Arulsamy Sahaya Joe Anand
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Tokyo, Japan
Toptal member since November 18, 2024
Joe is an IT project manager with 25+ years of industry experience, including 9+ years as an Agile PM and scrum master. He has worked on projects involving various technologies, including Microsoft Azure, Jira, Java, Oracle, Apache Tomcat, and SAP BusinessObjects. Joe has SCRUMstudy and Scrum Alliance certifications and is a SAFe Agilist and PMI Agile Certified Practitioner. He is also proficient in English and Tamil and has conversational skills in Japanese.
Project Highlights
Certification Highlights
Expertise
- Agile
- Azure
- Confluence
- Excel 2016
- Java
- Jira
- Microsoft Project
- Scrum
Work Experience
Agile Project Manager
KPMG
- Contributed as a scrum master and project manager for CMS, DocLift, and cloud migration projects.
- Implemented Agile by providing scrum training to stakeholders and developers, delivering two products within budget, timelines, and best quality.
- Facilitated scrum ceremonies for two product teams, handling product backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
- Created sprint summaries and monthly reports sent to the IT manager, business sponsor, and SMEs.
- Removed impediments so the development team could achieve sprint and release goals.
- Prepared necessary audit documents and collaborated with the risk management team to get them reviewed and approved before production release.
- Coordinated with the QA, UAT, and penetration testing teams to complete all tests and worked with the development team to fix the bugs reported by them.
Project Manager
Manulife Global
- Managed the EOL Japan business applications and CXT claims projects. Prepared a Gantt chart, tracking plan vs. actual timelines of tasks, toward migrating applications from older to the latest Windows versions.
- Followed up with technical leads about the current status of major milestones and issues and worked with the corresponding single point of contact to remove impediments reported by the leads.
- Created and updated various documentation, including simplified financials, business cases, and risk impact assessments.
- Conducted daily huddles with development and infrastructure teams and bi-weekly meetings with the business sponsor and other stakeholders.
Project Manager
Rakuten
- Created a Gantt chart and tracked the plan vs. actual timelines of tasks as a project manager and scrum master.
- Followed up with technical leads about the current status of major milestones and issues and prepared weekly and monthly reports.
- Coordinated with the chief product owner (CPO) and product owners (PO) of LMP to conduct backlog refinement.
- Conducted daily huddles and bi-weekly meetings with the development team and product owners.
- Ran sprint retrospectives to work on action items raised by the development team and sprint reviews to demonstrate the features built by the team to the CPO and PO. Prepared sprint and release summary reports.
Scrum Master
Toyota Motor Corporation
- Joined as a scrum master and trained developers and stakeholders in Nagoya based on the Scrum Toyota Way training I received in Dallas, USA.
- Facilitated scrum ceremonies, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Collaborated with the PO and scrum team to prepare artifacts such as release roadmaps and product and sprint backlogs.
- Prepared the reports sent to the CPO, including the team velocity graph, features delivered, and sprint burndown chart.
Scrum Master
Rakuten
- Delivered a new data platform project that integrated ODIN, SuperDB, and other interfaces into one platform on Hadoop.
- Engaged as a scrum master for two API teams and program manager for six API teams. Facilitated scrum ceremonies for API teams, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Collaborated with multiple API teams to bring code and test coverage to 82% and above and worked with the project management team to implement SAFe.
- Provided scrum training to different teams within Global Ichiba. Prepared reports to API and section managers on the team velocity, sprint summary containing committed and delivered user stories, and sprint burndown.
Project History
OneToyota Mobile Application
Launched the mobile application for Japan and the US within budget, timelines, and best quality.
Managed 10+ developers and delivered a good-quality mobile application. After learning the Scrum Toyota Way in the US, I delivered the training to the Japan team and implemented Scrum. I collaborated with the CPO and POs in the US and the PO and development team in Japan and delivered the mobile application using Java, Go, Oracle, and the Apache web server.
New Data Platform
Created a new data platform to integrate ODIN, SuperDB, and other interfaces into a single platform on Hadoop.
Provided scrum training to developers, worked with the PO to create a prioritized product backlog, facilitated scrum ceremonies, removed impediments, and helped the development team deliver the new data platform on time. I also worked with the QA team to implement test-driven development and improve team velocity.
US eCommerce Website
Collaborated with multiple API teams to bring code and test coverage to 82% and above and the project management team to implement SAFe.
Facilitated scrum ceremonies for three API teams, handling product backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives. I worked toward removing impediments to achieve the sprint and release goals. I also collaborated with the PO and scrum team on artifacts such as the product and sprint backlogs and release burndown. Finally, I prepared reports sent to section managers, including team velocity graphs, features delivered, and sprint burndown.
Education
Master of Computer Applications Degree in Computer Science
St. Joseph's College - Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
Certifications
Scrum Master Certified (SMC)
SCRUMstudy
Certified SAFe 4 Agilist
Scaled Agile, Inc.
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
Skills
Tools
Jira, Confluence, Spreadsheets, Microsoft Project, Excel 2016, Word 2016, Rally, Apache Tomcat
Paradigms
Scrum, Agile, Agile Project Management, Azure DevOps
Platforms
Azure, Oracle, Windows, MacOS
Other
Scrum Master, Project Planning, Agile Product Management, System Implementation, Microsoft Project Online, Microsoft, Project Coordination, Consulting, Backlog Management, User Stories, Business Requirements, ServiceNow, User Requirements, Product Roadmaps, System Integration, Technical Product Management, Project Management, Microsoft Copilot, Stakeholder Management, Team Coordination, Java, Go, Hadoop, SAFe 6, Computer Science, NoSQL, SAP BusinessObjects (BO), IT Projects, AS/400, COBOL, Product Requirements Documentation (PRD), Program Management
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