Ranju Kumari Westport, Connecticut 203-***-**** adif5p@r.postjobfree.com

Ranju is an Agile Transformation Coach with strong delivery management experience in planning and execution of enterprise programs. Ranju has expertise running maturity assessment in Agile and DevOps across all levels. She has been a contributor to create and roll-out customized Maturity Assessment for various customers. Has extensive experience working with Technical Coaches to improve technical agility of teams by setting-up engineering practices like TDD, BDD and DevOps mindset (CI/CD, Automation, Tooling and Automated Monitoring) – Product Engineers mindset.

Ranju started her career as Business Analyst in 2011. Before becoming a coach, she worked as a Business Analyst, Program Manager and ScrumMaster.

In current role she helping organizations with :

Cultural and Process Transformation (Scrum and Kanban)

Outcomes based Implementation Roadmap

Financial management and planning

Business and Technology Process Re-engineering

Dynamic budgetary allocation and people allocation using Lean Principles.

Data analysis and data management for decision making

Supporting teams in training programs – Workshops, non-certification Trainings

(US status: Permanent Resident).

Accomplishments

●Product and Engineering Teams set up

●Setting up tools for collaboration and communication

●Help in creating Product Strategy

●Product Feature Backlog and Prioritization

●Product Feature Roadmap and ROI Prediction

●Identifying MVP

●Suggest alternate approaches for Engineering practices and tools

●Help team to create product engineering and development mindset

●Product Development Mindset - Product Owners and Stakeholders

●Environment of continuous learning - Webinars and workshops

●Evaluated teams Agile maturity and recommended improvement plan

●Extensive experience in Software Solutions and Implementation process

●Utilize Liberating Structures to enhance greater engagement and unlock inherent collective intelligence and passion

Experience

NMEF, Norwalk, CT

Agile Coach March 2020- May 2020

Assignment - Pilot Agile Program for first few Agile teams

Objective

●Achieve initial success with smaller set of teams

●Get feedback to create blueprint for Roadmap for Enterprise Transformation

Success Indicators

●Creating a pool of Agile Teams with experienced Scrum Masters

●Bringing teams and business closer to work together

●Using Agile Metrics to measure team performance

●Initial Transformation Strategy at organization level with known challenges

●Initial metrics and measurements for Transformation Success

Capital One, NYC, NY 2017 – 2020

Agile Program Lead / Senior Scrum Master

●Collaborated with Tech, Product and other stakeholders, re-imagining Agile roles

●Defining and adoption of metrics to define progress at – Team Level, Coaching Effectiveness, Transformation Roadmap

●Organized and facilitated PI planning

●Rolled out training on roles, including a multi-city roadshow, on-line training and Two-Day offsite, resulting in greater role clarity, effectiveness and organizational impact and also served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Agile practices

●Partnered with Executive leadership to plan and facilitate leadership off-sites and all-hands meetings increasing awareness and focus on vision, highlighting delivery imperatives and further integrating leadership activities with Agile delivery

●Conceived and coordinated an innovative on-line training / communications program providing Agile roles clarity, vision and accountability using Slack, web-based training and small accountability groups

●Trained leadership, Product Managers/ Product Owners, ScrumMasters, and teams to improve productivity and predictability

●Coached the Programs in practices of Automation and Test-Driven Development

●Facilitated User Story Writing, Story Mapping and Design Thinking Workshops, including Scrum, Kanban and XP

●Initiated use of Jira Portfolio to reflect project and program progress to higher management

●Community of Excellence (GO TO teams for help) : Coach Community, Agile Testing, Scrum Masters

●Mentoring Coaches and Teams

WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.), Stamford, CT 2016 – 2017

Agile Coach

●Drove change in the organization to transform and adopt a Continuous Improvement or Kaizen Mindset

●As part of Agile Transformations, coached to setup Scrum teams for coaching, mentoring, and training across departments

●Worked directly with newly formed project teams to create agile roadmaps, implement learning, adopt key agile roles, determine the mode of operation and run projects as agile.

●Created multiple Agile Teams in highly distributed environment

●Helped Leadership with creating Agile Proposals and Roadmap : Service and Product Based Models

●Set up Jira workflows/boards for the tech department, presented reports to management, implemented Agile best practices

SUBWAY (World Headquarters), Milford, CT 2014 – 2016

Scrum Master

●Conducted and facilitated standup, product backlog grooming, sprint planning, review and retrospective meetings

●Facilitated Scrum of Scrums for multiple teams, Created project plans, Implemented Agile best practices

●Managed US and international Subway websites and Delivered responsive website (w.subway.com)

●Planned/organized war room for responsive website for all UAT bugs to be tackled and website deployed on schedule

●Consumer identity with Azure B2C, Initiated Scrum of Scrums for multiple teams, Trained technology department about Agile

Antenna International, Norwalk, CT 2014 – 2014

Scrum Master and Project Manager (Consultant)

●Managing multiple projects related to Android and iOS system and facilitated standup meetings for scrum master duties

●Working with clients at various museums to elicit requirements (Metropolitan museum of arts, Museum of Modern Arts etc.)

●Working with clients to get clarifications and give them status updates, analyzed requirements documentation in Wiki

●Track projects using Smart sheet and Jira, provided effort/cost estimates, presented UAT demo to stakeholders

●Delivered BTLE alarm system for MET and analytics for multiple museums and apps

PR Newswire, Jersey City, NJ 2011 – 2014

Scrum Master / Business Analyst

●Scrum master responsibilities for several Global Websites including coordination of sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospection, and story pointing sessions. Maintained agile methodology, and project scoping and documentation

●Analyzed and document reporting tools for existing websites usage and prepared information architecture for PRN websites

●Analyzed and documented Application programming language for PRNCOM. The feed was available on JSON, XML and RSS

●Worked in Content Management System (Limelight) and track sprint deliverables in stories in JIRA (Agile development tool)

●Analyzed SEO implementation on PRN websites and provide HTML and browser specific changes maintaining SEO practices

●Review testing scenarios and cases with test team to ensure requirements are adequately tested for Quality Assurance

●Support, Track and Monitor the development, QA and User Acceptance phases of Sprint deliverable

●Create vision, scope, and use case documents; business process models, use case diagrams (UML) and activity diagrams

Albert Einstein College of Medicine Dept. of Neurosciences, New York 2005 – 2011

Research Associate

●Build credibility, establish rapport, and maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple levels, including those external to the organization

●Define and initiate projects, manage cost, schedule, and performance of component projects, while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the program

●Maintain continuous alignment of program scope and make recommendations to modify the program to enhance effectiveness toward the result or strategic intent

●Present periodic Dashboard reports on the current program, future opportunities

Education / Certifications

Delhi University, India

Doctor of Philosophy (Zoology), Department of Zoology 2006

Master of Science (Zoology) 1998

Bachelor of Science (Zoology) 1996

Certification/Training

●Certified Scrum Master, 2012

●Certified Scrum Product Owner, 2016

●Certified Scrum Professional, 2016

●LeSS certification, 2016

●ICP-ACC (Coaching and facilitation), 2018

●Agile Leadership Training, 2019

●AWS Associate Solution Architect, 2018

●SAFe ScrumMaster certification, 2019

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