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Payal S.

Release train engineer/Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Can work in or around Paris, Toulouse, Antony

  • 48.858705
  • 2.342865
1 recommendation
  • Suggested rate €600 / day
  • Experience 7+ years
  • Response rate 100%
  • Response time 12 hours
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Part-time, 4 days per week

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Location and workplace preferences

Location
Paris, France
Can work onsite in your office in
  • around Paris and 50km
  • Around Toulouse and 100km
  • Around Antony and 100km

Preferences

Project length
  • ≤ 1 week
  • ≤ 1 month
  • Between 1-3 months
  • Between 3-6 months
  • ≥ 6 months

Verifications

Freelancer code of conduct signed
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Verified email

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Categories

Skills (15)

  • Methodologies
  • Beginner Intermediate Advanced
  • Beginner Intermediate Advanced
  • Beginner Intermediate Advanced
  • Project Management
  • Beginner Intermediate Advanced

Payal in a few words

I am certified scrum master CSM, PSM II and SAFe Advanced scrum master.
I have 10 years of experience as a Scrum master and Product manager.
Proficient in software life cycle management. In my current organizaton I am working as an RTE handeling 13 teams across the globe

I have good understanding of SDLC and posses a strong business analysis skills.
I can also act as Scrum master, Product Owner.

My main objective is to allow teams to switch from Project mode to Product mode, with a strong customer orientation and continuous improvement.

Experience

Listen Value- Sonepar

Digital & IT

Release train Engineer

Paris, France

February 2022 - Today (1 year and 1 month)

• Facilitated product visioning, road-mapping, story mapping, story writing and slicing, release planning with 10+ distributed Agile teams (Scrum, SAFe & Kanban)
• Contributed to restructuring the Data Office platform with cross functional teams, DevOps, Data Scientists, QA, Power BI, etc working on competency centers, projects.
• Engaged Architectures, Business Owners, ART team, Infra & multiple vendor teams to deliver application functionality
• Handled the migration process by coaching teams on successful migration of the projects from Scrum to SAFe framework.
• Helped team prepare for and participate in Program Increment planning, forming PI objectives and represented the team in SoS (Scrum of Scrums).
• Jira Agile Lead – Key support for Jira, restructuring Jira, teams, structure boards, user accounts, projects, sprint board creation, time tracking and reports.
• Supporting PO, PM and Domain managers in agile planning with remote resources in Netherlands, Germany, Canada and Belgium holding daily scrums, scrum of scrums,
program planning and reporting.
Coaching SAFe Scrum Atlassian JIRA PMO

Nisum

Digital & IT

Scrum Master

June 2016 - May 2019 (2 years and 11 months)

• Utilized Scrum which helped team members to enhance their velocity by 70% within the first year of adoption. • Coached the team of 8 team members, and new joiners, removed impediments and facilitated the development team. • Facilitated team to be cross-functional & self-organized making multi-fold changes in the efficiency of the product development team raised from 33% to 72%. • Organized and improved Scrum practices and values that led to team satisfaction and productivity improvement by around 9%. • Led sprint, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective, and daily scrum with the scrum team resulting in product development that reached 1.3 billion users. • Owned the product roadmap and met 97% of all the product feature deadlines by proactively identifying and mitigating any engineering roadblocks. • Encouraged more open communication between stakeholders, the scrum team, and the marketing team resulting in 24% of annual increasing the pace of the feature development cycle. cycleucted A/B testing to understand user preferences.
Scrum Atlassian JIRA Coaching Facilitation Team Management

Deutsche bank

Banking & Insurance

Product Manager

July 2015 - June 2016 (11 months)

Proficiently organize and facilitate daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning.
• Effectively track team’s progress using different metrics, including burn-down, velocity, and release forecasting.
• Coaching multiple teams to understand and adopt Scrum.
• Collaborate closely with the product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are
ready for sizing.
• Utilize the abilities and skills of individuals and foster a feedback culture to support team building and development.
• Proactively collaborate with other Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches across the bank.

Nestlé - Nestlé

Health & Wellness

Product Marketing Manager

January 2013 - June 2015 (2 years and 5 months)

• Collected and analyzed data of established and prospective customers, competitors, and marketing channels and sources in Mumbai region.
• Identified product gap, understand the customer journey, and suggested solutions for product improvement.
• Co-ordinated marketing plans and projects for different markets executed go-to-market strategy.
• Worked with advertising managers to formulate new marketing policies that resulted in 40% year-on-year increase in sales.
Jan 2013 – June 2015 India
• Negotiated contracts with distributors, resulting in an average 10% reduction in expenses while establishing effective distribution networks in key markets.
• Built a product (coagulation of NAN product) strategy comparing the competitor brand at the seminar which increased the sales by 65% .
• Managed the budget of INR 150 million for the baby nutrition segment.
• Developed a marketing program for Cerelac Shishu Ahar that brought an additional revenue of $10 million.

Amrut Battuwar - Acube AI

28/08/2021

Payal is a very professional person who knows her strengths well & utilises them fullest. She gave training to our first project team and helped them to transition from Waterfall to Scrum framework at Acube AI. She seems to be a good human being. I am happy to have Payal's contribution for our Internal team training. Wishing her great success.

Education

  • International MBA

    Paris School of Business

    2021

    Marketing strategy and Data analytics

Certifications