Anoop Parappully Chandran

Dear Mr./Ms.,

I have 15 years of IT experience and am Certified as a Scaled Scrum Expert and Agile Coach.

I have developed commendable project costing skills and have become familiar with Agile, Lean, SAFe, and waterfall methodologies. At Applied Materials, I have become highly skilled in handling a wide range of administrative tasks in a fast-paced environment. I effectively address and evaluate the root cause of the issues rather than the signs.

Eight years of Project, Program Management experience in Waterfall, Agile, Lean & SAFe framework.

Member of PMO and involved in project initiatives, including kickoff meeting to closure.

Excellent Experience in Stakeholder Management (Internal/External)

Extensive knowledge of Agile Project Management. Certified SAFe Scrum Master and Agile Coach. I have been handling the Scrum Master role since 2014. I also had 2 Agile Transformation as an Agile Coach.

I have good leadership skills, including good communication, collaboration, presentation, and influencing skills, and decisive decision-making skills. When a problem comes, the team approaches me first as their manager; they treat me as an unblocker.

I work on the Risk Management process as part of the PMO team.

I solve problems and drive change and accountability.

I embrace ambiguity and communicate with laser-like clarity

When a problem occurs, I immediately think through a solution that is viable to the problem.

I handle the following key areas:

In Planning, I organize project kickoff and overall sprint planning exercises, ensuring that PM, Business, and Engineering teams are well-aligned on requirements. I also make sure that everybody is clear about milestones.

In Execution, I run daily standups as a Scrum Master. I help to facilitate the team by clearing impediments, keeping the project on track, and publishing dashboards. This keeps everyone aware of where we are.

In Stakeholder Management, I work very closely with engineering, product, legal, finance, and business teams to ensure that there is alignment, that our goals are clear, and that we all are headed in the right direction.

Good experience in handling virtual teams situated across the world.

Project level decision maker

As an acting Product Owner,

Prioritizes and sequences the user stories backlog according to business value or ROI In Sprint Planning, I help the team to understand the user stories by writing the acceptance criteria and making sure the Definition of Done is agreed.

Assists with the refinement of user stories into smaller tasks

Once the Sprint backlog is confirmed, then define the sprint goal.

Interdependencies are identified in the initial stage so that our work never gets blocked.

Conduct daily stand-up, review, and retrospective for five teams as a Scrum Master.

In the stand-up, I ensure the project is on track and help reduce impediments.

Also, publish dashboards regularly.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

Anoop Parappully