About

Karishma Patkar is a highly experienced Product Owner, Agile Scrum Master, and Technical Project Manager with over 8 years of relevant experience. Currently working as a Scrum Master at novo technologies usa, Karishma has led 4 teams in delivering software products on time and with high quality. She has facilitated daily stand-up, sprint planning, backlog grooming, story estimation, sprint review, and retrospective meetings. Karishma has collaborated with Project Managers, Developers, Quality Assurance, and others to support moving deliverables and has guided new team members into the daily process and use of tools like Rally/Jira for daily project activities. She ensures that the Scrum framework is utilized in a manner consistent with the corporate framework and coordinates software release meetings to deploy the software product to pre-production and production. Karishma has previously worked at wing as a Program Manager SEO and at Walmart as a Technical Project Manager III, Scrum Master, and POS - Next-Gen Cloud Powered Layaway. At wing, she transformed requirements into feature specs/user stories, constructed and maintained a prioritized backlog, managed cross-functional projects, and analyzed, tracked, and reported on overall natural search performance. At Walmart, she led a scrum team spread across the globe, facilitated sprint planning, sprint grooming, stand-up meetings, sprint reviews and demos, sprint retrospectives, release planning, and improved communications between Engineering, Product Manager, and Business teams by following the Agile SCRUM framework. She worked closely with usability experts to extract deeper insights from customers, created an environment that empowers team members, and proactively identified issues. Karishma holds a Master's degree in Engineering Management from the University of California, Irvine - The Paul Merage School of Business and The Henry Samulie School of Engineering. She also has a Bachelor's degree in Engineering in Information Technology from the University of Mumbai and a Diploma in Engineering in Computer Engineering from K.J.Somaiya Polytechnic. She completed her High School/Secondary Certificate Programs from P.S. Deshmukh English Medium School, Shahapur. Karishma's TechStack includes Search, QA, Research Scientist, Parts-of-speech, and Product Manager. With her expertise in Agile Scrum, Technical Project Management, and Product Ownership, Karishma is well-equipped to lead teams in delivering high-quality software products.