PANDU RANGA RAO JOSHI

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(Scrum Master /Project Manager)

SUMMARY

16+ years of overall experience in IT Industry performing various roles as Project Manager, Scrum Master, Business and Data Analyst.

Knowledge on writing and analyzing SQL for data and report validation from reporting tools.

Knowledge on Agile ceremonies and Tools like RTC, JIRA and Version 1, conduct know how session for new users on agile practices within IBM.

Expertise on Agile practices as Scrum master.

Knowledge and demonstrated experience of Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies as they pertain to Waterfall and Agile models

As a PMO, managed multiple projects and dealt with different stake holder on project issue and deliverables.

Managed SOX and Security Compliance Programs for multiple projects and established strong client relationship.

As Project Manager Control and track project performance, time allocations, cost, and quality by constantly evaluating project progress and conducting regular team status meetings

Interfaced with business users to prepare and update Business Process Requirements (BPR).

Experience with SDLC, data migration and data integration.

Have experience in creating and testing reports in Financial Reporting Systems such as Cognos Finance, OBIEE, IBM Maximo and Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management application.

Understanding of Tibcos spotfire application.

Hands on experience in working with GitHub and Jenkins for Source Code management.

Experience with RTC and JIRA for managing Scrum Master Responsibilities.

Excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal, and presentation skills.

Prepared accurate and detailed requirement specifications documents, user interface guides, and functional specification documents.

EDUCATION:

Master of Business Administration, Finance, Kakatiya University, India-2002

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

BI Tools IBM Cognos, OBIEE, Hyperion Financial Data Mart (FDM), Tibco Spotfire.

Languages SQL, QMF

MS Office MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel

Project Management Good Understanding of Agile Project Management Methodology, Waterfall process as Project Manager and PMO responsibilities.

Certifications:

Project Management Professional (PMP) from PMI.

Professional Scrum Master (PSM) by Scrum.Org

Certified SAFe 5 Agilist.

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from Scrum Alliance

Learning knowledge on Agile Project Management with Microsoft Project.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

JetBlue, New York City, NY August -2019 –July-2020

Project Manager /Scrum Master

Project Name: SSRS Report Migration to Spotfire (SMTS)

Key Responsibilities:

Prepare project plan with details task and effort estimation and track them to closure.

As Project Manager Ensure that projects are delivered as planned, within scope and budget.

In the role of Project Manager identify work and assign resources as required to meet the deliverables.

Design project plan report migration from SSRS to TIbco Spotfire.

Have regular call with technical lead to track and update on the migration project progress.

Provide weekly update on project status through Project plan document to Client Manager.

Provide Deliverables update and value add to business and savings to business in $ terms.

Tools: Tibco Spotfire, JIRA, Agile Scrum, Kanban, SSRS, Java J2EE, Microsoft Azure, SharePoint

State of Maryland (DHS), Linthicum, MD Jan -2019 –July-2019

Project Manager /Scrum Master

Project Name: CJAMS

Key Responsibilities:

Provide Detail Project Plan and update the status to Stake Holder on a weekly basis.

Experience in planning the project scope, directing staff members, handling change requests, forecasting budgets and keeping everyone on the project within allotted time constraints.

Conduct Scrum Ceremonies such as Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Retrospective, backlog refinement and make sure all the required stakeholders are part of the ceremonies.

Lead discussion around Priorities with Business Stake holders and assign them to team/ resources.

Identify and address project risk factors that may impact project deliverable and come up with Mitigation plan.

Conduct demo to the business product owner after each sub project to get feedback on the deliverables.

Tools: QlikView, Java J2EE, JSON, Corticon, Version1, Devops, CI/CD.

IBM, Littleton MA Aug 2015 – Dec-2018

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Project Name: SaaS Dashboard and Financial reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide high level project plan and review with higher management.

Prepare Work break Down Structure and discuss with team at kick off meeting and review.

Provide estimate of resource and cost analysis to Management for new initiatives.

Conducted back log refinement session with the Product owner to prioritize the task for future scrums.

In the role of scrum master conducted Daily Scrum, Scrum planning session, retrospective session with teams.

As Scrum Master Identify and address project risk factors / Impediments that may impact project deliverable and come up with Mitigation plan

Presentation through showcase after each sprint for stakeholders on deliverables in sprint.

Conduct Agile Maturity assessment session with the team every quarter and identify areas of improvement.

Project Name: DSW (Data Software) Transformation.

Scrum Master /Business Analyst

Key Responsibilities:

As a Business Analyst, involved in requirements identification and analysis for the FastPass Application.

Coordinated with other Stakeholder and teams for analysis of client business processes.

Create tasks under stories for easy tracking and completion and updates.

Provided application support along with change migration for new requirements.

Application data validation using different integrated tools such as Operational Data Source (ODS) and SAP which are main source system for FastPass.

Data Validation through different systems such as Rapid SQL, DSW data warehouse, SAP integration systems, FastPass reporting application.

Analysis of reporting issue by verifying the data availability and logic through SQL queries against the DB.

Demo show case on the team deliverables after each Scrum to the stake holder and take their feedback.

Tools: RTC, JIRA, Confluence, CI/CD, Devops, Cognos, SAAS, DataStage, QMF

GE Corporate. Fairfield, CT August 2010 – July-2015

Project Name: ICE--Integration and Consolidation for External Reporting.

Project Lead & Business Analyst

Key Responsibilities:

Excellent conceptual and technical skills in preparing BRD (Business Requirement Document), FRD (Functional Requirement Document) and Worked on getting approval on the BRD/FRD documents from stakeholders and presented the same to the development and testing teams.

Designed and documented the project plan.

Co-ordinated with different team for status updates and address any issues faced during implementation.

Acted as liaison between technical team and Functional user throughout the project migration.

Project Name: FDQM Integration and Corporate Financial Reporting.

Project Lead & Business Analyst

Key Responsibilities:

Interacted with the Business users and gather the required information for converting the legacy system to integrate with FDQM and align it to target ERP system.

Worked with Business users to define and streamline the existing process and initiate new process flow to make work process flow more efficient.

Responsible for design and documentation of the technical architecture and integration models.

Developed interfaces between third party systems and ERP using Oracle Hyperion FDQM.

Create reports in Oracle FDMQM tool for user reporting.

Hands on creating Enterprise Relation(ER) diagram for work flow and process.

Communicated the project progress to the concerned Management Team within GE and expedite decision to ensure meeting the project schedule.

Project Name: CCL Reporting (Centralized Corporate Ledger)

Business Analyst

Key Responsibilities:

As a Business Analyst, involved in various business requirement gathering and facilitated the organization to achieve cost reduction in creating customized reports suiting various business requirements.

Implementation of new systems for the project like IDM, SOX and integration with other systems.

Lead the project in making SOX compliant by implementing the SOX defined process.

Created application training documentation and conducting formal training for end users.

Creating adhoc reports in Oracle BI tools such as FDM, OBIEE and Cognos.

As project lead responsible for resource management and task assignment and review.

Tools: Support Central, ODI, Oracle GL, Agile Scrum, OBIEE, FDMEE, Hyperion, Account Reconciliation Tool

GE Energy, India August 2007 –July-2010

Project Name: GAMS - Cognos Finance Reporting

Business Analyst

Key Responsibilities:

Extensively involved in business functionality of the system, understanding source systems and requirement analysis.

Interacted with functional analysts and Business users to document reporting and analytical requirements.

Created Adhoc reports using Cognos finance application for various levels of users.

Prepared Documentation for Cognos Report requirements.

Creating Mapping document for Asset mapping and business process.

GE Corporate, India November 2004 – July-2007

Project Name: Information Management Group (IMG)

Role: Business Analyst

Key Responsibilities:

Enabled Internal Business Reviews through Reports Dashboards by collecting and collating data from various sources.

Provided dashboard reporting of projects status and progress.

Involved in Data analysis for Project/Business performance.

Worked closely with Finance team to ensure timely invoicing and tracked outstanding collections of the projects.

Tracked project metrics and analysis of the same.

Provided Portfolio Level Status Reports and projects performance reports to Management

Tools: Support Central, Cognos Finance, Cognos BI, Servicenow, GL, Oracle, Hyperion.

Capital IQ Information systems India Pvt, Ltd. India November-2002– November-2004

Project Name: Dividend Analysis

Role: Research Associate.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Research associate, was responsible for Critical analysis of key financial information like Dividends, Earnings per share and other related financial details from the Annual and Quarterly Reports of the companies. Present the data relating, analyzing and making necessary Processing of some of the important areas of the financial statements and providing the useful and investor Friendly Information to the Users/investors. Analyzed financial statements such as income Statement, Cash flow Statement, Balance sheet etc.

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