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Ashutosh Tiwari

Ashutosh Tiwari

Bengaluru

Summary

• Accomplished Scrum master offering over 17+ years of experience in Agile methodology, Scrum and Mainframe Technology with exposure of 9+ years of experience in Banking, financial services and Insurance (BFSI), 2.8 Years in Retail, 2 years in healthcare, and also possess 2.5 Years of experience in Travel (TTH) Domain.
• Have worked in onsite requirements (Singapore and London) for around 2 years in handling client interactions and offshore coordination's.
• Ensured more than 2 Project teams lived agile values, principles and followed client required processes and practices.
• Highly experience in facilitating the Scrum ceremonies like daily scrum, product sprint planning, sprint review/demo and sprint retrospective meetings

including backlog refinement.
• Identified complex impediments, removed obstacles, and managed risks to enable team's efficiency and effectiveness.
• Coordinated between multiple product teams to make sure on dependencies and prioritization. Successfully handled 60+ dependencies (Giver and Getter) across multiple teams.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making and conflict resolution across teams.
• Ensured 100% of Scrum activities were tracked, kept up-to-date, and reported.
• Experience facilitating agile ceremonies and mentoring teams/individuals on agile values, design thinking and customer value etc.
• While facilitating scrum ceremonies, I was actively engaging and intervening when disagreements, misunderstandings, or other types of impediments

needed resolution in a team or between the teams.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager

Philips
04.2024 - Current

Company Overview: Philips is global leader in healthcare technology, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide and striving to make world healthier and more sustainable through innovation.

  • Handling, Managing and governing Projects end to end deliveries from requirement gathering to Hypercare Support.
  • Facilitating Scrum ceremonies and educate teams on scrum values and their Meaning to everyday work.
  • Supporting and educating the product owner in maintaining & prioritizing the backlog.
  • Preparing Delivery plan, Coordinating with Testers (SIT, RT, PT), Release manager, Operation Lead, DSOM and Compliance Officer etc.
  • Supporting and coordinating in Solution direction, Solution design, functional Specifications, Build, SIT, UAT, Validation, Pre-Prod Activities/Approvals, Go-live(TGL/BGL) and hypercare Support.
  • Anticipating and identifying impediments and working with right owners to resolve them.
  • Protect development team from outside distraction, impediments, or team conflicts to meet sprint goal and delivery.
  • Contributing towards delivery of high-quality customer experience, elevating customer satisfaction while adhering to SLAs and work processes.
  • Monitor team's outcomes while assisting them in improving team performance and Agile maturity.
  • Scrum and Agile approaches managing Risk, Assumptions, Issues and Dependences in Conjunction with team and stakeholders..
  • Acting as an escalation gate; addressed business queries & provided resolution to the same on priority in order to achieve customer Satisfaction matrices.
  • Updating and presenting project Metrics to senior management.
  • Team Size: 15+

Scrum Master

Sabre Corporation
05.2021 - 03.2024

Company Overview: Sabre is a leading software and technology company that powers the global travel industry and, in a mission, to create a new marketplace for personalized travel.

  • Facilitating Scrum ceremonies and educate teams on scrum values and their Meaning to everyday work.
  • Anticipating and identifying impediments and working with the right owners to resolve them.
  • Supporting and educating the product owner in maintaining & prioritizing the backlog.
  • Protect development team from outside distraction, impediments, or team conflicts to meet the sprint goal and delivery.
  • Embed and foster agile ways of working at the squad level by enabling effective Teaming, and address dependencies and impediments impacting the squad's work.
  • Contributing towards delivery of high-quality customer experience, elevating customer satisfaction while adhering to the SLAs and work processes.
  • Support the Product Owner and other stakeholders while building a trusting and safe Environment for the team where problems can be raised without fear, blame, retribution or judgment.
  • Scrum and Agile approaches managing Risk, Assumptions, Issues and Dependences in Conjunction with stakeholders and the team.
  • Team Size : 17+

Technical Lead/Scrum Master

AFLAC
06.2019 - 05.2021

Company Overview: Aflac Inc. is an American Insurance Fortune 500 company in the United States and is the largest providers of supplemental insurance to more than 50 million people.

  • End to end Task delivery, Team Management and Client Interaction.
  • Understanding the functionality of the application at Business Technical Level and doing enhancement, maintenance and support of the Application.
  • Worked as an Acting Scrum master within the project.
  • Handling Business requests by proposing and supporting the design, helping team in development, testing the solution and implementing it.
  • Responsible for providing 24/7 supports for legacy applications within the agreed SLA.
  • Team Size: 6+

Technical Architect

Anthem
10.2018 - 01.2019

Company Overview: Anthem is an American second largest Healthcare Insurance Company where One of every nine Americans is a member of an Anthem, Inc. affiliated health plan.

  • Provided technical leadership to team members during system design.
  • Understanding the functionality of the application and solving business queries accordingly.
  • Enhancement of the existing codes like adding a new functionality to it.
  • Performed quality code review and removed technical debt and security vulnerabilities.
  • Team Size: 5+

Technical Lead/Acting Support Manager

Lloyds Bank
05.2016 - 09.2018

Company Overview: Lloyds Banking Group is a leading UK based financial service group, providing a wide range of banking and financial services, focused on personal and commercial customers.

  • Understanding the functionality of the application at Business & Technical Level and solving business queries accordingly.
  • Coordinate communications, escalates and facilitates resolution of risks, issues and changes tied to the product initiatives.
  • Coordinating with Offshore (Chennai/Bangalore/London) and reviewing the Important tasks before the delivery.
  • Responsible for providing 24x7 supports for legacy applications Support Within the agreed SLA.
  • Team Size: 7+

Technical Lead

CITI Bank
07.2014 - 05.2016

Company Overview: CITI Bank is the leading global bank who strives to create the best outcomes for our clients and customers with financial solutions that are simple, creative and responsible.

  • Worked as a Technical Lead for leading bank in Retail domain providing technical solutions for change requests and solving business queries.
  • Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure continuity and use of best practices with client end-users.
  • Identifying opportunities for changes in the system for improved performance (Service improvements) and raise the change request accordingly.
  • Coordinating with Offshore (Chennai/Singapore) and reviewing the important tasks before the delivery.
  • Helping team and Providing support by monitoring the daily Job cycle.
  • Team Size: 9+

Module Lead

Royal Bank of Scotland
06.2011 - 04.2014

Company Overview: The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is one of the world's leading financial services company. The RBS group has continued to grow its business around the globe and has offices in UK, Europe, USA and Asia.

  • Enhancement of the existing codes like adding new functionality to it.
  • Preparation of Test Plans, Test Data, Testing and Verification of changes made.
  • Understanding the functionality of the application at Business & Technical level and solving business queries accordingly.
  • Part of RUN THE BANK project team responsible for providing 24x7 supports for legacy applications as 3nd line support within the agreed SLA.
  • Team Size: 10+

Support Analyst

Marks and Spencer
09.2007 - 05.2010

Company Overview: Marks and Spencer is a leading retailer in UK with 2 divisions General Merchandise and Foods. M&S have a suite of applications for their supply chain beginning from supplier contracts till reporting.

  • Understanding the functionality of the SaS application from the Business & Technical point of view and solving the business queries of the H.O. Users.
  • Responsible for providing 24x7 supports for legacy applications as 3nd line support within the agreed SLA.
  • Handling client requests by proposing and supporting the design, development and testing the solution and then implementing it.
  • Responsible for smooth running of all business functions whilst ensuring a Service Level Agreement of 2hrs for severity 1 batch failures.
  • Identifying opportunities for changes in the system for improved performance (Service improvements) and raise the change request accordingly.
  • Carrying out common DBA tasks like LOAD, UNLOAD, REPAIR, REORG etc. for Data-warehouse.

Team Size: 14+

Program Analyst

Hospital care of America
03.2006 - 08.2007

Company Overview: HCA inc. owns and operates approx. 200 hospitals and other health care facilities in 20states in US and Switzerland with total revenue of approx. 10$ billions.

  • Providing solutions to change requests and coding new programs by following full SDLC Lifecycle.
  • Development, Enhancements, maintenance and providing support by monitoring Job cycle.
  • Team Size: 7+

Education

Bachelor of engineering - Electronics and Telecommunication

R.G.P.V. University
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
06-2005

Skills

  • Domain: Banking, Financial & Insurance Services (BFSI), Retail, Healthcare and Travel (TTH) Domains
  • Methodology: Agile, Scrum, DevSecOps, waterfall, Kanban
  • PMO Tools: ADO, Rally, Service Now, JIRA, Qlik-Sense and Confluence
  • Languages/Software/Services: COBOL, JCL, Assembler, Java, SAP, Azure, GCP and Cloud computing
  • Back End: DB2 and IMS DB

Certification

  • Certifications: CSM, PSM-1, SAFe 5.0 Agilist, AZ-900(Microsoft Azure fundamentals), IBM Certified Database Associate-DB2 Universal Database V9.1 Family and ITIL 2011(Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management) Certified
  • Crest Award - Team: Received award in Automating mainframe Batch jobs and reducing job failures by providing critical fixes.
  • Inspiring Performance Award: Received award in reducing 200+ outstanding Tickets to ZERO with earning a client Trust.
  • Super Crew Award: Received award for valuable contribution towards resolution of dependencies and helped in maintaining transparency and earning trust with stakeholders by providing crisp and detailed progress updates.
  • Leadership Award: Received Award for outstanding leadership and accountability.
  • Accountability Award: Received award in multiple instances for dedication, expert thinking and on-time delivery of the project.
  • A-Team Award: Earn multiple A-Team awards for outstanding contribution and performance during the project tenure.

Timeline

Senior Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager

Philips
04.2024 - Current

Scrum Master

Sabre Corporation
05.2021 - 03.2024

Technical Lead/Scrum Master

AFLAC
06.2019 - 05.2021

Technical Architect

Anthem
10.2018 - 01.2019

Technical Lead/Acting Support Manager

Lloyds Bank
05.2016 - 09.2018

Technical Lead

CITI Bank
07.2014 - 05.2016

Module Lead

Royal Bank of Scotland
06.2011 - 04.2014

Support Analyst

Marks and Spencer
09.2007 - 05.2010

Program Analyst

Hospital care of America
03.2006 - 08.2007

Bachelor of engineering - Electronics and Telecommunication

R.G.P.V. University
Ashutosh Tiwari