CAREER SUMMARY:

• Agile Transformation Specialist focusing on coaching, and enabling organizational agile transformations
• IT consultant with over 16 years of experience in providing consulting services to the organizations
• Experienced in implementing SAFe framework and large scale agile transformations
• Coaching Scrum and Kanaban Teams
• Launching multiple Agile Release Trains (ART) and Value Streams
• Hands on experience in PI planning and ART execution
• Developed enterprise agile adoption guidelines, developing materials, providing to Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Teams.
• Agile enthusiast with a passion for collaborative software development
• Bringing the Lean and Agile mindset, values, principles and practices to executives and teams
• Built DevOps, Systems operation and management, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices
• SaaS (Software as a Service), IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service) Experience, Cloud infrastructure setup and application development using Amazon AWS
• Worked with cross functional technical teams to achieve technical excellence by implementing continuous integration, test driven development TDD, automated code builds and automated testing
• Experienced in partnering with senior business leaders including executive sponsors and their teams to deeply understand strategic and tactical business objectives and high level business requirements
• Domain knowledge in Banking, Insurance, Credit cards, Embedded Software and Retail
• Consulting, Project Management, Agile Coaching, Servant Leadership

SKILLS:

• As a High - Performance Teaming and Agile Coach, I help teams and organizations develop the social, interactive skills which enable them to produce, problem-solve, and innovate at the highest levels.
• Active in Scrum community, and well connected with other thought leaders in the industry
• Coach and mentor team members individually and as a whole team
• Provide leadership, direction, and coaching to the Scrum Masters, RTEs
• Creating a workplace that inspires, where people are enthusiastic to work and collaborate
• Pair train the teams on CSM®, CSPO® and CSD®
• Train the teams on SAFe Scrum Master, Product Owner, Team and SAFe SA courses
• Be a change agent and foster a “learn by doing” environment

SOFT SKILLS:

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to diplomatically facilitate discussions and negotiations
• Driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through
• Ability to connect technology with measurable business value
• Coaching teams on technical Agile engineering practices teams in Agile / Scrum processes, Agile Games
• Advise, Protect, Motivate and Serve teams
• Value Delivery focused, positive, vocal, engaging, proactive
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Strong working knowledge in Waterfall, Agile (Scrum, XP Practices, Lean Software Development)
• Advanced knowledge on collaborative Agile Tools VersionOne, GreenHopper, Jira, Rally, TFS, Leankit, Jira Portfolio
• DevOps tools like Chef, AWS Devops in the cloud
• Strong knowledge in other tools like Planview, Niku Clarity, Open Workbench, Sharepoint site management
• Advanced Knowledge in MS Project, Excel, Visio, Powerpoint, Project Server
• Strong analytical skills, D Confidential analysis, Metrics preparation, Dashboards, reporting

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the Agile transformation and for the successful execution of the Release Train to support the delivery of various digital products
• Coach distributed software teams through on Scrum, Kanban and SAFe Frameworks
• Develop, coach, and mentor teams to build quality software
• Coach the team members to advance their skills and career
• Scaling large systems with agile / lean practices, such as SAFe
• Provide leadership, direction, and coaching to the agile program and scrum teams
• Coach the teams on best engineering practices like ATDD, TDD, continuous integration and Continuous Deployment practices
• Conduct Scrum Master, Agile Team s within Lincoln Financial and kick start the teams
• Established the Agile Practice CoP, contribute content to internal blog sites. Serve as a thought leader
• Promote an enjoyable and fun working culture among the teams
• Be a change agent

Confidential

Enterprise Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• As an Agile Coach concentrating on developing Execution leaders (RTE and Scrum Masters) and closely partnering with the Product Manager & IT Delivery Owner to guide agile release trains
• Establish program level cadence and drive program level ceremonies (e.g. PI Planning, Product Management Council, Scrum of Scrums, release train retrospectives, HIP Sprint)
• Work with other program leaders to drive the definition and refinement of the program backlog
• Provide leadership, direction, and coaching to the agile program and scrum teams
• Ensure cross-value stream coordination and collaboration
• Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on program-level plans, progress and quality
• Facilitate alignment dependencies between the program team and third parties, release managers, or between the team and other Scrum / Kanban Teams
• Foster a team collaborative environment that tears down silos between groups, act in a single voice
• Actively contribute to the company’s Agile and Lean Community through participation in the internal Agile Community of Practice, Agile Coach, RTE and Scrum Master Forums
• Develop, coach, and mentor team members to advance their skills and career
• Work cross functionally to align strategy, methodology and execution
• Be a change agent and foster a “learn by doing” environment
• Act as a mentor to Agile Team Coaches, RTE's, Scrum Masters and Product Owners

Confidential

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the Agile transformation and for the successful execution of the Release Train to support the delivery of strategic technology products
• Establish program level cadence and drive program level ceremonies (e.g. PI Planning, Product Management Council, Scrum of Scrums, release train retrospectives, HIP Sprint)
• Work with other program leaders to drive the definition and refinement of the program backlog
• Provide leadership, direction, and coaching to the agile program and scrum teams
• Ensure cross-value stream coordination and collaboration
• Serve as an escalation for impediment removal for the Scrum Masters and scrum teams
• Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on program-level plans, progress and quality
• Promote an enjoyable and fun working culture among the teams
• Conduct PI retrospectives, follow-up on action items, continuous improvements
• Remove impediments, make sure that the teams have everything to complete their work
• Coach teams and Product owners and Scrum Masters on Agile values and principles, SAFe methodologies
• Work with various stakeholders, Product management team and other value stream dependencies
• Work with senior management on value stream budget
• Participate in team level product demos and ART level system demos
• Actively contribute to the company’s Agile and Lean Community through participation in the internal Agile Community of Practice, Agile Coach, RTE and Scrum Master Forums
• Develop, coach, and mentor team members to advance their skills and career
• Provide real time feedback to the methodology team based on experiences with software delivery teams
• Work cross functionally to align strategy, methodology and execution
• Foster a team collaborative environment that tears down silos between groups, act in a single voice

Confidential

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• As a leader in the Enterprise Delivery Practice - Agile Software Engineering organization, train and mentor a team of multiple Scrum Masters and Agile Program Leads through implementation of Agile/Scrum methodology and Scaled Agile Framework.
• Scaling large systems with agile/lean practices, such as SAFe
• Lead teams through successful Agile Software Development projects
• Facilitate various Scrum and SAFe ceremonies, Plan and facilitate Planning Increments
• Help Product Owner manage backlogs, dice and slice user stories, estimations etc.
• Conduct retrospectives, follow-up on action items, continuous improvements
• Remove impediments, make sure that the team has everything to complete their work
• Reporting and presentations to senior management
• Coach distributed software teams through on Agile, Scrum, SAFe
• Coach teams and Product owners on Agile values and principles, SAFe methods
• Coached best practices on DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices
• Guides enterprise-wide agile transformation and improvement initiatives
• Engage and encourage people to participate various CoP (ScrumMaster CoP, Product Owner CoP) and facilitate CoP events

Confidential

Release Train Engineer / Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Trained and coached Scrum Teams, Product Owners on Scrum and SAFe methodologies
• Leading multiple scrum teams in building a new online banking platform
• Scaling large systems with agile/lean practices, such as SAFe
• Coaching and enabling the teams to achieve high performance
• Enacting Agile/Scrum principles, methodologies and processes
• Active participant in Agile Community of Practice (CoP)
• Coach and mentor New Scrum Masters, Induction of new team members
• Participate in Scrum of Scrums
• Act as a glue between various stakeholders including Senior Management, Business, and functional teams
• Help Product Owners in managing backlog in Version One
• Foster team communication, communication across cross functional teams and other stakeholders
• Coordinate with release management team on production releases
• Resolve issues and conflicts management

Confidential

Sr. ScrumMaster, Team Coach

Responsibilities:

• Bringing up new teams to adopt Scrum / Agile
• Responsible for enacting Agile, Scrum values and principles
• Capture and advocate process improvements into Communities of Practice (COPs)
• Facilitate user story sizing, estimation, ranking, iteration planning
• Establish the Information Radiator (Task Wall)
• Coach teams on Sprint planning, managing sprint backlog, backlog burndowns
• Facilitate sprint review and sprint retrospective meetings
• Agile release planning
• Agile project management using Rally
• Coach scrummasters to facilitate scrum ceremonies, agile values and principles
• Coach Product owner in managing backlogs, slicing stories, team estimation
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies, Coach and mentor teams, Mentoring & Building great teams
• Stakeholder management, Metrics reporting

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Software architecture, design and coding as per requirement specifications for modified or newly created requirements per DO 178B standards
• Performed Hardware/Software Integration (HSI) testing on the target environment.
• Performed Software Integration (SI) testing to verify interrelationship between various software requirements and components
• Performed requirement based Black Box and white box testing of C++ code meeting the Level A DO178B criteria.
• Developed Test cases and Test procedures for High Level Requirements using Python and tested on actual ECU using Honeywell D Confidential Monitor.
• MC/DC (Modified Condition Decision Coverage) structural coverage analysis for Level A software done using AMC CodeTest