SUMMARY

• More than Seven (7) years of Agile experience in various roles such as Agile Coach, Release Train Engineer and Scrum Master; over Seventeen (17) years of experience in IT
• Two+(2.5) years of Agile Coaching experience in Confidential Company
• Executive council member for www. Confidential .com a niche Agile Coach community of practice.
• Experience in effectivity transforming organizations, programs and teams for greater agility using agile methodologies, frameworks and professional coaching skills.
• Proficient at working with Business and IT leadership to transform programs and projects from Waterfall into Agile
• Skilled in coaching, mentoring, training, facilitation of Business & IT Leadership, Product Managers/Owners, Release Train Engineer, Scrum Master and other cross functional team members
• Proficient in coaching and facilitating large scale Agile Release Planning events, the largest being over 110+ members
• Experience in hosting and facilitating agile assessment in large programs to evaluate agile adoption rate, assess agile maturity of programs/teams and provided coaching to create action items
• Well versed in Agile Team Coaching in methodologies, SAFe, Scrum, Lean Kanban and custom frameworks (OSAM, AFA)
• Proficient in building, customizing specific to teams/programs/orgs Agile metrics and reporting such as Release Tracking, Portfolio Timeline, Portfolio Kanban, Feature cycle, Feature Dependencies, Release Burn up/Burn down, PI and Scrum Cumulative Flow, PI and Sprint Velocities burn down charts
• Worked with multiple product managers/owners and architects in PMC settings to drive capabilities and feature refinement, grooming and planning
• Coached/mentored/facilitated support to create vision, roadmaps for products, created/updated release and program plans with Epics, Capabilities, Features with dependencies
• Facilitated and mentored product management councils, scrum of scrum and integrated product/program status meetings
• Hosted/facilitated agile communities of practice, Inspect and Adapt workshops
• Agile tools experience includes CA Agile Central Formerly Rally (2 Day Power user training), Version One, TFS and JIRA tools
• Experienced at collaborating effectively with multi shore development centers in the USA, India, Poland and Bolivia using Agile/Scrum, SDLC, Waterfall and Iteration methodology
• Strived for continuous improvement in program management and collaborated effectively with engineering offices in the USA, India, Poland and Bolivia on development process improvement

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PM, Agile Tools: Rally, Version One, JIRA, MS Team Foundation Server, MS Project, MS VisioMS Share Point

Development Technologies: .Net, ASP.Net, C#, Core Java, Map Objects, WPF, WCF, ASP.Net, C#, MS SQLLINQ, JAVA, Fuse App Server, MQ, IBM BPM (iLog), IBM WODM, JSXML, Oracle, iOS, Coded UI, Selenium, Python J2EE, EJB, JSP, UML, JDBCXML, Schema, XML, Swing, Java Beans, Spring, Jenkins build tool

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle, Mongo DB, MySQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Agile Coach

Confidential, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Working with Program/Project Managers to define/execute project road mapping for various projects of Direct+.
• Collecting, uploading & refining JIRA data into Portfolio plug in for monitoring roadmap across Direct+ program.
• Defining, publishing and facilitating Road mapping exercise, metrics and reporting for Direct+ program.
• Enterprise Architecture Group Coaching Assignment
• Creating JIRA Kanban boards for EA Architecture summit initiatives and Architects engagement for existing Programs/Projects
• Working with Sr Leadership to define coaching engagement goals, adoption aligned to business outcomes and providing greater visibility.
• Creating Kanban board, coaching team members on WIP, Throughput and metrics for each functions.
• Working with Program Leadership to define Agile adoption & maturity for teams.
• Mentor & Coach Team coaches to drive team coaching goals & outcomes as agreed with different program leaders.
• Implementing Agile process, principles and practices across all levels and LoBs.
• As Agile Coach must use techniques that increase collaboration, predictability, transparency and promote a culture of experimentation and innovation.
• As an Agile Coach must also embody the Agile principles and lead by example.
• Training Agile teams, coaching them through the process of onboarding and initial project sprints, and helping team members develop skills and become self - sufficient.
• Coaching TechAnalytics Program Leadership.
• Acting as Coach closely partnering with the Product Manager & IT Delivery Owner to guide one agile release train for TechAnalytics projects.
• Working with Adoption coach & TechAnalytics leadership to define coaching goals & outcomes.
• Work with other program leaders to drive the definition and refinement of the program backlog
• Ensuring cross-value stream coordination and collaboration
• Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on program-level plans, progress and quality
• Actively manages the program scope, budget, risks, issues, deliverables, and schedule of individual program tasks, as well as timely reporting of program status
• Working with Team Coach to collect team improvements.
• Working with Team Coach, Scrum Masters to review, plan & execute Scrum ceremonies improvements.
• Working with Team Coach, Product Owners to review, plan & execute improvements for backlog refinements and delivery of business.
• Provide training sessions and teach valuable skills that lead toward the organization-wide adoption of Agile methodologies.
• Conducting Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certification courses across organizations.
• Conduct LEAD’s training programs such as Agile/Kanban courses, SM & PO Trainings.
• As a Communities of Practice (CoP) Lead, ensure sessions are hosted, organized and conducted at SH, CV & Malibu locations.
• As a CoP Lead, help evangelists host, organize & manage role specific guilds.
• Help Agile Evangelists, Champions and Enthusiasts in helping run CoPs and Guilds.
• Working with Agile Evangelists in hosting Scrum Master Guild’s online sessions.

Environment: JIRA, JIRA Portfolio Plugin, Confluence/Wiki, SharePoint, Skype, Microsoft Teams, CA Agile Central, Aha.

Agile Coach

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Successfully transformed a multi-million-dollar waterfall program to agile
• Coached and consulted with business and IT leaders to adopt agile and transformed to the agile way of working through stages, responsiveness, predictability and productivity
• Completed Agile Trainings & Workshops for Business & IT Leadership, Program Teams.
• Provided Coaching & Mentoring to create Product roadmap, define product capabilities & features in preparation for PI Planning sessions.
• Mentored IT teams during agile estimation exercise for program budget estimating & funding value streams and its underlying agile teams
• Worked with Business & IT leaders in creating & defining program Kanban with capabilities and features based on values streams and roadmaps
• Conducting 1st PI planning with agile teams, facilitated and mentored during event.
• Coached and mentored to the product management group during Roadmap planning, PMC calls and prepared for PI planning
• Coaching & Facilitating to prioritize identified improvement items from sprint retrospective & demos to iteration backlog for continuous improvement of teams.
• Hosted the agile office hours to coach team members for E&I line of business.
• Conducted agile assessments to evaluate maturity of multiple teams in agile programs.
• Coached and mentored during inspect and adapt workshops
• Held coaching sessions with RTE and SM, product managers and owners, IT Leadership, QA and DevOps
• Coached adopting the agile mindset during ceremonies and conducted agile games
• Agile CoP participation through speaking, presenting and hosted the agile games sessions

Environment: Rally, Confluence/Wiki, SharePoint, IIB (Server, MQ), Java, AntHill Pro, Maven

Agile Coach

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated and mentored to create program roadmap, defined product capabilities and features
• Mentored during the agile estimation exercise to fund value streams and the agile teams
• Created and defined the program Kanban with capabilities and features based on values streams and roadmaps.
• Working with Program & Product Management team to estimates feature sizes, capabilities count and coming up with agile funding model for all teams.
• Provided agile training to the new team members, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and agile teams
• Provided coaching and mentoring during the product roadmap planning and PMC calls
• Participated and coached during the cross-program dependency management calls
• Coaching & Facilitating to prioritize identified improvement items from sprint retrospective & demos to iteration backlog for continuous improvement of teams.
• Provided agile coaching teams practicing, SAFe, Scrum and Lean Kanban
• Worked with the leadership teams to define, collect and report agile metrics and reports
• Customized, configured and collected CA Agile Central (Rally) to collect agile metrics dashboards.
• Contributed & worked along with Optum Reporting team to identify metrics - release, sprint, Kanban and retrospective improvement items.
• Conducted agile assessments to evaluate the maturity of teams
• Facilitated and mentored during inspect and adapt workshops
• Team coached on adopting the agile mindset during ceremonies and conducted the agile games
• Agile CoP participating through speaking, presenting and hosting the agile games sessions

Environment: Rally, Confluence/Wiki, SharePoint, IIB (Server, MQ), Java, AntHill Pro, Maven

Agile Coach

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Coached, trained and mentored teams on Agile/SAFe/Scrum
• Addressed program backlogs by working with multiple programs
• Managed Features, Epics and User stories in Rally tool and worked with Program Management team to estimates and create Agile Release Roadmap over 3 PIs.
• Running workshops for business & product Management team on Agile estimation techniques, agile funding model through value stream analysis.
• Ran the PI planning sessions every 10 weeks
• Hosted Scrum of Scrum SOS everyday, managed product management council calls
• Held ownership and responsibility to run program as Release Train Engineer for six teams
• In features scope discussions, elaborated Epics and Stories with Scope and Acceptance Criteria
• Creation of agile metrics dashboard for tracking external team’s tasks through Kanban Task board for teams.
• Managed the resolution of issues that may not have an established precedence
• Coaching sessions, RTE and SM, product managers and owners, IT Leadership, QA, DevOps
• Agile CoP participating through speaking, presenting and hosted the agile games sessions

Environment: Rally, Confluence/Wiki, Sharepoint, IIB (Server, MQ), Java, AntHill Pro, Maven

Sr. Scrum Master

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Managed multi-vendors and multi-time zone distributed scrum teams
• Coached, trained and mentored teams on Agile/SAFe/Scrum
• Managed Features, Epics and User stories in Rally tool
• Sizing feature & epics, estimate & project features for all PIs through roadmap and help define value streams for funding purpose.
• Work with IT leadership to define Agile teams for each value streams and help erect & hire agile teams.
• Assisted RTE and Program Managers to run quarterly release planning sessions
• Managed Scrum of Scrum SOS calls
• Scrum Master for two teams in Agile Release Trains to release on demand and develop on Cadence
• Managed multiple scrum ceremonies, Sprint Planning, Sprint Refinements, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospection, daily stand ups, QA warranty calls and three Amigos
• Responsible for running technology initiative scrum teams for Fuse Technology programs to implement new hardware/platform, refactoring and implementing new designs
• Active participation in systems team meetings for development on cadence with different functions, Dev-ops, QA, IT, Dev, PM’s, SM’s, App Dev Managers and PTLs etc.
• Worked with Business Analysts, System Analysts, Architects and Tech lead to have elaborated discussion on Architectural Runways and finalizing Spikes
• Generation of Reports from Rally, Program, Iteration, Dependencies and Velocity etc.
• Facilitating agile teams’ continuous improvement items coming out of sprint retrospectives as zero pointers in sprint backlog and tracking till teams mature.
• Agile retrospective round robin games to keep distributed teams engaged and help identify improvement items.
• Managed the resolution of issues that may not have an established precedence

Environment: Rally, Confluence/Wiki, Sharepoint, Fuse Server, MQ, Thunderhead, Java, Java Spring, Oracle DB, Mongo DB, Jenkins Build tool

Project Manager

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Manage TPR Automation project ~US$1.5 Million, multi-vendor engagement with onsite & offshore teams
• Create, monitor, and update a detailed project plan.
• Help establish work plan and assist with the staffing for each phase of project, including recruitment and assignment of personnel.
• Provide management and strategic direction to a team - Solution Architect, IBM ODM Architect, Onshore Leads, Offshore Project Manager.
• Manage cross functional team communication
• Responsible for the project development, budget and schedule.
• Establish goals, negotiate project commitments and develop project plans.
• Review and provide input into the project scope definition and coordinate development and approval of the business and technical requirements documents.
• Coordinate the formulation and definition of technical scope and objectives in collaboration with technical subject matter experts.
• Manage the resolution of issues that may not have an established precedence.
• Coordinate activities of project personnel to ensure projects progress on schedule and within budget.
• Recommend and adjust the project plan and staffing.

Environment: JIRA, MS Project, IBM BPM, IBM ODM, JAVA, Spring FW, Oracle, Porch, Sharepoint

Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Confidential, Elkridge, MD

Responsibilities:

• Lead senior team - Offshore Scrum Master, Project Manager, Test Architect & Mobile Developers
• Participate in sprint demos and accept user stories.
• Conduct sprint reviews with customer business teams on test automation & running automation scripts on internal staging platforms.
• Conducting PoC’s on different Automation tools for uPerform Product
• Process Ownership - Own Automation Strategy, Design, Implementation and Review.
• Responsible for QA strategy, Test Planning, Test Cycle Execution, defect management in QA cycles and Reporting.
• Preparing, tracking & developing sprint metrics & reports for senior management & cross functional teams
• Work with customer product management team, scrum master to integrate automation project into customer sprints.
• Work with customer scrum master to track & manage inter team dependencies.

Environment: VersionOne, C#, ASP.Net, JavaScript, Coded UI Tool, SVN, iOS, GitHub, Basecamp

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managing multi location scrum team from offshore
• Assisting other scrum masters in driving sprint backlog, sprint dependencies & sprint risks.
• Driving Agile ceremonies as scrum master - Grooming, planning, retrospections, daily standups
• Coaching scrum team members on agile philosophy, principles & techniques.
• Participate with customers on sprint grooming, planning, budgeting & release management
• Breaking product roadmap into Iterations & projecting velocity for teams
• Ownership of end to end sprint metrics, generation & reporting to onsite customer team and offshore internal program team.
• Iteration demos to business, audience of 25+
• Identifying, tracking & improving team’s maturity in agile adoption & acceptance.
• Ownership of driving continuous improvement backlog raised for all scrum teams through sprint retrospectives.
• Improving scrum team velocities, creating open & transparent communication culture and increasing velocities of offshore teams.
• Helping onsite scrum master with creating & tracking offshore scrum team metrics - velocity charts, burn down charts, defect density charts, dependency chart and improvement items.

Environment: MS Project, MS Visio, JIRA, Java, JBOSS, JUNIT, MS SQL, Selenium and Python

Agile Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participating with product management, sales team in the consulting pre-sales phase, due diligence phase and preparing statement of work documents.
• Initiating & kick off 1st agile team in company for MIC product using pure scrum model.
• Producing sprint reports, quality reports, agile project plans & release management plan
• Provides a Technical Leadership and Strategic Direction to the Testing COE for engineering centers in US, India & Bolivia.
• Work closely with engineering in early product phases to facilitate agile development methodology
• Responsibility of setting up scrum ceremonies - sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily standup, retrospectives, demo & review sessions.
• Responsibility of creating & driving agile metrics presentations with VP Engineering such as Sprint Velocities, Spring burn down, iteration status across scrum teams.
• Interface for customer support group to maintain & release production software & patches

Environment: MS Project, JIRA, PIIE Tool, JavaScript, SQL Server 2005