Kiran Venkata

Venkata Kiran has around 14+ years of experience spread across as a Scrum Master & Agile Project Manager in building /managing Digital, Data Analytics and Business Intelligence products and has exposure in creating and managing roadmap, Backlog, release process management & Managing Development teams. He has worked with several clients which include Standard chartered, UBS, Medtronic, Panorama, UHL, Air Canada.

Skills: Certified Agile Scrum Master (PSM1), (CSM), ICAGILE Agile team facilitation certified, Agile development and Best Practices, Agile Frameworks-Scrum, Kanban

Tools and Technologies: JIRA, confluence, Mural, RAT, Big data, Hadoop, AWS, Hadoop, SAP BOBI, Cognos BI and managing development teams.

Looking forward to hearing from you to discuss further.

10/2021 - Now- Scrum Master (Swiss Himmel) Standard Chartered GBS –- Bangalore, India

• Managing squads & Leading Agile Ceremonies: Daily stand-up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Product Backlog Refinement.
• Supporting PO and coached team on agile practices, story readiness and Acceptance Criteria.
• Handling releases and change management process
• Collaborate with external teams for external engagements and catch projects coordination.
• Building and managing the development pipeline and managing roadmaps.
• Publishing burndown, velocity & Sprint point dashboards to stake holders for team efficiency.
• Good Understating of CI/CD and release process management.
• Effectively managed dependencies, Impediments, issues, Risk, Assumption & resolve disputes
• Co-ordinating PI Planning & managing dependencies between cross-functional Teams.
• Participating in scrum of scrums & BRP for projecting future releases and delivery
• Used JIRA, confluence for metrics, reporting, documentation, and team collaboration.
• Managed internal & external stakeholders & gave regular updates to Program for visibility.
• Maintaining BRP, sprint & release documents in confluence.

7/2012 - 9/2021- Scrum Master/Application Architect/Data consultant

IBM India Pvt Ltd - Pune, India / Zurich Switzerland

• Worked in roles like Scrum master, Data consultant, Application Architect in different projects.
• Worked in client projects like UBS AG, Panorama, Medtronic in Finance & Health Care Domain.
• Conducting sprint ceremonies and providing walkthrough on the requirements to the team.
• Used Jira, Confluence for metrics, reporting, documentation & team Collaboration.
• Involved in end-to-end migrations for various projects from 3.1 to 4.1 env in UBS BI environments.
• Worked on SAP BOBI, IBM Cognos and other in house developed products.
• Created RFC/operational change request, Elvis orders as per the requirement.
• Involved in Sox internal audit and have created the sox documents for the project
• Installation & Managing security using 360 suites for all UBS WM&SB SAP BI environments.

1/2011 - 6/2012 - Assistant Manager WNS Global services - Pune, India

• Worked as BO Administrator/Team Lead, have involved in SAP BOBI Migrations and Implementations of Development (Standalone and Clustering).
• Handling CR & ECR Management calls and worked on Enterprise issues and security and sizing.
• Additionally, handled development team by providing the business requirement and tracking the report development and updating the clients accordingly.
• Worked on SAP BO mobile and made POC on how to integrate in the current Architecture.

9/2008 - 11/2010-Engineer-KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd – Pune, India

• Worked for SAP on the payroll of KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd.
• I have Handled Admin and deploy tickets of SAP BO servers for various clients in APAC, EMEA and US around the world, providing enterprise support.

1/2008 - 7/2008- Engineer-Architecture-KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd – Pune, India

Worked as trainee support engineer and took training to support SAP BOBJ enterprise software.

Certifications/trainings

• Certified PSM1 from scrum.org
• Certified Scrum Master® (CSM®) from Scrum Alliance
• ICAGILE Certified Professional – Agile Team Facilitation
• AWS concepts Training
• Getting trained on SAFe Agile

Languages

English : Very Good Knowledge

Hindi : Very Good Knowledge

German : Basic Knowledge (Getting trained)

Telugu : Very Good Knowledge

Tamil : Good Knowledge

Kannada : Basic Knowledge

Marathi : Basic Knowledge

Education

B’Tech in Computer Science & Information Technology from JNTU, India

1. Agile Team Facilitation: Agile Team Facilitation is designed for people who guide and support others in an agile work environment, including Scrum Masters, agile coaches and aspiring coaches, team leads, and project managers.
2. PSM1, CSM