Nikhila Kalavala
Morrisville,USA
Summary
Accomplished Scrum Master and Project Manager with over 15 years of experience driving high-performing teams, delivering complex projects, and implementing Agile methodologies to enhance productivity and efficiency.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager/Scrum Master
Accenture
12.2021 - 06.2023
- Company Overview: Hyderabad
- Lead Scrum teams, ensuring adherence to Agile best practices, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Act as a servant-leader, removing obstacles and fostering a culture of self-organization, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Work closely with product owners to define product backlog and user stories, ensuring alignment with business goals
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment between business stakeholders and technical teams
- Successfully managed large-scale projects worth $15 million, ensuring timely delivery within scope, budget, and quality parameters
- Enhanced team performance by introducing Agile practices, leading to a 23% increase in team velocity and a 15% improvement in customer satisfaction
- Foster strong relationships with stakeholders to ensure transparency, manage expectations, and deliver consistent updates
- Demonstrated expertise in leading teams through the adoption of Agile principles, facilitating training sessions, and coaching stakeholders on Agile best practices
- Led end-to-end mainframe modernization projects, migrating legacy systems to Java platforms such as Spring batches and Angular, resulting in 18% reduction in operational costs
- Strong domain knowledge in Automobile supply chain
- Hyderabad
Associate Project Manager/Scrum Master
Accenture
12.2018 - 11.2021
- Company Overview: Hyderabad
- Managed multiple high-impact projects simultaneously, ensuring the delivery of IT and business solutions on time and within budget
- Led the project lifecycle from initiation to closure, including scope management, timeline estimation, risk management, and resource allocation
- Collaborated with clients to define project scope, objectives, and requirements
- Implemented project management processes using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, tailoring the approach based on project complexity
- Led Agile transformation for the department, moving from Waterfall to Scrum, improving delivery speed by 50%
- Prepared and presented status reports, project documentation, and post-project evaluations to senior leadership
- Expanded project scope to different regions (NAFTA, ANZ), resulting in increasing 30% Market Share
- Hyderabad
Technical Team Lead – Mainframe & SQL Developer
Accenture
12.2011 - 11.2018
- Company Overview: Hyderabad
- Expertise in managing complex projects, optimizing system performance, and ensuring high-quality solutions through effective leadership and technical expertise
- Proficient in COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, SQL, and other mainframe technologies
- Leveraging Snowflake’s capabilities to design scalable and efficient data solutions
- Adept at working in collaborative environments, solving technical challenges, and mentoring junior developers to build a high-performing team
- Proven ability to drive process improvements and deliver large-scale systems on time and within budget
- Lead a team of 25 developers in the design, development, and maintenance of COBOL-based legacy applications running on IBM Mainframe systems
- Spearheaded the implementation of SQL solutions, including complex queries, stored procedures, and database optimizations for high-volume applications
- Coordinated and supervised daily development activities, ensuring that all team members adhered to project timelines and coding standards
- Mentored junior and mid-level developers, providing guidance on technical challenges, coding best practices, and performance tuning
- Collaborated with business analysts, product owners, and other stakeholders to gather requirements, define deliverables, and ensure alignment with business goals
- Designed and implemented JCL scripts for batch job automation, optimizing job execution time and improving efficiency
- Performed performance tuning on DB2 and IMS databases, resulting in a [X]% improvement in query performance and reducing database-related issues
- Led the migration of legacy mainframe applications to modernized platforms, ensuring minimal disruption and a smooth transition
- Performed data migration from legacy systems to Snowflake, ensuring data integrity and consistency
- Created and maintained ETL pipelines using Snowflake, and SQL, transforming raw data into usable formats for analysis
- Ensured high-quality code through rigorous code reviews and testing practices, reducing production defects by 8%
- Hyderabad
Mainframe & SQL Developer
Accenture
08.2008 - 11.2011
- Company Overview: Hyderabad
- Developed and maintained COBOL applications supporting core business functions, working with CICS for transaction processing and DB2 for data management
- Wrote and optimized SQL queries to extract, manipulate, and report data, ensuring accuracy and efficiency
- Created and managed JCL scripts to automate batch processing jobs, reducing manual interventions and errors
- Troubleshot and resolved production issues related to Mainframe applications and SQL databases, ensuring high availability of mission-critical systems
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and implement system enhancements, ensuring that new features aligned with business requirements
- Assisted in database schema design and optimization, including data migration, indexing, and data integrity tasks
- Designed and implemented complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and triggers to support business intelligence and reporting needs
- Worked closely with DB2 and other relational databases to ensure high-quality data for reporting and analytics purposes
- Optimized database performance by analysing query execution plans, implementing indexing strategies, and improving resource utilization
- Supported database migrations and upgrades, ensuring seamless transitions and minimal downtime
- Hyderabad
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics Instrumentation
Bhoj Reddy Engineering College
01.2008
Skills
- DB2
- SQL
- IMS-DB
- IBM Mainframes
- Splunk
- Power BI
- Snowflakes
- Visio
- Trello
- Figma
- Confluence
- Jira
- SharePoint
- ServiceNow
- MSPS
- JIRA
- Bitbucket
- Unix
- Windows NT
- Windows 98
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
- Windows 2003
- Work flow planning
- Project tracking
- Project development
- Workforce training
Certification
Certified Scrum Master
Timeline
Project Manager/Scrum Master
Accenture
12.2021 - 06.2023
Associate Project Manager/Scrum Master
Accenture
12.2018 - 11.2021
Technical Team Lead – Mainframe & SQL Developer
Accenture
12.2011 - 11.2018
Mainframe & SQL Developer
Accenture
08.2008 - 11.2011
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics Instrumentation
Bhoj Reddy Engineering College
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