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Athar Mirza

Athar Mirza

Scrum Master | Project Manager
Pune

Summary

Highly skilled professional with more than 15 years of experience managing Scrum projects. Well-versed in leveraging cross-functional IT, Agile, Project Management, BA, and QA teams to complete project deliverables on time. Demonstrated success applying project management best practices, technical expertise, and business acumen to consistently achieve targeted results.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Languages

Work History

Scrum Master

TATA Consultancy Services
Pune, India
05.2019 - Current
  • Facilitate teams’ planning and tracking activities while coaching in Agile principles and achieved 40% improvement in user story completion.
  • Successfully transformed team’s waterfall mindset to Agile by developing multiple effective training materials for teams to understand Agile delivery.
  • Facilitated team for better creativity and improved efficiency of development.
  • Built trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem-solving and acted as a safeguard.
  • Supported Product Owner on refinement and maintaining product backlog and made sure it is in good shape and ready for next sprint.
  • Organized Scrum Ceremonies (Daily stand-up, Demo and retrospectives, etc.) in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.

IT Sales | Quality Manager

TATA Consultancy Services
Pune
08.2016 - 04.2019
  • Helped team to develop applications as per customer requirements by sharing and explaining BRD.
  • Coordinated with marketing team for promotion and creation of digital contents.
  • Initiated Customer Satisfaction Surveys, performed RCA and Causal Analysis post receiving customer feedback and improved teams performance.
  • Helped teams creating and tracking SLA metrics, organized project reviews, and performed Audits.
  • Flagged risks, monitored project as per DEG & RAG, helped teams to move project from critical to BAU state.
  • Trained teams on Forecasting, Estimation, FMEA, Project planner, process map, etc., and performed RCAs to remove complications.

Project Assistant | Content Manager

TATA Consultancy Services
Pune
04.2014 - 07.2016
  • Managed teams performing technology migration from ADSL to Fiber-Optic for NBN (National Broadband Network – Australia) with modems supporting FTTP, FTTN, HFC, FTTC, MTM technology
  • Performed network-related troubleshooting, Network health-check, and smoke tests for zero defects.
  • Incident management and report publication to management with overall progress and performance.
  • Applied Agile practices and led team to update and manage Digital content.
  • Organized daily team meetings and regular customer connects for progress monitoring and status sharing.

Sr. CRA | Compliance Officer

Hutchinson 3
Pune
09.2012 - 03.2014
  • Collected customer feedback and made process changes to achieve customer satisfaction.
  • Made reasonable procedure exceptions to accommodate unusual customer requests and escalations.
  • Provided accurate and appropriate information in response to customer queries.
  • Maintained up-to-date records and built customer loyalty by placing follow-ups and fulfilling commitments.

Sr. CSA | Travel Advisor

WNS Global Services - Air Canada
Pune
11.2008 - 06.2010
  • Handled passenger reservation queries on FCR theme and gave suitable solutions.
  • Helped Travelers with online navigation for manage Bookings, Check-in, boarding pass access, seat allocation, and print itinerary, etc.
  • Performed Upselling additional services and packages including paid seats and exit row seats, etc.

CCE | Technical Support - Networking

V Customer - Linksys
Pune
08.2007 - 10.2008
  • Handled technical queries, Performed troubleshooting, and networking.
  • Helped customers to configure new and existing routers, Modem, Hubs and Switches.
  • Gave technical assistance to create wired and wireless network for desktops, laptops, & gaming consoles, etc.
  • Established good customer rapport and increased customer satisfaction.

CSR – (Corp.) and Channel Sales Head

BPL Mobile | Hutchinson Essar Cellular Ltd
Aurangabad
02.2003 - 01.2007
  • Achieved 100% sales targets in corporate and retail sector.
  • Identified new prospects and Undertook PR activities.
  • Performed activation of new, and suspended accounts and reduced 30% monthly churn.
  • Addressed billing issues for both groups of customers effectively.
  • Worked with sales team and handled work allocation, team management, performance, and sales report management.

Education

MBA - Operations and Project Management

Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai, India
04.2017 - 06.2022

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University
Aurangabad
03.2004 - 05.2007

Skills

Agile Methodology

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Interests

Reading

Technology

Gadgets

Movies

Games

Timeline

Scrum Master

TATA Consultancy Services
05.2019 - Current

MBA - Operations and Project Management

Madurai Kamaraj University
04.2017 - 06.2022

IT Sales | Quality Manager

TATA Consultancy Services
08.2016 - 04.2019

Project Assistant | Content Manager

TATA Consultancy Services
04.2014 - 07.2016

Sr. CRA | Compliance Officer

Hutchinson 3
09.2012 - 03.2014

Sr. CSA | Travel Advisor

WNS Global Services - Air Canada
11.2008 - 06.2010

CCE | Technical Support - Networking

V Customer - Linksys
08.2007 - 10.2008

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University
03.2004 - 05.2007

CSR – (Corp.) and Channel Sales Head

BPL Mobile | Hutchinson Essar Cellular Ltd
02.2003 - 01.2007
Athar MirzaScrum Master | Project Manager