Girish R
Scrum Master / Project Manager (Scrum Certified)
Tampa,FL
Summary
Highly motivated and results-oriented Scrum/Project Manager with extensive experience leading cross-functional teams in applying Agile methodologies, managing stakeholder expectations, and planning effective sprints. Dependable and organized professional adept at managing multiple priorities while maintaining a positive and collaborative attitude. Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master / Project Manager
AGKBio
Tampa
08.2023 - Current
- AGKBio is developing the Machine-learning model to determine the patient disease progression based on the patient vital signs using the technology Java, AWS, Azure, Sybase database, ETL
- Responsibilities: Serve as the central liaison point between the business stakeholder and team
- Maintain and ensure the delivery of client requirements, achieving on-time and complete deliveries (OTIF)
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective) and ensured the team adheres to Scrum principles and practices
- Collaborate with the Product Owner and the team to pinpoint potential issues, eliminate obstacles, manage timelines, and enhance sprint backlogs
- Skilfully manage competing project constraints such as scope, quality, schedule, budget, resources, and risk to successfully oversee new and existing product launches
- Facilitate, build, and execute business reviews for clients to showcase historical and current performance
- Oversee a portfolio of 6-10 clients, adjusting the workload based on individual client volumes.
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
Scrum Master /Project Manager
Meharry Medical College
Nashville
08.2020 - 08.2023
- Meharry Medical College is one of the major HBCU in the country
- Served as a Scrum Master by facilitating Agile ceremonies to ensure efficient and effective Institutional website development
- Responsibilities: Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives
- Strong understanding of the SDLC and Testing life cycle, Defect life cycle Management along with defect tracking, preparing defect report and Bug life cycle
- Writing Test Scripts
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
- Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.
- Worked extensively in Agile Value & Principles, specially implementing Scrum & Scaled Agile Frameworks
- Promoting transparency by ensuring all Scrum events took place and facilitated the opportunities to inspect and adapt
- Prepare & publish Sprint completion reports to leadership team
- Leading the Development teams in self-organization, facilitating continuous improvement activities to reduce the waste and increase productivity, coached organization to conduct continuous improvement events.
Scrum Master/ Project Management
Meharry Medical College
Nashville
03.2018 - 07.2020
- CTRC is to transform ideas and research discoveries and make their way from origin to patient care
- Meet with investors to understand project scope, timeline and based on that execute the project with the team
- Technology: AWS, Java, Angular JS, Mongo database Responsibilities: Provide daily updates to the team regarding development progress by various methods of communication include quick messages, calls, screenshots, documentation, or demonstrations of development
- Writing the test scripts Perform Smoke testing, Functional testing, UI testing, Regression testing, Sanity testing and End to End Testing and Database testing
- Document software defects using JIRA bug tracking system
- Responsible for GUI and functional testing, utilizing black box testing techniques, Postman, ALM and Kanban
- Successfully navigated IVD projects through regulatory clearance
- Developed and implemented comprehensive IVDR compliance plans, including risk management, technical documentation, and clinical evaluation procedures
- Logging issues in Issue Tracking Tool, tracking the status and report preparation for all Modules
- Empower development teams by removing impediments, fostering a collaborative and self-organizing environment, and promoting continuous improvement
- Guide teams in following Scrum principles and practices, coaching them on Scrum roles, artifacts, and events to ensure adherence to Agile methodologies
- Promoting transparency by ensuring all Scrum events took place and facilitated the opportunities to inspect and adapt
- Monitor team velocity & take appropriate actions to make it streamline the same
- Estimate the risk and work towards remediating the same with the help of team and leadership.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
- Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams.
- Led cross-functional teams to successfully complete IT projects.
Scrum Master
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
07.2016 - 04.2018
- Participated in initiation visits and investigator meetings, implementing trials following study timelines and budgets
- Supporting the Product Owner, Development team, and other stakeholders within an Agile Scrum framework
- Assisting the Scrum Team in focusing on delivering high-value increments
- Identifying effective techniques for defining Product Goals and managing the Product Backlog
- Ensuring the Scrum Team understands the importance of clear and concise Product Backlog items
- Facilitating collaboration among stakeholders as requested
- Leading, training, and coaching the program in adopting Scrum practices
- Planning and providing guidance for Scrum implementations within the program
- Assisting employees and stakeholders in adopting an empirical approach for complex work
- Removing obstacles and fostering effective communication between stakeholders and Scrum Teams
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
Education
Machine Learning Data Science Bootcamp - Data Science Machine Learning
MIT-IDSS
Cambridge, MA 10.2020 - 04.2021
Master of Science: Biotechnology -
SRTM University
05.1996 - 08.1998
Associate of Applied Science - Computer Science
BCIT
08.1994 - 07.1996
Skills
Agile and ConfluenceRisk Identification & ManagementScrum ProcessesBusiness Intelligence Data ModelingAtlassian JIRA, PostmanVisio, Agile, V-Model, Postman, KanbanJira, TFS, QC, ServiceNowIVDR compliance & Risk AssessmentPlanning and budgetingSelenium web driverUser story writing
Development team trainings
Web development technologies
Public speaking
Customer interaction
Risk identification
Waterfall methodology
Quality assurance
Risk mitigation planning
Flexible and Adaptable
MS Office
Planning and Coordination
SQL
JIRA
Postman
Kanban
Selenium
IVDR compliance & Risk Assessment
Agile and Confluence
SAS
R
Python
PowerBI
MS Visio
Certification
CSM certified: Global Association For Quality Management (GAQM)
Personal Information
Status: Permanent Resident (GC)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/girish-r-280515292/
Timeline
CSM certified: Global Association For Quality Management (GAQM)
12-2023
Scrum Master / Project Manager
AGKBio
08.2023 - Current
Machine Learning Data Science Bootcamp - Data Science Machine Learning
MIT-IDSS
10.2020 - 04.2021
Scrum Master /Project Manager
Meharry Medical College
08.2020 - 08.2023
Scrum Master/ Project Management
Meharry Medical College
03.2018 - 07.2020
Scrum Master
Vanderbilt University
07.2016 - 04.2018
Master of Science: Biotechnology -
SRTM University
05.1996 - 08.1998
Associate of Applied Science - Computer Science
BCIT
08.1994 - 07.1996