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Certified Project Management Professional (PMP®)• Certified Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®)• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)... Read More
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP®)
• Certified Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®)
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Certified Six Sigma Black Belt ( CSSBB )
• Certified ITIL® v3 Foundation
• Certified Oracle Associate ( OCA)
• Certified SYBASE Developer Associate
• Over 10 years of Industry experience in IT- SW across various domains and technologies.
• Significant experience in Project management & Project Lead roles, Client management activities, Presales activities.
• Over 5 years of experience as Project and Program management.
• Responsible for delivery of multiple projects operating from the offshore center.
• Over 5 years of experience in product development with Agile/Scrum/XP Methodology.
• Experienced in practicing & implementing Agile Scrum/ XP/ RUP at various levels.
• Significant experience in handling projects involving product development, application maintenance and production support of applications on Web Technology, Client-Server Technology.
• Managed projects involving database Design , DB Administration , Development Activities on Oracle9i/10g/11g/, SYBASE 12.5/15.0, MS SQL Server 2005/2008.
• Worked on geographical distributed projects across FBL, SGP, time zone
• Multiple platforms, technologies & domain exposure – mostly in BFSI Domain.
• Very strong Interpersonal, Communication & Leadership skills.
• Excellent people & customer relationship management skills.
• Successfully manage all phases of IT projects. Complete SDLC/PDLC experience.
• Well versed with On-site / Off-shore development models.
• Involved in Pre-Sales & Proposals Writing, Costing, Estimation & Planning.
• Strong ability to generate repetitive business opportunities from existing/new business/client.
Iteration Manager at Mahindra Satyam
Bangalore, Karnataka 560100
India
November 2012-Present
Role:
Iteration Manager – Agile Coach.
• Release Planning. Scope & Schedule planning. MOSCOW Model
• Facilitating IPM - Iteration Planning Meeting & Facilitating Pre- IPM in distributed team.
• Jira Tool Administration. Agile Wall monitoring and Task movement.
• Iteration Backlog Creation & Monitoring. Scope Adjustment
• Risk Register & Mitigation meetings/ Action Items.
• Facilitating Retro Meeting using Ideaboardz and Video Conferencing.
• Kanban Board / Physical Agile wall maintenance & Visualization on task progress.
• 8. Facilitating effective use of Kanban Board for both Onshore & Offshore team.
• 9. Story estimation using Planning Poker - Fibonacci series.
• Retro using 3 point Voting System.
• Metric Preparation.
• Facilitating & participating Story Elaboration Session with business team & SMEs.
• Facilitating VC, Lync & Skype communication with Onshore & Offshore.
• Participate in defining Test Strategy.
• Involved in defining Acceptance Criteria & Business description for each Story Level.
• Revisiting Project Artifacts and Revisit Action items on Retro points.
• Capacity Planning.
• Project Charter Preparation.
• Account Level Agile Coaching
• Conducting Workshops, Seminars & Agile Training.
• Support Presales.
• Prepare RFI – Agile Response.
• Mentoring and coaching team on Scrum, XP.
• Customer collaboration through VC, Skype, VOIP call.
• Product Life Cycle management activities.
• He has worked with setting up the AGILE eco-system right from process definition, installation of appropriate tools, metrics collection & tracking progress.
• He is involved as a SPOC for setting up Agile Experience Center to serve as one stop shop for customer to demonstrate agile execution capabilities.
• Active participant on Governance & Strategic Meetings.
2012-Present
Project Lead Scrum Master at Ness Technology
BANGALORE, Karnataka 5600100
India
April 2008-April 2010
XP Coach
• He is a consultant working with multiple accounts on agile knowhow/implementation with coaching cross-functional teams on Agile & Lean practices.
• As a member of Agile COE & Lean Practices, he identifies potential Scrum masters in the organization and provides them hands-on training to be Scrum-ready.
• He is actively working with customers across verticals (BFSI, Infrastructure etc.) in identifying agile bottlenecks & aiding adoption under various pricing models like T&M (Time & material) and FB (Fixed Bid) projects, Incremental delivery etc.
• He has been involved in pre-sales activities responding to RFP’s for customers across BFSI & Information systems like domains.
• Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Retro.
• RALLY Tool Administration. Agile Kanban Board and Task movement.
• Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog Monitoring.
• Risk Register & Mitigation planning.
• XP Artifacts & Practices: Pair Programming, Refactoring, TDD, ATDD, Continuous Integration CI
• Work with users and Business Analysts team members to define requirements, priorities, delivery time requirements and acceptance criteria.
2008-2010
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