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JAYAKUMAR MURUGESAN

Scrum Master/Project Delivery Manager

Email –adld6e@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile – 988-***-****

Professional summary

• Certified Scrum Master having 14+ years of experience in IT industry with vast experience in Banking and Financial Services domain.

• Currently playing a Scrum Master/Project delivery Manager role for 3+ years and managing 2 Scrum teams in leading US based Asset Management Company.

• Having 6 + years of experience with various agile development methodologies which includes Scrum, SAFe Agile, Kanban, Spotify model.

• Have strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize work to meet deadlines.

• Track record of implementing continuous improvement cycle and improving performance of Agile teams.

• Deep understanding of Agile and Lean principles and how they underpin the Scrum processes.

• Understanding of incremental delivery and the value of metrics including backlog tracking, burn down metrics, acceptance criteria, and velocity.

• Excellent team player and team builder with strong communication skills and knowledge of servant leadership.

• Comprehensive understanding of end-to-end mutual fund operations encompassing transfer agency, settlements, cash management and Mutual funds accounting.

• Having vast experience in managing Mainframe and distributed technology Scrum teams.

• Good understanding on distributed technologies, Cloud, DevOps, Test automation tools.

• In my previous role as Technical Lead, played instrumental role in multiple Fund accounting Vendor Product upgrade (FIS - Investone) over multiple years.

• Onsite Coordinator for 2 years in DTCC(NY), involved in discussion with Client on the requirement gathering and Functional Walk-Through and managed better onsite-offshore coordination thereby ensuring timely & quality project delivery.

Noteworthy Realizations:

• Implemented Agile best practices such as Continuous integration, transparency, Code/design reviews.

• Delivered – 60,000 USD/year cost savings through report automation in Tax processing.

• Achieved 20% reduction in turnaround time for incident resolution thru KEDB maturity.

• Improved Application Stability by 35% through Proactive monitoring, health checks.

• Successfully delivered multiple projects across mainframe and Distributed technologies on time.

• Mentored teams, leading them to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision making, conflict resolution and transparency.

Present Company: Fidelity Investments

Role: Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies - Daily scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint review, Sprint retro and Product Backlog refinement meetings.

• Foster scaled agile environment, facilitating communication between Scrum team and Product owner/Squad lead.

• Assisting Product owner in preparing and refining product backlog for program increment.

• Train the developers in the use of Agile frameworks.

• Remove team impediments if any, to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.

• Monitored the development progress throughout each sprint to ensure project is within scope.

• Being in SAFe agile, work with multiple Scrum teams to understand the dependencies for the future sprint and plan accordingly.

• Represent Scrum of Scrums to bring any risk/dependencies with Release train Engineer/Tribe Engineer.

• Protect the scrum team from external distractions to avoid slipping the deliveries. 2 P a g e

• Review agile metrics periodically with Scrum team to explore the opportunity for improvement areas.

• Facilitate Sprint review meeting to effectively capture the changes requested by stakeholders and communicate with them about their implementations.

Domain Skill Exposure:

Custodian, Trade life cycle, Credit events, Derivatives, Trade Warehouse, Clearing & Settlement

DTCC

Health Insurance benefits, Mediclaim policies Wellpoint Mutual funds accounting, Transfer agency, Custodian, ETF, Capital Markets, GL accounting

Northern Trust, Fidelity Investments

Technical Skill Exposure:

Operating Systems Z/OS, Linux (basics)

Digital Business Transformation Cloud Migration - AWS Mainframe skillsets COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2 Stored Procedure, IBM MQ, CICS, REXX

Distributed skillsets Exposure to Java, C++, APIs

Database DB2, VSAM

Utilities TSO, ISPF, QMF, SDSF, SYSVIEW, SPUFI

SDLC Life Cycle Waterfall, Agile (Scrum, Kanban, Spotify, SAFe) Tools Changeman, Xpeditor, Putty, IBM MQ explorer, Postman, Swagger UI

Scheduler Control M & CA-7

Management Tools Share point, JIRA, Service Now, Confluence Vendor Product Investone (FIS)

Key Recognitions:

• Received You Have Earned It Appreciation awards multiple times over 6 years in Fidelity.

• Successfully led and delivered the Investone Application upgrade from Release 10.1 to Release 15 with Zero defects.

• Received Annual Eureka award for innovation and cost savings (60,000 USD/ year) in Report automation project.

• Received Appreciation Award from BFS Vertical for development and delivery of Novation consent project.

• Received BFS Project of the Year Award for 2010. Roles Performed

Role Customer Period Organization

Scrum Master/PM Fidelity Investments Feb 2018- till date Fidelity Investments Tech Lead Fidelity Investments May 2013 – Jan 2018 Fidelity Investments Team lead Northern Trust Corporation 2011 – 2013 Cognizant Team lead WellPoint 2010 - 2011 Cognizant

Senior Developer DTCC 2008 – 2010 Cognizant

Developer DTCC 2006 – 2008 Cognizant

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Certifications:

Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance

Technical Certification:

IBM Certified DB2 UDB V8.1 professional.

Domain Certifications:

Derivatives Markets (Dealers) Module (NCFM Certified) Level 0: Banking & Financial Services (Cognizant Certified) Level 1: Security Services (Cognizant Certified)

Employment Experience:

• Fidelity Investments May 2013 – Till date

• Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai June 2006 – May 2013 Educational Qualification:

• M.E. Mechanical Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India, Year of passing: 2006 Personal Profile:

Name : Jayakumar Murugesan

Sex : Male

Date of Birth : 11-10-1978

Communication address : Plot 1485, J Flats, 3rd Main Road Ram Nagar North, Madipakkam

Tamilnadu, India

I hereby declare that all the above details furnished are true to the best of my knowledge. Jayakumar Murugesan

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