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Summary:

●Over 7 Years of extensive experience in SDLC, leading Development teams, Project Planning and Product Management.

●Proven ability to establish priorities, delegate tasks, motivate teams, and implement innovative Enterprise solutions that meet customer needs.

●Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards.

●Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.

●Used Rally, JIRA and TFS to successfully integrate and centralize projects.

●Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.

●Built relationship with Product owner and other stake holders to facilitate team's interaction with them.

●Accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale software and Web development projects on time & on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams.

●Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.

●Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.

●Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

●Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology.

●Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team.

●Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.

●Worked in IT across several domains like Banking and Finance, Insurance, Health Care and Pharma.

●Coached scrum teams to full adoption of Agile / Safe best practices for stories, features, scaled dependencies.

●Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a strong focus on process re-engineering and improvement.

●An effective communicator, committed team player with commitment and a strong work ethic.

●Excellent Client interaction skills and proven experience in working independently as well as in a team.

●Collaborative work ethics and refined leadership skills with ability to motivate teams and thereby increase Productivity.

Professional Experience:

Client: Janssen Pharmaceuticals, NJ

Role: Scrum Master/Agile PM Dec 2019 – Present

Responsibilities:

•Scrum Master for the Pharma Data Science and Data Management POD. Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings and Biweekly Portfolio Review meetings with Stakeholders.

•Carried out strategic planning, Scoping design development, Supervision, and Execution of product deliverables by sprints.

•Handled multiple agile teams and supported onsite and offshore teams.

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

•Work closely with the Product Owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.

•Used Jira for Scrum & Kanban, creating burn down, burn up and other artifacts as needed. Updated the team homepage in Confluence with the recent developments and scrum artifacts to ensure transparency & visibility.

•Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.

•Conducted sprint retrospective and followed up on action items for continuous improvement.

•Determined the team capacity (velocity) from historical data. Created Work Break down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks).

•Work with the Team and the Product Owner to define Team specific norms, Definition of Done and Definition of Ready.

Client: Scape Solutions, INDIA July 2017 – Nov 2019 Role: Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

●Managing all project related information like Status Report, Issues and Risks, Assumptions, Change Management, Milestones, QA, and Project Budget using PPM Optics.

●Working with the Team and the Product Owner to define Team specific norms.

●Tracking project dependencies outside of the project team's control and escalating issues as necessary

●Monitoring and controlling the project budget.

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

●Scheduled and facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Up, managed Kanban story board, Sprint Demo & Sprint Retrospective meetings.

●Removed impediments and resolved conflicts. Radiated information to ensure transparency.

●Supported the Product Owner to ensure the backlog has sufficient prioritized user stories at a ready status to stay ahead of the Team.

●Determined the team capacity (velocity) from historical data. Created Work Break down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks).

●Planned, managed and facilitated three Safe Agile Release Train Program Increment (PI) sessions.

●Facilitated, coached, & guided the teams on the values and practices of Agile and Safe methodologies.

●Ensured that Agile, Safe principles and processes are properly implemented and adopted.

Client: Velangini visionary private ltd.

Role: Scrum Master / Developer June 2014 – May 2017

Responsibilities:

●Acted as Scrum Master for Product teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.

●Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes.

●Assisted with internal and external communication, improved transparency, and radiated information.

●Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team.

●Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.

●Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos.

●Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solution.

●Involved in design and development using Spring Framework.

●Developed the UI using JQuery / JavaScript.

●Used Eclipse IDE for developing the application

Skills and Expertise:

Technical: JIRA, Rally, MS Productivity Suite (Office 365, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, OneNote, Outlook), PPM Optics, SharePoint, Lotus Notes, ServiceNow, ALM.

Functional: Coordination and Facilitation, Project Scheduling, Budget Tracking, Risk Management, Issue Tracking, Conflict Resolution, Documentation, Reporting, Testing, Change and Service Requests.

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

Programming: Java, HTML, JavaScript, Spring Framework.

Professional Development:

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Visveswaraya Technological University, INDIA

Bachelor of Engineering

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