Scrum Master/Technical Project Manager

Summary:

Enthusiastic and Certified ScrumMaster (CSM®) with approx. 4 years of working experience in IT, Health Care, Automotive industries. Skilled in leading framework Scrum, Kanban and expertise working in agile environment. Proven history of successful work with cross-functional teams. Good understanding of data visualization tools Tableau and Power BI. Strong engineering professional with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) focused in Finance, from University of Madras.

VISA Status: No Sponsorship required - H4 EAD valid until July 2022 and can be extended

Key skills & Highlights:

Good interpretation on Agile mindset, philosophy, culture, practices

Strong knowledge of all the Scrum concepts: tasks, backlog management, burn-down metrics, velocity, user stories, estimates

Strong knowledge of good software development practices

Assess Scrum maturity of teams and the organization and coach teams to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable

Solid interpersonal skills – able to establish strong working relationships

Professional at Servant leadership, Communication, Collaboration, Conflict resolution, Time boxing, Decision Making, Customer Service, Team building, Coaching People, Designing, Documenting and Data Analyzing

Good understanding on data visualization tools Tableau and Microsoft Power BI

Hands on experience at Jira, Confluence, Slack, GitHub, Google Suite, Microsoft Office, Trello, Lucid chart, Microsoft Assure, Microsoft Project, SmartSheet

Hands on experience at ERP PeopleSoft Application Designer, Component Interface, People code, Web Services, Process scheduler, PS query, File layout, Excel to CI, SQR, Application Engine experience

Worked on environments PeopleSoft (8.9, 9.0, 9.1), People Tools (8.48, 8.50, 8.51), MS SQL Server 2005, Oracle 9i

Certifications:

Certified ScrumMaster® from SCRUM ALLIANCE®

JIRA and Confluence Certification

PeopleSoft Application designer and people tools

Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)

Tableau Tutorial for Beginners from Udemy

Professional Experience:

Scrum Master/Program Manager

March 2020 – Present

Human Health Project, Los Angeles, CA, USA – Volunteer

-Success story of handling geographically located teams

-Responsible to make sure my team understands the scope of each Sprint and vision of the project

-Always encouraged my team to deliver minimum viable product in each iteration and helped my team to focus and attain to their commitments

-Responsible to facilitate Scrum ceremonies

-Responsible in prioritizing and organizing the product backlog (in Jira) with PO to prepare for each sprint

-Responsible to gather requirements and create user stories with clear action criteria and definition of done

-Coaching team to follow scrum values and best practices

-Use key Scrum metrics (burndown chart, velocity) to help deliver committed work

-Leading my team efforts towards continuous improvement by continuous inspect and adapt

-Remove obstacles for my team

-Handling conflict between team members

-Knowledge and experience with both waterfall and agile project methodologies

-Responsible to work with my product team in creating Roadmap, Project Plan, Capacity planning.

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Scrum Master/Technical Project Manager

April 2011 – April 2013

Visteon Technical and Services Center, Chennai, TN, India

-Responsible for managing Asset Management Project that used agile process.

-Facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum/Daily Standup, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Demo, Sprint Release, Backlog Grooming Meetings

-Gathering and updating project materials, project documentation, business flows, lesson learned documents

-Responsible for scheduling and allocating work

-Responsible for providing advice and guidance and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives

-Responsible for resolving conflict between technical and testing team

-Responsible for removing impediments that would stop the team from achieving its sprint goals

-Responsible for ensuring my team follows agile practices

-Responsible to work with Product Owner to define project scope and objective

-Responsible to closely monitor and record the team progress to handle project deadlines

Software Engineer

February 2010 – March 2011

UST Global, Chennai, TN, India

-Worked on 3 projects PeopleSoft ORION Upgrade, PeopleSoft FINANCE Production Support and Comet Integration.

-Developed SQR code to estimate the level of PeopleSoft customizations by generating list of customized & non-customized object count for all object types available in PeopleSoft

-Done enhancements in Finance modules and created unit test cases

-I was responsible for evaluation of customizations, project plan and Technical/Functional analysis

-Involved in developing the Functional and technical specifications with users interaction

-Involved in Preparation of the documents for design according to the department standards and business requirements

-As a member of PeopleSoft FINANCE Production support team, I was responsible for day-to-day production support for Asset Management, General Ledger, Purchasing modules.

-Managing the calls for UST user queries and remedy ticket issue resolutions

-Taking initiative in knowledge transfer and group activities

-Creating roles & permission lists for various user groups for seamless security practice

-Involved in Enhancement and Delivered PS query for frequent user

Education:

Master of Business Administration in Finance, University of Madras, Chennai, India 2010

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer science and Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India 2008

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