Scrum Master Project Manager
Resume:
Sriram Thunuguntla
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SUMMARY
•15+ years of work experience in the IT.
•More than 10+ years of experience in SDLC and 5+ years in leading matrixed resources.
•Handled projects/products/initiatives in both Agile & Waterfall methodologies.
•Handled development/migration and support projects.
•A result–oriented Scrum Master / Project Manager with strong leadership/technical skills and highly successful track record.
•Nearly 3 years of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) experience.
•Nearly 8 years of scrum Agile Framework experience.
•5+ years of experience in JIRA, Rally and Confluence, 3+ years of experience in Azure Devops, Data Lake, ADB, ADF.
•Knowledge and work experience in SAFE Scrum Master and SAFe RTE •
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating systems
Windows 7,10, UNIX – HP, RHEL 7 Linux
Programming Languages
Cobol, VB .Net, ASP.Net, C#.Net, ASP, Angular, Typescript, Java & Spring Boot
Databases
SQL, DB2, MongoDB
Cloud Management Tools
Microsoft Azure & AWS
File Management Tools
Tortoise SVN, GIT
Build & Deployment Tools
Concord, Jenkins, Maven ANT, Ansible
SAP Skills
BODS, HANA, ABAP
Project Management Tools
Clarity, MPP, Version One, Azure Devops, JIRA, Power BI, Confluence, Leankit, Rally, Remedy, Service Now, Planview, Slack & Microsoft Teams
Other Tools
Sharepoint
CERTIFICATIONS
Advanced Certified Scrum Master (ACSM)
PMP
Certified SAFe 5 Agilist (SA)
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Computers – 2002, Acharya Nagarjuna University, India
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Worked with Wells Fargo from February 2023 – present as a Project Manager .
Worked with Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd from December 2006 – Aug 2020 as a Team Leader .
Client : WellsFargo
Feb 2023 – present Release - Train Engineer / Engg. Manager
Company : Mphasis
Project : Core banking ( Deposits & reports)
Project: Hogan IDS is a Vendor package (CSC) that has been heavily customized by wells Fargo. It is a Mainframe. COBOL application running in Minneapolis with Backup data facility (BDF) in Tempe. It runs on the Blue Net behind firewall. Hagon IDS is a CICIS/COBOL/ASM application running with mostly IMS and some DB2 data base. It support 24/7 processing and houses 38MM deposit (TDA/DDA) accounts.
We will also handle of interfaces, interacting with almost all of delivery channels and many support systems, i.e. Risk statements and Notices ( DCST) reject/return systems, General Ledger, etc.. it is system of record for all Deposit, accounts, providing real-time information 24 X7.
Also implementing the some of applications in Java Microservices ich are planning to retired.
As a Release Train Engineer and Sr Scrum Master:
Managing the talent
code review
Distilling information via cross training and knowledge transfer
Understanding engineer delivery: how is unit testing going, what is your velocity, etc..
Performance and compensation management
Inspiring and leading high-performance, cross-functional teams.
Providing attention on all changes with the code installs flag set to No
Onboarding of Contractors /new hires
Approving AIMS/ART request and certifications
Collaborating with the product manager on overall intentions map
Identifying and building relationships with key partners and stakeholders to communicate product area vision, strategies and priorities while soliciting and incorporating feedback.
Engaging in industry, technology and customer ecosystem research and discovery to incorporate and prioritize key finding into the product area backlog.
Actively participating in all product area events, including scrum / Kanban ceremonies.
Identifying and escalating sequencing and prioritization conflicts across products and product areas
Being available to the team to answer questions and address escalated implements.
Demonstrating continuous growth in understanding customer, user and company needs related to the product.
Maintaining continuous and cadence communication with the product manager and delivery teams.
Managing tradeoffs and executing day to day backlog prioritization and refinement; defining release plans aligned to the product strategy and intention map
security / Policy
MIMS
SOX support
Compliance/TCI
Production issues
Support the weekly accomplishment to release manager, collaborating with release manage as code deployment / implementation activities are planned, executed and completed
support the gathering of information for PBR, EGS and bulletin updates for Product leadership
•Facilitating Program Increment (PI) planning sessions for Billing and Remittance capability for all products.
•Planning and documenting 10 weeks (5 sprints) of work using the Microsoft Teams and Azure Devops.
•Documenting, tracking and working with other capability RTE on cross functional dependencies, risks and issues.
•Working with Solution Train Engineers, Product Management, Agile Coaches and Business Stake holders on the business priorities and status reporting.
•Facilitating program-level ceremonies like Feature grooming sessions, Scrum of Scrums, System Demo, etc…
•Leading program execution and tracking program and team metrics using Power BI and Azure Devops.
•Coaching junior scrum masters and working with agile coaches on best practices in relentless improvement of value delivery.
Client : GE Power (Oil & Gas), July 2019 – Aug 2020
Release Train Engineer
Company : Accenture
Project: GE GAS Power HQ needs a standard procedure to measure Price Realization for Sales and Orders across all segments. The guidance outlined in this policy will result in reporting consistency across the businesses and regions. The price reporting results calculated in line with this policy will be reported to Finance and be included in the Variable Contribution Margin (VCM) bridge to walk PY VCM to CY VCM.
As a Release Train Engineer and Sr Scrum Master:
•Facilitating Program Increment (PI) planning sessions for Billing and Remittance capability for all products.
•Planning and documenting 10 weeks (5 sprints) of work using the Microsoft Teams and Azure Devops.
•Documenting, tracking and working with other capability RTE on cross functional dependencies, risks and issues.
•Working with Solution Train Engineers, Product Management, Agile Coaches and Business Stake holders on the business priorities and status reporting.
•Facilitating program-level ceremonies like Feature grooming sessions, Scrum of Scrums, System Demo, etc…
•Leading program execution and tracking program and team metrics using Power BI and Azure Devops.
•Coaching junior scrum masters and working with agile coaches on best practices in relentless improvement of value delivery.
•Creating transparency using metrics at a team and program level to initiate and drive positive change.
•Facilitating resolution of dependencies, impediments, and risks.
•Working with 3rd party vendors through GE liaison and acted as liaison b/w business stakeholders and agile teams.
•Facilitating daily standups and setting up all scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, retrospectives, review/demos, backlog grooming/refinement sessions.
•Handling multiple scrum teams under Billing and Remittance (Pricing) product.
Client : Uni Leaver Nov 2018 – Jun 2019
Sr Scrum Master
Company : Accenture
Project: Unilever: The data is preserved in its native form or source form and time series beyond the time duration that sources will maintain. We handle the retails consumer data of the business worldwide. The consuming analytics products will dictate the freshness of the data. The UDL is the single shared capability that will act as the backbone for all analytics works in Unilever. UDL central ingestion team will build, support and serve as custodian for this lake with THE agility to hydrate new data sources to ensure the speed required for the products.
As a Sr Scrum Master:
•Facilitating daily standups and setting up all scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, retrospectives, review/demos, backlog grooming/refinement sessions and product prioritization meetings.
•Run stand up calls with globally distributed teams every day with the teams to track activities against agile tools like Microsoft Teams, Jira & Azure Devops.
•Publishing Sprint Planning commitments and sprint end reports along with Say Do ratio, team’s burn down and velocity metrics.
•Making sure all scrum ceremonies are happening at regular cadence and facilitating more as and when needed to ensure product backlog is healthy enough for at least 2- 6 sprints.
•Attending Agile Community of Practice session to share and collaborate on best practices.
•Facilitating cross functional teams demo sessions to share the knowledge between teams.
•Conducted sprint end demo sessions with business stake holders.
•Helping project managers on team’s productivity and predictability for their forecasting.
•Working with Product owners and business analysts on the priorities and story grooming.
•Creating program level dashboards in Azure Devops & Power BI to track progress of Epics & Features % completion, defect trends, cycle/lead time, cumulative flows, velocity trends, etc.
•Coaching the team on following agile principles and practices.
•Helping/coaching other scrum masters on the best practices, capacity planning, metrics/reports creation and retro techniques.
•Attending Scrum of Scrum calls to talk about cross functional team dependencies to make sure no/minimize sprint commitment impacts.
•Conducting retro sessions with entire team and tracking/staying on top of action items during every sprint.
•Handling 2 scrum teams geographically located in US and IN with each team size of 8 to 10 members and are from multiple vendor partners.
•Shielding and removing all impediments to the team's progress, both internal and external to the Scrum teams.
•Tracking all retro action items/issues/dependencies in Azure Devops until the closure.
•Acting as servant leader/ or an advisor to the team than a team leader through facilitating all Scrum activities.
•Creating individual team scrum and Kanban boards with multiple swim lanes in order to track the daily work at each epic/feature on all efforts.
•Understanding team dynamics and working with Engineering/Resource managers to convey/resolve any team concerns or individual resource performance in following agile principles and practices.
Company : AT &T Oct 2015 – Nov 2018 Sr. Scrum Master
Company : Accenture
Project: Worked on sales application to implementing new products for customers and vendors. Also managers vendor commotion related calculation applications. It provides support/handle/authorize all sales items for USA
As a Scrum Master: .
•Successfully plan and execute the Program Increment (PI) at enterprise level using SAFe.
•Worked with agile teams, cross functional teams and various stake holders during PI (Program Increment)/PSI (Potentially Shippable Increment) planning sessions at portfolio/program level.
•Planning the work/PI objectives for every 10-12 weeks (5-6 iterations) to deliver a Potentially Shippable Increment (PSI) based on product roadmap and priorities with product owner.
•Worked with various cross functional teams to deliver the features/epics spread across teams.
•Working with RTE (Release Train engineers) on releases after having business demos.
•Tracking customized reports/dashboard/agile boards in Jira, Leankit &Confluence at a sprint level and PSI level/program level along with dependencies.
•Facilitating daily standups and setting up all scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, retrospectives, review/demos, backlog grooming sessions and product prioritization meetings
•Run stand up calls with globally distributed teams every day with the teams to track activities against agile tools like Slack, JIRA, and Pager Duty and publish sprint beginning and end status reports.
•Handled multiple agile teams (3 scrum teams) located IN & US with each team size of 8 to 12 members.
•Experience in handling geo-graphically located teams.
•Works with the Product Owner to maintain healthy backlog and helps in product prioritization.
•Shielding the team from interruptions during the sprint execution.
•Ensure cross-team coordination on delivery of user stories at each epic level.
•Get rid of all possible impediments that might disturb the work of the team.
•Facilitating/Attending Scrum of Scrums (SOS) & Release meetings to talk about risks/dependencies/impediments both internal and external and plan releases.
•Walking the product owner through more technical user stories.
•Encouraging collaboration between the Scrum teams (Development & QES), product owner/business stakeholders.
•Helping the team maintain their burn down chart and tracking team capacity/velocity trends.
•Removing the barriers between development and the customer so the customer directly drives development.
Observing that the team obeys the rules and principle behind the methodologies and realizes the method of Scrum entirely.
•Acting as an advisor to the team and coaching agile principles and best practices.
•Helping the customer how to maximize ROI and meet their objectives through Scrum.
•Preparing working agreements with all commitments/responsibilities, scrum ceremonies/schedule etc.
•Works with business analysts, PO and scrum team to define DoR, DoD, etc.
•Promoting and making sure team is self-organized, motivated and adopted to agile.
•Provide project/work status updates & generate reports to leadership.
•Improving the productivity of the development team in any way possible & cross functional and recommended any skills/competencies need to be trained/improved.
•Helping various junior scrum master to get up to the speed and follow the standards/tools.
•Created work in take process templates in confluence.
•Working experience in Devops model.
•Served as a servant-leader for the Scrum Team through facilitating all Scrum activities.
CISCO Sept 2014 – Aug 2015 Scrum Master / TPM
Project: Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in
San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley. Cisco develops, manufactures and sells
networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology
services and products.
As a Scrum Master:
•Facilitating daily standups and setting up all scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, retrospectives, review/demos and backlog grooming sessions.
•Conducting stand up calls with globally distributed teams every day and track activities against agile tools like Version One and SQuIDS and publish sprint beginning and end status reports.
•Works with the Product Owner to maintain healthy backlog and helps in product prioritization.
•Shielding the team from interruptions during the sprint execution.
•Ensure cross-team coordination on delivery of user stories at each epic/feature level.
•Removes all impediments to the team's progress, both internal and external to the Scrum team
•Encouraging collaboration between the Scrum teams (Development & QES), product owner/business partners.
•Helping the team maintain their burn down chart and tracking team capacity/velocity trends.
•Acting as an advisor to the team. Scrum Master acts more like a Team Coach than a team leader.
•Team coaching and make sure to follow all the agile/scrum principles/practices.
•Promotes and making sure team is self-organized, motivated and adopted to agile.
•Identified all risks, top 3 to 4 action items during retro meetings, documented, tracked and followed until resolved along with dependencies.
Client : WW Granger Mar 2012 – Sept 2014
Project Lead
Company : Accenture
Project: Nevada Health Link was created for the State of Nevada where the individuals and small businesses can shop for, compare and purchase quality health insurance plans with ease. Customers can make side-by-side comparisons of plans from different insurance companies and pick the plan that's right for their needs.
1. Build the BODS jobs to retrieve data from Oracle database, transform it into
business needs and generate the files to load data into SAP.
2. Developing the Jobs, workflows, data flows using BODS to pull the data from
source to target.
3. Load the generated files into SAP by using LSMW for different objects Purchase
order, Branch Inventory Location, Gas Inventory, Goods Receipt, Reverse Goods
Receipt, Bin Creation, Serialized Equipment, Sales Pricing for Mexico and Canada.
Executed the Jobs from the Management Console.
4. Involved in creating Preload and Post Load Jobs by extracting data from Sap to
ensure successful migration of data.
5. Experience in Automation of jobs through Management console & Creating Batch
jobs.
6. Created different types Data stores and configured them in BODS designer.
Created multiple configurations for Data stores.
7. Developed BODS jobs that include IDOC' s SAP related functions
8. Preparing Technical Document, Execution Document, FAT Document, Unit Test
Document and DCVP.
9. Involved in Requirement gathering and Designing and Developing POCs.
10. Conducted training on SAP BODS and hands on to the costumer.
11. Prepared mapping documents capturing all the rules from the business.
12. Participated in Creation of inception document and estimation plan for data
migration from Oracle to Sybase IQ and to SAP HANA for reporting
13. All project operational.
14. Resource and Asset Management.
15. Demand Tracking / Management.
16. Project Financials.
17. Conducting Methodology Audit
18. Project Planning (MSPS)
Client : Level 3, USA Jun 2010 – Feb 2012
Technical Project Lead
Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Java
Company : Accenture
Responsibilities:
Technologies Used: - Coolgen (6.0), COBOL, JCL, Quik JOB, Change-Man, Xpeditor and DB2
Key Role and Responsibilities:
Preparing high level and low level design documents.
Coordination with onsite coordinator.
Coding using Cool: Gen, COBOL, DB2, JCL, Quik Job etc.
Unit testing
Encyclopedia administrator
Involving in Knowledge Transfer program for new comers.
Client: BOA, USA Dec 2006– May 2010
Technical Project Lead / Developer
Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Java
Company : Accenture
Responsibilities:
Technologies Used: - Coolgen (6.0), COBOL, JCL, Quik JOB, Change-Man, Xpeditor and DB2
Key Role and Responsibilities:
Preparing high level and low level design documents.
Coordination with onsite coordinator.
Coding using Cool: Gen, COBOL, DB2, JCL, Quik Job etc.
Unit testing
Encyclopedia administrator
Involving in Knowledge Transfer program for new comers.
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