Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
Client Success Award
Timeline
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Amrita Anand

Bangalore

Summary

Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master

Kapture
08.2023 - Current
  • Acts as coach for both development team (AI/ML, coding, product management, mobility, UI, infrastructure, and application) and product owner
  • Continuous improvements with processes, designs, resource planning, sprint management, and automation resulted in 18 percent productivity increase.
  • During product planning process, I worked on risk planning and collaborated with various vendors, stakeholders, and sponsors, resulting in 15 risks mitigated by proper planning , mitigation, and buffer management.
  • By acting as bridge between roles, I enable product owner to directly drive development
  • Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring adherence to Scrum principles and practices
  • Serve as servant leader, coaching and guiding Scrum Team in self-organization and cross-functionality to achieve project goals and deliverables
  • Identify and remove impediments that obstruct team's progress, collaborating with stakeholders to resolve issues and minimize disruptions
  • Foster culture of transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement within team, promoting open communication and feedback exchange
  • Facilitate effective communication between development team, product owner, and stakeholders, ensuring alignment of priorities and expectations
  • Monitor project progress and sprint metrics, tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) and providing regular updates to stakeholders on project status and delivery
  • Champion agile best practices and methodologies, guiding team in implementing Scrum frameworks and adapting processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Project Coordinator

Toshiba Software Pvt. Ltd
08.2017 - 05.2023

Projects Covered - Barcode Printer (MFP) and Multi-Functional Printer

  • Responsibilities:
  • Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software
  • Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog project timeline
  • Work closely with project owners on backlog management and continuous delivery of functionalities
  • Facilitated discussions within and across teams on best way to deliver maximum value to customers
  • Utilize agile scrum practices to help team increase their velocity within first year by 60%
  • Organized and improved agile practices and value, which increases overall team satisfaction by 8%
  • Manage end-to-end development of new specifications in MFP (Multi-Functional Printer), which includes design, specification, implementation, bug fixing, and testing with integrated test environment
  • Assist project manager in development of project management documents such as project budgets, project schedules, scope statements, and project plans
  • Execute project management administrative and bookkeeping tasks such as managing invoices, purchase orders, and inventory reports, among other financial documents
  • Supervise project procurement process
  • Rundown meetings with project clients to assess their needs and define project requirements, acceptance criteria, and project timelines
  • Coordinate allocation of project resources to ensure project team has what’s needed at right time
  • Assign tasks to team members and help them understand what’s expected of them in terms of project milestones and deliverables
  • Be liaison between project team and project clients throughout project life cycle
  • Help project managers monitor project progress and team members’ performance and provide updates to project stakeholders
  • Schedule stakeholder meetings, document them, and generate reports
  • Foster cross-team collaboration to help project team members complete project tasks and produce deliverables.

Asst.Professor

Reva University
06.2014 - 07.2017
  • Outcome based teaching methods along with continuous evaluation of students
  • Mentor for 15 students of Computer Science and Engineering in C++ (development), Python (Python Framework for Automation testing)
  • Preparation of standard question papers for subjects according to Bloom’s taxonomy, so as to properly evaluate understanding and learning capability of different levels of students.

Asst

Hitkarini College of Engineering and Technology, Profeesor
07.2008 - 11.2012
  • Prepare and present lessons that will enable students to learn skills and concepts contained in their curriculum
  • Valuation of Paper scripts of internal and final exams.

Education

M.Tech - Computer Science

Sri Ram Institute of Technology
Bangalore
2013

B.E - Computer Science

Gyan Ganga Institute of Technology And Sciences
Jabalpur
2007

Skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

  • C
  • Python
  • GIT Lab
  • Pytest
  • GNU Make/Make files
  • GDB
  • Visual Studio


Management Skills

  • Communication and negotiation
  • Project management and transitions
  • Stakeholder Management
  • PMO operations and coordination
  • Presentation Skills
  • Resource Planning
  • Performance monitoring
  • Client relationship management

Domain Skills

  • Scrum Methodology
  • Agile Metrics: Tracking and Coaching
  • Kanban Knowledge
  • Software Development Lifecycle
  • User Story Creation
  • JIRA and E2E project governance
  • Budget Control
  • Vendor Selection

Accomplishments

  • Resolved product issue through consumer testing.
  • Supervised team of 60 staff members.

Certification

Certified Scrum Master October 2022 Trainings: Business Communications and Ethics PMP from Udemy Risk Management Fundamentals Financial Strategy and Development Professional Scrum Master (PSM) Paper Published: International Paper: Fighting Against Intrusion and Proposed Behavior Based Healing System on Real Time Traffic. International Paper: An Overview of IDS and Types of Attacks It Can Detect.

Client Success Award

  • Implemented Agile best practices and coached team members on Scrum methodologies, leading to a significant improvement in team performance and efficiency.
  • Fostered strong collaboration and communication between development teams, product owners, and stakeholders, resulting in enhanced transparency and client satisfaction.
  • Proactively identified and addressed project risks and impediments, enabling teams to overcome challenges and deliver exceptional results.
  • Played a key role in fostering a culture of continuous improvement, implementing feedback loops and refining processes to optimize team performance and project outcomes.

Timeline

Scrum Master

Kapture
08.2023 - Current

Project Coordinator

Toshiba Software Pvt. Ltd
08.2017 - 05.2023

Asst.Professor

Reva University
06.2014 - 07.2017

Asst

Hitkarini College of Engineering and Technology, Profeesor
07.2008 - 11.2012

M.Tech - Computer Science

Sri Ram Institute of Technology

B.E - Computer Science

Gyan Ganga Institute of Technology And Sciences
Amrita Anand