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Parivesh Dhariwal

Bengaluru

Summary

Team-driven Scrum Master knowledgeable in task prioritization, risk management and workflow optimization. Committed Agile expert with over 14 years of expertise in public speaking, presenting information clearly and developing high performing teams. Collaborative individual remains poised in all types of situations.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Scrum Master

First Abu Dhabi Bank
12.2021 - Current
  • Facilitate Agile Ceremonies: Organize and lead Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives, ensuring their effectiveness and adherence to Agile principles.
  • Coach and Mentor: Support and guide development team, product owners, and stakeholders in understanding Agile practices, roles, and responsibilities, fostering a self-organizing, cross-functional team.
  • Remove Impediments: Identify and address obstacles that hinder team's progress and escalate issues when necessary to ensure a smooth development process.
  • Shield from External Interruptions: Act as a buffer between the development team and external distractions, ensuring a focused and productive work environment during Sprints.
  • Collaborate with Product Owners: Collaborate closely with product owners to define clear and achievable Sprint goals and maintain a well-groomed product backlog.
  • Monitor and Report: Track team's progress, velocity, and performance metrics, providing timely updates to stakeholders and management.
  • Foster Continuous Improvement: Encourage a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the team, experimenting with new processes and techniques to enhance efficiency.
  • Facilitate Communication: Promote effective communication and collaboration between team members, departments, and stakeholders to align project goals and expectations.
  • Stakeholder Management: Work with stakeholders to understand project requirements and manage expectations throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Stay Current with Agile Best Practices: Stay up-to-date with the latest trends, tools, and best practices in Agile methodologies and Scrum, incorporating relevant changes into the team's processes.

Senior Manager PMO

Exide Life Insurance, Bangalore Urban
03.2021 - 12.2021
  • Managing cross functional projects keeping scope, cost, and time intact.
  • Providing project advice relating to scope change assistance, resource planning and creation of charter.
  • Maintaining lessons learned documents.
  • Assisting project managers with the required support to run the project within defined timelines.
  • Training and educating project managers / teams on project managements standards.
  • Managing inter-project communication within the company.
  • Running steering committee meetings on monthly basis.
  • Creating dashboards for leadership team on monthly basis.
  • Managing Escalation matrix along with governance process.
  • Coordinating with Vendors for billing activities.
  • Managing project audits by providing evidence and maintaining SharePoint.

Manager

Fidelity Investments, Karnataka
09.2019 - 03.2021
  • Managed projects for clients; coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure timely completion as per project plan.
  • Creating project templates for project managers.
  • Coordinating on-site & offsite tasks in a project, allocating resources and guided team members during the project phase.
  • Participating in Walkthroughs/ Reviews with sr Managers, customers & other stakeholders for discussing & resolving issues.
  • Managing changes to the process by maintaining project documents, policies and reports.
  • Running steering committee meetings on monthly basis.

Project Lead

Subex
10.2016 - 09.2019
  • Coordinated project management activities, resources, equipment & information after validating artifacts in enterprise tools.
  • Set a timeframe by driving enhancement of in-house project management tools; ensured Scrum Methodology is followed.
  • Coordinated with internal clients to identify and define requirements, scope & objectives as well as with Finance Team to ensure revenues are recognized; validated project artifacts like SOW, Term Sheets, POs and ensured projects are running as per project plan and change requests are captured in the project tool.
  • Coordinated efforts with Vendors and managed expectations.
  • Managed project audits from external audit agencies, year on year basis.
  • Coaching the team members in self-management and cross-functionality.
  • Managing impediments caused to scrum team.
  • Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox.
  • Helping product owner in backlog refinement and prioritization.
  • Helping the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items.
  • Facilitating stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed.

Senior Analyst

ANZ Support Services
Bangalore
12.2014 - 08.2016
  • Applied a Structural Change Management approach and methodology caused by projects and change efforts.
  • Developed Change Management Strategy based on situational awareness of details of change & groups impacted by change.
  • Identified stakeholders, facilitated meetings, drafted MOMs, developed communication plan, managed communication to all stakeholders, updated documents, identified risks and mitigated the same.
  • Prepared change impact assessment, ensured all impacted teams are engaged and expectations are set.
  • Scheduled meetings with stakeholders, change initiators; sent MOMs, prepared PPT for CAB, coordinated efforts with other specialists and project team; conducted post-implementation reviews.
  • Designed a project charter, identified a manual and tedious process, and checked historical data for last 3 months.
  • Liaised with the Business Improvement Team to create a smart E-Form; gathered the data and analyzed it further.

Content Analyst

Thomson Reuters
Bangalore
08.2009 - 06.2014
  • Tracking investment firms and other allied businesses across the globe for products such as Thomson One Investor Relations and Eikon.
  • Analyzing information from fact sheets, media articles, regulatory sources and company websites and facilitating as SPOC for working on corporate actions for Bangalore and coordinating the same with global teams.
  • Assisting in developing work direction and plan for the associates after thorough assessment of their capabilities; preparing & presenting various weekly/monthly MIS reports pertaining to process and productivity.
  • SPOC for managing corporate actions which involved collecting details from the investment companies regarding mergers, acquisitions and liquidations.
  • Performing quality checks.
  • Training new hires on the process.

Process Associate

Accenture
Bangalore
12.2008 - 04.2009
  • Entrusted with the accountability of resolving internet and desktop related queries for the US regions as a part of the Technical Team.

Education

MBA - Project Management

Sikkim Manipal University
Bangalore

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com - Finance

Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College
Bangalore

Undergraduate - Commerce

M.E.S College of Arts, Commerce
Bangalore

10th -

Presidency School, ICSE
Bangalore

General Management Program - General Management

Indian Institute of Management
Kozhikode

Skills

  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Sprint Planning
  • Scrum processes
  • Leading scrum meetings
  • Risk Identification
  • Backlog management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Agile Best Practices
  • Staff Development
  • Product Management
  • Team Leadership
  • Project Management

Certifications

  • PSM1
  • CSM
  • PRINCE2
  • Executive Leadership program from E-Cornell University

Accomplishments

WoW

Issued by Head of PMO and Quality · Feb 2019

Demonstrated professionalism at all levels in ensuring correct profiling of projects in SAP / Swift for the Business Revenues. An Extremely Important Role.

Kaizen Award

Issued by Head of Utilities - ANZ · Apr 2016

Received the kaizen award for automating a manual process by creating a smart E-Form which resultant in a saving of 15.5 man hours every month. Ensured process changes resulted in reduced work and time wastage.

Design Thinking Simulation Contest

Issued by Knolskape

Fidelity along with Knolskape ran design thinking simulation Contest between 30 participants. Awarded 2nd position in simulation on understanding and obtaining the target.

Timeline

Scrum Master

First Abu Dhabi Bank
12.2021 - Current

Senior Manager PMO

Exide Life Insurance, Bangalore Urban
03.2021 - 12.2021

Manager

Fidelity Investments, Karnataka
09.2019 - 03.2021

Project Lead

Subex
10.2016 - 09.2019

Senior Analyst

ANZ Support Services
12.2014 - 08.2016

Content Analyst

Thomson Reuters
08.2009 - 06.2014

Process Associate

Accenture
12.2008 - 04.2009

MBA - Project Management

Sikkim Manipal University

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com - Finance

Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College

Undergraduate - Commerce

M.E.S College of Arts, Commerce

10th -

Presidency School, ICSE

General Management Program - General Management

Indian Institute of Management

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