VETRI KANDASAMY

925-***-**** Pleasanton CA ***** adiiub@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Accomplished Leader with direct Program/Project Management and SM experience in fast-paced work environments.

• Have extensive experience of managing portfolio of projects with Program/Project manager, SM roles by mentoring teams with strong foundations in Business, Technology and Product development.

• Achieved on time deliveries from teams by successfully managing portfolio of development projects with global teams in multi shore environments using Waterfall, Agile Scrum and SAFe methodologies.

• Value added to the business development and sales activities with Strategy Planning and Assessment, RFPs and client presentations.

• Comfortable leadership experience with projects in the Banking, Finance, E-commerce Retail, and Mobile domains.

EDUCATION, HONORS AND AWARDS:

Certified Scrum Master, License 90827

ScrumStudy USA - Accreditation Body for Scrum and Agile

Certified Scaled Scrum Master (SAFe), License 698411

ScrumStudy USA - Accreditation Body for Scrum and Agile

Quality Education System, Philip Crosby & Associates, Sacramento, CA, USA

Certificate of Achievement

Northern California Technical Doc Forum, Sacramento, CA, USA

Best Technical Doc Award for Vision App

Computer Science and Applied Mathematics - Bharathiar University, India

MS in Engineering Faculty

INDUSTRY, DOMAIN EXPERIENCE, SKILLS SUMMARY:

• BFSI, Mobile and Payment domains: Wells Fargo, Bank of the West

• Wholesale, E-Commerce Retail and Supply Chain domains: GAP Inc, Zillow, Wells Fargo, Bank of America

• Web, Mobile Development: GAP Inc, Wells Fargo

• PM Methodologies: Full Software Development life cycle project management with Waterfall and Agile Scrum methodologies

OUTLINE OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Zillow Group, San Francisco ( https://www.zillow.com ) From Nov 2019 to Present – Sr PM, SM

Role with Sr PM, SM responsibilities for the portfolio of enterprise projects at Zillow Group’s technology division.

• Accomplished on time deliverables by successfully managing Portfolio of enterprise projects in the technology group with multiple teams and vendors using Agile Scrum methodology.

• Implemented and facilitated Agile Scrum ceremonies in the portfolio projects, produced Metrics and reported to stakeholders and senior management. Facilitated Scrum of Scrum sessions across scrum teams and acted as a change agent to help drive adoption of the Agile Scrum practices with continuous coaching and improvement.

• Successfully managed and achieved milestones with core functionalities including search platform, payments, Web & Mobile interfaces, AB Testing and & customer communications. Have worked with business stakeholders and SMEs in defining the backend data process flows, interface specifications, Voice recognition AI, field mappings for the set of projects.

• Project Tools and Technologies: JIRA, Confluence, MS Office, Smartsheet, iOS, Android, Amazon transcribe, Java, React, AWS, GQL, Soap, Rest

• Methodologies applied: Agile Scrum

GAP Inc, San Francisco ( https://www.gap.com ) From Aug 2018 to Oct 2019 – Sr SM

Role with Sr SM, PM responsibilities for the E-Commerce Retail projects at GAPTech the technology division of GAP Inc for five specialty brands GAP, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Athleta and Hill City

• Achieved success of the portfolio of Retail projects by accurately planning and collaborating closely with the Product, Development, Design, QA and Senior Management teams on a day-to-day basis.

• Implemented and facilitated Agile Scrum ceremonies in the portfolio projects, produced Metrics and reported to stakeholders and senior management.

• Collaborated with stakeholders to develop project roadmaps for the Portfolio and acted as a change agent to help drive adoption of the Agile Scrum practices. Performed Agile maturity assessments and provided coaching with continuous improvement.

• Successfully delivered results from portfolio of Retail projects with functionalities including Shopping Bag, Check out, Payments, AB Testing and Personalization & customer communications.

• Project Tools and Technologies: JIRA, Confluence, MS Office, SharePoint, Clarity, iOS, Java, React, AWS, Amazon Redshift, Soap, Rest, HTML5

• Methodologies applied: Agile Scrum

Bank of the West, San Francisco Bay Area ( https://www.bankofthewest.com ) From Aug 2017 to Jul 2018 – Sr PM

• Achieved success of the portfolio of projects by accurately planning and collaborating closely with the Product, Development, Design, QA, Pilot, Contact center, Vendors, Legal & Compliance and Senior Management teams on a day-to-day basis.

• Accomplished on-time deliverables with teams in each phase of the full life cycle projects with P & L Responsibilities. The functionalities of the digital projects include OLB, Zelle the real time payment network to enable customers to move money in minutes across accounts, Credit card estatements, eDocs and overdraft protection features etc., on online web and mobile platforms.

• Project Tools and Technologies: TFS, JIRA, Confluence, MS Office, SharePoint, Innotas, iOS, Android, Zelle, IBM InfoSphere, Java, Soap, Rest, HTML5

• Methodologies applied: Agile Scrum

Wells Fargo, San Francisco, CA ( http://www.wellsfargo.com ) From Mar 2016 to Jul 2017 – Sr TPM

Responsibilities and Accomplishments:

• Accomplished on time deliverables of Web and Mobile based Commerce Platform Portfolio projects with teams located in multi-shore environments using Agile Scrum Methodologies.

• Performed Agile maturity assessments and provided coaching with continuous improvement. Facilitated Agile scrum ceremonies and Scrum of Scrum sessions across scrum teams

• Achieved planned deliverables of the projects from teams with functionalities of the E-commerce Retail platform including Promotions, Product Catalogue, Loyalty, Machine Learning/ AI Speech, money movement components such as Payments Gateway, EMV authentication & tokenization with Credit Card processing and EChecks.

• Project Tools and Technologies: JIRA, Confluence, MS Office, SharePoint, PMUWS, Stamp, iOS, Android, Java, Mulesoft, AWS, Amazon Connect, transcribe, Cybersource, Amazon Redshift, HTML5, C++, Soap, Rest

• Methodologies applied: Agile Scrum and Waterfall

Bank of America at San Francisco, CA From Mar 2013 to Feb 2016 – Sr Consultant

Consultant Role with project management responsibilities in the Mobile and On-Line Banking Group.

Responsibilities and Accomplishments:

• Delivered PMO-based service offerings, collaborated closely with Development, Design, QA, Product, Discovery, vendors and Senior Management teams to accurately plan and achieve project success using Agile Scrum ceremonies.

• Personal Financial Management (PFM) system projects at Bank Of America feature aggregated account information and auto-categorization of bank transactions from the mobile iPhone, iPad and Android devices.

• Managed all areas of excellence in the project life-cycles such as iPhone, iPad and Android application development, Mobile Web development, backend data services, Wireframe UX reviews, core team & expanded Pilot Phases, Customer launch & AppStore submissions and Support; Managed Oracle BI, Big Data integration between hadoop and external components.

• Tools and Technologies: iOS, Android, Java/J2EE, HTML5, CSS, Objective-C, Hadoop, Oracle

• PM Methodologies applied: Waterfall and Agile Scrum

Symphony Corp, San Francisco Bay Area, CA: From Nov 07 to Mar 13 - GOC Manager

• Built and directed Movius GOC teams, managed portfolio of projects and accomplished on time SDLC results with development and product verification activities of the mobile media products.

• Achieved delivery targets with P&L budgetary control responsibilities in the areas of architecture and Design, product development, client support, internationalization, and professional services.

• Methodologies applied: Waterfall

Computer Sciences Corporation, San Jose, CA: From Sep 2004 to Oct 2007 – Technical Consultant

• Implemented ETABS EAI project components responsibilities. This is a Federal insurance integration project based on the Websphere platform with SOA, E-Business, Struts, Java/J2EE based applications. This new web-enabled B2B payment solution is customer focused, highly scalable and designed for use across multiple programs.

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