Asawari Kulkarni
Portland
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Jira Support/Project manager
Moderna
02.2025 - Current
- Coordinated project timelines and resources across multiple teams.
- Managed communication between stakeholders and project teams effectively.
- Led regular project meetings to track progress and address issues.
- Monitored the progress of each process area to ensure the timely delivery of deliverables in accordance with established quality standards.
- Identified project needs by reviewing project objectives and schedules.
- Built a tracking platform for the team using Jira so that the progress can be tracked at a granular level.
- Built a Jira automation that captures stakeholders' requirements via a form and routes them efficiently to the respective teams for assessment.
- Built dashboards in Jira.
- Track documents review and approvals during validation process.
Scrum Master
Gilead Sciences
02.2023 - 04.2024
- Led 50+ scrum ceremonies such as daily scrums, sprint planning, sprint review.
- Coach and serve 3 teams ensuring agile principles and values are followed using scrum framework.
- Developed dashboards for issues tracking purpose which is helping teams track the progress at granular level and address any blocks/impediments.
- Build/Maintain project issues tracker.
- Ensured that scrum activities are tracked, and outcomes are shared with the team.
- Identify impediments and report/communicate with developers, product owners so that suitable actions can be taken to address and resolve them.
Project Coordinator
Genentech
02.2021 - 06.2022
- Developed and maintained the trackers using Google Sheets and tracked the project progress.
- Collected data on the project resources and built a model to predict resource allocation.
- Communicated requirements with the teams and keep track of project deadlines by establishing reporting and monitoring.
- Proactive communication and coordination helped accelerate the review process.
- Coordinated meetings and prepared presentations to share ideas and findings.
- Track the document life cycle during the review process.
- Address and coordinate with the client Document control teams regarding any concerns/irregularities with the documents.
Volunteer Researcher
Oregon DEQ
01.2017 - 06.2017
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Central Florida
08.2006 - 08.2008
- Successful implementation of performance-based methodology on a Florida Landfill to optimize the landfill care and its duration after closure.
- Analysis of landfill parameters such as leachate, gas and landfill cap was helpful in evaluating functional stability of the landfill.
- Analysis helped landfill operators to take an informed decision on optimizing landfill operations, which was very useful since then current State regulations only mention the standards but not the tools to achieve them.
Education
Master of Science - Environmental Engineering
University of Central Florida
Skills
- Jira
- Smartsheet
- Data Analysis
- Data Wrangling
- Data Visualization
- R
- ArcGIS
Timeline
Jira Support/Project manager
Moderna
02.2025 - Current
Scrum Master
Gilead Sciences
02.2023 - 04.2024
Project Coordinator
Genentech
02.2021 - 06.2022
Volunteer Researcher
Oregon DEQ
01.2017 - 06.2017
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Central Florida
08.2006 - 08.2008
Master of Science - Environmental Engineering
University of Central Florida