Ramesh Babu Janarthanan

adts3q@r.postjobfree.com • 302-***-****

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rbj/ • Wilmington, Delaware

Senior Scrum Master / Program Manager

Certified Scrum Master with 20+ years of success in spearheading all aspects of program and project management activities by utilizing agile and scrum methodologies complemented by expertise in digital transformation.

Stellar history of designing and delivering best-in-class business/technical solutions across diverse domains, such as banking, financial services, and insurance. Instrumental in engaging with product owners and management to align team with defined product vision, roadmap, and sprint goals. Adept at identifying and mitigating operational risks to accomplish project deliverables within strict timelines and budgets, while focusing on boosting operational workflow and driving cohesive, strategic operations. Skilled at establishing and maintaining collaborative environment within teams to devise best-fit solutions for resolving conflicts, executing continuous improvements, and increasing overall effectiveness.

●Strategic leader with extensive experience in building, mentoring, and steering teams for execution of project-related tasks and creating optimized technical solutions, while promoting teamwork and accelerating synergy.

●Exceptional communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills leveraged for building and strengthening strong relationships with project team members, colleagues, stakeholders, and management.

Core Competencies

Business Agility

DevOps

Lean-Agile

Lean-Agile Leadership

Lean-Agile Mindset

Lean-Agile Transformation

Lean Portfolio Management

Program Coordination

Release On Demand

SAFe®

SAFe® Principles

Scaled Agile Framework®

Systems Thinking

Program & Project Management

Database Design & Development

SCRUM Ceremonies/ Management

Stakeholder Communication

Agile Assessment & Guidance

Project Costing & Budgeting

Leadership

Visio

Collaborative Problem Solving

Resource Allocations

Agile Methodology

Microsoft PowerPoint

Coaching

Team Building

Mentoring

Microsoft office

Customer Communication

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Project

SharePoint

Sprint Planning

Process Improvement

Strategic Planning & Analysis

Cross-Functional Collaborations

Servant Leadership

Professional Experience

Virtusa, Piscataway, NJ Oct 2008 to Present

Program Manager

Organize and lead wide range of program and project management functions, including Scrum, release planning, sprint planning, User story decomposition, effort estimations, daily scrum meetings, sprint reviews meeting, and risk assessment and mitigation plans. Plan, execute, monitor, and spearhead assigned programs and projects to fulfill program and project objectives. Gather and examine metrics data, such as baseline, actual values for costs, schedule, work in progress, and work completed; provide reports to stakeholders regarding project progress and other project-specific information. Craft, revise, and implement development plans to meet evolving needs and requirements. Govern end-to-end DevOps lifecycle with accountability of mitigating technical and operational risks/issues throughout project lifecycle. Coach and guide teams to successfully deliver projects and draft personal development plans.

KEY PROJECTS:

1.Project: New York Life Retail Life – Third Party Distribution Role: Scrum Master Date: January 2022 – till date Domain: Insurance – Retail Life Technology: Adobe Experience Manager, Java, ASP.Net, C#, JQuery, Oracle, AWS, JIRA and Bitbucket

2.Project: Digital Transformation - Reliance Standard Life Insurance Corporation Role: Scrum Master Date: January 2020 – December 2021 Domain: Insurance – Group and Annuities Technology: Sitecore, ASP.Net, C#, JQuery, Oracle, AWS, Azure Cloud and Azure DevOps

3.Project: Barclays - B.Net Role: Scrum Master Date: April 2018 – December 2019 Domain: Corporate Banking – Payments and Collections Technology: ASP.Net, JQuery, Telerik Controls, Java, Web Services/WCF, Oracle, MS SQL, IBM Web Application Services, TIBCO and Abinitio

Spearhead and coach scrum team in moderate to high complexity workstreams for executing scrum process and enabling teams on effective utilization of scrum and Agile practices and methodology.

Oversee daily scrums, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, and Iteration Retrospective and planning meetings to ensure end-to-end team engagement, while coordinating interdependencies between Agile teams.

Engage with Product Owner to drive short- and long-term release planning.

Eliminate external obstacles for teams to achieve maximum functionality and productivity.

Collaborate with Product Owners, Vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure full analysis of user stories to ensure seamless running of operations and process governance on multiple systems.

Facilitate projects for Scrum of Scrums methodology with distributed and co-located teams.

Identify and mitigate potential and/or actual impediments to team delivery.

4.Project: Citi Bank – Phoenix Role: Technical Project Manager Duration: Jan 2010 – March 2018 Domain: Corporate Banking – Payments and Collections Technology: ASP.Net, JQuery, Telerik Controls, Java, Web Services/WCF, Oracle, MS SQL, IBM Web Application Services, TIBCO, Abinitio

Created extensive Statement of Work and project plans, while monitoring implementation of plans.

Uncovered and tracked dependencies across streams via project plan.

Identified and mitigated project risks in a proactive manner.

Proffered guidance and support to team members to overcome complex technical issues.

Engaged with QC team for triaging issues/tickets raised during SIT, UAT, and Regression phases.

Oversaw resources and status/performance reporting to client and management.

Additional Key Projects

●Project: Citi Bank – SME Poland Role: Technical Lead Duration: October 2008 – December 2009 Domain: Corporate Banking – Payments and Collections Technology: ASP.Net, JQuery, Telerik Controls, MS SQL, Java, Oracle, IBM Web Application Services

●Project: Elpaso Corporation - EPMARIS Role: Developer Duration: December 2000 – October – 2005 Domain: Claims Processing Technology: VFP 7, Web Connection, Crystal Report

Education

Bachelor of Engineering: Electronics and Communication Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering

Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu

Certifications & Training

Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist Certified Scrum Master Certified Scrum Product Owner

AWS Cloud Practitioner Advanced Diploma in web Technologies Advanced Diploma in Microsoft Visual Basic 6 Advanced Diploma in Oracle 8 PMP Workshop Training

Awards

Awarded prestigious Konark award in 2014 Awarded Gem for best performer in 2013

Technical Proficiencies

Agile Methodology, Story board, burn-down chart, Velocity Chart, ASP.net, Java, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Web Services, REST and SOAP API, JSON, XML, IBM Web Application Server, Estimation function point, Story point, HP and Team Track Quality control, Azure DevOps, Rally (Agile Central), Confluence, JIRA, BitBucket, GIT and Team foundation version control, Data migrations - homogenous and heterogeneous, MS Project Manager, Jenkins other CI Tools

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