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Nextex
Durga Challa
Steven@netexsolves.com
786-686-8873
Atlanta, GA
7 years of experience as a Scrum Master with a keen ability to understand and contribute to help with complex systems. I focus on removing impediments for Teams by providing a transparent environment, paying close attention to details while facilitating, inspecting, and quickly adapting as needed. I am a hands-on leader who possesses the skills to motivate and lead others to work together within tight deadlines. I am equipped with an outstanding commitment to provide the highest standards of professional and personal service to internal and external stakeholders. I also could network, build, and maintain great working relationships.
Skills
● Agile Frameworks – Scrum
● JIRA, Confluence, MIRO & JIRA Portfolio
● Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
● Proficient knowledge of desktop operating systems
● Agile Values & Principles
● Conflict resolution
● Story Pointing/Relative Sizing
● Stakeholder Engagement
● Team Mentoring
● Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
● Team Coaching
● Strong customer service focus
● Problem solver
● Analytical thinker
● Committed learner.
Education:
MBA (HR & Marketing) from Adhiparasakthi Engineering College, Anna University, India 2010
B.Sc. (Microbiology) from JMJ College for women, Acharya Nagarjuna University, India 2008
Certifications:
Certified Scrum Master(CSM)
Certification ID: 001502831
Professional Scrum Master(PSM 1)
https://www.scrum.org/certificates/946263
Professional Experience
Syncron, Tampa, FL October 2022 – Present
Scrum Master
● Act as Scrum Master for Product teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
● Assesses multiple Scrum team’s performance, baseline results, identify pain points and develop strategy for a future state.
● Collaborates with product owners, Agile teams, technologists, and other Scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress towards incremental delivery of value.
● Facilitates all sprint events to realize full team engagement, coaches’ teams in Agile principles and best practices and provides necessary training to create shared understanding and positive mindset.
● Provides extensive and effective guidance on Agile Scrum processes and methodologies to multiple and distributed teams of Agile that improves quality and productivity.
● Drives team success through shared vision and recognition of quality performance at review.
● Monitored product backlog health check and supports Scum framework for monthly sprint releases.
● Assists teams to remove impediments by facilitating problem solving workshops and relentless improvement.
● Resolve team’s problems and assist with internal and external communication, transparency, and radiated information.
● Track and effectively communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.
● Update Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs.
● Work with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery.
PTC, Boston, MA April 2021 – Sept 2022
Scrum Master
● Led all scrum events including: DSUs, refinement, sprint planning, review, retrospective with development team.
● Served as the main point of contact to drive effective communication through all project phases.
● Worked closely with management and technical stakeholders to clarify Status, project details, schedule for all projects.
● Served as a scrum master facilitating Agile teams focused on product enhancement.
● Successfully introduced Agile to design and development teams comprising over 20 team employees.
● Continually refined and evolved agile process practices for predictable and rapid software development and delivery result in hitting 99% of deadlines.
● Implemented Agile methodologies using scrum framework through the organization.
● Served as the main point of contact to drive effective communication through all project phases.
● Worked closely with management and technical stakeholders to clarify Status, project details and schedule for all projects.
● Maintained records for all requirements, applications, correspondence, documents, and financial status.
● Provided technical resource solution strategies for Financial Services staff/colleagues.
● Coached, mentored, and trained existing and new team members.
Track Talents Inc. Hyderabad, India Sept 2019 to March 2021
Scrum Master
· Responsible for implementing, facilitating, and enabling the scrum and agile process at leadership and team level for the continuous maintenance and enhancement of a data pipeline.
· Acted as a servant leader and ensured adherence to scrum practices to continually improve team’s performance, value, and functionality delivery.
· Supported the delivery team through multiple elevations, CR creations, and production issue tracking, resolution, incident tracking and necessary escalation.
· Facilitated scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and retrospective) at regular cadence and ensured there was full engagement.
· Created and maintained team’s work visibility using agile tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and Mural.
IT Contract Inc. Hyderabad, India March 2016 to August 2019
Project Coordinator
● Managed team of developers working on IT Contract support system, helping to build product solutions for IT staffing needs of different user groups.
● Managed & supported timely upgrade of portal & support query routing to respective groups.
● Acted as point of contact for all queries, deliveries, and escalation for the portal team.
● Managed budget, scheduling, and Task order up for overall program.
● Utilize abilities and skills of individuals and foster a feedback culture to support team building and development.
● Provide effective defect tracking and management to ensure highest quality software.
● Design and implement test suites that exercise and validate product functionality in the most efficient way.
● Provide test scenarios and feature files with detailed steps for automation to enhance testing efficiency.
To apply for this job email your details to Steven@netexsolves.com
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