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Consultant for looking for Scrum Master projects and available to relocate immediate to Onsite.
Name: Sridhar
Visa: H1B
Technology: SCRUM MASTER
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
● Total experience of 16+ yrs. in Agile Methodology SAFe SCRUM experience
● Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning.
● Delivered project using small teams and Scrum to meet tight deadlines.
● Created and updated detailed project budgets and resource estimates using Microsoft Project and JIRA
● Ability to understand and represent both business and technology.
● Coached and empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally.
● Championed Agile concepts & methodologies outside of the software development teams, leading to the adoption of Agile.
● Led and coached Product Owners to improve story writing & requirements gathering process, leading to an increase in customer.
● Managed full SDLC, from ideation, to discovery, to execution, then to deployment.
● Facilitated Scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc.
● Highly motivated servant leader and Scrum Master with experience bridging the gap between technical and business stakeholders and always have a customer-centric approach to delivery of products & projects.
● Implemented Agile Scrum Methodology throughout the organization to improve communications between Engineering, Product Management, and Business; to provide more transparency across the 3 departments; and to obtain great business value with short turnarounds.
● Documented and tracked requirements, completed use case documentation, documented and tracked risk and reported team work to upper management and customers. Consistently worked to improve the processes and quality of our team's work by implementing test-driven development, ensuring that software conformed to architectural standards and participating in design and implementation reviews.
● Worked with customers and product manager to prioritize and validate requirements.
● Completed plans for long term goals using Microsoft Project.
● Coordinated the work efforts of 8-person team for various projects. Helped team complete tasks successfully and on- time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members.
● Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
● Value proposition includes attention to detail, very thorough in understanding and articulation of requirements that organically earn acceptance criteria. Bring significant knowledge of SAFe Agile frameworks mainly Scrum approach (Daily ceremonies such as Standup, Sprint Planning, and Sprint Retrospective) and (if required) Kanban.
● Strong interpersonal, logical and analytical skills. Maturity and ability to adapt quickly to any dynamic environment. Problem solver and excel in facilitating, enabling and guiding to goal achievement.
● Excellent organization and communication skills with the ability to simplify and articulate complex material to a diverse audience. Adept in various Scrum techniques and operational metrics such as story writing, estimation, refinement, velocity, predictability, and Sprint burndowns.
CERTIFICATIONS:
● SAFe SCRUM Master Course (5.1)
● Leading transformations: Manage change | Macquarie University
● Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification | Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia
● Customer Engagement Specialist Professional Certificate | IBM
● HCM Functional Consultant | Ramco Systems
SKILLS AND EXPERTISE:
● Scaled Agile Framework, Functional & Technical Documentation, Process Improvement Initiatives
● Project Management, Agile & Scrum Methodologies, Team Leadership, Cross-functional Collaboration
● Project Management Tools/Methodologies, Atlassian JIRA Software, Kanban, Lean Management, MIRO, SharePoint.
● Business Tools: GWS, MS Office (including Visio), Click Up, Salesforce CRM, MS Teams, Zoom
WORK EXPERIENCES:
Company: ThriveOn Solutions Role: SAFe Scrum Master Duration: July 2022 - till date
● Act as a Change Agent with a passion for supporting teams to transform their behaviors toward an agile environment.
● Facilitate Scrum processes and events enabling team maturity and effectiveness leveraging data driven metrics.
● Create an agile mindset with focus on agile value and principles leading with transparency, inspection, and adaptation resulting in delivery of high value increments which meet the Definition of Done
● Enable teams through servant leadership skills to develop sprint goals, robust product backlogs, acceptance criteria, definitions of done / ready.
● Facilitate program level agile ceremonies to include dependency mapping, release planning and scope alignment across Product teams.
● Enable the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team's progress.
● Facilitate communication and partnership inside and outside the team to include stakeholder engagement.
● Protect the team from distractions allowing for focus to meet sprint and program commitments.
● Promote self-organization and cross-functionality of the team coaching each role to enable high performance of the team.
● Develop and maintain product roadmaps.
● Define product requirements and features.
● Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure product success.
● Prioritize tasks and features based on customer feedback and market trends.
● Monitor customer feedback and analytics to identify areas of improvement.
● Manage the product backlog and ensure it is up to date.
● Work with developers to ensure timely delivery of features and bug fixes.
● Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective.
● Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases.
● Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines.
● Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates.
● Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects.
● Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations.
● running at a high performance
● Work with the team leads to resolving people’s problems and project roadblocks.
● Project deployment involves collaborating with internal and external stakeholders (including partners/contractors & vendors) to effectively deploy the solution to end customer.
● Responsible for the integration and dependencies with other projects and programs.
● Contribute to increasing project delivery effectiveness and continuous improvement.
● Act as Lead Scrum Master for 8-10 Agile teams (each with their own product owner and scrum master)
● 60% - Leading and supporting the agile teams in their quest to do everything possible to delight customers.
● Providing all support to the teams using a servant leadership style and leading by example.
● Demonstrated ability to exercise initiative, independent judgment and be a self-starter.
Company: Capgemini Role: Scrum Master
Duration: May 2017 - Dec 2021
Client: HSBC
Duration: Sep 2019- Dec 2021
● Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
● Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
● Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
● Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
● Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
● Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
● Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
● Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
● Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
● Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example. ead and coach the Scrum team in using Agile methodology and Scrum practices.
● Help the Product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction and committed goals.
● Lead the Scrum and development teams in self-organization.
● Remove impediments and promote an environment for high performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and continuous improvement.
● Resolve conflicts and issues that occur.
● Define and report key performance metrics and opportunities for improvement.
● Help the Scrum team achieve higher levels of Scrum maturity by increasing independence and personal responsibility.
● Manage and communicate dependencies with other teams.
● Support in internalizing the SAFe core values, implementing the SAFe principles and applying SAFe practices.
● Facilitated the Scrum ceremonies - PI Planning, sprint planning (as well as Release Planning), daily Stand-ups, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
● Enable tech leads, developers, and testers on how to estimate story points, break down stories into tasks and keep track of their hours.
● Facilitate team breakout during the waterfall events.
● Support Product Development leads to prioritizing the pending/incomplete tasks to refine and product planning.
● Attend the products planning to help team gain alignment across the organization in all geographies.
● Moving approved and prioritized work through the team in a timely and efficient manner
Client: Standard Chartered:
Duration: June 2018- Sept 2019
● Facilitates the Scrum process to include Daily Scrum Stand-up meetings, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives. Assists with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information. Provides updates on the team's status and removes impediments to increase the probability of success in each Sprint. Establishes a team environment by building trust and creating transparency.
● Administers the day-to-day progress of Agile. Uses a collaborative approach while driving decisions. Holds team accountable to ensure they are successfully collaborating and adapting to project and cultural shifts. Maintains positive relationships with IT and internal customers to help facilitate effective completion of project work.
● Builds understanding of Agile foundation and processes. Assists with prioritization and identifying defects.
● Promotes and participates in the continuous improvement of structure, processes and tooling to enable the teams to deliver more value. Adopts an understanding of the overall business and of the business and technical terms presented.
● Develops and uses analytical skills to identify sources of impediments.
Planning & Delivery
● Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills
● A proven ability to deliver on software projects in a fast-paced environment.
● Strong experience in agile development and project delivery practices
● Experience of the technology, tools and techniques that support agile development (e.g., Jira, CI/CD, Story- mapping)
● Facilitated the Scrum ceremonies - PI Planning, sprint planning (as well as Release Planning), daily Stand- ups, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
● Manage story points allocation, tracking & review, Capacity & velocity planning.
● Facilitate team breakout during all the project duration at every progress stage.
● Support Product Development in product planning.
● Attend the products planning to help team gain alignment across the organization in all geographies.
● Moving approved and prioritized work through the team in a timely and efficient manner
● Removing hurdles and creating an environment in which the team can function effectively.
● Following through bug fixes
● Facilitating the resolution of user interface problems
● Contribute to meeting internal customer expectations by supporting the Product Owner
● Lead functional teams, project leads and development teams.
Client: PUB
Duration: May 2017-June 2018
● Oversees scrum process, coaches the team; facilitates transparent and adaptive team culture
● Leads daily scrum, sprint review, and planning meetings in a way that ensures full team engagement.
● Supports and educates the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog, and release planning.
● Removes all impediments to the team’s success, such as cultural barriers or logistic challenges, supporting the Product Owner, and ensuring that the team’s progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders.
● Facilitates communication and collaboration inside and outside the team.
● Generates agile mindset in team through conversations, coaching, and role playing exercises.
● Facilitated the Scrum ceremonies - PI Planning, sprint planning (as well as Release Planning), daily Stand-ups, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
● Responsible for story points allocation & review; Capacity & velocity planning.
● Facilitate team breakout during all the project duration at every progress stage.
● Support Product Development in product planning.
● Tasks allocation & prioritization in a timely and efficient manner
● Removing hurdles and creating an environment in which the team can function effectively.
● Facilitating the resolution of user interface problems & managing bug fixes.
● Contribute to meeting internal customer expectations by supporting the Product Owner
● Lead functional teams, project leads and development teams.
Company: Aggregators Role: Scrum Master
Duration: April 2010 – April 2017
Client: UBS
Duration: Jan- 2016 - April 2017
● Guided and coached the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to internal customers.
● Enable the team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
● Facilitating scrum ceremonies' and managing 'IT governance' and 'Release Trains' for remotely located teams.
● Coached the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skill set, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.
● Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational projects or product teams.
● Resolve team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
● Identify, track and communicate project progress, milestones, deliverables changes and dependencies within the schedule, costs, issues and risks.
● Manage project team’s performance of project tasks, provide technical advice and guidance, schedule assignments and training for development, prepare performance appraisals.
● Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
Client: Hewlett Packard Duration: Sept 2013– Jan 2016
● Facilitated daily scrums, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
● Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint progress to all affected teams and management.
● Coached team on agile practices and ensured adherence to scrum framework.
● Worked closely with Product Owner to define and prioritize backlog.
● Helped team to remove impediments and fostered a culture of self-organization and continuous improvement.
● Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational projects or product teams.
● Manage project team’s performance of project tasks, provide technical advice and guidance, schedule assignments and training for development, prepare performance appraisals.
Client Nityo Infotech Duration: Jan 2012- Sept 2013
● Facilitating scrum ceremonies' and managing 'IT governance' and 'Release Trains' for remotely located teams.
● Worked with the product owner to refine product backlog and negotiated requirements and strategies.
● Identify and challenge the performance & processes to improve efficiency and reduce cost.
● Prepare project feasibility studies, cost-benefit analysis and MVP proposal to seek approvals from key stakeholders.
● Identify, track and communicate project progress, milestones, deliverables changes and dependencies within the schedule, costs, issues and risks.
● Manage project team’s performance of project tasks, provide technical advice and guidance, schedule assignments and training for development, prepare performance appraisals.
Company: Qatar Airways Role: Scrum Master
Duration: Apr 2010 - Sept 2011
● Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
● Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
● Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
● Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
● Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
● Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.
● Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.
● Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
● Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.
● Program lead. Manage & facilitate the upgrading project with Delivery team, Functional user teams & external vendors.
Company: Aggregators Role: Scrum Master
Duration: Jan 2006 - Mar 2010
Client: - NCS IT
Duration : Feb 2008-March 2010
● Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
● Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
● Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
● Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
● Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
● Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.
● Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.
● Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
● Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders
Client: IDA
Duration : Jan 2006-Feb 2008
● Facilitate daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective.
● Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases.
● Created & analyzed business requirements documents and project timelines.
● Guided team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates.
● Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects.
● Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance.
● Work with the team leads to resolving people problems and project roadblocks.
● Support project deployment by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders (including partners/contractors & vendors) to effectively deploy the solution to the end customer.
● Responsible for the integration and dependencies with other projects and programs.
● Contribute to increasing project delivery effectiveness and continuous improvement.
Thanking You,
Ram
TechSmart Global INC
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