Mark Samraj Email & Phone Number

Pune

Pune, Maharashtra, India

HR, Payroll,

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Facilitate the team with scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of the Scrum team by 15% and the quality of deliverables by 18%• Empowered the team to self-organize and grow cross-functionality• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs. • Built relationship with Product owner and other stake holders to facilitate team's interaction with them• Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog• Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology• Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress• Led the team across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused the team on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.

Fort Worth

Providing Scrum Master expertise to three work streams and 5+ projects within Technology and Networking group. Leading Scrum awareness, implementation, adoption, and training initiative. I am acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and an Agile Coach for Agile/Scrum knowledge, processes, and tools.• Collaborated with functional owners to understand business needs and implemented creating applications using the industry best practices.• Working with stake holders / product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint.• Understand agile values and principles, and Influence executives, leaders, business units, and marketing teams on agile values and principles.• Facilitating the daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective• Trained a development team of 5, 3 developers and 2 QA members to utilize Agile Methodology with Scrum• Build, deliver and improve customized Agile training within the delivery center.• Coach teams towards continuously improving agile process and metrics.• Demonstrated the values of Scrum, XP, Kanban, and Lean.• Acting as a “Servant Leader” of the Agile teams• Creating forum for communicating vision, goals and Product backlog to the teams• Facilitating the Agile meetings: Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, Story Review, Sprint Review,• Sprint Demo and Sprint Retrospective• Preparing and presenting various scrum reports using JIRA Agile tool• Strong experience in FICO integration with SAP SD, MM and PP.• Extensive experience in General Ledger (GL), New General Ledger (New GL – FAGLFLEX and JVGLFLEX with splitter activation), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), CO-Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), CO-Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Joint Venture Accounting (JVA), Product Costing (CO-PC) and Solution Manager(SolMan)

M.Com, Advanced Banking And Finance, A+

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance, General, 3.75

Activities and Societies: Volleyball, Baseball, Tennis

Master'S Degree, Business/Finance, 3.75 Gpa

MBA (Finance)

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English, Economics, Mathematics