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Shweta Bidarkar

Shweta Bidarkar

Scrum Master
Houston,TX

Summary

An agile evangelist with an overall experience of 12+ years in IT and recently worked on assignments in Software Development agility across diverse industry domains. Having wore different hats for software product development over the years have aided to understand the breadth of SDLC. Have got a knack of facilitating high-valued, complex projects to meet demanding timelines by establishing agile frameworks. Having the knowledge of multiple Agile methodologies, striving to establish the best suited agile methodologies across organization/portfolio's by process optimization, communication (training) and improved visibility across teams . Diligent and adaptable to dynamic company strategies, customer needs have developed the skill to encounter and resolve conflicts, deterrents in the way of product delivery pipeline ensuring a secured and widely accessible product.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
2
2

Certifications

Work History

Senior Scrum Master

Barclays Global Service Centre
06.2020 - 07.2023
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress across portfolio's.
  • Created and facilitated 5 scrum teams , with 45 people in total.
  • Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value.
  • Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
  • Researched emerging technologies and current trends which resulted in boosting sprint planning speed by 30% through effective retro's .
  • Led reviews and planning at least 60 meetings per month to promote engagement across teams striving to collectively deliver product by creating tools for capacity planning.
  • Implemented multiple retrospective templates with scrum metrics so that teams could inspect and adapt quickly.
  • Collaborated with leadership to drive strategy and promote lean thinking.
  • Implemented Scrum and Kanban in same portfolio accordingly.

Scrum Master

Barclays Global Service Centre
06.2019 - 05.2020
  • Worked with 2 cross-functional teams to deliver 2 products.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives for teams also ensuring they are fully functional , productive and focused on sprint goal.
  • Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions which increased team velocity by 25%- 30%.
  • Communicated project updates to stakeholders at all levels by effectively tracking and radiating teams progress with Burn down charts, velocity and release forecasting, RAIDs.
  • Generated reports for IT project progress and performance via different tools which increased productivity by 30%.

UI Developer

Barclays Global Service Centre
06.2018 - 05.2019
  • Improved and expanded project platforms using JavaScript and its frameworks (React, preact, VueJS) to develop rich User Interfaces.
  • Worked on HTML(React) web-components on top of JCR
    (Java Content Repository).Led implementation of cross-browser and cross-device accessibility and for easy integration of UI events into the
    Data Layer resulting in 25% improvement in SEO performance
  • Conducted detailed code reviews using testing and debugging best practices. Communicated design and process changes to managers.

Senior Software Analyst

Accenture
01.2016 - 05.2018
  • Built highly functional web applications using JavaScript, jquery,Angular,HTML, Bootstrap and CSS. Developed Applications which would support offline sync using Angular.js services .
  • Developed in-browser persistent storage for CRM data using IndexedDB.
  • Documented technical workflows and knowledge to educate newly hired employees.
  • Operated in global development environment, working across multiple time zones and cultures.

Senior Software Engineer

Infosys Technologies
02.2012 - 12.2015
  • Worked on UI mobile development of retail, telecom projects also capturing specifications, exploring different testing methods and other useful information.
  • Creation of Angular.js based web interface for tracking and
    updating inventory of devices.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

MGM's Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College
Maharashtra, India
06.2011

Skills

  • Customer interaction
  • Stakeholder management
  • Planning & Strategy
  • Requirement Gathering
  • Backlog refinement
  • Lean thinking
  • Autonomous Team management
  • Change Management
  • Conflict resolution
  • Training teams towards agility
  • Risk mitigation planning
  • Training - Agile Development and Best Practices
  • Agile Frameworks - Scrum, Kanban
  • SAFe, LeSS
  • User Stories, ATDD, TDD
  • Lean portfolio management
  • CSM certified
  • Problem-Solving
  • Analytical and Critical Thinking
  • Web development technologies (Angular, React, VueJS, ES6, nodeJS)
  • Basic understanding of AWS
  • JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Figma

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Certified SAFe6 Agilist by Scaled Agile Inc

Timeline

Senior Scrum Master

Barclays Global Service Centre
06.2020 - 07.2023

Scrum Master

Barclays Global Service Centre
06.2019 - 05.2020

UI Developer

Barclays Global Service Centre
06.2018 - 05.2019

Senior Software Analyst

Accenture
01.2016 - 05.2018

Senior Software Engineer

Infosys Technologies
02.2012 - 12.2015

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

MGM's Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College

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