Vishal Gogari
Scrum Master
Thane,Maharashtra
Summary
Mission-focused Scrum Master with extensive experience coaching and mentoring highly skilled teams. Bilingual professional with more than 9 years of experience delegating tasks and managing projects.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Agile Scrum Master - L2
Srijan Technologies Pvt Ltd
Mumbai, Maharashtra
08.2021 - Current
- Guided and coached Scrum team and organized Agile and Scrum practices and values while also meeting delivery commitment.
- Removed obstacles by finding right personnel to advance tasks and projects.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
- Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle, realizing 10-15% reduction in errors on sprint to sprint basis.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
Domain Expert
UTIITSL
Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra
03.2020 - 08.2021
- Developed team communications and information for meetings.
- Writing of user stories, tracing team velocity matrix like burn-up and velocity charts.
- Coordinated among team leads for resource allocation, change control, scheduling, and dependencies within release.
- Successfully guided 3 development teams through transition from Waterfall to Agile development.
- Owned entire project life cycle of product development from definition to management to execution.
- Act as “go to” person within department or function for questions and problems within area of expertise.
Project Manager
Crimson Interactive Pvt. Ltd
Mumbai, Maharashtra
07.2019 - 03.2020
- Created project plans with established timelines for integral phases, assigned to appropriate teams, managed workflow and achieved RFP submissions and completion deadlines on or before schedule
- Managed 20+ book translation projects, liaising with clients, desktop engineers, translators to enable on time and within budget completion of project
- Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
- Increased revenue from client by 10% by giving on time delivery and following proper agile practices.
- Orchestrated projects within strict timeframes and budget constraints by solving complex problems and working closely with senior leaders.
Process Manager
Cactus Communications Pvt. Ltd
Mumbai, Maharashtra
07.2016 - 06.2019
- Evaluated impact of process change on overall operation and determined return on investment.
- Used [Agile] strategies to promote exceptional customer service and create positive environment for employees and clients.
- Took responsibility for managing development of automated CRM tool for day to day translation tasks. (URL: https://crm.cactusglobal.com).
- Reduced process time to 30 minutes from 3-4 hours long process.
- Designed and implemented proposed system in company to speed-up processes by 15%.
- Assisting in creation, updating and maintenance of translation memories in applicable language(s).
Process Coordinator
SDL Communications Pvt. Ltd
Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra
07.2015 - 06.2016
- Identified inefficiencies and improvement opportunities to provide advice and support documentation for evaluation of initiative opportunities.
- Provided direction for quality improvement team and support groups to help operating units meet business plan objectives.
- Budget forecasting and Profit analyses.
- Coordinated with external language professionals (linguist's) and internal freelancers, vendors.
Project Manager
PRDXN
Mumbai, Maharashtra
06.2013 - 06.2015
- Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.
- Headed project teams specializing in design and launch activities.
- Facilitated Sprint Planning, Retrospective and Sprint demos.
- Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.
- Helped in on-page and off-page SEO tasks by using Google Webmaster and Google Analytics.
- Increased revenue of Sony Music account by 5% on year to year basis.
- Saved almost 100 dollars a month by researching and implementing ASANA across company, instead of paid project management tools.
Education
PGDM (Part-Time) - IT Project Management
Welingkar Institute of Technology And Management
Mumbai 09.2015 - 09.2017
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Shah And Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College
Mumbai 07.2009 - 05.2013
Skills
Scrum and Agile proficiency
undefinedCertification
CSM from Scrum Alliance
Timeline
CSM from Scrum Alliance
12-2021
Agile Scrum Master - L2
Srijan Technologies Pvt Ltd
08.2021 - Current
Domain Expert
UTIITSL
03.2020 - 08.2021
Google Webmaster and Google Analytics certified from Grow Google
12-2019
Project Manager
Crimson Interactive Pvt. Ltd
07.2019 - 03.2020
Process Manager
Cactus Communications Pvt. Ltd
07.2016 - 06.2019
PGDM (Part-Time) - IT Project Management
Welingkar Institute of Technology And Management
09.2015 - 09.2017
Process Coordinator
SDL Communications Pvt. Ltd
07.2015 - 06.2016
Project Manager
PRDXN
06.2013 - 06.2015
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Shah And Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College
07.2009 - 05.2013
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