Dec 2017 – Jun 2022 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Richmond, Virginia

Jun 2017 – Nov 2017 · 5 mos · Atlanta, Georgia

Feb 2012 – May 2017 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Richmond, Virginia Area

• Led multiple Scrum teams in a distributed agile scenario.
• Helped implement the SAFe framework for the organization which will bring the program goals to the team to deliver the program objective.
• Monitored team performance by using burn down, velocity and other agile metrics.
• Worked on project from initial stage of sprint 0 to setup the team norms, objectives, Epic, PI, release planning and story tagging for different sprints.
• Responsible for ensuring that the team follows agile processes and coached them for the best practices around Scrum and Kanban.
• Responsible for encouraging the team to implement automation such as CICD implementation and test automation using Ruby and Cucumber.
• Conducted SAFe and DevOps sessions for multiple clients of Cognizant. Helped team to implement CICD, GitHub, Jenkins test automation.
• Helped organization to transform from waterfall to agile by incorporating right coaching for teams and bringing the mindset for scrum/agile.
• Worked with UI/UX team to have a wireframe ready to build the website development using Microsoft technologies .Net, ASP .Net and C#
• Worked closely with the PO to ensure that team has healthy backlog and there is clear roadmap in terms of upcoming releases.
• Responsible to facilitate all the key ceremonies for the agile team such as product backlog review, planning, demo and retrospective.
• Conducted retrospective proactively to get best out of team members in terms of improvement.
• Ensured that key action items from retrospective reach to the closure.
• Responsible for providing project status, accomplishments, forecast and impediment in scrum of scrum meetings.
• Ensured that all the impediments get traction and help team to reach to the closure. Worked with the correct stakeholder and if needed escalate to right team for resolving issues.
• Responsible for delivering maximum value to the customer by closely tracking the project deliverables and suggest innovative ways to do things better.

May 2011 – Feb 2012 · 9 mos

• As Scrum Master/Manager, key responsibilities involved managing the multiple projects and ensuring that the projects are delivered within agreed timelines.
• Facilitated the daily stand ups for the scrum teams ensuring 3 main questions are addressed (What you did yesterday? What you are going to do today? Any Impediments?)
• Worked closely with PO to ensure that team has healthy backlog and they have a clear roadmap in terms of upcoming release.
• Conducted release planning at the start of the project and then on quarterly basis to ensure that clear roadmap for upcoming releases was known.
• Responsible to facilitate all the key ceremonies for agile team such as product backlog review, planning, demo and retrospective.
• Conducted retrospective in an innovative way to get best out of folks in terms of improvement
• Conducted team building activities.
• Ensured that the key action items from retrospective reach to the closure.
• Responsible for providing project status and impediments in scrum of scrum meetings.
• Ensured that all the impediments get traction and helped team to reach to the closure.
• Provided creative ideas to bring innovation to the team
• Created project documents: project charter, project approval, project management plan, project schedule.
• Reviewed risk and issue logs weekly and followed up with team members to ensure that updates are timely and complete.

Sep 2007 – Apr 2011 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Led application support and multiple development projects with 40-50-member cross-geo team.
• Maintained the coordination between support and development team.
• Worked closely with client to align technology solution with business requirements and delivery up to their expectation.
• Submitted and won proposals for the new business and existing enhancements.
• Responsible for delivery of services and managing the SLA defined for different services.
• In charge of submitting project weekly status report, account status report to the client manager, Wipro management and other stakeholders.
• In charge of monthly reviews of services with customer, resource allocation and budget tracking.

Dec 2003 – Aug 2007 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• In charge of collecting performance metrics, researched on interrelation of parameters and generated reports for the stakeholders.
• Co-ordinated with the on-site partners to get their feedback and suggestions on the new improvements on fortnightly basis.
• Responsible for reviewing processes and optimizing where needed.
• Worked towards improving overall productivity at the project level.
• Requirement gathering and translating them into design and functional documents.
• Ensured that the team deliver up to the expectation.
• Analyzed available database performance measurement tools and utilities, and make informed decision on its usefulness for the project purpose.

Feb 2001 – Nov 2003 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore, INDIA

• Maintained existing applications.
• In charge of programming, testing, troubleshooting and maintenance activities for software and other components
• Worked closely with client to align technology solution with business requirements.