SUMMARY:

• Pratip is a certified and seasoned enterprise agile coach having 8+ years of experience in agile adoption, standing up new teams and transforming organizations from waterfall methodology to scaling agile in large enterprises. His forte lies in Scrum, XP and Kanban and utilizing SoS, Less and the SAFe frameworks to reap great ROI benefits for his clients. He has worked with teams that are collocated as well as distributed teams using ALM tools like Agile JIRA, RTC, TFS and Collabnet. He is well versed with a variety of engineering practices like TDD, BDD, Test automation Continuous Integration and Devops.
• Having 20+ years of IT experience as a developer, tester, project manager, delivery manager, scrum master, trainer and coach, Pratip aids organization by partnering with management teams and leading, coaching, and mentoring software development and product teams with mastery to grow individuals in different agile roles and artfully facilitating ceremonies with the effective use of artifacts and metrics. His background is mainly in Banking and Financial Services and Retail Industries.
• Pratip has a rich international exposure having consulted in the Americas, Europe and India where he has successfully demonstrated applying different agile models in successfully transitioning from waterfall methodology to continuous delivery. He has also trained 500+ participants on various agile topics. Additionally, he comes equipped with the CSM, CSPO, CSP s from the Scrum Alliance, PSM - 1 from Scrum.org, SP from The Scaled Agile Academy, ICP-ACC from the International Consortium of Agile Professionals, PMP from the Project Management Institute, ATM from CMMI and is very passionate in making every client successful in their agile journey.
• SDLC Methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, XP, Less, SAFe)
• Change Management & Organization Strategy
• Business Analysis, Budget Management, P&L Accountability
• PMI, CMMI and ITILBest Practices
• Cross-functional Leadership
• Marketing, Pre-Sales and RFP
• Risk Planning &Expectations Management
• Process & Product Management
• Business Process Reengineering
• BI and Performance Analytics
• Cloud Computing
• PMO Setup and Staff Augmentation
• Agile & Digital Transformation
• Agile COE Setup &Execution
• Enterprise Package Implementation
• Team, Portfolio & Enterprise Level coaching
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• Business Process Reingeering
• Budget & Financial Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, SAFe, Less, RUP, DMAIC, Waterfall

Project Management: Microsoft ProjectServer, MS Project, Microsoft Office Suite, Sharepoint, Box, Rational Portfolio Manager, VersionOne, ScrumWorks, X-Planner, Rational Team Concert, IBM JAZZ Tools, Greenhopper, Confluence, Rally, JIRA Agile, Team Foundation Server, Collabnet

Requirements Management: Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Requirement Composer

Software Configuration Management: Rational ClearCase, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, PVCS, SVN

Testing Tools: Quality center, WinRunner, LoadRunner, JIRA

Operating Systems: MS-Windows, MS-Vista, UNIX (AIX,HP-UX, Sun-Solaris

Programming Languages: C, Perl, HTML, Javascripts, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, .NET, J2EE, Java

Databases: MS-Access, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MS-SQL Server

Software: ILOG, SAP MDM, BW, i2, Manugistics, JDA, Business Objects, Hyperion Essbase

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston, MA

Digital Sr. Agile Team Coach

Responsibilities:

• As part of the digital initiative, my responsibilities included championing agile across multiple teams, supporting teams through the agile transition, implementing and continually improving their agile practices while ensuring consistency of approaches across multiple teams. Involved in standing up new teams, supporting existing teams, assessing agile readiness and maturity and coaching teams to a higher level of maturity at a sustainable pace. Providing agile specific learning and development through individual and team coaching, classroom and on the job, workshops and offsites to all actors and management levels in the organization, enabling teams address organizational impediments and adopt agile values, principles and best practices. Mentoring Scrum masters, remove impediments and facilitating different ceremonies until that responsibility is transferred successfully to the Scrum Master and Team.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is a fortune 100 financial services company that is the leading retirement provider for people who work in the academic, research, medical and cultural fields. I was hired by the development manager of the Model T initiative as part of the mobility initiative program. As an agile coach I was mentoring scrum masters and agile teams and created various process improvement initiatives which was readily accepted and implemented by management. I implemented other agile practices like Kanban, Continuous integration and automated testing. Conducted workshops from management to Individual contributors on agile and scrum processes. I also created the agile dashboard which was used by senior management on a daily basis in decision making. I also had additional responsibilities of leading 2 scrum teams
• (initiate and manage) and I participated in all the scrum ceremonies including release and sprint planning, standups, review and retrospectives and the scrum of scrums call. I was also responsible for resource allocations and balancing demand and capacity.

Confidential, Durham, NC

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• I was also an active representative of the product council meetings, Scrum of scrums and collaborated in Agile coaching for Confidential and conducted scrum . ICreated and mentored other agile process initiatives like Kanban and XP. Additional responsibilities included project cost estimation and forecasting, tracking actuals and reporting of project financials to management and interacted with the PMO for all aspects of project governance.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Enterprise Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Confidential provides software as a service e-commerce solutions. As part of its recent IPO and ongoing productivity initiatives, I was directly hired by the CTO to function as the agile coach for its software engineering division to transition the company from waterfall to scrum methodology. This involves creation and implementation of the transition roadmap and development of scrum best practices along with other agile practices like Kanban, XP and Lean Programming. I conducted various workshop on scrum practices vertically in the organization. Additional responsibilities include serving as Scrum master for the different scrum teams leading the sprint planning, daily stand ups, backlog grooming, review and retrospective and mentoring other scrum masters for successful sprints.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project manager in the Global Fulfillment Solution Initiative(GFSI)which serves as the bank’s global platform for the origination, fulfillment and the implementation of all treasury, depository and credit products globally.Primary focus was on implementation and change management of treasury products and services including Wires, ACH, CashPro Online and involved BPR including STP, MSA introduction and cycle time reductions and adherence to compliance and regulatory requirements. Introduced agile in the project development and carried out the functions of the scrum master. Also managed all aspects of the project from initiation to closure following PMI best practices.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is a California specialty home improvements retailer and in 2008 began their revamp of their supply chain operations including simultaneous upgrade and implementation of additional supply chain software. I was part of the core project management team directly involved in all stages of the SDLC for the successful implementation of the first release of the demand management module.

Confidential, Tustin, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Confidential agreed to buy Lasalle bank from ABN Amro in late 2007. As part of the acquisition, I was directly involved in the migration of Lasalle bank’s data center to Confidential ’s data center. The migration is intended to standardize Lasalle bank’s system to the Confidential ’s standard and improve the overall support and maintenance of the combined bank’s systems.

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As a project manager, Iwas tasked with the expansion of the existing solution to Pre-Fill Forms for opening personal Active Assets Accounts (AAA) and IRA Accounts for high net worth individuals. This was part of Confidential GWMG’s Client on-boarding experience for Clients, Financial Advisors (FAs), Client Service Associates (CSAs), Branch Managers, and Operations Personnel yielding significant tangible and non-tangible benefits.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Internship; Senior Consultant - Product Management & Marketing

Responsibilities:

• I was recruited by the Executive Vice President of Business Development and Marketing to work on critical projects in line with the overall vision of the organization. Orchestrated the successful implementation of programs and credited with the successful delivery of projects within budget and time constraints without compromising customer service or quality.

Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

Performance Manager - Supply Chain Management Division

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented programs to enhance the performance of the Panasonic supply chain. Identified bottlenecks and came up with effective solutions to address the same. Responsible for leading cross functional teams for delivery of high impact projects involving Operational planning & execution and Customer Satisfactions score card metrics.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Hired as a senior consultant in Professional services primarily involved in managing software implementation projects; promoted through a series of increasingly responsible management positions ahead of peer group based on consistent contribution to improved operating results. Active involved in Solution marketing, strategic alliance development, responding to RFI s and RFPs and supporting Pre sales, sales, professional services and customer support organizations.

Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant - Professional Services Organization

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the execution of the assigned SDLC processes which included requirement gathering, conducting JAD sessions, data analysis, design, development, quality control, acceptance testing and end user clients. Actively worked with clients to understand business priorities and then translate them into a technical solution and helped develop and then deliver the solution to the clients’ satisfaction.