PRAMANA PALADUGU

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Scrum Master with a proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget. Proficient in turning around and balancing stakeholder, customer and team needs. Develop strong teams by providing support, articulating clear expectations, and driving delivery while treating others fairly and with dignity. Respected by a wide range of functional groups including outsourced and in-house team members.

EXPERIENCE

June 2020 – August 2020

SENIOR SCRUM MASTER, TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES

Work with Digital Factory Owners to pain point the challenges teams are facing.

Make recommendations to the Factory Owners for them to adopt.

Provide Trainings to Factory Owners and team members to ensure smooth transition from Rally to Jira.

Provide presentations to review pain points & recommendations.

Work with teams to improve process flows among various financial teams.

JANUARY 2018 - MAY 2020

SENIOR SCRUM MASTER/PROGRAM LEAD, ASCAP

●Promote and educate Agile methodology throughout the organization including Senior Management.

●Lead Agile Ceremonies like Daily Stand-Ups, Retrospectives

●Created Weekly status reports for senior management

●Supported Application teams during production releases & create release plans

●Participated in Scrum trainings with a team of scrum masters

●Worked with Product Owners in organizing the product backlog

●Participated in companywide PI Planning

●Supported and Coached Infrastructure & DevOps teams to become self-organized

●Worked with Information Security Team planning out multiple projects that consists of GDP, Security Scans, Disaster Recovery

●Coached them to split stories into sizable achievable pieces of work

●Worked closely with my Senior manager and tech leads to manage timelines, resources.

October 2017 - August 2018

AGILE PROJECT MANAGER, SHAREABLEE

●Promote and educate Agile methodology throughout the organization including Senior Management.

●Team/people management tasks including general staff management, training, development and mentoring.

● Lead Agile teams through SCRUM and KANBAN processes to ensure project completion.

● Remove impediments that cause delays in the Sprint cycle.

● Influenced the team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and work with Product Development to prioritize resolution of defects/bugs and get them into the correct Agile process.

● Working with multiple product owners ensures the backlog is maintained and groomed according to the sprint guidelines.

●Guided product owners to write efficient stories where engineering and QA can understand the concept of what is being developed.

April 2016 - May 2017

SCRUM MASTER, WOLTERS KLUWER HEALTH – LEANRNING PRACTICE

●Plan the delivery of the overall program and its activities in accordance with the mission and the goals of the organization.

● Ensure all staff members receive orientation and appropriate training in accordance with organizational standards.

● Led a re-architecture along with a site redesign for lamp-based systems

● Manage program staff by providing direction, input and feedback to ensure that staff morale and expectations are managed.

●Communicate with clients and other stakeholders to gain support for the program for input to improve the program.

●Promote and educate Agile methodology throughout the organization including Senior Management.

●Team/people management tasks including general staff management, training, development, and mentoring.

January 2013 - April 2015

SCRUM MASTER, MACMILLAN NEW VENTURES – MACMILLAN PUBLISHING

●Plan the delivery of the overall program and its activities in accordance with the mission and the goals of the organization.

● Ensure all staff members receive orientation and appropriate training in accordance with organizational standards. Led a re-architecture along with a site redesign for lamp-based systems.

● Supervise program staff by providing direction, input and feedback and career guidance to ensure that staff morale and expectations are managed.

●Communicate with clients and other stakeholders to gain community support for the program and to solicit input to improve the program.

● Promote and educate Agile methodology throughout the organization including Senior Management.

● Team/people management tasks including general staff management, objective setting, annual review, training, development, and mentoring

●Lead Agile teams through SCRUM and KANBAN processes to ensure project completion

●Worked with the finance department to manage the program’s budget/financials including understanding budget and variances, identifying recommended actions and decision points, and reporting to stakeholders.

●Worked with Product Development to ensure that a benefit analysis is performed for every project to ensure that business goals are met.

October 2011 – December 2012

SENIOR TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER / QA MANAGER - A FINANCIAL TIMES COMPANY

●Managed Scrum related meetings including Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Establishing Estimations and Daily Stand-up meetings.

● Ensure that a team’s progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself.

● Recognized early on to remove impediments that cause delays in the Sprint cycle.

● Participated in the setting of company strategic and project goals allowing for the introduction of realistic timelines and better utilization of company resources.

● Provided support to product team to allow for better communication of concepts and implementation.

●Assisted in the improvement of tools used by each team in order to allow everyone to work more effectively.

● Created effective communication modules and practices that allow for easy project status updates and understanding of timeline and delays.

● Collaborated with Engineering and SQA on software and test design and requirements

●. Reviewed and provided feedback for engineering and SQA deliverables.

● Acted as a hub for all communication, ensuring that everyone involved in the Project are always up to-date with Project and Sprint status.

● Worked with Engineering and SQA to prioritize defects and determine priority and severity.

● Maintained an intimate understanding of our product suite, customer workflow, and common configurations used by customers.

January 2008 – Sept 2011

RELEASE MANAGER/PROJECT MANAGER, FOXNEWS.com / FOXBUSINESS.com

Protected team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and work with Product Development to prioritize resolution of defects/bugs and get then into the correct Agile process.

●Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint and release progress with levels of stakeholders.

● Established, implemented, and oversaw an official release policy such that all departments are aware of their roles and responsibilities.

●Determined who needs to be on a release team and their role and responsibilities.

●Established release architecture to ensure that the team has the proper equipment and support to release in the time frames being requested.

●Established a release scope policy based on the Agile methodology as MM needs to move from the waterfall process.

●Established release plans and timelines that are reproducible to avoid redundancy in work during each release cycle.

● Provided accountability of release process and procedures such that all stakeholders are aware of the ‘go-to-person’ for release information

● Established communication methods and tools for effective and timely communication of release process, cycle and procedures

January 2008 – Dec 2008

QA ENGINEER MANAGER, FOXNEWS.com / FOXBUSINESS.com

●Managed the Agile lifecycle of code development from concept thru testing and into production using Scrum methodology.

● Led team members in analyzing functional requirements and determining testing strategy.

● Manage offshore testing team activities to ensure that onshore staff could participate in imbedded Scrum teams.

● Sustained the software QA test environments, all software QA test plans, software QA test cases and software QA test procedures.

● Performed as Scrum Master for multiple teams on multiple projects.

●Facilitated sprint planning including retrospective, and demo organization.

●Worked with multiple product owners to ensure the sanity of the sprint planning backlog.

●Worked with development, data warehousing and tech ops to ensure engineering backlog is maintained and considered.

●Maintained relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing.

●Created and maintained project testing strategy and plan for multiple simultaneous projects.

December 2006 –July 2007

QA REQUIREMENTS ANAYLST LEAD, SBLI USA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Inc.

●Determined software test specifications, test plans and software test procedures.

● Created and maintained project testing strategy and plan for multiple simultaneous projects developed in Java, VB and mainframe languages

● Developed strategic procedures for ensuring quality throughout the design, development, and testing processes.

●Developed testing plans and procedures for unit test, system test, and acceptance test.

●Established, provided, and coordinated training on test methodologies and best practices.

●Managed testing team in the execution of their daily responsibilities, resolve and escalate issues where applicable.

●Used hands- on approach to management of functional, regression, accessibility, and performance testing.

●Consulted with product development staff to build an understanding of the varied and complex business functionality supported by the systems being created.

●Coordinated with multiple departments to ensure testing objectives are met.

●Created metrics of status, risk, and defects to senior level management regularly and timely.

EDUCATION

JANUARY 2001

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, c.w. post campus long island university

GPA: 3.0

JANUARY 2003

MBA TECHONOGLY MANAGEMENT, university of phoenix

GPA: 3.0

APRIL 2017

SCRUM ALLIANCE, Certified Scrum Master

APRIL 2018

SCRUM ALLIANCE, Certified Product Owner Scrum Master

DECEMBER 2020

SCRUM ALLIANCE, SAFe DevOps Scrum Master

TECHONOGLIES

Jira

Confluence

Jira Align

Visual Studio

TFS

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Office

Word Press

Trello

Skype

Rest API

Microsoft Teams

Continuous Integration

Peer Programming

Kanban

SAFe

Azure

HTML

CSS

C++

JAVA

PHP

CMS Platforms

SQL

Google Analytics

New Relic

Slack

Planning Poker

Asana Rest

Webex

AWS

AMP Rally

Smartsheet

Analytics

ACTIVITIES

Volunteer at a local food bank

Running / Hiking Club

Paint / Calligraphy

Cross Fit

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