Résumé Srinivasan Ramachandran Mobile No: (+1) 919-590-7571 Email: [email protected]Summary Possess 15 years and 9 months of IT experience Visa status – Green Card Certified Scrum Master by Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Product Owner by Scrum Alliance Experienced in Project Management and Scrum Master for over 6 years Experienced in Agile methodology, Lean and Kanban for almost 3 years Experienced managing multiple agile teams and also hold responsibilities as Scrum of Scrum Master Experience in managing distributed teams across multiple geographic locations and multiple vendors. Experienced in Project Management tools JIRA, Rally, Confluence, Clarity and MS Project Plan Experienced in Architecture, High level design and development of Java and J2EE applications in a client-server and Web based environment Worked primarily in the domain of Banking & Financial Services, Healthcare, Airlines, Telecom services Possess knowledge of BigData, Hadoop, Pig, Hive, Impala, HDFS, HDFS2, Scala, YARN, Tez, Map Reduce Framework, HBase Possess Onsite experience in the locations such as United States, Europe, Australia and Malaysia Worked in complete Software Development Life cycle including Planning, Analysis, Architecture, Design, Development, Testing, Verification, Validation, Production Support, Enhancements, and Documentation. Page 1 of 11
Visa status – Green CardCertified Scrum Master by Scrum AllianceCertified Scrum Product Owner by Scrum AllianceExperienced in Project Management and Scrum Master for over 6 years
Experienced in Agile methodology, Lean and Kanban for almost 3 years
Experienced managing multiple agile teams and also hold responsibilities as Scrum of Scrum Master
Experience in managing distributed teams across multiple geographic locations and multiple vendors.
Experienced in Project Management tools JIRA, Rally, Confluence, Clarity and MS Project Plan
Experienced in Architecture, High level design and development of Java and J2EE applications in a client-server and Web based environment
Worked primarily in the domain of Banking & Financial Services, Healthcare, Airlines, Telecom services
Possess Onsite experience in the locations such as United States, Europe, Australia and MalaysiaWorked in complete Software Development Life cycle including Planning, Analysis, Architecture, Design, Development, Testing, Verification, Validation, Production Support, Enhancements, and Documentation.
Visa Status – Green Card
Technical Expertise
Operating Systems SUN O/S 2.6,HP UNIX, WIN-NT, Windows 2000,Red Hat Linux 6.0, IBM z/OS
Languages Core Java, XML, PL/SQL, HTMLDevelopment Tools Eclipse, Net Beans, Symantec Visual Cafe, Websphere studio Application
developer v 5.1.2 (WSAD), VSS, SOAP UI,Hudson, Sonar, Tortoise SVN,CVS
RésuméTechnology Struts framework, Spring framework and Spring Batch, JMS, JMX, Servlets,
JSP,JSF 2.0, EJB 3.0, JDBC, Web services, RESTful Webservices, SOAP,Hibernate 3.0,JPA, UML,XSD,Ant,Maven,Junit,Apache CXF,Apache Camel,Apache Service MIX,BigData,Hadoop,Pig,Hive,Impala,HDFS,HDFS2,Scala,YARN,Tez,Map Reduce Framework,HBase
Databases Oracle 9i, MySQL, MS SQL SERVER 7.0, Sybase 11.9,IBM DB2,Oracle 11g
Application Server BEA Weblogic 6.1, Oracle WebLogic 11g, IBM Websphere 6.0,Tomcat 7.0Framework Map Reduce Framework,Struts framework, Spring framework and Spring
BatchProject Management Tools
JIRA, Rally, Confluence, Clarity, MS Project 2010
Career Profile
Period Organization DesignationSep 2016 – Oct 2016 Fulcrum Worldwide,
United StatesScrum Master/Project Manager
May 2016 – July 2016 Mphasis Corporation,United States
Group Manager
Sep 2014 to May 2016 Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp, United States
Manager-Projects
Sep 2009 to Mar 2014 Cognizant Technology Solutions, India
Sr. Associate - Projects
July 2004 – Aug 2009 HCL Technologies Ltd, Chennai
Senior Software Engineer
May 2004 – June 2004 TeemBrains Technology, Chennai
Senior Software Consultant
Jan 2004 – Mar 2004 MPower Software Services (I) Pvt Ltd.
Software Engineer
Feb 2003 – Nov 2003 Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai
Asst. Systems Engineer
Jun 2002 – Jan 2003 Amerihind (India) Pvt. Ltd,Chennai
Trainee
Dec 1998 – Mar 2001 Polaris Software Lab Ltd, Chennai
System Engineer
Apr 1998 – Nov 1998 Icon Systems Ltd,chennai Programmer Trainee
Qualifications
Degree and Date Institute Major and Specialization
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RésuméMaster of Computer Applications (1995 - 1998)
D.G.Vaishnav College, Madras University
Computer Science
Bachelor of Science (Physics) – (1991 - 1994)
New College, Madras University
Computer Science
Relevant Project Experience
The details of the various assignments are listed below, in chronological order
Department of Homeless Services- NYC
Independent Contractor
Project Home 2.0 and Street smartCustomer Department of Homeless Services, NYCPeriod Sep 2016 to Oct 2016Role Scrum MasterTeam Size 24
Responsibilities:
As a Scrum Master my day to day responsibilities include
Release Planning, Backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, Sprint Grooming, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum related meetings
Lead the Scrum of Scrum calls and track dependencies across cross functional teams
Setup and maintain Information radiators and dashboard
Ensured that impediments to the team’s progress are removed
Acted as a coach for the Scrum Team, helping them to execute the Scrum process.
Ensure cross-team coordination
Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
Preparation of weekly status report and reporting to senior management through portfolio review meetings
Tracking and updating the user stories, subtasks, Impediments using JIRA tool.
Tracking issues and having regular follow-ups
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JP Morgan Chase-NYC
Contractor
Project GWS- Team METSCustomer JP Morgan ChasePeriod May 2016 to July 2016Role Scrum MasterTeam Size 23
Responsibilities:
As a Scrum Master my day to day responsibilities include
Release Planning, Backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, Sprint Grooming, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum related meetings
Lead the Scrum of Scrum calls and track dependencies across cross functional teams
Setup and maintain Information radiators and dashboard
Ensured that impediments to the team’s progress are removed
Acted as a coach for the Scrum Team, helping them to execute the Scrum process.
Ensure cross-team coordination
Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
Preparation of weekly status report and reporting to senior management through portfolio review meetings
Tracking and updating the user stories, subtasks, Impediments using JIRA tool.
Tracking issues and having regular follow-ups
Walmart-Bentonvilee,AR
Contractor
Project Chrome UpgradeCustomer Walmart
Period Dec 2015 to Mar 2016Role Scrum MasterTeam Size 22
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RésuméResponsibilities:
As a Scrum Master my day to day responsibilities include
Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, Backlog grooming sessions, meetings across other interfaces, internal discussions, functional discussions with PO etc.,
Ensured that impediments to the team’s progress are removed.
Acted as a coach for the Scrum Team, helping them to execute the Scrum process.
Ensure cross-team coordination
Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
Report project status in the daily PM check-in calls
UBS-Weehawken,NJ
Contractor
Project Advisory Review ToolCustomer UBSPeriod June 2015 to Nov 2015Role Scrum MasterTeam Size 18
Responsibilities:
As a Scrum Master my day to day responsibilities include
Release Planning, Backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum related meetings.
Ensured that impediments to the team’s progress are removed.
Acted as a coach for the Scrum Team, helping them to execute the Scrum process.
Ensure cross-team coordination
Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
United Health Group – OPTUM Technology, US-Golden Valley,MN
Contractor
Project UHC M and R Portals Solutions Support & ServicesCustomer United Health Group – OPTUM Technology, USPeriod Sep 2014 to Apr 2015Role Project ManagerTeam Size 21
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Résumé
Responsibilities:
As a Project Manager my day to day responsibilities are
Manage the end to end delivery of the project Planning and delivery tracking. Preparing project plans, track progress and ensure all issues are tracked to closureManaging project teams across different geographic locations at Onsite and OffshoreEnsure overall quality of the project and on-time delivery Reviewing Stakeholders expectation on regular basis and discuss day to day matters and issues, publish action plan to resolve any challenges/concerns Manage the resources and make decisions on upsize or downsize of the teamReview scope changes and ensure change request mechanism is followed whenever applicableTrack resource utilization and expenses closely to keep project on-budgetResponsible for goal setting, performing mid-year and year end appraisal to cognizant team members and set path for career progression Ensuring high morale and motivation of the project team Ensure appropriate processes are being followed by the team members which helps in optimization and enhancing the overall delivery excellence
Cognizant Technology Solutions-India
Project SRDR (Securities Reference Data Repository) and MDRCustomer Royal Bank of Canada
Period May 2013 to Mar 2014Role Java/J2EE Environment Manager Team Size 18ResponsibilitiesPerform the role of Java/J2EE Environment Manager in the projectEnsure on-time and quality deliverables Identify and report dependencies, issues/risksTrack action items on issues and risks to closureMake periodic communication and right time escalation to stakeholdersReport project status periodically to all the stakeholdersReviewing Stakeholders expectation on regular basis and discuss day to day matters and issues, publish action plan to resolve any challenges/concerns Maintenance of the UAT,QA and DEV environmentsInvolved in Analysis, Design and development activities, unit testing and deployment.Analysing and troubleshooting the environment issues like Out of Memory error and other environment related issuesMaintenance of Weblogic server.Planning and Coordination for Disaster Recovery test
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Project GAM Lifecycle UpgradeCustomer Northern Trust, USA
Period Dec 2012 to April 2013Role Scrum MasterTeam Size 11
Responsibilities
As a Scrum Master my day to day responsibilities include
Release Planning, Backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum related meetings.
Ensured that impediments to the team’s progress are removed.
Acted as a coach for the Scrum Team, helping them to execute the Scrum process.
Ensure cross-team coordination
Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
Project Custody Lifecycle UpgradeCustomer Northern Trust, USA
Period Jun 2012 to Nov 2012Role Scrum MasterTeam Size 13Responsibilities
As a Scrum Master my day to day responsibilities include
Release Planning, Backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum related meetings.
Ensured that impediments to the team’s progress are removed.
Acted as a coach for the Scrum Team, helping them to execute the Scrum process.
Ensure cross-team coordination
Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
Played the role of "servant leader," helping the rest of the Scrum Team follow their process.
Backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
Leading daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum related meetings.
Ensured that impediments to the team’s progress are removed. Acted as a coach for the Scrum Team, helping them to execute the Scrum process. Help the team them to work together and to learn the Scrum framework and protects them from both internal and external distractions.Ensure cross-team coordination
Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
Project In-Store Order Processing Customer News America Marketing (NAM)
Period April 2010 – July 2010Role Technical Project ManagerTeam Size 13
Responsibilities
Technically manage the offshore team during the SIT, End to End and UAT phase
Acted as a single point of contact with Onsite team
Coordinate for the SIT, End to End and UAT phases
Coordinating with the team to solve technical issues
Closely track the project status.
Status reporting to management
Project VoIP Test Automation toolCustomer AT & T
Period Sep2009 – April 2010Role Technical Project Manager Team Size 9
Responsibilities
Define architecture based on business and functional requirements
Preparation of Design Document
Interacting with the Client
Technically Manage the team during design and development phases at Offshore
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RésuméCoordinating with the team to solve technical issues
Involved in preparation of Quality Documents
Technical Reviews
Personal Details
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Date of Birth 11-01-1973Sex MaleMarital Status MarriedNationality IndianMobile Number (+1) 919-590-7571
