Sreejith Gopinath - Product owner, Larkya

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LPL FinancialScrum Master

Sep. 2022United States · RemoteWorking on Investment trading applications Planning, Development and Production release. also responsible for the Production issues. Currently working as SAFe scrum Master for Investment Trading Application. Responsible for facilitating Scrum ceremonies like: Daily Stand up calls to discuss the work progress and Impediments. Backlog refinement prior to a couple of days prior to Sprint planning to create a structure for upcoming sprint work. Sprint planning to estimate the work and look at the dependencies. Sprint Retrospective to pick 3 things to celebrate on what we did best and 3 lessons learned or what we could have done better that can be implemented in the upcoming sprints. Work with the Team to update the Train level Demo deck and plan the resources for Demo. Responsible for updating the Team Metrics like Say/Do Ratio Sprint velocity 5 Sprints rolling average velocity. 5 Sprints rolling average Say/Do ratio Feature completion status. Key results achieved and Key results planned for next Iteration. Sprint goals and status. RAG report As a CAB Delegate I am responsible for: Creation of Change Record in ServiceNow tool. Make sure CTASK is created for all the builds with the latest build version and rollback steps are updated with previous build name and build version. Responsible for SDLC Compliance met prior to release.

American ExpressProgram Manager/Scrum leader - PaaS Cloud Engineering OCP/AWS

Oct. 2019 - Jan. 2023Palo Alto, California, United States•15+ Years overall work experience, currently working as SAFe Scrum leader/Sr. Program Manager for Enterprise cloud platforms RedHat Openshift Container Platform (OCP) V3, V4 and Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Kubernetes. •Responsible for capacity estimates, scheduling, monitoring, tracking and Program reporting to stakeholders, customer interaction, manage and plan implementation/release. •Partnered with customers for new requirements and design discussions. •Responsible for Jira feature/epic prioritization, backlog grooming, PI planning, sprint planning, sprint demo, sprint retrospective and daily stand up. •Publish sprint say/do ratio, sprint capacity and sprint goals with stakeholders. •Presented the accomplishments, planned capacity for upcoming PI and lead the breakout sessions in collaboration with scrum teams for feature and story sizing. •Partner with Network security team for creating firewall profiles, Active control lists, vulnerability scanning and upgrade timelines, list down cross functional team activities for a smooth delivery. •Strong ability to apply management principles to mitigate and assess risk. •Partnered with Storage team for capacity requirements and new cluster build out. •Partnered with Solutions, Operations & site reliability Engineering teams for resolving production issues. •Track, monitor and report daily/weekly RAG status to stake holders. •Plan poc's before before infrastructure and application upgrade/migration. •Conducted brainstorming sessions with the scrum teams and leaders to overcome impediments. •Managed two Scrum teams and filled in as Scrum Master on several occasions with proven track record of success. •PM Tools: Jira, Confluence, ITSM, MS office, Slack and IIQ. •Communication tools: Webex, Zoom, MS Teams, Skype, Slack. •Experienced in delivering technology and business application solutions in a large-scale, multi-cloud platform environment.

ExperianTechnical Project Manager/Scrum Master Cloud technology

Jan. 2019 - Mar. 2019Costa Mesa, CaliforniaClient: Experian, Role: Scrum Master/TPM, From: 1/2019 to 3/2019 * Responsible for delivering a middleware (API’s) in agile environment to fetch Data from Data lake & Mainframes to applications, API’s are consumed internally and externally. * Breaking down Epics to smaller stories & further breaking complex stories into smaller tasks to achieve iteration goals. * Responsible for sprint planning along with BPO, TPO, Architect & scrum team. * DSU to get daily status on what is done, to do, remove the blockers and co-ordinate/action on dependencies. * Sprint demo and retrospect the iteration by end of sprints. * Backlog grooming & create new stories for scope changes at the beginning of every sprint. * Participated in the BRP where risks impacting the business are called out & Participated in PI planning. * Collaborating teams across 3 different geographical locations to ensure teams sync up for overall delivery including development, functionality changes to applications, creating connections, pipelines & provide sample data that match to meet the requirements from the backend and QA. * Managing offshore development team and further assist with the ID, access, Tokens, Firewall & Authentication issues from local environment to on prem cloud using Citrix boxes to PaaS environment for Staging/Pre-Prod & Prod deployment of API’s. * Co-ordinate between onshore and offshore team in South America for creating pipelines to Data Fabric. * Used Python and Robot framework for testing. * Conducted Load Testing using JMeter, Pen Testing using Qualys, Used postman for other testing’s like Regression, Sanity, Etc. * Used Bitbucket for SCM, Used Maven for the Build, Used eclipse IDE for the development of the API’s and Java springboot technology for source code, Used Php for the development of UI/UX and used Drupal webserver. * Create release in the Jira and monitor the change request along with the release manager to ensure the release is not getting cancelled or rollback.

bpInfrastructure Project Manager (Data Center Projects) – Remote

Feb. 2016 - Jul. 2017Austin, Texas AreaHPE as implementation partner Client: BP (British petroleum), Austin, TX Role: Project Manager – Remote From 2/2016 to 7/2017 Responsible for developing and managing the project management team for collaborating with the project management team from the client end to understand the need of datacenter performance optimization for the CI’s (Configuration Items) like obsoleting or building new CI’s in a ITSM environment. • Being a KT lead, worked closely with transition manager to developed KT plan, created knowledge base/play books and further reviewed the KT document along the Service Delivery Manager (SDM). • Created the service catalog for the contractual work and developed the teams from hiring, training, on the work & tools. • Used BMS Remedy, HPSM (HP Service Manager) and Service Now tools to raise, control, implementation and to manage over all change request. • Used PPMC to monitor the project health and the Project risk/dependencies that were discussed and mitigated. • Assess and review every critical/emergency change with the approvals, resource, pre-requisites like firewall clearance, user access and downtime/maintenance communication has been in place on every Tuesday and Thursday of the week. • Responsible for the resource allocation, engagement, availability planning and management for smooth implementation of the change request every Friday. • Collaborated to gather strategic business requirements, performing current environment assessment, defining future state data warehouse architecture, developing business cases to implement data warehouse strategy and formulating a migration plan. • Implemented Functions, views, triggers, stored procedures and enforced business rules via checks and constraints. Performed Replication, Backup compression for individual tables and indexes and reducing the disk usage and I/O resources.

IntuitTL/SM

Sep. 2014 - Jan. 2016Bangalore IndiaClient: INTUIT, Role: Scrum Master, From: 9/2014 to 1/2016 o DSU to know what is achieved, what's planned to do & impediments, Sprint review by sprint end, Product backlog grooming with PO. Mkting and scrum team for introspection of features, Used planning poker method to estimate story points, broke down large story points to tasks, Retrospect by sprint end for learning. • Developed Complex SQL queries with Joins & T-SQL, cursors, user defined functions, stored procedure, Views, trigger to implementing business rules & transformations. • Created SQL job Alerts, schedule SQL Server Integration Service packages using SQL Server Agent job & JAMS Scheduler. • Worked closely with business users to implement logical & physical data modeling using Erwin data modeler. • Developed ETL packages with different data sources SQL Server, Flat Files, Excel source files, XML files etc. & load data to target tables by performing different kinds of transformations using SSIS. • Used various SSIS tasks such as conditional split, derived column etc., for data scrubbing, including data validation checks during staging, before loading data to data warehouse. • Used ETL to implement slowly changing transformation, to maintain historical data in data warehouse & SQL Server Reporting Services. • Collaborated to perform current environment assessment, defining future state DW architecture, developed business cases to implement DW strategy & formulating migration plan. • Supported application dev team with data samples, DB issues, updates/new releases. & deadlock issues, best practices in structuring SQL queries, debugging unexpected SQL results, etc,. • Used tools - DB engine tuning advisor, SQL profiler, & windows performance monitor for monitoring & tuning MS SQL server performance. • Worked with developers, DBAs, & systems support personnel in elevating & automating successful code to prod. • Used Github & TFS for repository towards SCM, Used Jenkins automation deployment.

Veritas Technologies LLCJr. Project Manager

Aug. 2013 - Sep. 2014Bangalore IndiaClient: Symantec Backup Exec, Jr. PM, From: 8/2013 to 9/2014 • Handling escalation, action effectively on production down scenarios. • Calibrated with Client & support teams to bridge process gaps. • Operated Pilot phase technical process Data Backup & Restore for T4, T3 Enterprise Tech Support. • Managed Engineers helping customers providing tech assistance to overcome challenges while running Backup & Restore jobs from Server to OST / EMC / Netapp devices using NDMP Options & Email servers like MS Exchange, Lotus Dominos & EV. • Teams provided tech support to run Full/Incremental/Deferential backup & troubleshoot for errors. • Monitored engineer to reach customer on promised due date/time & manage case assignment as per customer time zone. • Driven SL as per the Severity of case. • Managed Backlog, aged cases below 6 Cases/Engineer, achieved case closure rate target. • Monitored to help engineers collect logs before advancement of case to developers. • Involved in product feature enhancement discussions & planning. • Responsible for Annual appraisals of engineers. • Responsible for DSU, Reviewing performance on a Daily, weekly and monthly basis. • Reviewed engineers performance & conducting presentations on improving engineers skillset for enhancement of customer experience. • Driven 100% compliance coverage on all tools & process thresholds for all engineers. • Driven pilot phase of project to redefine complete operational process of T4 & T3. • Involved in HR mapping functions to operational setbacks as attrition/pay policies/appraisal procedure. • Conducting Team Building activities, to keep the teams motivated and energetic. • Responsible for Schedule adherence & maintain shrinkage under control. • Did brain storming on historical data to identify & driven performance more effectively to show improving trend. • Use Parato (80 – 20) rule to understand with least best performers. • Developed short term & long term plans with Sr. Management for smooth operations.