Kishore Ramakrishnan Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

♦ Delivery Lead responsible for coordinating project delivery across multiple agile teams currently leading a company wide initiative. ♦ Key player in successful technical launch of multiple high value partnerships at Telstra♦ Do release planning for various new products launched that includes multiple internal feature teams and external partners♦ Coordinate UX walk through, discovery sessions, architecture reviews, security reviews, engage impacted teams (internal and external), maintain build and test timelines across different teams to meet Go to Market dates.♦ Host Scrum of Scrums, PI planning sessions (quarterly), Quarterly release planning, technical WIP sessions as part of E2E project release.♦ Liaise with different Technical Product Owners and Scrum masters to ensure any risk / impediments are raised on time to ensure delivery timelines are met♦ Help with prioritization calls across different feature teams. ♦ Create roadmaps in JIRA to track the progress of E2E project delivery♦ Communicate with business / technical leadership team on project delivery status

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

♦ Scrum Master leading an agile squad on regulatory reporting projects for NAB. ♦ Lead scrum ceremonies like daily stand up, sprint planning, mid sprint check -in, sprint showcase, retrospective, backlog grooming and backlog prioritization etc.♦ Do release planning and capacity planning for squad, represent squad in scrum of scrums, provide reports and fortnightly updates to LT level meetings. ♦ Coordinate bi-monthly releases and deployment with platform / Ops team and business to ensure business value is realized at end of each sprint without disrupting critical day to day running of business.♦ Conduct Product Elaboration Sessions (PI Planning) with product owners on epics and features and conduct detailed quarter level planning at the beginning of each quarter on Product Increment for the upcoming quarter.♦ Ensure squad is shielded from external pressure so that the team can focus and deliver business value at sustainable pace.♦ Create rally dashboards, update weekly status reports, release notes on Confluence, host deployment handover sessions with Ops team, BVT walk through with business users, coordinate deployment window with platform teams etc. ♦ Mentor and coach squad on agile way of working♦ Experienced working in regulatory reporting environment managing hard end dates while ensuring squad operates at sustainable pace.

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

♦ Assistant Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.♦ Worked as Technical Project Manager in various Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence initiatives under CIO's office leading a 11 member team.♦ Hands on in developing and deploying AI/ML use cases.♦ Leads AI competency building & AI use case idenfification for CIO's office. ♦ Tech stack includes Python, Django, OpenCV, Tensforflow, Spacy, Docker and various ML/AI libraries.♦ Successfully implemented multi million dollar State of the Art AI project using Computer Vision & Natural Language Processing for a complex business use case for one of our clients in BFS domain.

United States (Fort Lauderdale And San Francisco)

♦ Worked as Project / Test Manager and Scrum Master role in Client facing capacity for American Express and Pacific Gas & Electric. ♦ Proven track record in leading large multi year initiatives like SAP Suite on HANA migration etc. ♦ Key responsibility as scrum master includes but not limited to:- Conduct various Scrum ceremonies like DSM, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective etc.- Maintain scrum board in JIRA- Help team members adopt to Agile methodologies and principles.♦ As project Manager key responsibility included- Analyze business requirements and estimate the time and effort required for implementing the solution and provide sizing. - Prepare and Negotiate estimate with clients, prepare SOW. - Work with business stakeholders and SME’s to document functional requirement documents for projects. - Create update Project and Test Plans.

Kochi, Kerala

♦ Started career as Software Tester and moved into Test Analyst and Test Manager role within TCS♦ Main responsibilities include - Estimate effort required for testing- Create test strategy, test plan and review test cases. - E2E Test Management for Data warehouse and BI related projects. - Establish Testing CoE for Data warehouse and Business Intelligence testing for American Express.

Data Analytics And Visualization

Bachelor'S Degree, Electronics And Communication Engineering