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Amit Kumar

Amit Kumar

Senior Scrum Master
Gurgaon

Summary

Professional Scrum Master with 16 plus years of experience in software development, leading team in tailoring and adopting Agile principles and frameworks. Committed team player with excellent facilitation and conflict resolution skills. Experienced in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and excellent knowledge of several Agile frameworks like SAFe, SCRUM, Kanban & XP.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certificates

Work History

Engineering Manager (Senior Scrum Master)

Johnson Controls India Pvt Ltd.
Gurgaon
01.2018 - Current
  • Facilitates Scrum framework – sprint planning, daily scrums, backlog grooming, Sprint of Sprint (SoS), sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
  • Lead sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
  • Guiding and coaching Scrum team and organized Agile and Scrum practices and values while also meeting delivery commitment.
  • Ensuring that all inter-team risks, impediments, and blockers were identified, communicated, and resolved
  • Assisting with internal and external communication resulting in improved transparency.
  • Shielding scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
  • Providing extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to high performing teams with goals of improving process and productivity.
  • Coached teams in Agile practices and providing necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
  • Creating & managing project plan, project schedule, resource allocation & expenses to ensure that targets are reached.
  • Facilitating and helping product manager and scrum team in finalizing project scope and preparing functional specifications.
  • Educating scrum team to be self-organized, identifying training needs to be cross functional, estimating of work to deliver high value.
  • Managing Scrum process from initiation to management to delivery and supporting all efforts of 3 scrum teams to simplify and enhance customer experience.
  • Supporting and educating 3 scrum teams with respect to user stories creation, grooming and managing sprint/product backlogs.
  • Coordinating with 8 other Scrum Masters to increase effectiveness of application of Scrum in organization.
  • Identifying and implementing process improvements, onboarding, reporting improvements, and training as required within and across Scrum teams.
  • Rendering technical guidance and leadership to fellow team members; conducting annual performance reviews; resolving team conflicts

SR. IT Analyst (Product Owner)

Johnson Controls India Pvt Ltd
Gurgaon
08.2015 - 01.2018
  • Owned and prioritized product backlog to meet customer demands
  • Assisted Product Manager to align vision, program backlog, and roadmap
  • Worked closely with development teams to ensure output was aligned with expectations
  • Provided business perspective on value during day-to-day development portraying voice of customer
  • Prioritized iteration, drive acceptance testing and delivery of iteration
  • Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work.
  • Focused on building critical features up front to identify constraints and technical challenges.
  • Proposed and took initiative to have single UI for customers that addressed long-standing problems and helped organization to save good amount of money

Senior Web Developer

Bhilwara InfoTech. Pvt Ltd.
Bangalore
03.2014 - 12.2014
    • Developed Web/UI using HTML, CSS, jQuery, JSON, and Bootstrap
    • Engaged with 5 clients on daily basis to plan and optimize site issues and queries.
    • Optimized UI code & created component code library to reuse

Lead Web Developer

NetApp India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
08.2007 - 07.2013
  • Conducted requirement gathering discussions with stakeholders and finalized clear requirements and set their expectations right.
  • Supervised regular web-based Launches & Press Release.
  • Reviewed and allotted daily work to geographically distributed team
  • Developed HML5 & CSS3 & jQuery based functional templates and process documentation.
  • Created UI modules & integrated in CMS.
  • Engaged with clients to plan and optimize site issues and queries.

Senior Web Developer

Logix Microsystems Ltd
Bangalore
01.2006 - 07.2007
    • Lead team size of over 25 members
    • Developed Web/UI using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JSP technologies for automobile dealers
    • Maintained new/used car inventory

Senior Web/Graphic Designer

Vanasolutions IT PVT Ltd
Bangalore
01.2005 - 01.2006
  • Used Photoshop and Flash to design website layouts, templates, and unique branded looks
  • Engaged with more than 10 customers to present mockups and collect information for adjustments
  • Designed Web/UI using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, for static and E-commerce websites

Education

Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) - Accounts

M.S. College, Bhagalpur University
Bhagalpur
06.1996 - 03.2001

Skills

Agile Project Management

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Software

JIRA

Trello

MS Excel

Power Point

Dreamweaver

Visual Studio

Photoshop

Git Hub

Certification

Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM1)

Timeline

Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM1)

03-2022
  • SAFe 5 Agilist
03-2021

Engineering Manager (Senior Scrum Master)

Johnson Controls India Pvt Ltd.
01.2018 - Current

SR. IT Analyst (Product Owner)

Johnson Controls India Pvt Ltd
08.2015 - 01.2018

Senior Web Developer

Bhilwara InfoTech. Pvt Ltd.
03.2014 - 12.2014

Lead Web Developer

NetApp India Pvt Ltd
08.2007 - 07.2013

Senior Web Developer

Logix Microsystems Ltd
01.2006 - 07.2007

Senior Web/Graphic Designer

Vanasolutions IT PVT Ltd
01.2005 - 01.2006

Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) - Accounts

M.S. College, Bhagalpur University
06.1996 - 03.2001

Technology

Web APIs, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, jQuery, Angular js, Bootstrap, CMS, SQL & MySQL

Technology

Web APIs, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, jQuery, Angular js, Bootstrap, CMS, SQL & MySQL

Amit KumarSenior Scrum Master