Sumit Kumar Email & Phone Number

Noida, Up, In

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Facilitate scrum meetings with cross-functional development teams and executives.• Facilitating the implementation of the agile methodology to the teams, stakeholders, and enterprise that led to the increase in productivity.• Organized and facilitated the planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospective, sprint and release planning, demos, and other scrum-related meetings.• Create a product roadmap to continue to drive its teams towards company goals.• Guide and coach team members to utilize agile methodology and follow the scrum framework.• Supported product owner in applying the agile scrum framework and agile principles and the importance of user story refinement and maintaining the product backlog.• Facilitate scrum teams with methods to prioritize and resolve defects/bugs, making appropriate commitments through user story selection and task definition.• Ensured the scrum/development teams practiced the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.• Worked with the product owner on user story refinement to ensure the highest-value features were delivered at the agreed time.• Adapt to frequent changes within the scrum framework and principles by negotiating with the product owner based on the team’s velocity.• Estimating velocity by decomposing story points to the smallest subtasks and measuring those against hours, days, and sprints.• Coordinated with other dependent teams to identify risks and to clear roadblocks.• Manage defects backlog and work with product management to prioritize using JIRA.• Identified and prioritized risk issues and facilitated the development team for action plans.• Improving the communication between development teams and collaborating with stakeholders to increase the team’s velocity by adopting the lessons learned from each retrospective.

Plainfield, Il

Greater Atlanta Area

New Jersey

Independently handling the entire recruitment process from understanding the requirement, sourcing, Screening, initial interviewing to final placement.Proficient in recruiting techniques like Head hunting (taking references from consultants), Cold Calling, and Networking - LinkedIn & Internet based recruiting tools – Job Boards.Searching on job portals like Monster, Dice & Corp to Corp.Negotiating & finalizing salary/rate aspects on W2, 1099, Corp-Corp with GCs, U.S. Citizens, H1B, EAD, TN permit holders.Working on Technologies like TeamCenter,PLM,Windchill,Embedded,ASIC/FPGA JAVA/J2EE, .NET.Worked on both Permanent as well as Contractual PositionsExpertise in follow-up like Scheduling Interview, feedback & joining details with Consultant.Direct reporting to Team lead/Account manager.