Pratap Ullal

CIGNA-Dedicated Medicare Operating Model[DMON]

Tools & Technologies : Sales Force Health Cloud, Jira, Zephyr, Git, COPADO, Retro.io, Poinz.

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for scheduling, leading and facilitating effective Scrum team meetings (Iteration Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Iteration Reviews).
• Driving continuous improvement through facilitating team retrospectives, Agile maturity assessments each PI and driving teams toward identifying and acting on action items identified.
• Providing coaching to Team Members to ensure demonstrating appropriate Agile behaviors and following Cigna-specific Agile practices
• Building high-performing teams
• Protecting team and communicates risks (removes impediments/blockers)
• Help in coordinating inter-team cooperation
• Facilitate in preparation and readiness for Agile ceremonies
• Facilitating team progress towards Iteration and Program Increment Goals
• Support team during estimation activities
• Support Agile Product Owner
• Understand key business objectives and strategy of product, and is able to communicate this to team
• Help track metrics (inputs, outputs, and outcomes) for Scrum teams, and monitors these on ongoing basis
• Facilitate process of deciding which User Stories will be included in each iteration through understanding team's velocity, capacity and story scope and size
• Help team members select which User Stories t will work on
• Facilitate process of working with Experience Owner/Agile Product Owner and team to re-balance and re-prioritize work within iteration
• Protecting Scrum team from distractions and interruptions by people outside team
• Understand technology roadmap and help team fit their work into this roadmap, where applicable.

Nationwide Building Society[NBS-UK]-Paymod

Tools & Technologies: Azure, Jira, Scrum

Responsibilities:

• Act as Scrum Master for Feature Team 4[UI/Channels Tower] which had 5 development team members
• Coached team members on Agile practices and facilitated stand ups, planning meetings, retrospectives and backlog grooming using Jira board
• Hands On : Participated in Technical & Design discussion
• Facilitated meeting with PO, business and cross-functional teams
• Working closely with other feature teams and highlighting any risk & dependencies
• Chaired Scrum of Scrum and Show & Tell demo calls
• Mentored and coached team members on agile principles and practices, resulting in improved collaboration, increased self-organization, and enhanced overall team performance
• Spearheaded team expansion initiatives and orchestrated process optimization to drive operational efficiency and elevate project outcomes.

CIO-Local Application Development[LAD]

Tools & Technologies used: AWS, Azure, AZDO, Angular, ASP .NET MVC, Aurora MySQL, Azure SQL Server.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the Scrum Master by successfully guiding 3 major project teams through transition from a separate Development & Operation teams to DevOps
• Coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives
• Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts
• Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity
• Encouraged and implemented process improvements
• Created team-building opportunities
• Worked closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation
• Developed and followed agile project management plan (Agile Ceremonies)
• Facilitated build requirements log (product backlog) with cost estimates and priority
• Conducted Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings
• Determined team capacity (velocity) from historical data
• Created Work Break down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks).

CIO – Local Applications Development (Accenture)

Technologies used : AWS, Azure, Azure DevOps, ASP.NET MVC, AWS Aurora MySQL, Azure SQL Server

Responsibilities :

• Act as technical Project Manager with overall responsibility for management, performance and completion of new product development projects
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and assist Project Manager in estimating completion dates and resource allocation
• Manage schedule, costs, quality, issue & risk management, communications, and other PMI project management functions
• Provides day-to-day guidance and oversight of team activities; actively works to recognize performance.

Fixed Asset Capitalization Engine [FACE] and Vendor Compliance Tool [VCT] with a 18-member team size using Agile Methodology.

Tools & Technologies used: Angular7, AWS S3, Cloud Front, API Gateway, Lambda, Step Function, Azure Containers, Aurora My SQL, Azure SQL.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing business interaction and understanding business requirements
• Monitoring project work using Agile Methodology.

• Compliance Tracking Tool [02/2017 - 08/2019]
• India Export Compliance [07/2015 - 01/2017]
• Leave Management Tool [04/2015 - 06/2015]
• People Connect [09/2014 - 03/2015]

Tools & Technologies used: Visual Studio [2015,2013], AngularJS, Entity Framework [6.0,5.0], AWS S3, LAMBDA, NodeJS, SQL Server [2014,2012], VSTS, Octopus,C# .Net [4.5,4.0], MVC [5.0,4.0], ODATA, jQuery, QlikView, Elastic Search, TFS, SSRS SQL Server 2012 R2.

Awards: Accenture Celebrating Excellence [ACE Award FY-18 & FY-19]

• OCSA System [09/2013 - 08/2014]
• Kohl's Data Transfer System[KDTS] [04/2013 - 08/2013]
• Best Buy - Enterprise Middleware Services[EMS] [03/2010 - 03/2013]

Tools & Technologies used: Visual Studio 2012/2005/2003, C# with Web API/MVC 4.0, SQL Server 2008 R2 and TFS,Visual Studio 2003/2005, WCF 2.0/3.5, Amberpoint, Layer7 and AWS.

• NBHC ERP [10/2007 - 02/2010]
• Exchange Direct [08/2007 - 10/2007]
• Exchange Chat Messaging [06/2007 - 08/2007]
• Commodity Online Trading [03/2006 - 06/2007]

Tools & Technologies used: ASP.NET 2.0, C#, Ajax, HTML, JavaScript and SQL Server 2005, 1 KEY Reporting, Crystal Report 10 and STAR TEAM 2006.

• SANGAM - Hindustan Leaver Ltd[03/2005 - 02/2006]
• Point Of Sale - OPTIONS Store [06/2004 - 02/2005]

Tools & Technologies used: Windows CE, VB.Net, SQL Server 2000 and MS Access.