Scrum Master/Agile PM

Ravee M. Sundar Cell: 501-***-**** *****.***@*****.***

LinkedIn: Ravee Sundar

16+ years Experienced Agile IT professional with 8+ years of strong startup and financial industry Scrum Master Experience; possessing exceptional management, communication and planning skills coupled with 10+ years of hands-on Microsoft .NET platform experience.

Skill Summary:

Scrum Team Management – 8+ years – Scrum Master and a Servant Leader for startup and financial technology team that requires to work cross-functional between Product Owner, UX, Frontend, Backend, QA and AWS operations team in different Geo locations (Onsite/Offshore Model). Responsibilities included implementing, coaching, and transforming to Agile and Kanban methodology to deliver products from concept to completion. Implemented all Scrum ceremonies of Scrum Planning, PBI management, Daily-scrum, Bi-weekly Scrum retrospective and Scrum completion using JIRA as our primary Agile Tool. Coached teams on SAFe, Scrum and Kanban.

People skills:

Effectively communicated to the product owners on the product status, back log refinement and blockers to set expectations and switch gears accordingly.

Inculcated a sense of ownership, self-organizing and leadership to the engineers by providing tools, confidence, and motivation to make decisions independently.

Communicated early and often, built a culture of trust and collaboration between engineers and teams across multiple offices and time zones across the globe [India, Belarus, Argentina, Bolivia, Bangladesh].

Project Management:

Efficient project scoping and analysis and create Project Plan and determine the WBS and milestones to deliver the project in various stages by implementing Agile Methodologies.

Effective communication and reporting to the stake holders and leadership team on the current status of projects, budgetary KPI and impediments that requires immediate traction.

Trainings:

PMP (2015), Agile Foundation and Practitioner

CSM (2016) (Certified Scrum Master), SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)

Employment Summary:

ACA Technologies

Agile Coach & Scrum Master

Apr 2018 – July 2019

BlinkFitness Corp

Agile Coach & Scrum Master

Nov 2017 – Apr 2018

HoneyB Solutions Pvt. Ltd, India

Technology PM & Scrum Master

Apr 2015 – Oct 2017

Spigit Inc., (Acquired by Mindjet)

Technology PM & Scrum Master

Aug 2010 – Mar 2015

Wells Fargo Inc., San Francisco

Senior .NET Consultant

Jan 2009 – Apr 2010

Visa Inc., Foster City, CA

Senior .NET Consultant

Jun 2006 – Jan 2009

Transys Technologies, DivIHN Inc.,

.NET Consultant

Jun 1998 – Jun 2006

Year-off

Professional Poker

Sep 2019 – Aug 2020

Skills Summary:

Agile and PM Tools

JIRA, Pivotal Tracker, MS Project, Clarizen

Defect Tracking

JIRA with Confluence, Bugzilla, TFS

Customer Feedback

Zendesk with JIRA Integrated

Agile Engineering Practices

Established TDD, BDD and Continuous Integration. Knowledge of ATDD.

Technology Stack (Hands-on)

C#, ASP .NET (12 years), MS SQL Server (12 years), Google Script, Python, Angular JS, Jquery, Backbone, HTML 5, CSS3, SharePoint 2013, Project Server, LiveLink 10, MS Visio, SSIS, SSRS, SaaS and PaaS, AWS, Azure

Professional Background:

ACA Technologies Corp. (https://www.acacompliancegroup.com) April 2018 – July 2019

Client: Marathon Fund, New York

Technology PM/Agile Coach and Scrum Master

Product:

Transition from waterfall methodology to Agile Scrum/Kanban process for Marathon ($25 Billion AUM) Hedge fund’s Product development team (14 team members) (Microsoft .NET, React, Docker, Github)

Roles and Responsibilities:

Trained the team in Agile (Scrum) methodology by conducting Agile Workshops and effectively defined the Scrum and Kanban process for 3 teams (14 members) (NY, India)

Incorporate agile process and lead team in transforming from legacy waterfall methodology to flexible Scrum.

Closely worked with Product Owner by coaching them on Definition of Ready, Definition of Done with Acceptance Criteria for User stories and decomposing stories for an incremental delivery.

Conducted Scrum workshop for team members and strived to inculcate the idea and importance of self-organization, impediments escalation and resolving them by flexible cross-functional skills.

Successful implantation of 2 weeks and 3 weeks scrum process for 2 teams and Kanban process for 1 team.

Created and implemented individual Workflows for different issues types [Stories, Bugs, Spike, Tasks and Sub-tasks].

Utilized Capacity tracker, vacation plan, % Fill to determine the velocity for a given sprint.

Implementing the JIRA Add-on Tools – Test Case Manager, Planning Poker (for Sizing), Script Runner, Tempo Time tracking, JIRA Automation and JIRA Capture and expertise in creating advanced JIRA Workflows for different issue type.

Trained the teams to decompose tasks which could be completed within 1-2 days for effective follow-up in daily scrum and identify and resolve impediments quickly.

Go above and beyond to reach sprint goals, motivate and help the team to self-organize and create sense of ownership to the deliverables.

Facilitate cross-team dependencies meeting and remove impediments for the Scrum Team.

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress, sprint break down, release breakdown to stake holders and effectively communicate the impediments and mitigate the risk and keep them abreast of all progress.

BlinkFitness Corp. (www.blinkfitness.com) November 2017 – April 2018

New York

Agile Coach and Scrum Master

Product:

Re-platforming of existing Blink Web, Kiosk, e-Commerce solutions built in .NET Framework to AWS Serverless framework using Micro services, Cognito, Dynamo DB and Lambda functions.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Trained the team in Agile (Scrum) methodology by conducting Agile Workshops and effectively defined the Scrum process for a team of 12 (NY, India, Belarus, Argentina, Spain)

Leading the team in Discovery phase to identify various technology and solutions in AWS stack. Collaborated with Product Owner and Dev Team to define POC’s and delivered to stakeholders to prove the solutions in AWS relative to the .NET Stack. The POC included Login, Registration, Payments and Analytics.

Lead the team for a short 1 Week Sprint named “Scrum Lab” to familiarize the Scrum Process. Implemented changes in process from the feedback collected during retrospective.

Initiated a 3-week Scrum process [Wed to Tues] with all the learnings from Scrum Lab.

Ensured the team decomposes the tasks to 6-8 hours to follow-up on Daily-standup and to create a sense of completion every day.

Facilitate cross-team dependencies meeting and remove impediments for the Scrum Team.

Delivered the Scrum Lab Summary to Stakeholders and presented artifacts such as Burndown charts, Goals hit/miss, Review and Retrospective minutes with measures to improve.

HoneyB Solutions Inc., (Startup) April 2015 – October 2017

New York – India

Technology PM and Scrum Master

Product:

HoneyB iOS/Android app is primarily focused on catering to the needs of Mobile vendors (Hawkers) in Indian Market and connecting them to consumers via mini-GPS and a mobile app. (iOs, Android, .NET)

Roles and Responsibilities:

Conducted PBI refining meeting with Product owner to clearly define stories before Sprint Planning.

Working in tandem with Product Owner in finding ways to effectively maintain prioritize the Product backlog and release plan

Facilitating daily scrum meetings, enforcing time-boxes and responding to the impediments, tracking baseline, sprint planning and sprint retrospective

Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery.

Facilitating Mid Sprint checkup to re-review the acceptance criteria of committed Product backlog

Training new team members in Agile principles, scrum processes and helping them transition from waterfall methodology to agile practice.

Spigit Inc.(Startup) April 2010 – April 2015

Pleasanton, California

Technology PM and Scrum Master

Product: Spigit (www.spigit.com) is an SaaS idea management software that lets you collect and surface the best ideas from your employees, customers, and partners (Microsoft .NET, SharePoint 2010, Office 365)

Roles and Responsibilities:

Scrum Master for an Agile team of 4 .NET engineers, 2 QE engineers (Bolivia), UX Designer, Product Owner and business analyst to form the core product development team.

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

Partner with Product Management to meet project objectives and achieve maximum project ROI.

Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization and team accountability

Resolving internal team conflicts and Keeping the team motivated to ensure successful sprints.

Senior .NET Consultant (Clients in NJ, NY, WA, AK, Thailand and India) April 1998 – April 2010

Educational Background:

Degree/Certificate

Period

B.S (Engineering)

June 1994 – April 1998

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