Anand Scrum Master

ANANDHAPADMANABAN MADAVAN
Certified Scrum Master | Certified SAFe® Agilist |Certified SAFe®Release Train Engineer
Certified Cloud Practitioner| Certified RPA Implementation Manager
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/anandhmaddy|Skype: anandhmaddy
maddylacks4@gmail.com/540-456-2808
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
SAFe Certified Agilist with extended experience in software engineering. Experienced Scrum Master with a
demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Now working as anAgile Project
Manager / Release Train Engineer, standing up new Agile Release Train and providing daily support for
general Agile and SAFe approach. With a strong education and background in business and technology
process efficiency, constantly focused on continuous improvement within our organization.Achievements
I’m most proud of are being promoted to more challenging positions throughout my career based on the
relationships I’ve built with my peers, managers, and other business units. Skilled at leading highly
technical teams, determining company/end-user requirements, and implementing streamlined processes,
coupled with technical or robotic automation process solutions, to solve complex business needs.
CORE COMPETENCY
 Project Methodologies: Agile (XP, Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, Scaled Agile) and Waterfall
 Domain Expertise:Capital Markets (Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office), Healthcare (Payer),
Derivatives (Swaps, Forwards, Futures, Options), Banking and Teller Transaction, Fund
Accounting, Fund Administration, Wealth Management(Trading, Front Office, Middle Office and
Back Office), Insurance and Annuities Processing, Corporate Trust Loan Origination and
Evaluation, Mortgage Processing, Regulatory Reporting
 Technical Expertise: SQL Programming, ASP .Net Framework, Angular JS, Java API Webservices
(REST& SOAP), Oracle RDBMS, ETL Processing, Data Sourcing, Data Validation, Data Cleansing,
MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, MS Project, MS Visio, SharePoint), JIRA, Confluence,
Fisheye, Agile Craft, Version One, Functional / UAT Testing, Robotic Process Automation ,
Amazon Cloud.
CERTIFICATIONS AND ACADEMECIA
 Master’s in Business Administration – 2001 to 2003 – Bharathiyar University, India.

 Bachelor’s in Commerce – 1998 to 2001 – Bharathidasan University, India.
 Certified Scrum Master – 2016 – Scrum Alliance.
 Certified SAFe Agilest 5.0 – 2020 – Scaled Agile Framework.
 Certified SAFe Agile Release Train Engineer 5.0 – 2020 – Scaled Agile Framework.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager Jan 2020 to Till Date
NTT Data Services – Charlotte, NC
(Clients: TIAA-CREF, Toyota – North America Sales, Wells Fargo)
- Author process instruction and related materials to effectively achieve consistent execution by end
users.
- Promote application of Agile principles and values and their application through popular methodologies
and frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, etc).
- Own and manage process improvement initiatives as projects including integration with process
partners and other PMO functions.
- Work with PM Community and IT leaders/process owners to identify common opportunities for
improvement, prioritize opportunities, and develop/deploy solutions or process changes.
- Leverage internal and external resources to define ''best in class'' processes and supporting
technologies.
- Ensure continued alignment and synergy between process improvement strategies/plans and other IT
strategic objectives/initiatives.
- Guide and Coach 5 Agile Teams in the Release Train and ensure the enterprise agile framework is
being followed for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) of delivery.
- Responsible for assisting in the delivery of software solutions by maintaining information radiators
(metrics) and making them transparent to management, by keeping the team is focused on the right
priorities, and ensuring the team is continuously improving.
Senior Scrum Master / Project Solutions Manager Jan 2019 to Jan 2020
Mindtree Technologies – Greensboro, NC / Charlotte, NC
(Clients: Lincoln Financial Group, Aflac Insurance)
- Lead / facilitate Scrum of Scrums, quarterly planning, Portfolio and Program team meetings and
continue the maturation of the Agile delivery methodology within GCS.
- Drive the continued growth and maturation of the Agile practice within Global Cybersecurity.
- Mediate conflicts and remove impediments as they arise in order to drive continuous process
improvement across the release train.
- Responsible for the professional knowledge / growth of other agile practitioners, contributing to the
overall agile subject matter expertise in the organization.
- Drive program level data-driven continuous improvement through focused qualitative and quantitative
retrospection.
- Creates & contributes to Agile communities (cohorts, circles, etc.) to support continuous learning &
foster an Agile mindset at Liberty Mutual. Ensures proper transparency and visibility into
dependencies and risks.
- Served as Project Manager for multiple RPA (Robotic Process Automation), IA (Intelligent Automation)
and ECM (Electronic Content Management) implementations and enhancement projects with Ui Path.
Senior Business Data Analyst / Sr. Scrum Master Feb 2018 to Jan 2019
Diversant LLC – Charlotte, NC
(Client: Wells Fargo Bank)
- Leads business analysis, business requirements definition, project scoping and small IT projects, as
assigned.
- Elicits, captures, validates and analyzes the business process/requirements of stakeholders in
assigned lines-of-business.
- Translates conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is
comprehensible to software development team
- Converts complex data from multiple sources into meaningful, professional and easy to understand
written or visual reports for various audiences as defined by department guidelines.
- After implementation, work with clients to identify and document change requests and communicate
these to the configuration and/or development team.
- Create SQL Queries to source data from multiple database tables and investigate / resolve data
integration that arise from source to solution due to ETL Processing.
- Tracks progress of personal work activity and notify management of issues that require escalation and
assume responsibility for resolving or coordinating the resolution of system and process issues.
Senior Business Systems Analyst / Scrum Master Sept2016 to Feb 2018

NESS USA Inc. – New York, NY
(Client:S&P Global)
- Lead requirements gathering and negotiate specific scope items to ensure delivery meets the needs of
all stakeholders
- Understand, create technical documentation around user processes, problems, and work as a cross-
functional team member that can support other functions such as UI/UX and testing activities.
- Facilitates seamless collaboration and maximizes team and program performance by driving
continuous improvement across multiple technical and/or non-technical team(s) to ensure rapid and
timely delivery of business value (experience, product, and/or service) and achievement of goals.
Ensure cross team coordination.
- Removes impediments to team or Release Train’s progress whether internal or organizational in nature
and supports efforts to resolve systemic impediments that continually block teams within their
organization.
- Facilitate Agile Ceremonies: Backlog Refinement, Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning sessions and
Retrospectives.
- Drive continuous and consistent process improvement culture, providing and analyzing current and
historical metrics.
Senior Business Systems Analyst / Scrum Master Sept2010 to Sept 2016
Microexcel Inc – Pittsburgh, PA
(Clients:Vanguard, BNY Mellon)
- Determine what data is required based on functional requirements and define how that data and
business rules will translate to internal applications.
- Develop and publish technical specifications, technical requirements, and other documentation, as
required.
- Design data mappings and transformations which will be used to drive ETL procedures.
- Using tools such as Excel, SQL Server, Oracle, and others, directly query, assess, and analyze data to
ensure requirements are being met.
- Serve as liaison between Client Services (business) and Software Development (technical) to keep
production work flowing smoothly. Help guide and mentor less experienced BAs in this capacity.
- Work with Technical Project Managers to ensure all required steps and actions are captured in project
plans, and that project timelines seem reasonable.
- Act as primary point of contact to handle project issues as well as manage changes to project scope
Have a strong customer focus.
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of
maturity.
Senior Business Analyst / Scrum Master Apr 2003 to Sept 2010

RR Donneley – Columbus, OH / Chennai, India
(Client: Citi Global Wealth Management)
- Practice and encourage Agile mindset and behaviors; coach, inspire and mentor teams on Agile
principles, values and practices while role modeling Travelers' leadership behaviors.
- Lead the application of Agile practices for multiple teams, including planning and guidance for daily
standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospective meetings; Provide summaries of
teamwork at internal reviews and demos.
- Ensure progress toward objectives, KPIs and commitments; guide assigned Agile teams to deliver the
required product increments and outcomes.
- Partner with key stakeholders (i.e. Agile Coach and Team Lead) in backlog prioritization as well as
tracking and reporting metrics, providing visibility to the team and stakeholders, ensuring a data-
driven approach to decision-making.
- Identify opportunities to improve team-level Agile performance; focus teams on customer value, quality
and continuous improvement activities. Remove team-level impediments and resolve conflicts;
anticipate challenges, identify risks, and recommend mitigations and solutions.
- Utilize learnings and best practices in furthering the effective use of Agile practices at Travelers.
- Actively involved in managing and delivering of Trading, Position and Cash Reconciliation, Net Asset
Value (NAV) Calculation, End of the Day Position Reporting.
- Build and leverage effective alliances across other teams and the technical and business communities.

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ANANDHAPADMANABAN MADAVAN

CERTIFICATIONS AND ACADEMECIA

 Master’s in Business Administration – 2001 to 2003 – Bharathiyar University, India.

Senior Business Systems Analyst / Scrum Master Sept2016 to Feb 2018

Senior Business Analyst / Scrum Master Apr 2003 to Sept 2010

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