EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a seasoned IT professional with extensive experience as an Agile Coach, Agile Transformational Leader, and Scrum Master across IT industries in the USA and internationally.
• He has a strong background as an Agile Coach, mentoring and guiding teams transitioning from Waterfall to Agile and helping them rethink how best to approach software development.
• He has handled agile transformation from ‘ground zero’ as well as ‘in - flight’ transformations.
• Along with coaching, Confidential has experience leading by example in the Scrum Master role where he has led daily scrums, impediment removal, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective sessions.
• Confidential has a passion for Agile and it comes through in his work, helping clients see the benefits of changing approach and inserting himself into Scrum teams when needed to deliver Agile best practices.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Work hand in gloves with the Agile pillar’s Confidential Program in putting into an action, the plan for transforming all the Application Delivery teams with a target of transforming over 150 project Confidential
• Synergistically contribute to Senior Leadership by evaluating, implementing, the plan and progress identifying the mid course correction
• Evaluate approaches used in Agile transformation and suggest modifications towards meeting and surpassing the organizational goal of transforming agile Confidential in the transformation pipeline
• Create the Agile maturity model to facilitate the ‘as is’ to ‘to be’ status of the agile Confidential
• Conduct ‘Coaches’ Boot Camp’ for the new Confidential to speed up the right level of understanding and effective learning
• Evaluate external vendors boot camp by knowledge gap analysis and create special inputs to bridge the gap of Confidential
• Hand hold the Scrum Master, Product owner and the Confidential (Scrum Teams) in understanding the nuts and bolts of the scrum framework, artifacts and ceremonies
• Advise, coach, mentor, teach and train teams by using the best of the method to aid the transformation
• Motivate the teams to ‘do things right first time every time’
• Prevent the seepage of waterfall elements into scrum and make the Confidential aware and vigilant towards it
• Track the velocity and coach the time to forecast with a clear frame of mind towards achieving a realistic forecast over few sprints
• Collect inputs for the leadership review by creating appropriate checklists and gathering inputs from the Confidential at proper frequency
• Figure out the minimum documents required for regulatory audits from the agile development team
• Evaluate whether to Kanban or Scrum is more suitable for a particular agile project
• Conduct Scrum Master Community meetings where knowledge can be shared between scum masters
• Conduct Agile Coaching community calls for raising the transformation concerns of the coaches

Confidential

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Articulate and help leaders at all levels of the organization, both business and technology, to understand the benefits of working Agile
• Support team cohesiveness and enable Scrum Master, Product Owner and other roles to effectively perform their roles
• Support and train team members to optimize their absorption of Agile and internalize the methodology through coaching and mentoring
• Enable development of self-sustaining Agile teams
• Mentor new Scrum Masters on how to work with their teams
• Strong experience with Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective
• Strong experience in Daily Scrum(Stand up meetings) & facilitation of impediment removal
• Intensive working knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Kanban, Lean, TDD, XP
• Manage scope, risks, issues and timelines on assigned projects

Confidential

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• As a Scrum Master, facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations
• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline
• Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders
• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product
• Tracked and managed product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task break-down.
• Strong experience in Daily Scrum(Stand up meetings) & facilitation of impediment removal
• Improved CPI (cost per index) to 1.1+ and maintained SPI (schedule per index) above 1
• Develop the application and architecture utilizing Java 6.0, J2EE, EJB 3.0,JSF2.0, Hybernet 3.0, MySql 5.0, OOPS methodology, framework( SEAM) SOA & Web Services, Angular JS
• Drive the entire system development lifecycle including the analysis of specifications, conceptual and physical design, implementation, production roll out, maintenance & support
• Supervise and coordinate with 9 vendors for successful completion of the projects
• Analyze metrics d Confidential and reported on project progress and other project specific information to senior management, customer and other stakeholders
• Conduct risk management by identifying, monitoring and responding to risk
• Initiate change requests, Ensure change and release procedures & policies are followed for all changesmigrating to production, Incident Management (IM) as caused by release/change
• Facilitate change and release meetings inclusive of weekly reviews with the ED
• Mentor and guided the entire team and identified relevant needs
• Interact with external and internal teams on infrastructure delivery