Akshay Suresh

• Planned, created, tested, and deployed system life cycle methodology to produce high quality systems to meet and exceed customer expectations.
• Interacted with customers and clients to identify business needs and requirements.
• Improved success of program by making proactive adjustments to operations.
• Met with project stakeholders on regular basis to assess progress and make adjustments.
• Planned and executed meetings to connect organizational representatives, community members and clients.
• Maintained tight production timetables and quality standards to give audiences exceptional offerings.
• Coordinated daily tasks including recruitment, office upkeep and inventory maintenance.
• Coached team members on productivity strategies, policy updates and performance improvement plans to accomplish challenging goals.
• Developed detailed plans based on broad guidance and direction.
• Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives by setting realistic timelines and checkpoints.

•Creating Project Plans, SOW and estimating Resource Management

•Working with cross teams to align with business requirements

•Facilitate all SCRUM Ceremonies

•Monitors project progress, provides timely feedback and drives a culture of agility and learning

•Coordinating and executing the SCRUM methodologies in the team for on time project deliveries

• Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
• Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Analyzed projects to determine resource requirements and procured necessary equipment and software.
• Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.

• Evaluated user research to convert abstract ideas and requirements into planning tools such as journey maps, user personas and storyboards.
• Devised site maps, user flows, wireframes and mockups for designs based on proven methodologies, stakeholder requests and end-user feedback.
• Communicated with product managers and UX designers to translate project requirements and business objectives into polished user interfaces.
• Collaborated with teammates to deliver valuable features meeting business and customer needs.

• Incorporated graphic design knowledge into web app development, enhancing designs with additional rich media assets.
• Led effort to develop companion application programming interface (API) for web app, to facilitate third-party plugins.
• Adhered to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), ensuring compliance with federal accessibility standards.
• Used programming capabilities in PHP, SQL and JavaScript and other libraries as needed.
• Converted mockups into HTML, JavaScript, AJAX and JSON.
• Worked in both HTML and CSS environments, choosing each protocol, where appropriate, for best results.

• Researched, designed and implemented scalable applications for information identification, extraction, analysis, retrieval and indexing.
• Tested troubleshooting methods, devised innovative solutions, and documented resolutions for inclusion in knowledge base for support team use.
• Installed and configured software applications and tested solutions for effectiveness.
• Interfaced with cross-functional team of business analysts, developers and technical support professionals to determine comprehensive list of requirement specifications for new applications.
• Collaborated with cross-functional development team members to analyze potential system solutions based on evolving client requirements.