Monika Ranganathan

• Organized 3 product development team and assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Enabled 3 product teams in portfolio to adapt agile from waterfall and helped team members to fully optimize the use of process management tools like Jira/CA Agile Central
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies. Aided in the scaling of agile principles and practices
• Introduced healthy agile development practices, leading to technical excellence and 100% predictable delivery
• Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.

Planning Techniques: Planning Poker, T-Shirt Size estimation

Tools Used: Jira, Rally, ALM, ServiceNow, Remedy, Confluence

Project Description:

The project is to migrate applications from lower end technologies to higher end .NET web applications.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a group of 12 member team in all the phases of SDLC to develop ASP .NET web applications
• Collaborated with developers and performance engineers to enhance supportability and identify performance bottlenecks
• Implemented GITHUB for version for version control
• Strengthened developmental methodologies by introducing a code quality document
• Assessed project milestones and team performance to keep staff on-task.
• Drove technical initiatives for large enterprise systems to align with long-term business strategies.
• Identified value opportunities to exploit product for maximum business effectiveness by suggesting new technologies and tools for enhancing product value
• Built ASP Web API and authenticate API's with data annotations
• Investigated system issues and implemented resolutions to reduce downtime.

Tools/Languages: ASP .NET, .NET Core, SQL, Web API, Oracle, SMARTCOMMS, Rally, Confluence

Project Description

The project is development and support of .NET applications which serves the client with Claim Details, Creating ID cards and processing clients.

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented complex L3 tickets as part of application enhancements in .NET web applications
• Provided methodologies for object-oriented software development and design
• Established compatibility with third party software products by developing program for modification and integration
• Created stored procedures, views, jobs in oracle to regulate and maintain complex data
• Developed web forms, user controls, custom controls for the web application in ASP .NET
• Developed work-flow charts and diagrams to ensure production team compliance with client deadlines
• Co-ordinates all the production roll-outs and performed the checkouts

Tools/Languages: ASP .NET, ServiceNow, Rally, ALM, TFS, Oracle, Toad, ESP