Senior Scrum Master, Agile Coach and Senior Manager with CSM certification offering over 16 years of experience in building, grooming, developing and coaching high-performing Agile Teams backed by hands-on experience in delivering high quality software products. Leadership in agile transformation defines my professional journey, where facilitating scrum ceremonies and coaching on the Scrum Framework have been paramount.I started my career as a Software Engineer (Java Developer) in Cognizant through campus placement and that experience still helps me in understanding the issues that developers face in their work and their smooth resolution.My management journey started as I became a module lead in my second organization (Xavient). After that I worked as a Senior Scrum Master in Elekon and Successive Technologies. I love my profession, as it gives me opportunity to interact with people and help them solve problems, resolve conflicts and implement changes which are the true essence of AgileAt Successive Technologies, my recent tenure as Senior Scrum Master and Agile Coach has been marked by significant achievements, including a 40% boost in data security and a 35% increase in system efficiency. At Successive Technologies, I managed 3 very important projects – User Management, TV Stack and Audience with team sizes varying from 7 to 16.Among other skills like agile mind-set, Scrum and Kanban frameworks, I believe my knowledge of JIRA and Confluence gives me an edge while I work as a Scrum Master. Skills –1. Agile Mind-set2. Scrum Framework, CSM (Certified Scrum Master)3. JIRA4. Confluence5. Project Management6. Kanban7.
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Project ManagerPersistent SystemsNoida, Up, In
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Senior Scrum Master / Senior Manager (Agile. Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence)Successive Technologies May 2020 - Feb 2024Noida, Uttar Pradesh Facilitation of Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, Sprint Review and Retrospective meeting) Counselled the team implement the actions identified during the Retrospective Facilitated Backlog Grooming, guide and coach team on Scrum Framework and Agile Mentored a cross-functional team of 9 resources to deliver the quality product and helped integrating OKTA with USM resulting 40% decrease in authentication and authorization time Incorporated Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase the velocity by 30% Collaborated with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making while maintaining 100% transparency and radiating information Removed impediments and delivered working product increment after each sprint validated by all the stakeholders Directed the synchronization of efforts among 11 teams in Dentsu Media Ecosystem during monthly production deployments, optimizing user management and cutting deployment errors by 18% Collaborated with DevOps and SRE to make sure that there were no issues in the production deployment Collaborated with QA and made sure that automation test results are above 90% for SVR, SVC and UI Orchestrated collaboration with HUBs team, setting UAT dates and ensuring code deployment one day early, achieving 100% UAT approval for production rollout -
Agile CoachSuccessive Digital May 2020 - Feb 2024Noida, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaRole – Agile CoachDesignation – Senior Manager – Program ManagementClient – Dentsu, UKAccountability – Agile Coach Helped the organization realize the benefits of agility by providing thought leadership in designing an agile operating model Coached the team(s) and organization to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable Served as a subject matter expert with training and developing content on Agile, Scrum, and other agile practices
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Scrum Master And PartnerElekon Systems Jan 2013 - Apr 2020Noida Area, India Created Definition of Ready (DOR) and Definition of Done to ensure that team followed Scrum principles strictly Maintained and updated scrum team performance metrics (e.g. burn-down charts, velocity charts) and artifacts to ensure accurate and clear feedback to the management Reduced Spill Overs by 30% by coaching the team about the right estimation techniques and through the efficient capacity planning Formulated and standardized an advanced Production Deployment Checklist guaranteeing inclusion of critical DevOps, SRE, and QA approvals, thereby reducing deployment errors by 25% Protected the team from outside interruptions and distractions and remove impediments to the team’s progress which resulted in 20% increase in team’s performance Facilitated conflict resolution and help teams make decisions by fostering an inclusive environment Collaborated with Product Owners to ensure features and user stories are clear, concise, prioritized, and understood by every member of the Agile team Worked effectively in the face of ambiguity, shifting priorities, quick pivot, and rapid change to ensure that team delivered 100% working software by the end of every sprint Collaborated with Product Owner to prioritize the user stories as NSE requirements kept changing frequently Constantly collaborated with the team to make sure that team updated the stories daily (on JIRA)
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Senior Software Engineer (Java, Sql, Testing)Xavient Information Systems Jul 2010 - Jun 2012Noida Area, India Developed an application called ALS to scrap the logs in different environments and machines Managed a team of 5 members as Module Lead to achieve the goals specified, in an efficient and timely manner -
Program Analyst / Software Engineer (Java)Cognizant Nov 2007 - Jun 2010 Led the entire software development lifecycle, including requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, and testing, which slashed project delivery times by 35% and boosted team productivity by 20% Identification and resolution of code issues detected in the application
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