Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Project Highlights
Languages
References
Hobbies and Interests
Experience Highlights
Employment Highlights
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ASHA M K

Bangalore

Summary

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
  • DXC Technology, MPSS Application, 06/01/14 - 10/01/17, 8, Manufacturing
  • Accenture Service Private Limited, Broker application, 09/01/12 - 04/01/14, 20, Insurance
  • 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

Timeline

AGILE SCRUM MASTER

DXC Technology
11.2017 - 08.2018

LEAD AGILE SCRUM MASTER

DXC Technology
07.2014 - 05.2023

TECHINCAL CONSULTANT

DXC Technology
06.2014 - 10.2017

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Accenture Service private limited
01.2010 - 06.2014

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Accenture Service private limited
02.2007 - 12.2010

BE - industrial production

PES College of Engineering
ASHA M K