Nov 2014 – Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Create, groom & prioritise the product backlog in accordance with the client's business requirements to ensure that teams always work on well-defined user stories of the highest business value.
• Perform time estimations & create project plans to define the release cadence and maintain various project artefacts to effectively communicate the progress to all stakeholders.
• Convey clear sprint goals to the scrum teams and actively participate in daily scrums to understand the progress & help resolve obstacles.
• Conduct look-ahead & sprint planning meetings with the teams to clarify requirements &
• participate in the sprint review meetings to accept / reject the work done.
• Monitor overall progress and use of resources, initiating corrective action when necessary.
• Act as a liaison between the scrum teams and the customer & conduct sprint demos with the customer to showcase the progress & enable the customer to use the product developed thus far to provide valuable feedback.
• Forecast and manage project risks, including the development of contingency plans.
• Collaborate and closely work with contractors & third party vendors.
• Be the voice of the customer to all internal stakeholders.
• Be responsible and accountable for delivering the product on time, within budget and of high quality.

Dec 2011 – Nov 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Build a deep understanding of the client's businesses, market position, strategies & competitors to chalk out a mental map of the problems that are faced by the client and perform requirement elicitation and management.
• Define and document customer business functions and processes & write detailed, universally understood requirements for permanent records and for use in training. (This also involves translating complex high level business requirements into simplified ones that can be consumed by the technical analysts and development teams).
• Act as a liaison between the customer, development teams and middle/higher management to clarify requirements and aid in communication throughout the project life-cycle.
• Defining and detailing User Interface of a solution via mock-ups & storyboards.
• Conduct change impact analysis to assess the potential implications of changes and document business rules, functions and requirements to help the higher management in a "Go/No-Go" decision making.
• Participate in user acceptance testing and testing of new system functionality to suggest improvements.
• Provide technical assistance to clients through training, mentoring, and coaching professional and technical staff on how to use the new systems.
• Contribute to project plans by providing valuable input on the client's business priorities to the project management team.

Aug 2009 – Dec 2011 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Worked on Core Java based Software development for Set Top Boxes.
• Participated in design, development and customization of the Electronic Program Guide (EPG).
• Developed & supported features such as XPush, Event Genre, DTT (Digital Terrestrial Television) and Time Based Recording for European customers.
• Performed the role of a project Integrator with over 250 project adoptions to ensure the integrity of projects over a single product code base.
• Worked extensively on Zapper & PVR features for the Set Top Box.
• Maintained & supported projects post deployment with over 350 bug closures.
• Was the primary point of contact for all UI/UX customizations.

Sep 2008 – Aug 2009 · 11 mos · Bagmane Tech Park, Bangalore

• Developed the first version of TI's STKGen (Simulation Took Kit Generator), a tool that is designed to adhere to the metadata and API standards defined by IP-XACT and automates the SoC simulator creation.
• Worked on IP-XACT's xmls, xml schema definitions and JAXB framework to unmarshall XMLs into Java Objects that are further used to create the Simulator.
• Provided automated mechanism to generate SystemC code for transaction-level modeling.

Jan 2008 – Aug 2008 · 7 mos · Divyashree Chambers, Langford Road, Bangalore

• Evangelised Sun Microsystems' products and technologies on-campus.
• Became a Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) during the Campus Ambassadorship.
• Conducted SCJP coaching classes on-campus to help students take up their SCJP certification exams before their graduation.
• Was an active member of Sun Microsytems' Clean-up drive which is a part of Sun's social awareness and community responsibility activities and contributed by gathering a large number of students from the campus to aid this social cause.