Scrum Master Project Manager

Sriram Thunuguntla

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SUMMARY

• 15+ years of work experience in the IT.

• More than 10+ years of experience in SDLC and leading matrixed resources.

• Handled projects/products/initiatives in both Agile & Waterfall methodologies.

• Handled development/migration and support projects.

• Result–oriented Scrum Master / Project Manager with strong leadership/technical skills and highly successful track record.

• 3+ years of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) experience.

• 9+ years of scrum Agile Framework experience.

• 9+ years of experience in JIRA, Rally and Confluence, 3+ years of experience in Azure Devops, Data Lake, ADB, ADF.

• Knowledge and work experience in SAFE Scrum Master and SAFe RTE TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating systems Windows 7, 10, UNIX – HP, RHEL 7 Linux Programming Languages Cobol, VB .Net, ASP.Net, C#.Net, ASP, Angular, Typescript, Java & Spring Boot Databases SQL, DB2, MongoDB

Cloud Management Tools Microsoft Azure & AWS

File Management Tools Tortoise SVN, GIT

Build & Deployment Tools Concord, Jenkins, Maven ANT, Ansible SAP Skills BODS, HANA, ABAP

Project Management Tools Clarity, MPP, Version One, Azure Devops, JIRA, Power BI, Confluence, Leankit, Rally, Remedy, Service Now & Microsoft Teams Other Tools Sharepoint

CERTIFICATIONS

Advanced Certified Scrum Master (ACSM) & CSP-SM

PMP

Certified SAFe 5 Agilist (SA)

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EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Computers – 2002, Acharya Nagarjuna University, India PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Working as a freelance from June 2023 – Till date.

Worked with Capgemini from February 2022 – May 2023 as a sr. Project Manager/ Lead Scrum Master.

Worked as a freelancer from September 2020 – January 2022 .

Worked with Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd from December 2006 – Aug 2020 as a Team Leader. Client: WellsFargo Feb 2022 – May 2023

Release TrainEngineer/Engg.Manager

Company: Capgemini

Project: Core banking (Deposits & reports)

Project: Hogan IDS is a Vendor package (CSC) that has been heavily customized by Wells Fargo. It is a Mainframe. COBOL application running in Minneapolis with Backup data facility (BDF) in Tempe. It runs on the Blue Net behind firewall. Hagon IDS is a CICIS/COBOL/ASM application running with mostly IMS and some DB2 data base. It supports 24/7 processing and houses 38MM deposit (TDA/DDA) accounts. We will also handle interfaces, interacting with almost all of the delivery channels and many support systems, i.e. Risk statements and Notices (DCST) reject/return systems, General Ledger, etc.. it is system of record for all Deposit, accounts, providing real-time information 24 X7.

Also implementing the some of applications in Java Microservices ich are planning to retire. As a Release Train Engineer and Sr Scrum Master:

• Managing the talent & code review

• Distilling information via cross training and knowledge transfer

• Performance and compensation management

• Approving AIMS/ART request and certifications

• Collaborating with the product manager on overall intentions map

• Identifying and building relationships with key partners and stakeholders to communicate product area vision, strategies and priorities while soliciting and incorporating feedback.

• Actively participating in all product area events, including scrum / Kanban/SAFE ceremonies.

• Managing tradeoffs and executing day to day backlog prioritization and refinement; defining release plans aligned to the product strategy and intention map

• Support the weekly accomplishment to release manager, collaborating with release manage as code deployment / implementation activities are planned, executed and completed

• support the gathering of information for PBR, EGS and bulletin updates for Product leadership

• Facilitating Program Increment (PI) planning sessions for Billing and Remittance capability for all products.

• Facilitating program-level ceremonies like Feature grooming sessions, Scrum of Scrums, System Demo, etc…

• Leading program execution and tracking program and team metrics using Power BI and Azure Devops.

• Coaching junior scrum master's and working with agile coaches on best practices in relentless improvement of value delivery.

Client: GE Power (Oil & Gas), Jul 2019 – Aug 2020

Release Train Engineer

Company: Accenture

Project: GE GAS Power HQ needs a standard procedure to measure Price Realization for Sales and Orders across all segments. The guidance outlined in this policy will result in reporting consistency across the businesses and regions. The price reporting results calculated in line with this policy will be reported to Finance and be included in the Variable Contribution Margin (VCM) bridge to walk PY VCM to CY VCM. As a Release Train Engineer and Sr Scrum Master:

• Facilitating Program Increment (PI) planning sessions for Billing and Remittance capability for all products.

• Planning and documenting 10 weeks (5 sprints) of work using the Microsoft Teams and Azure Devops.

• Documenting, tracking and working with other capability RTE on cross functional dependencies, risks and issues.

• Working with Solution Train Engineers, Product Management, Agile Coaches and Business Stake holders on the business priorities and status reporting.

• Facilitating program-level ceremonies like Feature grooming sessions, Scrum of Scrums, System Demo, etc…

• Leading program execution and tracking program and team metrics using Power BI and Azure Devops.

• Coaching junior scrum master's and working with agile coaches on best practices in relentless improvement of value delivery.

• Creating transparency using metrics at a team and program level to initiate and drive positive change.

• Working with 3rd party vendors through GE liaison and acted as liaison b/w business stakeholders and agile teams.

Client: Uni Leaver Nov 2018 – Jun 2019 Sr

Scrum Master

Company: Accenture

Project: Unilever: The data is preserved in its native form or source form and time series beyond the time duration that sources will maintain. We handle the retails consumer data of the business worldwide. The consuming analytics products will dictate the freshness of the data. The UDL is the single shared capability that will act as the backbone for all analytics works in Unilever. UDL central ingestion team will build, support and serve as custodian for this lake with THE agility to hydrate new data sources to ensure the speed required for the products. As a Sr Scrum Master:

• Facilitating daily standups and setting up all scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, retrospectives, review/demos, backlog grooming/refinement sessions and product prioritization meetings.

• Run stand up calls with globally distributed teams every day with the teams to track activities against agile tools like Microsoft Teams, Jira & Azure Devops.

• Publishing Sprint Planning commitments and sprint end reports along with Say Do ratio, team’s burn down and velocity metrics.

• Making sure all scrum ceremonies are happening at regular cadence and facilitating more as and when needed to ensure product backlog is healthy enough for at least 2- 6 sprints.

• Conducted sprint end demo sessions with business stake holders.

• Working with Product owners and business analysts on priorities and story grooming.

• Creating program level dashboards in Azure Devops & Power BI to track progress of Epics & Features % completion, defect trends, cycle/lead time, cumulative flows, velocity trends, etc.

• Coaching the team on following agile principles and practices.

• Understanding team dynamics and working with Engineering/Resource managers to convey/resolve any team concerns or individual resource performance in following agile principles and practices. Client: AT &T Oct 2015 – Nov 2018 Sr.

Scrum Master

Company: Accenture

Project: Worked on sales application to implementing new products for customers and vendors. Also, managers vendor commotion related calculation applications. It provides support/handle/authorize all sales items for USA As a Scrum Master:

• Successfully plan and execute the Program Increment (PI) at enterprise level using SAFe.

• Worked with various cross functional teams to deliver the features/epics spread across teams.

• Working with RTE (Release Train engineers) on releases after having business demos.

• Tracking customized reports/dashboard/agile boards in Jira &Confluence at a sprint level and PSI level/program level along with dependencies.

• Facilitating daily standups and setting up all scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, retrospectives, review/demos, backlog grooming sessions and product prioritization meetings

• Works with the Product Owner to maintain healthy backlog and helps in product prioritization.

• Facilitating/Attending Scrum of Scrums (SOS) & Release meetings to talk about risks/dependencies/impediments both internal and external and plan releases.

• Removing the barriers between development and the customer so the customer directly drives development.

• Promoting and making sure the team is self-organized, motivated and adapted to agile.

• Improving the productivity of the development team in any way possible & cross functional and recommended any skills/competencies need to be trained/improved. Client: CISCO Sep 2014 – Aug 2015 Scrum

Master / TPM

Project: Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley. Cisco develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment and other high technology services and products. As a Scrum Master:

• Facilitating daily standups and setting up all scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, retrospectives, review/demos and backlog grooming sessions.

• Ensure cross-team coordination on delivery of user stories at each epic/feature level.

• Removes all impediments to the team's progress, both internal and external to the Scrum team • Encouraging collaboration between the Scrum teams (Development & QES), product owner/

• Team coaching and make sure to follow all the agile/scrum principles/practices.

• Promotes and making sure team is self-organized, motivated and adopted to agile. Client: WW Granger Mar 2012 – Sep 2014 Project

Lead

Company: Accenture

Project: Nevada Health Link was created for the State of Nevada where individuals and small businesses can shop for, compare and purchase quality health insurance plans with ease. Customers can make side-by-side comparisons of plans from different insurance companies and pick the plan that's right for their needs.

• Build the BODS jobs to retrieve data from Oracle database, transform it into business needs and generate the files to load data into SAP.

• Developing the Jobs, workflows, data flows using BODS to pull the data from source to target.

• Load the generated files into SAP by using LSMW for different objects Purchase order, Branch Inventory Location, Gas Inventory, Goods Receipt, Reverse Goods Receipt, Bin Creation, Serialized Equipment, Sales Pricing for Mexico and Canada.

• Involved in creating Preload and Post Load Jobs by extracting data from Sap to ensure successful migration of data.

• Experience in Automation of jobs through Management console & Creating Batch jobs.

• Created different types of Data stores and configured them in BODS designer. Created multiple configurations for Data stores.

Client : Level 3, USA Jun 2010 – Feb 2012

Technical Project Lead

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Java

Company : Accenture Responsibilities:

Technologies Used: - Coolgen (6.0), COBOL, JCL, Quik JOB, Change-Man, Xpeditor and DB2 Key Role and Responsibilities:

• Preparing high level and low level design documents.

• Coordination with onsite coordinator.

• Coding using Cool: Gen, COBOL, DB2, JCL, Quik Job etc.

• Unit testing

• Encyclopedia administrator

• Involving in Knowledge Transfer program for new comers. Client: BOA, USA Dec 2006– May 2010

Technical Project Lead / Developer

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Java

Company: Accenture Responsibilities:

Technologies Used: - Coolgen (6.0), COBOL, JCL, Quik JOB, Change-Man, Xpeditor and DB2 Key Role and Responsibilities:

• Preparing high level and low level design documents.

• Coordination with onsite coordinator.

• Coding using Cool: Gen, COBOL, DB2, JCL, Quik Job etc.

• Unit testing

• Encyclopedia administrator

• Involved in Knowledge Transfer program for new comers.

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