SUMMARY:

• Capitalize on collaborative leadership to effectively align teams and projects with agile best practices, and implement transformation, change and acceleration initiatives.
• As an Agile Transformation Leader and Coach with over 16 years of industry experience, I can help people and teams to become outstanding at agile, creating products that make them proud and helping organizations reap the powerful benefits of teams that deliver both innovation and excellence.
• I hold expertise in strategizing the creation of agile ecosystem within organizations from “No Agile” to “Be Agile”, by optimizing use of the organization's capabilities to maximize business value, embrace change and streamline organizational flow to gain alignment across the organization on the Agile working model and provide leadership & guidance at all stages of transformation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Agile Coaching
• Organizational Leadership Enablement
• Agile Ecosystem building and sustainability
• Agile transformation
• Maturity assessment, metrics, KPI creation & analysis
• Technology: Business Relationship
• Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Certified Coach
• JIRA/Confluence
• Strong communication, facilitation, negotiation, collaboration and interpersonal skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SENIOR AGILE TRANSFORMATION LEADER

Confidential - Toronto, Ontario

Responsibilities:

• Coached and transformed leadership mindset, including but not limited to Confidential Bank’s VPs, AVPs and Value Stream Leads and teams to establish a customer centric, MVP driven, collaborative ecosystem with a team of 200+ people focused on working in an Agile delivery model, keeping business outcome front & center.
• Headed the transformation and coaching team for product development and launch of the “All-in Banking package” program of Confidential Bank, using Agile and successfully launched the product ahead of the expected time, with multi million dollars profit.
• Coached business executives, product owners, scrum masters, cross functional teams and their business partners to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision making, conflict resolution and transparency; worked across business units to set alignment and consistency in practicing Agile.
• Championed cultural change and collaborated with other Coaches on plans and techniques for accelerating and advancing the organization's Agile transformation.
• Understood the program/portfolio opportunities and made appropriate recommendations.
• Strategized and executed the agile adoption and agile maturity assessment/improvement plans for the respective programs.
• Was part of the Agile Transformation Committee of Confidential Bank to guide the leadership in identifying and resolving impediments and provided leadership in strategizing the “Agile@Scale” roadmap.
• Spear headed the development and launch of role specific and organizational training materials and workshops, lift-off and onboarding tool kits, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile transformation.
• Established and supported communities of practice to promote organizational understanding of Agile roles and processes and to help individuals develop into them.
• Developed and monitored key success factors to track progress of agile ways of working; adoption and maturity to aid in accelerating overall agile transformation efforts.
• Some of the metrics developed by me and my team of specialists: Agile Readiness Checklist, Agile Health Check, Agile Strong Squad Checklist, Agile Maturity Assessment for teams, Agile effectiveness surveys for Scrum Masters and Product Owners, Monte Carlo Forecasting techniques, Actionable Agile Analytics to measure and forecast value delivery of teams, KPI Calculators and information radiating presentations for business vertical leaders for effective decision making.
• Established practices to forecast, measure, test, analyze and report on the impact of transformation and business improvement activities
• Established and lead a dynamic culture or experimentation, continuous learning, sensing and seizing opportunities, information transparency, active partnership, and flexible people allocation.
• Acted as a strong change agent, educating key stakeholders across the organization on the benefits of Agile
• Facilitated the development, delivery, and optimization of program backlog to effectively deliver on Customer Growth strategies
• Collaborated with change management, Risk, compliance, Finance, Global Agile PMO for aligning on strategies and execution and setting the programs to success
• Wrote Agile FAQs, articles and success stories which were published via newsletters and posted on Organizational communication media to improve Agile awareness and maturity level within the organization.
• Active participant in Toronto Agile Community Conference, SPARK Conference, AGILETO Meetups and various other Agile/Lean Community socializing events
• Headed the transformation and coaching team for product development and launch of the “ All-in Banking package ” program of Confidential Bank, using Agile and successfully launched the product ahead of the expected time, with multi million dollars profit.
• Instrumental in laying the Agile transformation roadmap and execution strategy for the Confidential 's Agile Center of Excellence, enabling business teams and partners to adopt Agile practices. Confidential 's Canada Segment Agile Maturity went up from 2.4 to 5.5 (out of 10) in 2 years, and Confidential Bank's Agile Maturity went up from 3.5 to 6.5 in 2 years
• Have provided hands-on coaching for around 150+ people within the organization

SENIOR AGILE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as Senior Agile Program Management Confidential and coach to manage multiple projects initiated withing Confidential India’s SCM Sector
• Provided leadership in strategizing and rolling out of Agile adoption roadmap, coaching roadmap and facilitated Agile initiatives from initiation through release, providing oversight to ensure alignment with organizational Agile/Scrum practices.
• Organized multiple team of teams and holding extensive experience in coaching and mentoring senior Executive leadership
• Worked rigorously on removing impediments, on continuous improvement meetings and on educating the leadership and teams to understand and adopt Agile Methodology.
• Supported the development of Agile program leads, Scrum masters, team members and their leaders through mentoring, education, training etc
• Developed coaching resourcing strategy and plans
• Facilitated CoPs with other Scrum masters/PMs and POs in the organization.
• Organized exchange events like LEGO, Open Spaces or World Cafés for sharing insights throughout the Organization.
• Collaborated and negotiated Leadership buy-in on the establishment of Agile CoE for Confidential India's IT sector. Internal stakeholder NPS increased from 4 to 6 in 6 months’ time, thereby increasing inflow of projects by 50% to India BU.
• Performed the role of coach, to coach, train and mentor people belonging to multiple squads - enabling Scrum Masters to handle their teams independently.

PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led strategic Release Planning and tactical Iteration Planning sessions
• Conducted daily stand-ups in two-week Iterations, facilitated sprint reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning
• Communicated and presented weekly updates to stakeholders and program managers
• Coordinated software development with product and marketing groups to ensure feature release based on commitments
• Developed the roadmap for all teams to evolve toward predictive velocities
• Brought in Agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, rally tracking, product visioning, technical debt reduction, self-management, empowerment and role training resulting in realized velocity improvement of more than 100%.
• As a Scrum Master, identified process changes required to accelerate development and remove major impediments. In eight weeks, reduced time to ship by approximately 30%. To achieve these results, updated group's processes to conform to Agile Scrum standards
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrum calls for different teams operating within the same product development following Agile processes
• Managed clientele like Goldman Sachs, Prudential Financials, American Express, KPMG, Citibank, Hewitt on web and mobile platforms.
• Managed projects with budget ranging from $100,000 to $5 million worth product development.
• Served as People Manager for 70 people within the Organization