BB&T is one of the largest financial services holding companies in the US.

eKYC is a robust KYC program of First Republic Bank (FRB) which is critical for managing the regulatory, financial crime and reputational risks associated with money laundering and terrorist financing.

HMRC is entire UKs revenue and custom department. I was deployed at Accenture UK as an Agile Scrum Master.

I was entrusted to set-up a scrum team of local Saudi resources at Accenture Saudi Arabia in preparation for deployment at client location for an agile project. Groomed the team, provided 4 weeks extensive training on Agile scrum framework and agile testing including Accenture delivery method (ADM) which included 1 week shadowing in India also.

Police Investigations Asset is a Java based application developed by Accenture for Ireland GARDA police for their investigations purpose.

In the electricity sector, the EDF Group has the largest production fleet and the largest client portfolio in Europe and is involved in targeted areas around the globe. EDF Energy is the UK subsidiary of EDF Group. EDF Energy is one of the largest energy companies in the UK. EDF Energy supply gas and electricity to over 7 million customers.

BT Openreach provides communication providers to offers end users their own branded data and voice services using its digital network infrastructure. Openreach is responsible for the maintaining and up keeping of the network infrastructure that is required to deliver the committed services to its customers customers. Interlock testing ensures that the CPs (e g. BT retail, BT wholesale, etc) can successfully place orders on BTOR stack (thats the reason to call it interlock). It also ensures that all the components of the system (BTOR stack) co-ordinate well with each other. Interlock testing encompasses orders of three BT products viz. LLU, FTTC and WLR3-PSTN.

The Lloyds and HBOS Banking Organizations (UK based) have been merged recently form the Lloyds Banking Group (LBG). It was necessary to integrate the two organisations business systems for regulatory (single customer view) and business reasons (to derive synergies). Common database was made for both banks and due to this lot of SIT and UAT testing were going to Accenture, Hyderabad and Command Center (C&C) was a Defect Management Project where a huge number of defects were managed between Business and IT and was operated from Gurgaon.

Excellerate-HRO business unit is a result of a merger between EDS (U.S.) and TowersPerrin (U.S.) with an aim to provide Health and Welfare Benefit administration and Defined Benefits administration services to clients. My role is to perform database testing on H&W plans on our module and process them on a continuous basis. Other responsibilities include understanding client requirements concerning change requests and implementing those changes on the module. Generation of ad-hoc or sequential reports using SQLs was also a part of my role at EDS

Project Requirement Information Management Environment (PRIME) was a web-based application used to manage requirements for all the GIS projects undertaken.

Synopsis

• • • BB&T is one of the largest financial services holding companies in the US.

Domain/Industry Group BFSI / Banking (U.S. Based)

Duration June 2019 – Present

Role & Responsibilities: Agile PM/Scrum Master

• Consulting with Product owner in deciding the items (Product Backlog) to be taken up in a sprint and how to order product backlog items to maximize value.

• Facilitate and participate in the Scrum ceremonies: Daily Scrum calls, Sprint Planning meeting, Sprint review meeting, Sprint retrospective and Scrum of Scrum calls.

• Driving Process Excellence through automations, identifying and rectifying loopholes.
• Responsible to track all actions identified in Retrospective meetings to closure.
• Helping team in removing the impediments and tracking it to closure.
• Working closely with Business Partners/ Product Owners for Product Backlog prioritization.
• Involved in Release planning, Sprint planning.
• Conducting Scrum of Scrum, Daily stand-up, Retrospective meetings, Show and Tell (Review meeting).
• Defining project scope, Schedule, Roles and responsibilities.
• Generating required reports and metrics data.
• Supporting the team in conflict resolution and problem-solving.
• Providing solutions/suggestions to team in retrospective meetings to become more productive.
• Coaching Agile (Scrum) practices to team, Stakeholders, senior management.
• Arranging training sessions to enable team in being cross functional.
• Supporting team in management of the Sprint backlog.
• Taking internal sessions/workshops for Agile processes.
• Managing the quality related aspects of project. Continuous effort is put in to maintain CMMI level 5 for the project.
• Responsible for publishing the sprint status reports, burn down charts and other asked metrics by the management.
• Manage contents in JIRA tool properly for various sprints/releases.
• Facilitation of SCRUM of SCRUM for onshore/offshore scrum teams.

FRB eKYC

Synopsis

• • • eKYC is a robust KYC program of First Republic Bank (FRB) which is critical for managing the regulatory, financial crime and reputational risks associated with money laundering and terrorist financing.

Domain/Industry Group BFSI / Banking (U.S. Based) - UI AngularJS Based Project

Duration Feb 2018 – Present

Role & Responsibilities: Agile PM/Scrum Master

• Responsible for E2E project delivery including Planning, Tracking, Budgeting and Invoicing.
• Management of Agile deliveries for various major and interim releases/sprints (Product Increments).
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies – Daily stand-up, Sprint planning, Reviews, Retrospective, Backlog Refinement/Grooming.
• Understand the requirements/changes properly and act as a POC for Onshore/Offshore stakeholders.
• Facilitation of SCRUM of SCRUM for onshore/offshore scrum teams (total 4 teams)
• Managing 2 Scrum teams contains 9 team members in each team and both are cross functional teams.
• Working closely with Business Partners/ Product Owners for Product Backlog prioritization.
• Assist Product Owner (PO) for product backlog refinement and help scrum teams to understand the requirements.
• Manage contents in JIRA tool properly for various sprints/releases.
• To ensure advance sprint backlog readiness.
• Educate teams on Agile Scrum framework.
• Manage the DevOps activities and involve into code coverage to get it 80%.
• Remove all impediments and external interferences which may impact team’s productivity and works towards increase the team’s velocity with the sprints.
• Responsible for team composition & dynamics
• Responsible for Project Metrics dashboard
• Responsible for Risk identification, mitigation & contingency plan
• Responsible for Monthly and weekly status reports and facilitate the status calls with Client.

Responsible for Project communications and publish the Sprint Dashboard. Produce the various metrices and reports containing Velocity, Done Index, and Committed Vs Delivered etc.

Synopsis

• • • Origin is Australia's leading electricity and gas supplier, with a range of energy solutions that include solar energy, LPG and more for your home. As Australia's largest energy retailer, Origin has approximately 4.217 million customers, servicing both large energy customers and the residential and small business market. Project “Power of Choice” is the name for a set of regulations that will provide you with the freedom to make better decisions about your electricity use and services. From 1 December 2017, all new electricity meters for residential and small business customers will need to be digital (advanced) meters. This means that older-style meters will be phased out and replaced over time until all meters are digital.

Domain/Industry Group Resources (Electricity & Gas)

Duration June 2017 – Oct’17

Role & Responsibilities: Sr. Consultant – Scrum Master

1. To handle all scrum ceremonies and educate team on scrum framework.
2. Sprint planning and manage Jira for various sprints.
3. Backlog grooming with PO and prioritize the user stories.
4. Responsible for E2E agile activities for SAP MM (Device management).
5. Helping team in removing the impediments and tracking it to closure.
6. Facilitate daily business calls with stakeholders.
7. Generate a detailed sprint report on weekly basis.

Synopsis

• • • SAP S/4 on HANA (SAP Greenfield implementation) for ADNOC one of the world largest Oil Company

Domain/Industry Group Resources (Oil & Gas)

Duration June 2016 – Feb2017 – Onshore Role at Client location (Abu Dhabi – UAE)

Role & Responsibilities: Associate Manager with Scrum Master Role

• Consulting with Product owner in deciding the items (Product Backlog) to be taken up in a sprint and how to order product backlog items to maximize value.

• Facilitate the Scrum ceremonies: Daily Scrum Meeting, Backlog grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint review meetings, Sprint retrospective meetings and Scrum of Scrum calls.

• Responsible to track all actions identified in Retrospective meetings to closure.
• Helping team in removing the impediments and tracking it to closure.
• Working closely with Business Partners/ Product Owners for Product Backlog prioritization.
• Involved in Release planning, Sprint planning.
• Conducting Scrum of Scrum, Daily stand-up, Retrospective meetings, Show and Tell (Review meeting).
• Defining project scope, Schedule, Roles and responsibilities.
• Generating required reports and metrics data.
• Supporting the team in conflict resolution and problem-solving.
• Providing solutions/suggestions to team in retrospective meetings to become more productive.
• Coaching Agile (Scrum) practices to team, Stakeholders, senior management.
• Arranging training sessions to enable team in being cross functional.
• Supporting team in management of the Sprint backlog.
• Taking internal sessions/workshops for Agile processes.
• Responsible for submitting the Weekly status reports, Summary status reports to clients.

1. Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC-UK)

Synopsis

• • • HMRC is entire UK’s revenue and custom department. I was deployed at Accenture UK as an Agile Scrum Master.

Domain Public Services

Duration Aug’ 2015 – June2016- Onshore Role at Client location (UK)

Role Scrum Master (Associate Manager)

• Management of Agile deliveries for various major and interim releases/sprints (Product Increments).
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies – Daily stand-up, Sprint planning, Reviews, Retrospective, Backlog Refinement/Grooming.
• Understand the requirements/changes properly and act as a POC for Onshore/Offshore stakeholders.
• Managing 2 Scrum teams contains 7 team members in each team and both are cross functional teams.
• Working closely with Business Partners/ Product Owners for Product Backlog prioritization.
• Assist Product Owner (PO) for product backlog refinement and help scrum teams to understand the requirements.

Manage contents in JIRA tool properly for various sprints/releases.