Scrum Master Project Management

CERTIFICATIONS:

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) by Scrum Alliance.

Certified SAFe 6 PO/PM by Scaled Agile.

Certified SAFe Practitioner 6.0 by Scaled Agile.

Certified Agile Leadership.

Certified Scrum Professional

Certified Product Owner

Notable Achievements:

Won best project lead in Sedgwick.

Community of Practice Leader in EY

Several project accomplishments and awards in EY.

Skills & Competencies:

Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, TDD, BDD, XP, etc.)

LACE/Agile CoE

Cross-Functional Team Facilitation

SAFe and Scrum Events Effective Facilitation

Project Management

Continuous Improvement

Change Management

Team Building

Communication and Facilitation

Conflict Resolution

Problem-Solving

Time Management

Coaching and Mentorship

Process Improvement

Quality Assurance

Technology Experience:

Java

Data Science

RPA (UI Path)

AWS

BigData

ETL

DevOps

Data warehouse

.Net Framework,

Micro Services and APIs

Microsoft CRM Dynamics 365.

Tools:

Jira Align, Jira, Plan View, Rally, TFS (ADO).

Educations:

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration/Project Management. Capella University, MN

Ravi Yarramsetty **********@*****.*** 901-***-****

PROFILE SUMMARY

Result-driven techno-functional professional with 18 years of hands-on experience leading and managing large and complex projects using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Domain experience (Healthcare, Insurance, Claims, Payments & Banking)

Led and delivered complex cross-functional global solutions and products using Agile Scrum, Kanban, Lean and SAFe Frameworks.

10 + years as SAFe RTE, Sr. Scrum Master, Scrum Master & Agile Program, Project Manager leading multiple scrum teams.

4+ years of strong experience in leading and managing Data Science, AI/ML, Platform Modernization, Cloud Migration programs, and projects using global SAFe scrum teams.

9 + years of strong hands-on experience in Software Development using Java, J2EE, .Net Framework, Microservices, and Big Data tools.

8 + years of experience in Atlassian tools like Jira Align, Jira Plan, Jira, TFS(ADO), and Confluence for effective program and project management.

Experience in delivering projects iteratively and incrementally (WSJF, MMFs, and MMVPs)

Key Successes:

Improved team velocity by 30% by implementing Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and facilitating the adoption of Agile practices across the development team.

Reduced the number of blockers by 50% and increased the team's ability to deliver high-quality features by introducing Scrum of Scrums (SoS).

Improved team morale by 20% by leading team-building activities, fostering open communication and promoting a culture of continuous improvement.

Implemented a continuous improvement program, resulting in a 25% increase in team productivity and a 50% reduction in rework.

Led loss prevention fintech products delivery.

ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE:

October'22 – Till date: Evolve Bank &Trust – SAFe Sr. Scrum Master/Product Owner/Coach(Remote)

Product/Project Goal: Build price-based reference models for decision support and best claims repricing/adjudication using curating and exposing data assets, science models, dashboards, and reports.

Tech Stack: ADF, Snowflake, DBT, ETL, PowerBI, Bitbucket, Micro Services, AI, ML, Azure, Jira, Plan View, Confluence, RPA.

Trained & coached teams in agile values, principles, and practices using SAFe, SCRUM, and KANBAN frameworks.

Resolves team cross teams impediments with other Scrum Masters (SoS) to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization

Work with Teams, Stakeholders, and Management to continually identify and implement delivery process improvements using PI/ART events.

Ensure progress toward PI objectives, OKR’s KPIs, and commitments; guide assigned Agile teams to deliver the required product increments and outcomes.

Conducted assessments to ascertain the maturity of agile practices and implemented resulting action items to advance the agile transformation using the SCRUM framework

Facilitate contextual adoption of the SAFe SCRUM framework, including PI, PO Sync ART Sync, SoS, daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews & retrospectives, and other related team and intra-team meetings.

Facilitate contextual adoption of SAFe, Lean Thinking, including visualization and continuous. optimization of delivery flow using the Kanban Method.

Facilitate and participate in scaled events, including SAFe cross-team planning, delivery synchronization, and systems-level IP, and inspect & adapt.

Experienced in loss prevention and theft protection using predictive analytics in Fintech projects.

Jan ’19 – Oct 22: Ernst & Young - Scrum Master (RTE)/Product Owner.

ITS Claims Modernization – Cloud Migration

Product/Project Goal: Re-architected Cloud Native solutions from Main frames Wellpoint Group System written rules.

ITS Claims Migration - IBM Main frames architecture to cloud native. Implementing these changes will reduce the overall turn-around time and enable the organization to host various business models requiring segregating processes and data.

Tech Stack: AWS, Java Spring boot, Amazon RedShift, OpenShift, DevOps, Jira, Web API, Smartsheet

Key Result Areas:

Facilitated and participated in SAFe-scaled events, including cross-team planning, delivery synchronization, and systems-level IP, and inspect & adapt.

Exhibiting excellence in establishing and implementing the roadmaps for project delivery of multiple PODs in the value stream.

On-boarded 9 vendor teams from esteemed organizations - Infosys, CTS, UST, and Accenture.

Worked with cross-functional teams (Internal and outsourced vendors) to create a holistic roadmap and planning for product delivery.

Assessing SAFe PI, IP, I & A, and program health, providing transparency into organizational gaps and challenges, and identifying areas for improvement in cross-team collaboration, staffing, operating models, and information sharing

May 12 – Dec 21 Sedgwick Claims Management Services

WorkOS (Digital Transformation) Designed and implemented Enterprise MLOps Platform includes major capabilities such as model development tooling for developing AI models, testing/validation models, continuous integration, sdk for deploying models, feature store pipelines with supporting repository and API for feature serving capabilities, runtime AI orchestration execution, data, and monitoring & Responsible AI explain-ability capabilities to ensure components meet Responsible AI.

Tech Stack: AI/ML, Python, MLOps, Docker, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Amazon Sagemaker, Kserve, CI/CD tools, JupyterLab, Feast, AWS, TensorFlow, Big Data, Spark, PySpark, Datawarehouse, ETL

, Advanced SQL, SQL, NoSQL, and AWS Glue.

Product/Project Goal: Examine the Claims using Digital Technologies, Low-Intensity Emergency Room through predictive data models, Kodiak used for seamless care coordination management.

Key Result Areas:

Drive innovation using SAFe scrum teams, processes, partners, and tools; identify and develop digital capabilities and ecosystem partnerships in alignment with digital strategy.

Improved delivery process using JIRA workflows, dashboards and publish metrics.

Ensured SAFe product increment delivers business value by collaborating with product managers and development teams.

Enabled SAFe flow of work throughout the program. Completed POCs reviewed with key stakeholders.

Worked with senior leaders, key stakeholders, and managers to bring alignment between business strategies and team Iteration goals using the SAFe Framework.

Augy 11 – May 12 - Cincinnati Insurance Company, OH

Scrum Master

Cincinnati Insurance Company is one of the leading insurance companies. Worked on project named ECLAS Long Term Care. ECLAS application is the Internet and Intranet application, which is used by the field agents of the company and the customers who want to fill the application Online. In this project there were different modules, namely Eclas CPP and Cincipack. This project mainly deals with providing Health Care Insurance plans for different age groups depending upon the state they live.

Key Responsibilities:

Facilitate spring planning daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.

• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts,

and maintain focus on product backlog project timeline.

• Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of

features.

• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework for team members

and stakeholders

• Direct and lead the development team from project initiation through the delivery of

final product.

Environment: Windows / NT, MS Project, MS Office, TOAD, Oracle11g, Java, HTML, XML, QC 11.5, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JIRA, ETL, Informatica, Soap UI.

May’05- June’11: HP Consulting Group Inc, Memphis,TN

Tech Stack: PHP, JavaScript, Java, IntelliJ IDEA, Bitbucket, Jira, TFS, Rally, Web API, SharePoint.

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