Siva Shankaran
Mississauga,,Canada
Summary
Experienced Agile leader adept at managing Scrum Masters and driving organizational agility. Proven success in developing team standards, fostering continuous learning, and ensuring efficient operations. Collaborative partner with Agile Coaches, HR, and leadership to support talent acquisition and contribute to Agile transformation. Strong in reporting Agile metrics and leading community of practice sessions. Eager to bring leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills to drive success in a dynamic environment.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager and Scrum Master
Citi Bank
11.2021 - Current
- Deliver and manage projects that belong to FCX book of work in an Agile setting.
- Partner with technology and business teams to plan and implement Java and Angular web applications, document requirements, and facilitate testing and implementation.
- Persuade, influence and partner with business stakeholders through communication and negotiations to prioritize work that maximizes efficiencies and drives business growth.
- Manage stakeholder expectations across different geographical locations, work in ambiguous, high-pressure environments and adapt to changing requirements.
- Create and maintain project management artifacts and monitor milestones against target dates.
- Proactively identify, manage, and escalate risks and
impediments to project as required and identify risk mitigation strategies in compliance with applicable rules and regulations and policies. - Conduct daily Scrum ceremonies as Scrum Master and coach and mentor the team for shared purpose,collective project ownership and success. Manage expectations and apply sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices.
- Manage project scope by assessing requirements changes, determining and conveying impact on budget, time, and risk.
- Identify, plan, and execute application vulnerability remediation to improve risk scorecard for platform.
- Oversee release management process to ensure alignment with strategic goals and controls.
Software Engineer & Scrum Master
Sandvine Inc
07.2018 - 11.2021
- Interfaced with cross-functional team of product managers, developers and technical support professionals to determine comprehensive list of development and testing requirement specifications for new analytics products.
- Conducted all scrum ceremonies and other related meetings such as backlog refinement sessions, Escape Defect Analysis sessions.
- Define user stories for each tasks in collaboration with product owner and other stakeholders.
- Worked with product owner and other stakeholders to define acceptance criteria of development tasks.
- Worked closely with product line management team and testing team members to design, develop and test robust analytics dashboards and reporting solutions using MicroStrategy to meet customer requirements.
- Defined data models for efficient storage and querying of internet traffic data generated by customers.
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
- Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle thereby realizing reduction in bugs over period of time.
Technical Engineer I
Arrow Electronics
03.2014 - 03.2018
- Gathered requirements from business users analyzed user needs; produced functional documents and system plans.
- Extensively used Data Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) process from source to target systems using Informatica.
- Developed MicroStrategy reports and dashboards to measure key performance indicators that would fulfill needs of end users.
- Supported existing reporting solutions that are already implemented and used by end users.
- Actively participated in project go live activities in both on-site (Hong Kong) and off-shore (Bangalore) locations
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
2012
Skills
- MS Project
- Agile Estimation
- Removing Impediments
- Jira
- Release Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Budgeting
- Scheduling
- Documentation Management
- Risk mitigation planning
Certification
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Timeline
Project Manager and Scrum Master
Citi Bank
11.2021 - Current
Software Engineer & Scrum Master
Sandvine Inc
07.2018 - 11.2021
Technical Engineer I
Arrow Electronics
03.2014 - 03.2018