Phanibhushan Pinnamaneni

IT professional with overall 10+ years of experience in Release Management, Project Management, Transition, PMO, Operations, Agile – Scrum/Kanban framework and Delivery Management. With collaborative and innovative team culture, provided guidance and support to team members, ensuring clarity of roles and responsibilities. Lead a cross-functional team with Front-end, Back-end, testing and other segment teams. Expert in Agile Scrum/Kanban methodology. Managing Multiple Scrum masters as a Program Manager where I am account manager for Projects. Transitions, App development and infrastructure Managed projects from planning to closing lifecycle and delivered in line with recognized best practice methodology (risk management, governance, quality assurance, issue resolution, reporting) Successfully completed 9+ projects including Transition, Application development Working as a Delivery Manager in a Program Management for multiple US Projects Contribute to product engineering by owning, contributing, and leading a team to design DevOps software development and release automation framework and features. Provided technical support and troubleshooting assistance to resolve issues encountered during the development and deployment phases. Establishing Agile into the project got flexibility and continuous improvement is achieved with Devops implementation. Results-oriented Senior Technical Program Manager offering experience managing Agile projects. A motivating team leader skilled in managing associates to create innovative business solutions. Results-driven professional identifies and recommends improvements to organization software, hardware and business systems. Liaises with subject matter experts to gather business requirements and implement platforms and processes to address needs. Educated in traditional and progressive training techniques to handle highly stressful situations with poise. Dynamic IT trainer and educator promoting many years of experience. True team player offering skills in equipment oversight and training delivery.

• Certified Scrum Masters (PSM)
• PM Pro (Certified by Internal GE)
• 35 Hours of PDU’s (Required for PMI exam)

IT Program Manager

• Managed core Agile Ceremonies in team environments.
• Facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily stand up, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Working with Product Owner on Artifacts such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burn down, and Release Burn down.
• Working with stakeholders/product owners to prioritize the requirements for the sprint. Keeping the team together and establishing effective communication with consistency across development, QA, UAT and with business.
• Lead product prioritization meetings and ensure that deliverables are up to quality standards within the specified time, resolving conflicts, resolving impediments, and keeping the team focused.
• Facilitated creativity and empowerment for the cross-functional team.
• Representing the team to report overall project status, upcoming risks and suggest solutions to improve the team's engineering practices and tools as required.
• Creating and managing estimates, project PLA, project schedule, resource allocation, and assignment of User Stories to ensure that targets are met.
• Conducted Planning meetings, and backlog grooming, and provided team's status to upper management.
• Encouraging the team for self-organization to boost efficiency and coordination.
• Coached and mentored agile team members and provided constructive performance feedback.
• Administering: Cross-Functional Teams; Business Analysts, Architects, Tech Leads, Developers, Testers to achieve project deliverables and coordinating with the global services and changes with Managers to achieve project updates.
• Internal client relationships during various stages of transition.
• User stories status and ensuring timely delivery by Scrum team.
• Developing: BCP plan for team, analyzing budget, forecasting risk, developing schedule, and assisting team members.
• Detailed project plans using MS Project, coordinating in project activities and analyzing resources needed to complete project tasks.
• Risk registers to monitor, track and report risks regularly.
• Steering detailing required applications and software needed (Application Detail List) in IT requirement documents.
• Leading: Technology timeline discussions by preparing IT Tech Task List, project schedule and tracking tasks to completion.
• Team to utilize the Agile process to improve project quality and schedule.
• Representing the Application Development Team and Devops in Change Authority Board (CAB) meetings, developing Go-Live deployment plans considering all dependencies/ stakeholders and monitoring testing to verify if the implemented solutions met the requirements.
• Successfully: Initiating daily stand-up and Scrum of Scrums meeting, recording the status of the project and coordinating with Development/ QA Team and steering Scrum meeting and sprints to execute assigned projects.
• Educated and reinforced Scrum methodology and Agile framework to team
• Analyzing risk from team meetings, communicating the same with risk partners to have proper Risk Management Plan
• Led agile transformation.

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