United States

Customer Experience (CX)

Creative writing

Project Management

Business Transformation

Executive Master's

Bachelor's degree

Sai Nanduri, CSM, PMI ACP

Agile Coach

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Organisation skills

Asana

Canva

ChatGPT

Jira

Lucidchart

Miro

Watermark is a product company that provides cloud-based educational software for assessment, accreditation, and e-portfolios to universities, colleges, and K-12 schools throughout the United States. 

-	Spearhead the setup of a Process Improvements Office in order to track and improve processes across the organization
-	Streamline processes across various stages including User research, Release Planning and Customer support
-	Plan and conduct training and development programs to newer teams (from mergers and acquisitions) aimed at transforming them into self-organizing centers of excellence, supported by tools and processes
-	Facilitate discussions around branching strategy and collaborate with DevOps to manage feature releases and hot fix deployments
-	Shape transformation across the product development life cycle while identifying and removing organizational impediments 
-	Act as key agent in Change management
-	Coach newly formed product teams on product roadmaps, user story mapping, acceptance criteria, prototypes, epics and release plans
-	Help teams embrace the agile mindset using tools and techniques such as User stories, ATDD, continuous integration and retrospective outcomes 
-	Onboard new teams with set up of working processes, cadence, ceremonies and tools
-	Coach teams to attain maturity at a sustainable pace and help build autonomy
Enable close collaboration among all roles/functions (including both collocated & distributed teams) and ensure consistent quality and on-time delivery of projects by preaching principles of Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation

As a member of the Watermark Software development Department, I work with Technology and Product teams to effectively manage end to end development across various modules of the product. Some of my responsibilities are:
- Organizing/facilitating Scrum ceremonies(i.e.standups,planning,retrospectives) for multiple project tracks and removing impediments by interacting with appropriate personnel, thereby ensuring that the teams are fully functional/productive
- Updating agile tracking systems to provide transparency on sprint backlogs and supporting the ProductOwner with grooming backlogs, using process tools such as CA Agile Central(Rally)
- Engaging internal stakeholders in critical discussions and helping them reach consensus 
- Orienting teams to work with agile techniques:User stories,ATDD,automated testing,continuous integration, and guiding teams to become self organized
- Partnering with Product and Development teams to set release appropriate timelines, ensuring successful rollout of products
- Facilitating discussion and conflict resolution at all levels of the organization in order to improve team productivity while promoting continuous improvement and helping teams understand retrospective outcomes/information radiation
- Facilitating discussions on fixing deployment issues, enabling close collaboration among all roles/functions(including both colocated & distributed teams) and ensuring consistent quality and on-time delivery of projects
- Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress to management
- Communicating cross dependencies among teams and aligning these on timing
- Coaching teams to attain scrum maturity at a sustainable pace 
- Hiring and recruiting staff in order to fill skill gaps

Net@Work is a Technology Consulting firm with 13 offices across North America, headquartered in New York City. I am an integral part of the Web practice here.

The Projects I deal with are ecommerce web development projects, involving magento and wordpress development. I handle both fixed cost projects and hourly projects. Some of my responsibilities are:
- Collaborating with the development team and the product owner to build effective solutions
- Removing impediments or road blocks to resolve issues on time and get the best out of team effort
- Assisting with internal and external communications, improving transparency, and radiating information using information radiators and portfolio tracking system
- Supporting the Product Owner with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog, using JIRA
- Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization 
- Conducting sprint planning meetings to help team commit to a sprint and work accordingly
- Conducting sprint retrospective meetings to help the team realize what went well, what didn't go well and what could have been better: accordingly developing "the best practices"
- Generating Budget summary reports, based on team utilization and planned estimates using advanced MS Excel 
- Managing a development budget for teams & working with management to ensure that teams have the right skills
- Maintaining up to date project plans, budget projections, and risk/issues logs
- Preparing Statements of work for clients based on releases by fixing the scope of work and timelines 
- Performing in depth analysis of estimated efforts against actual efforts to understand appropriate estimation  metrics and take corrective action if necessary
- Preparing sprint burn down charts to track the progress of projects
- Performing quality assurance and back end analysis for reporting
- Planning and executing the system integration testing, go live,post go live support, and transition to long term support

- Allocated resources to multiple projects; developed work break-down structure and created and implemented branded social content strategy for Facebook.
- Tracked and posted day-to-day social media content, and maintained a calendar for active monitoring of follower feedback.
- Enabled startup clients to penetrate markets by performing market research and extracting target market information. In doing so, tested pseudo marketing strategy and produced a rapid conversion rate of 60% 
- Implemented effective tracking system to analyze and monitor conversion rate
- Performed competitor analysis and made recommendations for changes to campaigning strategies
-Generated reports based on social engagement and performance metrics using data analytics

- developed core java code for major enhancements such as expense management module for estatement project of American express
- developed unit test cases for fraud transaction processing logic and improved the efficiency of code from 64% to 85% - implemented and tested enhancement feature requests to enhance product functionality
- analyzed functional requirements and broke them down into technical specifications to understand various use cases and scenario based logic 
- coordinated with QA testers for end-to-end unit testing and post-production testing
- analyzed requirements and used systematic approaches to implement and document the tasks.
- drove continual improvement to system architecture by refactoring old legacy code
- handled change management requests for e-statement maintenance application of American Express 
- resolved issues by establishing workarounds and solutions and by debugging and creating defect fixes
- implemented new payment API for deployment and third party integration 
- reviewed and merged code from 3 other programmers
- updated, modified and expanded existing software programs. 
- instrumented and modified unit and integration tests to improve software quality and reliability
- drafted project work plans and reviewed them with Project manager
- organized and held meetings with stakeholders
- conducted technical reviews and trade-off studies

- Underwent rigorous training and certifications in Core Java programming and Banking domain understanding
- Created proof-of-concept prototype applications for demonstration and evaluation purposes
- Developed production and beta websites using HTML and Javascript

Sai Nanduri, CSM, PMI ACP🇺🇸