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Immanuel Barnabas Charles

Immanuel Barnabas Charles

Certified Scrum Master| Lead Business Analyst
Polygon Road, Manchester, United Kingdom

Summary

Scrum Master/Business Analyst with 10+ years of IT experience in demonstrative Scrum Master with a background in communicating effectively and leading high-performance teams. Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders.

Experience in coaching, mentoring, and delivering teams to effectively support the transition to Agile ways of working. Demonstrated ability to effectively manage and influence stakeholders with competing priorities and values. Supported the continuous mindset of the organization to enable transparency with agile techniques, and adaptation of approaches. Strong requirements gathering, scope development, and inventory coordination abilities. Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Lead Consultant | Scrum Master | Agile Coach

VIRTUSA CONSULTING SERVICES Pvt Ltd
Manchester
03.2020 - Current
  • Extensive and evidenced hands-on knowledge of the implementation of Agile methodologies and Scrum frameworks.
  • Experience in coaching, mentoring scrum masters, and delivery teams to effectively transform into Agile ways of software development.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively manage and influence stakeholders with competing priorities and business values.
  • Transmute the mindset of the organization through coaching and mentoring teams to uphold the implementation of the empirical process with agile techniques.
  • Persuade Agile Industry trends and best practices and contribute thought influencing. Demonstrated the use of metrics and measures across scrum teams.
  • Enable the understanding of scrum framework with the aid of role play, and games technique.
  • Cater value stream by enabling high-performing teams, value- driven and customer-centricity by creating awareness and Agile principles and Scrum framework.
  • Enhanced Scrum value and team performance unhindered by mitigating the impediments through collaborating with internal teams and ensuring the outcomes are realized on time and to a minimum viable product.

Business Solutions Architect

Lennox International
Chennai
02.2019 - 03.2020

• Derived conceptual feature designs from commercial business objectives to deliver IoT software applications to automation specifications for usability, performance, and functionality.

• Analysed key aspects of the business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized them into user stories.

• Led cross-functional teams to analyse and understand business use cases and opportunities for technology implementation.

• Collaborated with the Product Management team to identify use cases and drafted the new features as EPIC and linked user stories.

• Performance function and User Acceptance Test for every release and demonstrate by evaluating and implementing the Finest Solution to enchase minimum viable product meeting business value

• Conduct frequent meetings with Business users to capture user experience and develop an intuitive UI/UX design to enchase customer delight.

• Facilitated Scrum Ceremonies such as Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Retrospective, and Sprint Review.

• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create a positive mindset toward Agile methodologies.

• Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.

Business Consultant | Lead Business Analyst

Capgemini
Chennai
08.2017 - 02.2019

· Develop and implement a data retention strategy for both structured and unstructured electronic data across SCB in accordance with business and regulatory requirements as outlined in a Compliance policy

· Liaised with SMEs, data owners, application owners, and compliant officers for an ongoing data retention assurance program.

· Performed statistical analyses in information gather and performed data analysis for solutioning.

· Drafted BRD and data process flows diagrams to aid software development and to ensure timely completion of targets and tasks

· Introduced new methods, practices, and systems to address the gap identified through interviews and surveys.

· Aided in Records Management and Maintenance Program across Business Units

· Exhibit good interpersonal skills to build relationships with key stakeholders and regional, country teams

Senior Business Analyst

Wipro Technologies
Chennai
05.2012 - 08.2017

• Elicited requirements through brainstorming sessions and identified primary actors their roles and functions
• Identified the Use Cases and documented the product requirements and the workflows.
• Created various UML models like Use Case diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and State Diagrams in MS Visio
• Conducted timely requirement review sessions with the Stakeholders and business end-users.
• Reviewed test cases and maintained the Requirement Tractability Matrix (RTM)
• Involved in GAP Analysis and Technical Feasibility study with the technical leads and other SMEs
• Created the Business Requirement Documents (BRD), user stories, and the Functional Requirement Documents (FRD)
• Act as the liaison among stakeholders to encourage innovation for process improvements and system enhancements that result in increased automation, productivity, satisfaction, and data consistency
• Involved in identifying regulatory changes, and business processes and developing business process flow diagrams for pre-approvals

Education

MBA - Business Administration,Management and Operations

SRM University
08.2014 - 04.2016

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) - Mechanical Engineering

Sathyabama Institute of Science And Technology
08.2008 - 05.2012

Skills

    Business Analyst

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Certification

Professional Scrum Master II

Timeline

Professional Scrum Master II
04-2022

Lead Consultant | Scrum Master | Agile Coach

VIRTUSA CONSULTING SERVICES Pvt Ltd
03.2020 - Current

Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)

12-2019

Business Solutions Architect

Lennox International
02.2019 - 03.2020

Business Consultant | Lead Business Analyst

Capgemini
08.2017 - 02.2019

LA ISO/IEC 270001/2013

03-2016
Green Belt in Six sigma
05-2015

MBA - Business Administration,Management and Operations

SRM University
08.2014 - 04.2016

Senior Business Analyst

Wipro Technologies
05.2012 - 08.2017

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) - Mechanical Engineering

Sathyabama Institute of Science And Technology
08.2008 - 05.2012
Immanuel Barnabas CharlesCertified Scrum Master| Lead Business Analyst