EXPERTISE SUMMARY:

• Confidential is an Agile Thought leader, known for her power coaching sessions and exercises that enables her clients to recognize complex theories, complicated configurations, relationships, patterns and principles of systems thinking.
• She is the creator of the 5 - step presencing method and Product Confidential - workshop models used for Agile coaching.
• She has also developed a 4-day Agile boot camp training model for her clients, where the curriculum is flexible enough to accommodate drop ins for any of the 4 days.
• In this model, real life work scenarios are used as case studies and one important outcome is that client employees complete the training with a list of action items and next steps, that they actively work to resolve at their earliest. She tailors her curriculum to suit every training session.
• Program coach for SAFe implementation with experience in Portfolio Kanban, WSJF, Feature grooming, SAFe training for teams, Scrum Masters; PI planning, Inspect & Adapt workshops.
• She uses industry leading tools and techniques like Net-Mapping, Open Space, Lean Canvas, Lean Coffee, Improv, Agile Games, Design Studio in her Executive training workshops, coaching engagements and facilitating Inspect and Adapt workshops and Trainings. She had delivered countless Agile training sessions for her clients via WebEx, and has received rave reviews for keeping her participants engaged and creating a learning atmosphere.
• As a trained product management professional, she has expertise in creating roadmaps, project and portfolio planning; facilitate user design studio / storyboarding / think-storm / lean-coffee / fishbone sessions to generate product and program backlogs and identify risks, and dependencies. Ably negotiate with IT, business and various stakeholders to resolve and find solutions. Train and grow business analysts to facilitate requirements gathering sessions.
• She works closely with PMO to create process road-maps for Agile, Transition of employees to Scrum Master & Agile coaches, create standard work documents, release management and engagement plans, integrate with various ALM tools like Jira, Version One, Rally.
• Community involvement: Speaker, Volunteer, Participant in various Agile, Lean and Scrum conferences.

EXPERIENCE:

Agile Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide thought leadership, mentoring, Enterprise and Program coaching, training at various client sites.
• Work with a group of 25 to 40 coaches, to plan, implement PI events (co - located and distributed events), Coaching engagement includes: Coaching specific roles like RTEs, Team coaches, Scrum Masters, Product Managers & Owners.
• Worked on several large complex projects for their successful delivery.
• Implement Confidential s own Daikibo model across various financial and health care clients.
• Worked on several Large Scale Agile transformations (Lighthouse and Mckinsey Management System) implemented by Mckinsey at various client sites.
• Developed and implemented her own tools and techniques to coach and mentor Product Development groups and their stakeholders to learn the lean product development.

Agile (Scrum) Coach / Mentor

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Responsibilities:

• As part of their PMOs Agile initiative worked with a team of Confidential Agile Evangelists and Agile Coaches (individuals specializing in process enablement, product management, engineering practices, project management, curriculum development, and training) to enable their Agile transformation.
• Coached about 40 Scrum teams.
• At any given time portfolio included $20mln in budget / costs.

Agile Coach / Senior Scrum Master

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the Scrum Competency center, I coached multiple teams that have a combination of onsite/offshore resources and remotely located stakeholders.
• Apart from fulfilling the needs of the SCC, coached and trained junior scrum masters, work with Product Owners, Technical and Functional SMEs who are transitioning to Agile.
• Enabled Agile transition from Waterfall for a 30 member collocated group developing Pharmacy and Medical Audit software.
• This included enabling Kanban boards for Executives and Managers; Scrum process for their distributed IT team.
• Scrum Master for two teams and facilitate / enable necessary task related to sprint ceremonies (release and road map planning; daily scrum - of-scrum calls, sprint planning, task breakdown and estimates; demo and retrospectives; daily calls; interpret burn down charts and velocity;)
• Worked with Delivery Managers to procure resources for my teams.

Lean-Agile Trainer / Coach

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• Co - facilitate two day instructor led classroom workshop on foundations, principles and practices of Scrum.
• Create several classroom exercises to enable attendees participate and engage in class activities.
• Co-create training material suited for various groups of attendees.

Functional development Lead

Confidential, MD

Responsibilities:

• Implemented 6 major releases, 10 minor releases, operations and emergency fixes.
• Monitor 5 independent ETLs (deployed on Teradata, Informatica and Mainframe). Use a combination of Agile - Lean principles along with SDLC, PMBOK and CMMI framework for software development and delivery.
• Work with developers, analysts and testers to facilitate code development, unit, system and integration testing, fixing bugs and defects.
• Participate in BI and Testing team daily Scrum meetings.
• Prepare estimates, remove impediments and road blocks for developers and testers.
• Work with PMO to develop strategic implementation plans, staffing and project schedule. Participate in weekly prioritization, release, risk identification meetings.
• Medicare Part-D data quality monitoring including purgatory, Support BI data requests.
• Co-ordinate with 6 external CMS contractors, CMS business and system owners and 3 down-stream teams.