Candidate Information | Title | Scrum Master Project Management | Target Location | US-IL-Bloomington | | 20,000+ Fresh Resumes Monthly | |
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| | Click here or scroll down to respond to this candidateSummaryMore than 24+ years of work experience in diverse fields in Technical Release Manager, Scrum Master, Change manager and Project Management space with in-depth knowledge of full software life-cycle development, diverse Business Processes and management information requirements in Health and Property & Causality insurance Domain.Education:Master of Engineering Vikram University, Ujjain, MP 1996Bachelor of Technology Kakatiya University, Warangal, 1993Work Experience:SAFE SCRUM 5 CertifiedLeading SAFe - CertifiedTata Consultancy ServicesHumana Healthcare SAFe Scrum Master 06/2019 till dateThis Project is Azure development Application moving data from On-prem to Azure cloud.Develop the Enrolment Notification functionality for sending out email and text notificationsTo agents and consumers regarding pending applicationsServe as the Scrum Master for a development team of 4 - 8 members, promoting Agile principles and practices. Facilitate Scrum events such as Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospectives to ensure the team obtains maximum benefits from the Agile framework.Understand the big picture goal of each sprint and act as a servant leader to help the team meet each sprint goal.Actively monitor and track the progress of user stories throughout the sprint. Identify and address any potential roadblocks or impediments that may impact the team's ability to deliver on commitments.Take on project management responsibilities related to dependent tasks that lie outside the scope of the development team. Collaborate with other teams, stakeholders, and external partners to identify, track, and follow up on tasks that impact the project's overall success.Own the process of maintaining user stories in Azure DevOps, ensuring that they are properly defined, estimated, and prioritized. Collaborate with Product Owners to refine and groom the backlog, ensuring that user stories are ready for development.Gather relevant metrics to assess team performance and identify areas for improvement. Prepare and present reports on project status, velocity, and other relevant metrics to stakeholders.Coordinate and arrange technical discussion with Security, Network and cloud teamsCoordinating release planning activities with in-house team and stakeholders to collaborate successful deployment of applications.Create confluence space dedicated to project and maintain Team PTO & Holidays which helpful to calculate team capacity.Facilitate cross functional training to development teams.Initiate Production turn calls & coordinate with team to make successful deployments.Keep Track of incidents assigned to project work group.Facilitates dependency and Risk management for Scrum teams and the ART.Experience with Agile Life cycle managements (ALM) tools JIRA, VersionOne and Azure Dev OpsPrepare ACAB readiness and perform all planned release activities.Blue Cross Blue Shield Scrum Master 02/2019 -- 05/2019Project is Reverse engineering from legacy system to Bigdata. Gathering and providing the Business rules for existing mainframe Application and building data model and re-writing applications in Kafka.Responsible for acting as Scrum Master for Data Lake Migration from MainframesFacilitates Sprint Planning, Back Log grooming and Retro planning events.Act as Voice of team communicates status externally.Ensuring ease of access to respective tools for developers to carry out their roles effectively while resolving roadblocks and managing project risk.Understand Team roles and responsibilities and assign the work.Creates Project dashboard includes team velocity, burndown chart and Sprint goals.Ensuring ease of access to respective tools for developers to carry out their roles effectively while resolving roadblocks and managing project risk.Responsible for making Release dates and content. Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.HTC Global servicesState Farm Insurance Release Manager 02/2008- 01/2019State Farm currently managing the license management functionality by means of different applications for different areas within the Property and Casualty domain. The project team is tasked with gathering all requirements for a new system which would be a centralized tool that would replace those existing applications. The following are the opportunities for improvement with a new system: Single source of record for management of data. Automated processes to integrate with regulatory sources and other third-party providers. Improved workflow and ad hoc reporting capabilities, including proactive notification to the stakeholders.Creates, Manages, and executes project/program plans.Documented all system configuration changes in change control requests.Facilitates program planning meetings and feature estimation.Authorization of Configuration Management plan.Provide effective change management support to the customer configuration control board.Facilitating all team meetings, including the daily stand-up, iteration planning, iteration review and iteration retrospective.Works ahead to proactively elicit requirements for future user stories.Conduct Go/NOGO Meetings, with the teams for the implementation.Helps the team to focus on daily and iteration goals in the context of current program increment objectives.Identify potential risks and conflicts prior to a deployment and ensure that all necessary checks are carried out before presentation to the CAB.Facilitating dependency management meetings for the agile efforts, Facilitating the risk identification session, and documenting the risks in project phase deliverables.Worked closely with project stakeholders to identify the risk/issue/dependency needs, documenting the risks/issues and cross-project dependencies and monitoring them, assisting team to identify the risk mitigation plans/action items, identify the issue resolution/action items.Coordinate all aspects of the Change Advisory Board (CAB), including preparation of the agenda, minutes, and verification of Request for Change (RFC) packages.Satyam Computer services LTD.Caterpillar - Mainframe Lead 05/1997 01/2008Experience in the analysis, design, development, and deployment of applications using mainframe languages/skills such as COBOL, SQL, DB2, IMS DB/DC DL/I, MQ Series, PL/I, DB2 Utilities, VSAM, and CICS |