Aravind M

Manchester,CT 06040

PROFESSIONAL
 Certified in Professional Scrum Master

 Lotus Notes

 Salesforce Admin

 SDLC in Waterfall and Agile

 Experience in Onshore Offshore model

PERSONAL SUMMARY

Scrum Master with extensive knowledge in AGILE and 10 years of IT experience in Lotus Notes Application
development and Salesforce Admin Insurance domain.

6 years of experience in AGILE project development (Scrum)

Experience in Scrum, Kanban and AGILE tool Rally. Experience in Lotus Notes and Salesforce Admin.

Experience in the areas of IT Project Management, Program Management, Estimation, SoftwareArchitecture,

Design and Development, RiskManagement,Mentoring, working in Onshore-Offshore model, Coaching,
Building and Guiding Team, PI Planning and Tracking.

Seeking a new and challenging Scrum Master position, which will make best use of my existing technology,
leadership and team building skills, and team leading experience to help in my further development and
growth of my professional self.
CERTIFICATIONS
 Professional Scrum Master

 Salesforce Platform App Builder

 SALESFORCE CERTIFIED ADMINSTRATOR

 SALESFORCE SALES CLOUD CERTIFIED

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Scrum Master: 6 years of experience as Scrum Master to multiple development teams to build the strategy
and ideation for the client. Worked & led team on decision-making, building and providing software
application support to meet stakeholder/customer/business demands. Creating roadmap for the product and
forecasting for the teams following Scrum, Kanbanmethodologies

Have been responsible for facilitating events like Daily Stand Ups, Product Backlog tracking and
refinement, Sprint retrospection. Facilitated team in Conflict resolution, impediments and blocker
removing, PI planning, Release planning.

Lotus Notes developer & Salesforce Administrator :7+ years of experience as a Lotus Notes Developer and
Salesforce for solutioning business problems and requirements into IT Solutions. Worked and led team on
decision-making, building enterprise software to meet stakeholder/customer/business demands.
UsingWaterfall, Scrum, Kanban methodologies.

AREAS OF EXPERIENCE TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

Lotus Notes

Salesforce
Operating Systems: Windows

Languages: Lotus Script, Formula & Salesforce

Project Management Tools: Rally

WORK EXPERIENCE

PROJECT NAME: THE HARTFORD (APRIL 2016 – PRESENT)

LOCATION: HARTFORD, CT – UNITED STATES

The Hartford is a United States-based investment and insurance company that is part of the Fortune
500 list. The Hartford is the 12th-largest property and casualty company in the United States. The
Hartford sells its products primarily through a network of agents and has been the direct auto and
home insurance.

Role: SCRUM MASTER / TECHNICAL LEAD

 Responsible for leading and facilitating multiple cross-functional software development teams
responsible for project delivery and bringing features to market while working under Large
Solutions Scrum methodologies. Facilitate the Project Team through the agile development
process of release planning, sprint planning, daily standups meetings, refining and retrospectives.
Responsible for removing any impediments to help the delivery teams meet their sprint
commitments.
 Has been a Scrum Master to multiple distributed teams.
 Help drive best practice use of lean agile methodology as a core to the development life cycle.
 Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, backlog refining,
refining and splitting stories, inspect & adapt, regular team demos and release planning.
Also facilitating the team through the regular PI Planing events.
 Tracking team velocity, burn up charts, health and sprint/release progress.
 Requirement Analysis, creating stories and defining user acceptance criteria.
 Maintain agile artifacts, process documentations and agile tools.
 Reporting to Leadership team, stakeholder with the latest status and highlighting risks.
 Ensure development teams are practicing core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team
accountability, and visibility and coach them appropriately.
 Keep teams engaged in different AGILE games and other team building activities.
 Assists teams with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
 Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards and best practices.
 Create and maintain relevant metrics to show development team progress.
 Proactively remove any impediments preventing forward movement on projects.
 Help teams plan for whole PI to produce Business value in solutions for stakeholders based on
their priority and team capacity
PROJECT NAME: Voya Financial Application Support (DEC 2013 – APRIL 2016)
LOCATION: CHENNAI, INDIA

Voya Financial is an American financial, retirement, investment and insurance company based in New
York. Voya began as ING U.S, the United States operating subsidiary of ING Group, which was spun
off in 2013 and established independent financial backing through an initial public offering. In April
2014, the company rebranded itself as Voya Financial. Voya's predecessors had first entered the U.S.
market in the 1970s.

Role: Developer

 Develop business requirements into technical solutions

 Follow Waterfall methodology
 Perform Unit testing and documentation for functionalities developed
 Identification and development of technical components and reusable artifacts to reduce the
application coding effort.
 Technology Highlights: Lotus Script, Lotus Notes Formula & XPAGES

PROJECT NAME: Horizon (AUG 2013 – DEC 2013)

LOCATION: CHENNAI, INDIA

Horizon is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey is the only licensed Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Association plan in New Jersey, providing health insurance coverage to over 3.2 million people
throughout all of North, Central, and South Jersey.

Role: Developer

 Develop business requirements into technical solutions

 Follow Waterfall methodology for software development
 Perform Unit testing and documentation for functionalities developed
 Identification and development of technical components and reusable artifacts to reduce the
application coding effort.
 Technology Highlights: Lotus Script, Lotus Notes Formula & XPAGES
PROJECT NAME: MetLife (JULY 2012 – JULY 2013)
LOCATION: CHENNAI, INDIA

MetLife is the holding corporation for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MLIC) better known as
MetLife, and its affiliates. MetLife is among the largest global providers of insurance, annuities, and
employee benefit programs, with 90 million customers in over 60 countries. The firm was founded on
March 24, 1868.

Role: Developer

 Worked closely with Onshore lead and Offshore lead to develop software requirements
 Complete unit testing and Integration testing and prepare corresponding documentation
 Technology Highlights: Lotus Script, Lotus Notes Formula & XPAGES

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Year of
Degree College/University
Passing

Madha Engineering College (Anna 2011

B.Tech – Information Technology
University)