SUMMARY:

• A focused, competent and passionate Agile Program Manager / Agile Coach with 16 years of delivery experience in IT Projects, Sreeram is responsible for large scale Agile Transformations and helped Confidential 500 companies to achieve their strategic goals with IT programs.
• He is an expert in SAFe / Agile / Waterfall development methodologies, well versed with the cutting - edge technologies and in establishing IT practices that suits the customers’ organization.
• Managed portfolios worth >$50M.
• He is an effective negotiator and communicator with exemplary leadership skills and command over his subject.
• He is always proactive and ensures that customers realize the ROI for their investments.
• Served as Agile Program Manager / Agile Coach for several Confidential 500 organizations
• Mentored and coached C Level executives on agile transformation programs
• Excellent proficiency in Waterfall, Agile methodologies
• Implemented Kanban, Scrum, XP & TDD Programming practices in several organization
• Trained over 300 people as a part of transformation from Waterfall to Agile programs
• Trained Sr. Leaders in Leading SAFe programs
• Established metric frameworks for agile programs
• Created and customized the various metrics for measuring success of agile program
• Created checklists and self-assessment scorecard workbooks for the organizations to adopt agile
• Coached teams of Business Analysts, Developers, Testers, Scrum Master and on Agile Values and Principles
• Mentored teams to become self-reliant with strong accountability, decision making and transparency

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Agile Coach / Agile Program Manager, Herndon, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Helped Product Management team to build Program Backlog, and Visualize Releases
• Helped the development teams in Agile Estimations and improved velocity from 90 story points to 200 story points
• Coached the development teams in Test Driven Development and attained 75:20:5 pyramid coverage for Unit, System, and UAT Test Scenarios
• Worked with various teams and implemented Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Testing for the program
• Involved in RFEs for the agile programs for Confidential FPP projects and developed KPIs for the programs
• Developed Agile Maturity Framework and Agile adoption Readiness Framework for Confidential customers

Confidential

Sr. Scrum Master / Agile Coach, Pleasanton, CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Sr. Scrum Master / Agile Coach for Digital Membership Card - Self Service Tool & CSO Tapestry projects.
• Transformed and mentored four new teams to become agile and deliver the program. Implemented CICD practices for all the lower environments
• Helped Product Managers and launched PI Train for November Delivery of Kaiser’s Digital Membership Programs
• Worked with Product Owners and mentored them on defining the stories
• Scheduled and conducted all the agile ceremonies (Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog grooming, Sprint review/retrospective and daily stand-ups).
• Ensured a smooth delivery with of the projects using Scrum Methodology.
• Responsible for management reporting of various metrics on the program.
• Conducted several brown bag sessions that helped other programs in adopting agile

Technologies: Java, Jira, WebSphere, Oracle, SOA, REST

Confidential

Project Manager/Scrum Master, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Program Manager for IDMS Projects.
• Responsible for working on the IDMS Projects from Initiation to Closure using Kanban Methodology.
• Work with Engineering Managers, Developers and Vendors for accomplishing the Program Objectives and ensure delivery happens every 2 weeks.
• Responsible for on time delivery of projects that include high volume transactions with Directory Services.
• Prepare release notes on new features and communicate with all the stakeholders.
• Prepare and produce Status reports to the director on the on-going programs.

Technologies: Java, iOS, Couch base, NoSQL

Confidential

Agile Coach, Monterey, CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an agile coach for CIGs projects mentioned above
• Set-up a complete Microsoft Suite of agile tools and delivery model for agile using TFS
• Established release cadence and program Kanban for the organization
• Work with Product Owners, Stakeholders, and Vendors on prioritizing the backlog items.
• Ensure that AQS and eCIG releases happen as per the business requirements and enabled the organization to penetrate sooner into the new markets
• Conduct Product Grooming Sessions, Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Communicate with business and external stakeholders for the major releases, and ensuring that system downtimes or communicated.

Technologies: .NET, TFS, WebServices, DW/BI, Oracle-Hyperion

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager/ Scrum Master, Bentonville, AR

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Sr. PM/Scrum Master for eCoupons Project for Confidential ’s mobile application.
• Coordinate the efforts from teams in a highly matrix organization.
• Conduct status meeting with customer and innovation team at Confidential .
• Manage Scope/Cost/Schedule changes through Clarity and Open Workbench.
• Manage Risks & Issues effectively through life cycle of the project.
• Worked on Agile model, participated in Product Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews and Retrospective Meetings.
• Implemented SaaS Services with Coupon vendors.
• Manage third party vendor teams from IBM, Cognizant and Coupons.com teams.

Technologies: Java, SaaS, Web Services, Mobile Technologies, ATG, HyperCloud

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager/Scrum Master, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Sr. PM for Pick Automation, MTPD Photographs Archiving, and Scanning Projects. These projects are strategic initiatives of Confidential .
• Responsible for Delivery of Projects from end to end.
• Creating Staffing Plan, WBS, and Manage budget for the project.
• Follow agile model for the build.
• Manage project teams, Development Team, Testing & Business Analyst’s for the project.
• Provide status reports to the management on a weekly basis.
• Manage Scope, Cost, and Schedule changes through Change Management System.
• Work as BA as needed for the Documentum, SharePoint & Captiva developers.
• Document “As-Is” processes and define “To-be” process for various business units of Confidential

Technologies: .NET, Documentum, SharePoint, Captiva

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager/ Scrum Master, El Segundo, CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Sr. Project Manager for Offers Project.
• Responsible for setting-up scrum teams that helped in rolling out the offer projects on time
• Established offshore and onsite/offsite agile teams
• Manage project teams, Development Team, Testing & Business Analyst’s for the project.
• Provide status reporting to the management using seven keys to success.

Technologies: ASP.NET, QTP, IIS, Java Script, WebServices, Oracle-Hyperion

Confidential

Program Manager, Greenville, SC

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Program Manager for three different groups in offshore and onsite model. (Disability, Life, and Dental)
• Responsible for managing 15 onsite and 45 offshore team members spread in four locations of Confidential .
• Managed on-going releases and projects of Confidential by working with Development teams and business.
• Manage Risks & Issues effectively through life cycle of the project.
• Create Implementation Plan, and execute the same across the board.
• Responsible for 40 Metrics for the testing services. Reported on a periodic basis.
• Metrics based transition is applied for the knowledge transition
• Management reporting done twice a week. Report is purely objective with a lot of metrics.
• Managing the project milestones with MF, Java and SharePoint technologies.
• Quality ensured by using metrics framework throughout all the project life cycle.
• All projects delivered on time and under budget.

Technologies: Mainframe, Java Technologies, Testing, SharePoint

Confidential

IT Strategy Consultant

Responsibilities:

• ITIL Based solution provided for better performance of IT Systms.
• Roadmap created for current and future state of the system with a transition plan and cost breakdown by year.
• Optimized the performance of support and development system by providing the process improvement in IT Systems.
• Developed and Implemented Service Plans, SLAs and MMFs for Confidential IT Support.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager, Fort Wayne, IN

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Delivery Manager for the AMS Services in the Lincoln Financial Groups Annuity business.
• Responsible for Projects and Releases of the Lincolns Annuity Business
• SDLC Water Fall Model is used for the Projects & Releases
• Earned Value Management (EVM) extensively used for managing the projects.
• Manage Risks & Issues effectively through life cycle of the project.
• Create Implementation Plan, and execute the same across the board.
• Metrics based reporting is done on the projects.
• CCB implemented as a part of the project.
• PCBs are used as per the Industry Standard for the Lincoln.

Technologies: Mainframe, Java, Lotus Notes, Web, ETL, Informatica.

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as End-to-End Project Manager involving, interaction with technical, people and business.
• Built the Project Charter, Project Plan, Quality Plan and Communication Plan with client.
• Used Hibernate & Spring for the project development. Custom built the JLog for the client.
• Managing the client relationship above project level and responsible for ensuring a long-term recurring business from the customer.
• Planning the tasks assigning to the team members, monitoring, mentoring, and motivating the team to meet the organizational and their personal objectives.

Technologies: Java, Hibernate, spring, Struts, WebLogic, SQL Server, Apache Webserver

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for collecting the requirements from the EC software development team and distribute the work accordingly to the team.
• Architect the solution and provide the guidance to the team
• Update the training material and train the development team on the new features.
• Provide support to global teams and clients on the platforms.
• Used V model for SW development.

Technologies: UNIX, Perl, Java, Shell Programming