Sriram Thunuguntla
Hyderabad,TG
Summary
Dynamic Lead Scrum Master with a proven track record at Mphasis, adept at driving project success through agile methodologies and effective stakeholder engagement. Skilled in cloud technologies and team leadership, I excel in delivering IT projects on time and within budget, while fostering cross-functional collaboration and continuous process improvement.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification
Work History
Lead Scrum Master / Engg.Manager
Mphasis
06.2023 - 04.2024
- Lead and manage end-to-end IT projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
- Oversee projects related to network infrastructure and data center operations.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, including schedules, budgets, and resource allocation.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams, including technical staff, vendors, and stakeholders, to ensure project success.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for all project-related communications, updates, and reporting.
- Monitor and mitigate project risks and issues, escalating as necessary to ensure successful outcomes.
- Drive adoption of best practices in project management methodologies, balancing waterfall and agile approaches based on project needs.
- Provide mentorship and guidance to junior project managers and team members.
- Managing the talent & code review.
- Distilling information via cross training and knowledge transfer.
- Performance and compensation management.
- Identifying and building relationships with key partners and stakeholders to communicate product area vision, strategies and priorities while soliciting and incorporating feedback.
Senior Project manager/Engg.Manager
Capgemini
02.2022 - 05.2023
- Lead and manage end-to-end IT projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
- Oversee projects related to network infrastructure and data center operations.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, including schedules, budgets, and resource allocation.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams, including technical staff, vendors, and stakeholders, to ensure project success.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for all project-related communications, updates, and reporting.
- Monitor and mitigate project risks and issues, escalating as necessary to ensure successful outcomes.
- Drive adoption of best practices in project management methodologies, balancing waterfall and agile approaches based on project needs.
- Provide mentorship and guidance to junior project managers and team members.
- Managing the talent & code review.
- Distilling information via cross training and knowledge transfer.
- Performance and compensation management.
- Identifying and building relationships with key partners and stakeholders to communicate product area vision, strategies and priorities while soliciting and incorporating feedback.
Release Train Engineer
Accenture
07.2019 - 08.2020
- Lead and manage end-to-end IT projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
- Oversee projects related to network infrastructure and data center operations.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, including schedules, budgets, and resource allocation.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams, including technical staff, vendors, and stakeholders, to ensure project success.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for all project-related communications, updates, and reporting.
- Monitor and mitigate project risks and issues, escalating as necessary to ensure successful outcomes.
- Drive adoption of best practices in project management methodologies, balancing waterfall and agile approaches based on project needs.
- Provide mentorship and guidance to junior project managers and team members.
- Managing the talent & code review.
- Distilling information via cross training and knowledge transfer.
- Performance and compensation management.
- Identifying and building relationships with key partners and stakeholders to communicate product area vision, strategies and priorities while soliciting and incorporating feedback.
Sr Scrum Master
Accenture
11.2018 - 06.2019
- Facilitating daily standups and setting up all scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, retrospectives, review/demos, backlog grooming/refinement sessions and product prioritization meetings.
- Run stand up calls with globally distributed teams every day with the teams to track activities against agile tools like Microsoft Teams, Jira & Azure Devops.
- Publishing Sprint Planning commitments and sprint end reports along with Say Do ratio, team’s burn down and velocity metrics.
- Making sure all scrum ceremonies are happening at regular cadence and facilitating more as and when needed to ensure product backlog is healthy enough for at least 2- 6 sprints.
- Conducted sprint end demo sessions with business stakeholders.
- Working with Product owners and business analysts on priorities and story grooming.
- Creating program level dashboards in Azure Devops & Power BI to track progress of Epics & Features % completion, defect trends, cycle/lead time, cumulative flows, velocity trends, etc.
- Coaching the team on following agile principles and practices.
- Understanding team dynamics and working with Engineering/Resource managers to convey/resolve any team concerns or individual resource performance in following agile principles and practices.
Sr. Scrum Master
Accenture
10.2015 - 11.2018
- Successfully plan and execute the Program Increment (PI) at enterprise level using SAFe.
- Worked with various cross functional teams to deliver the features/epics spread across teams.
- Working with RTE (Release Train engineers) on releases after having business demos.
- Tracking customized reports/dashboard/agile boards in Jira & Confluence at a sprint level and PSI level/program level along with dependencies.
- Facilitating daily standups and setting up all scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, retrospectives, review/demos, backlog grooming sessions and product prioritization meetings.
- Works with the Product Owner to maintain healthy backlog and helps in product prioritization.
- Facilitating/Attending Scrum of Scrums (SOS) & Release meetings to talk about risks/dependencies/impediments both internal and external and plan releases.
- Removing the barriers between development and the customer so the customer directly drives development.
- Promoting and making sure the team is self-organized, motivated and adapted to agile.
- Improving the productivity of the development team in any way possible & cross functional and recommended any skills/competencies need to be trained/improved.
Project lead / TPM
Accenture
09.2014 - 08.2015
- Facilitating daily standups and setting up all scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, retrospectives, review/demos and backlog grooming sessions.
- Ensure cross-team coordination on delivery of user stories at each epic/feature level.
- Removes all impediments to the team's progress, both internal and external to the Scrum team.
- Encouraging collaboration between the Scrum teams (Development & QES), product owner.
- Team coaching and make sure to follow all the agile/scrum principles/practices.
- Promotes and making sure team is self-organized, motivated and adopted to agile.
- Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud, and security.
Project Lead
Accenture
03.2012 - 09.2014
- Build the BODS jobs to retrieve data from Oracle database, transform it into business needs and generate the files to load data into SAP.
- Developing the Jobs, workflows, data flows using BODS to pull the data from source to target.
- Load the generated files into SAP by using LSMW for different objects Purchase order, Branch Inventory Location, Gas Inventory, Goods Receipt, Reverse Goods Receipt, Bin Creation, Serialized Equipment, Sales Pricing for Mexico and Canada.
- Involved in creating Preload and Post Load Jobs by extracting data from Sap to ensure successful migration of data.
- Experience in Automation of jobs through Management console & Creating Batch jobs.
- Created different types of Data stores and configured them in BODS designer. Created multiple configurations for Data stores.
Technical Project Lead
Accenture
06.2010 - 02.2012
- Preparing high level and low level design documents.
- Coordination with onsite coordinator.
- Coding using Cool: Gen, COBOL, DB2, JCL, Quik Job etc.
- Unit testing.
- Encyclopedia administrator.
- Involving in Knowledge Transfer program for newcomers.
Technical Project Lead / Developer
Accenture
12.2006 - 05.2010
- Preparing high level and low level design documents.
- Coordination with onsite coordinator.
- Coding using Cool: Gen, COBOL, DB2, JCL, Quik Job etc.
- Unit testing.
- Encyclopedia administrator.
- Involved in Knowledge Transfer program for newcomers.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computers
Acharya Nagarjuna University
India01.2002
Skills
- Mainframes ( Cobol, JCL, DB2, CICS )
- Angular
- Java
- SQL
- MongoDB
- Cloud (Microsoft Azure, AWS)
- AWS
- SAP (BODS, HANA, MM, FICO)
- DevOps, Azure DevOps
- JIRA, Rally, Remedy
- Power BI, Tableau
- Data Analysis, Data architecture
- Team management
- Agile methodologies
- Project management
- Risk management
- Stakeholder engagement
- Resource allocation
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Change management
- Performance evaluation
- Knowledge transfer
- Process improvement
- Effective communication
- Team leadership
- Conflict resolution
- Coaching and mentoring
- Strategic planning
- Project planning
- Relationship building
Certification
- Advanced Certified Scrum Master (ACSM) & CSP-SM
- PMP
- Certified SAFe 5 Agilist (SA)
- Prince 2
Projects
Wells Fargo, Lead Scrum Master / Engg. Manager, Mphasis, 06/01/23, 04/30/24, Core banking (Deposits & reports) Wells Fargo, Senior Project Manager / Engg. Manager, Capgemini, 02/01/22, 05/31/23, Core banking (Deposits & reports) GE Power (Oil & Gas), Release Train Engineer, Accenture, 07/01/19, 08/31/20, Standard procedure to measure Price Realization for Sales and Orders. Unilever, Sr Scrum Master, Accenture, 11/01/18, 06/30/19, Data preservation and analytics for retail consumer data. AT&T, Sr. Scrum Master, Accenture, 10/01/15, 11/30/18, Sales application for implementing new products. CISCO, Project Lead / TPM, Accenture, 09/01/14, 08/31/15, Networking hardware and software development. WW Granger, Project Lead, Accenture, 03/01/12, 09/30/14, Health insurance plans comparison platform. Level 3, USA, Technical Project Lead, Accenture, 06/01/10, 02/29/12, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Java projects. BOA, USA, Technical Project Lead / Developer, Accenture, 12/01/06, 05/31/10, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Java projects.
Languages
Telugu
First Language
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Timeline
Lead Scrum Master / Engg.Manager
Mphasis
06.2023 - 04.2024
Senior Project manager/Engg.Manager
Capgemini
02.2022 - 05.2023
Release Train Engineer
Accenture
07.2019 - 08.2020
Sr Scrum Master
Accenture
11.2018 - 06.2019
Sr. Scrum Master
Accenture
10.2015 - 11.2018
Project lead / TPM
Accenture
09.2014 - 08.2015
Project Lead
Accenture
03.2012 - 09.2014
Technical Project Lead
Accenture
06.2010 - 02.2012
Technical Project Lead / Developer
Accenture
12.2006 - 05.2010
Bachelor of Science - Computers
Acharya Nagarjuna University