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BusinessDevelopmentManager
MVN Saikiran

MVN Saikiran

Summary

Having 13+ years of experience as an IT professional in managing, developing, enhancing, and maintaining applications and products. Having 4+ years of experience as a certified (ASM) Agile Scrum Master. Responsible for facilitating the scrum process on scrum teams with cross-functional impacts that involve moderately complex project, non-project, or maintenance work. Guides the scrum team(s) and organization to follow generally accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.

Serve as the Release Train Engineer (RTE), guiding the teams through effective Agile methodologies to ensure efficient and high-quality service delivery of various products and applications across Insurance, Banking, cloud, and Healthcare domains. Expert in delivering cost-effective digital projects by adequate coaching and mentoring of teams in a servant leadership style. Skilled in transforming teams from traditional development teams to high-performing agile teams.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

IT Project Management, Lead Analyst (Scrum Master)

Cigna Health Solutions India Private Ltd
6 2023 - Current
  • Agile Scrum master for 3 teams and lead delivery range of web applications and cloud-based applications and Data migration
  • Facilitate the Scrum Agile ceremonies for the teams
  • Collaborate with RTE's, product owners, program or project managers to communicate delivery of work product from the team and escalate key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness.
  • Improved overall team efficiency by streamlining processes and implementing new analytical tools.
  • Optimized resource allocation by creating customized dashboards for monitoring project progress and tracking key performance indicators.
  • Reduced operational risks with thorough assessments of business processes, identifying gaps and recommending improvements.
  • Implemented process improvements that increased efficiency within the department, allowing for greater focus on high-impact projects.
  • Presented findings to senior leadership, effectively communicating complex data-driven insights in an easily digestible format for non-technical audiences.
  • Developed strong relationships with clients, resulting in increased trust and repeat business engagements.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to develop actionable insights from complex datasets, driving informed strategic decisions.
  • Streamlined reporting processes to save time and improve accessibility of critical information for decisionmakers.

Sr Consultant

Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt Ltd
10.2021 - 05.2023
  • Agile Scrum master for 3 teams and lead delivery range of web applications and windows application for Astrazaneca
  • Deliver capabilities using agile practices while also following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes as appropriate to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met
  • Facilitate the Scrum Agile ceremonies for the teams
  • Collaborate with RET's,product owners, program or project managers to communicate delivery of work product from the team and escalate key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness.
  • Mentored junior consultants, helping them enhance their skills and contribute more effectively to projects.
  • Prioritized projects and project tasks depending upon key milestones and deadline dates.
  • Troubleshot issues by understanding issue, diagnosing root cause and coming up with effective solutions.
  • Collaborated with internal teams to develop customized solutions that addressed unique client needs.
  • Built strong relationships with clients through consistent communication and proactive problem-solving efforts.
  • Managed cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of high-quality solutions for various projects.

Technical Lead Engineer

CONDUENT BUSINESS SERVICES INDIA LLP
04.2015 - 10.2021
  • Agile Scrum master for 2 teams and lead delivery range of web applications and windows application for Citi Bank, Toronto Dominion Bank, Care First, Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
  • Collaborated closely with Product owners, customers, managers and SMEs in refining backlog and addressing cross team dependencies
  • Ensured the scrum team follows the Agile methodology and the scrum framework, supported via appropriate coaching and scrum master activities
  • Accountable for bringing transparency and visibility using DevOps Porfolio, TFS through generating reports, editing/setting up workflows, creating dashboards, sprint agile boards, feature boards, burn up / down charts etc
  • Facilitating Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Restrospective ceremonines along with centre-wide ceremonies (scrum of scrums, Inception meetings, joint planning etc)
  • Ensured proper collaboration between globally distributed teams by proper utilisation of scrum ceremonies
  • Responsible for continuous integration and continuous delivery of all the releases
  • Removing impediments to deliver success through the proactive management of external dependencies, medium-to-high complexity team problem-solving and the development of new solutions or approaches to ongoing challenges
  • Continuous Collaboration with Product owners, CITM, Solution architects, Dev Leads and QA leads in grooming product backlog and preparing release plans
  • Reporting team progress and accomplishment up and across

Sr Software engineer

RK & P Software Solutions Pvt Ltd, Visakhapatnam, India
11.2013 - 03.2015
  • Experience with coding, debugging, technical problems solving and unit testing
  • Experience in C#
  • NET, ASP.NET technology stack
  • Excellent grasp on Object oriented programming and various design paradigms
  • Experience in Front End skills (WCF, WInforms etc)
  • Strong in SDLC tools like Microsoft Team Foundation Server
  • To develop the guide lines and conventions not only for .NET but also for SQL Server 2012/2016
  • Create database objects such as tables, views, stored procedures, functions, triggers etc
  • Determine root causes of issues and provide timely resolutions
  • Participate in client discussions and workshops
  • Co-ordinate with onsite/client for any clarifications
  • Performing of unit and integration testing of software deliverables meeting client standards.

Software engineer

Vertical Soft-tech Marketing Pvt. Ltd. Visakhapatnam, India
07.2010 - 10.2013
  • Extensively worked on .Net, vb.net C# technologies, frameworks, application and webservices, third party implementation libraries
  • Prepared test-based applications for Dot Net applications
  • Supported existing legacy Windows Forms (WinForms) applications
  • Supporting post implementation as a support user with the required configuration changes
  • Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
  • Experience with coding, debugging, technical problems solving and unit testing
  • Experience in C#
  • NET, ASP.NET technology stack

Education

B.Sc in Computer Science -

Andhra University
01.2001 - 04.2004

Skills

Agile Scrum, Kanban

Certification

Agile Scrum Master, EXIN, 04/2021

Timeline

Sr Consultant

Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt Ltd
10.2021 - 05.2023

Technical Lead Engineer

CONDUENT BUSINESS SERVICES INDIA LLP
04.2015 - 10.2021

Sr Software engineer

RK & P Software Solutions Pvt Ltd, Visakhapatnam, India
11.2013 - 03.2015

Software engineer

Vertical Soft-tech Marketing Pvt. Ltd. Visakhapatnam, India
07.2010 - 10.2013

B.Sc in Computer Science -

Andhra University
01.2001 - 04.2004

IT Project Management, Lead Analyst (Scrum Master)

Cigna Health Solutions India Private Ltd
6 2023 - Current
MVN Saikiran