Surya N. Sadasivuni

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Project Manager/Scrum Master

Multifaceted technical career with 19-years consulting track record of innovation and success

Technically sophisticated Project Management professional and Certified Scrum Master with a solid history of managing successful projects and executing process re-evaluations that increase efficiency and product quality. Possess strong leadership skills that create high performance value generating teams that provide results and meet all business objectives. Ensuring agile values as a servant leader in building and strengthening teams. Noted success in leading projects with both Waterfall and agile methodologies for onsite and offshore models. Recognized for demonstrating excellent time management and organizational skills, while remaining flexible, adapting easily to changes in technologies and responsibilities.

Highlights of Expertise

PMBOK Project Management Methodologies

Waterfall, agile scrum, XP, Kanban, Scrumban and Lean

Scaled agile: Scrum of Scrum, Less and SAFe

Agile Engineering Practices (CI/CD, TDD, Pair Programming)

Building Scrum, Scrumban teams

Strategic and business management

Technical and Business Consulting

Scope, Time, Cost, Resource and Risk Management

Technical Skills: Mainframe solutions, ASP.NET, Java/J2EE, SQL, VMware, IaaS, MS Project 2010/2013, MS Suit, Primavera (P6), Rally, SharePoint 2013, SAP, Tableau, Cloud, DevOps, Team Foundation Server, MS Share Point, JIRA, RTC, Clarity, Version one, HP ALM (Quality Center), MS Teams

Career Experience

AFLAC/NIIT Technologies, Columbus, GA

Sr.Scrum Master (July 2019 to Present)

Managing two scrum teams in the delivery of Aflac claims IT projects. Conduct brainstorm sessions and interviews with business users, product owners, Subject Matter Experts, and stakeholders to ascertain requirements, define scopes and understand product vision. Orchestrate planning activities, including estimations, budgeting, prepare project charter, test strategy plans, release roadmaps and release plans. Establishing the process by understating the situations and determine the methods, tools to meet project objectives. Presenting project updates to senior leadership and executives. introduce innovative continuous improvement opportunities. Manage dependencies between engineering, infrastructure, and third parties. Collaborate with other stakeholders to understand and implement best practices for team training.

Responsible for developing a Pega based Chat Bot with $ 1M budget by automating claims process system to Improve the efficiency and to reduce man hours by 5000 per year worth of $400K.

Responsible for developing a .Net based web application with $ 1M budget for the guest user’s claim submissions to improve the efficiency and to reduce claims error rate from 59% to less than 10%.

Champion open communication among all levels of the portfolio to build trust, ensure development process transparency, drive team performance, and facilitate quick decision making.

Provide coaching to the teams, serve as an escalation for impediment removal.

Serving as the cutover manager, charged with mobilizing and executing cutover planning activities.

Continuously audited operations to target risks and pinpoint areas of concern; developing mitigation strategies to resolve escalated issues.

Ensure consistent departmental transparency by actively maintaining the agile tracking systems for all product and sprint backlogs.

Farmers Insurance/DXC Technologies, Grand Rapids, MI

Project Manager/Scrum Master (2015 to 2019)

Mobilized all scrum ceremonies including release planning, sprint planning, daily scrum, backlog grooming, sprint review and retrospective meetings to target obstacles and drive project completion. Led the daily operations of business analysts, developers, and QA specialists. Operated as procurement advisor, assessing vendor products and prepared RFPs. Partnered with product owner on backlog grooming in order to ensure backlog remained prioritized; ensured unified acceptance criteria and that stories were ready for sprinting.

Managed 13 engineers through the full lifecycle of a Java/DB2-based Auto Policy Processing systems for casualty insurance product implementation and rollout.

This custom build solution cost of $2M and condensed annual expenditure from $800K to $300K.

Build the scrum teams, adjust the frameworks as per the situational background and established scrumban frameworks while transitioning the product to the support teams.

Led application upgrades for 800+ applications as part of the Cloud Migration.

Migrated 800+ servers in multiple sprints and 800+ TB of data with zero disturbance to business.

Served as a cutover manager charged with mobilizing and executing cutover planning activities.

Kiewit Corporation/Computer Science Corporation, Omaha, NE

Project Manager, (2011 to 2015)

Headed the planning and execution of all project activities, including scoping, estimating, scheduling, staffing, change and risk management, and release planning. Employed Primavera for scope, cost, schedule management, and timesheet maintenance. Cross-collaborated with Architects and Functional Consultants to support the Application Development team in the refining of solutions design, methods, and outcomes. Led all integration testing, directing five teams spanning 1,000 test cases.

Redesigned all the Kiewit applications into a single SAP platform, integrating with .Net applications (Kiecore) a $5M software development project.

Introduced a new mobility system to be used for procurement and material management business functions by 6000 supervisors at field level.

Critical advocate for business clients throughout the full scope of complex solutions development, including initiation, analysis, development, testing and deployments.

Managed team of 11+ across three different geographical locations of the world.

Recipient of the “Best Performer” award for the successful completion of the Kiecore Project.

RSA-Trygghansa/Computer Science Corporation, India & Sweden,

Technical Analyst/ Lead, (2006 to 2011)

Completed analysis of requirement and created system design specifications, performance tuning of mainframe jobs.

Analyzed core system design, built specifications for new software releases.

Led the team of 4 members to support the Tryghansa Motor system.

Commonwealth Bank Australia/Electronic Data Systems, India& Australia,

Mainframe Developer, (2001 to 2005)

Role includes design, development, code integration, code review/testing and deployment.

On-call support for Demand Deposit banking application and reduced system downtime by 30% through performance tuning.

Education & Credentials

Andhra University, India

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Professional Development: Project Management Professional (PMP); Certified Scrum Master

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