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Navya Chandrashekar

Experienced IT Professional

Summary

Experienced IT professional with 18+ years of IT industry experience, team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation and risk oversight skills, servant-leader, mentor/coach. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Great leadership qualities, good communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Scrum Master

Fidelity Investments
7 2019 - Current
  • Implementation of scrum framework as part of agile transformation
  • Managed product backlog effectively, prioritizing high-value items for faster completion.
  • Boosted customer satisfaction scores by providing regular updates on product enhancements resulting from feedback provided during sprint review meetings.
  • Streamlined release processes through close coordination between development teams and operations staff which resulted in reduction of post production issues
  • Assessed and reported progress to stakeholders regularly, maintaining transparency throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Collaborated with Product Owners and stake holders to refine requirements and ensure alignment with business goals.
  • Wrote, updated and maintained project documentation.
  • Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
  • Implemented key performance metrics to track team progress and identify areas of improvement consistently throughout projects' lifecycles.

Project Lead

Fidelity Investments
06.2013 - 06.2019
  • Accountable for E2E delivery of project in Corporate Actions application which includes requirements gathering, estimation, SRA/SDS preparation, development, co-ordination with QA, UAT and business team.
  • Participating in initiatives to automate manual processes, migrating reports run from mainframes and move into Business Objects.
  • Managing team of four members.

Senior Software Engineer

Mastek India Pvt.Ltd
09.2009 - 05.2013
  • Working in Fidelity- Investments (Client Site) in Bangalore, with ECA team that facilitates communication across platforms.
  • Complete involvement in full life cycle of project including development, testing and production install.
  • Creating new MAUI (Multi platform Access Utilities & Interface) views based on customer requirements.
  • Participate in status calls with onsite partners.

Mainframe Programmer/Analyst Programmer

R R Donnelley
03.2008 - 12.2008
  • Coding and testing programs developed, maintained and moving them into production environment, documenting test plans and results.
  • Supporting end users of application by handling and resolving customer issues as part of rapid response team.

Software Engineer

IBM India
01.2004 - 04.2007
  • Development and Support for Macy's Retail
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
  • Documenting test data, test cases, plans and results for unit and system integration testing

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications

P.E.S.Insitute of Technology
Bangalore
07.1999 - 07.2003

Skills

  • Scrum Framework Expertise

  • Backlog management

  • Agile Metrics Tracking

  • Stakeholder Management

  • User story creation

  • Jira

  • SQL

  • Jira Align

  • Mainframe technologies

  • AWS cloud technologies

  • Work Planning and Prioritization

Certification

A-CSM

Timeline

Project Lead

Fidelity Investments
06.2013 - 06.2019

Senior Software Engineer

Mastek India Pvt.Ltd
09.2009 - 05.2013

Mainframe Programmer/Analyst Programmer

R R Donnelley
03.2008 - 12.2008

Software Engineer

IBM India
01.2004 - 04.2007

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications

P.E.S.Insitute of Technology
07.1999 - 07.2003

Scrum Master

Fidelity Investments
7 2019 - Current
Navya ChandrashekarExperienced IT Professional