Scrum Project
Resume:
VARDHAN GODAVARI
818-***-****/***********@*****.***
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vardhan-godavari-9b71271b/
SUMMARY
Agile Coach with fifteen (15) years of IT experience on working with State of California, Optum, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, United Health Group, Honda Logistics Inc., GE IIC and Mahindra Satyam computer services
Have excellent experience as SAFe Program Consultant with a proven track record of delivering high-quality software.
Extensive experience working as an agile coach helping teams’ transition from waterfall to agile methodologies
Facilitated strategy planning, PI planning, agile big room planning, feature, and user story writing workshops, Join application design and program roadmap planning sessions
Facilitated release planning, iteration planning, sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospective meetings and agile maturity assessments
Expert at driving adoption and enforcement of agile principles, removing the impediments and fostered self-management
Agile tools experience includes CA Agile Central Formerly Rally (2 Day Power user training), Version One, TFS and JIRA tools
Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to the projects, applied expert judgment to the removal of impediments, kept the teams focused and delivered success in a rapidly evolving and dynamic environment
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications, JNTU, Hyderabad, India
CERTIFICATIONS
IC Agile Certified Agile Coach
SAFe Program Consultant (SPC5)
Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) by Scrum Alliance.
Certified PMI-ACP by PMI.
Certified Project Management professional by PMI.
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) by Scrum Alliance.
EXPERIENCE
Jul 2017 – Present Project Manager/Agile Coach, State of CA, Sacramento, CA
Information Systems Division in CDSS (California Department of Social Services) is responsible for developing and maintaining applications
Delivering targeted training and coaching to introduce and support the development of skills in Agile practices for project teams, management, and other key stakeholders
Providing teams with ongoing support for the first few sprints/iterations to accelerate their learnings, overcome obstacles, customize solutions to meet their needs, and dispel common myths
Integrating Agile practices for project management into the project management office/portfolio project management framework and tool kit
Developing and implementing an Agile software development process to support ongoing maintenance and operations
Providing an enterprise view of agile topics and integration points with service management, project and portfolio management, and operational management
Informing and educating key stakeholders on Agile topics
Developing and conducting training on agile topics and the agile software development process
Leading by example and modelling Agile practices, including becoming engaged as a Scrum Master
Creating and validating custom reports as per business needs using SSRS.
Responding to users to troubleshoot existing reports
Providing leadership direction and coaching to the Agile Program and Scrum teams and established cross-value stream coordination and collaboration
Adopted and enforced Agile principles, removing impediments, and fostering self-management in the team
Ensuring that the team progress and maturity is tracked in Jira and shared with senior management on a regular basis (reporting models)
Providing training for team members and management team to ensure smoother transition into Agile
Working with Product Owners and Scrum team to develop artifacts such as Product backlog, Sprint backlog, Sprint burn down, and Release burn down (reporting models)
Acting as Scrum Master for Scrum teams and facilitating daily Scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective meetings
Create multiple information radiators in TFS to provide update on team’s progress over a period
Creating reporting metrics used to provide necessary updates to management on progress of the project
Coached team on estimating large scale features
Reported progress of the sprint using reports such as Sprint burndown and Release burnup (reporting models).
Collaborate with Project team on User acceptance testing.
Acting as a primary point of contract facilitating User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Environment: TFS, SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics, HP Quality Center, Microsoft Teams, Wiki, CRM, SSRS
June ’16 – June 17 Agile Coach, Optum, Minneapolis, MN
Corporate Software Development
Corporate Software Development group in Optum is responsible to maintain all enterprise owned applications like careers, finance, HUB and learn source etc.
Acted as a lead for agile transformation in the corporate software development organization
Collaborated with multiple application owners to identify the appropriate agile methodology to implement for the application
Provided coaching to the team members on agile and Scrum framework
Worked with the application owners to create scrum teams based on the value
Trained and coached the team members to adopt and adhere to the agile principles in their product development life cycle
Removed any impediment teams that were in the transformation
Lead the new scrum teams through Forming, Storming and Norming into Performing Stages where they can deliver at a sustainable pace
Facilitated program level ceremonies such as PI planning, product management council, cross-team collaboration, scrum of scrums and release train retrospectives
Trained the agile teams on agile fundamentals and role specific agile/scrum training
Provided coaching for the agile scrum teams, established cross-value stream coordination and collaboration
Facilitated alignment dependencies between the program teams, third parties, release managers, or between the teams and other scrum teams that fostered team collaborative environments that tears down the silos between the groups
Served as an escalation for impediment removal for the scrum masters and scrum teams
Actively contributed to the organization’s agile and lean community by authoring guidance on normalized sizing guidance, effective capability, feature and user story writing, sizing, and HIP sprints
Provided training for the team members and management teams to ensure a smoother transition into agile
Publicized the PI progress and successes to make sure they were highly visible to the product managers/stakeholders
Transitioning the teams from Waterfall to agile was a major responsibility
Working with customers through a customer advocate to develop new report requirements, changes to existing reports, and identify reporting errors
Designing, creating, and testing SQL reports using SSRS
Creating user acceptance test plans with project team and ensuring all the UAT bugs are addressed in a timely manner.
Environment: Rally, Aha! SharePoint, Peoplesoft, HP Quality Center, Wiki. Confluence, SSRS
Dec ’14 - June ’16 Agile Coach, Bank of America, Dallas, TX
Special Loans Servicing
The Special Loan serving is a line of mortgage businesses in Bank of America which were responsible for servicing loans which were interest only and rate adjusted loans etc.
Provided coaching for the team members on agile and scrum framework
Worked with the application owners to create scrum teams based on the value
Trained and coached the team members to adopt and adhere to agile principles in their product development life cycle
Removed any impediments teams that were in transformation
Lead the new scrum teams through Forming, Storming and Norming into Performing Stage where they were able to deliver at a sustainable pace
Facilitated and drove program level ceremonies, PI Planning, Program Road Mapping Sessions, Product Management Council, Cross Team Collaboration, Scrum of Scrums and Release Train retrospectives
Provided leadership direction and coached for the Agile program and scrum teams, established cross-value stream coordination and collaboration
Facilitated alignment dependencies between the program team and third parties, release managers, or between the team and other Scrum Teams-Foster a team collaborative environment that tears down silos between groups
Worked with the product owners to ensure there was available items ready to go in the product backlog
Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality. Tracked and communicated with the team velocity and sprint/release progress
Removed impediments to the development team’s progress by managing the dependencies closely
Tracked the velocity and sprint burn downs daily using Rally
Facilitated the daily scrum meetings, Sprint planning, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective
Provided direction and made prioritization calls. Invited the right people and choose the right techniques to collect feedback and data
Facilitated the Sprint Planning and implementing techniques for an effective product backlog management and clearly communicating visions, goals, and product backlog items to the core team
Publicized the team's progress and successes to make sure they were highly visible to the product owners/stakeholders
Kept the teams together all times to ensure successful sprints
Transitioned the teams from Waterfall to scrum
Experience in Rally tool to generate the appropriate burn up and burn down charts to measure the projects progress
Participated in training and planning sessions to meet the objectives at an enterprise level
Ensure appropriate integrated system testing on the application
Facilitating User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Environment: Rally, Jira, Mainframe, AS400, SQL, HP Quality Center
Nov ’13 - Nov ’14 Agile Coach, Wells Fargo, Minneapolis, MN
Internet Services
Rural Community Insurance Services (RCIS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo that handles the Crop insurance. As a part of Crop insurance policy, various forms/documents are mailed to the agents and producers. As these documents were mailed to various parties, there was a lot of delay in processing. As a part of this project, all these documents were generated and transferred electronically. Performing integrated system testing and assisting User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
May ’13 - Nov ’13 Agile Coach, Bank of America, Agoura Hills, CA
Collateral Monitoring and Management Project
Collateral Monitoring and Management (CMM) is a regulatory project that was implemented to provide to the Bank of America (BOFA) to have better control and tracked the documents that were delivered to the internal as well as the external requestors. Performing integrated system testing and assisting User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Sept ’12 - May ’13 Lead Developer in CDRS System/Scrum master, Bank of America, Agoura Hills, CA
CDRS
CDRS (Collateral Documentation and Retention Services) is a regulatory project implemented to provide Bank of America (BOFA) to have better control and tracking on the documents those are delivered to internal as well as external requestors. Prior to this project, there was no mechanism to monitor the documents once they were delivered, this often resulted in loss of documents. As a part of this CMM project, there was a direct interface implemented between the Doc tracking application of BOFA and Lender Processing services (LPS) tool for attorneys to update the status of the documents daily. Performing integrated system testing and assisting User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Environment: IBM AS/400 (iSeries). Languages: CLLE, DB2/400, RPG/400, RPG ILE, Free Format RPGLE, Embedded SQL, Database, DB2/400, Utilities & Tools: SDA, RLU, DFU, PDM, SQL, QM Query, Turnover, IFS, Hawkeye
Mar ’12 - Sept ’12 AS/400 (iSeries) Onsite Developer, Optum, Santa Ana, CA
Fresh Start, Optum Rx
Optum Rx is a part of United Health Group that mainly dealt with Pharmacy Benefits for its customers. The Fresh Start Project in OptumRx, is a process of migrating data of 2 million members from Medco to the OptumRx RxClaims Systems. As a part of Fresh Start Project, all the member information and benefits information was migrated from Medco to RxClaims systems of Optum Rx. All the systems were upgraded to handle the increased volume of members and claims. Performing integrated system testing and assisting User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Environment: IBM AS/400 (iSeries), Languages: CL/400, SQL/400, DB2/400, RPG/400, RPG ILE, Free Format RPGLE, Embedded SQL, Database, DB2/400, Utilities & Tools, SDA, RLU, DFU, PDM, SQL, QM Query, Abstract, Aldon, IFS
Jul ’11 - Mar ’12 AS/400 (iSeries) Consultant, Honda Logistics Inc., Columbus, OH
Honda East Liberty Plant
The Midwest express group is a 100% owned branch of Honda logistics Inc. This deals with the logistic supplies for Honda manufacturing so that the plant can operate with Just-in-time process for inventory. As per the manufacturing requirements, the Midwest express group ships the parts directly to the assembly line. Performing integrated system testing and assisting User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Environment: IBM AS/400 (iSeries), Languages, CL/400, SQL/400, DB2/400, RPG/400, RPG ILE, Free Format RPGLE, Embedded SQL, Database, DB2/400, Utilities and Tools, SDA, RLU, DFU, PDM, SQL, QM Query, Hawkeye, Aldon, Turnover, IFS
Feb ’10 - Jul ’11 System Analyst, GE IIC, Hyderabad, India
MARS1 System
Environment: IBM AS/400 (iSeries), Languages: CL/400, SQL/400, DB2/400, RPG/400, RPG ILE, Free Format RPGLE, Embedded SQL, Database, DB2/400, Utilities & Tools: SDA, RLU, DFU, PDM, SQL, QM Query, Hawkeye, Aldon, Turnover, ROBOT
Apr ’09 - Feb ’10 AS/400 Consultant, AT &T, Pune, India
CPE 400 and ABOM Maintenance
Environment: IBM AS/400 (iSeries), Languages, CL/400, SQL/400, DB2/400, RPG/400, RPG ILE, Free Format RPGLE, Embedded SQL, Database, DB2/400, Utilities & Tools: SDA, RLU, DFU, PDM, SQL, QM Query, Hawkeye, Aldon
May ’06 - Mar ’09 AS/400 Consultant, Countrywide Insurance Services, Simi Valley, CA
PDM
Environment: IBM AS/400 (iSeries), Languages, CL/400, SQL/400, DB2/400, RPG/400, RPG ILE, Free Format RPGLE, Embedded SQL, Stored Procedures, Database, DB2/400, Utilities and Tools, SDA, RLU, DFU, PDM, SQL, QM Query, Hawkeye, Turnover Domain, Home Owner Insurance
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