AMBIKEYA PRADHAN

• Developed strong communication and organizational skills through working on group projects.
• Resolved problems, improved operations and provided exceptional service.
• Gained strong leadership skills by managing projects from start to finish.
• Managed time efficiently in order to complete all tasks within deadlines.
• Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
• Proven ability to develop and implement creative solutions to complex problems.
• Completed paperwork, recognizing discrepancies and promptly addressing for resolution.

• Led two technical teams as Sr. Scrum Master for an IaaS company's cloud solutions and infrastructure services, specializing in Jira and Confluence tooling.
• Managed dependencies between teams, facilitated agile processes, enhanced visibility via Kanban views, and collaborated with remote teams. Designed dashboards for metrics and
  executed agile practices for efficient workflow.
• Managed concurrent client consulting engagements with organized mindset and good multitasking abilities.
• Designed and conducted training and development workshops for professionals in various industries.
• Conducted educational workshops to spearhead employee training on available tools and optimal strategies.
• Helped organizations refocus vision, mission, and brand to improve efficiency and performance.

Scrum of Scrums Master

• Accountable for keeping stakeholders and the organization informed about product development progress, value stream mapping and other metrics related to OKR's.
• Worked closely with the Chief Product Owner to deliver a potentially releasable product increment delivery every Sprint in the Scrum@Scale framework.
• Coordinated delivery for multiple teams with the Product Owners Team's release plans to achieve the quarterly OKRs.
• Made impediments, process improvements, and progress visible to the organization.
• Facilitated the prioritization and removal of impediments, paying particular attention to cross-team dependencies for team governance.
• Mentored others to increase the effectiveness and adoption of Scrum throughout the organization.

Product Owner

Implemented agile principles for a cross-functional team of software & hardware development teams for testing to design and develop service robots to be used as an assistant and as a disinfection robot in hospitals.

• Coordinated with software and hardware developers to create custom application and trackers to achieve client goals.
• Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.
• Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work.
• Analyzed user feedback and implemented changes to product design.
• Allocated and approved team resource usage.
• Collaborated with internal and external key stakeholders for continuous development and integration

Scrum Master

• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.

Developer

Built a service robot and a disinfection robot incorporated with different sensors to perform many services like autonomous navigation, assistance, logistics support and disinfection for indoor environments.

• Obstacle avoidance, object detection, visual SLAM and indoor scene classification using stereoscopic depth cameras
• SLAM & Navigation using 2D and 3D Lidars in ROS
• Person & object detection, tracking and following using omnidirectional depth camera
• Sensor Fusion (2D Lidars, IMU & depth cameras) development and control for disinfection robot
• Scrum Master experience for 10-members' development team (as well as product owner experience for 5-members' software team)

Collaborated in research on autonomous driving vehicles and robots to enhance obstacle avoidance in real-time data.

• Image classification and captioning with training models using ResNet and LSTMs for the installed cameras in self-driving vehicles used as traffic warning systems.
• SLAM, Navigation and path planning (tested with DWA, MPC, TEB, RRT planners) mobile base robotic platforms with 2D Lidar and Inertial measurement unit based localization

Worked on fabricating different Nano-composite materials (i.e., Nano-cellulose, Graphene) for enhancing their cumulative properties. These nanomaterials were then used as by-products and supporting materials for creating scaffolds around fractures in human body bone tissues

Trained on different modules and software mostly used in industrial automation (using PLC modules and HMI/SCADA Software). Designed control software for a water treatment plant.

Microcontrollers, DC Motors, Sensors Testing, Dual Tone Multiple Frequency (DTMF), relays, Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), Analog to Digital Converters (ADC)