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Kalyani - Scrum Master

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Location: Dallas, Texas, USA

Relocation: nearby texas

Visa: L2

Kalyani Chodisetti Agile Coach/Lead Scrum Master Email: [email protected] Mobile: +1 551-550-1324 About: Passionate and Dedicated Certified Agile Scrum Master and Servant Leader leading multiple Agile teams towards the Outcome oriented self-organizing teams Focused on satisfying the customer and motivating teams to deliver valuable software. Proven ability to serve on products with challenging deadlines, while adapting to changing priorities. Agile Team of Teams Lead, handling a Product group consists of 7 Agile teams Mentor/Coach the Agile Team members, Scrum Masters, Product Teams, and Leadership to practice Agile. Inculcating Agile and Growth mindset within the teams in Product group Having Valid L2S visa, and don t need any visa sponsorship Certifications: Certified PAL (Professional Agile Leadership) from Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance SAFe 4.0 (Scaled Agile Framework 4.0) Wipro Internal. Certified LeSS practitioner AWS Practitioner Certified Academics: Schooling from Ramanath Secondary School (CBSE) - Vizag. Intermediate from NARAYA JUNIOR COLLEGE. B.Tech - Computers Science Engineering from Vignan s Institute of Information Technology Professional Experience as Scrum Master/Agile Coach Worked as Agile Delivery Lead at JP Morgan since April 2023 till July 5th 2024 Worked as Agile Coach, Scrum Master Lead in GAP Inc - Hyderabad from June 2019 to March 2023. Worked as a Senior Scrum Master, Senior Project Lead for client United Health Group from Altruista Health (Health Edge) - Feb 2018 to June 2019. Worked as a Scrum Master, Wipro Technologies from May 2013 to Feb 2018. Worked as Onside Coordinator /L2 support Engineer at Ericssion/Wipro from Nov 2006 to April 2013 Onsite Experience Worked as onsite coordinator in Canada for Ericson. Technical Tools: JIRA Team Forge Confluence Power BI Areas of Strength: Servant Leadership, Agile Transformation, Agile Assessment, Trainings on different Agile Frameworks, Client interaction, stakeholder management, team and people management. Agile Coaching and mentoring Scrum Masters, individuals and teams. Primary Responsibilities: Initiated SM COP and also organization initiatives like Agile Champion Team Award . Instrumental in building agile community and enhancing Scrum master coverage to various product lines at GAP. Run scrum of scrum for the complete Product line area to discuss progress of various initiatives, discuss risks\blockers. Facilitated Agile onboarding workshops for new joiners and senior leadership at organization level. Experience in implementing scaled agile framework. Ensuring agile practices are implemented across all product teams in our product line. Proficient in mentoring, coaching and training scrum teams, product owners and scrum masters. Efficient in working with distributed and co located teams. Coach the Development Teams in self-organization, continuous improvement, cross functionality, risk identification, dependency management, conflict resolution. To provide Capacity Planning, Velocity projection, Effort estimation, facilitating meetings. Remove team/project /organization impediments that are preventing teams from accomplishing their goals. Providing team assessment and improvement plans in partnership with the Scrum Masters. Maintain relevant metrics that help the team measure their performance and demonstrate the same to senior leadership. Projects 1 . Agile Delivery Lead at JP Morgan Chase India, Role : Scrum Master Lead (March 2023 -July 2024) Roles & Responsibilities: Partner with Stakeholders to prioritize requests and deliver a software product, controls and an improved user experience Skilled facilitator of Scrum ceremonies Backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, Review and Retrospectives, and adapt at coaching a cross-functional and self-organizing Scrum Team. Partner with Product owner and stakeholders to due diligence, simplify and provide detailed requirements of key processes prior to onboarding of new functionality Enhance user experience by regularly obtaining feedback from actual users, balancing backlog, and obtain real-time feedback on priorities Foster relationship with Technology partners to develop robust roadmap for application enhancement, future functionality execution and application modernization Projects 2 . Lead Scrum Master at Gap Inc Worked in Gap Inc for GPR team which is used by Inventory Managers (Buyers and Planners) to plan and forecast the demand of clothing items ("Customer Choices") for a planning season/In season. Role : Scrum Master Lead (May 2019-Present) Roles & Responsibilities: Complete Agile assessments and create strategic plans with senior engineering leaders to drive actionable performance improvements through trainings and coaching. Lead a team of coaches assigned within your product area to ensure they are removing roadblocks, providing coaching, and holding their teams accountable to increasing delivery performance. As a people manager, responsible for the performance and growth of our team through OKRs and developmental plans. Plan for the upcoming sprint using Iteration planning meetings and Story Time. Understanding the team s capacity collecting team velocity and input into burn up, utilize historical velocity to calculate capacity for upcoming iterations. Communicate results of iteration via Open Close, incorporating Demos, Retrospectives, Story Sign-up and commitment. Ensure story backlog is well groomed including prioritization, sizing, and monitoring new additions to the product backlog. Ensuring that the team is working on the highest priority user stories and assisting the team in working fast while maintaining sustainable speed. Understanding the issues being faced and facilitate resolution of those issues; identify trends and early warnings. Identifying opportunities to improve team performance via retrospectives and observations. Responsible to make sure the readiness is 100% for next sprint. Co-ordinate with different stake holders to remove impediments to the team and clear the blockers so that delivery is smooth . Facilitating Sprint Planning, daily stand up, Refinement, review/Demo, Retrospective and Sprint End reporting. Prepare and provide weekly status report on sprint status/progress to required stakeholders. Project 3 : Senior Scrum Master at Altruista Health Altruista Health's Guiding Care platform is a comprehensive solution that integrates all preventive, acute care, chronic disease management, behavioral health, long-term care and community services into a one seamless, patient-centered model of care. Role: Scrum Master (Feb 2018- May 2019) Roles & Responsibilities: Organize and facilitate all scrum ceremonies (Planning, Stand-ups, Retrospectives, Demos) for four product teams working in a distributed model. Monitor sprint backlog daily and ensure it accurately reflects the current state of the sprint. Fosters open communication and transparency through building trust within teams and across its members, building happier teams. Work with technical managers, product owners and stakeholders to refine vision and establish goals and metrics. Collaborate closely with product owner on backlog grooming to keep product Making sure backlog is relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing. Facilitate story level collaboration between engineering and product management, via effective story huddle processes. Identify opportunities to improve team performance via retrospectives and observation. Understand the team s capacity collect team velocity and input into burn up, utilize historical velocity to calculate capacity for upcoming sprints. Work with Product managers to facilitate \ run concept sprints for the product teams & the dependent teams when working on new features. Project 4 : Scrum Master at Wipro Technologies Scrum master for a team that develops cross platform mobile applications. Designation: Project Lead/Scrum Master (Dec2010- Feb 2018) Role: Scrum Master Roles & Responsibilities: Adopt and apply SAFe Principles and implement SAFe Practices. Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings. Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories. Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise. Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage interteam tasks. Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams in India. Coached team members on Scaled Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives. Assisted team in understanding Agile release train activities, including PI planning, system demos. Coordinating with other teams and release management. Supported the Product owner with feature grooming and estimations and planning. Project 5 at Wipro technologies Designation: Project Engineer (Dec 2007- Nov 2010) Role: C++ Developer Project Name : Nortel SDM CBM Applications[GNPS] Environment/Tools : Exceed,Clarify and Opatui Scripting Languages : Shell Scripting Software Used : C and C++ Description: SDM/CBM GNPS (Supernode Data Manager/Core Billing Manager Global Network Product Support) Roles & Responsibilities: My role in GNPS activity is of a Support Engineer providing Support for the Genband SDM/CBM Product. It involves working directly with the Customers on Live Sites and resolving the issues. I have been involved in supporting many critical Customer issues for this product. The product has customers all over with more than 3500 deployments. This also involves interaction with various major Clients like Verizon, AT&T, Alcatel, Sprint etc .I have provided second level (GNPS) support for Genband SDM/CBM installations worldwide. GNPS work primarily involves Troubleshooting, Root cause investigations, Patching, Product testing and Realtime recovery. I have provided 24/7, Mobile support for the Genband products to resolve critical customer issues on live switches. Personal Details : Date of Birth: 17th April 1985 Languages Known: English, Telugu & Hindi Address: Sierra Apartments , 2901 Haine Drive 1102, Harlingen, Texas, 78550 Keywords: cprogramm cplusplus business intelligence information technology Colorado