Release Train Engineer / Agile Transformation Resume PENNINGTON, NJ - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Over 18 years of strong IT & Engineering background with comprehensive experience on managing teams, providing technical expertise and leadership to projects for IT programs and portfolio.
I am keen IT strategist and results - focused project management professional. Equipped with a Masters degree in Computer Science, I am a PMI certified Agile Practitioner with expertise in Scrum, Lean, Waterfall, and Kanban Agile methodologies.
I also have 9 years experience in SAFe and coaching over 75+ teams spread across different domains.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - PENNINGTON, NJ

Release Train Engineer / Agile Transformation

Responsibilities:

Oversaw GOMT release train with complex scope and interdependencies.
Helped develop stewardship metrics to make value delivery visible to management and business stakeholders and built centralized reporting and defect analytics tools.
Facilitated the coordinated preparation of release planning, system demos for the release train, including communication and coordination with stakeholders during feature definition and delivery.
Facilitated Program Increment (PI) Planning, SoS (Scrum of Scrum) meetings, PO and ART sync calls.
Mentored team members in implementing the Agile transformation, establishing a Community of Practice (COP), identifying their key roles and cultivating their understanding of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) principles and processes including Lean, Design Thinking, DevOps and software engineering practices.
Coached and mentored teams in methods such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Extreme Programming, TDD, BDD, CI, and CD to continuously deliver value frequently, predictably, and with quality.

Confidential - BASKING RIDGE, NJ

Release Train Engineer / Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

Participated as Servant Leader on a team of 50 agile coaches, program consultants, release train engineers and scrum masters that are experts in agile frameworks and software engineering practices.
Led more than 50+ team members and coached and trained 12+ scrum teams and 3 agile release trains in Optum, one train under Polaris - Search & Directory, another under EEMS, and the third under Provider Data Quality on the Optum Scaled Agile (OSAM) platform.
Engaged with product owner, business stakeholders, and delivery team to understand business needs, identify appropriate solutions, manage and coordinate risks, issues, and dependencies, and provide overall support for concurrent projects across multiple products. Develop KPIs to create leading indicators.
Organized and facilitated PI planning, SoS, Product Management Council (PMC) meetings, supported and coached scrum masters on how to conduct regular scrum activities such as daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos for sprinting.
Helped team to stay within budget by tracking and forecasting financial expenses in PPM Optics/Clarity for release trains.

Confidential

Solution Train Engineer / IT Delivery Lead

Responsibilities:

Trained and onboarded scrum masters, project managers, and product owners of Enterprise Master Item (EMI) ART teams and legacy software ART teams.
Partnered with executive leadership and IT governance department to ensure compliance with Agile project methodology and controls.
Aligned business and change requirements with the stakeholders. Collaborated with Procurement Division to finalize contracts and project charters. Prepared and reviewed Requests for Proposals and Change Requests (CR). Set directions, facilitated release dates, and monitored EMI development progress.
Recorded, tracked, and escalated any impediments/issues and identified, analyzed, and evaluated risks.