Teja R

https://www.scrum.org/certificates/******

979-***-**** adcq32@r.postjobfree.com

Employer details:

Ganesh

adcq32@r.postjobfree.com

515-***-****

Summary

Certified SCRUM MASTER:

oAn enthusiastic Agilest who has helped teams to acquire an Agile Mindset through Servant Leadership practices

oAround 7 years of expertise in delivering projects using the Agile Values, Principles and Practices.

oExperience with SCRUM, and XP, Waterfall, hybrid Waterfall- RUP, Agile-Scrum and Waterfall-Scrum.

oTransitioned teams from Waterfall mindset to Agile (Scrum) culture

oWell recognized for mentoring teams struck with ‘Defect backlog’

oMaximizing business value by helping Product owner in prioritizing stories based on ROI

oSuccessfully enhanced scrum teams’ productivity through co-ordination and collaboration techniques

oActive member of Project Management Institute, Agile Certified Practitioners

oInvolved in covering a wide range of strategic topics, methodologies, modeling and also cascading the implementation of strategic plans

oCommunicated and maintained information radiators for transparency on project progress for PM Office

oProspective PMI ACP certification 2020 metrics

Excellent business scripting skills:

oAgile: Epics, Features, User Stories and Retrospectives

oWaterfall: Business Case analysis, Business Requirements Document

Proven success eliciting requirement, GAP analysis, Risk assessment, and SWOT analysis.

Collaborating and analyzing with all the strategic business units to define the areas for implementation of Business re-engineering.

Proficient Knowledge in working with Warehouse Management Systems and Supply Chain Management, Logistics Management and Retail Management.

Technical Tools

Agile Management

JIRA, Rally, Frogbuzz

Business Skills

Change Management, Impact Analysis, JAD Sessions, Interviews, SWOT analysis, Project Planning, Project Scheduling, and Project Budgeting.

Modeling Tools

Rational Rose, MS Visio, Mockup Screens, Wireframes, Irise

Project Management Tools

MS Project, MS SharePoint Server

Testing Tools

HP QC v10.0, HP ALM V11.5, Load Runner, Fiddler, Hedgehog

Developing Tools

IOS XCODE and Android Studio, Xamarin

Reporting tools

Tableau Desktop, MS Office Suite

Professional Experience

Global Atlantic Financial

Tampa, Florida

Scrum Master

Feb 2018 - Present

Responsibilities:

Responsible for two distributed Scrum teams which we transitioned from Waterfall to Scrum

Facilitated Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Retrospective, stakeholder discussions and Sprint Reviews

Partner with the Product Owner to ensure the product backlog provides clarity of direction, and maximizes business value (Agile)

Created a collaborative ecosystem between the team members and product owner to efficiently realize the business value and technical complexity thus helping in PBI prioritization

Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings

Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise

Working across teams/disciplines to ensure release readiness and quality deployments

Developing status reports and dashboards, including metrics-informed analysis

Working closely with the cross functional business teams to identify and communicate dependencies if any

Development capacity planning and helping in release scheduling

Support/Collaborate with team members to implement Agile/Scrum best practices Providing and supporting the implementation of business solutions

Participated in Enterprise Agile Community of Practice where successes and challenges were openly discussed.

Challenges were openly shared creating a learning and collaborative perspective on the 20 different Scrum teams.

Worked with the team to prepare compliance deliverables: Business Workflow and process analysis, user requirement documentation (Use Cases, Features, User Stories)

Helped team to coordinate defect triage and prioritization until it became a standard team common practice

IBM

Charlotte, NC

Scrum Master

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

Responsibilities:

Part of 5+ team Agile Transformation

Responsible for three distributed Scrum teams which we transitioned from Waterfall to Scrum using Rally

Facilitated Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Retrospective, stakeholder discussions and Sprint Reviews. Also,

Work closely with Product Owner in Release Planning, Backlog management and Continuous Delivery

Training, Coaching and Mentoring the team in Agile Values, Principles and Practices

Worked with team to improve on the following:

oEvening handoff so the team in offshore was aware of what the US team had done reducing wasted time

oChallenged the team to decompose User Stories to keep a better flow of work between development and testing (Implementing INVEST & SMART principles)

Participated with team: Design sessions, reviews and impediment resolution.

Worked with team to prepare compliance deliverables: Business Workflow and process analysis, user requirement documentation (Use Cases, Features, User Stories)

Helped team to coordinate defect triage and prioritization until it became a standard team common practice

Participated in Enterprise Agile Community of Practice where successes and challenges were openly discussed.

Challenges were openly shared creating a learning and collaborative perspective on the 20 Scrum teams.

Sanford (Merit Care)

Fargo, ND

Scrum Master

Aug 2015 - Dec 2016

Responsibilities:

Served as a Scrum Master for teams ranging from 9 to 13 engineers including on shore, near shore and off-shore resources. Interacted with clients and other stakeholders to understand current and future business needs as they relate to the applications supported.

Possess excellent written and communication skills and have a solid knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodologies.

Organize and facilitate scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives) and other related meetings.

Partner with the Product Owner to ensure the product backlog provides clarity of direction and maximizes business value.

Drive the work process and help in prioritizing requests in partnership with appropriate clients.

Working with cross-functional teams to conduct technical reviews of artifacts such as but not limited to business and Systems requirements, Logical and Physical design, Test Plans and test cases.

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.

Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.

Coached, mentored and trained team members in the processes and procedures for the agile methodologies.

Maintained and administrated the Atlassian collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, etc.) for the teams

Deutsche Bank

Chennai, India

Scrum Master/ Business Analyst

Mar 2013 - July 2015

Responsibilities:

Facilitated group discussions to elicit requirements in Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions by communicating with internal users and stakeholders, documented scope definition, functional

Gathered Businesses and Functional Requirements and elicited them in the form of Use Cases using Visio.

Facilitated team scrum ceremonies and maintained the team board

Created information radiators for senior leadership

Worked with developers, architects and the QA team to ensure comprehension and feasibility of requirements.

Developed Sequence/Activity Diagrams, OOD using UML

Assisted developers with the requirements as needed.

Verified that requirements are testable and generated testing objectives. Closely worked with QA on organizing Test Plans and training rollout, preparing Test Cases and UAT scripts, actively participated in testing to ensure successful implementation and project sign-off.

Worked with the offshore team in parallel to ensure timely delivery of the product.

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