SUMMARY

• SPC4.5certified Enterprise and teamAgileCoach, Officially authorized to teach and mentor Scrum Masters, Product Owners, SAFe Scaled Agilist, Release Train Engineers, building new Agile teams.
• Coached around 200 teams with SCRUM, XP and KANBAN methodology.
• 11 years of Agile Team building experience.
• Seasoned AGILE COACH with over 27 years of solid IT experience with outstanding project planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing skills with ability to support multiple simultaneous projects in a matrix organizational structure evaluating various solutions and in choosing the best solution that maximizes the ROI.
• Over 11 years of Agile experience with 9 years of Agile Coach experience including bi - modaldelivery, Agile release planning for multiple ScrumTeams across geographyusing TFS, VERSIONONE,RALLY, Lean Kit, JIRA, Clarity, Confluence, MS Project.
• 9 years of Team Coaching with DEVOPS with PLAN (Git, Jira), CODE, BUILD(Maven, Ant, Gradle), TEST(Selenium, JUnit),DEPLOY ( Puppet, Chef, Saltstack, Ansible, OPERATE, MONITOR ( New Relic, Sensu, Nagios ) and INTEGEATION (JENKINS). Continuous Integration, Continuous testing and delivery.
• Agile team Coaching withTDD, ATDD and BDD practices with relevant tools/frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, SoapUI, Appium, Cucumber.
• Mentoring and Coaching Senior Management on Agile delivery approach, dependency management, Agile metrics etc.
• Successfully deployed multiple business solutions in Healthcare, Insurance, Finance, Information Technology and Manufacturing domains while working for fortune 500 companies using waterfall, agile and bi-modal methodology.
• Over 15 years of Project Management experience in SAP and ORACLE APPS and SALESFORCE projects with 15 complete life cycle implementations budgeted from 2 to 25 million dollar.
• Scrum Coach and Scrum Master, Agile training from SCRUM Alliance.
• Assisted SeniorManagement in business case development, strategy management, change management and quality Mgmt.
• Managed multiple vendors and helped them integrate their applications with each other and with the Enterprise Applications
• Budget and Financial Management for projects and programs with ROI.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Databases: ORACLE, HANA

Methodology: Waterfall, Agile, SCRUM,KANBAN, XP.

ERP: Oracle Financials and SAP

SAP: BW, HANA, PM, FICO, SD and MM Modules.

DATA Warehousing: Oracle, SAP BW, SAP HANA.

PM Tools: JIRA, RALLY, VERSIONONE,CON.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Midland, MI

Enterprise and team Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Code review, unit test automation, Build & Release automation, Environment, Service, Incident and Change Management
• Source controller tools like Subversion (SVN), CVS, IBM Clear case, Perforce, and GIT.
• Hudson, Jenkins, Team City for continuous integration and for End to End automation for all build and deployments.
• DevOps tools like Chef and Puppet for deployment
• Several Docker components like Docker Engine, Hub, Machine,Docker images,
• Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, Maven, Ant, Jenkins, Lara and AWS.
• Cloud services like Amazon Web Services including EC2.
• Release Engineering using Puppet code.
• Chef and Puppet for Deployment on Multiple platforms.
• Bug tracking tools like JIRA, Remedy, HP Quality Center and IBM Clear Quest.
• Migrating the projects from ANT to Maven and upgrading the build tools.
• Deploying the applications in JBOSS and Web Sphere.
• Define the rules of planning game.
• Familiarize the team and the customer on the rules of the planning game.
• Monitor the planning game, fix any deviations, modify the rules if and when required.
• Schedule and conduct release planning and iteration planning meetings.
• Participate with the team while they estimate in order to provide feedback on how reality conformed to their prior estimates, both at team level and individual level that eventually help them to come up with better estimates next time.
• Assessing the organization's ability to change, build an implementation roadmap to scale Agile to the enterprise level, and then use Agile methods to effectively transform the organization and provide ongoing coaching to the teams.
• Working independently or in a team setting to evangelize agile best practices across the organization
• Providing role-based Scaled Agile Framework training for executives (business and technology), Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers (RTE), and system teams
• Assisting the Portfolio Management team in portfolio backlog creation and grooming
• Training and coaching product owners with the creation of portfolio-level Epics and Features, as well as performing continuous prioritization/grooming of both portfolio and program backlogs
• Assisting in Agile Release Planning; Provide RTE/Program Manager guidance in creating Vision and Roadmap artifacts; create/update Release/Program Plans with features and dependencies; and assist in WSJF discussions and calculations
• Developing and enabling Product Managers as Business Content Authority Experts for the release trains, by facilitating Release Train readiness reviews, backlog grooming activities, and Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshops
• Implementing relevant Scaled Agile Framework metrics at the team, program, and portfolio levels; evaluate the results, and recommend course corrections to help the teams continuously improve their delivery activities
• Mentoring and assisting the coaching staff in helping the teams with effective backlog grooming sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews and retrospectives (capture retrospective results with an eye on process and practice improvement; provide coaching where needed), and resolving impediments that prevent agile teams from completing sprint commitments
• Working with Quality Assurance representatives to introduce automated testing into the SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) process.
• Performing initial Agile team assessments and recommend and assisted with the implementation of Agile team structure for the teams and associated resources.
• Responsible and acted as a successful change agent both motivating the change and making it happen; ensure Agile Principles are applied.
• Identifying the need and provided as necessary structured and ad-hoc training in Agile principles and practices, including Scrum Master, Product Owners, Release Train Engineer.
• Engaging Product Owners, Portfolio, and Program Managers to fulfill their individual roles, including but not limited to, communicating the Project Vision, Goals and Objectives, establishing a strategic thinking perspective, regular attendance at Agile Ceremonies, and prioritization of Backlog Items. Liaise with project stakeholders including HR Product Owners, Portfolio, Program Managers to help coordinate Agile across the large Program
• Providing guidance for the project team and key stakeholders in the definition of the Project Vision, Goals, and Objectives.
• Facilitating and assisted in the definition of project scope, including the creation of User Stories with Acceptance Criteria, Product Backlogs, Defect Backlogs, Release Plans, Backlog Prioritization, as well as identifying key dependencies and risks.
• Coaching, mentoring, and supporting other Scrum Masters that will be assigned to projects in iterative product development, including following the Scrum Framework, communicating effectively, managing conflict amongst team members, identifying and removing impediments, and applying self-organization and shared leadership with the team.
• Supporting the Agile teams in tracking Agile projects milestones and deliverables.
• Establishing an environment that ensures pro-active identification of changes in project scope and potential risks. Facilitated the project team’s process of devising contingency plans.
• FacilitatingSAFe practices in collaboration with the IT Portfolio, Product Owners and Release Train Engineer as it pertains to the Eagan SDC Agile teams
• Recommending and implementing the use of Agile metrics to provide feedback and monitor trends on productivity, quality, predictability, and value of Agile activities.
• Working with IHRS Agile teams to set up and use Rally for Agile projects as backlogs are created and releases / sprints are performed.
• Creating and updating the Executives with the following dashboard reports: Burndown Charts, Cumulative Flow Analysis, Defect Trending Analysis, Velocity Trends, Scope Change Analysis, Epic Bubble Chart, Effort Trend Analysis, Release Forecast vs. Past releases, Project Summary Trend Analysis, Team Capacity Analysis etc.

Confidential, Atlanta, Detroit

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Coached Agile teams on Lean & DevOps principles and practices
• Creating infrastructures for TDD, BDD, ATDD and DEVOPS ( Continous Integration and delivery pipeline).
• Managing the procurement and Installations of the required tools and training.
• Team Foundation Build Extensions and TFS sidekicks for Java builds.
• ANT, MAVEN as build tools.
• JIRA (zephyr for Jira) for maintaining the Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect Management, and Bug Reporting.
• JMeter for performance Testing and API testing.
• Groovy and Griddle for test creation.
• Jenkins, GIT, TestNG and Maven for Continuous Integration (CI)
• JIRA, TestRail, Rally, Bugzilla for for executing the test cases and raising the defects tracking.
• Maven to manage the framework dependencies.
• Cucumber, Gherkin as Behavior Driven Tools.
• SoapUI-PRO, SOAP UI, Post-Man, Apiary, SOAP, REST, XML, WSDL, JSON for API Testing Tools
• Performed the role of both Enterprise and Team Agile Coach.
• Coaching and mentoring senior management on setting up of organization agile goals & metrics
• Defining dependencies with Waterfall lifecycle projects and cadence of collaboration among Waterfall and Agile projects
• Attend Scrum of Scrums and Scrum Forums
• Coach and provide guidance to Scrum Masters
• Worked with the Audit and compliance teams project reviews.
• Perform initial Agile team assessments and recommend and assist with the implementation of Agile team structure for the teams and associated resources.
• Be a successful change agent both motivating the change and making it happen; ensure Agile Principles are applied.
• Identify need and provide as necessary structured and ad-hoc training in Agile principles and practices, including Scrum, Product Ownership, and Program Management.
• Engage Product Owners, Portfolio, and Program Managers to fulfill their individual roles, including but not limited to, communicating the Project Vision, Goals and Objectives,
• Establishing a strategic thinking perspective, regular attendance at Agile Ceremonies, and prioritization of Backlog Items. Liaise with project stakeholders including HR Product Owners, Portfolio, Program Managers to help coordinate Agile across the large Program
• Provide guidance for the project team and key stakeholders in the definition of the Project Vision, Goals, and Objectives.
• Facilitate and assist in the definition of project scope, including the creation of User Stories with Acceptance Criteria, Product Backlogs, Defect Backlogs, Release Plans, Backlog Prioritization, as well as identifying key dependencies and risks.
• Coach, mentor, and support other Scrum Masters that will be assigned to projects in iterative product development, including following the Scrum Framework, communicating effectively, managing conflict amongst team members, identifying and removing impediments, and applying self-organization and shared leadership with the team.
• Support the Agile teams in tracking Agile projects milestones and deliverables.
• Establish an environment that ensures pro-active identification of changes in project scope and potential risks. Facilitate the project team’s process of devising contingency plans.
• Facilitate SAFe practices in collaboration with the IT Portfolio, Product Owners and Release Train Engineer as it pertains to the Eagan SDC Agile teams
• Facilitate Scrum of Scrum ceremonies for example Standup meetings, Retrospectives, planning sessions.
• Recommend and implement the use of Agile metrics to provide feedback and monitor trends on productivity, quality, predictability, and value of Agile activities.
• Work with IHRS Agile teams to set up and use VersionOne for Agile projects as backlogs are created and releases / sprints are performed.
• Used PM tools like JIRA,Confluence,CLARITY,MS Project, MS Excel etc.
• Support change and empower team members; Product Owners in a supporting role for backlog and story prioritization; Team Members through Sprint Planning, Standup Meetings, Retrospective, Backlog Grooming, Point Allocation, Team Building, Hour Burn-down, Point Burn-up.
• Review and recommend guidance on product backlogs, sprint backlogs, stories, and estimations.
• Part of the Agile Transformation team to provide guidance and processes for Agile teams.
• Provide Lunch and Learns for Agile Scrum teams
• Provide coaching and assistance for product owners for monthly and quarterly planning sessions as it relates to roadmaps, Epics, themes, story writing.
• Conducting and effectively participating in sprint planning, Daily Scrum, task estimating and sequencing, spring reviews and retrospectives
• Captures Sprint metrics, Velocity and reports on team metrics and effectively report to Directors and Executives.
• Managed the data integration from beginning to end during upgrade process.
• Managed upgrade project from SAP BW to HANA.
• Creating attribute, analytic and calculation views for FICO, MM and SD.
• Data Provisioning and replicating data from source system toHANA Database using SLT and Business Objects Data Services.

Confidential, Bridgewater,NJ

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Performed an active coaching role for a enterprise wide Scaled Agile implementation handling multiple programs & managing over 10SCRUM teams& 100 Agile team members at a time. Played a key role in building &executing strategic scaledAgile adoption model & worked diligently for a successful rollout across the enterprise. Applications like DUCK CREEK(Policy,Claims and Billing)and GUIDEWIRE( Underwriting and Policy Administration, Claims Management, Billing and Receivables Management ) was used extensively.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, DEMO meeting.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups.
• Successfully migrated projects from waterfall to Scrum.
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and specialists on product issues.
• Train new team members on RTE packaging process.
• Lead daily stand-up and scrum ceremonies for multiples scrum teams.
• Work with product owners, System Engineer, DEV APMs at groom the backlog and plan sprints. Track, escalate and remove impediments.
• Scheduled and coordinated system DEMO across various teams in the Train.
• Assisted in PI planning, worked closely with the RTE.
• Prepared the Scrum Team for PI meeting.
• Reviewed PI objectives with the Scrum Team to achieve the PI objective.
• Track burn down, issues and progress in Version One. Work with component teams to resolve issues.
• Help teams apply the Scrum Framework and principles of agility to the benefit of the team and organization.
• Embody agility using a servant leadership approach and leading by example.
• Remove organization impediments that are preventing teams from accomplishing their goals.
• Facilitate events and activities as necessary and ensure teams and the organization are realizing value from them.
• Educate and coach executives, managers, stakeholders, and others throughout the organization regarding Agile practices and how their roles and interactions may change.
• Coach the Development Teams and teams-of-teams in self-organization, continuous improvement, cross-functionality, risk identification, dependency management, conflict resolution, and software craftsmanship.
• Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes.
• Coached team in implementation of SAFe for a large program.
• Aggregates team objectives into Program PI Objectives, creates and publishes roadmap for visibility and transparency.
• Assists with economic decision-making with estimations and prioritizations at Program level.
• Assists with program execution and PI feature completion tracking (see Metrics).
• Constantly inspects the SAFe process, discover and address the major concerns
• Trained multiple Teams on Scrum, Agile Requirements, and SAFe Principles.Worked with different Coaches to identify Scale Agile process improvement.
• Coached Product Owners in creating and maintenance of Product Backlog.Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology.Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team.
• Engaged with other Scrum Maters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
• Removed impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.

Confidential, Plainsboro, NJ

ProjectManager, Senior SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Involved in overseeing SAP implementation, and providedstatus and metrics for reporting.
• Responsible for identifying, analyzing and recommending business systems solutions to management.
• Established detailed project plans, work breakdown structures, schedules and resource plans.
• Contributed in identification of project risks and development of risk mitigation plans.