Santhosh Reddy Patlolla

475-***-****

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CAREER OBJECTIVE

Experienced scrum master with 7 years of a proven track record of delivering high-quality software, on-time and within budget seeks a position with a top technology firm.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master.

Evangelist of agile/scrum principles and methodology.

Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.

6 Years of Agile technology delivery.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Davita, Malvern, PA

Sr. Scrum Master, Jan 2020 – Present

Worked on SAFe framework with other scrum teams, Attended Scrum of Scrums to coordinate dependencies across various other scrum teams in Agile Release Train (ART).

Helped the team to write and split user stories and breakdown Epics.

Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.

Confluence was used to maintain project documents such as project scope, project plans and status reports.

Training and mentoring the team on enforcing agile operations and scrum principles.

Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.

Identified potential project risks and helped developed a mitigation plan to resolve potential issues.

Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master that resulted in reduction of Cycle time.

Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.

Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming and Retrospective meeting.

Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs.

Monitored the development progress throughout each sprint to ensure project was within scope and budget.

Worked closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.

Communicated the progress to Senior management thru ‘Burndown Charts’. Monitored the Quality thru metrics and mentored team thru the project management process.

Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high level estimates for backlog items.

Delta Air Lines, Atlanta, GA

Agile/SAFe Scrum Master, July 2017 – Jan 2020

Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations and PI events.

Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog project timeline.

Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders.

Work closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.

Was one of the Scrum Master for Delta.com and Delta.com for Business, completed an average of 8% under budget.

Direct and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product.

Assisted Stack holders with their branding process to include guidance in regard to design logos and images on iOS and android apps.

Coordinated different development and DevOps teams to implement CI/CD pipelines in place which helped developers to get rid of manual deployment.

Ensured timely review, approval and sign-off the deliverables.

Mitigated impediments during the sprint in terms of issues and risks.

Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint progress and other metrics.

Created and published weekly status reports and weekly dashboards.

Informa Markets, Irving, TX

Agile Coach, Sep 2016 -June 2017

Planned and monitored project spending/budgeting, and guided projects to completion on time, within scope, and on budget.

Lead development standups maintain Kanban tasks and tracked iteration status.

Managed project scope to ensure delivery was compliant with scope commitment.

Tracked and managed product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown.

Addressed problems through risk management and contingency planning.

Served development team who needs to translate 120 websites from CMS (Content Management System) like Joomla, WordPress, and Drupal to Adobe Experience Manager.

Successfully guided three development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development

Created and published weekly status reports and weekly dashboards.

Helped the product owner in grooming and prioritizing the product backlog.

Participated in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices.

Meritage Systems, Fort Collins, CO

Agile Scrum Master, Jul 2015 – Aug 2016

Educate and transform team members and stakeholders from waterfall model to Agile methodology.

Lead daily scrums, sprint reviews, sprint demo, and planning meetings.

Helped forecast the number of deliverables possible in an iteration.

Eliminate team impediments.

Support product owner and dev team to write user stories.

Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment.

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.

Madhucon Project Limited, India

Software Developer / Business Analyst, May 2012 – Nov 2013

Implemented page design in standard complaint dynamic HTML and CSS.

Responsible in code optimizing and test across browsers.

Involved in setting up web sphere server, data sources and connecting pooling.

Implemented client-side validations in registration forms, login and logout forms using JavaScript.

Communicated effectively with stake holders to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions.

Developed functional specifications and system design specifications for new features.

Wrote and reviewed functional test cases to ensure complete coverage of the solution functionality.

Provided support for internal functional testing

Documented and analyzed information and data

Technical Skills:

Agile Approaches: Scrum, Kanban, Xp, FDD

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 10, MacOS

Development Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile

Tools: VersionOne, Jira, Atlassian tools, Confluence, TFS, Git, AWS, AEM(Adobe Experience Manager), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).

Programming: JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Angularjs, SQL.

EDUCATION

Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT

Master’s in Computer Science and Information Technology, June 2015

Strong interpersonal skills, able to establish strong working relationships with team members during final project.

Designed and developed User interfaces using HTML, CSS and Angularjs.

Excellent team player and team builder with strong interpersonal skills.

Highly organized with the ability to multitask.

Strong Knowledge of good software development practices.

Understand fundamentals of software development processes and procedures.

Ability to set clear performance standards, and hold team members accountable, while keeping team engaged on task.

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