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Meganathan Vajjiravelu

@meganathanvajjiravelu

Program Management | SAFe Scrum Master at Verizon

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganathanv

VerizonSKR Engineering College / Anna University

Dynamic IT project manager with 12 years' experience, adept in Scrum and Agile methodologies. Proven leader in steering complex technical projects to success, mentoring teams in Agile/SAFe practices, and training scrum masters. Proficient in project management tools, SDLC methodologies, and stakeholder engagement.

Experience

Program Management | SAFe Scrum Master

Verizon

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Guided and coached SAFe agile teams to achieve 80%-95% PI objectives alignment. Fostered high team performance and autonomy, and agile maturity. Streamlined core SAFe ceremonies, led to increased focus on value delivery and improved team productivity. Ensured teams met org-level SRE and SOE yearly targets, prioritizing tech enablers; utilized Gherkin language for drafting acceptance criteria and implementing TDD/BD practices. Resolved conflicts within teams and across dependencies, maintaining PI momentum; identified and developed future servant leaders through coaching. Managed the program to modernize the legacy platform, that targeted 30% reduction in operational cost expenses and aligning with organizational vision. Implemented risk management strategies, ensuring program success by identifying and mitigating potential issue. Collaborated with Solution Architects, business users, and global application clearance teams to facilitate architectural decisions, approval forums, and enable application accesses; maintained resource capacity inventory and converted program objectives into granular milestones for agile execution.

Project Manager cum Scrum Master

Treselle Systems, Inc

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Managed a capital market SaaS product offering business insights and contextual foresight. Conducted Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning and Backlog grooming meetings. Responsible for project estimation and resource plans. Tracked team tasks and maintained project scope, time, planning and implementation. Handled weekly and monthly status calls with clients/vendors. Managed AWS account for different services, overseeing resource use, costs, and performance optimization.

Project Coordinator

SolvEdge Technologies P Ltd

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Managed Healthcare, Insurance & Printing domain projects with 60/40 into support and development. Managed project/product development from initiation to closure. Solely responsible for all support tickets and timely delivery. Generated weekly and monthly issue log reports, usage reports, and call log reports.

Project Coordinator

Botcode Web Integration Solutions P Ltd

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Managed Sitecore projects for several Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 companies across multiple verticals like Retail, Healthcare, Fashion and Banking. Translated project objectives into tasks and ensured all commitments were met in accordance with goals and objectives.

Project Coordinator

SR-ITS P Ltd

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Managed end to end Web & Mobile application development projects. Worked with freelancers, designers, and agencies. Gathered client requirements and led the project team.

Education

SKR Engineering College / Anna University

MBA

Human Resources & Marketing

Jan 2009 - Jan 2011

DRBCCC Hindu College Madras University

BBA

Business Administration

Jan 2006 - Jan 2009

Licenses & Certifications

Certified in Project Management

Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai

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SAFeĀ® 5 Scrum Master (SSM)

Scaled Agile, Inc.

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SAFeĀ® 6 Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)

Scaled Agile, Inc.

• No expiration

Professional Scrum Master - PSM1

Scrum.org

• No expiration

Generative AI Overview for Project Managers

PMI

• No expiration

Transactional Analysis (psychology)

• No expiration

Skills

JIRA
Confluence
Rally
Google office suite
MS office suite
Smartsheet
Service Now
Slack
Stakeholder communication
Client communication
Waterfall
Agile
SAFe Agile
Scrum
Kanban
BDD
TDD
Servant leadership
Program Management
Project Management
People management
Requirements gathering
Risk management
DevOps Foundation
Machine Learning
AI
Agile Metrics
UI
Backend APIs
MySQL