CHINCHU DIVAKAR
ATLANTA,GA
Summary
Experienced and certified Scrum Master and SAFe 6 Agilist with a strong background in Agile Methodologies who is adept at fostering a collaborative and productive environment with emphasis on continuous improvement with the ability to bridge gap between technical and non- technical teams that has been instrumental in driving successful project outcomes and enhancing overall team performance. Experience working with cross functional teams to use Agile (Kanban, Scrum, Lean) and SAFe practices for continuous improvement. Have creativity, enthusiasm, and energy with a strong "can do" attitude and is result-oriented with strong leadership and mentoring skills. Collaborated with RTE to coordinate and facilitate PI Planning sessions for the Agile Release Train (ART), ensuring alignment of team goals with overall program objectives. Have superior oral and written communication skills, as well as the ability to manage expectations of the business, clients, team members, management, and external groups. Reinforce agile values and principles, keeping teams focused on their goals and facilitate interactive discussions, including Inspect and Adapt. Served as a servant leader to teams with various levels of maturity, identifying their respective challenges and bottlenecks, and coached them to become self-organized, high performing teams. Work closely with Product Managers, other Scrum Masters, and Stakeholders to meet business objectives and attain customer satisfaction. Promote core Agile practices to shorten feature delivery time and achieve targets, encourage team cohesion, and overcome impediments to improve quality & productivity. Assist the Product Manager to monitor and prioritize product backlog to meet release timelines while delivering value to the business. Adept at coaching teams, removing impediments, and ensuring the smooth execution of projects. Experience working as Data Integration Engineer in Informatica Cloud Services and Informatica PowerCenter platforms with proficiency in SQL scripting and performance tuning, Unix Scripting and data analysis.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Scrum Master
CloudQ
10.2020 - 07.2023
- Coached the team to follow agile practices, with a focus on optimizing SAFe ceremonies to drive efficiency and deliver high-quality products
- Facilitated SAFe ceremonies, including Program Increment (PI) Planning, Inspecting and Adapting to ensure alignment with business goals
- Implemented lean practices resulting in a 25% improvement in team velocity and a 20% reduction in release cycle time
- Active involvement in Scrum of Scrums, System Demos, PO Sync, PI Planning
- Master of complex facilitation and dependency management techniques to steer contributors through all the necessary ceremonies
- Own the feature completion tracking, metrics and communication within and outside of the team
- Coach team in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets
- Encourage collaboration between teams and System Architects/Engineering
- Partner with Agile Community of Practice and Agile CoE to improve technical and quality practices
- Lead and direct cross-functional resources as required throughout agile lifecycle
- Collaborated with Product Owners to develop clear product roadmaps and ensure timely release of high-quality deliverables.
- Work with Product Owners and team members to practice healthy backlog management and prioritization practices.
- Fostered a culture of continuous improvement, leading retrospectives to identify areas for process enhancement.
- Enhanced team productivity by implementing Agile methodologies and improving communication between cross-functional teams.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
- Increased stakeholder satisfaction by maintaining transparent communication channels and providing regular updates on project progress.
Sr.SME, Scrum Master
Amdocs
08.2013 - 05.2019
- Successfully implemented Agile methodologies in a previously waterfall-oriented environment, resulting in a 20% increase in project delivery efficiency
- Coach Product Owners and team members to practice healthy backlog management and prioritization practices that delivers valuable features for customers, reduces technical debt, provides business value, and enables product sustainability
- Introduced and monitored key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure team performance, identifying areas for improvement and implementing strategies that led to a 30% increase in predictability
- Facilitate stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint review, estimation, and retrospective
- Improve Agile awareness and adoption; evangelize Agile values & principles and assist team to remove roadblocks which leads to the transition of releases on time
- Responsible for driving process and continuous improvements with the goal of increased speed to market of new features and capabilities
- Identify resource gaps across the teams and makes recommendation to portfolio leaders
- Identify and track impediments within and outside the team, and work to resolve them
- Facilitate cross- team orchestration and track and follow up with dependant teams.
ETL / BI Developer - Informatica
Cognizant
10.2007 - 07.2011
- Analyze, review, design documents and Functional/Business requirements to define functional specification
- The role of offshore system developer, involved in the requirement gathering, design phase and development of this project using BO XI R2, Toad and Oracle 10G
- Preparation of RTM, Unit Test Cases and performing Unit Test
- Understanding BRDs (Business Requirements Document), FRDs (Functional Requirements Document), SRS (Software Requirement Specifications)
- Unit testing and bug fixing of BO reports
- Designing and developing Data Warehouse and Data Integration workflows in Informatica PowerCenter
- Code promotions to multiple environments, user management etc
- Developing end user queries, Procedures, Triggers, Stored Procedures, Packages and Views in various databases such as Oracle
- Analyze, review, design documents and Functional / Business requirements to define functional specifications
- Responsible for processing structured and unstructured data, validating data quality, and developing and supporting data products
- Work with internal and external data providers on data validation providing feedback and make customized changes to data feeds and data mappings
- Create and maintain Data Models of Data Warehouse
- Develop Informatica CDC mappings with Informatica Power Exchange
- Create and administer Informatica PowerCenter Domains with High-Availability
- Developing complex end user queries, Procedures, Triggers, Stored Procedures, Packages and Views in various databases such as Oracle
- Develop and maintain Shell Scripts.
Education
Master of Software Engineering -
Anna University
Chennai, India06.2007
Skills
- Informatica PowerCenter
- Informatica Cloud Services
- Microsoft Azure Data Factory
- Oracle
- MS SQL Server
- Salesforce
- SQL
- UNIX Scripting
- PowerShell Scripting
- Quest TOAD
- SQL Developer
- Scrum /Kanban Methodologies
- SAFe
- Agile Frameworks
- Team Facilitation
- Sprint Planning and Backlog Management
- Continuous Improvement
- Servant Leadership
- Agile Coach
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Conflict Resolution
- JIRA / Confluence
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Release Planning
- Sprint Planning
- Performance Metrics
Certification
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM I), https://www.credly.com/badges/ffef744e-c716-4c60-a53c-77a98222c1e8
- Certified SAFe 6 Agilist (SA), https://www.credly.com/badges/5c15639c-6149-4ba2-921e-8f2f6602b866
Timeline
Sr. Scrum Master
CloudQ
10.2020 - 07.2023
Sr.SME, Scrum Master
Amdocs
08.2013 - 05.2019
ETL / BI Developer - Informatica
Cognizant
10.2007 - 07.2011
Master of Software Engineering -
Anna University
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