Finance Intern Scrum Master

Nikita Nalavade

Atlanta,GA,***** 917-***-**** **************@*****.**

Master of Finance Sept 2019- Dec 2020

University of California Riverside

A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management

Master in Management studies (Finance) June 2017- June 2019 University of Mumbai, India

Bachelors in Commerce (Financial Markets) June 2014- May 2017 University of Mumbai

Scrum Master

Cox Automotives Inc, Atlanta May 2021 – Present

Impressive knowledge of Agile methodology and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban and XP.

In-depth knowledge on the software development cycle ranging from code development, QA deployment, UAT deployment, support deployment, production deployment, feature toggles, manual steps, definition of User story including Automation stories (Acceptance criteria’s, scope), definition of defects, spikes, features and more.

Experience in using Rally software / Jira software for keeping track of user stories, defects and handling QA Demos.

Experience in Servant Leadership in the form of leading the team acing through the tough times, whenever any major change came in the team structure in the form of new team coming in or any team member leaving the team.

Effective communication and organizational skillset in working with hybrid teams, currently lead two hybrid teams with offshore team members in India, Vietnam, Philippines Belarus, Poland along with different time zones in United states.

Highly skilled in facilitating various scrum ceremonies such as daily standups, sprint planning sessions, sprint refinement sessions and sprint retrospective sessions.

Ensure that all the scrum ceremonies are running efficiently and keep working on it to make it more robust with the help of the feedback received from the team or product owner during sprint retrospective sessions or any time during the sprint.

Maintained the monthly team metrics and artifacts, presented and communicated to Release train engineers and engineering leaders.

Experience in working in co-ordination with Scrum masters from different teams, program management, Product owners and engineering leads on different projects. Recently we managed to deliver project to a client successfully in a short span of 6 weeks.

SUMMARY:

An Enthusiastic, experienced and professionally certified scrum master with impressive knowledge on different Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Scrum ban,Crystal and XP . Experienced in service leadership with excellent communication skills,conflict management and team management skills. EDUCATION:

EXPERIENCE:

Experienced in handling monthly software release cadence efficiently in the position as Release Manager by collaborating with multiple teams across the platform.

Experienced in solving conflicts regarding any blocked teamwork such as user story or defect or spike card by understanding the root cause and finding a solution for it by coordinating with the scrum master or lead engineer of different teams

Accounts manager

ICICI Bank, Mumbai, India Feb 2019 – Aug 2019

Bought New Client on board which led to increment in the revenue of the small and medium segment revenue by 10%.

Oversaw trade transactions of small and medium scale companies such as letter of credit, inward and outward remittance, and bank guarantees by coordinating with the operation department, compliance department and other local branches of the bank.

Conducted market research, shortlisted companies and held meetings with officials of the shortlisted companies and promoted the services offered by the bank which led to multiple new client acquisitions.

Improved services through study and analysis of the procedures followed by the bank, gave presentation to the management and few points were implemented which decreased the turnaround time (TAT) by 20%. Finance head/Co-owner

Nikita Engineers Mumbai, India June 2017 – Aug 2019

Managed financial matters of the business such as vendor payments, inventory and client management.

Aided in all the finance department of the start -up such as keeping profit & loss statement, cash flowstatement and balance sheet updated.

Oversaw all finance administrative work for the business such as making challans, client payments etc.

Worked for the improvement of services through study and analysis of the procedures followed, which gavea kick start to the company.

Finance intern

Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd, Mumbai, India May 2018 – June 2018

Analyzed the freight data using MS-excel tools and presented the analysis to decrease the freight cost leading to 25% surge in the Profitability.

Analyzed the Freight cost data by using excel sheet and advanced excel tools which helped in finding out key locations incurring the highest freight cost across India for different models of the vehicles.

Member of Graduate student Association (Business school)-Finance committee

Reader for graduate business class – Derivative and asset pricing (Jan 2020- March 2020)

Reader for undergraduate business class – Employee benefit (Jan 2020 -June 2020)

Teaching assistant for undergraduate business class – Business Communication (Sept 2020 -Dec 2020)

Language: Fluent: Marathi, Hindi and English

Technology: MS Office, SQL, Lean Six Sigma green belt, certified Scrum Master, Rally software, Jira software ACTIVITIES:

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