Scrum Master

Vishal Chourasia

PMP, CSM

Summary:

Over all *2 years and Five years of highly skilled and experienced Scrum Master with proven track record of delivering high-quality software, on-time and in budget with completed scope. Hands-on with Agile training, agile adoption, agile methodology, principle and best practices in IT industry.

Highlights:

Strong knowledge of agile scrum methodology, principles and practices.

Worked closely with Product Owner to review the backlog items and stake holders expectations.

Ability to mentor and coach the team at various levels.

Involved in agile adoption roadmap and introduced process for waterfall to agile transformation.

Attended PI planning workshops and facilitated system demo, inspect and adapt workshops for future PIs and Release Management meetings.

Worked on SAFe framework with other scrum teams, Attended Scrum of Scrums to coordinate dependencies across various other scrum teams in Agile Release train,

Worked with RTE and system Team for Infrastructure requirements and to support integration testing

Provide agile coaching to scrum team for practicing scrum principal and methodology.

Extensively used Jira for managing project and Confluence for managing documentation.

Jira administration: manage user roles, workflow, status transitions, custom fields, boards, create/close sprints.

Involved in Release planning, creating and closing sprints, Kanban release management.

Managed resource sharing and distribution and prioritize workload as project needs.

Excellent in managing requirement, story slicing and decomposition.

Involved in prioritization and estimation of tasks and issues.

Effective communication skills for coordination between globally located teams and stakeholders.

Facilitated scrum ceremonies sprint planning, daily stand-up, reviews, retrospectives and backlog refinement.

Certifications

Certified PMP

Certified Scrum Master, CSM

Professional Experience:

Chubb Insurance, New Jersey Feb 2019 – Present

Scrum Master

Project: This infrastructure application migration project facilitates the development, deployment and support in Digital Service Delivery Platform. Manage the delivery of strategic project including defining scope and expected deliverables.

Responsibilities:

Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.

Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts.

Maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.

Worked closely with the Release Train Engineer for coordinating dependencies between various scrum teams.

Work in partnership other Scrum Teams, Agile Release Trains and Value Streams as needed for planning and release management

Work closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.

Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and SAFE agile framework to team members and stakeholders.

Attended PI planning workshops for future sprints and release managements.

Direct and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product.

Tracked and managed product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown.

Worked with PO to understand scope and write user stories along with acceptance criteria.

Manage backlog and user stories and deliverables as per business need.

Created customized dashboard for clear visibility of sprint/projects to stakeholders and senior management.

Managed project team using Kanban and Scrum methodologies using Jira.

Managed IICS, SQLDW, SQLDB, and GitHub and jupyter environment for digital Analytics projects.

Managed data migration projects from on-prem to cloud migration.

Created burndown charts, velocity charts, control charts and reports to deliver project status and reporting.

Managed resource sharing and distribution and prioritize workload as project needs.

Strong communication & team building skills with proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly & utilizing the same productively.

Credit-Suisse, Raleigh Mar 2018 – Jan 2019

Scrum Master

Project: Migration of bank’s Trade report system and development of new system and report repositories. Managing Front office Trade entry GUI application development.

Responsibilities:

Prepare and facilitate daily scrum meetings, biweekly sprint planning, review, and retrospective, backlog refinement meetings, and planning sessions for release/deployments.

Managed the 6 members scrum team.

Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.

Provide input to release planning using team capacity and skill set information

Compile, analyze, and present statistics about time estimation accuracy, team velocity, and burndown rate to development team and management for each sprint

Create and maintain statistics on story lifetime to assess efficiency of requirements throughput.

Meet with product owners and operational business managers for selected modules to introduce scrum and program processes and outline expectations.

Provide training to all on the Agile and Scrum methodology.

Liaison between Leadership, Business, Developers, Testers and Deployment team.

Managed the migration project to migrate the traders report from mainframe system to .net platform.

Meet the delivery timelines and scope of the product as per commitment.

Migrated 200+ daily weekly and monthly reports.

Effectively removed impediments and roadblocks to maintain the team velocity and sprint delivery.

Bloomberg, New York May 2016 – Jan 2018

Scrum Master

Project description: Ingest the real-time market data and implementation of security status functionality for Canadian and US exchanges.

Responsibilities:

Developed and followed agile project management methodology (Agile Ceremonies).

Facilitated build requirements log (product backlog) with estimates and priority.

Conducted 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).

Managed the project to ingest the market data feeds from Canadian and US stock exchanges.

Worked with PO to understand scope and write user stories along with acceptance criteria.

Worked closely with Product Owner, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.

Demonstrated the sprint MVP delivery in Beta environment to clients and customers.

Managed the Jira Scrum, Kanban Boards and project documents.

Proactively prioritize and estimate the issues for sprint planning.

Created customized dashboard for clear visibility of sprint/projects to stakeholders and senior management.

Participated in demo to clients, stakeholders and collected feedback.

Credit-Suisse, New York May 2014 – Apr 2016

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Project description: Migration of data feeds and users from KDB to Onetick database. This involved collection, normalization and loading of data to One tick database, develop various API, user entitlements and infrastructure environment setup.

Responsibilities:

Involved in functional and technical design reviews.

Worked closely with stakeholders, business analyst and product owners to understand requirements and scope.

Involved in backlog grooming, story decomposition and backlog creation in collaboration with team.

Set ground rules, conflict resolution, team coach, remove roadblocks and impediments.

Worked on measuring velocity, user stories, working with product to manage backlogs.

Effectively managed product backlog and sprint backlog, user stories and deliverables.

Extensively used Jira and confluence for managing issues and reports.

Created various reports and customized dashboard for clear visibility of projects to stakeholders.

Developed and managed Infrastructure and environments as business needs.

Involved in prioritizing and estimation of issues.

Involved in creating and finishing the sprint using Jira with demo and lesson learned.

Worked extensively and managed the Scrum and Kanban Boards.

Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews and release planning.

Excellent knowledge of keeping team self organized, team coaching, motivation and to follow agile practices.

Worked on various exchange market data feeds for data subscription and publication.

Thomson Reuters, New York Apr 2007 – Apr 2014

Title: Project Lead

Project Description: Managed various IT projects from inception to completion all phases. Migration projects, New environment setup, automation, exchange specs migration. Market data ingestion.

Responsibilities:

Developed a detailed project plan and created a clear project schedule which identifies sequence of project activities.

Participate in requirements elicitation session and review requirements to ensure they are clear, concise and testable.

Managed the onsite and offshore team size of 8 resources.

Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks.

Writing, maintaining and updating project documentation at various stages and phases.

Proactively ensured that the any changes are made and adequately communicated to stakeholders.

Providing status reports to the business stakeholders and senior management.

Review weekly progress reports of Team members.

Define scope and developed work breakdown structure.

Worked on and managed projects on various exchange market data level 1 and level 2 feeds.

Coordinates and managed activities within and outside own team, involving the integration of multiple disciplines.

Manage build notifications and assist support team in deploying the applications into test and production environment.

Created Quality management plan, test scenarios and ensured the test coverage completeness.

Co-ordinates the team efforts of multiple projects executed from on-site and offshore.

Coordinating with technology teams to develop a roadmap across project deliverables and demonstrating quality of service delivery through contractually agreed milestones.

Education

Masters of Science (Computer Science)

Bachelors of Science (Mathematics)

Technical Expertise:

Agile Methodology: Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence

Operating Systems UNIX, Linux, Windows

Databases Sybase, SQL Server, SQLDW, IICS

Programming Languages C++, C#, HTML XML, PL/ SQL

Scripting Languages Shell Scripting, PERL

Others: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, ServiceNow, MS SharePoint, github

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