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ROHIT PURI

San Antonio,TX

Summary

Experienced Scrum Master with proven track record of successfully leading teams in developing high-quality software solutions on time and within budget. Skilled in multiple Agile methodologies, stakeholder management and sprint planning. Highly organized in managing complex projects with multiple deadlines.

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

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Manager - Scrum Master Sr

Charles Schwab
11.2019 - Current

As part of EMOST Org, I worked on projects like:

  • Onboarding internal LOBs to Schwab Authentication Platform
  • Building new API Endpoints for External Advisors to create and maintain credentials for their clients
  • Built new APIs to migrate Bulk credentials from one DB to another
  • Migrate LOBs and Features from Legacy Application to new application
  • Worked with 2-3 feature teams to build multiple new features for providing better experience to clients using schwab platform

Below were my responsibilities:

  • Responsible for managing multiple scrum teams with a focus on guiding them towards improving the way they work
  • Follow SAFe Agile principles and continue to deliver features as well as application maintenance
  • Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
  • Monitored and tracked project progress to support timely completion.
  • Coordinate and work with Release and Component teams in order to get our changes in release train and deployed to production smoothly
  • Create and maintain Dashboards and Metrics to show the progress made by the team
  • Keep the team on track and prepared for upcoming quarterly PI Planning meetings

Scrum Master

Acción Labs - Rackspace
02.2016 - 10.2019

As a Scrum Master i worked on below projects:

  • Built an in-house developed ticketing application
  • ARIC End of Life for Rackspace Hosting - migrate all the processes (6000+) from ARIC 2.0 to ARIC 3.0
  • Application Lifecycle Development and Maintenance - maintenance of 40 legacy applications with some enhancements
  • PEG Rapid Response Projects for Rackspace Hosting - Process Automation for internal and external clients


Below were my responsibilities:

  • Managed multiple scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
  • Handled both, Onsite & Offshore team
  • Responsible for change management and release management process. Making sure to coordinate with various co-working teams and planning/prioritizing the releases
  • Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, release planning, retrospective and sprint demos
  • Responsible for tracking all the Production Issues and prioritizing them with the business

Scrum Master

HCL America - USAA
12.2012 - 02.2016

As a Scrum Master i worked in below projects:

  • Enterprise Virtual Assistance for USAA - Mobile Apps
  • Implementing Intelligent Call Routing Model for USAA Contact Centers
  • Mortgage Loan Origination & Fulfillment Application


Below were my responsibilities:

  • Performed the role of Agile coach along with the Scrum Master
  • Planned and conducted the Big Room Planning session with the business to plan for the next 2 quarters
  • Mapped each Scope/Epic to project release timeline and making sure of timely delivery of the same
  • Initiated the project in Rational Team Concert, an Agile Management Tool
  • Sync Up with other Scrum Masters in Scrum of Scrums and making sure all the teams are collaboratively working to achieve project goals
  • Assists the Track Product Owner to drive the demo after each iteration for the requirements implemented in the respective iteration
  • Base lining of all the business artifacts and requirements implemented in each iteration and release accordingly
  • Created and updated Page Specs and Report Specs along with the details of data field mapping and UI

Business Analyst

HCL America - Reed Elsevier
10.2011 - 11.2012

As a Business Analyst i worked on below projects:

  • Order Activity & History Tracking


Below were my responsibilities:

  • Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria
  • Captured all the Technical and Non-Functional requirements for all the above modifications that were done in the present applications and systems
  • Monitored all the Defects that were logged by the Testing or UAT team in Quality Center
  • Assisted Testing team in Regression Testing of various HESI applications in different environments
  • Provided support to offshore team in fixing and closing the logged defects
  • Prepared and managed a Parameter Sheet with all the valid performance and availability parameters in order to compare the performance of post release system with prerelease system

System Analyst

BT Financial Group, BTFG
07.2010 - 09.2011

Below is the project I worked on:

  • Integrate the investment application of BT Financial Group with banking applications of Westpac Bank


Below were my responsibilities:

  • Involved in requirement elicitation using document analysis, business process descriptions, wireframes, use cases and scenarios
  • Interacted with business users to understand business requirements
  • Decomposed high level business and user requirements to functional requirements to bring out field level details. Prepared detailed use cases grouped under various processes
  • Eliciting requirements through discussions with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) on various modules and proposed solutions to enhance functioning and effectiveness of the product.
  • Training and knowledge transfer of all domain/functional aspects of the product with the aid of presentations and documentations


Trade Manager

Standard Chartered Bank
06.2007 - 06.2010

As a Trade Manager, I took care of below responsibilities:

  • Managed a team of 10 people to take care of all day to day transactions of SME (Small and Medium Size Enterprise) clients of North India
  • Managed Forex transactions like Export documents, Import documents, Letter of Credits, Bank Guarantee, Remittances, Foreign Currency Chqs / DD’s etc
  • Checking of SWIFT messages for all the transactions
  • Dealing with Treasury Dept
  • Booking rates and forward contracts
  • Providing advisory services to client on hedging the risk of Foreign Currency fluctuation through derivatives instruments like Forward Contracts and Options
  • Daily clearing and cash transactions like chq deposits, cash deposits, DD issuance, RTGS / NEFT transfers etc.

Management Trainee

Centurion Bank of Punjab
04.2006 - 06.2007

As a Mgt Trainee, i was responsible for below:

  • Scrutinize all the docs like export docs, import docs, remittance request, letter of credit etc
  • Used to do FEMA (Foreign Exchange Management Act) checking of all the transactions
  • Generating SWIFT messages for all the Fx transactions
  • Checking of Nostro accounts for various currencies to confirm the credits received in foreign currency
  • Generating and filing of R Return (Foreign Currency Report) to Reserve Bank of India
  • Coordinating with Treasury Dept
  • (Dealing Room) for Fx rates to process the Fx transactions

Education

Bachelor of Computer Application

Indraprastha University
New Delhi
2004

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration

Indian Institute of Planning And Management
New Delhi
2006

Skills

  • Agile Tools: Rally, JIRA, Rational Team Concert (RTC), Trello
  • Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, XP, SAFe, TDD
  • Project Management and Reporting
  • Release Coordination
  • Other tools: GitHub, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Harness, IssueTrak Ticketing Tool, ARIC Process Automation, Mortgage Life Cycle Applications, Trade Finance & Core Banking Applications, MS Visio, Office365, Confluence, Onewiki, Etherpad & HP Quality Centre
  • Domain Skills: Identity and Access Management, Online Authentication and Security, Ticketing, Process Automation & Migration, Trade Finance, SWIFT Messages, Media and Publishing, Mortgage / Loan Cycle, Core Banking

Certification

Certified ScrumMaster – Scrum Alliance NFCM – Advisory Module

Certification

Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance

Timeline

Sr. Manager - Scrum Master Sr

Charles Schwab
11.2019 - Current

Scrum Master

Acción Labs - Rackspace
02.2016 - 10.2019

Scrum Master

HCL America - USAA
12.2012 - 02.2016

Business Analyst

HCL America - Reed Elsevier
10.2011 - 11.2012

System Analyst

BT Financial Group, BTFG
07.2010 - 09.2011

Trade Manager

Standard Chartered Bank
06.2007 - 06.2010

Management Trainee

Centurion Bank of Punjab
04.2006 - 06.2007

Bachelor of Computer Application

Indraprastha University

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration

Indian Institute of Planning And Management
ROHIT PURI