SUMMARY

• Meticulous, result driven and highly accomplished Agile Leader with 12+ years of rich experience in the IT industry currently working as a Project Manager & possessing extensive expertise in the Finance, Insurance, Telecom, e - Commerce and IT space
• Possess outstanding track record of delivering best in business development activities with exceptional planning and organizational skills and demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a rapidly changing environment.
• A Business-Oriented Manager ensuring enhanced customer experience through quality and on time delivery while maintaining company profitability and high employee morale.
• Increased measurable velocity of SAFe Agile Release Train teams by 4x in a period of 8 weeks, 97% Business Features delivered during first release PI.
• Helped organization in Agile transformation with various Frameworks
• Work Accolades:
• Increased time to market by 50% for New Business Intelligence Products
• Helped organization save 40% cost with combination of Lean, DevOps and Scaled Agile Practices
• Worked on the projects that made to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant
• Major achievement as Change Agent were $ 50.76 Million by internal revenue in a year through introducing Agile, Lean and Kanban Practices.
• Transitioned multiple projects and programs in Telecom, Financial, Insurance and Health Care domain from concept to Product launch and retirement as an Agile Change agent. Project value ranges from $ 3.28 Million to 100 Million.
• Professional Accolades:
• Contributed to enhancements to PMI’s PMBOK v5 Scope Management in 2012
• Recognized by PMI for Volunteer support to Innovation and New Product Development Community in July, 2013
• Certified Product and Project Management Professional

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Agile Training and Certifications: SAFe - Scaled Agile Framework Program Consultant (SPC5), Project Management Professional (PMP) - License 1258931, Certified SCRUM Professional (CSP), Certified SCRUM Product Owner and Master (CSPO) - License 0102291, PMI Agile Certified Professional (PMI-ACP) - License 1473286, Certified Product Manager (CPM - AIPMM), ICAgile - CAT (Coaching Agile Team Transitions)

Agile Work Management Tools: Microsoft Azure DevOps, CA Agile Central (Rally), Versionone, IBM RTC, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, AgileCraft

Areas of Expertise: Digital Transformation, Agile/waterfall/SAFe/Kanban, Program/Project Management, People Management, Budgeting, Project Estimation, Negotiation, Risk/Crisis Management, Team Management, Consensus Building, Problem Solving Skills, Analytical Ability, Six Sigma with Lean, Agile/waterfall/SAFe/Kanban, Relationship Management, Cross Functional Communication, Strategic Planning

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in the strategic alignment of various IT and non-IT Portfolios to transition delivery practices to Agile across Confidential IT.
• Analyzed, Strategized the needs of the various Portfolio teams and developed structure governance and metrics to support new delivery practices. Documented Roles and Responsibilities as well as team practices.
• Helped bridge gap between IT and Non-IT portfolios.
• Helped in Value Stream mapping by creating current state and future state Value Stream Analysis for Upstream Areas.
• Created a Roadmap of Transition activities with milestones by quarter
• Trained and launched several Teams, Program and portfolios.
• Helped in introducing dojo/immersive learning for fastening agile adoptions at team level
• Participated and helped in execution of Digital Transformation Strategy
• Implemented Program and Portfolio Kanban system for Upstream IT ($1 billion portfolio), IT Strategy ($ 250 million portfolio)
• Prevented Organization from Scaling or leveraging scaling method when not necessary by advocating “Nail it before you scale it” resulting in limited teams leveraging SAFe/LeSS frameworks
• Developed, contributed and delivered team and organization training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile Transformation using gamification
• Championed cultural change at the Coach level and collaborated with Leadership to foster change within the Lean Agile Coach team.
• Implemented and Championed Lean Agile Coffee session as a means to increase transparency and communication across the organization.
• Co-developed Agile Health tool to Mature and cultivate Teams across the organization.
• Coached, Mentored, and Trained leaders, manager and consultants in honing servant leadership skills, agile and systems thinking skills.
• Transformed over 25 teams and 20+ apps within Upstream IT organization and 10+ non-IT teams in IT Strategy portfolios.
• Champion cultural change throughout Project and Organizational level creating an Agile environment for on budget delivery.
• Increased Internal Product awareness and Time to Market by consistent communications with IT Leadership and Business Managers, avoiding burden on the CAPEX, resulting in huge saving and satisfaction
• Transformed leaders and teams on a continual basis whilst exploring new methods of enhancing team's knowledge in Agile whilst upholding the 12 principles of Agile.
• Encouraged and promoted decisions for team structures based on empiricism process control: Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation.

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

Enterprise Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in the strategic alignment of Program and Portfolio to transition delivery practices to Agile.
• Analyzed the needs of the Provider Portfolio teams and developed structure governance and metrics to support new delivery practices. Documented Roles and Responsibilities as well as team practices.
• Identified potential growth opportunities. Helped with Value Stream mapping by creating current state and future state Value Stream Analysis. Created a Roadmap of Transition activities with milestones by quarter
• Trained and launched several Agile Release Trains in Provider Portfolio
• Introduced Program and Portfolio Kanban system
• Introduced Value Stream concept and helped in identifying the mapping of current state and future state
• Motivated Agile teams to deliver working software every sprint which saved $5 million every month with help of ATDD, CI, CD and Test Automation
• Practices introduced were broadly adopted by other teams.
• Coached a programs and portfolios on practices that led to the efficiency savings equal to one additional person for the team, with the benefit realized in one sprint. Team established an ongoing trend of very successful delivery.
• Achieved 100% of the planned features complete in just first program increment. Some teams on the trains have achieved more 105% of the Business Value.
• Helped Organization become Scaled Agile in 6 months and set path forward for Lean-Agile transformation by setting up Roadmap and milestones.
• Trained the teams in Leading SAFe

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Enterprise Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in the strategic alignment of enterprise teams to transition delivery practices to Agile.
• Analyzed the needs of the teams and developed structure governance and metrics to support new delivery practices. Documented Roles and Responsibilities as well as team practices.
• Identified potential growth opportunities for team members and developed skill improvement plans. Helped create current state and future state Value Stream Analysis. Created Roadmap of Transition activities with milestones by quarter
• Trained and Introduced several Pilot Agile Teams with one Agile Release Trai
• Performed Value Stream Mapping of 2 crucial LOBs with efficiency of 12-16% for current state and helped come up with future state mapping along with steps to achieve future state mapping
• Trained and Launched pilot teams and Agile Trains
• Introduced Program and Portfolio Kanban system
• Practices introduced were broadly adopted by other teams.
• Coached a team on practices that led to the efficiency savings equal to one additional person for the team, with the benefit realized in one sprint. Team established an ongoing trend of very successful delivery.
• Achieved 97% of the planned features complete in just first program increment. Some teams on the trains have achieved more 120% of the Business Value.
• Helped Organization become Agile in 6 months and set path forward for Lean-Agile transformation by setting up Roadmap and milestones.