December, 2017)
Responsibilities:
●Developed e-catalogs, shopping cart, payment gateway and ecommerce promotional activities
●Developed Oracle education ecommerce applications and intranet application Including backend development, UI development, html/css prototypes, micro sites, banners, email templates and content management
●Collaborated with departments across the globe to develop a robust and scalable content management strategy. This involved working with legal terms and conditions for 100 countries worldwide, engaging with Oracle's legal departments and language translators.
●Designed and developed animated presentations for Oracle University
●Conducted content editing and UI designing to ensure consistency in look and feel throughout the ecommerce portal
●Provided clients with guidance on best practices, approaches, and offered ad-hoc analysis tailored to their specific needs.
●Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective, sprint demos and assisted teams to remove impediments
Accomplishment:
●Implemented project deployments across over 100 countries, each with its unique language and involving legal, marketing, technical, UI, and content management teams
Awards:
Go to Person, Pacesetter, Rock Star, WoWzer
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/siva-prasad-i-168121253/
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