Venkata Nagapradeep Kumar Dara

• As a process owner and Agile Scrum Lead for a team of over 20 geographically distributed cross-functional members, my responsibilities have included, but are not limited to, overseeing all phases of a project from Epic creation to closure. I developed tailored Definitions of Ready (DOR) and Definitions of Done (DOD) for the teams based on business and technical requirements and constraints. I regularly collaborated and facilitated product grooming sessions with the Product Owner and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to enhance backlog management and prioritization. I facilitated Scrum of Scrums and worked with other teams to resolve dependencies, address impediments, and improve planning. In my role as a Scrum Master, I led Scrum ceremonies and assisted the team in identifying and resolving impediments. I established a transparent and balanced environment to ensure the delivery of high-quality results without compromise. Additionally, I participated in and presented at monthly steering committee meetings, providing regular updates to leadership.

• As a Scrum Master overseeing all stages of projects and managing delivery managed 15+ geographically distributed cross functional team. With close collaboration with Product Owner build healthy backlog and streamline the process. Having a complex system with cross functional dependency applications, I help the team in resolving the dependency and release constrain within in the timelines and deliver with high quality product and successfully production. I maintain the progress as transparent by mentoring team to update Jira stories regularly and created Dashboard to explain and one point of reference as a status.

As a Scrum Master and Team Lead, I worked closely with the team to proactively identify impediments and drive effective resolutions. I successfully transitioned a legacy waterfall project into an Agile operating model, resulting in a 15% improvement in delivery efficiency and significantly strengthening Product Owner confidence. This initiative became a model project for the entire account.

• As a Project Lead, I was part of application development team working on Requirement gathering, HLD& LLD preparation, Development, Testing and supporting deployment. Also Managing multiple vendor resource to deliver as per plan.

• As a Project Lead, I was part of application production support team working on Root cause analysis, Fixing the bugs, Resolving the Tickets and managing the team. Understanding the incident patrons and developing the SOP's and document to educate team and end customer to avoid the repeated incidents.

• As a Project Lead, I was part of application development and production support team working on Root cause analysis, Fixing the bugs, Resolving the Tickets and managing the team. While working I also learned new technology as required and supported team.

• As a Project Lead, I was part of application development and production support team working on Root cause analysis, Fixing the bugs, Resolving the Tickets and managing the team. While working I also learned new technology as required and supported team.