Abilash Sekar
Coimbatore,TamilNadu
Summary
Certified Scrum Master with background in managing cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects within set timelines. Demonstrated skill in facilitating daily scrums, sprint planning, and backlog grooming while collaborating with product owners to align team efforts towards business goals. Committed to improving team efficiency, enhancing communication, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement. Successfully steered previous organizations towards agile methodologies by fostering an environment of transparency and trust. Offering nearly 15 years of overall experience with 8 years of Agile Experience and relevant experience of 5+ years as a scrum Master.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
Cytel
11.2022 - Current
- Oversaw 5 successful consecutive release cycles, increasing content by 25%, decreasing bugs 30%, and assuring 100% functionality with each cycle.
- Implemented a monthly release schedule that increased the number of work items released by 30%
- Led and coached Product Owners to improve story writing, feature discovery, and requirements gathering process which led to an increase in customer satisfaction and a decrease in time-to-delivery by 20%
- Achieved 3 employee recognition awards for exceeding expectations regarding quality and project execution
- Coached teams on Scrum practices, which resulted in improved estimating by 70%
Lead Consultant / Scrum Master
HCL America
10.2019 - 11.2022
- Worked with engineering team and executives to implement product feature improvements that increased productivity by 20%.
- Transitioned teams from Waterfall Model into Agile Scrum Framework; eventually moved to Scale Agile framework, SAFe Model.
- Introduced tools and processes to successfully use Agile software development practices with combination of onshore/offshore team
- Created and maintained dashboards that enhance visibility of team progress, team capacity, impediments, defect rate, backlog health, sprint velocity, burn down, release metrics, etc
- Conducted comprehensive coaching program for six Scrum teams that reinforced importance of Definition of Done; engagement led to the rapid development of 12 new product features within a quarter.
- Conducted workshops for Scrum teams focusing on prioritizing backlog items based on customer feedback.
- Improved product increment value, leading to a 15% enhancement in user satisfaction scores within one quarter.
- Client Management Experience at onsite client location (USA) for more than 3+ years and have managed Multiple assignments, including large and critical projects.
- Created knowledge base of 80 internal resources, improving employee onboarding and reducing time spent per project on administrative tasks by 40%.
- Managed different Scrum Teams & delivered 10+ complex projects; established 3 New Scrum Teams with 8 members each, also trained a lot of existing Scrum Teams, enabling efficient application and implementation of Agile methodology.
- Directed agile ceremonies including daily scrums and retrospective meetings, enabling effective progress tracking and continuous improvement; structured approach is now adopted by 5 additional teams within organization.
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives.
- Led daily scrum calls and scrum of scrums to discuss current day's goals, previous day's achievements, and any impediments or concerns in Agile Scrum environment
- Worked with team to improve existing product suite to increase customer retention through increasing product usage by 15%
Senior Consultant
HCL America
12.2009 - 10.2019
- Lead design and development of enterprise-level integration solutions using TIBCO Business Works, EMS, and other TIBCO suite products.
- Develop, configure, and deploy complex business processes and integration workflows within TIBCO Suite Products.
- Implement reusable and modular components to streamline development and reduce redundancy by 25%.
- Design real-time and batch processing solutions to handle high-volume transactions, improving data flow efficiency by 30%.
- Optimize performance of TIBCO BusinessWorks processes, resulting in 20% reduction in average processing time for critical workflows.
- Engineered comprehensive monitoring and alert system that identified and resolved performance bottlenecks, resulting in 15% improvement in system responsiveness and enhancing user experience for 10,000+ monthly users.
- Launched monitoring tool that tracked system performance metrics in real-time, now utilized by over 20 engineers, resulting in faster identification of bottlenecks and marked improvement in system efficiency.
- Conduct regular performance tuning and load testing to ensure system can scale to handle increased transaction volumes.
- Assist in migration and upgrade of TIBCO environments, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.
- Delivered multiple high-profile integration projects on time and within budget, resulting in 15% increase in customer satisfaction and repeat business.
Education
B.E - Electronics And Communication Engineering
Bannari Amman Institute of Technology
Sathyamangalam , Erode District , TamilNadu04-2009
Skills
- Scrum Master
- Scrum Agile Implementation
- Digital Transformation
- Software Design
- Product Development
- Project Management
- Delivery Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Client Management
- Change Management
- Risk Management
- People Management
- Time Management
- Process Management
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- PCF
- Kubernetes
- AWS Cloud Technologies
- WaterFall To Agile Transition
- Lean principles
- Agile Frameworks
- Scrum
- Kanban
- XP
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)
- Lean
- Nexus
- Crystal
- TDD
- ATDD
- BDD
- WaterFall
- JIRA
- RALLY
- Confluence
- Agile Metrics
- SharePoint
- MS Office
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Excel
- Visio
- Visual Studio
- Unified Modelling Language (UML)
- Team Leadership
- Team Building
- Problem Solving
- Communication Skills
- Requirement Gathering
- Mentorship
- Troubleshooting Skills
- Status Reporting
- Forecasting
- Servant Leadership
- Product Owner
- User Stories
- Project Management Tools
- Backlog Management
- Agile Project Management
- Sprint Planning
- Removing Impediments
- Retrospective Meetings
- Agile Coaching
- Agile Leadership
- Burndown Charts
- Continuous Integration
- TIBCO
- Java
- Maven
- Spring Boot
- HTML
- SQL
- Core Java
- Microservices
- CI/CD
- Workflow Analysis
- Scrum processes
- DevOps
- Jenkins
- BitBucket
- GIT
- Coaching and Mentoring
Certification
- PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
- Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
- Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II)
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
- SAFe 5 Scrum Master (SSM)
- SAFe 5 Practitioner Certification
- Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC)
- Scrum Foundation Professional Certificate (SFPC)
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Tamil
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Telugu
Beginner (A1)
Hindi
Beginner (A1)
Timeline
Scrum Master
Cytel
11.2022 - Current
Lead Consultant / Scrum Master
HCL America
10.2019 - 11.2022
Senior Consultant
HCL America
12.2009 - 10.2019
B.E - Electronics And Communication Engineering
Bannari Amman Institute of Technology
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