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KARTHIKEYAN GOVINDASWAMY
Professional Summary
• Mission-focused Scrum Master with extensive experience coaching and mentoring highly skilled teams.
• Bilingual professional with more than 5 years of experience delegating tasks and managing projects.
• Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders.
• Strong requirements gathering, scope development and inventory coordination abilities.
• Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies.
• Veteran systems architect with expertise in coding, application design, defined architectures and successful project leadership.
• Highly trained individual knowledgeable in web development technologies and considered talented leader.
• Certified Scrum Master with definitive leadership qualities and strong critical thinking and decision-making skills Work History
Renault Nissan Technologies India Ltd –Scrum Master Chennai, TAMIL NADU
02/2016 – 07/2020
• Performed detailed assessments of risks to determine constraints and develop mitigation strategies.
• Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams on-task and achieve schedule targets.
• Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
• Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development life cycle, realizing 100% reduction in defects over time.
• Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques including DEVOPS tools and how to achieve in Technical. ************@*******.***
Chennai, TN 603210
Skills
• Product development
• Customer interaction
• Risk identification
• Public Speaking
• Strong communication skills
• Project Management
• Development team training
• Quality Assurance
• Risk mitigation planning
• Risk Management
• Conflict resolution
• Process implementation
• Team oversight
Education
2004
Dr MGR Engg College
Chennai
Bachelor of Engineering: Instrumentation
And Control
2000
K.C.S.N.H.S. School
Chennai
High School Diploma
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• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
Renault Nissan Technologies India Ltd – Lead Dev
Chennai, Tamilnadu
01/2014 - 01/2016
• Coordinate and Manage Onsite/Off shore team through daily scrum meetings and stand up meetings
• Produced detailed and relevant reports for use in making business decisions
• Resource Management, Risk Management and Quality management
• Evaluate the current processes to develop improvement plans
• Conducted thorough reviews of operations to devise and deploy improvement strategies, facilitating consistent to achieve quality
• Analysis and resolution of business issues. Suggest solutions and workarounds
• Doing High-level feasibility studies and Provide support in an estimation preparation
• Developed team communications and information for every meeting
• Negotiated agreements between employees to clarify misunderstood directions and resolve conflicts that’s affects performance
Renault Nissan Technologies India Ltd – Functional Analyst Chennai, Tamilnadu
03/2012 - 01/2014
• Developed technical solutions to diverse operational problems.
• Exposed the Internal web service as API to use globally for other external open source applications
Certifications
• Certified ScrumMaster(PSM1)
• Agile SAF e Agilist
• DB2 certified Programmer
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• Performed testing on software to uncover bugs and troubleshoot issues before application launches
• Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings with clients and delivered updates on deadlines, designs and enhancements.
• Compiled specifications, testing methods and other information for project into technical manuals for use in future assignments Renault Nissan Technologies India Ltd – Programmer/Analyst Chennai, Tamilnadu
10/2008 - 03/2012
• Collaborated on all stages of systems development life cycle, from requirements gathering to production releases
• Strengthened developmental methodologies by introducing check list code quality document
• Performed testing on software to uncover bugs and troubleshoot issues before application launches
• Worked closely with clients to establish problem specifications and system designs
• Attained FO (front office) KT in France and manage the activities in India
• Gathering Requirements, Initial Analysis, estimation of the tasks, design and Allocation.
HCL Technologies Ltd – Team member
Chennai, Tamilnadu
03/2006 - 10/2008
• Worked closely with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance
• Debugged and troubleshoot Mainframe applications like COBOL, DB2, VSAM and CICS for clients, solving technical issues quickly and accurately
• Worked closely with other business analysts, development teams and infrastructure specialists to deliver high availability solutions for mission-critical applications
• Modified existing COBOL software programs to correct coding errors, upgrade interfaces and improve overall performance
• Reviewed requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback. Confidential C
Additional Information
Participated in HACKATHON event
Legacy Application Modernization
Awarded as a Most Valuable Player in Team