Ashok Kumar
SCRUM MASTER
Chennai
Summary
Agile professional with strong expertise in guiding teams through project lifecycles using Scrum methodologies. Known for fostering collaboration, driving continuous improvement, and delivering results. Adept at navigating changing requirements, ensuring timely delivery, and maintaining high standards. Skilled in project management, risk assessment, and stakeholder communication. Reliable and adaptable team leader with focus on achieving project goals.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
8
8
Certifications
Work History
Agile Scrum Master
Proglint Software Solutions
02.2022 - 04.2024
- Help Scrum Teams adhere to committed deliverables. Ability to gather and parse opinions of multiple stakeholders & act as a peacemaker between development team and other stakeholders. Open-mindedness when considering new and/or deviant feature ideas. Personality that can resolve conflicts and motivate your team to realize its full potential. Ability to put myself in customer’s place and identify his key needs and pain points. Gathering business requirements and converting them to technical documents.
- Managed product backlog effectively, prioritizing high-value items for faster completion.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Conducted daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, and sprint reviews, ensuring effective communication among team members.
- Developed custom Scrum boards for better task tracking and transparency within the team.
- Collaborated with Product Owners to refine requirements and ensure alignment with business goals.
- Coached cross-functional teams on Agile principles, leading to an increase in successful project deliveries.
- Improved team efficiency by implementing Agile and Scrum methodologies for project management.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Implemented continuous improvement initiatives through regular retrospective meetings with the team.
- Improved project delivery timeframes through effective backlog management and sprint planning.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
Business Analyst/PMO - Software Development & EMS
Sanmina-SCI Technology Pvt Ltd
05.2015 - 02.2022
- Actively participated in team meetings to share knowledge, exchange ideas, address challenges, and collaborate on potential solutions.
- Developed high-quality documentation to support training efforts, helping employees fully understand new systems and procedures.
- Streamlined project management with effective communication and collaboration across cross-functional teams.
- Performed gap analysis between existing systems or processes and desired state, identifying areas for improvement or enhancement.
- Collaborated closely with stakeholders to identify opportunities for process improvements and drive continuous innovation in the organization.
- Supported software development projects by defining clear requirements and effectively communicating them to technical teams.
- Improved business processes by analyzing current practices and recommending optimization strategies.
- Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
- Enabled data-driven decision making with advanced analytics tools, generating valuable insights for the organization.
- Optimized workflow processes to enhance overall productivity and achieve operational excellence.
- Implemented best-practice methodologies that improved overall project delivery timelines while maintaining quality standards.
- Increased resource efficiency by analyzing detailed business requirements.
- Enhanced company-wide decision-making by developing comprehensive reports on key performance indicators.
- Conducted market research studies to provide valuable insights for strategic planning initiatives.
Data Analyst - Healthcare
Secova Eservices Pvt Ltd
09.2013 - 05.2015
- Provide Report maintenance, data warehousing and mapping them to tables for loading the data reports as per business requirements. Analyze weekly client forecast and prepare weekly dashboards, solutions docs.
- Produced monthly reports using advanced Excel spreadsheet functions.
- Used statistical methods to analyze data and generate useful business reports.
- Utilized data visualization tools to effectively communicate business insights.
Database Specialist - Support Functions
TCS
03.2011 - 06.2012
- Build & maintain database from scratch in Mainframe tool for AC Nielsen clients. Help clients to view their sales volume and performance of products in US market by providing reports on weekly basis.
- Built databases and table structures for web applications.
- Streamlined data processing tasks by automating report generation and data imports.
- Performed comprehensive testing of database systems to identify potential issues before deployment.
Process Associate - Support Functions
CTS
09.2009 - 02.2011
- Responsible for data maintenance of provider side in a client-based tool. Provider verification with aspects to internship and residency programs. Updating the verified data and submitting data reports for internal audits.
- Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
- Learned and adapted quickly to new technology and software applications.
Education
B.Sc - Mathematics
D.G Vaishnav College
01-2009
Higher Secondary - Computer Science
Vellayan Chettiar High School
01-2006
Skills
Scrum
Kanban
Agile Methodologies
Project Management
JIRA
Confluence
Planview
Retail
Certification
International Consortium for Agile - Agile Coach
Timeline
Agile Scrum Master
Proglint Software Solutions
02.2022 - 04.2024
Business Analyst/PMO - Software Development & EMS
Sanmina-SCI Technology Pvt Ltd
05.2015 - 02.2022
Data Analyst - Healthcare
Secova Eservices Pvt Ltd
09.2013 - 05.2015
Database Specialist - Support Functions
TCS
03.2011 - 06.2012
Process Associate - Support Functions
CTS
09.2009 - 02.2011
Higher Secondary - Computer Science
Vellayan Chettiar High School
B.Sc - Mathematics
D.G Vaishnav College
STRENGTHS
- Scrum Master:
- Strong knowledge on Scrum Framework & Kanban
- Experienced in facilitating Scrum ceremonies
- Exposure to Backlog refinement techniques such as Relative Estimation by Story point / Planning Poker / T-shit sizing
- Coach Development team to become Self-organized & Cross-functional.
- Promote transparency on tasks to keep healthy Velocity trend / Cumulative Flow there-by Inspecting frequently.
- Create awareness on prevailing mental model & Systemic issues to Teams & Organization
- Project Manager:
- Maximizing Value of Product by clearly expressing Project Backlog items & development thresholds.
- Support, communicate and follow up with customer on timely basis regarding requirements and information on change requests.
- Preparing use cases, Jira tickets, governance and SDLC documents and sharing them to CIO and stakeholders.
- Ensuring Backlog is visible, transparent & clear to all, showcasing what the Scrum Teams will work on next
- Ensuring Product Backlog Items have the attributes of a description / order / estimate & value.
- Solve project-related queries, make decisions, analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments
- Ability to set & meet deadlines with optimistic approach.
- Business Analyst:
- Requirement analysis for Business specifications
- Preparing BRD, architecture and workflow as per business needs.
- Prepare multiple use case scenarios and assist development and testing team to ensure quality development.
- Web & Mobile Testing - Internal Testing covering all test case scenarios.
- API testing using JMeter / Postman
- Responsible for all client interactions and milestones approval from client side.