Deepthi S

adx2nm@r.postjobfree.com

901-***-****

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dps12/

Experienced and result driven Scrum Practitioner and Lead with 8 plus years of comprehensive experience working in various industries on large scale projects and domains. Specialized in applying technical expertise to develop insightful solutions applicable to current business practices. Master communicator, diligent, adaptable, and skilled at building consensus across high performance teams. Always eager to serve and contribute for team success.

Professional Summary:

Experience working in diverse industries and cultures like E-Commerce, Mobile e-commerce, Retail, Agri, healthcare and management consulting.

Manage and Coach multiple Agile teams as Senior Scrum Lead, comprising Cloud engineers, developers, SRE’s and production support engineers in different geographies as a servant leader, by teaching, coaching, and facilitating the agile mindset.

Evangelize scrum principles and practices to refine Agile ceremonies, assist in defining DoR & DoD, establishing sizing standards and Jira reporting working closely with other scrum leaders in organization participating in scrum of scrums.

Strong knowledge in facilitating the team’s progress toward the goal and commitments through improvement in quality, predictability, flow, and velocity.

Possesses strong analytical and decision-making skills with an extensive ability to think strategically aimed at assessing the needs within the organization.

Proficiently organized and facilitated all sprint ceremonies like daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning

Collaborated closely with product owners on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria were agreed upon and stories were ready for sizing.

Effectively tracked team’s progress, including burn down, velocity and release forecasting making teams more productive.

Extensive experience in working with E-commerce squads like Marketing Technology squads, Partner support, Retailer assets, delivering highly scalable, performance-efficient, resilient, and robust applications around Inventory, Order Management, Fulfilment, and Automation domains to provide the best consumer experience.

Worked with teams that develop M-Ecommerce apps that can deliver personalized recommendations and location -specific products to shoppers like Ultra responsive mobile site designs, Multi factor security authentication for Mobile sites.

Worked with Scrum master’s across sites to prepare for and facilitate potentially shippable increment planning sessions.

Successfully driving teams understanding business strategy, objectives, and technology to ensure development work is prioritized by business value, work is aligned with objectives and help the teams overcome development roadblocks

Expertly promoted continuous improvement and helped teams increase productivity and foster innovation by taking initiatives within teams and later adopted by entire program.

Monitoring sprint velocity and working with teams to determine how they can continue to improve on velocity and recognize additional efficiencies as they mature with agile operating model.

Worked with various environments like Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Rally, Mural Boards, AWS, Azure Devops boards.

Establish documentation for agile methodology for implementation with a very water-fall-centric development team.

EDUCATION& CERTIFICATIONS

Master of Business Administration – MBA -HR & MARKETING

Bachelor of Business Management – BBM -HR

CERTIFICATIONS – PSM-Professional Scrum Master Certification

Nike

Beaverton-OR

Senior Scrum Lead Jan 2022 – Present

Extensive experience in working with Mobile E-commerce squads like Marketing Technology squads, Partner support, Retailer assets, delivering highly scalable, performance-efficient, resilient, and robust applications around Inventory, Order Management, Fulfilment, and Automation domains to provide the best consumer experience

Worked with teams that develop M-Ecommerce apps that can deliver personalized recommendations and location -specific products to shoppers like Ultra responsive mobile site designs, Multi factor security authentication for Mobile sites.

Guided teams with social commerce and mobile commerce -payment applications, payment apps and built in pay features.

Partnering with the product owners to ensure backlog health and work with the team to improve velocity and identify kaizens.

Took an initiative to develop Deployment tracker for teams worked which later adopted by entire program

Partnering and supporting Engineering Managers, Product Managers and Program Managers in managing the backlog to ensure it is properly prioritized and appropriately sized.

Helping the Team to focus on delivery of high-quality stories on a predictable, sustainable cadence.

Facilitating all scrum ceremonies including daily stand-up meetings, backlog refinement, sprint planning, demonstrations, release planning, and team retrospectives.

Worked towards JIRA Standardization across the teams in the organization

Introduced effective story estimation techniques (Fibonacci Series) using Planning/Pointing Poker

Managing sprint release deliverables and proactively identifying and resolving impediments

Coaching the team on Lean, Agile, and Scrum principles with a goal of continuous improvement.

Facilitate cross-team orchestration, tracking and following up with internal and external dependencies

Interacting with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization and cross-squad/cross-functional collaboration on delivery execution.

Ensures sprint releases stay on track with Fix Versions in JIRA which helped teams for effective tracking

Extensively used tools like Jira and Confluence for team and deliverables management in tracking the Metrics and artifacts like Velocity, Capacity, Scrum Board, User Stories, Tasks, Sprint Burndown and Release Burnup Charts to senior management.

Ensuring overall adherence and compliance to JIRA Standards/ Policies and Accelerating overall squad performance, efficiency and value delivered.

Effectively contributed in finding opportunities to improve agile maturity and metrics

Working collaboratively with squad and leaders to enable delivery of the squad's mission through well-executed sprints

Proficiency in JIRA, Microsoft Suite especially Excel and PowerPoint, Slack & Outlook

Worked on Epic compliance, epic-story linking, mapping dependencies, updating work categories and using Labels for effective tracking of stories in JIRA

Protecting the team from interruptions and distractions to clear a path for throughout by

Identifying, removing and/or escalating risks, roadblocks, and cross team dependencies that are unresolvable by the team and interfere with the team’s ability to deliver commitments.

Accountable for promoting continuous improvement by coaching the team to use metrics to identify and measure progress.

worked with the wider scrum master teams to drive Scrum and Agile maturity that includes a cross squad viewpoint and align to agile best practices.

Worked with teams who work on Technologies – Java, JavaScript, Go, Terraform, Kotlin, Scala, Bash, Python, AWS, Angular NodeJS, Splunk, API gateways, Jenkins, Aurora MYSQL

John Deere

Des Moines, IA Nov 2018 – Dec 2021

ScrumMaster

Training new team members in Agile principles, scrum processes and helping them transition from waterfall methodology to agile practice

Tracking metrics (inputs, outputs, and outcomes) for team; monitoring ongoing basis and informs key stakeholders as appropriate.

Monitoring sprint velocity and working with teams to determine how they can continue to improve on velocity and recognize additional efficiencies as they mature with agile operating model.

Facilitated process to decide which stories will be included in each sprint through understanding team’s velocity and story scope and size by helping team members prioritize order of user stories they will execute against the product commitments

Assisted with resource allocation and effective capacity planning for teams to determine what team can take on in any given sprint working with product owner, engineering manager, and teams to re-balance and re- prioritize work within a sprint

Was part of organizational changes in adopting agile practices, converting, and coaching teams to align with agile operating model.

Coordinated with the product owner in backlog management/grooming and continuous delivery of features and maintained burn down chart, team velocity and Cumulative Frequency Diagram (CFD)

Involved in estimating the story points for user stories using planning poker/pointing poker andFibonacci sequence.

Created Queries, Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views, Indexes, Constraints on SQL Server to obtain the data used to populate Excel Pivot Tables/PowerPivot on the Front End, generating the final reports

Scrum Master for two AWS cloud teams- Cloud enablement and Cloud Operations teams who work on DevOps and AWS for Deere

Extensively worked and gained experience and on key agile techniques including SAFe, Kanban, and using tools like Mural boards, Rally, JIRA and Confluence.

Championed the cause for continuous design and refactoring to minimize code duplicity, complex logic, poor named identifiers

Extensively applied the best use of Jira and Confluence for team and deliverables management in tracking the Metrics and artifacts like Velocity, Capacity, Scrum Board, User Stories, Tasks, Sprint Burndown and Release Burnup Charts to senior management.

Environment: JIRA, Confluence, DevOps, AWS, Rally, Mural Boards, Azure DevOps Boards, Git, SharePoint, SNOW

Akshaya Inc

Pleasanton, CA Nov 2015- Oct 2018

Scrum Master

Facilitated and re-enforced Agile Ceremonies (Backlog Refinement, Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo, Sprint Retrospectives, Scrum of scrums, Communities of Practice)

Helping in assessing the agile maturity and providing recommendations for Scaling Agile practices using SAFe framework.

Implementing recommendations for scaling agile practices and leading some of the key ceremonies for the scaled agile.

Successful in collaborating team feedback to identify areas of improvement and recommended solutions to remove impediments making teams efficient for successful deliveries.

Managed scrum effectively in Rally and JIRA, designed dashboards with actionable metrics and created Confluence pages to communicate the scope of releases, strategy, impacted components, risks, dependencies and decisions.

Supported teams across multiple Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban.

Supported the agile practice by performing initial interviews, coaching the scrum masters, and driving the progress of agile transformation in the organization.

Evangelized true scrum practice through influence within the confines of the SAFe framework.

Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good Agile practices.

Empower the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings.

Resolved impediments that otherwise prevented the team from achieving its goals.

Use key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity) to help deliver committed work.

Manage sprint backlog items and tasks and all Scrum boards (physical or virtual).

Provided coaching on dependencies management, risks mitigation and issues from scrum team.

Provided training and worked closely with Product Owners in product backlog refinement and continuous delivery of features.

Educated and reinforced scrum framework to team members as needed.

Provided coaching to team members and leadership to ensure the adoption of best Agile practices.

Leading Community of Practice (COP)Developed and managed visual system to track progress of work during sprints and projects

Environment: Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Rally, Mural Boards, Oracle, HP ServiceDesk, SharePoint

Deloitte, India Jan 2011- Apr 2013

Talent Acquisition - Leadership Hiring

Handling complete Recruitment life cycle specialized in leadership hiring

Handled various requirements for laterals, freshers and campus hiring

Worked on IT, NON-IT & ITES requirements.

Interacting with stake holders to understand the requirement and mapping competencies.

Coordination of interview process by tracking various levels of interview process and providing timely update to internal clients and candidates.

Drafting and posting of Job ads on web portals and internal dashboard.

Sourcing profiles for suitable candidates against resource requisitions raised by the respective hiring managers, through Job Portals, Placement Consultants, Employee Referrals, Networking, and organization database.

Following up with the stake holders, consultants, and candidates.

Involved in salary negotiations based on the matrix, and background verifications.

Conducting personal / telephonic interviews, aptitude & technical tests as well as general evaluation of interpersonal& presentation skills.

Conducted several recruitment drives and walk-ins and follow-up with the offered candidates and keep track of their onboarding.

Sourcing apt profiles using various job portals like Naukri, Monster, Times & networking portals like Linked in, Facebook.

Headhunting and cold calling with minimal turnaround time performing job postings on various portals and mass mailing to candidates to make them aware of current openings in the organization.

Introduced and suggested Innovative hiring practices to retain talent and reduce attrition.

Ingvysya Bank, India, Aug 2008 –Aug 2010

Compensation & Benefits Intern

Administered compensation, benefits and performance management systems and safety and recreation programs

Participated in compensation consulting activities: Job Evaluations, Compensation Studies and Job Classification (exempt/non-exempt) for assigned client groups.

Assist with the development of salary structures. Created pay offers (base, bonus & equity) for new hires, internal promotions, and lateral moves.

Manage periodic employee communications regarding changes and updates to incentive plans and policies

Participated in the evaluation of new jobs and internal promotions or reclassification of exempt and nonexempt positions. Recommended appropriate salary grades.

Provides process improvement by gathering feedback from supervisors and the compensation team, documenting issues encountered and suggesting improvements

Gather market intelligence to maintain market competitiveness and develop new total rewards strategies

Conduct market research and provides market pricing to HR Business Partners and Talent Acquisition teams

Worked in conjunction with the HRIS staff to ensure the maintenance of the HRIS system used to store and retrieve employee and job data.

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