Balaji Babu

Experience

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  Kali SRP Technologies Pvt. Ltd

  Jul 1994 - Mar 1996

  Project engineer

  • Designed and Developed Pick and Place robots using 8085 Microcontrollers, solenoid actuated pneumatic actuators.• Wrote action scripts for educational robots (PC controlled and servo driven)

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  Indus Magnum Information Systems

  Apr 1996 - Apr 1999

  Sr. Developer

  * Designed and developed work scheduling application for the Medical Transcription team of 50+ transcriptionists.* Designed and developed audio player application with the foot controls to play, pause, rewind and forward, etc and the editor with rich editing and dictionary options to help the transcriptionists to listen to the audio while transcribing.

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  Netrascribe Private Limited

  Apr 1999 - Feb 2004

  Systems Manager

  • Managed a team of 10+ members and developed products for Healthcare clients in US• Managed a team of 40+ IT enabled service professionals worked in Image processing and transcriptions.• Designed and developed dictation and transcription applications using Microsoft technologies.• The dictation solutions use PC or handheld dictation devices with a communication module (using FTP APIs) that uploads the digital audio files to the client’s dictation servers.

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  Ivesia Solutions Inc

  Feb 2004 - Aug 2011

  Software Project Manager

  CONSULTANT (SW. PROJ. MANAGER) (2006 – 2011)DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER, LEBANON, NHCONSULTANT (PROJ. MANAGER) (2005 – 2006) A2B TRACKING SOLUTIONS, PROVIDENCE, RINSS CORP, BEDFORD, NH Nu VISIONS MANUFACTURING LLC, SPRINGFIELD, MA• Helped the clients to build new features around their existing ERP applications.• Involved in the process of hiring right skilled team members, design and project sizing & planning.• Managed a team of 6+ members offshore/onsite.OFFSHORE PROJ. MANAGER (2004 -2005)PHILIPS MEDICAL SYSTEMS, ANDOVER, MAHEALTHCARE SOURCE, MA• Managed a team of 6+ members and involved in the process of designing and developing application for the above clients.• Designed and developed a web based solution for the Philips medical systems to schedule and track their medical equipment testing process and report the issues and help them to resolve them.• The applications were web based applications using Microsoft and SQL server.• Developed an online auction website for Healthcare Source used by the clinics to put shifts on auction for the nurses. Show less

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  Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

  Jun 2006 - Jul 2011

  Consultant Software Project Manager

  Projects:• Clinical Information Systems (MS.NET/ORCLE/CACHE)• Clinical Data Transformation [EPIC] (JAVA/ORACLE/MYSQL/CACHE)• Medical Records Mailer Automation (MS.NET)Roles & Responsibilities:• Worked as an onsite coordinator/project manager managing offshore development team.• Acted as a Scrum Master and facilitated scrum meetings for the onsite team porting the data from home grown EHR application to EPIC• Worked with the team of professional to port data of about 1.5 million patients to EPIC successfully.• Worked with the client understanding the business complexity, its standards, its requirements and proposed business solutions with onsite/offshore team estimates.• Developed WBS and arrived at the cost and budgeting and prepared SOW for the time and material projects.• Created detailed specification documents for the enhancement features like EMR Notes, Dictation, etc.• Coordinated the hiring and training process for the offshore/Onsite team of 6-10 members.• Created Project plans with risk items, their mitigation plans and contingency plans.• Involved in the system design and interacted with development team and managed the execution of tasks, defects tracking and reporting and ensured the version control and clean database performance.• Prepared and presented PPRR (Project Progress review reports), PSR (Project status reports) on specified intervals. Show less

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  Draeger Medical Systems, Inc

  Aug 2011 - Feb 2017

  Software Project Manager

  Projects & Programs:• Medical Devices – Patient Monitors (C, C++, MS.NET, SpecFlow, TDD/BDD, CI/CD, JIRA, Confluence, ScrumWorks, ISO 62304, 21 CFR Part 11, 800.x)Roles & Responsibilities:• Playing as Project Manager/Agile Coach/Scrum Master for 2 -3 development teams delivering new features for Medical devices.• Create and track master project plans for the programs defining the various phase gates/milestones and detailed plans on the individual functional disciplines.• Create a cadence and monitor that all product and project deliverables & targets (quality, performance, cost, schedule and revenue) are met.• Coach the team continuously on the agile values and principles and the agile best engineering practices and improve the agile maturity of the team and the organization.• Facilitate sprint meetings & scrum of scrums to escalate/resolve the impediments to make smooth path to the release train• Facilitate story grooming meeting to get the stories to ‘BDD ready’ (including Gherkin feature files for acceptance tests)• Interact with other Product owner/Scrum Masters/Project Managers to align with the dependencies/schedule/deliveries.• Create and update burnup graphs for the sprint and project/release progress.• Conduct milestone and release retrospectives and implement the lessons learned into the next milestone (PI) & release planning.• Continuously drive the quality and reliability of the developed software by enforcing the engineering best practices and other internal standards.• Worked with offshore development partners and development teams.Highlights• 80% - Acceptance tests automated using BDD/SpecFlow.• Reduced the product/release formal verification stage defects to just 2 defects (from 100+ defects in the previous releases)• 40% improvement on the performance of 20+ best agile practices/techniques.• 20% reduction in story cycle time.• Pulled the development schedule by a month and verification cycle by 2 months. Show less

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  Liberty Mutual Insurance

  Apr 2017 - Dec 2023

  • Scrum Master II

    Apr 2018 - Dec 2023

  • Scrum Master

    Apr 2017 - Mar 2018
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  Werfen

  Jan 2024 - now

  Senior Scrum Master