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YAZHINI CHIDAMBARAM

YAZHINI CHIDAMBARAM

Frisco,NC

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
3
3
Languages

Work History

Scrum Master

HCL America Inc.
07.2020 - Current
  • Successfully lead and guide two geographically dispersed agile teams, helping them attain agile maturity and self-organization through effective implementation of SAFe framework and servant-leader approach
  • Coach developers and Product Owners (POs) by serving as agile SME to ensure adherence to SAFe principles and guide the team to create SMART PI objectives
  • Facilitate active collaboration between the development team, POs, and solution engineers to ensure alignment on priorities, goals, and timelines
  • Create interactive dashboards in Jira to identify delays, scope creeps, and bottlenecks, and facilitate collaboration to develop action plans to ensure seamless delivery
  • Reduced average story cycle time from 18 days to 12 days by introducing INVEST strategy for story writing
  • Continuously challenge team to reduce lead time and increase velocity through strategic coaching and effective collaboration
  • Teams were able to gradually increase their sprint velocity from 28 to 38 story points over a period of 2 years despite employee turn-over
  • Foster early collaboration by organizing pre-PI meetings for tech-leads, POs, UI/UX design team, and solution engineers to effectively address gaps and concerns before feature acceptance
  • Manage $50M portfolio by empirical planning of resources and roadmap tracking using velocity, and team capacity
  • Promote healthy collaboration through positive criticism and open dialogue to resolve conflicts; Organize periodical team-builder events to promote team cohesion and trust
  • Ask empowering and thought-provoking questions to coach and guide the team towards systems-thinking
  • Use tableau dashboards to periodically discuss Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) during retrospective and discuss opportunities for improvement; coach teams to attain agile maturity
  • Provide one-on-one coaching to discuss challenges, develop goals, and action plans catered for individual personalities and ensure that their goals and milestones are aligned with the PI objectives
  • Champion continuous improvement and innovation by encouraging the team to identify process variations to reduce technical debt and/or to modernize existing solutions
  • Proactively monitor risks and dependencies using interactive Jira dashboards and promote active communication and escalation, if necessary, for timely resolution
  • Support POs in managing a healthy product backlog; collaborate effectively with Release Train Engineer (RTE) product manager to ensure we have a healthy backlog worth of at least 120% of upcoming PI capacity
  • Proactively manage up-to-date product documentation with the support of team members
  • Ensure that release management practices align to EPMO and SDLC standards and leverage existing change management routines as needed
  • Utilize retrospectives as an opportunity to identify opportunities for process improvement and / or removal of wastes in existing processes
  • Embrace continuous learning by actively participating in SAFe Community of Practice and Scaled Agile DFW community events and workshops.

Business Analyst

USAA - HCL America Inc.
10.2019 - 07.2020
  • Perform periodical data validations using SQL in member database to ensure data stored in tables adhere to business rules and regulatory standards
  • Identify, gather observations and exceptions, and discuss resolution strategies in Data Issue Review and Acknowledgement Board (DIRAB) meetings and document action items
  • Meet with key subject matter experts to help identify potential improvements or evaluate alternate solutions, including recommending process changes, and system enhancements for member portal and core customer database
  • Develop and maintain strong relationships across the business units to implement and standardize processes
  • Support data migration from Netezza to snowflake and perform complex data validations using SQL to ensure the quality of data post-migration
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize business requirements for system enhancements or process changes
  • Design, create, and manage dashboards to evaluate business performance and provide biweekly summary to executive leadership.

Business Intelligence Consultant

Vel Container Terminus Pvt. Ltd.
08.2016 - 01.2019
  • Develop and implement data visualization tools and techniques to effectively communicate insights and findings to stakeholders
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and develop data-driven solutions for improving operational efficiency
  • Conduct training sessions and coach product owners on how to effectively use data visualization tools to compare and contrast metrics
  • Assist product owners in identifying relevant metrics and developing key performance indicators (KPIs) to track business performance and make data-driven decisions
  • Analyze data from various sources to identify trends and patterns that can help improve business decision-making and drive strategic initiatives.

Education

Executive Master of Science in Project Management -

University of the Cumberlands
Lewisville, KY
07.2022

Master's in Healthcare Administration -

Texas State University
San Marcos, TX
12.2018

Skills

  • SAFe
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Strategic Planning
  • Facilitation
  • Team coaching
  • Design Feasibility Assessments
  • Data analysis & reporting
  • Jira
  • Rally
  • Azure DevOps
  • ServiceNow
  • EPMO

Certification

  • SAFe 5.0 Scrum Master, Scaled Agile Inc.
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Six Sigma Global Institute

Timeline

Scrum Master

HCL America Inc.
07.2020 - Current

Business Analyst

USAA - HCL America Inc.
10.2019 - 07.2020

Business Intelligence Consultant

Vel Container Terminus Pvt. Ltd.
08.2016 - 01.2019

Executive Master of Science in Project Management -

University of the Cumberlands

Master's in Healthcare Administration -

Texas State University

Summary

SAFe® 5.0 certified Scrum Master and Lean Six Sigma practitioner with 7+ years of experience, specializing in data migration, information management, and application development. Proven track record in enhancing team dynamics and project outcomes through advanced use of Jira, Rally, and Tableau. Committed to leveraging agile framework and best practices to foster innovation and operational efficiency.

Personal Information

Title: SR. SCRUM MASTER

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