SUMMARY:

• 9+ years of simplification and acceleration of Business Agility Transformation, Servant leadership, Facilitating, Coaching, Mentoring, Teaching cross functional high performing teams, Organization at enterprise level. within cross cultures, globally distributed in multiple time zones. 7+ years of active Agile Coaching
• Engaged Leadership to Support Portfolio, Large solution, programs and teams to embrace Lean Agile, mindset, scaling using SAFe Aligning top down on Strategic OKR, Vision, Value Streams link to solution capability with bottom and peer feedback using continuous delivery tactical approach.
• Establish Cultural Agility through Agile Champion leaders, Community of practice in the areas of Agile leadership; Product management; DevOps - Continuous Delivery; Lean UX Design; Architectural Runway; Lean Agile Tools, role-based guilds, emerging Shu-Ha-Ri based Lean - Agile Transformation Framework along with Agility Maturity Self-Assessment Journey Framework to enable focused organization support
• Spin up Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) governance transitioning from traditional PMO
• Support Portfolio/Program via LPM to transition from plan-based funding to funding Value stream, Release Train and Teams. As a result, streamline the intake process, help in Roadmap planning and delivery initiation
• Enable sustainable predictability of capacities against intake for teams to be able to deliver shared business outcomes productively with quality built in, transparency, alignment via relentless improvement
• Support 6 Value streams - Optimization, Transformation, Organization Re-design via Value stream mapping workshops, spun up 3 solution trains, 10 Agile Release Trains, 100 + teams supporting Design thinking, Lean Agile mindset for incremental Business Value realization using Kotter, ADKAR and Nudge techniques.
• Implement new metrics to drive Lean Agile behaviors driving Agility mindset change at all levels in Enterprise.
• Establish Learning Architecture, role-based s, back of the room-based hands on workshops / Dojo for effective Agilists, Scaled Agilists and servant leaders in the form of RTE, Scrum Masters, Lean Kanban facilitators
• Product management and product ownership in the business domain of supply chain management
• Proven ability to own delivery of high quality IT products and services with focus on generating maximum ROI for high profile initiatives
• Strong technical background in REST API, SOA, Cloud based desktop, Mobile Application development and platform, Database Design, Systems and Information Architecture/User Interfaces, Application Systems Retirement, Data Migration, Data modeling and DevOPS
• 15+ years of global IT experience including serial IT Entrepreneurship in the Business Domains of Banking, Risk Management, Healthcare Insurance, Supply Chain Management, Human Capital Management and Professional services

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• AGILE/LEAN/SCRUM/SAFe/KANBAN Facilitation
• Servant Leadership as RTE, Scrum Master
• Agile Role wise Coaching, Mentoring, Teaching
• Active listening techniques
• Cross culture, Distributed teams Waterfall to Agile
• Entrepreneurial, Innovation mindset
• DevOps, ATDD, CICD based Engineering consulting
• Superb conflict resolution and consensus building
• Risk, Banking, Supply chain, Talent Mgt. Domains
• Productization with REST API, (SOA), AWS, Azure
• Support Enterprise wide COP based on SAFe
• CMMi 5 Project / Program Management

TECHNICAL TOOLS:

Lean Agile Lifecycle Events: Category

BACKLOG AND PRIORITIZATION: SCALABLE AGILE (SAFE)4.5, JIRA, CA-AGILE CENTRAL, Version 1, MS Teams, Confluence, MS PROJECTS, MS VISIO, FLOWDOCK, CONFLUENCE WIKI, SENSEI RETRO, FUNRETRO, PLANNINGPOKER, PLANITPoKER

APP SERVER: TOMCAT, WEBSPHERE, IIS

DATABASE: MARKLOGIC, DB2, MONGO DB, ORACLE, MS SQL SERVER, IMS, MYSQL DEVELOP AND UNIT TESTING

SBE: CUCUMBER, SPECFLOW GHERKIN, JBEHAVE

IDE: ECLIPSE, JBOSS, VISUAL STUDIO, XCODE, IBM RAD, JDK

LANGUAGES: JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, C#, PYTHON, ANGULAR JS

API Management: MuleSoft

UNIT TESTING: JUNIT, NUNIT, KITCHEN, SELENIUM, HOVERfly

INFRASTRUCTURE CODE: LIQUIBASE, ANSIBLE, CHEF SECURITY Management

WebSEAL: CONTINUOUS QUALITY AND BUILD

SCM: GIT, TFS, CODEHUB, GITHUB, SVN

CODE ANALYSIS: SONARQUBE, FORTIFY

CI AND BUILD: ANT, TFS, JENKINS

PACKAGING ARTIFACTORY: CONTINUOUS TEST AND DELIVERY DEPLOY AND RUN XL DEPLOY, XL RELEASE, RUNDECK, VAGRANT, PACKER

UI/REGRESSION TESTING: SELENIUM, CODEUI, UFT, SAUCELABS, CHAI, PERFECTO MOBILE, PROTRACTOR

API TESTING: MOCHA, CHAI, JASMIINE

DEFECT MANAGEMENT: CA-AGILE, ALM, JIRA, Version 1

INFRA PLATFORM: OPENSHIFT ENTERPRISE, AZURE, AWS

MONITOR: SPLUNK, DYNATRACE, ELASTIC, NEW RELIC

DEVOPS DASHBOARD: HYGIEIA

PROPRIETARY TOOLS: CRM, BILLIN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

AGILE ENTERPRISE COACH

Responsibilities:

• Establish Business case for better business agility supporting Transformation of Team Based Agility practice towards Scaled Agile Practice for Cash Product office (CPO) moving away from plan to value based approach
• Value Stream Optimization by identifying, supporting to prioritize actionable items to improve people, process and tools approaches for better time to the market in the entire ATDD life cycle for Federal Cash Visibility Value chain within the organization
• Responsible for supporting teams and groups across multi time zone geographically distributed to discover their strengths to sustain and opportunities to increase agility and collaboration for self-organized commitments leading to sustainable high performance on a cadence
• Mentoring, Coaching, Teaching, Facilitating of Business leadership and IT leadership, RTE, Product Manager Scrum master, Product Owner, Solution Train, Release Train, Scrum teams,.
• Hands on customized material workshops, standard Scaled Agile s using back of the room techniques
• Advise on Relative sizing-based capacity planning, economic framework-based prioritization, 3 Amigos, dependency, risk management techniques between internal teams, external entities and Agile teams while pre, during and post activities of PI planning for the Solution, program and teams to achieve PI and sprint goals.
• Establish Agile metrics at Solution, Release train, team levels to influence Agile behaviors and mindset in the agility transformation journey, facilitate inspect and adapt workshop at the end of each PI
• Successfully established across leadership and teams the need to transform from team-based agility practice to scaled agile, support spinning up solution train Dojo for a 150 people organization with 2 Release trains
• Optimize Development Value stream using ATDD-DevOps life cycle to enable sustainable continuous value delivery with better Engineering, design thinking, lean agile flow, automation & layered API productization

Confidential, Short Hills NJ, Center Valley, PA

AGILE COACH

Responsibilities:

• Part of core team of AGILE practitioners and coaches responsible for Transformation for Business Agility of teams and groups across the organization.
• Responsible for supporting teams and groups discover their strengths to sustain and opportunities to climb the high performing tree on a cadence
• Support and contribute for Agile community of practice
• Establish a Business Agility Transformation Framework that works on planning horizons for Teams, Programs
• Mentoring, Coaching, Teaching, Facilitating of RTE, Scrum master, Scrum team, Business leadership and IT leadership within the value stream of various upstream and downstream teams.
• Do workshops to facilitate the adoption of new agile share business outcome mindset and tools across programs and teams to increase agility and improve collaboration within geographically distributed teams spanning across multiple time zones, relating effectively pragmatically how Agile Values, principles and practices morphed from traditional disciplines in order to build self-organized high performance.
• Ensure cross-value stream coordination and collaboration, drive highest productivity and sustainability better predictability of delivery across organization, fostering innovation and encouraging continuous improvement and maturity towards self-organization.
• Advise on prioritization, dependency management techniques between internal teams and third parties, release managers, or between Agile teams while pre, during and post activities of PI planning for the program and teams to achieve PI and sprint goals.
• Establish Agile metrics at Portfolio, Release train and team levels to influence Agile behaviors and as a result an Agile mindset adoption, facilitate inspect and adapt workshop at the end of each PI

Confidential, Horsham, PA

AGILE COACH / RTE / SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Part of core team of AGILE practitioners and coaches responsible for adoption and implementation of SCALED AGILE (SAFe) at UHG, having a 100,000+ Technology people organization.
• Responsible for transitioning Programs and teams aligning on Polaris portfolio scope as Agile Lean Transformation Coach and the role of Uber Scrum master / RTE as needed.
• Support and contribute to Agile community of practice
• Assess new teams on agile maturity and help develop plan for teams to adopt agile Agile-lean values, mindset, processes, principles, practices.
• Mentoring, Coaching, Teaching, Facilitating of RTE, Scrum master, Scrum team, Business leadership and IT leadership within the value stream of various upstream and downstream teams.
• Do workshops to facilitate the adoption of new agile mindset and tools across programs and teams to increase agility and improve collaboration within geographically distributed teams spanning across multiple time zones, relating to rules-of-thumb and the subtleties of performing effectively in an Agile environment and how they relate to traditional disciplines in order to build self-organized high performing teams.
• Ensure cross-value stream coordination and collaboration, drive highest productivity and sustainability better predictability of delivery across organization, fostering innovation and encouraging continuous improvement and maturity towards self-organization.
• Advise on prioritization, dependency management techniques between internal teams and third parties, release managers, or between Agile teams while pre, during and post activities of PI planning for the program and teams to achieve PI and sprint goals.
• Co-chair Product Management Council (PMC) to groom Strategic theme, Solution Capabilities Features and maintain program level backlog in order to streamline the intake process through Roadmap planning sessions and achieve predictability of the business value delivery
• Lead Daily Standups, User story grooming and sizing, Sprint planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and Scrum of Scrums (SoS) meetings, leverage DevOps and ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development) practices to increase speed to market of the product.
• Monitor teams progress through sprint burnup/burndown and cumulative flow to help improve velocity of teams by helping them mature in agile practices and ensure project’s adherence to Scalable Agile Life cycle
• Establish Agile metrics at Portfolio, Release train and team levels to influence Agile behaviors and as a result an Agile mindset adoption, facilitate inspect and adapt workshop at the end of each PI

Confidential, Somerset NJ, Chatsworth, CA

Agile Coach, RTE / SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Agile Coached teams to be high performing, using Scrum Values and principles to strive to be agile minds.
• Responsible for the role of RTE and Uber Scrum master for the Scrum teams in the project
• Establish Triumvirate to groom Strategic theme, Solution Capabilities, Features and maintain program level backlog in order to streamline the intake process and achieve predictability of the business value delivery
• Developed automated metrics for Agile/Scrum for Executive Leadership team
• Lead Daily Standups, User story grooming and sizing, Sprint planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and Scrum of Scrums (SoS) meetings
• Monitor teams progress through sprint burnup/burndown and cumulative flow to help improve velocity of teams by helping them mature in agile practices and ensure project’s adherence to Scalable Agile Life cycle

Confidential, New Castle, DE

Product Manager / Product Owner, Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Business process footprint gap analysis and owning of the complete Information system process footprint transformation to improve productivity of 500+ people organization after due diligence and risk analysis.
• Epics to Program Backlog for B2B module, prioritization. Used Lean Kanban method for ERP deployment.
• Increase working capital capability across 100+ stores and East-West distribution warehouses via VMI
• Manage $30 million Telecom merchandise, Logistics across Supply chain covering B2B and B2C using process driven Demand Forecast-Plan and supply and capacity planning techniques and Controlling Rotation & Pilferage
• Improve speed to market lead time for merchandise to store display using supply network planning.
• Setup and lead 50 people onsite-offshore team to manage IT, Supply chain, and customer churn control, CRM.
• Conduct TNA to deliver courses for applications through multi channels & e-learning.
• Ensuring Data Hygiene and uniformity through MDM across interdependent and extended enterprise systems
• Lead Daily Standups, User story grooming and sizing, Sprint planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives