SUMMARY:

• Experienced in Agile Transformation Scrum, Kanban and DevOps
• Delivered Agile, Scrum, Kanban and DevOps trainings in virtual as well class room settings
• Certifications: CSP, CSM and CSPO from Scrum Alliance. Six Sigma Black Belt from ASQ
• Expert in agile and waterfall: Managed programs and projects involving multiple vendors and spread across geographies. Also conceptualized and managed Agile PMO. Established DevOps teams
• Planed and managed multimillion - dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains
• Excellent communicator: I leverage technical and business acumen to communicate effectively with C level executives

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Servant leader
• Outcome based approach
• Coaching & mentorship
• Trainer & hand holding
• Assertive & facilitative
• Software development & support
• Process improvement migrations & integrations
• Project scheduling, costing & budgeting
• Cross-Functional supervision & client relations
• Business & IT planning
• IT vendor management
• Agile PMO setup & management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Agile Coach & Trainer / Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coached & Trained teams of SFDC, Oracle ERP, IDM, MDM, and Siebel integration program.
• This team has onsite as well offshore components.
• This was the first agile program at Confidential .
• Also played the role of Scrum Master with one of the team
• ERP upgrade program. Also played role of Scrum Master with one of the team
• Product engineering teams for launching new flash based storage system
• Conducted workshops for Enterprise Release Management team on Scrum and Kanban
• Instrumental in PMO transformation from Waterfall into Agile
• Devised mechanism to transform ITIL based model (Dev & support teams) into DevOps model across enterprise IT and engineering.
• Participated SAFe implementation in Sales Operation area
• Active part of SAFe rollout across shared services area

Confidential

Lead Coach for Agile, Scrum, Kanban & DevOps

Responsibilities:

• Conducting regular workshops focusing on Scrum, Kanban and DevOps in distributed teams
• Instrumental in developing framework to support multiple vendor & location outsources IT services (development as well as support) in Scrum & Kanban
• Conducting agile workshops using virtual as well as classroom sessions spread across multiple days.
• Conducting workshops focusing on TDD, CI and CD.

Confidential

Lead Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for Salesforce implementation team
• Conducted one day workshops focusing on Scrum, TDD, CI and CD
• Introduced Agile & Lean practices in N4 implementation across various locations
• Coached implementation teams in Scrum, Kanban and TDD
• Scrum Master for eight rollouts of mobile services at various locations

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed Lean and Agile CoE to promote lean and agile practices across projects and client base.
• Developed guidelines for PMO to in corporate Agile and Lean projects.
• Creator and Owner of Infogain's assessment methodology.
• The assessment projects involve engineering process and architecture assessment. Assessment methodology supports insurance/claims processing, high-tech manufacturing, Logistics and transportation. Successful assessment conducted at VMWare, Home Depot, Mitchell Medical, Systemsfusion, Emerald Health, Red Hat, etc.
• Leadership and management of CoE in core technology areas and successful execution of several initiatives. Successfully built a joint COE with customer in enterprise SOA. Advises several strategic customers in driving COE in building core competency in areas like Web 2.0, SOA Integration, Identity Management, and SaaS
• Developed and managed Enterprise Architecture, BigData, SOA, and Cloud Teams to gain business across the globe. In addition, directly involved in development and enforcing architecture for BPM and Portal initiatives which encompasses various projects using TIBCO and Oracle Fusion Middleware tool sets.
• Lead member of Development and Review Panel of RFPs & Proposals. Extensively involved in presales activities and works as interface between Sales and Delivery teams
• Worked with African markets for outsourcing and off shoring model. To purse this objective, engaged with TELCOs and ISPs. The projects include IT & ITeS services - portal development, data migration, integration, setting up architectural board, remote Infrastructure management, application & product maintenance & support - 24x7, product implementation
• Led a team of professionals who were engaged in assessment for Architecture - Enterprise, Product, sustenance of IT assets and setting up Engineering Processes
• Established new strategic direction of utilizing Agile Project Management methodologies - Scrum, Kanban and Test Driven Development
• Coaching and conducting Agile & Lean workshops

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed Integration of Oracle R12 and SAP using Oracle Fusion Middleware
• Worked as Scrum Master for integration team
• Conducted online workshops and training sessions focusing on agile, lean and scrum
• Solutioned & Managed new generation VAS content repository & management solution based on open source tool set and catering 2G and 3G network needs. The development was carried out using Domain driven development (DDD) and Test driven development (TDD).
• Worked as Scrum Master for mPaisa development team. Team used TDD extensively.
• Coached teams on Scrum and Agile.
• Conducted workshops on agile architecture.
• Managed the solution for Store Management focusing on Monitoring (Business and & Technical) and software distribution across stores
• Conducted training and on agile architecture
• Lead architect to develop solution for Xiing, its integration with other enterprise systems. Development team used DDD and TDD as guiding principle.
• Advisor for Evolutionware|4 to improve its architecture and maintenance
• Conducted workshops focusing on agile way of working and scrum.
• Defining and Strategy development of Enterprise Integration and BPM Architecture based on principle of SOA using TIBCO toolset.
• Special emphasis was placed on internationalization, governance, security and performance
• Architected solution on TIBCO tools set to cater EAI/B2B and BPM needs
• Developed Strategy for Integration and SOA and prepared roadmap for execution of it.
• Special emphasis was placed on consolidating regulatory systems across globe
• Conducted workshops and training on agile architecture and scrum implementation at enterprise level.