Dynamic Agile Scrum Master with extensive experience at DXC Technology, excelling in project management and team facilitation. Proven track record in budget management and roadblock resolution, driving continuous improvement and enhancing team performance. Adept at resource allocation and fostering collaboration, ensuring successful project delivery and stakeholder satisfaction.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
LEAD AGILE SCRUM MASTER
DXC Technology
07.2014 - 05.2023
Works with Product Owner to define project scope and objectives
Facilitated team in continual improvement process to enhance collaboration and delivery
Works effectively with others to remove delivery team roadblocks
Monitored team health to ensure alignment with project goals and foster a positive work environment
Coordinated and led recurring status meetings with product, portfolio, and delivery managers to ensure project alignment
Established a central communication point for project updates
Creates and manages project/program resource loading and budget; reconciles budget monthly and communicates risks to Leadership
AGILE SCRUM MASTER
DXC Technology
11.2017 - 08.2018
Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standup's, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning
Coaching and mentoring other Scrum Masters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams
Scheduled and allocated work, provided advice and guidance, resolved problems to achieve technical performance and financial objectives
Assisted in defining and deploying product development processes, facilitated continuous improvement of existing processes
Liaised between developers and project stakeholders, fostered quality communication across engineering disciplines
Gathering and updating project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents
TECHINCAL CONSULTANT
DXC Technology
06.2014 - 10.2017
Led requirement gathering, system analysis, design, development, and testing efforts to ensure project alignment with client needs
Collaborated with offshore and onsite team members on COBOL, JCL VSAMC, DB2 enhancement projects to deliver high-quality solutions
Directed team members in task execution and monitored progress to achieve project milestones
Delivered quality assurance on all project deliverables and conducted thorough reviews.
Evaluated unit test plans and test cases to ensure thorough coverage.
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Accenture Service private limited
01.2010 - 06.2014
Gathered and updated project materials, completed budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents to ensure project alignment and knowledge retention
Supported applications using technologies like COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, ensuring system reliability and performance
Responsible in design, coding and testing for various work orders
Created urgent coding solutions to address and fix production-related problems.
Provide root cause analysis for any major production issues
Coordinated work schedules, offered guidance to team members, and addressed issues to ensure technical performance and financial goals were met.
Served as a subject matter expert for various applications, gathering requirements from the business for development work orders.
Conducted technical and functional sessions to enhance team expertise and facilitate knowledge transfer
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Accenture Service private limited
02.2007 - 12.2010
Work on Production Support for the Batch Regions and Online Region
Monitored, submitted and tracked production(jobs and schedules) using CA7
Resolved or escalated critical issues in online regions within established service level agreements
Handled abends by taking actions per user requirements, including restarting, rerunning, or cancelling execution jobs
Performed availability checks to ensure online systems operated smoothly on online's availability, tasks, job's output using SDSF
Interacted with clients daily (DSR) to address and resolve issues from previous day's reports
Performed daily maintenance tasks based on client requests.
Education
BE - industrial production
PES College of Engineering
Mandya
04.1999
Skills
Project management
Scrum methodology
Team facilitation
Budget management
Roadblock resolution
Resource allocation
Project Highlights
DXC Technology, TPS and Cash Application, 09/01/18 - Present, 5, Health care
Accenture Service Private Limited, Credit and Debit card application, 02/01/08 - 08/01/10, 9, Banking
Languages
Sanskrit
Hindi
Tamil
English
Sanskrit
Hindi
Tamil
References
Available on request
Hobbies and Interests
Listening to music
Sports
Experience Highlights
DXC Technology, Bangalore, Lead Agile Scrum Master, 08/01/18 - Present, Creates and manages project/program resource loading and budget; reconciles budget monthly and communicates risks to Leadership, Sets and runs effective recurring status meetings with the product, portfolio and delivery managers, Provides a single point of contact for projects, Manages the health of the team, Works with Product Owner to define project scope and objectives, Works effectively with others to remove delivery team roadblocks, Guides team through continual improvement process
DXC Technology, Bangalore, Agile Scrum Master, 11/01/17 - 08/01/18, Gathering and updating project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents, Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives, Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standup's, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning, Coaching and mentoring other Scrum Masters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams, Assist in defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes
DXC Technology, Bangalore, Technical Consultant, 06/01/14 - 10/01/17, Key player in Requirement gathering, system analysis, design, development and testing, Review Technical Design Documents, Unit Test Plan, Units Test Case, Responsible for Quality deliverables, reviews of deliverables, Assign tasks to team members, mentor and monitor work progress, Work extensively with team members at offshore and onsite on COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2 enhancement projects.
Accenture Service Private Limited, Bangalore, Senior Software Engineer, 01/01/10 - 06/01/14, Gathering and updating project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents, Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives, Involved in the support for the applications with technologies like COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, Provide root cause analysis for any major production issues, As an SME for various applications was responsible for requirement gathering from business for various development work orders
Accenture Service Private Limited, Bangalore, Software Engineer, 02/01/07 - 12/01/10, Work on Production Support for the Batch Regions and Online Region, Monitored, submitted and tracked production jobs and schedules using CA7, Handling the amends and taking the actions as per user requirement like restart/rerun, force complete, cancelling the execution job, Doing checks on onliness availability, tasks, job's output using SDSF, Interact with Clients on daily basis (DSR) and address previous day's reports in case of any issue
Employment Highlights
Jira, SPUFI, Change man, Endeavor, file Manager, CA7, Quality Center, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power Point, Cobol, JCL, DB2, VSAM