Siva G

Agile professional with over 6 years of experience in Agile delivery and cross-functional collaboration, expert in backlog readiness and capacity planning. My key achievements include improving sprint predictability by strengthening backlog refinement and release planning practices, and reducing delivery blockers through effective impediment resolution. Seeking a Scrum Master and position at IBS Software, where I bring my Agile delivery management and cross-functional collaboration skills to support your mission of delivering the world's most important and complex payments.

Through facilitating a disciplined iterative delivery approach, project delivery efficiency was enhanced by 25%, and cycle time was lowered by 30% via enhanced cross-functional team collaboration.

Scrum Master - Etech IT - Remote

(2025-03)

• Facilitated a disciplined, iterative delivery; boosted project delivery efficiency by 25% using Jira and Confluence.
• Reduced cycle time by 30% through continuous improvement and stronger cross-functional team collaboration.
• Maintained alignment to agreed priorities by refining backlog items with Product Owners.
• Assisted capacity planning and estimation to enable realistic commitments and sustainable delivery pace.
• Monitored delivery progress and resolved blockers to maintain execution momentum.
• Improved delivery visibility through Jira dashboards, status reporting, and proactive stakeholder communication.
• Supported go-live coordination, production deployments, release cutovers, and post-launch hypercare.

Agile Project Manager - DeepIntent - Pune, India

(2024-10 - 2025-03)

• Led Agile delivery teams towards successful project completion through effective stakeholder communication, risk mitigation, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Managed changing priorities, delivery risks, and business expectations while improving accountability and timely delivery outcomes.
• Aided leadership in driving operational excellence and stronger collaboration across Product, Engineering, and Business teams.

Scrum Master - Anthive - Remote

(2023-12 - 2024-07)

• Led cross-functional Scrum teams across multiple geographies and facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Collaborated with Product Owners on backlog prioritization, delivery planning, and stakeholder alignment while improving execution transparency through JIRA and Confluence dashboards.
• Coordinated cross-team dependencies through Scrum of Scrums and coached teams on Agile principles, continuous improvement, and self-organisation.

Scrum Master - GMS Global - Remote

(2021-07 - 2023-12)

• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and aided Agile delivery across Scrum and SAFe environments, improving sprint execution, backlog readiness, and release predictability.
• Worked closely with Product Owners to improve user story quality, acceptance criteria clarity, estimation accuracy, and sprint planning effectiveness.
• Used Agile metrics such as burndown, burnup, velocity trends, and team throughput to drive continuous improvement and delivery optimisation.
• Identified delivery risks, removed blockers, and coordinated with dependent teams and business stakeholders to improve execution flow and reduce delays.
• Facilitated Agile transformation initiatives by coaching teams on Agile principles, best engineering practices, and self-organisation across feature teams.

Tableau / Scrum Master - CoDefyne - Hyderabad, India

(2014-06 - 2021-06)

• Helped product teams as Scrum Master through sprint execution, backlog refinement, estimation, capacity planning, impediment removal, and Agile coaching.
• Worked closely with Product Owners, Development and QA teams, and leadership to improve delivery accountability and Agile ways of working.
• Earlier experience included Tableau dashboard development, SQL optimisation, and business intelligence reporting.

Bachelor of Technology - JNTU - Hyderabad