JIRA
Rajarajan VP
Lead Scrum Master
Chennai,TN
Summary
A highly motivated and experienced agile program manager with a proven ability to lead large-scale Agile initiatives across multiple teams and departments. Skilled in managing complex, cross-functional programs while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
3
3
Languages
Work History
Lead Scrum Master
Foodhub Pvt Ltd
09.2020 - Current
- Steered the delivery of projects within Agile frameworks across multiple departments, leading to a 30% increase in interconnected projects' success rates between Client Management, Consumer Ordering Portals and Management system.
- Drove the transition from Waterfall to Agile, resulting in a 60% increase in project delivery speed in Consumer ordering and Management system.
- Mentored and trained multiple Agile teams, resulting in a 15% increase in velocity in the teams
- Spearheaded a company-wide Agile adoption strategy, successfully converting 70% of projects to Agile.
- Monitored sprint progress using Agile metrics like burn down charts, velocity, and cumulative flow diagrams to ensure timely delivery.
- Handled the release management of various teams.
- Resolving conflicts and facilitated open communication among team members,
promoting healthy work environment - Facilitated Daily Scrum meetings to track progress, identify blockers, and ensure alignment with Sprint Goals.
- Provided clear, consistent status updates to stakeholders and leadership through dashboards, reports, and Sprint Reviews.
- Identified, tracked, and resolved impediments to maintain continuous progress and adherence to timelines.
- Coached teams on Agile best practices to improve predictability, estimation accuracy, and delivery efficiency.
- Facilitated Sprint Retrospectives to drive continuous improvement in delivery timelines, team collaboration, and processes.
- Leveraged historical sprint data to refine team velocity and enhance future sprint planning accuracy.
Senior Scrum Master
IBM (BNP Paribas)
05.2019 - 09.2020
- Working as a Scrum master for multiple scrum team in Wealth Management division.
- Facilitating Scrum events that include backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Collaborate with the Product Owner, to understand the PBI and providing guidance to the team whenever necessary.
- Coaching teams in Agile practices and providing necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Anticipate impediments that would be an hindrance to team delivery and remove the impediments.
- Driving Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realise success throughout life of each sprint.
- Coaching team cohesion and overcoming impediments /hurdles to increase productivity.
- Evaluating product progress at each iteration responsible to manage sprint and successful delivery of functionalities in the scrum cycles.
- Proactively identifying and finding ways to resolve issues and prevent distractions to keep projects on track.
Application Project Manager
IBM (AT&T)
01.2016 - 05.2020
- Developed and managed project plans, timelines, and budgets to ensure successful application delivery.
- Defined project scope, objectives, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders and technical teams.
- Monitored project progress through milestones, ensuring timely completion and adherence to quality standards.
- Led cross-functional teams including developers, testers, and business analysts to ensure seamless execution.
- Fostered collaboration among stakeholders, resolving conflicts and aligning team efforts with business goals.
- Identified potential project risks, developed mitigation strategies, and escalated issues as necessary.
- Delivered clear and concise project updates to stakeholders, including progress, risks, and key milestones.
- Acted as the primary point of contact between technical teams and business stakeholders to manage expectations.
- Ensured project deliverables met quality standards by coordinating testing, reviews, and validation processes.
- Applied Scrum, Kanban or Waterfall methodologies as appropriate to project needs to drive delivery.
Application Developer, Production Support
Artech India (Contractor : IBM)
01.2011 - 08.2016
- Associate SME for the WFA suite of applications providing business assistance and
technically leading the team.. - Developing the modules as per user requirements, resolving errors exceptions, report generations as per the user requirements, scheduling and running batch jobs and defect tracking and reporting trouble shooting
- Review of the Installation Documentation.
- To Develop an Installation checklist.
- Review the release libraries received from Telcordia.
- To develop and review all the required walkthrough documentation for installation
and to conduct the walkthrough. - Coordinate the release installation activities with other teams.
- Perform the release installation for WFA/C, NSDB, WFA/DI& AAI application in both the test and production sites.
- Provide 24x7 support for problem resolution when required.
- To design the ESP template that is used to formulate the sequence of the various jobs that are involved in the release as per the order of run.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology And Management
SASTRA
Tanjore 04.2001 -
Skills
Project management
Stakeholder management
Agile coaching
Adaptive leadership
Risk identification
Resource allocation
Kanban knowledge
Presentation skills
Team facilitation
Leading scrum meetings
Coaching and mentoring
Team collaboration
Release Management
Production Support Management
Decision-making
Software
Phython
SQL
Confluence
JQL
COBOL
Certification
Certified Scrum Master
Timeline
Lead Scrum Master
Foodhub Pvt Ltd
09.2020 - Current
Senior Scrum Master
IBM (BNP Paribas)
05.2019 - 09.2020
Certified Scrum Master
06-2017
Application Project Manager
IBM (AT&T)
01.2016 - 05.2020
Application Developer, Production Support
Artech India (Contractor : IBM)
01.2011 - 08.2016
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology And Management
SASTRA
04.2001 -