SUMMARY

• A decisive leader in Enterprise Agile Transformation, and Agile Program Management. Trusted advisor to VPs and CXOs in driving PMO transformation strategy, to improve success rate in achieving business goals. Excellence in building high - performing global product delivery teams by developing Agile core values, building innovative and fit for purpose tools and process frameworks, and leading by example.
• 11 years of Agile Transformation strategy, roadmap and implementation experience
• Cloud Transformation - Program strategy and (Agile) planning in Finance sector
• PMO department leadership, development and continuous improvement of process and tools
• Release Train setup in global, multicultural environment
• Agile Coaching and Training at different levels & roles
• IT Project Financial/ Resource planning, tracking
• Product Value Stream planning & setup
• Expert in Agile tools evaluation, customizations and phased rollout
• 20+ years of experience in IT as Tech Lead, Senior Project Manager, Agile Coach, Transformation lead, Agile PMO Lead.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Agile: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Z21, OKR, Spotify

Tools: G-Suite, Rally, Jira Cloud, Confluence, Aha, AgileCraft, PowerPoint, Word, Excel

Tech. Platform: Java, JEE, MS .net, Oracle, Azure, AWS, GCP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Agile Transformation Lead, Coach, Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Agile Transformation Lead for the largest Product Transformation project in the company that is aimed to replace Mainframe by Google Cloud Platform. Created transformation strategy, Provided Scrum, Kanban and Scaling Agile training to more TEMPthan 40 Scrum teams transforming from waterfall to agile. Provided role based training for Scrum Masters, Tribe & Segment leaders, Product Architects/Owners.
• Converted a traditional progress measurement system (team, product, program levels) to an Agile measurement technique based on outcomes.
• Established a highly appreciated innovative way to deliver incremental business value that fits in a factory model of refactoring, redesign, data validation.
• Establishing a framework for Enterprise (1400 size) portfolio management, front door implementation for product idea management, risks and dependencies planning & tracking.
• Leads the BU in PMO tool (Aha & Jira) implementations, process definition and rollout.
• Establishing BU wide DevOps metrics to identify areas of DevOps pipeline improvements and then leads Product Management to plan change initiatives.
• Created 4 Guilds (clubs) for Scrum Masters, Writing good Agile Epics and Stories, XP Club, and for UX.
• Custom built dependencies management and risk escalation framework using Jira Cloud - Automation. Widely used across a 1500+ size business unit.

Confidential

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• PMO lead for 350+ member IoT platform development team. Responsible for setting up a Scaling Agile execution environment, Value Stream definition and Initiative Portfolio Kanban.
• XP -pair programming coach, trainer
• Built Agile value delivery metrics framework for the IOT Business Unit.
• Leads yearly and quarterly planning events to ensure alignment of strategy to major initiatives, supporting Lean budgeting, continuous planning re-prioritizing of product roadmaps, team backlogs, and release schedules.
• Worked wif Gartner top tier Agile tools to acquire and customize tools for Agile program, product, and release management. Led a team of procurement, legal, cybersecurity & enterprise architecture departments on MSA, RFQs, SoW, Purchase Orders. Led PMO initiatives to define major projects out of these acquisitions.
• Consultant program lead to GM and Chrysler - developed & deployed custom IOT vehicle health solutions, including client systems integration for Vehicle diagnostic data sources, felt records a various engine function parameters to support building mathematical models for health prediction and diagnostics. Managed professional services teams during - onboarding, training, customizations, and maintenance phases.
• Provided certification training on DevOps, Scrum, SAFe PM/PO

Confidential

Technical Project Manager and Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Consulting project manager at Confidential for AT&T, Comcast and Level 3 clients. Responsible for implementation and managed services support for Confidential products.
• Managed team sizes ranged from 18 - 45.
• Established organizational Agility goals for the Confidential product development team such as Time to Market, Quality, Engagement, Collaboration, and Frequent Deliveries.
• Responsible for coordinating pre-sales, client & vendor activities for Confidential for the above clients programs. This involved writing SoWs, pre-sales presentations, and coordinating reviews wif VPs of sales, PMO, Product, Managed Services, and Engineering.
• Agile Portfolio Manager of Mobile Center of Excellence. Introduced Portfolio and Program Kanban based approach to visualize the priorities work in-take and roadmap creation.

Confidential

Senior Development Lead

Responsibilities:

• Certified as Scrum Master and acted as Scrum coach and member of the early adoption leadership team, which coached, experimented Agile concepts (Scrum, Kanban) for 7 teams.
• HR, Benefits product development lead in JEE, Web, Oracle, Informix, Linux platform. Led HRB application product upgrades (enhancements, integration, rollout planning, interfacing wif QA).
• Systems integration lead for reporting BI platform development teams - this integration brought in data from six different reporting data sources . Used Informatica, Java BPO projects. Won an award for excellence in project management from the VP.

Confidential

Technical Lead and Senior PM

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead, offshore delivery team manager for IT product delivery & services teams. Developed and supported Web and PERL based IT products to GE Toshiba, Penske, CircuitCity.
• Lead systems integration team for building interfaces to a Penske’s truck servicing planning and tracking application (ServiceNet). This integration halped consolidate truck data from fleet records, service station, warranty department, and truck rental data to a single platform, using which ServiceNet application could derive valuable information improving diagnosis and truck services planning.
• Senior PM, onsite client coordinator for GE Aircraft Engines. Onsite Lead responsible for gathering product requirements, and rollout planning. Supported onsite lead for new business development, pricing and negotiations, vendor partnership (SoW, MSA, Project Plans, Purchase orders), and product integration.