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Harpreet Singh

Matthews,NC

Summary

Instrumental Scrum Master bringing 8+ years of experience achieving ambitious goals in challenging IT environment. Diligent, forward-thinking and adaptable to dynamic company, customer, and project needs. Successful at motivating teams to meet demanding timelines.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master/Agile Lead

US Bank
05.2020 - 12.2023
  • Directed daily scrums with 6 Scrum teams (comprised of various pods, including developers, QA testers, and product managers).
  • Coordinated with 20+ business stakeholders, product managers, and development and testing leads to prioritize deliverables .
  • Coached 4 teams to develop project charters by identifying key resource needs and complexities required before beginning new projects
  • Drive development of new features from refinement to deployment stage through coordination and impediment removal.
  • Created and implemented contingency plans to address potential risks.
  • Created metrics to help measure team progress and growth.
  • Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes


Sr Scrum Master

Albertsons
07.2018 - 05.2020
  • Facilitated all daily stand-ups, refinement, planning, review and retrospective meetings ensuring effective and clear communication.
  • Coordinated Virtual PI planning for two Pods (Item and Vendor POD) by calculating capacity and prioritizing work to align with project objectives.
  • Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
  • Implemented industry best practices for software engineering, including Agile methodology, UI/UX design, DevOps, code review, and testing.
  • Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.


Scrum Master/Project Manager

Albertsons
05.2017 - 06.2018
  • Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create a positive mindset towards Agile Scrum
  • Facilitated sprint reviews, daily scrums, planning meetings and sprint retrospectives for continuous improvement in order to realize full team potential
  • Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit scrum team.
  • Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process while meeting both management and team needs.
  • Create Change requests and ensure its on-time readiness for CAB. Ensure CR includes all information required by Change management for CAB approval are included in the change request.
  • Ensured user stories were 100% ordered, defined, and ready to be worked on by the team.
  • Identified 10+ complex impediments and assisted 5+ teams in identifying a path to deliver on their sprint commitments.
  • Guided Agile principles and facilitation skills to ensure 20+ teams were working in an Agile mindset and utilizing Scrum practices


Scrum Master

Visa
06.2016 - 03.2017
  • Managed complex programs with multiple cross team integration points
  • Applied best principles based on situation (Context sensitive) fostering highly Adaptive and Dynamic environment
  • Promoted positive mindset within team by celebrating team successes.
  • Ensured 100% of Scrum activities were tracked, kept upto-date, and reported
  • Facilitated Backlog management (Hierarchy based), Estimation, Effective collaboration,Prioritizing, stand up meetings, retrospective, documentation of working agreement, definition of ready and definition of done for scrum team
  • Created and utilized fun newsletters and agile games to teach team agile principles and improve team spirit
  • Collaborated with Product Manager to plan road map execution based on estimates and capacity(KPI)
  • Closely collaborated with team members to identify and quickly address problems
  • Anticipated and removed impediments to team delivery including cultural barriers, logistical challenges and language barriers


Senior RF Engineer

AT&T
08.2008 - 06.2016

· Performing LTE/5G RF design, run coverage predictions, simulations and prepare cluster reports to meet KPIs using Atoll Tool.

· Performing design and optimization of given market by following AT&T guidelines to attain design goals for First Net and 5G network.

· Issuing search rings, perform candidate evaluation, prepare RF data sheets, perform SCIP evaluation etc.

· Provide RF design for LTE/5G CRAN & C-BAND Clusters and carrier adds.

· Create, update and issue RFDS in Autoforms for the new job releases according to the HQ process.

· Sites creation in ATOLL for NSB's, 5G/LTE Carrier overlay and Modification sites considering the clutter, surrounding area, Capacity and coverage issues by using proper Propagation models, Antennas, Height, Azimuths, and Tilts following the market standards to avoid interference with neighbor sites

· Perform site walks with C&E team to implement the design which includes checking for azimuth change, antenna size and required space for equipment.

Designing, tuning, Outdoor Distributed Antenna Systems (oDAS) for multiple technologies such as LTE (5G), LTE (4G), UMTS (3G).

Education

Master of Science - Computer Engineering Technology

Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
08.2008

Skills

  • Software Methodologies: SAFe, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, BDD, Waterfall
  • Tools: JIRA, ALM, Confluence, MS Project, SharePoint
  • Languages: C, C, PL/SQL, Java
  • RDBMS: Oracle, My SQL, DB2, Teradata, MongoDb
  • Tools: Toad, Razor SQL, Dbeaver, MongoDb Compass

Certification

CSM (Certified Scrum Master- Scrum Alliance)


Timeline

Scrum Master/Agile Lead

US Bank
05.2020 - 12.2023

Sr Scrum Master

Albertsons
07.2018 - 05.2020

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Albertsons
05.2017 - 06.2018

Scrum Master

Visa
06.2016 - 03.2017

Senior RF Engineer

AT&T
08.2008 - 06.2016

Master of Science - Computer Engineering Technology

Wayne State University
Harpreet Singh