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Viji PANDITHURAI

Sydney,Aus

Summary

Results-driven Certified Scrum Master adept at managing cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time. Skilled in facilitating daily scrums, sprint planning, and backlog grooming to align team efforts with business goals. Committed to improving efficiency, communication, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Successfully implemented agile methodologies in previous organizations by promoting transparency and trust.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master

ubank –Digital uplifts
Sydney, Aus
05.2022 - 07.2024
  • Created dashboards using various tools such as JIRA, Confluence, to track project progress and milestones.
  • Enforced scrum values such as transparency, respect, commitment, courage, focus, openness and inspection.
  • Organized meetings between stakeholders from different departments to discuss potential solutions or strategies.
  • Worked closely with senior management and other stakeholders during strategic planning sessions for upcoming releases.
  • Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Retrospectives and Reviews.
  • Acted as a servant leader to the development team by removing impediments and resolving conflicts.
  • Maintained product backlogs, ensuring that items are well defined and prioritized based on business value.
  • Monitored progress of sprints, providing visibility into project status for stakeholders.
  • Assisted with release planning and coordinated efforts between multiple teams working on related projects.
  • Supported the development team in understanding user stories, acceptance criteria and definition of done.
  • Developed training materials to educate stakeholders about agile methodologies.

Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Optus
Sydney, NSW
04.2016 - 07.2020
  • Facilitated Agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Retrospectives and Reviews.
  • Collaborated with Product Owners to define user stories and prioritize backlogs.
  • Coached teams in Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.
  • Provided guidance on the use of tools like JIRA to track progress, manage tasks, and identify areas of improvement.
  • Promoted servant leadership approach to safeguard the team and facilitated effective communication between team members and Product Owners during backlog refinement and requirement walkthrough sessions.
  • Monitored team performance metrics such as velocity, throughput, cycle time.
  • Developed training materials to educate stakeholders about agile processes.
  • Advised teams on how to optimize their workflow using techniques like pair programming, continuous integration, and test-driven development.
  • Encouraged collaboration between developers and other stakeholders by facilitating open communication channels.

Senior Frontend Developer

Optus
Sydney, NSW
10.2014 - 04.2016
  • Developed user interface components and implemented them following well-known Backbone.js, Ractive.js, and React.js workflows.
  • Built reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
  • Optimized components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
  • Collaborated with other team members to integrate back-end services with the React.js front end applications.
  • Provided bug fixes and enhancements within existing codebase.
  • Integrated third party APIs into existing front end applications in order to provide additional functionality to users.

Senior Software Engineer

Atos
Chennai, India
06.2007 - 10.2013
  • Requirement Analysis (Data, UI, Security).
  • Created technical and functional specification documents.
  • Reviewed the requirements and acceptance criteria with the client.
  • Deployed the application in the Test and Production environments.
  • Incident, Problem, Change, Configuration, and Information Security Management.
  • Initiative in service improvement area, like creating new additional features in application that facilitate user.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

Anna University
Chennai, India
04-2006

Skills

  • Agile Methodology
  • Meeting Facilitation
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Sprint Management
  • Stakeholder Communication
  • Impediment Removal
  • Creative Solutions
  • Servant Leadership
  • Scrum artifacts

Certification

Certified Scrum Master

ITIL V3

Programming in HTML5 with Javascript and CSS3 Specialist

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Personal Information

  • Title: Scrum Master
  • Visa Status: AUS citizen

Awards

Lending Legend, UBank, Developed and implemented a new reporting format that improved transparency and communication with stakeholders, resulting in a 50% decrease in feedback turnaround time.

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Scrum Master

ubank –Digital uplifts
05.2022 - 07.2024

Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Optus
04.2016 - 07.2020

Senior Frontend Developer

Optus
10.2014 - 04.2016

Senior Software Engineer

Atos
06.2007 - 10.2013

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

Anna University

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