SUMMARY

• Twenty (20+) years’ experience in Software Engineering, Technology, Project and Product Development. Provide coaching, Agile material development, and formal . Last 9 years have been devoted to Agile adoption and transformations. Results driven with a solid understanding of the challenges associated with globally distributed teams. Successfully lead large strategic projects/programs (18+) for Fortune 500 organizations (GE, JPMC, Citibank, Motorola HP, Travelers, Schneider Electric, Disney, ICICI bank, CMP Media, First Data) at USA, India and France
• Offered industry best practices and processes. Partnered with leadership to initiate Agile Suitability/Readiness assessment to make sure that agile is a good fit. Worked with leadership team to determine plan and coaching need for Agile transformation
• Provided the team with necessary advice when it’s needed. Followed the agile and lean rules himself during daily work. Helped team to improve their performances. Helped team to instill self - awareness, and the necessary skills to identify and remove impedimentsas well as be in control of their own destiny
• Completed assessments of the current state of agile implementation within the teams and provided coaching plan to address the areas of opportunity found during the assessment
• Presented Agile topics in the organization wide speaker series
• Involved in rollout of SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) at 2 organizations
• and coaching at 4 different clients (6+ years)
• Leading and mentoring teams during iterative development cycles while delivering committed results
• Facilitated and educated the teams to enhance Scrum and agile skills. Conducted Agile virtual boot camp and agile overview, Leadership, Product Owner and Scrum Master .
• Coached Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Development teams in the use of Agile practices
• Guide teams in setting up development environments that enable test-driven development (TDD), automated builds and automated acceptance testing
• Developed Executive-level briefings on Agile activities and presented to Senior Leadership in Agile Transformation reviews
• Focused on the teams to write good user stories, prioritize the work based on business value and handling of the tasks by the team. Conducted user stories writing workshop for the BAs and product owners to share, learn and develop user story writing skills. Worked with the product owners and teams on product planning and backlog refinement to maximize value to the business stakeholders
• Drive “Scrum of Scrum” adoption (primarily Program and Team-level) at Energy management and Automation client (~ 28 months)
• Led activities to implement Cognizant Daikibo(TM) Scaled Agile Framework at Media and Entertainment client (~ 15 months)
• Launched and contributed to Release Train Engineer Communities of Practice (RTE CoP), Scrum Master Communities of Practice (SM CoP) and Product Owner Communities of Practice (PO CoP) since last 7+ years
• Broad spectrum of business and technical experience: Track record of delivering programs in Banking, Financial Services and Insurance, Consumer & Retail, Publication & Media and Manufacturing domain using Java/J2EE internet technologies, Microsoft Technology, C/C++, embedded technologies, Oracle and Open Source technologies.
• Extensive experience in Project / Program and Product management, Business Analysis and Customer Relationship Management, Release Train Engineer (RTE) & Agile Coach

SKILL SET:

Architecture / Design: Rational Rose, Visio

Front End: J2EE, Java Swing, JSP, ASP.NET, Oracle Forms, XML, HTML, JavaScript, Struts, Ajax,Spring, XSLT, AngularJS, Kendo UI

Middleware: C, C- SDK, C++, VC++, .NET, VB.NET, COM/DCOM, Hibernate, EJB, ILog-JRules

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, Access, Toad client, Teradata, Data Warehouse, Mongo DB

CMS/Search Engine: Interwoven, Documentum, Autonomy

Development/Test Methodologies: Agile | Lean Scrum, XP, Kanban, SAFe, TDD, Waterfall, RAD, Iterative, CMM Level 5 & CMMI

QA/QC: Load runner, Quick Test Pro, Bugzilla, Test Track Pro, Quality Center, Selenium

Configuration Management System: VSS, Rational Clear case, PVCS, Subversion, GitHub

Project Management: MS Office, MS Project Server, PIV, Presag, Confluence

Tools for Agile: MS Excel, Version one, Rally, IBM RTC, JIRA, Scrumwise, AgileCraft

Others: WebLogic, Websphere, Liferay, Epicentric, Interwoven, Autonomy, Documentum, Junit, Jenkins, Cruise Control, Ant, Tableau, Erwin, Embarcadaro, SAS, Ansible

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Principle Release Train Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Establish and communicate the calendars for iterations and program increments (PIs)
• Organize the program increment planning event which includes extensive detailed preparation regarding organizational readiness, content readiness and facility readiness
• Facilitate the PI Planning event, including acting as master of ceremonies, managing the time-boxed agenda, coordinating key reviews and decisions, and ensuring results of planning are recorded
• Facilitate other meetings including the Agile Release Train (ART) Sync, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos and Inspect and Adapt
• Work directly in JIRA, AgileCraft and Confluence to manage and track the PI
• Escalate, track and work towards the resolution of impediments
• Help identify and manage risks and dependencies with teams inside and outside of the train
• Maintain transparency regarding program execution including delivery of features, impact of impediments, and quality measures
• Work with product management, product owners and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
• Drive program-level continuous improvement by tracking and presenting metrics, facilitating retrospectives and assessments, and identifying and tracking specific actions to take based on their results
• Led RTE Community of Practice and encourage people in other roles in the train to establish their own CoP or participate in existing ones
• Encourage and coach members of the ART in SAFe and lean-agile practices and mindsets, including roles, processes, and agile engineering and quality practices
• Define, communicate, and implement ART best practices
• Act as trainer and coach to other RTEs/Scrum Masters and the organization on Lean Agile Practices

Confidential

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Coaching, encouraging, and mentoring organizations to inspire transformational change
• Act as a change agent within the Lean-Agile transformation, coach leaders, product owners, teams and scrum masters with new processes.
• Supported and guided teams to create clear and compelling product visions, then work to assist in delivering their sprint goals.
• Created Agile materials that educate, delight, and inspire audiences. Train new and experienced teams. Encourage teams to experiment & embrace change.
• Conducted team and organization assessments on Agile processes & programs. Offer recommendations, along with comprehensive, as needed
• Introduced engineering practices, e.g. ATDD, TDD, CI/CD, Automated Testing, etc.
• Responsible for establishing and contributing to Agile community of practice
• Involved in organization wide agile tools assessment and selection
• Provided strategic transformation and coaching “C” level executives
• Applied hands-on approach where necessary, by performing a Scrum Master role
• Helped the program in the dependency management and coordination of major feature releases and ongoing delivery of value to customers