Scrum Master Project Manager

Arunkumar Chellappa Visa:Green Card

**************@*****.*** Phone: 920-***-****

Mountain House, CA

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arunkumar-chellappa-511a8113/ Agile Program/Project Manager & Scrum Master

Over 13 years as a Technical Project Manager and Certified Scrum Master for large Scrum and Kanban teams. An effective leader and communicator with technical skills in SDLC, Agile, and Waterfall methodologies, and experience in finance and healthcare, adaptable to new domains. Agile / Scrum/ Servant Leadership/ TDD/BDD/ Project Management / Team builder/ Coach DevOps /Data Analytics/ Defect Tracking / Troubleshooting & Issue Resolution Skilled in collaborating with internal and external teams to define objectives and adopt strategies through sprint/PI exercises, ensuring timely delivery based on stakeholder priorities. Strong management experience with excellent written and verbal communication and documentation skills. TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Agile and PMO Tools:

Technical Scope:

Jira, Azure DevOps, Service Now, Pac2000, SharePoint, Confluence, GitHub, Skype, Microsoft Team, Slack, Microsoft Office

c#, Angular, .net, SQL Server, Java Script, HTML, SQL, MS SQL, CSS, PHP, Ruby Mine, Ruby, SQL Developer, XML, Oracle, Genesys Voice Portal, QTP EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION AND TRAINING

Professional Development

● Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science,

Madras University, India (1999)

● Technical Certifications: Certified Scrum Master

(CSM), Scrum Alliance, USA

● Training: Trained on POPM SAFe, Certificate in

progress

● Software Quality Assurance Training – Portnov

Computer School, Los Altos, California

● Test Automation with Selenium Training,

Portnov Computer School, Los Altos, California

● Self-learning on ETL and Data Analytics using

Informatica and OBIEE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Program / Project Manager & Scrum Master Elevance Health – San Jose, CA (Sept 2023 – Present)

● Managed the end-to-end Agile process, conducting risk and impediment assessments across teams, partnering and collaborative efforts with different POs for timely stakeholder escalations.

● Supported data analytics projects from requirements to model development, prioritizing ETL backlogs to AEP via AWS S3 while managing Protegrity with tokenized and untokenized PHI data for marketing campaigns

● Facilitated weekly S2 meetings with stakeholders to gather requirements and track WIP status across teams in data analytics projects to meet ART and PI schedules

● Embedded weekly/monthly Jira dashboards in Confluence to showcase KPIs and integrate Kanban and Scrum boards from Agile ceremonies and Service Now, using PPT and SharePoint for Presentation and communication.

● Assisted in prioritizing data analytics tasks across multiple teams when required by business Project Manager & Scrum Master SFMTA – California (Jan 2023 – Sept 2023)

● Coached teams to adapt Agile practices using Kanban and Scrum, effectively communicating the application's big picture during onboarding for new team members.

● Managed and facilitated meetings with stakeholders and external vendors for requirement gathering.

● Facilitated end to end Scrum ceremonies and tracked project schedules, presenting KPIs in PPT using ServiceNow and Jira dashboards to resolve impediments with timely escalations.

● Prioritization of backlogs-based tasks related to Customer Information display tracks vehicle status. Project Manager & Scrum Master Wells Fargo - San Leandro, California (April 2019 – Dec 2022)

● Managed project managers and supported cross-team development to meet ART schedules, tracking and resolving impediments with data-driven KPIs and timely escalation to stakeholders.

● Coached and supported Agile teams in SAFe ceremonies to meet Compliance/DevOps and software development needs, advocating for quality within Agile culture across PIs.

● Assisted teams and the POs in managing, organizing and shuffling backlogs across Sprints based on PI priorities to elevates productivity

● Integrated Kanban and Scrum boards into Jira dashboards in Confluence to showcase KPIs, facilitating presentations with PowerPoint and SharePoint, aligned with monthly Tableau and Power BI reports for the ATM business unit while monitoring incident tickets from Service Now

● Stepped up to fulfill the on-demand role of an RTE to meet Linking and Delinking Databases between Master Application and smaller application Scrum Master & Project Manager Compliance Innovations – DocSpera, Sunnyvale, California

(Nov 2017-Apr 2019)

● Ensured HIPAA compliance and managed Agile framework.

● Acted as Jira Administrator, defining and monitoring workflows.

● Managed product backlogs and elicited user stories from stakeholders. Additional Experience

Scrum Master & QA Los Altos Software Testing House, Los Altos, California (2016 – 2017)

● Implemented Agile practices and led daily scrum meetings.

● Analyzed backlog stories and adjusted sprint schedules. Scrum Master and Developer

PBGC - Federal, Vanguard, DOT - State of Wisconsin - Petra Technologies, Santa Clara, CA (2009 - 2012)

Lead/Analyst/Developer - DSS - State of Missouri, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Kaiser Permanente

(2005 – 2009)

Lead / Analyst / Developer - HCL Technologies (1999 – 2005)

● Worked as Lead Developer and Business Analyst for various companies.

● Coordinated development efforts and organized QA teams to adopt best practices

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