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Vinda Shinde
vinda.adsul@gmail.com Agile Coach I Tech Project Manager | Scrum Master
Tracy, California, United States
www.linkedin.com/in/vinda-shinde-
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Summary
Top Skills I'm passionate about working with development teams and guiding
Key Performance Indicators them to be highly productive in an Agile environment as well as
Escalation stressing coding, testing and DevOps best practices. I have been
Business Process involved in several Agile Transformation efforts and relish those
opportunities. One of my great pleasures is helping businesses
Languages teams leverage evolving Agility to become more efficient and gain a
English (Full Professional) competitive advantage.
Marathi
Hindi I have experience as a Technical Product Manager, Scrum Master,
Product Owner and Software Engineer leading teams consisting of
Certifications both US-based and offshore developers. The teams utilized Jira,
Basics of Machinery Diagnostics TFS or Rally to maintain stories, backlogs and sprints and practiced
Team Kanban Practitioner the following Scrum rituals: daily standups, grooming, planning,
Python 3 Tutorial course
showcases and retrospectives.
Learning Data Science: Tell Stories
With Data
I have worked for many years in companies from Fortune 500
Learning Data Science: Ask Great
Questions to Startups helping them get more out of the efficient and well
organized teams to achieve goals. This has led to me being involved
in core Domain specific projects to technology advanced innovative
projects.
Experience
VMware
Project Manager Scrum Master
June 2022 - Present (1 year 2 months)
United States
1) Deliver the project team's weekly status reports to the management,
emphasizing key milestones, accomplishments, and potential obstacles.
2) Responsible for planned monthly and quarterly release as a Scrum master
for the Unified Quote to Lead team.
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3) Utilizing Confluence and Jira, generate informative dashboards that
illustrate the current status of each phase of the development lifecycle to
reflect the on-ground reality.
4) In the role of managing sprints for monthly and quarterly releases, I am
conducting Agile ceremonies for multi-location teams. I ensure that all team
members are appropriately represented at each stage, from requirement
planning to development, testing, business approvals, and go-live.
5) Manage scope adjustments for projects proactively with business teams.
Plan releases with execution agile teams and manage the release progress.
University of the Pacific
Masters in Data Science
August 2021 - June 2023 (1 year 11 months)
California, United States
Vodafone Idea Limited
Agile Coach with Digital Transformation Team
August 2018 - November 2021 (3 years 4 months)
Mumbai Area, India
Enabled the organizations new way of working through hands on coaching of
Pilot teams, including technology and business participants at all levels of the
organization
Engage with Agile teams and coach them through a journey of Agile adoption
over 13 months. Take immature Agile teams and teach the skills and practices
to develop self sufficiency and maturity.
Hands on coaching and teaching for new teams including how to perform key
Agile ceremonies and how to effectively utilize Agile artifacts such as product
backlogs
Lead agile teams through product framing and discovery, including defining
business KPIs, product vision, user story mapping, and other framing activities
Ebullientech Interactive LLP
Product Development and Agile Consultant
June 2018 - August 2018 (3 months)
Mumbai Area, India
Review and integrate all application requirements, including functional,
security, integration, performance, quality and operations requirements.
Work with team members to design, architect and implement solutions across
geographic location and cloud based solutions.
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UpX Academy
Big Data Analyst - Course
January 2018 - July 2018 (7 months)
6 Month Certification Program in Big Data Analytics
Just Buy Live Enterprise Pvt. Ltd.
Chief Quality Analyst and Scrum Master
February 2017 - December 2017 (11 months)
Mumbai Area, India
Just Buy Live is a proficient, large scale E-Distributor in New Commerce /
Mobile Retail space. This includes Warehouse and Supply chain management,
ERP and CRM system and mobile apps on android and iOS. Being in small
team have opportunity to perform multiple roles like Agile coach, Release
manager and Product owner which is proven to be an added advantage and
resulting in positive outcomes.
QA Manager:
1) Developed test strategies and appropriate test harnesses as well as
pragmatic testing approaches
2) Planned product automation strategy and contributed to design,
development and environments
3) Coached team on test scenarios creation, test cases management and
maintenance of Automation framework to have faster feedbacks. Use of Test
Rail and BDD based test in Selenium with Appium and Cucumber
4) Deliver and follow dynamic releases management plan with clear execution
steps that includes App, API, DB, SCM and Infra team’s collaboration during
server down time
Agile coach and product manager for GST Implementation:
1) Thoroughly studied and understood GST taxation business impact and
technology changes. Helped team to define backlog and story breakdown
along with Solution architects, Finance and marketing team collaboration
2) Defined clear acceptance criteria for taxation changes from Vat/CST to GST
All India/ State wise rate per HSN number, this resulted in bug free release
3) Managed product flow charts and aided teams in process build up resulting
in smooth execution of modules developed in PHP and Python
4) Conducted daily scrums, defects management and post release
Retrospective to find improvement areas
GE
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11 years 5 months
Sr Technical Product Manager
April 2016 - February 2017 (11 months)
1) Work with Product Line and Release Management Team to understand the
Business vision and map that to long term strategies & roadmap
2) Provide a detailed definition for end user features on products working
with a broad cross section of inputs ranging from product line, technical team,
services, sustainability, cost, cross platforming needs etc – Wing tip to Wing tip
approach.
3) Work with multiple stakeholders (internal & external) to define the overall
requirements for the feature.
4) Define the nonfunctional requirements associated with the system working
closely with technical leadership and the product line team
5) Own testable feature design and system test strategy for the features/
system under design working closely with the design team as well as Systems
Validation team.
6) Engage the CTH and Technical leadership team in reviews for the system
requirements to ensure adequate, testable requirements before handing it over
to the development teams.
7) Ensure system level requirement readiness is met prior to development
teams engaging.
8) Act as the Agile product owner for ongoing development sprints prioritizing
features to be developed based on technical competency and end user value
metrics
9) Work directly with defined end users and product line to align prioritized
features for Agile development
10) Communicate business objectives and priorities for near term and long
term to technical execution teams by leveraging technical experience
Commercial Application Engineer
October 2015 - April 2016 (7 months)
Mumbai
A rotation from engineering to commercial team selected for program called
EnCORE across India.
1) Responsible for all aspects of proposal development including proposal
planning, solution estimates, technical and commercial documentation, and
interaction with process engineering, commercial ITO / Sales, customers, and
other cross-functional business teams
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2) Lead and drive new product initiatives and drive growth by influencing and
working with customers at early project stages
3) Accountable for the development and continuous evolution of proposal
standards, templates, and self-serve tools that drive consistency and repeat-
ability in deliverable, reduce cycle time, and improve overall deal profitability
4) Ensured technical proposals are accurate and meet contractual and
regulatory requirements
5) Utilized my product expertise e to solve problems, develop and execute
objectives for self and others, and demonstrated the ability to affect short-term
and long-term business goals
5) Follow-up on proposals to successfully resolve technical matters related to
specific customer project queries
6) Responsibly carried out technical clarification meetings with the customer
from conceptual to commencement stages
7) Drove project hand-off to OTR team after orders
8) Maintained broad awareness of efforts within group to assure technical
quality excellence, timely completion of work and reviews, appropriate use of
resources, and responsiveness to customer / program needs
9) Facilitated communication of technical and business information between
organizations and within work group
Software Test Lead
March 2014 - September 2015 (1 year 7 months)
1) Supporting and managing multiple scrum teams quality in terms of
Automation and Manual testing
2) Continues collaboration with Project Owner and Subject Matter Expert to get
the Acceptance tests reviewed and product tested after every sprint
3) Managing test (software and hardware) infrastructure for entire team to
enable them the customer simulated setups
4) Risks identification at every stage of Project, communicating to Sr.
Management and making the plan to mitigate the same
Lead Technologist
May 2010 - March 2014 (3 years 11 months)
1) Creation of Test Strategy which includes different parameters for the release
like different testing phases, infrastructure requirements, risks and plans
for same, CTQs, traceability matrix, release over release defects reduction
strategies, defects tracking procedures etc.
2) Successfully supporting and managing multiple Scrum teams quality and
making sure all the scrum teams follows the single product release theme
3) Ensured inter team dependencies get highlighted in all teams planning
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4) Driving & Facilitating Test Planning workshops
Advanced Software Engineer
April 2008 - April 2010 (2 years 1 month)
Software Engineer
October 2005 - April 2008 (2 years 7 months)
Mumbai
1) Creation and execution of Functional Module based Test plans and End to
End Regression test plans
2) Reporting defects in tracking tool and following up on the defect state till
closer
3) Help new test engineers to speed up on process and domain understanding
4) Installs and migration testing for SQL 2000 to 2005
Education
University of the Pacific
Master of Science - MS, Data Science · (August 2021 - May 2023)
Sikkim Manipal University, Gangtok
MBA, Information System · (2008 - 2010)
University of Mumbai
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science · (2002 - 2005)
Maharashtra Institute of Technology
Diploma, Computer Science · (1999 - 2002)
UpGrad
Certificate for Learning Week - Data Science · (2018 - 2018)
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