Biswajit Das

Senior Software Consultant and Scrum Master and Agile Project Management | Verizon

Full Time

August, 2019 - Present

Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

o Scrum Master for 1 team and Agile Coach for 2 other teams.
o Managing project planning, dependencies, goals, resource allocation, release planning, technology and architecture.
o Responsible for project management and seamless delivery of software projects.
o Accountable for the suitability, quality and timeliness of all defined projects.
o Organizing and facilitating daily stand-up, reviews, retrospectives, sprint planning, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
o Collaborate with project team and other cross-platform teams to remove team impediments aligned to Technical, Functional or Business.
o Leading CICD - improved the release cycle time by 50%, and concentrated on automation of several project modules resulting in improved product quality and stakeholder trust.
o Reporting scrum progress and product delivery to senior management using various reporting tools. JIRA was primarily used for sprint progress monitoring, velocity, managing sprint backlog, product backlog and customer support ticketing.
o Coach and train several teams on Scrum framework and Agile Best Practices
o Providing tools for implementing Agility in their own work.
o Building trust and helping the teams to mature in scrum practices.
o Creating a safe environment for people to trust, grow and communicate

Software Consultant and Scrum Master | Verizon

Full Time

April, 2018 - July, 2019

Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

o Set up and improved the processes, addressing the bottlenecks, knowledge transfer and setting up a new team.
o Worked with senior management, steering committees, and all business managers to implement Agile within intra-teams.
o Provided daily and weekly reports to senior management on product deliveries.
o Conducted scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint review, retrospection.
o Resolved team impediments.
o Worked with the product owner, business analyst, and stakeholders on product backlog grooming.
o Set up the CICD. Designed and implemented Jenkins's job to build creation, deployment, security scanning, DB restore.
o Designed, collected and published metrics to identify, measure, and improve team performance.
o Coordinated and integrated projects for large and complex changes.

Senior Software Analyst and Scrum Master | Verizon

Full Time

May, 2016 - March, 2018

Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

o Managed individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
o Accountable for requirement gathering, conducting code reviews and mentoring junior developers.
o Responded to customer queries and resolving them within stipulated timelines.
o Responsible for setting up CICD.
o Explored the process for automated build creation and deployment.
o Initiated project migration from the Waterfall model to Agile methodologies.
o Experimented with few strategies and plans for Agile transformation.

Software Analyst | Verizon

Full Time

April, 2014 - April, 2016

Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

o Accountable for project architecture, delivery, technical support and managed a team of 3.
o Responsible for requirement gathering, task allocation, development, unit testing, and delivery.
o Collaborated with a business analyst on story writing and creating functional and technical specification documentation.
o Worked closely with various teams in different time zones.
o Acquainted with Fortify on-demand static code scan, Penetration testing with Depth security scan.
o Responsible for creating the readiness review document for product delivery.

Software Engineer | Verizon

Full Time

June, 2011 - March, 2014

Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

o Designed, developed, tested, deployed, maintained and improved the software.
o Involved in production support activities, application or system troubleshooting.
o Prepared and executed unit test cases and carried out manual testing.
o Collaborated and worked with several teams for seamless delivery.
o Migrated a classic ASP web app to C#.NET web Application.

Project Trainee | Xi Tech Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Internship

July, 2010 - August, 2010

Kalyani, West Bengal, India

o Started as an Industrial Trainee.
o Responsible for development, testing, and delivery.
o Completed 6 weeks project on Online Banking Form Fill Up. (PHP/MYSQL) successfully.

WAVE/WIN | Verizon

Member

March, 2018 - Present

Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

Led by members of the WAVE and WIN Employee Resource Groups at Verizon, this community strives to bring women together through volunteerism and to support women in a number of various ways.

Green Team | Verizon

Member

February, 2016 - August, 2018

Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

Work Green. Live Green.
The Verizon Green Team's mission is to educate and engage employees in environmentally sustainable practices at work and at home. This team is a cross-functional, international group of employees led by the Corporate Sustainability Team. Membership is voluntary and a tree is planted for every new member. As of April 2020, there are over 40,000 members in 51 countries.

HUB Dashboard

Project Lead and Scrum Master

Team Size: 4

March, 2020 - Present

Skills Used: Scrum, Agile Methodology, Agile Development, Tableau, Data Visualization

Creating and publishing interactive dashboards related to 100+ key focus areas within 12 domains under VZW to be used by business and IT Teams for the Insight360 visualization layer.

SAIL Metadata

Project Lead and Scrum Master

Team Size: 3

August, 2019 - Present

Skills Used: AWS, Software Testing, Node.js, NPM, Html5, CSS3, jQuery, Elastic Search, PostgreSQL, Scrum, Agile Methodology, Agile Development

SAIL Metadata is a web application that stores and enables metadata for all AIL domains, which is consumed by Business and IT teams across the organization.

MMT (Metadata Management Tool)

Module Lead and Scrum Master

Team Size: 3

November, 2018 - July, 2019

Skills Used: C#, VS 2013, SQL Server 2012R2, HTML, CSS, XML, Ajax, jQuery, Web Services, Testing, ASP.Net MVC, IIS, JIRA, Scrum Master, Agile, Project Management, TDD

MMT is the unique Web Based Metadata Repository and Governance Platform which stores and enables metadata for all VCM and VZW Teradata and Hadoop Platform and VCM KPI Store, which is consumed by Business and IT Teams across the Organization.

EDW DBA Portal

Module Lead and Scrum Master

Team Size: 3

April, 2018 - October, 2018

Skills Used: C#, VS 2013, SQL Server 2012R2, HTML, CSS, XML, Ajax, jQuery, Web Services, Testing, ASP.Net MVC, IIS, JIRA, Scrum Master, Agile, Project Management, TDD

DBA portal for Enterprise Data Warehouse is the online web application that enables EDW Managers to check how their peers can be automatically assigned to the shifts in order to make minimum DBA required to cover 24/7 support.

Streamline360

Module Lead

Team Size: 4

June, 2016 - March, 2018

Skills Used: C#, VS 2013, SQL Server 2012R2, HTML, CSS, XML, Ajax, jQuery, Web Services, Testing, ASP.Net MVC, IIS, JIRA, Scrum Master, Agile, Project Management, TDD

Streamline360 is the web application next evolution integration of MCAT and Campaign Planning Module which automates all the Verizon Marketing Campaigns starting from planning, execution, and management of campaigns to help Verizon Marketing to generate the Lead offers.

MCAT (Marketing Campaign Automation Tool)

Sr. Programmer

Team Size: 5

January, 2014 - May, 2016

Skills Used: C#, VS 2013, SQL Server 2012R2, HTML, CSS, XML, Ajax, jQuery, Web Services, Testing, ASP.Net MVC, IIS, FairPoint Grid, Agile, TFS

MCAT (Marketing Campaign Automation Tool) is the web application that automates all the Verizon Marketing Campaigns and then creates a matrix for marketing people to generate the Lead offers. It manages more than 6000 TFNs and creates Creative files for the Customer Care Representatives as well.

NORDIC Spider

Programmer

Team Size: 4

April, 2013 - December, 2013

Skills Used: VB.NET, HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, .NET Framework, VS 2010, TFS, NUnit, SQL Server 2008, Teradata, IIS, MQ

Nordic Spider is the Web Tool that is used for monitoring and trending purposes for the Nordic Data Warehouses situated in the Nordic region for twelve Systems (aEDW, CASH$GB, Coffee, etc). Also, it is used for querying the Teradata servers to get the Order and product-related information. It is under the Consumer and Mass Business portfolio.

CBS/CNE (Customer Business Solution/Customer Network Engineering)

Programmer

Team Size: 8

June, 2011 - April, 2013

Skills Used: VB Script, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, Classic ASP, ASP.NET, C#, XML, JavaScript, Ajax, CVS, IPM, SQL Server 2008, IIS

CBS/CNE is the Pre-Sale Process System that comes earlier in the Network Pre-Provisioning for the DSR and Non-DSR products of Verizon Telecommunication. This tool is developed to address the following objectives:
o Improved Pre-Sale Process for Verizon Enterprise Solutions.
o Handled Custom Bid, Inquiry, Special Construction, Forecast and Collocation modules in Network Systems.
o Enhance Reporting.