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Venkata Gannavarapu

TX

Summary

With over 5 years of experience as an Agile Scrum Master, I have successfully implemented Agile framework for more than 7 software development teams, increased efficiency and productivity by 30%, delivered projects two weeks ahead of schedule and significantly reduced project blockers resulting in a 20% decrease. Additionally, I have provided guidance to new team members on Agile best practices, proactively identified risks and dependencies, and improved the overall project performance. I am committed to helping teams thrive and deliver value through process improvement and excellence in Agile software project execution.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Agile Delivery Lead

Capital One
10.2022 - 04.2023

● Managed and coached multiple teams through Agile transformation.
● Worked with Product Owner to align teams with product vision and goal.
● Empowered teams to self-manage and facilitate decision making during sprint planning sessions ensuring the commitments are appropriate and uphold scrum principles.
● Coached Product Owners in creating and maintaining backlog items leveraging JIRA.
● Ensured team(s) maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery of business value.
● Creating dashboards for enabling transparency on agile metrics to the leadership and to the teams.
● Escalating and resolving impediments to help teams ship code.
● Communicated with leaders across the organization on a regular basis to ensure transparency into delivery, risks, issues, etc.
● Coached the teams to improve collaboration and self-organization.
● Facilitated all the scrum events and PI planning.
● Estimate the capacity and protect the team from over-commitment.
● Coached the team on Agile Principles and methodologies.
● Supported Confluence and JIRA as admin.
● Created the Team Charter following the SCRUM principles.
● Empowered and assured the teams are productive and functional.
● Publishing monthly team accomplishments and priorities to the senior management.
● Planned and delivered resource allocation to the teams.
● Supporting Monthly Business Reviews.
● Team building and engagement.

Senior Scrum Master

Eteam Inc : Capital One
02.2022 - 10.2022

The goal of the project is to develop a product where auto-loan applications are analyzed and processed. This product verifies the system and provides data for Credit Review.

● As a Scrum Master, act as a Servant leader to the team by facilitating clear communication to management and the
team.
● Coaching and guiding team in Agile best practices.
● Coordinating and facilitating in all Scrum events.
● Working closely with the Product Owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of the features.
● Managing the backlog in JIRA and aid the team in determining suitable commitments for backlog items and sprints.
● Conducting the daily stand up, encouraging open communication in the team.
● Effectively track team's progress, including burn-down, velocity and release forecasting.
● Proactively identifying impediments and resolving them.
● Escalate and manage the vulnerability remediation.

Scrum Master

Concentra
09.2019 - 12.2020

The goal of the project is to re-engineer the Tibco application and direct the e-physicals for pre-employment check to either Formfox or Escreen.

● Worked as a Scrum Master to monitor and track the progress of the Scrum Team.
● Worked directly with Scrum Team and the solution architect for project related items.
● Leveraging JIRA for issues.

● Facilitating the scrum events.
● Profound knowledge in developing SOA processes in TIBCO BW5
● Coordinating and working with Vendors for 3rd party application issues.
● Extending Production Support activities using Oracle PL/SQL and providing support activities to Business users.
● Responsible for investigating issues / reported bugs, identifying the cause and analyzing impact and providing best possible solution.
● Meeting the SLAs for response time to events and incidents.
● Documenting and providing the training based on the requirements.

Individual Contributor (Acted as a Scrum Master)

Zavicore
01.2017 - 09.2019

● Worked on Scrum framework for delivering the project requirements.
● Backlog maintained in JIRA.
● Worked with the product owner to understand the prioritized backlog.
● Worked on confluence for documentation purposes.
● Developed applications using ASP.NET, C# and SQL server Database.
● Designed and developed user interface for several modules in the application using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
● Used C# for construction of business logic for developing various abstract classes, interfaces and classes.
● Extensively involved in writing client-side code using Java Script.
● Wrote several stored procedures, SQL statements, functions and triggers to access data from SQL Server.
● Performed duties as assigned in debugging and fixing the issues by submitting ad-hoc scripts.
● Involved in solving user report production issues. (Product: Morning Hopper).

Senior System Analyst

AXA Technologies
08.2010 - 01.2013

● Worked on Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) starting from Requirements, gathering, and performing object-
oriented analysis, design and implementation.
● Developed applications using ASP.NET, C# and SQL server Database.
● Used C# for construction of business logic for developing various abstract classes, interfaces and classes.
● Extensively involved in writing client-side code using Java Script.
● Wrote several stored procedures, SQL statements, functions and triggers to access data from SQL Server.
● Performed duties as assigned in debugging and fixing the issues by submitting ad-hoc scripts.
● Involved in production support.

Associate Engineer

CSC
11.2009 - 08.2010

Royal Mail Group uses a user-friendly web-based software application ICMS that enables the call center operations to follow the norms and handle the customers effectively capturing and providing the required data.
● Involved in all phases of project (Design, Develop, Test and Deploy)
● Designed version-controlled project requirement documentation.
● Designed user interface screens and navigation for the functional flow.
● Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
● Wrote ASP.NET web services to return XML results.
● Implemented UI design using HTML and CSS.
● Developed web forms using ASP.NET server controls and validation client side using Java Script.
● Carry out regression testing every time when changes are made to the code to fix defects.
● Involved in the UNIT, smoke & integration testing.
● E2E testing of the application.
● Collaborate with team members.

Associate Programmer

Convergys
07.2006 - 10.2008

● Worked on multiple clients in the banking domain for Capital One, Wachovia, HSBC, American Express and Chase.
● Was involved the analysis, design and development of a Private Card Industry to migrate the sensitive information through the data vault to the clients on Mainframes and was involved in all phases of the development life cycle.
● Have worked on COBOL programming for the file load process.
● Have written jobs in JCLs and worked on VSAM files.
● Was also involved in scheduling the jobs on CA7 and OPC tools for the projects.

Education

Skills

  • Agile methodologies
  • Scrum Framework
  • Project Management
  • Team Facilitation
  • Continuous Process Improvement
  • Metrics and Reporting
  • Backlog Management
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Team Collaboration
  • Technical Skills: MS Excel, PowerPoint, JIRA, Rally, ServiceNow, Mainframe, NET, SQL, Tibco BW5

Certification

  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
  • Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)
  • Certified SAFe 5 Agilist (SAFe Agilist)
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

VISA STATUS

Permanent Resident.

No sponsorship required.

Timeline

Agile Delivery Lead

Capital One
10.2022 - 04.2023

Senior Scrum Master

Eteam Inc : Capital One
02.2022 - 10.2022

Scrum Master

Concentra
09.2019 - 12.2020

Individual Contributor (Acted as a Scrum Master)

Zavicore
01.2017 - 09.2019

Senior System Analyst

AXA Technologies
08.2010 - 01.2013

Associate Engineer

CSC
11.2009 - 08.2010

Associate Programmer

Convergys
07.2006 - 10.2008

Venkata Gannavarapu