Scrum Master Project Manager

Narmada Shivanna

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master with 5+ years of proven professional experience.

• 10+ years of Education field experience.

• Proven track record of excellent leadership by instilling trust and collaboration within teams

• Expertise in Scrum Ceremonies like Daily Scrum, Backlog refinement, Sprint planning and Sprint Retrospective, Program Increment using Agile Methodology.

• Excellent communication, conflict resolution, facilitation, critical thinking, efficient content management and documentation skills.

• Thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) phases and specialized in employing different methodologies like Agile and Waterfall.

• Handled large-scale software and Web development projects by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams.

• Experience working on tools like JIRA, ServiceNow and Confluence.

• Manage project scope, risks, issues, constraints and dependencies

• Empowered the teams to self-organize and become cross-functional teams.

• Hands on experience of writing and prioritizing User Stories in Backlog.

• Manage and mentor scrum teams and third-party vendors to insure communication, human resource, training, technical and implementation goals and tasks were well documented and understood.

• Project Management experience of the full project life cycle including requirements gathering, creation of project plans and schedules, obtaining and managing resources.

• Organized, led complex projects, defined project scopes, schedules, deliverables and provided regular progress reports and metrics.

• Effective usage of Information Radiators using Dashboard and Burn-down charts.

• Experience in using JIRA for maintaining Issue Hierarchy, Backlog Grooming, Updating Tasks, Planning Iterations and Releases

TECHNICAL SKILLS

- SDLC Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Custom- Agile /Waterfall- Scrum Hybrid

- Requirements, Project Management Tools: Atlassian-JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, MS office suite.

- Practices: DevOps, SAFe Agile, CI/CD, BDD, TDD

- Database: MySQL, Postgress

-Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 8, Windows 10, Mac OS EDUCATION

- Master of Science in Mathematics

- Bachelor of Science

CERTIFICAITONS

• CSM Certified Scrum Master

(Certificate ID: 001483711 Certification Active through: 12 February 2025) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Entity Vibes

Role: Project Manager/ Scrum Master

December 1st, 2016 – January 28th, 2022 (5-year 2 month) Bangalore, India Project: Edumate

Product EduMate is a cloud educational software ERP platform that prompts advancements in school education system for quality education management. It helps to bring the digital environment across basic & secondary schools.

Responsibilities:

• Served as a Project Manager/Scrum master for Product Edumate.

• Worked closely with the team on project execution & with multiple end customer.

• Conducted Scrum ceremonies such as daily stand ups, sprint review, sprint planning and sprint retrospective effectively to deliver high quality product increment every sprint.

• Assisted the Product Owner in maintaining and updating the Product Backlog Items after every sprint,

• Used JIRA, Service Now and Confluence for tracking sprint work, issues, organizing, collaborating teams and documentation.

• Preparing the Quarterly feature progress Structure, Sprint Burn Down, Sprint Burn Up Charts, release reports and team's velocity chart to keep track of team performance.

• Improved team velocity by effectively implementing teams retrospective action items.

• Built cross functional project team in an agile environment with clear roles and responsibility.

• Managed day to day team deliverable, made visible overall progress, resolved issues and initiated corrective action as appropriate with key stakeholders.

• Effectively tracked all aspects of the project release e.g., objectives, scope, schedule, issues, risks, resources, dependencies.

RajaRajeswari College of Engineering

Assistant Professor

August 1st, 2014 –November 28th 2016 (2 year 3 months) Bangalore, India Nandi Institute of Technology and Management Sciences Assistant Professor Mathematics

August 18th, 2008 – July 26th, 2014 (5 year 11 months) Bangalore, India Yellamma Dasappa Institute of Technology

Lecturer Mathematics

September 22nd, 2006 –August 19th, 2008 (1 year 11 months) Bangalore, India

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