Hi, I’m
Girish Ravikumar
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven certified project manager, scrum master, and product owner with over 12 years of experience in the fast-paced SaaS industry. Possesses deep domain knowledge in telecom, airlines & hospitality, oil & gas, and fintech sectors. Demonstrates proven expertise in project management, product management, and servant leadership. A+T-shaped professional with a track record of delivering successful projects and driving cross-functional teams to achieve business objectives.
Overview
12
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Work History
Bottomline Technologies
Scrum Master
02.2022 - Current
Job overview
- Arrange Orchestrate PI planning for India team deliveries
- Organize and lead Capacity Planning and Forecasting
- Own product backlog for the entire PI/Release for 4 teams
- Liaise with Product and Customer representatives and articulate requirements by goals
- Moderate bi-weekly governance meetings with local and international stakeholders
- Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, review, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.) Timely interaction and interviews with Alpha and Beta customers to understand and act according to user sentiments
- Working with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks
- Regular synergy with scrum teams to improve product usability and experience
- Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of Epics, Features, Defects/Bugs
- Coached the Product Owners to create clear and concise epics/stories
- Coached Scrum Masters on Servant Leadership.
IHS Markit
Product Management Principal
04.2020 - 02.2021
Job overview
- Owning a healthy Product and Sprint Backlog for upcoming releases
- Driving Spike stories to meet technological requirements
- Coaching scrum teams on Agile methodologies
- Regular collaboration with Sales, Marketing, Product management, Equipment Manufacturers, Vendors, EnP Engineers, Frontline Support (Customer Care)
- Managed backlog for 2 products simultaneously on Sprint and Kanban boards
- Diligent planning and efficient estimation of 2-week sprints led 100% delivery of the MVP according to the company roadmap
- Established user story acceptance criteria and refined stories with Scrum teams
- Created Release Plans and Delivered product ahead of committed date
- Applied Agile methods and processes to promote a disciplined and transparent project management process
- Partnering with IT and product leadership to drive and manage the solution development process and ensure the product team understands the direction and vision
- Created and maintained the solution vision, roadmap, and backlog of work through the project's life cycle
- Translated features into user stories within the team's backlog while managing, ranking, and prioritizing this backlog to reflect stakeholder's requirements.
Amadeus Software Labs
Product Owner & Scrum Master
10.2017 - 03.2020
Job overview
- Requirement gathering for lifecycle management of applications and servers in data centres
- Virtualized 30% of the systems using V-Motion tech
- (with near-zero downtime) for Airline, Rail, and Hotel clients of Amadeus on the Kanban Board
- Act as the interface for infrastructure provisioning - Capacity analysis, planning, and addition of resources to survive peak seasons
- Define and manage project KPI, Prioritize Backlogs, User Stories, and Release plan
- Coach and influence IT teams to adopt agile methodologies everywhere necessary
- Chairing Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and Backlog Grooming
- Facilitate the effective breakdown of epics into user stories, to attain high levels of sprint velocity within corporate constraints, and to plan and execute against sprint roadmaps
- Understanding of incremental delivery and the value of metrics including backlog tracking, burndown metrics, acceptance criteria, velocity, and task definition Lead and influence test-driven development
- Lead defect management meetings with stakeholders, product owners, and development teams.
Subex Ltd
Product Specialist
02.2015 - 09.2017
Job overview
- Driving the successful enhancement and maintenance of Telecom Billing products
- Prioritize competing initiatives along with user stories, technical debt, and Product Backlog items
- Work directly with end-users to capture and analyze challenges to their workflow
- Provide key performance metrics to the Head of IT on the deliveries and benefits realization of change implementations
- Prioritizes work within an agile team and maintains a backlog of future work for consideration/prioritization
- Take responsibility for the development of ongoing enhancements, and create and prioritize user stores with the agile teams
- Own and drive backlog grooming and management, prioritize user stories, create acceptance criteria and drive testing and delivery
- Work with Program Management and Battelle leadership to support new business
- Maximizing the work of the development team.
Tech Mahindra
Software Engineer
06.2012 - 02.2015
Job overview
- Managing the WebLogic servers, through console and machine
- Feed generation from the database for the DI issues
- Involving in all application-related Deployments and Change Requests
- Managing the Production Environment (24
- 7) and Carrying out Deployments
- Resolving all types of application issues within SLA
- Completing all tasks ahead of schedule and exceeding expectations
- Preparing daily, weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc activities for the application
- Collaboration with BT service assurance manager, and design manager regarding Broadband provisioning.
Education
BITS Pilani
MS from Electronics And Telecommunication
01.2015
Skills
- Backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
- Transition teams from waterfall to scrum in an enterprise IT environment
- Strong conflict resolution skills to move solutions forward
- Strategic Planning and Execution
- Market and Consumer Research
- New Product Development and Launch
- User Experience Improvements
- Feature Definition and Prioritization
- Project Management, Delivery
- Domain Exposure: Telecom Billing, Travel (Airlines), Oil & Gas, Fintech
- Sprint Planning
- Resource Allocation
- Workflow Analysis
- Development team trainings
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Management
- Customer interaction
- Meeting participation
- Risk Identification
- Meeting facilitation
- Technical understanding
- Requirements Gathering
- Lean principles
- Agile Best Practices
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Presentation Skills
- Budget Control
- Project Team Coordination
- Attention to Detail
- Work Planning and Prioritization
- Customer Needs Assessment
- Schedule Management
- Documentation And Reporting
- Performance monitoring
- Data Analysis
- Excellent Communication
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Project Planning
- Interpersonal Skills
- Multitasking
- Communication Planning
- Cost Management
- Self Motivation
- Material Resource Management
- Business Continuity
- Staff Training
- Problem-solving aptitude
- Project tracking
- Stakeholder Negotiations
- Vendor Management
- Conflict Resolution
- Agile Methodologies
- Organizational Skills
- Reliability
- Scrum Methodology
- Written Communication
- Risk Assessment
- Change Management
- Waterfall methodology
- Problem-solving abilities
Certification
- Certified Project Manager (PMI-PMP)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Certified Product Owner (CSPO)
Technicalsummary
MS Excel, MS Dashboards, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Azure DevOps Board, MS Word, MS PPT, WebLogic Admin, Heat Direct, BMC Remedy Control-M, Veritas Cluster VCS, UNIX Shell scripting, SQL, PL/SQL, Java, Python
Educationandcertifications
- MS in Telecommunication and Software Engineering – 2014 BITS, Pilani.
- BE in ECE – 2011, Affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU).
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO).
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- (310-065) Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 6.0 (SCJP)
- Professional Effectiveness Programme (PEP UP) Customized by Oscar Murphy Life Strategists.
Keydeliveries
- As a PO, built software products ground up for Oil and Gas, and Fintech industries – Electrical Submersible Pump (SubPUMP) for the Oil and Gas industry. This is the world's largest ESP equipment database that provides unbiased, vendor-neutral ESP design & analysis enabling OIL and GAS subscribers to design and optimize ESP systems.
- Paymode / Cash Application is a Fintech product to simplifies the accounts receivable and payment process by harnessing the power of machine learning to match payments, remittance information, and outstanding invoices automatically.
- As an SM, coached, mentored, and enabled novice teams to completely phase out from the waterfall model and adopt Agile methodologies by 100% - leading to alignment with company goals, objectives, and improved delivery timelines.
- As a PM, Planned and drove the evacuation of the Data Center from Erding to Frankfurt, saving power consumption by 40%. Virtualized the other 30% of the system using V-Motion tech. (with near-zero downtime) for Airline, Rail, and Hotel clients of Amadeus Business.
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Kannada
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Telugu
Advanced (C1)
Timeline
Scrum Master
Bottomline Technologies
02.2022 - Current
Product Management Principal
IHS Markit
04.2020 - 02.2021
Product Owner & Scrum Master
Amadeus Software Labs
10.2017 - 03.2020
Product Specialist
Subex Ltd
02.2015 - 09.2017
Software Engineer
Tech Mahindra
06.2012 - 02.2015
BITS Pilani
MS from Electronics And Telecommunication
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