1. Pratheep Rajasekaran
5635 E Bell Road, Scottsdale, AZ-85254
Email: pratheepsekar@gmail.com | Mobile: 602-814-6595
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Executive Summary
Over all 9 years of experience in Information Technology and Project Management and
currently working as a Scrum Master/Business Analyst and also played a role of
Product Owner.
 A licensed member of Scrum Alliance & a Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
 Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing
impediments and fostering self-management.
 Leading the team towards a vision, in small steps, regularly stopping along the way
to check-in, adjust, calibrate and moving forward.
 Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying
expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and
delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
 Superior Project Management skills in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies with
strong exposure to SDLC, Rally, CA Clarity, SQL, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Word,
Excel, and PowerPoint.
 Worked with many applications and got the analytics knowledge on BI DW tools like
Ab Inito and basic commands in UNIX
 Excellent Business System Analysis skills serving as an enthusiastic liaison between
internal business and technical support along with domain knowledge.
 Have basic knowledge on the Salesforce.com.
 Demonstrated ability in leadership and organization. Oriented toward rapid results.
 Excellent Project Management skills, Verbal communication, and documentation
skills.
Technical Skills
Management : Agile, Waterfall, Rally, HP Quality Center, CA Clarity PPM
ETL Tool : Ab Inito, UNIX
Domain : SDLC, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project
Technology : Sales Force (Basics ) , SQL, Data Analytics
Management : Resource Management , Training

2. Experience Summary
 Working as Business Analyst and Product Owner in Syntel Consulting Inc,
Phoenix, AZ (From Nov 12 to Till).
 Worked as Scrum Master in Syntel Ltd , India (From June’ 08 to Septemberl’12).
Certifications:
 Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
 Certified Safe Agilest.
 Analytical Sales Force.com
CHRONOLOGICALSUMMARYOFEXPERIENCE
American Express – US Loyalty Application Role: Scrum Master
Duration: 11/12 to Current
Description:
Loyalty Program rewards participating card members (CMs) with points based on the
spending activity on their cards. These points can be redeemed for different rewards
offered such as Blue-sky, Membership Rewards etc., In addition, this program also helps in
building repeat business by offering participating CMs something that is not available to
non-participating CMs. This domain houses various products, which in-turn, comprises of
different applications to support various capabilities and features for the different reward,
rebate, and co-brand programs.
Roles and Responsibilities
 Playing an integral role supporting large initiatives and programs under the
SAFe model, by providing ongoing support and consultation, strengthening
holistic view of capability, and continuing to articulate the vision across teams
and projects.
 Leading program level ceremonies such as Release Planning, Scrum of Scrums,
Show and Tell, and Retrospective.
 Coordinating with Business and Technology teams to define desired
functionality and helping in driving business decisions.
 Acting as a subject matter expert for business and technology processes,
providing guidance to program / delivery teams and business / product owners.
 Analyzing the overall system interactions, interfaces, and dependencies,
including any product processes that invoke the product / platform.

3.  Protecting team from over-commitment, managing backlog, prioritizing
resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of all major
initiatives.
 Meeting goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours.
 Coordinating and managing code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups.
 Communicating with other management, engineers, product managers and
support specialists on product issues.
 Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress.
 Ensuring appropriate Release Testing is completed prior to deployment.
 Coordinating required engagements and maintaining clarity project tracking
systems.
 Forecasting / estimating delivery timelines and costs across products for the
initiative.
 Providing support to end-to-end Test Management, Architecture, and Data Setup
teams as required.
American Express – Registered Card Application Role : Scrum Master/PA
Duration: 08/10 to 11/12
 Addressed impediments, risks, dependencies, and resourcing needs escalated for
the assigned products.
 Established the Rally structure under SAFe model for tracking projects
effectively and taught the team to create clear and concise features/epics/stories
 Facilitated program level processes and execution with management, domain,
and technical acumen.
 Instructed and modeled core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization,
team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum
methodologies across the portfolio.
 Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection,
sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and
maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices reducing development
time by a significant margin.
 Supervised cross-functional teams and directed business users for properly
conducting Iteration and Release Testing under the newly adopted product-
based delivery model.
 Drove program level continuous improvements (e.g., mitigation of retrospective)
and evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption.
 Managed dependencies between internal and external stakeholders and
achieved maximum throughput given the teams’ capacity.
 Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and
manage inter-team tasks
 Conducted Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams in India.
 Maintained project documentation such as Agile Charter, Release Plan, UAT
Report, across all SDLC phases and captured project signoffs/approvals.

4. American Express – Global Travel Technologies Role : Scrum Master/PA
Duration: 05/09 to 08/10
 Acted as the ‘Go-To Guy’ for guiding, planning, and tracking the day-to-day
activities of development teams during the company’s transition.
 Liaised with business owners, product owners, and tech SMEs to transform
business needs into project deliverables, in compliance with the necessary
standards.
 Worked with product owners to help ensure strategy and execution alignment.
 Led breakdown sessions to decompose features into parent user stories.
 Worked closely with both internal and external engineering teams to drive
products from inception to launch.
 Drove medium and high complexity projects by coordinating with various teams
across different business units.
 Maintained Product Backlog and supported Release Planning along with PI
development.
 Provided transparency and visibility to the entire organization and fully
supported your scrum team(s).
 Smoothly took over the responsibilities of managing the financials, and created a
standard procedure to address the funding requests/queries from the
customers. The result was the decrease in customer complaints related to
forecasting and billing mismatches.
 Promoted and supported company policies, procedures, mission, values, and
standards of ethics and integrity.
 Provided supervision and development opportunities for associates.
 Supported continuous process improvements and innovation.
 Transitioned the business processes and activities related to project financials to
new joinees/sub-ordinates.
American Express – Unitech Balancing and Controls Role : BSA
Duration: 11/08 to 05/09
• Experience includes designing, coding, testing, and maintaining balancing files
using command level COBOL and VSAM in an OS/MVS environment.
• Data Analyzing and creating of dash board from the Unitech systems.
• Understanding the requirements of clients and carry on the feasibility studies for
the requirements given and have discussions with senior people in project.
• Preparation of requirement and Mapping document for the ETL requirements
from Client directly.
• Preparation of Detailed data analysis regarding the business flow.
• Project forecasting to offshore team involving all the Clarity related stuff and
over all forecasting for the team.

5. • Maintaining the project repository for the further analysis and audit.
Pratheep Rajasekaran

6. • Maintaining the project repository for the further analysis and audit.
Pratheep Rajasekaran