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Tejasvini Rao

Project Manager/Scrum Master
Ottawa,ON

Summary

Highly experienced Scrum master with 8 years of success in agile project management. Certified scrum Master and SAFe Agilist with a keen ability to understand and build complex systems and focusing relentlessly on removing impediments from teams and delivering customer centric products and features. Led teams of 8-15 people across technology, business and design departments. Prompted within 6 months due to strong performance and organizational impact

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Project Manger / Agile Delivery Coach

Ruby Life Inc
Toronto, ON
03.2022 - 04.2024

Ruby is a technology leader in unique dating web sites. Which has 250+ employees and $25.3 M annual revenue

  • Coached and Implements SAFe principles and framework within scrum teams along with organization, resulting in a 35% increase in squads collaboration and a 25% improvement in overall project delivery time.
  • Facilitated successful PI planning sessions, Inspect and Adapt sessions resulting in improved alignment between scrum teams and a 15% increase in on-time delivery of program increments.
  • Reduced number of blockers by 50% and increased team's ability to deliver high-quality features by continuously supporting and reporting to Scrum of Scrums(SoS).
  • Managed Agile release Train(ARTs), ensuring effective coordination between teams and achieving a 10% increase in overall productivity.
  • Devised efficient way of retaining purchases on Native apps and mobile web which increased profitability by 35%.

Project Coordinator

Ruby Life Inc
Toronto, ON
08.2021 - 02.2022
  • Mentored a cross-functional full stack agile squads of 15 resources to deliver quality products which led to over $3M in revenue
  • Guided Agile principles and facilitation skills to ensure 5 teams were working in Agile mindset and utilizing Scrum Practices
  • Identified areas for continuous improvement of team management, Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and implemented changes, resulting in a 20% reduction in defects and 15% increase in customer satisfaction.
  • Established strong stakeholder relationships, conducted regular meetings, status updates to stakeholders to ensure transparency and led to improved collaboration and a 10% increase in customer retention.
  • Facilitated Product owners on backlog refinements, leading to a 30% decrease in incomplete user story and enhanced sprint planning efficiency.

Scrum Master

Analyttica Data Labs Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru, India
08.2018 - 06.2021

Analyttica is a start up based Data Analytics & AI solutions company, E-learning Domain

  • Led a cross functional team of 8 developers, who are geographically spread-out, including different time zones resulting in a 40% increase in sprint velocity over six months.
  • Successfully negotiated, managed project dependencies, resulting in 20% reduction in project risk
  • Facilitated team level Risk management, resolved conflicts and managed critical issues which improved team conflict resolution by 35%.
  • Responsible for project planning, leading, organizing and motivating agile remote teams to achieve high level of performance

Business Analyst

Capgemini
Bengauluru, India
05.2016 - 07.2018

Capgemini is a multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company

  • Spearheaded 50+ Agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standup's, Retrospectives, Story Refinements, Iteration demos and Release planning.
  • Improved process improvements that reduced project lead time by 15% and increased on-time delivery rate from 70% to 98%.
  • Create product storyboarding, Jira stories and maintain Confluence pages to trace requirements, costs and requirement Sign off/traceability.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Amrita School of Engineering
Bengaluru, India
07.2012 - 04.2016

Skills

  • Agile Frameworks- Scrum, Kanban

  • Jira & Confluence

  • Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

  • Project Management Lifecycle

  • Stakeholder & Vendor Management

  • Business Analysis & Elicitation Techniques

  • Negotiation &Leadership Skills

  • Team efficiency improvement

  • Project success rate

  • MS suite, MS Project, Excel, Visio, Power point

  • Change Management

  • Process Improvement

Certification

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Timeline

Project Manger / Agile Delivery Coach

Ruby Life Inc
03.2022 - 04.2024

Project Coordinator

Ruby Life Inc
08.2021 - 02.2022

Scrum Master

Analyttica Data Labs Pvt Ltd
08.2018 - 06.2021

Business Analyst

Capgemini
05.2016 - 07.2018

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Amrita School of Engineering
07.2012 - 04.2016
Tejasvini RaoProject Manager/Scrum Master