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Suhasini Gopi

Project Manager / Scrum Master
Gaborone

Summary

10+ experience in software development, maintenance/enhancements, and IT consulting as a Developer, Scrum Master and Agile Project Manager primarily focusing on Agile delivery.

Worked with customers and product managers on projects in various domains such as Science and Telecom domains performing various roles such as Team Lead, Scrum master and Project Manager.
Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction
Facilitated Agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with the outcome resulting in enhanced performance
Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey concepts/requirements between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Self-motivated, good team player with the ability to work on different projects concurrently by priorities.
Extensively used JIRA to manage agile boards for reports, you can plan, track, and manage all your agile software development projects from a single tool.
Experience with Task and Bug tracking tools such as JIRA, Confluence

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Agile Project Manager

Nielsen IQ
11.2020 - Current

- Facilitated scrum ceremonies – backlog grooming, sprint plannings, daily scrum, sprint review, product backlog refinement and sprint retrospective meetings.
- Setting up Agile Scrum Processes and executing Scrum ceremonies as per Agile Scrum methodology
- Facilitating grooming session with Product Owner to collaborate, develop, groom & prioritize backlog to ensure a healthy product backlog
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Helping the team to minimize noise that prevents them from meeting their sprint commitments
- Leading coaching for development teams through Agile transitions by developing a full understanding of the Scrum framework.
- Enhanced team skills and improving sprint velocity with the lesson learned from the Sprint Retrospectives
- Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
- Increase the team’s agile fluency through coaching the team to embrace and embed lean and agile practices in their work.
- Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
- Enable the team to become self-organized, and empowered teams that consistently deliver on their sprint commitments.
- Ensuring deliverables are up to high quality standards in each sprint
- Empowered teams to self-organizing and to be cross functional
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.

Project Manager

Nielsen IQ
Chennai
06.2017 - 11.2020

- Identify and Perform Stakeholder Analysis.
- Collect Requirements and prepare Requirements Documentation and Traceability Matrix.
- Defining Scope and preparation of Scope Statement.
- Creation of the WBS, WBS Dictionary, and Scope Baseline.
- Developing Schedule and finalizing Schedule Baseline.
- Determining Budget and developing Cost Baseline.
- Planning Quality and Developing HR Plan & Planning Communications.
- Planning Risk Management & Identifying and Analyzing Risks and Planning of Risk Responses.
- Executing Tasks Defined in Project management Plan.
- Providing the Monitoring & Control of Project Work (Recommending Defect Repair Solution, Recommending Corrective & Preventive Actions and Recommending Change Requests) by Inspection, Variance Analysis & Evaluation respectively.
- Facilitate the Integrated Change Control for controlling the Project Scope.
- Confronting the Project’s Conflicts like Schedules, Priorities, and Resources.
- Implementing the Procurement of Project Resources & Managing Resource Allocation.
- Measuring Project Performance.
- Verifying and Managing Changes to the Project.
- Ensuring Project Deliverables Conforming to Quality Standards.
- Performed the closing of all open actions in CAT with the continuous follows up of the stakeholders.
- Followed up with the different Stakeholders of Project to get the Project onboard as PCW(Pre Contract Work)
- Have worked with the RCM team for Open Seat creation & Monitoring and their timely closer after resource allocation in team.

Senior Executive - Neuro Engineer

Nielsen India Private Limited
Chennai, India
03.2014 - 05.2017
  • Check the completeness and accuracy of data uploaded by global lab team, analyze the data, prepare report and send it to concerned department on time
  • Assists in post-implementation and continuous- improvement efforts to enhance performance and improve future outcomes
  • Work on ITIL concepts like (Incident management,
  • Change management and Problem management)
  • Incident management and problem management, join Bridge lines ,provide timely updates ,troubleshooting production issues, vendor engagement
  • Managed daily workload based on priorities and Maintain SLA's to provide quality services to end users
  • Worked with sustainment team to organize, plan, manage and execute new releases
  • Document and create new knowledge base to provide most effective solutions to application issues
  • Solutions can be new code development, defect fixes
  • Provide documentation and make technical presentations to management
  • Strong partnership Development, Account
  • Managers and Production
  • Support Team
  • Analyze monitor calibration reports and workstation logs to identify and solve calibration errors
  • Create and maintain documentation on platform, such as platform details, playbooks, escalation procedures, and any other that becomes necessity
  • Provides support to customer/user inquiries or concerns regarding products or services

Analysis Engineer

Nielsen India Private Limited
Chennai, India
04.2011 - 02.2014
  • Analyze the consumer interaction with advertisement of product by brain wave, Event Related Potential and Eye movement tracking system
  • Performed EEG signal processing to elicit quantified, stochastic measure of effectiveness
  • Recognition of patterns that correlate with the overall effectiveness of stimuli
  • Developed tool for assessment of artefact in data during acquisition
  • Developed algorithm to automate identification and rejection of artefact such as eyeblink and muscle from EEG signal
  • Enhanced measurement of Emotion using EEG Signals
  • Optimized more than 10 algorithms for standardization of the process
  • Part of number BPI streams and FMEA team to improve the effectiveness of process
  • Part of testing team to test automated tools for their correctness and effectiveness
  • Member of global training team, responsible to train new joiners in Neuro Department
  • Successfully lead the team of 6 members before moving on to new role
  • Managed 2 global teams as onsite co-coordinator who works in 24/7 shift as 3 teams
  • Reduced cycle time by 38 % for client delivery

Education

Master of Science - Biomedical Engineering

University of Boras
Sweden

Bachelor of Technology - Biomedical Engineering

BIHER University
India

Skills

Delivery Managementundefined

Accomplishments

  • Tracked project budgets continuously and resolved discrepancies before issues occurred, effectively saving over $ 100,000
  • Developed detailed and well-received test plans, test cases and test scripts that became company standards
  • Created a robust software testing platform which advanced R&D efforts
  • Project Management Coordinated with third-party development team on engineering and professional service activities and tasks
  • Monitored and assessed issues that arose with clients, ensuring immediate resolution which promoted stronger relationships and resulted in more lucrative projects.
  • Received Simply Excellent Award thrice for my work.

Certification

Certified Scrum Master

Timeline

Agile Project Manager

Nielsen IQ
11.2020 - Current

Project Manager

Nielsen IQ
06.2017 - 11.2020

Senior Executive - Neuro Engineer

Nielsen India Private Limited
03.2014 - 05.2017

Analysis Engineer

Nielsen India Private Limited
04.2011 - 02.2014

Master of Science - Biomedical Engineering

University of Boras

Bachelor of Technology - Biomedical Engineering

BIHER University
Suhasini GopiProject Manager / Scrum Master