Bhavan Vaidya Email & Phone Number

United States

- Developed Agile project management practices within GEC methodologies, emphasizing business value.- Evangelized Agile principles across the organization, aiding in their development and evolution.- Managed multiple eCommerce projects, including software development and infrastructure.- Led 5 project teams, overseeing budgets, schedules, and risk management.- Utilized JIRA/Confluence for project status reporting and change control processes.- Coordinated production issue resolution and managed off-shore development teams.- Achieved 80% cost transparency within 6 months, transitioning from waterfall to agile methodologies.- Successfully managed cross-functional teams, improving project delivery timelines by 20%.- Implemented dynamic roadmap management system using tools like Roadmap for real-time progress tracking.- Aligned program objectives with company goals, ensuring project contributions to overall success.- Led cross-functional Agile team to deliver critical financial software product, reducing time-to-market by 30%.- Introduced customized Agile processes tailored to fintech regulatory requirements.- Utilized Agile metrics and reporting tools to provide stakeholders with real-time project visibility.

• Provide support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.• Lead multiple, separate teams (up to 5)• Guide the team on how to use Agile/Scrum practices, principles, and theory.• Coach the team to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team.• Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments by finding the right people/process to remove the impediment.• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or retribution - with an emphasis of problem-solving.• Facilitate getting the work done without coercion, assigning or dictating the work.• Facilitate discussion, decision making and conflict resolution.• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.• Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.• Serve as a liaison between the product owners and team to ensure that all targets and requirements are met.• Interact with the line of business SMEs and Product Owners to facilitate developing a roadmap for the end to end feature set and PI planning for the target deliverables.• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.• Build, develop, and grow any relationships vital to the success of the project.• Take ownership of day to day issues and escalations and bring issues to resolution.• Lead team through PI planning including quarterly onsite meetings.• Facilitate and monitor the Scrum process from initiation through delivery.• Coordinate activities across scrum teams.• Ensure team records are maintained in the system of record.• Leverage data to measure and monitor progress (burndown charts, etc.).• Track and communicate team progress as well as sprint or release progress to Program.• Organize and facilitate Scrum ceremonies.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Supervised the delivery team, comprising of 8 members across the management, supported multiple marketing projects as Project Manager and Scrum master to communicate with head of delivery.• Assisted in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments and leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work increasing the average time to deliver new features by 15% • Defined and managed a well-defined project management process and championed ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Project Management • Served as the main point of contact to drive effective communication throughout all project phases reducing costs through streamlined communication.• Updated agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product & sprint backlogs streamlining communication and reducing support requests by 14% • Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.• Developed team norms and balanced workload for onshore and offshore developers, testers and Product Owners improving employee satisfaction• Worked in B2B environment and implemented digital transformation of WMS system across the world.• Leaded meetings with stakeholders across the world to gather the requirements.• Coached and transformed waterfall environment to agile methodology.• Planned and defined scope for the project.• Maintaining activity flows with team and maintain team’s performance.• Submitted weekly reports with daily stand ups.• Leaded and coach scrum adoption.• Planned scrum implementation.• Implemented changes and steps to increase the team’s productivity.• Collaborated with other scrum masters to improve the methodologies’ efficiency.• Created JIRA user stories with risk management.

Bentonville, Ar

• Worked as a front end UX/ UI developer to build the application of integration from scratch. • Used customized style and enhanced performance by creating user friendly application in Agile environment. worked with test cases to maintain the quality. • Created JIRA user stories with risk management.• Created Use Cases and Business Use Cases model after accessing the scope and status of the project and understanding the business processes form USER perspective.• Analyzed, collected and prepared user requirements, definitions, scope and expectations for deliverable plans and delivered system documents, processes, diagrams.• Worked with the creative team and the marketing campaign teams to ensure data needs were met from the master DB and downstream applications had information they needed to build campaigns and launch.

Parsippany, Nj

• Designed the front-end applications, user interactive (UI) web pages using web technologies like HTML5, XHTML, and CSS3. • Incorporated MVC architecture using spring framework. • Defined and developed the application's presentation layer using JavaScript and JQuery Library. • Worked with JSON for data exchange between client and server. • Experience working in AGILE based development environment and participating in Scrum sessions. • Implemented Dependency Injection (IOC) feature of spring framework to inject beans into User Interface and AOP for Logging. • Used ReactJS for building encapsulated components, to pass rich data through app and keep state out of the DOM. Worked in a very iterative/agile development environment to manage development life-cycle. • Worked as main contributor to front-end Angular 2 development. • Used Database first approach and created EF and used it for data source for CRUD Operations. • Developed front end components using HTML5/CSS3, Kendo UI, AngularJS, and AngularJS Bootstrap UI. • Created multiple views using layout template and AngularJS ng-Route. • Created RESTFUL ASP.NET Web API services that manage individual overtime based upon employees department, Shift groups and job classification. • Used Angular 2.0/4 Filter to implement pagination for data records. • Created custom, self-contained and testable AngularJS modules, controllers, directives and services to implement key functionality such as recording overtime, and ranking employees based upon their overtime. • Created multiple reusable components and services using Angular 2 built-in and custom directives. • Developed Angular 2.0/4 Template driven forms and Model driven forms builder by using ng Model

• Inspire and motivate a large team of creative talent• Drive the art vision throughout the development process.• Support the Producer in setting clear creative goals and deliverables; focus efforts across the team to ensure a cohesive experience across the game and service.• Work with team to create UI designs, information architecture documents, intuitive app flows and use case testing.• Involvement in all phases of the project lifecycle including requirements gathering, user analysis, IA, GUI design, testing, and implementation.• Develop the project through out with Unity and Unreal.• Design and creation of custom controls, icons, buttons, interfaces, etc• Develop high quality and cutting-edge 3D arts with 3Ds Max and Maya• Optimize 3D arts for creating a realistic environment with Open GL and Direct X• Troubleshoot problems on reintegration of outsourced assets into the 3D arts.• Develop high poly sculpts and textures for 3D arts and Animate them.

• Interfaced with stakeholders and facilitated communication between business and the IT department• Worked with the digital team to ensure campaign management and ERM needs were met• Helped the team move from waterfall to agile model mid project• Functioned as a scrum master helping the team adhere to agile standards• Elicited high level features and user stories to create initial work intakes and later converted to member experience stories. • Facilitated requirements elicitation sessions to capture stories, charter content and document future state vs. current state processes and diagrams• Conducted business process modeling by creating Visio diagrams to help visualize proposed future state vs. current state• Facilitated design sessions with the technical teams to ensure feasible design to meet requirements and minimal shippable product• Assumed ownership of Use Case Diagrams, Use Case narratives and other various artifacts• Prepared use case documents and utilized MS Visio to create UML diagrams including use case, activity and class diagrams to extract business process flows and workflows, thereby assisting development and quality assurance teams in understanding the requirements. • Ensured that the game projects and its subsidiary part are in conformity with the budgets plans and marketing requirements• Test Design and UX/UI design with Q/A and feedback with team and testers, validating and verify data of testing• As a lead artist, maintain the group in healthy relation and keep them working with coordination. Communication with producer and game designers to the bond team for quality and deadlines. Arrange art meetings and feedback process• As a 3D/Environmental artist, built props and object for 2 “un-released” projects in 3ds Max and Maya.• Done animation for a 3D rigged character in 1 “un-released” project.• Extra splash screen work, video editing and help in unity for art purposes.

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

• Worked as a lead analyst at this studio primarily on digital campaign projects • Worked with the creative team and the marketing campaign teams to ensure data needs were met from the master DB and downstream applications had information they needed to build campaigns and launch • Mapped data between the MDM and the campaign enterprise manager (AEM) for accurate launches• Ensured appropriate white listing was done for campaigns• Maintained the campaign calendar• Ensured data batch schedules were accurate for smooth workflow management• Prepared weekly reports on the project schedules and the milestones achieved• Maintained working relationships with the development teams and facilitated teamwork in the product development• Administered the production process by writing the development process and specifications involved• Been responsible for keeping art team organized and active as well as evaluating new applicants to the team

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

• Worked as the project coordinator with the 3D animation team to cater to large client customizations• Used my graphic design expertise to help the animation team• Maintained PMO perspective for timely delivery • Maintained model accuracy from concept, both small assets and large environments.• Customized client needs with the project team and acted as trusted advisor handshaking sales and technology as a bridge with digital solutions

Game Design Masters, Game Design, 3.60

Personal Development and Leadership Research in Team Dynamics Project and Team Management Game Design Methods and the User Experience Game.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics And Special Effects, 3.8