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Saravanan Muniandi

Irving,TX

Summary

Sr Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master Accomplished Project Manager offering 20+ years of experience in IT industry. Successful when leading high-performing teams to sustain product vision, roadmap and business goals. Exceptional technical expertise, leadership and talent for driving stellar, on-target results.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master

Citigroup (Opensystems Technologies)
03.2021 - Current
  • Monitor, collect metrics data (such as baseline, actual values for costs, schedule, work in progress, and work completed) & reporting to senior management about project progress and others project specific information
  • Leads and facilitates Scrum events (ceremonies) such as Daily Scrum, Sprint planning, Retrospectives
  • Collaborate with Product Owners to manage and maintain the product backlog, ensuring that user stories are well-defined, prioritized, and estimated
  • Ensure that technical solutions align with business objectives
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure technical solutions meet business needs
  • Coached 40+ team members on Agile methodologies, Scrum principles, and best practices
  • Collaborate with other architects, developers, and stakeholders to ensure a unified approach to system design
  • Tracks and reports metrics in accordance with corporate standards, including burn down charts, cumulative flow diagrams and specific measurable results
  • Works with cross-functional internationally distributed remote teams
  • Supports the execution of PI commitments and timeliness
  • Participates in quarterly PI Planning / Big Room Planning
  • Demonstrates strong communication and effective presentation skills, while communicating with and collaborating with executives and various levels of stakeholders
  • Technology: Java, API, Microservices, Collibra, Python, JSON, Hadoop, Spark, HDFS, Hive, MongoDB, Amazon S3, Bitbucket, JIRA, Confluence, Sharepoint

Sr Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master

Verizon (Virtusa Corporation)
02.2020 - 02.2021
  • Monitor, collect metrics data (such as baseline, actual values for costs, schedule, work in progress, and work completed) & reporting to senior management about project progress and others project specific information
  • Leads and facilitates Scrum events (ceremonies) such as Daily Scrum, Sprint planning, Retrospectives
  • Collaborate with Product Owners to manage and maintain the product backlog, ensuring that user stories are well-defined, prioritized, and estimated
  • Ensure that technical solutions align with business objectives
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure technical solutions meet business needs
  • Collaborate with other architects, developers, and stakeholders to ensure a unified approach to system design
  • Tracks and reports metrics in accordance with corporate standards, including burn down charts, cumulative flow diagrams and specific measurable results
  • Works with cross-functional internationally distributed remote teams
  • Demonstrates strong communication and effective presentation skills, while communicating with and collaborating with executives and various levels of stakeholders
  • Technology: Pega PRPC, Java, Microservices, MongoDB, Oracle, Bitbucket, JIRA, Confluence, Sharepoint

Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master

Citigroup (Virtusa Corporation)
10.2018 - 01.2020
  • Program and Project Management, include Scrum, release planning, sprint planning, User story decomposition, effort estimations, daily scrum meetings, sprint reviews meeting, Risk assessment and Mitigation plan & control actions
  • Planning, controlling, monitoring, managing and directing the assigned program and project to best meet program and project objectives
  • Collecting metrics data (such as baseline, actual values for costs, schedule, work in progress, and work completed) & reporting to stakeholders about project progress and others project specific information
  • Create and execute development plans and revisions as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
  • Leading technical team, architecture team, mentoring team members on technical issues and resolutions
  • Participate in Architectural review sessions, participate in design review sessions, and suggest alternative technical solutions to meet client requirements more efficiently, and/or with greater reusability, and/or longer life
  • Ensure that technical solutions align with business objectives
  • Support technical architectures to meet business requirements
  • Connecting with stakeholders to determine the project's current and future state architecture
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure technical solutions meet business needs
  • Lead technical design reviews and provide feedback
  • Create and maintain detailed technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, specifications, technical standards, best practices and guidelines
  • Collaborate with other architects, developers, and stakeholders to ensure a unified approach to system design
  • Successfully planned and aligned our PROD deployments with the organization release cycle
  • Managed and delivered 10 PROD deployments (CG Platform / Business features) successfully and much appreciated by business / sponsor
  • On boarding of microservices into PCF platform for internal / external customers
  • Successfully migrated from HBase to MongoDB to address Storage / Retrieval, performance issue by switching from key-value pair to filtering and aggregate functions
  • Planned and delivered the Kafka Streaming App to read and writes the Topics into MongoDB to have near real-time data for all the features of CG Platform
  • Planned and delivered complete test automation (CI / CD) and our application was the first to receive Silver APP award on the DEMO Day
  • Led and managed project teams of up to 30 employees
  • Technology: Java, Springboot, REST, Microservices, Pivotal Cloud Factory (PCF), Glassbox (Customer data analytics / Insights), Amazon Connect, Kafka Streaming, Docker containers, CI/CD, Jenkins, SonarQube, AppDynamics, Splunk, Tableau, Python, Talend, Hadoop, Spark, HDFS, Hive, HBase, MongoDB, ETL, DataLake, Oracle, Bitbucket, JIRA, Confluence, Sharepoint

Technical Project Manager

New York Life (Virtusa Corporation)
07.2017 - 09.2018
  • Drove Agile technical projects spanning multiple business divisions, budgeting $2M
  • Spearheaded this Digital Transformation program while serving as primary contact for client
  • Authored complex functional and system-level test plans, test cases and test reports for NYL digital transformation and its development process
  • Innovated new processes and workflows that realized 50% improvement in efficiency of delivery team
  • Increased team efficiency by 30% by inspiring motivation, spins and changes for quality and timeliness
  • Technology: Java 8, Spring, Amazon Webservices, Amazon ECS, Elastic Search, Mulesoft API, Mulesoft Anypoint Studio, DevOps CI/CD Automation, Jenkins, Docker, Terraform, GitHub, Dynamo DB, Zookeeper, Kafka, LogStash, Kibana, JIRA, Confluence, SonarQube, JMeter

Technical Project Manager

Anthem BCBS(Virtusa Corporation)
08.2016 - 06.2017
  • Responsibilities include Scrum, release planning, sprint planning, User story decomposition, effort estimations, daily scrum meetings, sprint reviews meeting, Risk assessment and Mitigation plan & control actions
  • Technology: Java / JEE, Spring, Hibernate, MongoDB, DB2, REST Web services, WebSphere Application Server

Technical Project Manager

American Express (Virtusa Corporation)
08.2015 - 07.2016
  • Delivered 3 projects on time and within budget, overcoming all planning, resourcing with the dependency team and the data challenges, obstacles and hurdles
  • Responsibilities include Scrum, release planning, sprint planning, User story decomposition, effort estimations, daily scrum meetings, sprint reviews meeting, Risk assessment and Mitigation plan & control actions
  • Strong understanding of project management methodology and PMO standards
  • Technology: Pega PRPC 6.1 SP2, IBM Web Sphere Application Server 7.0, Oracle11i, Linux, RALLY, and Clarity

Agile Project Manager

BNP Paribas (Virtusa Corporation)
12.2013 - 07.2015
  • Defined workflows and processes in fast-paced, Agile and distributed models using tools such as whiteboarding, mind mapping, JIRA, and Confluence
  • Monitored and facilitated scrum processes and team meetings for development
  • Led daily scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects
  • Trained and mentored team members on best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency and reduce production times
  • Technology: Business Objects Enterprise XI 3.1, Autosys, Oracle11i, RALLY, and Linux

Senior Project Development Manager

Citi Private Banking (Wealth Management) & Royal Bank of Scotland
02.2010 - 11.2013
  • Supervised and directed team of 3 project managers in coordinating, sharing the action items to achieve the desired results to meet the milestones
  • Documented new features and strategies as well as user stories and criteria for acceptance
  • Assessed team metrics and worked to drive improvements and innovate new approaches
  • Evaluated projects for issues, alleviating problems and distractions to meeting team goals
  • Coordinated operations and communications between cross-functional areas resulting in enhanced
  • Reported project statuses to facilitate delivery schedules and manage bottlenecks
  • Consistently worked to identify project risks, initiate risk mitigation and implement risk reduction action plans
  • Managed production tasking across functional areas to maximize operational efficiency
  • Prepared deliverables to drive continuous improvement resulting in zero defects
  • Delegated tasks to each team member, regularly assessing workloads to complete tasks on time and within project parameters.

Lead Technical Architect

Wells Fargo (Marlabs Inc), Western Union (Opus Software), CitiStreet (RealSoft Inc.,)
01.2006 - 12.2008
  • Designed and implemented development for Reconciliation Application Service Framework
  • Administered application stacks and executed performance tuning
  • Redesigned and developed architecture, resulting in 20% increase in productivity for clients
  • Created customized infrastructure for businesses
  • Defined technical integration strategy and developed integration plans.

System Analyst

GE Insurance (iGATE Global Solutions)
03.2001 - 12.2005
  • Analysed requirements and implemented systems to deliver comprehensive system development life cycle solutions
  • Collected and defined customer requirements to produce product scopes
  • Initiated efforts to migrate legacy applications to Java / J2EE platform
  • Coordinated system installations, testing and code corrections
  • Met with stakeholders, contractor product teams and customers throughout entire system development life cycle.

Education

MBA - Management Information Systems and Marketing

Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai, Tamilnadu
06.1997

B.Com. - Commerce

Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai, Tamilnadu
06.1995

Skills

  • Technical Leadership
  • Program / Project Management
  • Large-Scale Project Management
  • Strategic Planning & Tactical Execution
  • Software Development Lifecycle
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Product Management
  • Scrum Master / Agile Methodologies
  • Cross-functional Team Leadership
  • API Integration
  • Release Planning

Accomplishments

  • Achieved [Result] through effectively helping with [Task].

Awards

GEM Award - Leadership

Certification

Certified Scrum Master from ScrumAlliance

Timeline

Sr Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master

Citigroup (Opensystems Technologies)
03.2021 - Current

Sr Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master

Verizon (Virtusa Corporation)
02.2020 - 02.2021

Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master

Citigroup (Virtusa Corporation)
10.2018 - 01.2020

Technical Project Manager

New York Life (Virtusa Corporation)
07.2017 - 09.2018

Technical Project Manager

Anthem BCBS(Virtusa Corporation)
08.2016 - 06.2017

Technical Project Manager

American Express (Virtusa Corporation)
08.2015 - 07.2016

Agile Project Manager

BNP Paribas (Virtusa Corporation)
12.2013 - 07.2015

Senior Project Development Manager

Citi Private Banking (Wealth Management) & Royal Bank of Scotland
02.2010 - 11.2013

Lead Technical Architect

Wells Fargo (Marlabs Inc), Western Union (Opus Software), CitiStreet (RealSoft Inc.,)
01.2006 - 12.2008

System Analyst

GE Insurance (iGATE Global Solutions)
03.2001 - 12.2005

MBA - Management Information Systems and Marketing

Madurai Kamaraj University

B.Com. - Commerce

Madurai Kamaraj University

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