Hi, I’m
Lakshmi Narayana
Solutions Architect
Coventry,West Midlands
Summary
Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in Solution architecture, Integration platforms, Coaching, Agile ways of working, prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.
Overview
11
years of professional experience
5
years of post-secondary education
2
Certifications
5
Languages
Work History
Tata Consultancy ServicesChennai
Scrum Master
09.2020 - Current
Job overview
- Playing a shared role of Scrum Master and DevOps Engineer in critical business conditions
- End to End life cycle management for integration services
- Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum team.
- Supporting the product owner and stakeholders with the road map to modernization and digital transformation
- Coaching the team in self-organization and cross-functionality
- Applying the right fit practices, tools and techniques from Scrum, Lean & Kanban at the right time
- Identifying, applying and improving appropriate methodologies and toolsets for the team’s culture and operating environment
- Manage the scrum process with the coordination of multiple scrum teams in Agile methodology
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings
- Working with other Scrum Masters to improve agile ways of working and knowledge across teams
- Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.
Tata Consultancy ServicesChennai
DevOps Engineer
05.2020 - 08.2021
Job overview
- Worked closely with other business analysts, development teams and infrastructure specialists to deliver high availability solutions for mission-critical applications.
- Modernizing the integration landscape
- Planning for the migration of the infrastructure to cloud
- Researched and identified new technologies and tools helping to grow agile development environment.
- Reached working prototype stage of development quickly due to insight into user needs and requirements.
- Performing several automations to reduce the manual activities
- Interfaced with cross-functional team to determine comprehensive list of requirement specifications for new applications.
Tata Consultancy ServicesCoventry
Integration Specialist
08.2018 - 05.2020
Job overview
- Digital transformation
- Designing the supply chain interfaces
- Handling multiple migrations and feasibility study on the requirements
- Improving the integration landscape
- Modernizing the application integration
Tata Consultancy ServicesChennai
Application Support Specialist
06.2017 - 07.2018
Job overview
- Implementation of Automations to avoid any manual efforts
- Simplification of Architecture to provide better resiliency
- Re-designing the landscape to get better performance
- Reduction of failures to make quicker supply chain delivery and operations
Tata Consultancy ServicesBangalore
Application Support Lead
01.2016 - 06.2017
Job overview
- Application support
- Stakeholder management
- Reviewing of weekly and monthly operation status with client and business stakeholders
- Defining and abiding to SLA
- Major incident management from integration landscape
CognizantLondon
Application Support Analyst
08.2014 - 12.2015
Job overview
- Collaborated with developers, analysts and project managers to expedite incident resolutions.
- Provided 24/7 support for integration, file and data feeds and batch processes to prevent impact to business.
- Performed software application and disaster recovery testing to guarantee business readiness following fail-overs.
- Interfaced with customers and developers to diagnose problems and implement configuration requirements and solutions.
- Worked as an SME from integration for Point of Sale migration
CognizantBangalore
abinitio developer
01.2013 - 07.2013
Job overview
- Client discussions to understand the requirement
- Proving assistance in the solution architecture
- Development of the code as per the requirement
- Unit testing and support during the SIT and SAT testing
Antiz TechnologiesBangalore
Software Developer
04.2011 - 12.2012
Job overview
- Game Development using C# and Unity Game engine
- Handling the Game databases
- Participated in software field testing to verify in-situ performance of developed projects.
- ETL Development using Ab>Initio
- Participated in cross-functional projects while working in lean development environments.
Education
Sree Vidhyanikethan Engineering College
Bachelor's degree from Information Technology
09.2005 - 05.2009
Coventry University
Master's degree from Engineering
09.2009 - 05.2011
Skills
Project Management
Customer interaction
Data Warehousing Management
Analytical and Critical Thinking
Cloud services
ETL development
Systems design
Technical Analysis
IT solution development
Maintenance and troubleshooting
Agile
Certification
Professional Scrum Master PSM1
Timeline
Scrum Master
Tata Consultancy Services
09.2020 - Current
DevOps Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2020 - 08.2021
Integration Specialist
Tata Consultancy Services
08.2018 - 05.2020
Application Support Specialist
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2017 - 07.2018
Application Support Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
01.2016 - 06.2017
Application Support Analyst
Cognizant
08.2014 - 12.2015
abinitio developer
Cognizant
01.2013 - 07.2013
Software Developer
Antiz Technologies
04.2011 - 12.2012
Coventry University
Master's degree from Engineering
09.2009 - 05.2011
Sree Vidhyanikethan Engineering College
Bachelor's degree from Information Technology
09.2005 - 05.2009