Santosh Kumar Vudimudi Email & Phone Number

Hyderabad, In

Remote

Accomplishments and Responsibilities• Coached 20+ teams to higher levels of maturity by improving their processes and ensuring adherence to the Scrum framework.• Facilitated discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution across 7 cross-functional teams.• Used Agile methods and processes to coach 4 product owners through complex problem-solving and solution strategies.• Ensured user stories were 100% ordered, defined, and ready to be worked on by the team.• Identified 10+ complex impediments and assisted 5+ teams in identifying a path to deliver on their sprint commitments.• Guided Agile principles and facilitation skills to ensure 20+ teams were working in an Agile mindset and utilizing Scrum practices.• Introduced a model framework for executing data science projects in Agile.• Introduced a new structure for QA ways of working, reducing TAT time by 50% and increasing resolution rate by 40%.• Reduced scope changes in the middle of the sprint by 60% by introducing refinement sessions during the sprint.• Introduced metrics to track continuous improvement with a data-driven approach, calculating the number of improvement ideas reported vs. the number of improvements implemented.• Restructured Jira intake process by introducing new issue types and workflows, reducing costs by $9,100 per annum.• Created various automations in Jira to reduce the time spent by engineers in Jira.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Key Responsibilities:• Ensuring development stories, acceptance criteria, assumptions, and all related documentation are timely and complete to support development, testing, and user acceptance activities.• Assisting the product owner in creating roadmaps and disseminating them to the team(s).• Leading, managing, tracking, and communicating the execution of plans to ensure projects are completed on time.• Communicating and facilitating effectively across diverse audiences both within and outside the Sprint Team, including key stakeholders and executives.• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, which may include architects, application engineers, UX designers, and outsourced vendors, to create a holistic roadmap and planning for product delivery.• Managing all Scrum/SAFe ceremonies, including Daily Standups, Backlog Maintenance and Grooming, Sprint Planning and Review, Release Planning, Demos & Retrospectives, Scrum-of-Scrums, Inspect and Adapt events, and PI Planning.• Managing Sprints to maintain order, process, delivery, and accurate priorities within the designated time frames.• Keeping the Scrum team focused on concrete priorities and preventing outside influences from disrupting the team.• Actively identifying and removing waste and distractions to enhance team productivity.• Working with Product Owners and the QA team to ensure timely testing and feedback, aligning with Sprint timelines.• Advocating for autonomous, self-organizing, empowered, and continuously improving teams to enhance overall efficiency and effectiveness.• Coaching teams and product owners to deliver higher customer satisfaction, improved velocity, delivery predictability, better system performance, and an enhanced ability to innovate, scale, and meet compliance requirements.• Leading in production support prioritization with key stakeholders and identifying and pursuing improvement opportunities.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Key Responsibilities:• Coached development teams through agile transitions by developing a full understanding of the Scrum framework and why it benefits all parties. • Worked with senior leadership on understanding and embracing the aspects of agile software development that help them achieve their goals without creating churn on development teams. • Led the adoption of tools, artifacts, and ceremonies to promote a better investment in team productivity, communication, and autonomy. • Coached and taught for new teams including how to perform key Agile ceremonies such as planning sessions and daily stand-ups and how to effectively utilize Agile artifacts such as product backlogs. • Led agile teams through product framing and discovery, including defining business KPIs, product vision, user story mapping, and other farming activities.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Key Responsibilities:• Coaching and mentoring Agile teams• Trained teams to adopt the agile working practices• Build Agile maturity model• Build self-organizing teams• Coached stakeholders on how to create product roadmaps for generating business value• Assess and suggested Agile frameworks• Training senior management in Agile practices• Implement system thinking• Coach Agile product owners to drive business value and retain the project vision• Mentor scrum masters in meeting preparation, including planning, daily scrum and review stages

Hyderabad Area, India

Key Responsibilities:• Responsible for driving the organizational change and transformation from waterfall model to Agile for Letznav and Excers Inc (subsidiary companies) • Up-surged the Sprint velocity by 60% within the first year of scrum adoption and mentored two (02) cross-functional scrum teams of 7 – 9 members in each team. • Facilitated Release planning with global teams to align the overall program initiative. • Coached and mentored PO's and Dev teams on Agile methodologies • Introduced Pair Programming and Scrum ban to the teams to increase the engagement between team members. • Prepared DOD and DOR document(checklist) to identify the deliverables/acceptance criteria as provided by the Product owner for the team to adhere to in order to build quality software • Help to guide and manage the ART and the teams through the delivery of software and services, embracing and casting the Agile mindset across client spaces. • Drive program-level continuous improvement via retrospectives, Inspect and Adapt workshops, and constant demonstration of Kaizen mind.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Key Responsibilities:• Agile Coaching and Mentoring: Part of the Process Excellence team at Verizon, coaching and mentoring teams on the Agile framework.• Agile Mindset Sessions: Conducted sessions to facilitate a smooth transition from traditional to Agile ways of working.• Productivity and Quality Improvement: Focused on analyzing and suggesting improvements to increase the productivity of Scrum teams and enhance the quality of deliverables.• Empowering Teams: Empowered teams to self-organize and develop cross-functional capabilities.• Release and Capacity Planning: Facilitated release planning and capacity planning to develop comprehensive release plans.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Providing access to various applications for investment advisors through active directory services and on the handheld devices (BES) • Managing the access controls and creation of groups or roles with defined access privileges • Processing of changes to account security requirements as approved by management

Hyderabad Area, India

Business Objects, Access request rights. Active Directory Access control, account creations, domain password resets.Troubleshooting various software’s such as Microsoft Outlook 2000/2003, MS-Office 2000/XP, MS Internet Explorer, and Lotus Quick place, Lotus Sametime Connect, Creation of tickets in Genpact IT Ticketing Software CLARIFY.Supporting and maintenance in mainframes (CICS, IBM), Email, Remote access (VPN) issues, Network, JUNIPER and other business specific applications GE applications.Troubleshooting Speedi Win, Speedi Suite (SIEBEL) applications as SME which are used by GE employees and distributors. Worked with the L2 to coordinate and resolve issues. SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT (SPOC):OUTLOOK SPOC –Worked with Email team Supervisors from Onsite. Created SOPs & Isolve solutions for Frequently Asked Questions. Expertise in Outlook 2000 and 2003.SINGLE SIGN ON – Creation of Oracle HR IDs, Registration, Business to Business password resets.