Venkata Kuppa

About Venkata Kuppa

Agile Coach/Scrum Master passionate about leveraging more than 30 years IT experience to motivate and coach teams to consistently deliver high value results. Proficient in all Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid practices, embodies a self-confidence rooted in experience mixed with a humble servant leader mindset. Effective in standing up Roadmap Driven Agile Transformation programs Adept at implementing strategic Agile approaches towards multi-year and large-scale Agile adaptation Transitioned 75+ teams to the Agile framework from Executives to over Agile team members Always learning while teaching and coaching Motivates teams to focus more on value-add technics Encourage agile practicing individuals to be more open, learn, collaborate, share and own the activities-on-hand with focused interactions

Experience

1. Scrum Coach Scrum Master

   Prudential Financial

   Feb 2023 — Present · Newark, NJ, US

   As Scrum Coach, engage Five Scrum teams to adapt to Agile Practices with a goal on speed-to -market of setting up Datalake/datahub in AWS Cloud.• As Scrum Master, ensure adherence to Scrum Values and Principles.• As Agile Practitioner, Identify, propose and implement Continuous Improvements in Value Delivery to Internal Customers• As Member in Community of Practice of Agile Practitioners, exchange the Agile tenets in Scaled Agile Framework

Education

• Project Management Institute

  PMI-ACP, Agile Practices

• Scrum Inc

  Certified Scrum@Scale Practitioner , Scrum

  2018

• Amazon Web Services

  AWS Cloud Practitioner , Cloud

• Indotronix Institute of Informatics

  Post Graduate Diploma, Computer Applications

  1989 — 1989

• Scrum.org

  Professional Scrum Master - Level 1, Scrum

• Scrum Alliance, Inc.

  Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Methodologies

  2013 — 2019

• University of Bombay

  Master of Science - MS, Physics & Electronics

  1986 — 1988

• Kaizen Technologies

  Certificate of Completion, Project Management - PMI-PMBOK

  2011 — 2012

• IC Agile

  Certified Agile Transformation Coach - 1, Agile Coaching

Skills

• Project Management
• Statistics
• Business Intelligence
• Dashboard
• Usability Testing
• Business Analysis
• Web Analytics
• IT Strategy
• Data Analysis
• Change Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Data Visualization
• Team Management
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Vendor Management
• Program Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Content Strategy
• Big Data
• Business Development
• Crm
• Itil
• Resource Management
• Project Portfolio Management
• Sdlc
• Data Modeling
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Usability
• Management Consulting
• Technical Recruiting
• Geographic Information Systems (Gis)
• Design Thinking
• User Interface Prototyping
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management