Ivan D'souza
Mumbai
Summary
Instrumental in bringing expertise from being challenged in Diverse Roles and having 6+ years of experience achieving ambitious goals in challenging IT environment. Diligent, forward-thinking and adaptable to dynamic company, customer and project needs. Successful at motivating teams to meet demanding timelines.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Assistant Manager
CitiBank
Mumbai
08.2023 - 01.2024
- Handled team of 20+ people; trained on practicing Scrum and helps the team adopt Agile in order to deliver quality releases quickly to market
- Expertise with various Agile Methodologies - Scrum, Scrum with XP, Kanban, and Scrum ban etc
- Ability to partner with product owner and manage backlog - backlog prioritization, backlog grooming, ready groomed stories for next 3 iterations
- Formulated Definition of Done, Definition of Ready, Sprint Dashboard, Burn down Chart, QA Metrics (Quality/Technical Dept; Cycle Time/Lead Time), Story Quality Metrics, Escalation Plan, Sprint Start and Closure Activities, Team working Agreement, push for Automation, Story Estimation techniques (like planning poker) etc
- Ability to manage and increase team velocity, measure efficiency at team and individual level
- Manager the project risk and risk mitigation plan and make it transparent to the relevant stakeholders.
Project Manager/Scrum Master
Alphasense
Mumbai
01.2023 - 08.2023
- Managed multiple projects with competing deadlines simultaneously.
- Ensured seamless transition of acquired company within the Alphasense environment.
- Delivered critical project termed as Notebook for both the Enterprise and SaaS customers
- Produced thorough, accurate and timely reports of project activities.
- Conducted regular status meetings with internal teams and external partners to track progress against established milestones.
- Presented findings from data analysis in a clear, concise manner that was easily understood by stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Participated in cross-functional teams responsible for developing innovative solutions for complex problems.
- Collaborated closely with senior management on long-term strategic planning initiatives related to projects in development or execution stages.
Scrum Master /Product Manager
Alphasense
Mumbai
06.2021 - 12.2022
- Documented new features and strategies as well as user stories and criteria for acceptance.
- Coached stakeholders on their roles in the Scrum process and how to best support the team's success.
- Ideated the Projects for Two Teams on the Alerting and Ingestion of Documents within the Cloud Environment both for the Web/ Ios App with the stakeholders and created Roadmaps consecutively for multiple quarters.
- Communicated the Dependencies with the cross team's in Scrum of Scrums with proper user stories and the impact it would be having on the business.
- Managed Incidents along with the ensuring we achieve majority of the work planned for the Roadmap.
- Defined OKRs for the team an ensured timely updating of the same on Weekly basis.
- Prioritized Production Bugs with the help of project plan with the Stakeholders, and maintained timelines and reduced it from a total of 200 to 20 within 2 Quarters
- Pushed an A/B testing variation for one of the features with Optimizely and finalized one of the features with the stakeholders.
- Monitored progress of sprints, providing visibility into project status for stakeholders.
- Led daily Scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.
Senior QA Engineer /Scrum Master
Alphasense
Mumbai
01.2020 - 06.2021
- Partnered with senior management to analyze issues and find appropriate solutions
- Contributed to root cause analysis to determine core reason for failures and errors
- Developed traceability documentation to aid in investigating faults and defects
- Participated in multi-disciplinary defect reviews to discern and address root causes
- Escalated concerns about project and process quality, referring discovered issues to engineering manager for correction
- Led problem-solving activities to quickly identify and permanently resolve quality and productivity issues.
- Assisted developers in debugging application errors by providing reproducible steps.
QA Tester
Alphasense
Mumbai
01.2019 - 01.2020
- Partnered with senior management to analyze issues and find appropriate solutions
- Collaborated with 5 QA team to test software quality through manual and automated testing
- Escalated concerns about project and process quality, referring discovered issues to engineering manager for correction
- Built strong rapport with team members, management and clients to facilitate efficiency and productivity
- Supported around 10 quality team members during corrective action updates.
- Evaluated existing processes and procedures and suggested improvements for better efficiency.
- Simulated software production environments to allow for enhanced testing.
Business Analyst
AlphaSense
Mumbai
01.2018 - 03.2019
- Analyzed operational data, surfacing insights and findings to support business and technical decisions.
- Analyzed 1000s of Financial Documents and trained the LLM model with multiple iterations for tracking the sentiment Analysis of the Product
- Curated the list of Financial Documents from Multiple Website and ensured a timely updating of the Alphasense Portal
- Defined key data points and data sources to track against measurable performance indicators and produce useful reports.
- Facilitated brainstorming sessions with cross-functional teams for problem solving activities.
- Assisted in developing training materials for internal staff on new products or services.
Municipal Bond Analyst
TCS
Mumbai
06.2017 - 12.2017
- Conducted research into potential investments by evaluating issuer credit quality, liquidity, yield curves.
- Facilitated communication between clients and underwriters regarding new issues or secondary market transactions.
- Ensured timely updating of Bonds on the Bloomberg terminal from the Preliminary stage to the Final OS stage
- Maintained a 99% accuracy for the research and timely accuracy and updating of the bonds
- Analyzed financial statements, credit ratings, and other related data of issuers of municipal bonds.
Education
Product Management -
Unlearn Product
Mumbai03-2024
Scaled Agile Scrum Master -
Safe Provided By Scaled Agile
12.2022
Certified Scrum Master -
Scrum Alliance
09.2022
Financial Modelling -
IMS Proschool
06.2018
Commerce -
St Andrew's College of Arts, Science And Commerce
05.2014
Secondary Schooling -
St Anthony's High School
05.2012
Bachelor of Accountancy & Finance -
LS Raheja College of Arts & Commerce
Skills
- Project Management
- Adobe Photoshop
- Google Workspace/ Office 365
- JIRA / Confluence
- Postman
- Figma
- Customer interaction
- Teamwork and Collaboration
Certification
- SCRUM Master LinkedIn Certifications
- Advanced SCRUM Master LinkedIn Certifications
- Scaled Agile Safe Scrum Master
- SCRUM Foundation Certificate
- Certified Scrum Master
Timeline
Senior Assistant Manager
CitiBank
08.2023 - 01.2024
Project Manager/Scrum Master
Alphasense
01.2023 - 08.2023
Scrum Master /Product Manager
Alphasense
06.2021 - 12.2022
Senior QA Engineer /Scrum Master
Alphasense
01.2020 - 06.2021
QA Tester
Alphasense
01.2019 - 01.2020
Business Analyst
AlphaSense
01.2018 - 03.2019
Municipal Bond Analyst
TCS
06.2017 - 12.2017
Product Management -
Unlearn Product
Scaled Agile Scrum Master -
Safe Provided By Scaled Agile
Certified Scrum Master -
Scrum Alliance
Financial Modelling -
IMS Proschool
Commerce -
St Andrew's College of Arts, Science And Commerce
Secondary Schooling -
St Anthony's High School
Bachelor of Accountancy & Finance -
LS Raheja College of Arts & Commerce
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