IRSHAD KARIPAL

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+917909126230

SCRUM MASTER - SAFe

Experienced IT/Software Engineering scrum master, with an extended record of leading IT and Software engineering projects.
Irshad has demonstrated success in spearheading scrum teams in ambitious business, change and technology projects in both
structured and unstructured settings; ensured consistent attainment of scrum etiquettes, budget goals and quality expectations.

SYNOPSIS

 Irshad is certified technologist in SAFe agile methodology and ITIL.

 Successful track record of maintaining the agile product backlog, proficient in conducting sprint planning, execution and
reviewing + Retrospective.
 Experienced in managing and prioritizing epics, features, user stories in large scale organizations.
 Experienced in planning and spearheading the PI planning event.
 Highly experienced in DevOps, SCM, IT Infrastructure and Engineering, Service Delivery.
 Strong decision maker and highly skilled in stake holder management.
 Irshad has strong roadmap management skills and experience leading a complex organization.
 Demonstrated excellent collaboration skills throughout his career and often praised for bringing people together to solve many
problems.
 Good exposure in scripting languages like perl, python.
 Customer focused and acted as a strong partner in discussion in technical matters, and capable of extending the work with
various teams, vendors, 3rd party etc.
 Scrum master with excellent technical exposure to DevOps including puppet, Jenkins, Jira, confluence, Perforce, ClearCase,
Git, SVN, Azure. Irshad is an expert in SCM areas like version control management, branching, merging, Build&Release etc.
 Irshad is often being praised as meticulous, quality driven technologist with excellent people management skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ASML NETHERLANDS BV
April 2018 to March 2022
Location: Eindhoven
Role: Scrum master, Stakeholder – EIS

SIEMENS INDIA LTD

June 2016 to April 2018
Location: Bangalore, India
Designation: Agile Scrum master, Configuration manager

WIPRO GE HEALTHCARE
August 2014 to May 2016.
Location: Bangalore, India
Designation: Lead software Engineer and Configuration Manager, Healthcare Engineering.

ACCENTURE
February 2011 to July 2014.
Location: Bangalore, India
Designation: IT Operations Analyst and Product management specialist

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
 Residential Technical Diploma in Information Technology from NTTF (10+2+3), Bangalore, Karnataka, India
 Higher secondary education in Science, biology, physics and technology from MMHSS, Thalasseri, Kannur, Kerala, India
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CERTIFICATIONS
 ITIL FOUNDATION. APMG International
 SAFe for Teams (5.0)
COMPLETED: SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

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ILLUSTRATIVE LIST OF ROLES MANAGED
ASML NETHERLANDS BV, FULL TIME
LOCATION: EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS
ROLE: SCRUM MASTER AND STAKEHOLDER – SCANNER SCM TEAM

 Played a major role in defining short/mid/long term SCM environment roadmap for the Engineering IT Department.
 Host daily stand-ups and made sure that the participation is consistent.
 Define improvement proposals that focus on system performance and process efficiency for end-users.
 Stay in contact and aligned with major tool suppliers, to discuss their product roadmaps.
 Strong partner in discussions with SEI domain architects and other stakeholders within the internal customer departments.
 Administer and configure Jira for the team tracking and artefact management.
 Keep abreast with relevant literature, means and methods as a SCM subject matter expert.
 Manage SCM competence team.
 Assisted Product owner with the product backlog refinement.
 Spearhead and guide the team in sprint ceremonies like planning, retrospective etc.
 Strong partner in discussion with the internal customers (Different engineering teams) to improve Infrastructure efficiency and
cross department collaboration.
 Worked with architects for the contribution to the base architecture to outcome legacy. The base architecture was later
reinvented as a new environment (Greenhouse).
 Demonstrated strong leadership skills and acting as a key stakeholder.

SIEMENS, FULL TIME

LOCATION: BANGALORE, INDIA
ROLE: SENIOR CONFIGURATION MANAGER, AGILE SCRUM MASTER

Act as a point of contact for SIEMENS EM-DG and coordinate with SIEMENS GERMANY for flawless Configuration
management operations in various tools like ClearCase and Multisite to perform and coordinate Build and release process.
Responsible for building, maintaining, and improving build systems.
- Act as an SCRUM MASTER for Control Centre Domain-
Control Centre is also known as Power CC which is the driving software in Power and subsystem automation.
 Manage SCM Environment in ClearCase and Multisite in Linux environment.
 Responsible for performing promote operations and complete configuration management.
 ClearCase administration and automation tasks in UNIX environment.
 Provide SCM plan and roadmap to the higher management.
 Act as a SPOC for SCM related issues and tasks.
 Act as an SME to implement emerging build and release technologies.
- Act as a Build and Configuration Manager for REUSED COMPONENTS.
Reuse components are EM-DG Software components used across the energy division to save time, effort and resources.

Responsibilities include:
 Creating configuration management plan for the team.
 Administration and maintenance of SCM Infra.
 Working with Dev and testing team for controlled software merges towards the Integration branch from the DEV or Defect
branch.
 Managing ClearCase servers and Multisite administration for Bangalore servers.
 Work as a Key point of contact for SCM and all build release issues, task automation through PERL and Jenkins.
 Work on implementing in future for Continuous integration and Devops concept for the projects.
 Preparation and adherence to a CM Plan.
 Repository management, Maintenance of baselines.
 Generation of CMP handover documents for CMP build
 Generation of software binaries and packages
 Installation and administration of CM tools.
 Backup Management and Information security
 Supporting teams for all SCM and DevOps related issues
 Request for creation of new components/projects.
 DevOps Research.

GE HEALTHCARE VIA WIPRO LIMITED

LOCATION: BANGALORE, INDIA
ROLE – SENIOR SCM OWNER, SE

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L2 and L3 Technical expert for enterprise ClearCase servers for different business doing Research and development in General
electric healthcare department. Primary role is to act as an SME for several software engineering teams assisting their issues with
the source control management and software development, and also responsible for high availability of ClearCase services and
helping them in implementing continuous integration.
Act as an expert for fulfilling multisite requirements and designing and implementing complex ClearCase and Multisite
infrastructure.
Additional responsibility but not limited to: Research in the area of DevOps to replace legacy system with modern source control
systems, which was partially successful.

Notable Achievement -
Resolved major ClearCase infrastructure related issues in GE in short span of time and implemented several innovative setups in
ClearCase and multisite. Received appreciations from GE Engineering leadership.

ACCENTURE, FULL TIME

LOCATION: BANGALORE, INDIA
ROLE – IT ANALYST AND PRODUCT SPECIALIST

 Worked as Accenture delivery tools - POC.

Responsible for supporting the Accenture Global Delivery tools to ensure organization services are delivered to meet customer
business needs and expectations. Accenture Delivery Tools, provide a framework for delivering solutions and services reliably,
quickly and collaboratively. Accenture Delivery Tools for Development cover the entire software development lifecycle for
packaged and custom development engagements. Powered by Rational, Microsoft and others, these tools address every phase of the
Accenture Delivery Methods, and integrate tightly with other Accenture Delivery Suite assets. Combines demonstrated technical
qualities with exceptional service.

ROLE DESCRIPTION: 
IBM Rational ClearCase and other legacy tools:
 Responsible in providing level1,2 support on ClearCase multisite for more than 150 projects in Accenture.
 Supported integrated ClearCase ALM in windows as well as UNIX environment.
 Enforced and established best practices as well as enhanced administration. 
 Supported ClearCase UCM integration with ClearQuest.
 Coordinated with Managed services- L3 hosting team for maintenance and support.
 Provided support on ClearCase version 7.1.2, 8.0.0.1, ClearCase remote client, Clear Team explorer etc.
 Responsible for handling ITSM incidents created by users for application issues.
 Documented and discussed known bugs and issues with Managed services team for getting them fixed in the new releases.
 Responsible in handling user administration of ClearCase through change requests using Active directory server and web-based
directory services. Managing permission related issues.
 Contributed to ClearQuest based Solution Database.
 Verifying user reported outages and responsible for creating P1 incidents to Managed services team, and coordinating with
major incidents managers until the resolution.

Notable Achievement-
 Accenture Chief Information officer – Accenture global, 2 Silver (2012, 2013) and a Bronze award (2011) winner for effective
ideas to improve IT Infrastructure and security, becoming the greatest number of CIO awards won by an Indian engineer as of
2013.

WIPRO
LOCATION: BANGALORE, INDIA
ROLE – SERVICE DESK ANALYST / MAJOR INCIDENT MANAGER

Supporting the end users from WIPRO worldwide and fixing their issues either through Voice
-Support and by E-mail, or by taking a Remote Control of the user machine.
Provided support on:
 User support for ClearCase and ClearQuest installation and issues.
 On call support
 SCM improvement projects handled.

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KEY STRENGTH

 Strong Willpower, Leadership ability, Team player, Attention to detail, Positive Attitude.
 Capacity to learn quickly and use new technology concisely and accurately in less time.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
 Date of Birth : 04/02/1989
 Nationality : INDIAN
 Linguistic Proficiency : English, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil.
 Passport Number : H2810753
 Pan card Number : AROPR5779C

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

 Irshad was an active member of Accenture football team and part of many winning corporate tournaments. Active member
of dance team in Accenture.

 Member of Accenture skills to succeed team which provides financial and educational support for financially poor and
disabled.

 Siemens south zone football team member which won winners in Siemens All India national tournament 2016.

 Active participant in Lions club and Rotary club blood donation camps, other activities.

 Founder and long-term captain of the Semi-Professional Football club ‘FC-Kudlu’ www.facebook.com/fckudlu competing
in The Amateur League/ Bangalore division.

 Active member of Kombans FC Eindhoven,.

DECLARATION

I hereby declare that all the above-mentioned information is accurate and very much sincere according to my knowledge.

Place : Bangalore

Date  : 27-02-2023 IRSHAD KARIPAL

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