SUMMARY:

• Agile and SAFe certified transformation leader, RTE and Coach with twenty - seven years (including eight years in Agile and SAFe) of industry experience and successful track record in managing large scale high profile, technology rich transformations to Agile and SAFe, while managing the development of Software Products, and IT Solutions; COTS implementations using Agile, SAFe framework and traditional project, program and portfolio management. An expert in launching new ARTs, fixing broken ARTs and managing multiple ARTs and Value Streams. Experienced in establishing Agile Software Development office for software product development. A champion in bringing off-track programs and portfolios back on track and a leader who train and empowers the teams to succeed. Transformed and managed global ARTs up to 340 people in nine countries of the world. Worked in Private/Commercial and Government Sectors, in Finance, B2B, Healthcare, Telecom industries. An outstanding people manager with technical leadership talents combined with success in:
• Driving “Business Value” in line with Organizational Strategic Themes, via Value Stream mapping and End to End SAFe framework adoption.
• Identifying Value Streams, Value Stream Mapping, classifying ARTs and launching the ARTs.
• Performing Program and Team level assessments, draw action items and implementing them.
• Coaching Product Management and Business Owners in the following and taking corrective measures:
• Epic writing.
• Capability identification and writing.
• Roadmap development, and its prioritization.
• Feature writing and handover to POs.
• Program backlog development.
• Feature decomposition into Stories using the concepts of Vertical slicing.
• Dividing extra-large features and combining large stories into features if needed.
• Identifying Anti Patterns and taking corrective measures.
• Training and coaching, RTE, Scrum Master, and Product Owners.
• Coach writing Definition of Done.
• Release planning.
• Coaching at Team level.
• Standing up Scrum teams, training, and coaching.
• Establishing CoPs (Communities of Practices)
• Establishing Architect, and System teams.
• Building a delivery pipeline, which include test automation, continuous integration, deploying, and updating software increments and environments.
• Identifying Anti Patterns and taking corrective measures.
• Implementing Best Practices from SAFe, Agile and software development.
• Turning Around off-Track, troublesome, challenging programs and portfolios.
• Transforming Procurement to follow SAFe and Agile (especially in Government Programs).
• Re-organizing, coaching to empower the teams to deliver on time and within budget.
• Cost control and cost reduction.
• Working with the top executives of the multi-billion-dollar companies.
• Managing Software Development in-line with FDA, FCC, AAIA, & ISO 9001, regulations and standards.
• Managing budgets up to $24M and 230 resources in US, Canada, UK, Israel, Turkey, Spain, Argentina and India.
• Managing development and delivery of training programs for Technical, Business teams and Customers up to 9000 members internationally.
• Managing 24x7 global customer support.
• Managing local and offshore Vendors, and outsourcing.
• Experienced with Rally, VersionOne, JIRA, TFS (Team Foundation Server), Project Portfolio Management
• (PPM), Workbench, MS Project, Clear Case, Collabnet, MS Office, Power Point, Visio, SharePoint,
• Estimation, Budgeting, Risk Management, Integrated Change Management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Java Servlets, JavaBeans, Resource Bundles, XML, HTTP, SMTP, FTP, SOAP, and JSP.

Software Languages: BizTalk, JAVA, C, Visual C++, PROTEL, PASCAL, FORTRAN, Assembly, SQL.

Databases: Oracle, MY SQL and Microsoft Access.

COTS Software: SunGard intelliMATCH, Intellisuite, Oracle Financials, HEAT, OFBiz, hp Project Portfolio Management (PPM).

Standards and Regulations: FDA, FCC, ISO 9000 & ISO 9001, AAIA, and IPO

Management & Productivity Tools: Experienced with TFS (Team Foundation Server), Rally, VersionOne, SVN, Puppet, Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Workbench, MS Project, Clear Case, Collabnet, MS Office, Power Point, Visio, SharePoint, Estimation, Budgeting, Risk Management, Integrated Change Management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAFe Transformation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Brought an off-track ART of about 340 people back on track.
• Split the ART into three Trains and launched new ARTs.
• Providing coaching at Program and Team levels.
• Identification of the Anti-Patterns and their remedy.
• Performed Team and Program Assessments to level set and to develop improvement plans and executing them.
• Coaching Product Management and Business Owners in writing Epics, Features, decomposing or combining features, their sizing and prioritization.
• Roadmap development and prioritization using WSJF.
• Coaching PMs, POs, and SMs on playing their roles and responsibilities.
• Coaching at Team Level, facilitation of the ceremonies, such as Iteration Planning, Daily Standups, Retro, and Demos etc.
• Coaching and implementing the concepts of System Demos, Inspect and Adopt Workshops, Pre and Post PI Meeting.
• Team and Program level assessment to set baseline for coaching.
• Brought System teams, and System Demo in practice.

Confidential

Release Train Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coached to develop of themes for Modernization for the State of Maryland, Value Stream identification and mapping.
• Coaching to Prep for and launching ARTs.
• Managing and delivering SAFe and Agile trainings.
• Standing up teams at the Program/ART and Team levels.
• Implementing Agile and SAFe Best Practices.
• Continue to bring new Agencies for transformation.
• Coaching the Procurement Dept. to advance their procurement processes and contracts to support SAFe.
• Performed Team and Program Assessments to level set and to develop improvement plans and executing them.
• Coaching Product Management and Business Owners in writing Epics, Features, decomposing or combining features, their sizing and prioritization.
• Roadmap development and prioritization using WSJF.

Confidential, Morrisville, NC

Global Program Management Officer

Responsibilities:

• Transformed a team of 180 people, trained and coached the team to adopt Agile development while managing the development of the Synapse 3D product on a new platform and technology.
• Established and managed an ART consisting of eleven Scrum Teams.
• Managed the implementation of TFS (Team Foundation Server) and configuration.
• Reporting Templates and Dashboards.
• Changed the culture to deliver on time, with quality and within budget.
• Coached Product Management, and teams at program and team levels, to develop and prioritize their backlogs. Writing Epics, Features and Stories. Holding ceremonies, Sprint Planning, Daily Scurm meetings, and Retro.
• Vendor management, revised and improved the vendor management process for the division.
• Managed the development of business, technology and regulatory documents based on SDLC, PDLC (Product Development Life Cycle), PMI and FDA standards and regulations.
• Established PMO for the US division.
• Established PMO
• Managed the development of the training programs.
• Implemented Agile SAFe Best Practices.
• Implemented Software development Best Practices.

Confidential, PA

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Discovery and evaluation for transformation.
• Coaching teams for Agile adoption and continue the development.
• Revitalization of the local and global PMOs in US, UK, Spain, Peru and Argentina.
• Revision of the objectives and their alignment with Global PMO.
• Assessment of process adoption and practice levels in teams.
• Identification of process gaps and implementations of Best Practices in project management and software development to fill those gaps.
• Delivered workshops and trainings.
• Managed the transition of teams from Waterfall to Agile framework.
• Developed process and tools to categories projects for Agile and Waterfall.
• Implementation of Best Practices based on CMMI and PMI guidelines.
• Enhancement of reporting process and tools to convey progress with 100% transparency to the C-Level management.
• Contract execution and management.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Sr. Project and Program Manger

Responsibilities:

• Managed Ambulatory product development portfolio, consisting of nineteen products and programs, the team included four VPs, six directors and nine program and project managers. Transformed development teams to Agile, few key programs are Pro. EHR, Enterprise EHR, MyWay, Practice Management, Prescriptions, Care Management, eRx solutions, Payer Path and Transaction Hub. Accomplished the following:
• Transformed EHR development unit from Waterfall to Agile, trained and coached teams, managed the adoption of RFS, and managed the delivery of various releases.
• Defined and implemented a progress tracking system (Dashboard) to collect updates from teams of four VPs (six directors an nine program and project managers)
• Identified and selected the appropriate matrices for measurement.
• Maintained the tolerance in +/- 15%.
• Developed and maintained the Dashboard for the SVP.
• Trained VPs and Directors on the tracking system.
• Improved the coordination and focus among the teams.
• Managed the development programs in Meaningful Use while transformed the teams to adopt Development in Agile, all those programs were done using DevOps:
• Enterprise EHR, Pro EHR, MyWay and Transaction Hub for its successful completion. It includes, Patient Portal & PHR; Immunization Registry; deployed to 20 State Registries and 25 clients. Syndromic Surveillance; deployed up to two State Registries.
• Managed Transaction Hub Development and deployment
• EEHR Labs, Hub Enrollment database, Allscripts community Network successfully to connect hospital communities, labs and practices together.

Confidential, NC

IT Program Management and a Member of Center of Excellence

Responsibilities:

• Automation of Financial Reconciliation Systems: COTS implementation (SunGard systems for Reconciliation) Automation of financial Operations for Confidential, involving reconciliation of trillions of dollars in daily transactions. The system helps reconcile Cash, Bank transactions, Stock, Annuities, Bank Files, and Retirement funds and produce daily, weekly and monthly reports to manage the business. It was $9.1M program. I brought a cost savings of about 12%.
• Software development for enhancements to was carried out using Agile.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established the goals and objectives of the PMO.
• Developed various templates, such as project management plan, scope, communication and risk management plans.
• Performed project audits. Mentored junior project managers. Helped PM team in adopting new processes an procedures.
• Setup and delivered training programs for project managers and development teams leads.