Vikas Yelagondanahalli

Technical Program Manager

North York, Ontario, Canada19 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 17 years of experience in Agile methodologies.
  • Expert in Scrum and SAFe practices.
  • Proficient in analytics and dashboard creation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Delivery Manager with extensive experience in Agile methodologies and software project management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Delivery ManagementAgile Project ManagementScrumAgile Methodologies

Other Skills

Project DeliveryAgile & Waterfall MethodologiesStakeholder EngagementConfluenceDecision-MakingScope PlanningSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Process ImprovementWritten CommunicationTeamworkChange ManagementOrganization SkillsProblem SolvingAnalytical SkillsScaled Agile Framework

About

• Certified Scrum master and Agile practitioner with more than 17 years of total work experience across multiple domains. • Experienced in SAFe methodologies, Scrum and Kanban and agile practices. • Ability to work on Analytics and build dashboards through various tools available. • Experienced in product development & design and support of Web & Windows based applications • Possess strong team building skills and competencies needed to analyse problems, respond to changing needs, and forge strong working relationships with peers and clientele.

Experience

19 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Amd

Technical Program Manager

Mar 2024Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Toronto, ON

Ivy

Delivery Manager

Jul 2020Jul 2023 · 3 yrs

  • Delivery Manager for the Ladbrokes Coral group Retail Betting software used
  • by Shop owners and as Scrum Master for one of the teams in the project.
  • Coordinate software releases from planning to production deployment and drive team towards
  • accomplishing planned goals.
  • Lead communication with leads, SMEs and internal stakeholders.
  • Present weekly status, consolidated Sprint reports and monthly epic reports to stakeholders.
  • Monitor delivery progress, protect the team from noise, identify blockers and take actions to
  • resolve them.
  • Facilitating and driving Scrum ceremonies like Scrum of Scrums for removing impediments.
  • Facilitating in PI planning, overseeing progress and helping teams resolve dependencies during
  • planning.
Delivery ManagementProject DeliveryScrumAgile & Waterfall MethodologiesStakeholder EngagementConfluence+5

Entain

Delivery Manager

Jul 2020Jul 2023 · 3 yrs · India

Written CommunicationTeamworkChange ManagementOrganization SkillsProblem SolvingAnalytical Skills

Sling tv

Scrum Master/Staff Engineer

Dec 2017Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Scrum Master/Delivery Manager for SlingTV product teams. (Dec 2017 - Jun 2020)
  • Responsible for Delivery of SlingTV Application on Smart TV/Windows clients. SlingTV is a market
  • leader in providing Live Content including Local channels along with VOD on an OTT Platform
  • Remove impediments from team by taking care of any dependencies or resource needs.
  • Keep track of the Team OKRs and provide regular updates on the team objectives.
  • Ensuring team follows SAFe practices and conduct Iteration planning, retrospective, stand up meetings.
  • Drive team towards accomplishing the Program Increment goals and ensure releases are being shipped on time.
  • Acting as Proxy PO to take charge of some of the responsibilities include Backlog grooming and refinements, Bug scrubs with the team, Presenting System Demos biweekly to all Stakeholders, working with team and PM to create the OKRs and Objectives for the quarter.
  • Present status reports to Leadership team on a regular basis.
  • Followed a Data driven approach for building our features by working with team members on adding Analytics for every new feature and the required data to measure.
  • Monitoring the data during Beta, A/B testing and after full launch to measure the success of the feature.
  • Creating dashboards on the usage of new features wherever required. Used multiple tools and interfaces like Conviva, Adobe Analytics, Kibana and Tableau for the same.
  • Running queries and providing data on any new or existing feature whenever requested.
  • Handling SR creation, Approvals and Deployment of App and Config/Launch Darkly changes in QA, Beta and Prod (Work in progress for Prod access)
  • Coordinating with the Release team to deploy our app to the Play store.
  • Monitor the app health after every release and alert when any anomalies are seen
  • Track the SLO/SLIs to ensure we are achieving everything we have committed for in the quarter.
Delivery ManagementProject DeliveryScrumScaled Agile FrameworkAgile & Waterfall MethodologiesStakeholder Engagement+8

Sling media pvt ltd

3 roles

Technical Lead

Apr 2016Nov 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Driving the Desktop Applications team for Dish and Retail boxes.
  • Drive the Web Setup component for AirTV for iOS and Android clients.

Module Lead

Apr 2014Mar 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Development, testing and support for Windows and Mac Desktop Based plugins for SlingPlayer application which can be used for watching TV content from anywhere in the world.
  • Involved in the development and support of a Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF3) based native application for both Windows and Mac.

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2011Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Development, testing and support of Windows browser based plugins for “Sling player” through which a user can watch their TV content from anywhere in the world. Worked on all 3 major browsers in Windows i.e, IE, Firefox and Chrome

Echostar corporation

Software Engineer

Dec 2007Aug 2011 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Development, testing and support of embedded software using C, C++ and Web Applications using JavaScript for Linux based set-top boxes developed for Dish Network.

University of tennessee

Graduate Assistant

Sep 2005Nov 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

  • Provided Technical support for University of Tennessee Microarray Database (http://genome.ws.utk.edu), a local installation of the Stanford Microarray Database(SMD) Application. Tasks included Application and Oracle Database support.

Infosys

Software Engineer

Aug 2003Jul 2005 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Application and Database Development and Support including onsite support to the client, Syngenta Crop Protection AG , Basel , Switzerland for 3 months. Syngenta is a world-leading agri-business company, and the application dealt with maintaining their design application and database. Worked on Oracle Forms and Reports and Microsoft Visual C#.Net on a Windows platform.
  • Worked in different stages of Software Development Life Cycle such as Requirements, Build, Testing and Maintenance.

Education

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

MS — Computer Engineering

Jan 2005Jan 2007

RV College Of Engineering

B.E — Instrumentation Technology

Jan 1999Jan 2003

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