OMKARESHWAR PANDEY
Plano
Summary
Experienced Scrum Master & Technical Project manager with overall 16+ years of experience & 7+ years' experience in delivering tangible outcomes via high-quality software products, driving end-to-end continuous improvement, cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring product quality throughout SDLC with software and business technology teams. Seasoned Coach & facilitator for solving analytical/technical complex problems, improving communication & collaboration, and building high performing teams & leadership, to drive successful agile transformation for project success with tools like Rally, JIRA and Confluence. Worked on domains - Cybersecurity, Financial, banking, Insurance, Logistics, Healthcare, telecom, CRM etc. Helped, Guided and coached multiple teams on Agile Mindset, improving productivity, better estimations, correct prioritizations KPI/report generation, software testing, workflow optimization, Sanity, Load/Stress, UAT Testing Highly experienced to transform teams and organization into Agile WOW to foster a culture of transparency, adaptability, and excellence.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. SCRUM MASTER
USConnect (Reactive Machine) & Truist Bank (Livemindz)
Texas
08.2023 - Current
- Influenced continuous improvement values for existing processes while promoting innovation of new product development
- Processes, leading to the integration of solution via multiple teams
- Provided actionable insight to the Agile team during Retrospective events to ensure open discussions
- Used Jira and Kanban Board to track key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity, capacity) to help deliver committed work
SCRUM MASTER
Enel
India & Italy
01.2020 - 08.2023
- Developed a company and location wide project development portal to capture the progress of power projects from initiation to commissioning
- The tool by name BD hub was destined to be a single platform for uploading, accessing, analyzing and validating data across 33 different countries
- It is single platform which capture entire project journey from inception to commissioning of power projects
- Tableau was effectively used to present the analytical data and provide a deep understanding of the information provided on the platform
- Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies including Iteration Planning, Daily Standups, Iteration retrospectives, Iteration Reviews, and Backlog Refinement for an Agile team of 8
- Assisted PO with effective Backlog Refinement, prioritization, estimation and establishing Acceptance Criteria
SCRUM MASTER
Ecoren
India
06.2018 - 01.2020
- The goal of the application was to capture the load consumption pattern of 0.5 million consumers and track the utility load and provide the instruction to eligible consumers to off load the current consumption in order to manage the utility load
- Data to the extent of 0.5 million consumers and several appliances used by them was accessed by this application on real time basis
- The response time of correction was 5 seconds
- Facilitates Scrum Events including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Demos & Backlog Refinement
- Uses Jira to monitor and track product development progress through different Sprint
- Coach the scrum team, to develop strong self management to defines, builds, tests, and deploys products while facilitating the continuous improvement, cadence, and synchronization in the entire processes
- Led and tracked and analyzed project metrics such as burndown and velocity charts to judge project progress while managing risk, stakeholder communication plan, vendors, in-house and outsourced resources
- Translated stakeholder requirements into concrete deliverables such as user cases, functional specifications, and process and data model diagrams
- Provided analytics and decision-support tools to advance clients' restructuring and consolidation strategies
- Acquiring product knowledge from external stakeholders and converting into Epics, Features based on requirement from different stakeholders
- Took training on various agile practices like TDD, pair programming, writing effective user stories
- Created product backlog and user stories in JIRA
- Conducted agile ceremonies including Sprint planning, Retrospective, Backlog refinement session
- Used JIRA as the tool to Backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task management
Business Analyst
PWC
India, Denmark, Johnsburg
06.2007 - 05.2018
- Led multiple areas/work streams for the project
- Attended POCs, product demos for vendor selection, RFI/RFP documentation
- Created Project Charters and set project milestones and timelines
- Created detailed WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) from project plans
- Created RFP/RFQ, Cost-benefit analysis and impact analysis
- Vendor management - Managed multiple vendors as required
- Created capital access requests and presentations
- Created RACI and RAID documents in addition to other project documentation
- Held regular status meetings with vendors/internal stakeholders
- Single point of contact between customer, vendor, and project team
- Managed customer expectations and led technical teams in design and development tasks
Education
MBA -
Maharshi Dayanand University
India01.2007
Bachelor of Engineering -
Kumaun University
India01.2003
Skills
- Scrum/SAFe Implementation
- Bringing Agility/Transformation
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Training
- Facilitation
- Servant leadership
- Agile Project management
- Product & Sprint Planning
- Business Analysis
- MVP
- MMF
- ROI Analysis
- User Stories
- BDD
- TDD
- Estimation
- Prioritization
- Stakeholder Management
- Agile Risk Management
- Process Improvement
- Product Roadmaps
- Analytical
- Problem-Solving
- Online collaboration tools
- Atlassian Jira
- Confluence
- Rally
- Metrics
- Data Analysis
- Coaching for Transparency
- Inspection
- Adaption
- Technical skills
- MS Office
- Tableau
Certification
- SAFe Advance Scrum Master (SASM)
- PSM 1 - Professional Scrum Master
Accomplishments
- 70% increase in velocity for 3 teams by having me as a scrum master
- Successful transformation of 4 teams from waterfall WOW to Agile
- Reduced delivery time up to 50% led to successful reduction of product cost.
- Reduced defect count by 70%.
- Increased team collaboration for a multi-cultural team
- Increased commitment reliability
- Optimized all sprint events.
- Driven dozens of improvement initiatives
- Formed Agile COE
- Designed Full end-to-end Agile WOW for feature and support teams
Personal Information
Visa Status: H1
Timeline
Sr. SCRUM MASTER
USConnect (Reactive Machine) & Truist Bank (Livemindz)
08.2023 - Current
SCRUM MASTER
Enel
01.2020 - 08.2023
SCRUM MASTER
Ecoren
06.2018 - 01.2020
Business Analyst
PWC
06.2007 - 05.2018
MBA -
Maharshi Dayanand University
Bachelor of Engineering -
Kumaun University