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Vijayander Guda

Cary,NC

Summary

Overall, 20 years of IT experience in various roles and responsibilities. Has over 8 years' experience in Agile Methodology as a Certified Scrum Master for implementation of mid to large scale projects including portals, mobile enablement etc. Has over 15 years' experience as VMS (Vendor Management System) / RMS (Recruitment Management System) for implementation of mid to large scale VMS / RMS projects. Has over 10 years of experience as IT analyst, Software engineer. Managed projects as Systems PM as well as Business PM. Experienced in managing onshore and global resources. Implemented projects end to end in SaaS and mobile platforms.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr Manager / Scrum Master

Fidelity
04.2023 - Current
  • Leading cross functional team in Health Care Group
  • Empower squad member leadership, impediment removal, and accountability through use of team learning activities and one-on-ones to increase flow efficiency and improve scrum event participation
  • Manage complex inter-squad dependencies to deliver end-to-end value and meet 100% of stakeholder deadlines
  • Facilitate Product Area (PA) Scrum of Scrums meetings and enable meaningful discussion around impediment resolution, release planning, dependencies, and Continuous Planning
  • Champion use of Jira, Jira Align, Tableau, Confluence, and Power BI to track and improve squad and PA performance, productivity, accountability, collaboration, engagement, and Agile Effectiveness KPIs
  • Continuously enhance squad and PA agile maturity through Learning Day presentations, participation in PA's Quarterly Planning Committee, and involvement as PA Agility Health Champion
  • Mentor junior and aspiring Scrum Masters within and outside of PA
  • Led SAFe / agile technical & scrum teams consisting of 30-40 members driving successful delivery of requirements within project timelines
  • Fostered and improved on agile practices in squad
  • Conducted daily standup's, Sprint planning, release planning, sprint demos, sprint reviews and retrospectives
  • Collaborate with squad lead and stakeholders in prioritize backlog items in data science area
  • Actively involved in migrating DST product from on prem to AWS platform
  • Helped squad overcome various blockers and impediments in cloud migration
  • Lead in conducting Meta Scrum events across Health Care Group's data and analytics space.

Product Manager / Certified Scrum Master

Kelly Center of Excellence & Outsourcing and Consulting Group (OCG)
03.2018 - 04.2022
  • Lead approximately 35 members in transforming Kelly Analytics group from traditional development processes to agile methodology
  • Worked with business steering committees to set priority of work product
  • Was Product owner for TSCA Analytics Portal
  • Coach and train teams on Agile principles, values and practices
  • Acted as scrum master for MDM (Informatica Master Data Management) team working on cost center and customer
  • Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demos
  • Established Agile process to drive adoption for BI division with leadership and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance
  • Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and help maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline
  • Worked closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.

Product Manager (Google Analytics & Reporting)

Kelly Outsourcing and Consulting Group
01.2019 - 01.2020
  • Managed 9 members on gathering and reporting on actionable items in Kelly Marketing division.
  • Generate and accelerate product development process by proactively exploring data to discover insights and identify opportunities
  • Ask right questions of ambiguous problems and formulate hypotheses into actionable and well-designed tests
  • Communicate insights to key stakeholders in product org to guide data-driven decision-making
  • Partner with Data Engineering to create scalable data processes and models to help evolve analytics products.
  • Analyzed metrics to measure product performance.
  • Documented user stories, specifications, and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams and build mandatory requirements.
  • Implemented Agile methodologies for more efficient project management and team collaboration.
  • Managed stakeholder expectations effectively throughout entire product development process.

Senior Project Manager / Certified Scrum Master VMS (Vendor Management Solution)

Peoplefluent (Formerly Peopleclick)
06.2008 - 02.2018
  • Part of initial agile transformation group in VMS business unit
  • As Agile/Scum Master coached, motivated and lead cross-functional scrum teams
  • Fostered and adopted Agile practices
  • Conducted daily standup's, Sprint Planning, Release Planning, Sprint Demos, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives
  • Tracked teams process and progress by monitoring multiple metrics
  • Managed and coached distributed agile teams on scrum process and concepts
  • Assisted Product Owner with backlog grooming
  • Effective at communicating with stakeholders to provide accurate reporting and metrics regarding ongoing projects and initiatives using dashboards, KPIs and other tools
  • Risk management, issue management, conflict resolution and managing escalations.

Integration Project Manager RMS (Recruitment Management System)

Peoplefluent (Formerly Peopleclick)
04.2003 - 05.2008
  • Redesign of existing workflow process and UI experience to make it more intuitive and implement some of learning from experience
  • Adopted SDLC methodology for executing project milestones to complete requirements
  • Worked with offshore development team as well as offshore QA team during this process
  • Focused on requirements gathering using both JAD and JAR sessions
  • Interviewed, conducted surveys, requirements gathering requirements managing and analysis and clearly defining functional specification
  • Conducted gap analysis, identified opportunities for business process improvements and initiated efforts to make process improvements by reporting to stakeholders
  • Prepared and reviewed weekly project report status for management during each operational phase of project
  • Provided reporting, problem analysis to program team as well as project metrics dashboards for senior management team on weekly basis.

Sr Solutions Engineer / Project Manager

CISCO SYSTEMS
12.2000 - 03.2003
  • Master Plan of Records (MSP) is initiative to convert multitude of disjointed legacy ordering tools to one cohesive web-based application that enables Cisco partners and resellers to have one stop shop experience for their Configuration, Quoting and Ordering needs.

Skills

  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Rally
  • Snowflake
  • Oracle
  • DynamoDB
  • SQL Server (2008,2014,2018)
  • Oracle ERP
  • J2EE
  • Java

Education And Background

MS Computer Science, New York Institute of Technology, NY, USA

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certificate ID: 00073991
  • Registered Scrum Master@Scale
  • Training on Project Management Practices at Peoplefluent, USA
  • Training on SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) implementation at Peopleclick, USA
  • Training on Rational Tool Suite at Peopleclick, USA

Area Of Expertise

Financial Services, Talent Management and Acquisition, Insurance, Telecommunications, Software Services, MDST (Medical Decision Support), VMS (Vendor Management System), RMS (Recruitment Management System), Succession Planning, 360 Review, AIG Claims, Cisco Sales IT

Personal Information

Title: Sr Project Manager, Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Timeline

Sr Manager / Scrum Master

Fidelity
04.2023 - Current

Product Manager (Google Analytics & Reporting)

Kelly Outsourcing and Consulting Group
01.2019 - 01.2020

Product Manager / Certified Scrum Master

Kelly Center of Excellence & Outsourcing and Consulting Group (OCG)
03.2018 - 04.2022

Senior Project Manager / Certified Scrum Master VMS (Vendor Management Solution)

Peoplefluent (Formerly Peopleclick)
06.2008 - 02.2018

Integration Project Manager RMS (Recruitment Management System)

Peoplefluent (Formerly Peopleclick)
04.2003 - 05.2008

Sr Solutions Engineer / Project Manager

CISCO SYSTEMS
12.2000 - 03.2003

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