Shubha Jayappa
Summary
Experienced Scrum Master with proven track record of successfully leading teams in developing high-quality software solutions on time and within budget. Skilled in multiple Agile methodologies, stakeholder management and sprint planning. Highly organized in managing complex projects with multiple deadlines. Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders. Strong requirements gathering, scope development and inventory coordination abilities. Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Success/ Functional Analyst MI / Scrum Master / Product Manager
Shell India Markets Pvt., Ltd
05.2018 - Current
- Partner with Product Owners to ensure vision, roadmap and personas are well-defined
- Organize and facilitate Scrum ceremonies : Sprint review, planning, daily stand-ups, retrospective's, sprint demos and other Scrum-related meetings
- Track and communicate team velocity and other development metrics with the team in ceremonies and intervene when required
- Responsible for providing extensive consultation to stakeholders and ensuring effective relevant information is received and accurately exchanged
- Provides guidance and motivation to team members and project stakeholders, and effectively deploys resources to achieve project objectives
- Determine and remove all obstacles that may interfere with the ability of the teams to deliver assigned goals
- Help teams continuously reflect and improve by practicing core Agile principles, becoming more effective in their roles and increasing their predictability, collaboration, and quality practices
- Assist in defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes
- Keeps abreast of emerging project management trends and best practices through contact with peers, internal and external teams
- Organizing workshops and team events for internal and external teams
- Precisely capture business problems, value drivers, and functional/non-functional requirements, including health, safety, security, usability, data, and supportability considerations
- Documentation of project lifecycle, which includes data and trackers for the Global Commercial, Retail and Chemicals team
- Create and present compelling business cases to justify solution value and establish approval, funding and prioritization
- Initiate, plan, execute, monitor, and perform other activities on projects within agreed parameters of cost, time and quality
- Lead stakeholder management activities, including facilitation of large design sessions to implement RACI
- Knowledge of Data Analysis and Techniques, which has simplified CR log, ARCC tracker, Project updates, Demand, team Resource allocations and Master Resource List
- Agile project experience
- Knowledge of the technology landscape including current and future developments and the most commonly available products and integrated solutions
- Ability to take a systematic and analytical approach to problem solving and pay close attention to detail
- Ambassador for ‘be first choice Programme' facilitated ‘be one team challenge' events and MC for all hands meetings
- Power BI Report publishing License: Published reports for 6 workspaces in 2019 for GCC Workstream
- Resource allocation for GC, Retail and Chemicals in PPM tool for every quarter the percentage of non-allocation resources has bought down from 80% to 10%.
HR Recruitment - Operations (Candidate Cordinator)
Shell India Markets Pvt., Ltd
07.2011 - 04.2018
- Assisting Recruiters to fix and coordinate Final Assessments (FA’s) timings, venues and applicable candidate administration including candidate coordination from India and overseas.
- Successfully managing JG2 and above final assessments
- Onboarding new Candidate Coordinator’s in the team
- Managing Coordinators as SME and Understanding the needs/help for coordinators where in necessary
- Participating in Weekly meeting with Recruiters to understand there are no gaps
- Requirements gathering from the recruiters for Final assessment
- Inform to business for availability and functional expert for each job title
- Reach out to local trained assessors in case of shortage of trained assessors
- Prepare schedule plan based on the inputs provided by the Recruiters and Business. Sharing the same with the business and getting an approval
- Arrange assessor briefing call to explain the interview process and the logistics arrangement
- Guide assessors in terms of hotel and transportation booking
- Scheduling and Coordinating candidates for F2F discussion
- Conduct HSSE briefing on the first day of assessment for candidate.
- Have worked with different Line of Business’s within when there is high volume
- Have planned for walk in model interview drive in a short duration
- Collect the evaluation forms with scores and notes from the assessor and prepare integration matrix
- Organize Integration meet, during the integration meet- project the scores and discuss the candidates placed on hold
- Cross Regional Coordination with Operations team for other Countries for fixing up interviews via VC, Telepresence, Hirevue and Lync Meeting.
- Track and send weekly Hirevue tracker with the incidents raised and ensure there are less glitches.
- Storing evaluation forms post final assessments as part of the process.
- Validating all pro master invoices for interview candidates - XP, Grad and DS business.
- Undertaking complex searches of the database as per requests from Recruiters
- Initiated HireRight verification for all selected candidates and coordinate with Manila Service Centre to complete the process of verification and provide if any additional details/documents required.
- Managed Global vendor HireRight in terms of clearing and validating invoices for India XP Hires (P&T, Global Functions and Downstream)
- Processing Invoices from HireRight through internal Finance team and cross verify the invoices to process the payments and also coordinate for raising new PO’s as per the requirements.
- Coordinate/Facilitate for Workshops in P&T and SBO IT Center as onsite coordinator.
- Support for Grad and DS for campus interviews, SRD’s when required.
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Adecco India
06.2008 - 07.2011
- Involved in end-to-end Recruitment activities, which involve sourcing, scheduling, pre- and post-offer
- Recruitment event management, selection and salary negotiation are two of my core areas of expertise.
- Source Candidates as per Requirement through Database, Portals (Job sites) and references
- Understanding Client Requirements on technical grounds, Developing and Implementing Effective Sourcing strategies, Screening as per requirement, short listing of profiles based on relevancy, Client Handling, Interview Scheduling, Follow-ups as per need, Offer release follow-ups, Negotiations, Feedback on a periodical basis
- Organizing Campus Interviews, walk-in Interviews, scheduling and informing the interviewers well in advance of the interviews
- Arrange for stay-end-to end for travel reimbursements of outstation candidates in coordination with Accounts and Administration Department
- Helping the outstation candidate identify suitable accommodation
- Build, maintain and grow HR database and keep it up-to-date
- Maintain the files for short listed, on hold and rejected candidates up to date
- Worked for junior- to senior-level requirements
- Co-ordinating with the HR Managers
- Record and analyze Attrition rate
- Maintain MIS Reports, Preparation of Invoices
- Meeting Clients for Better Understanding of Requirements and building good relationship for the same
- Follow up on Payments with the clients
- Managing onboarding of new candidates
- Giving Induction for the new joiners
- Doing BGC (background verification) with vendors
- Involved in sourcing and transfers for temporary staffing.
Education
B. Com Graduate -
Annamalai University
2009
Skills
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Quick learner to ensure delivery of desired outcome by trying different approaches
- Strong interpersonal, influencing skills and multitasking
- Stakeholder management
- Conflict resolution
- Agile methodologies
- Team collaboration
- Project management
- Time management
Accomplishments
· Certification: EDGE White belt Certification (Program by Agile@Shell CoE), 2019
· Certification: PSM 1 – Professional Scrum Master Certification, 2019
· Award: VP CIO award for the contribution in Highlander Project for the year 2019
· Award: VP CIO award for the contribution in HR Recruitment Operations for SBO IT 2017
· Award: Q3 and Q4 2023 CXE & eCommerce GM Award in the Digital Transformation category
Additional Information
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Timeline
Success/ Functional Analyst MI / Scrum Master / Product Manager
Shell India Markets Pvt., Ltd
05.2018 - Current
HR Recruitment - Operations (Candidate Cordinator)
Shell India Markets Pvt., Ltd
07.2011 - 04.2018
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Adecco India
06.2008 - 07.2011
B. Com Graduate -
Annamalai University
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