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Bengaluru Area, India

Bangalore

Scrum Master and project manager for a customized product in the travel domain. Responsible for product delivery management. Conducting sprint planning, backlog prioritization, backlog grooming sessions. Responsible for communication to global stakeholders. Ensuring overall project schedule & quality standards. Leading a global project team in the role of Agile Scrum Master. Enforcing Kanban principles as Scrum Master thereby reducing cycle… Show more Scrum Master and project manager for a customized product in the travel domain. Responsible for product delivery management. Conducting sprint planning, backlog prioritization, backlog grooming sessions. Responsible for communication to global stakeholders. Ensuring overall project schedule & quality standards. Leading a global project team in the role of Agile Scrum Master. Enforcing Kanban principles as Scrum Master thereby reducing cycle time. Removing impediments to the team by effective co-ordination amongst stakeholders. Ensuring process adherence and process improvements for projects. Leadership for all the Sprint cycles, system integration testing, PAT, production deployment & agreed post-production support. Show less

Bangalore

Feature conceptualization for lifecycle cloud services in the role of product owner for the initial and subsequent releases. Owned the requirements definition and specification in the role of product owner for cloud services. Defined the vision, high level scope, business cases and roadmap, short and long term product goals beginning from the initial release for the lifecycle services. Proposed and defined an effective end to end team engagement model beginning from varying levels… Show more Feature conceptualization for lifecycle cloud services in the role of product owner for the initial and subsequent releases. Owned the requirements definition and specification in the role of product owner for cloud services. Defined the vision, high level scope, business cases and roadmap, short and long term product goals beginning from the initial release for the lifecycle services. Proposed and defined an effective end to end team engagement model beginning from varying levels of stakeholders within the organization, PO, developers and acceptance testers so as to enable an effective release for the cloud services. Created project charter comprising of business goals, project goals, in-scope, out-of scope, business benefits, cost benefit analysis, team charter, communication matrix, requirements and user stories for the cloud lifecycle services release. Identified multiple risks, proposed mitigations and solutions early in the lifecycle services project release. Guided stakeholders on standards, feature definition and processes for improved stakeholder awareness. Guided quality assurance teams on creating test cases and identifying critical defects affecting multiple releases for cloud services for an improved quality release. Guided development teams on implementing solutions for multiple releases for cloud services. Evaluated existing processes, identifying gaps, proposed and implemented solutions pertaining to the OASP portal. Evaluating existing services, market value and identifying solutions beneficial from a market/competitor perspective. Evaluating integration needs between existing applications with an effort to standardize processes & adding value. Creating the PRD, function specification document and user stories for multiple releases of cloud services. Prioritization of user stories and backlog management within Version One. Creation of acceptance test criteria and perform UAT for the verified user stories. Show less

Bangalore

Owned multiple applications for Wind Energy & Aviation businesses, end to end handling requirements analysis, design, development, testing and deployment including complete project management.Completely owned, designed, developed and deployed a computationally intensive portal for Micrositing along with integrating multiple analytical tools utilizing JAVA, Oracle, and VBA for the ITO phase for a business.Expertise on implementing Oracle database design for multiple new… Show more Owned multiple applications for Wind Energy & Aviation businesses, end to end handling requirements analysis, design, development, testing and deployment including complete project management.Completely owned, designed, developed and deployed a computationally intensive portal for Micrositing along with integrating multiple analytical tools utilizing JAVA, Oracle, and VBA for the ITO phase for a business.Expertise on implementing Oracle database design for multiple new applications.Experience on Sales Force Dot Com integration, cloud computing and compute server architecture.Owned complete Project Management Methodology for multiple new tools and software enhancement releases including waterfall and agile methodology.Managed multiple projects end to end with full ownership creating and maintaining project plan, cost benefit analysis, coordinating with customers, managing customer expectations, ensuring quality, adhering to standards, ISO audits.Responsible for and conducted multiple reviews with senior management, PMO, functional team, global CIO and Aviation General Manager.Collaborated successfully and developed good working relationship with teams in US, Europe, China, Mexico and India.Evaluated multiple new project opportunities for EASA (3rd party tool).Evaluated multiple open source and proprietary tools for 3D visualization and singled in on the most suitable one.Responsible for cost benefit analysis for new releases.Single EASA expert at Bangalore Engineering Centre having developed and integrated multiple tools on EASA including multiple EASA upgrades.Owned multi generation project plan for multiple tools.Led vendor teams effectively managing multiple team members enabling exceeding functional expectations and tool on-time delivery. Show less

Master Of Science (M.S.), Information Technology

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering