Venkat Vandrangi Email & Phone Number

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Highlights:
• @SITA, UK: Setting up and facilitation of Agile Scrum processes, executingScrum ceremonies as per Agile Scrum methodology.
• Contributed in daily Agile/ Scrum "Stand-up", Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Reviews, Retrospective sessions and updating the team on status of upcoming User Stories.
• Collaborated with Product Owner to develop, groom & prioritize backlog to ensure a healthy product backlog.
• Led coaching for development teams through Agile transitions by developing a full understanding of the Scrum framework..
• Interacted with the clients, vendors and IT Teams to gather, define, clarify and refine requirements, guiding the architecture and design of applications/solution.

Chennai, India

• Ensured effective usage of Jira/ Confluence as single source truth
• Removed impediments to the extent possible as well as coached teams within ISIT and beyond
• Led, motivated and guided teams (5) for value delivery than volume & velocity; encouraged teams with Lean dependency. Well aware of team Dysfunctions, Conflicts and ways to deal with.
• Supported product owners in managing customer expectations for project deliverables and managed internal stakeholder communications, resulting increase in collaboration.
• Contributed to Scrum Master community of practices (COP), by name RNTBCI Agility CatalystS (RACS).
• Strived relentlessly for continuous improvement with various metrics; part of OKRs, trained teams on Availability metrics (MTTR, MTBF), ATT and FTRs for production support projects. Involved in Digital Maturity.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Worked with teams of 50+ people involving SMI (Service Management Integration) & NNA AMO support for NNA.
• Catered ITSM needs which included Incident, Problem, Change, Catalogue, Asset & Configuration, Request, Reports & Metrics, Service Levels, Availability & Continuity, Capacity and Event managements, for NNA.
• Managed teams working with various vendors of NNA, involving strategic planning and team management.
• Highlighted various metrics and KPIs for business-critical applications, availability, business disruption (BD) liners.
• Developed relationships with external clients, organizations to assess their technology, support, and security needs.
• Identified staffing needs and worked with human resources colleagues to pursue the hiring process.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

As Scrum Master/Quality Analyst:Client: Cisco, USA (2014Jul-2015AugWorked as Scrum Master cum Quality Analyst for Cisco.Helped team to adapt Agile/Scrum way of working.Involved with team for daily standups and Sprint planning meetings.Ensured from team for effective usage of Rally tool.Ensured “Verification and Validation” is part and parcel of.

Chennai

As Quality Analyst:Client: Ford Motor Company (2013Apr-2014Jul)Involved in Quality Audits (ISO 9001 – QMS controls) and worked with delivery unit of Ford Motor company, towards NCs closure.Front runner for CMMi (Dev) Level 5 Ver 1.3 assessment for OWS (One Warranty Solutions) for Ford Motor company, as QA.Drafted Business Continuity Plan (BCP) for Ford-OWS.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

As Project Manager:Client: Nissan North America (2006Feb-2013Apr)Worked as Lead for about 2 years, before taken up as PM role.Contributed as offshore project lead for L2 production support and Application Maintenance (RTB activities). Was responsible for incidents, problems with SLAs & ATT, FTR Worked for Development, Enhancement, AMO support projects, on.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

As Consultant/Programmer:Client: DMV, USA (2005Jun-2005Dec)Worked for Destiny DMV under DB2, CICS, and COBOL, Power builder environment for Department of Motor Vehicles, USA.Did application support and involved in enhancing functionalities. Involved with DB2 DBAs in performance tuning of queries.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

As Team Lead:Client: IBM USA (2003Jul-2005Jun)Worked under COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, DFSORT, OS/390, IBM S/390 environment, for IBM US data warehousing applications.Majorly worked with offshore teams for AMO support.Extensively involved in DB2 performance tuning, using EXPLAIN and PLAN table (Mainframes).

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

As Team Member/Lead:Client: AT&T USA (2000Nov-2003Jul)Majorly worked with offshore teams for AMO support, for telecom major AT&T, under mainframes platform.Supported various applications like WATS/SOP (Ordering), SSIRS (Switching & Routing).Contributed for NPA splits, Reporting to business.