CAREER SUMMARY:

• Certified Lean, Agile DevSecOps, transformation coach for Enterprise Level transformations.
• Highly trained and experienced Servant Leader with more than 4 years of Release Train Engineer (RTE) experience, more than 3 years of a Scrum Master experience and more than 4 years of Agile and Scaled Agile Coaching experience.
• Seasoned agile - lean transformation Coach, Trainer, Mentor, Facilitator, Practitioner, Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer and Program Consultant, with practical experience of transforming organizations, coaching and executives, directors, senior managers, product managers and release train engineers at the enterprise, portfolio, PMO and program levels and scrum masters, product owners, analysts, QA, architects and tech leads, and developers at the team level.
• ICAgile Certified Professional - Agility in the Enterprise (ICP-ENT) and ICAgile Certified Professional - Coaching Agile Transitions (ICP-CAT).
• Hands-on experience in transforming Waterfall projects into Agile projects.
• Trainer for SAFe 4.6 certified courses including Release Train Engineer (RTE), DevOps Practitioner (SDP), Advanced Scrum Master (SASM), SAFe Agilist (SA), SAFe Practitioner (SP), and SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM) courses.
• Hands-on experience in Kanban, and XP. Thorough knowledge on DevSecOps and Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS).
• An experienced SPC4, PMP and PMI-ACP, in implementing Enterprise level products with through execution knowledge of both program and portfolio level products. Certified Scrum Master (CSM) & Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) from Scrum Alliance and Certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC) from ICAgile.
• 22 years of IT industry experience. 12 years of Program/Project Management experience include: initiation, planning, execution and control through project completion with emphasis placed on cost/schedule management, implementation team oversight, test coordination and metrics reporting using with Agile, Lean, Scrum, SAFe 4.6, Waterfall and Hybrid methodologies for delivery of value to stakeholders.
• Have been working with various levels of stakeholders like Epic Owners, Enterprise Architects, Product Management teams, Release Train Engineers (RTEs), Value Stream Engineers (VSEs), Systems Teams, Release Management Teams, Solution Management Teams, Development Teams, Architectural teams and End users to convert Strategic Themes into Product Deliverables in all the levels of Scaled Agile Framework.
• Personal expertise with technologies including: AWS, C, C++, JAVA, J2EE, Oracle, DB2, JavaScript, JDBC, Servlets, XML, Dot Net, Web Services, Hadoop, Terad Confidential, HTML, SQL, RFID, SAP, JDE, Crystal Reports, MS Office, Visio, SAS, SPSS, BI, Tomcat and ARIBA.
• Hands-on experience on Project Management tools like JIRA, Confluence, TFS (Team Foundation Server), MS Project, SharePoint and Clarity. Thorough knowledge on Rally and Version One.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Springdale, AR

Enterprise Lean Agile DevSecOps Coach/Trainer/Mentor/ SAFe Program Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Leading the organization in the Agile adoption and improvement journey as an Enterprise-level Agile Coach
• Have been coaching and mentoring 12 teams in Agile and Scaled Agile execution in different domains.
• Helping to design, advise and promote strategic agile direction and transformations in partnership with organizational leaders
• Providing agile coaching to executive, business and technology teams
• Established and implementing metrics to optimize agile delivery and measure business agility in terms of predictability, reliability, and adaptability
• Involved in assessing and communicate enterprise-wide agile adoption progress against coaching, improvement, and change roadmaps
• Execute and manage the quarterly release planning processes
• Coaching Product Managers, Architects, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Agile teams, and senior management, to enhance Agile application, release planning, agile ceremonies, Kanban best practices, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery practices
• Shared Scrum, XP, DevOps and Kanban emergent practices through informal communication and/or formal sessions and Community of Practices (COPs)
• Provided leadership through hands on collaborative exercises/activities/workshops
• Trained more than 1,100 team members in different Agile concepts

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Agile Program Manager/Coach/Trainer/Mentor/ SAFe Program Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Launched multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs) in multiple value streams (Enterprise Master Item (EMI) and Space Management Domain) with Scrum and SAFe frameworks. Successfully introduced "Agility" in these domains.
• Trained Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Teams in Scrum and Scaled Agile Frameworks. Coached the teams with Program Increment (PI) planning and all the Sprint Ceremonies.
• Coach, Mentor and train 15 teams with almost 450 team members in Enterprise Master Item (EMI) product in all the ceremonies.
• Mentor and coached 25 directors in the PMO, organizational change management, Office of the CIO, development, QE, and business partners and established Agile maturity.
• Saved multi-million dollars in Agile maturity process through transformations, execution,, coaching, mentoring, facilitation using Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, XP, SAFe, Cynefin, Systems Thinking, Continuous integration, Continuous development and Lean in various domains.

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Agile Coach/ Release Train Engineer/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Have been involved in the execution of projects in Global Compliance and People Systems through Project Management Shared Services Pillar.
• Executed most critical projects in Global Compliance area like SPARK, Audit Management, CIRs, Risk Management and Archer Needs with Agile methodology.
• Extensive business knowledge of Walmart Organization.
• Transformed almost 25 projects from Waterfall to Agile in different domains by coaching and Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Team Members.
• Mentored 20 Project Managers to transform as Scrum Masters and 15 business analysts as product managers and product owners.
• Conducted multiple workshops like Agile-Lean Bootcamp, Agile-Lean for Business, User Story Writing & Decomposition, Kanban, Prioritization & Estimating, Self-Organization, Sprint Goal and Story Mapping.
• Worked as a Scrum Master for multiple teams to in various domains to bring more Agile Maturity.
• Created high visible information radiators for all the project teams to provide the complete transformation visibility for all the stakeholders.
• Creation of a product roadmap and vision, Highly visible release schedule, Highly visible burndown and velocity charts and Highly visible QA metrics
• Maturation of servant leadership, leadership by intent and pervasive leadership at all levels of the organization
• Achieved Associate of the month for three times for outstanding contribution in delivering projects on time and within the budget.