About
Technical project and Agile delivery professional with 18 years of overall experience, including approximately 7 years in Scrum Master and Agile delivery roles across financial services and enterprise technology environments. Experienced in coordinating large-scale platform migration and enhancement initiatives, facilitating Scrum, SAFe and Kanban practices, and supporting delivery governance through RAID management.
Experience4
Senior Scrum Master / Project Manager – Assistant Manager
Oct 2020 — PresentState Street · Pune, India
Coordinate Agile delivery across two cross-functional Scrum teams comprising 19 members, facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives and Backlog Refinement. Manage delivery dependencies, UAT coordination, risk mitigation, and release readiness for the Strategic Pricing Platform Migration covering approximately 10,000 funds. Use advanced Jira administration capabilities to support delivery governance and track performance through dashboards.
- Reduced manual touchpoints by approximately 60% through pricing-platform enhancements.
- Delivered approximately 40% fewer price exceptions through AI data-quality integration.
Scrum Master | Team Leader – Operations Delivery
Feb 2018 — Feb 2020BNY Mellon India Ltd · Pune, India
Coordinated Agile and iterative delivery activities for financial-services operations and technology initiatives. Supported iterative enhancements to NAV reporting and Corporate Actions processing platforms, enabling operations users to receive working increments. Converted operational pain points into prioritized user stories, reducing manual touchpoints in Corporate Actions by approximately 50%.
- Reduced manual touchpoints in Corporate Actions by approximately 50%.
Team Leader – Operations Delivery
Apr 2012 — Feb 2018BNY Mellon India Ltd · Pune, India
Led a team of 10 fund accounting professionals responsible for daily fund accounting and NAV production activities. Reviewed NAV calculations and accounting adjustments, ensuring timely delivery against client requirements. Supported large-scale TLM and custody migrations involving more than 1,000 accounts.
Earlier Roles | Finance & Banking Operations
Oct 2004 — Feb 2011Amdocs, KPIT Cummins and Mphasis · Pune, India
Held finance and banking operations roles across technology and services organizations. Developed an automated reconciliation macro that significantly reduced processing time.
- Reduced processing time from approximately three days to one hour.
Projects4
Strategic Pricing Platform Migration · Coordinator
Coordinated Agile delivery and phased migration planning for approximately 10,000 funds, including dependencies, UAT, risk tracking and release readiness.
EPW Pricing Application – AI Data-Quality Integration · Coordinator
Coordinated cross-team delivery of EPW-to-Falcon exception messaging through MQ/Kafka pipelines across DEV, UAT and PROD.
- MQ
- Kafka
Pricing Application Enhancements · Coordinator
Coordinated delivery of source-code validation and security-type auto-assignment enhancements.
NAV Reporting & Corporate Actions Enhancements · Support
Supported iterative platform enhancements and delivery coordination for NAV reporting and Corporate Actions.
Education1
MBA in Project Management
2022Xavier Institute of Business Management Studies
Certifications7
Project Management Professional (PMP)
PMI
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
AI-Empowered SAFe 6.0 Scrum Master
Scaled Agile, Inc.
Kanban Practitioner
HelloSM
Scrum Master Accelerator
HelloSM
AI in Agile Delivery
PMI
Generative AI Foundation
UpGrad