Surya Sankaranarayanan
Chantilly,VA
Summary
Open minded and results oriented Scrum master with 7 + years of overall IT experience, 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.
Key outcomes delivered
Teams:
- ensure the Teams are committed to achieve goals, organize themselves and learn quickly.
- Improved the performance of the Team by 30%
- make decisions based in a deep understanding of the context and mutually agreed decision
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Scrum Master
Fannie Mae
Reston, VA
05.2022 - Current
- Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies Daily stand ups, Iteration Planning, Backlog Refinement, Iteration Demo, Retrospective for multiple teams.
- Improved the Teams Velocity by 30% with-in a shorter span of time by enforcing the best practices.
- Facilitate ART level ceremonies like ART Sync and PO sync , System Demo and SOS
- Worked closely with the RTE and leadership in defining best practices, tools and process improvement to create the Transparency and Predictability of the ART to deliver value
- Worked closely with the RTE to create multiple dashboards for tracking the progress at various levels.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Monitored metrics and coached the Teams the best practices to become highly productive teams.
- Coordinated and facilitated quarterly maturity assessment like AHR and EOM and identified the Growth items for the ART to become more predictable and mature.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
Senior Scrum Master
JCPenney
Texas City, TX
03.2021 - 04.2022
- .Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Evaluated the health , performance of the team in regards to the timelines and Estimates.
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
- supported the team to ensure a smoother for bi-weekly releases.
- Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
- Acts as a change agent , to bring in the change in the people's mindset thus fostering the adoption of Scrum Framework.
Scrum Master
Navy Exchange
Norfolk, VA
08.2020 - 03.2021
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.
- Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
- 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 and drive progress.
- Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
- Help the team establish practices that enhances quality, reduces technical debt and increases the product value.
- Reporting in scrum of scrums and highlight the dependencies, risks and issues.
- Organized product backlog refinement and User Stories grooming sessions with product owner
Scrum Master
Performance Food Group Co
Richmond, VA
08.2018 - 03.2020
- Facilitated Scrum events, and coached the teams in Agile practices to create a positive mindset. Collaborated with product owners, team members to define solutions and drive progress.
- Helps product owner in grooming the product backlog, stories in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint.
- Motivated the team to increase overall performance removes blockers and builds a cohesive team
- Facilitate team activities and collaboration meetings to keep things flowing smoothly.
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
- Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
Scrum Master
Trex
Winchester, VA
03.2016 - 07.2017
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Researched current trends to stay knowledgeable in Scrum methods.
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
Quality Assurance Engineer
Hewlett-Packard Development
Bangalore , India
2008.06 - 2010.06
- Evaluated function, performance and design compliance of every product against design standards and customer needs.
- Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
- Gathered data on integration issues and vulnerabilities, reported findings and recommended improvements.
- Designed, executed and maintained test scripts for in-project deployment.
- Tested functional and compatibility of new programs or updates in comparison to existing applications.
- Incorporated delivery requirements into planning of testing schedules.
- Fixed identified issues to improve workflows.
- Documented testing procedures for developers and future testing use.
- Collaborated with QA analysts to establish, meet and maintain quality assurance thresholds based on best-practice tools.
- Developed and maintained defect databases for known issues.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Engineering
Anna University
Chennai06.2008
Skills
- Facilitator
- coaching
- Scaled Agile Framework
- Scrum, kanban
- Effective communication
- JIRA , Confluence , Dashboards
- Problem solving skills
- Servant leadership
Certification
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- SAFe 5.1 Scrum Master
Work Availability
monday
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morning
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Quote
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Tony Robbins
Timeline
Senior Scrum Master
Fannie Mae
05.2022 - Current
Senior Scrum Master
JCPenney
03.2021 - 04.2022
Scrum Master
Navy Exchange
08.2020 - 03.2021
Scrum Master
Performance Food Group Co
08.2018 - 03.2020
Scrum Master
Trex
03.2016 - 07.2017
Quality Assurance Engineer
Hewlett-Packard Development
2008.06 - 2010.06
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Engineering
Anna University