SUMMARY:

• Unique value proposition - Intuitive, Empirical, Algorithmic and Systems thinking
• Highly motivated, hands-on Leader at Team, Train, Program, Portfolio and DevOps
• Exceptional experience in delivery of large-scale agile & DevOps solutions

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Productivity: AgileCraft, Rally, JIRA, Visio, Trello, TFS, MS Office, MS Project

Techniques: BDD, TDD, XP, Pair Programming

DevOps: CALMR, Systems Thinking, Ideation-Realization (Concept2Value)

Tools: Git, jUnit, Mockito, Bamboo/Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, Chef, Skytap/Aws/Docker, Cucumber, Selenium, Datical, Splunk, SonarQube, Veracode, TDM, XLDeploy/XLRelease

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Enterprise SAFe Agile Lead DevOps Coach/Leadership Coach

Confidential, Dallas

Responsibilities:

• Provide mentoring on Culture change by raising awareness of cognitive/epistemic bias.
• Launched and sustain Scrum Master CoP; trained upper management on Portfolio objectives
• Conduct PI Planning for rapid adoption of Digital Retail Care program transformation of 13 teams (Dallas, Seattle, Israel) while also concurrently realigning the Agile Release train from code-based teams to Feature based teams, while focusing on Supplier Trains
• Adopt DevOps stack to reduce hypothesis verification timeline (concept to cash cycle)
• Run data-quality reports and use it as coaching-opportunities for PO/PM/SM/RTE/Dev.

Enterprise SAFe Agile Lead DevOps Coach/Leadership Coach

Confidential, Atlanta

Responsibilities:

• Align key players on common vision, terminology, shared understanding and Agile mindset for apps (~5,000 resources)
• Conduct enterprise wide PI Planning and workshops for enabling path to Lean Agile transformation via DevOps
• Elastic Infrastructure including Virtualization
• Data Management including TDM, TDD
• Mainframe DevOps including culture change ( toggle)
• Perform value-stream identification and launch Agile Release Trains with 15+ teams
• Train Leadership, Architects, Product Managers, Scrum Masters, Team Members and Security
• Utilize WSJF on cross-cutting concerns for Compliance & Release Management
• Extend transformation efforts to Portfolio funding level
• Successfully developed vision & budget roadmap, secured funding for Transformation acceleration ($15MM) & enriched acceleration (+3.8MM)
• Lead the efforts of morphing from Technology Practices to Center Of Excellence via OCM
• Regular Inspect & Adapt with Teams while encouraging team to self-solve their own problems.

Enterprise SAFe Agile Lead DevOps Coach/Leadership Coach

Confidential, Los Angeles

Responsibilities:

• Utilized ShuHaRi, Gemba Walk, MoSCoW to evangelize digital transformation practices
• Developed maturity stages for activating Agile Teams
• Coached teams on DevOps, planning, execution, course correction (mid-sprint-review) and demo-review using hands-on examples
• Regularly delivered 2 minute inspiring moments for continuous improvement with ALM focus
• Facilitated Agile ceremonies - from PI pre-planning session to PI Retrospective
• Provided feedback to Program Manager on ART level while managing risks with ROAM
• Collaborated on design/execution of governance model, (engaging) change management, DevOps & assessments
• Coached 2 ARTs (12-15 teams) on improving productivity in areas of changing business priorities
• Liaison with fellow-Coaches on standardizing Troika roles to instill cadence values
• Guided value-stream leadership on breakdown of Epic, Capabilities, Features, Stories hierarchy and trackback sprint/team/ART level delivery of capabilities enablement

Lead Transformation Coach/DevOps Coach

Confidential, Houston

Responsibilities:

• Initiated Agile program foundation for microservices based retail energy platform
• Mentored teams of polyglot IT professionals about DevOps using SAFe Agile principles
• Coached senior management on value-stream creation, Epic generation, Release Train Engineering and understanding of PI/MVP
• Lead successful Agile Scrum ceremonies and measured risk of failure while teams managed stories using Trello and Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• Facilitated workshops for various scrum tips-n-tricks including story sizing, TFS setup, progress tracking, metrics and capacity management
• Coached the teams towards adopting Scrum practices, familiarized them with Scrum artifacts and Scrum ceremonies with a focus on achieving self-organization, Autonomy, Mastery and Value
• Mentored Scrum Masters and Teams on CCB Agile maturity, manage WIP, and improve flow

Lead Transformation Agile Coach

Confidential, Houston

Responsibilities:

• Elicited the cloud-integration strategy for C&I Retail platforms. Setup the baseline and synchronized with value stream mappings to skyrocket intake rate at program level
• Mentored the teams on incorporating features of self-organizing using TFS
• Coached PRMs, Scrum Masters, Tech Leads, Managers and Directors (mixed environment) on various facets of operationalization of the solution using CI/CD
• Facilitated sessions with the teams to understand task-breakdown techniques
• Fostered Collaboration between Business-As-Usual and Next-generation members, Program Management Office, Product Management, and Operations teams
• Introduced the teams to various Problem Solving Techniques such as Root Cause Analysis, Pareto Analysis, and practically utilized refreshing Retrospective techniques

Integration Lead/ Technical Agile Coach Consultant

Confidential, Cincinnati

Responsibilities:

• Participated actively in 2 day offsite Release-Planning workshop and suggested improvements to multiple teams in identifying dependencies
• Articulated a vision to rewrite Acceptance Criteria to enable TDD
• Coached Scrum Masters and Teams refining Definition-Of-Done (for PI) as well as introduce “Definition-Of-Ready” (for backlog)
• Fostered a "lead by example" and "learn by doing" paradigm to align strategy with execution using JIRA (progress and issues)
• Guided the team to refactor the existing MDM solution using SAFe principles
• Coached the team on automated-testing, CI/CD and self-organizing principles
• Developed a multi-pronged approach for sun-setting older modules while introducing BDD

Lead Technical Coach Consultant

Confidential, DC

Responsibilities:

• Marshaled 5+ Agile Teams in support of President's immigration reform with Scrum, Kanban, & SAFe with Agile mindset, workshops and continuous support
• Interacted with program level Agile Teams for designing the application framework with focus on CI/CD, TDD (Junit, Mockito) and Pair Programming/XP
• Started Scrum Masters Community of Practice (CoP) to further knowledge and stability
• Worked closely as a Thought Leader with other Coaches and partners to ensure development met Target technology direction and goals of the Leadership
• Guided Scrum of Scrum. Orchestrated and executed Sprint-Review (big-demo) for Division chief and CIO
• Reiterated the role of developer in CI/CD pipeline while ensuring collaboration
• Mentored POs on cross-value stream mapping and balancing of objectives at program level vs Team level, while also learning the challenges of PO in optimizing product value

Transformation Lead/Agile Coach Consultant

Confidential, Sterling, VA

Responsibilities:

• Used Agile Framework to lead a Future State Platform program with several matrix resources (onshore/near-shore/offshore)
• Led initial program summit and helped define scope and success criteria
• Managed multiple vendor relationships, multi-stream liaisons, for collaboration and alignment
• Earned confidence of US and APAC management through clear concise communication and Agile mindset related to solution delivery and adherence to agile-architecture team guidelines
• Led efforts at employing TDD for code-coverage as the teams were not cross-functional
• Utilized agile methodology to develop the solution while assisting the creation of epics, user-story grooming and prioritization using Scrum & Kanban

Agile DevOps Coach

Confidential, DC

Responsibilities:

• Designed a go-to-market strategy for a services firm working with TIBCO federal contracts using agile methodology including measures and metrics for monitoring progress
• Created Agile and DevOps maturity stages for Team enablement
• Exercised diverse strategies to influence Teams & POs to maintain a cadence
• Led implementation of five-country-conference utilizing collaborative personality to facilitate cross-functional initiatives
• Utilized the build-pipeline breakage and identified situations for improving “Definition of Done”

Technical Agile Coach/Integration Consultant

Confidential, Houston

Responsibilities:

• Adapted Agile+waterfall to create integrated platform to service 1MM customers as part of IT Shared Services group for a four-company merger with multi-brand capability
• Conducted deep-dive sessions to define, evaluate and drive a consensus
• Contributed to the feature-functionality matrix
• Successfully developed Agile maturity models and business case rationalization resulting in 30% savings
• Led multiple projects as well as hired, mentored and directed a team of resources

Agile Coach Consultant

Confidential, DC

Responsibilities:

• Developed and supported solutions for eVerify/CTMS & DAS applications
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and Provided core services in Development team coaching
• Played a critical role in new data center setup by configuring, verifying the application connectivity that complied with latest govt. security standards
• Collaborated on Key success factor to earn confidence and win cooperation to groom Product Backlog in enhancing and streamlining the solution