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Manager Scrum

Location:
Philadelphia, PA
Posted:
October 07, 2020

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POOJA NARANG

POOJA NARANG

SCRUM MASTER / PRODUCT OWNER

PROFILE

14+ years of experience in all the phases of software development life cycle with experience in various facets of Project management spanning different industries. Passionate about Agile methodologies, and skilled in developing processes that facilitates continual progress and self-organizing teams in turn delivering value to clients.

EXPERIENCE

CO-FOUNDER and DIRECTOR / PRODUCT OWNER

Tripling Solutions Private Limited, India Jan 2018 – current

• Co-founder and Director of Tripling Solutions Private Limited, a startup based in India formed by my siblings to support local artisans by providing an e-commerce platform to promote and sell their artwork

• Product owner and Technical Architect of the e-commerce platform Dufa

• Designed the Seller App, Website User Interface, created a list of Epics, Features and backlog items for MVP

• Planned the entire Design and Development Roadmap and Phases with a vision for the next 2 years

• Successfully deployed the ‘Sell on Dufa’ App on Android and the Dufa website

• Implemented Agile processes for the Design and Development of the Product and was responsible for Product Backlog Grooming and Refinement and for connecting with sellers and buyers to gather requirements and refine backlog

• Supported financial and marketing teams for budgeting and operations expenses

• Supported compliance, legal and accounting teams for the startup

• Currently shelved the Launch and Marketing due to Covid-19 with plans to resume future development work by end of 2021.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Project management SDLC

Waterfall & Agile methodologies

Scrum and Kanban

Lean Agile

DevOps

Software Development

Legacy modernization

Requirements elicitation

Use case development

Functional specifications Testing

Production Support

SOFTWARE / TOOLS

MS Office

HP Agile Manager

HP Octane

HP Quality Center

Visual Studio SharePoint

Team Forge/TFS

iRise

Remedy

Jira

INDUSTRY

Technology

Retail

Pharmaceuticals

Healthcare

Financial Services

TRAININGS &

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master

Certified SAFe 4 Agilist

Oracle Certified Professional

Deloitte Enterprise Value Delivery

Deloitte Agile Bootcamp

SCRUM MASTER/ PRODUCT OWNER

Deloitte Consulting LLP, US Feb 2014 – Dec 2018

• Instrumental in transforming multiple onshore, offshore teams from Waterfall to Agile within Deloitte Consulting

• Managed multiple Scrum teams playing the role of a Scrum Master and Product Owner

• Formed and coached Scrum teams, tailored Agile processes for different teams

• Conducted Agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospective, Product Backlog Grooming and Refinement

• Conducted Daily Stand-up calls and served as a liaison between the stakeholders and the Scrum teams

• Performed Pilot and assessment of HP Agile manager and Octane, Configured Dashboards, Story boards and Task boards that were used across Deloitte's Technology projects within the Consulting Methods & Tools group

• Implemented Kanban for some teams by controlling the work in progress and striving toward continuous delivery

POOJA NARANG

POOJA NARANG

SCRUM MASTER / PRODUCT OWNER

• Constantly measured key metrics for Scrum teams per Sprint cycle to review accomplishments, to identify issues and to apply best practices through lessons learned from Sprint retrospectives

• Focused on creating self-organizing teams striving toward delivering value to the clients faster

• Implemented DevOps to improve the ability for continuous delivery & better outcomes through automation

• Involved in Functional designs, conducting usability assessment workshops with clients, conducting UAT and developing training, communication and release plans

TECHNOLOGY ANALYST /DEVELOPMENT LEAD

Infosys Technologies, US and India Feb 2006 – May 2012

• Started my career at Infosys as a Technology Analyst working on different industries such as Finance, Reinsurance, Retail and Healthcare and progressed to a Technology Lead Role, leading teams of sizes 10 to 40 during my career.

• Expertise in Re-engineering applications from VB6.0 to VB.NET using Smart client software factory and WCF and involved in the assessment and development of migration strategy.

• Mentored and trained team members in the domain and application knowledge.

• Involved in all the phases of the project such as requirements gathering, extracting business rules from the legacy application, and implementing complex modules, creating proof of concepts for new components, system integration testing and user acceptance testing

• For some clients, provided 24/7 on call support, performing root cause analysis, resolving issues and providing instantaneous work around and fixes for identified issues.

• Instrumental in proposing innovative solutions to the client’s business team for rollout procedures, application enhancements and focused to improve the client’s support practices and processes.

• Ensured successful deployment and rollout for various clients. AWARDS

APPLAUSE AWARD – 2018

Deloitte Consulting (US)

APPLAUSE AWARD - 2016

Deloitte Consulting (US)

APPLAUSE AWARD - 2015

Deloitte Consulting (US)

OUTSTANDING AWARD - 2013

Deloitte Consulting (India)

SPOT AWARD - 2012

Deloitte Consulting (India)

STAR AWARD - 2009

Infosys Technologies (India)

MOST VALUABLE PLAYER - 2008

Infosys Technologies (India)

SPOT AWARD - 2007

Infosys Technologies (India)

CONTACT

Mobile: 267-***-****

Email: adgrln@r.postjobfree.com

Address:

1904 Spruce St, APT 1F

Philadelphia, PA – 19103

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EDUCATION

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING

With Major in Electronics

From University of Mumbai

Year: 2001 - 2005

TECHNOLOGY/DEVELOPMENT LEAD

Deloitte Consulting LLP, India June 2012 – Oct 2013

• Led a team of 12 developers from offshore for Deloitte's estimation tool developed in C# .NET & WCF services

• Responsible for understanding requirements and preparing technical design documents

• Provided technical solutions to the team for implementation of change requests, reviewed code to ensure the standards are met

• Involved in estimation, planning and delegation of tasks, environment setup, build deployment, release and cutover plan and overall delivery of the Sprints

• Served as a liaison between clients and the development team. Also collaborated with the Testing team to ensure good quality of builds.

• Served as the primary Level 3 support and resolved production issues

• Ensured processes were adhered to for code check-ins and deployments.



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