Pavan Muthina Email & Phone Number

United States

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

• Facilitated key agile ceremonies, such as stand-ups, product demos, retrospectives and planning ensuring adherence to scrum practices
• Facilitated Sprint planning sessions to ensure work items are estimated and ready for work per the Product Owner priorities
• Enhanced the team’s productivity by removing impediments and outside interference to ensure an effective product is delivered to the business
• Facilitated discussion between the team and the Product Owner to collaborate on creation and estimation of user stories
• Lead and facilitated retrospectives to ensure key learning is incorporated into the next sprint
• Facilitates discussion and conflict resolution

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Led multiple agile labs on various Salesforce implementations for high profile business partners

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto

• Created detailed project plan for a migration project with well-defined tasks, milestones, client sign-offs and specifications, that served as effective project progress update
• Engaged in facilitating end to end implementation (Business requirement gathering to testing) of critical infrastructure upgrade project that impacted several lines of businesses
• Envisioned potential risks at early stages of infrastructure project and proposed cost effective solution to management team that not only saved costs to clients but also maximized benefits
• Appreciated for creative thinking in conceptualizing business cases for high visibility & time critical project (under IFRS compliance) that went live with zero critical defects

Toronto

• Led & collaborated with Business, stakeholder & creative teams to implement the express service related changes to the dealership website.
• Responsible for managing the daily project activities, coordinated and planned delivery across multiple teams
• Contributed effectively in the Sprint planning in estimating and prioritizing the critical user stories for the immediate sprint
• Managed daily stand-up meetings to compile the project status
• Conducted the regular backlog grooming sessions in order to implement the user stories into an usable product feature
• Led the collaboration between business and development teams to focus on:➢ Development of data mart to focus on client’s US & Canadian regions➢ Development of region specific roll up reports

Toronto, Canada Area

• Appreciated for creative thinking in conceptualizing business cases for high visibility & time critical project (under IFRS compliance) that went live with zero critical defects
• Self-motivated in analyzing complex breakaway financial metrics from 5 huge data sources. This enabled to strategize and plan for BI dashboard project that was successfully implemented across 1100 branches

Toronto, Canada Area

• Created the project plan, schedule and the Work breakdown structure to better monitor and track the project
• Conducted frequent knowledge sessions for the development & testing teams, with the client’s business team, to better understand the calculations involved
• Created the project performance baselines (Cost, schedule & scope) & constantly monitored the project progress against it
• Proactively identified the project risks in order to prevent, mitigate or solve as appropriate
• Performed activities such as resource levelling & activity crashing in order to bring the project on track with the agreed budget and schedule
• Created the gating process during the testing phase. This included creating exit-entry criteria for the System testing, SIT and UAT phases. This reduced the code related and invalid defect count by more than 20%

Bangalore, India & Norwich, UK

• Contributed to the project management plan, Quality and Risk Management plan
• Conducted project workshops with the Business users, Business analysis, solution design, development and testing team to understand the overall solution & architecture
• Managed constant interaction with the print production vendor during all the phases of the project in order to validate the new branding on various customer documents
• Conducted weekly meetings with other component development teams to ensure schedule alignment & attempt resource optimization across teams
• Maintained a risk register to record records and response strategies
• Successfully led complex re-branding project and managed 5 virtual teams spread across various locations in UK and India; Received 'Star of the month' for the efficient operation

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Strategic Management

B.E, Mechanical