Certified Scrum Master and Program management professional with 17+ years of strong Automotive background with a Span of 5+ Years in Design tools development / Automotive software development. Adept at facilitating Agile methodologies, improving team collaboration and delivering successful projects, additionally, having 6 years of experience in the Gas turbine domain and a year of experience in Press tools. Onsite experience in GE Greenville, SC helped to deliver better designs. Opel Frankfurt, DE and GM Torino, IT - production support and Future Engine program support helped enhance the design skills of the Engine.
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Gnana Guru Palaniappan Alagappan
Program Manager / Scrum master
Bengaluru
Summary
Overview
18
years of professional experience
1
Certificate
Work History
Tata Consultancy Services
Program Manager / Scrum Master - Embedded System
04.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Certified Scrum master
- Coached teams in Agile practices
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time
- Collaborated with product owners, 40+ team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress
- Facilitated Scrum framework - sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives
- Proactively identified and removed impediments to team's progress, resulting in improved delivery efficiency
- Fostered culture of continuous improvement within team, leading to enhanced productivity and product quality
- Tracked and reported key Agile metrics to monitor progress and identify areas for enhancement
- Successfully resolved conflicts within team and with stakeholders
- Upheld Scrum values of commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect within Scrum Team.
- Mentored junior team members on Scrum best practices, fostering their professional growth within organization.
- CI/CD and Agile methodologies used though out SDLC. Tools in use are Jira, Jira Align, jenkins, GitHub
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Engineering Manager - Design Tools
10.2019 - 03.2023
Job overview
- Handled requirement analyst role for 9 NX CAD Tools / KBE apps and worked with various business stakeholders / Product owners to enhance requirements given.
- Coached Design Tools team to Create / Maintain NX automation based on Expression / Start Parts / Reuse Library / NX Journals / NXopen .
- Coordinated with development and Testing team to deliver Tools/Apps to requirements and to timing plan.
- Used CI/CD and Agile approach for software developments. Tools used were Azure DevOps/TFS , GIT
- Enhanced overall team productivity with continuous training and mentoring of 5 junior engineers.
General Motors Technical Center India Ltd
Engineering Manager - Engine Design
07.2006 - 09.2019
Job overview
- Progressed from Designer - Engine design to Engineering Manager - Engine Design
- Worked with Global Design Teams in Opel, GM -North America, Korea, Mexico and Italy to deliver design and Tolerance analysis for Engine design
- Created and developed detailed work plans to meet business priorities, deadlines and Budgets
- Implemented practices and procedures to reduce expenditures and increase savings - Implemented Better Cheaper Faster ideas to save nearly 5 FTEs
- Educated staff on organizational mission and goals to help employees achieve success
- Review performance of each individual and rate them annually
- Implemented Excel, SharePoint, PowerBI based automation tools for various Report generations
- Supported Engine Pre-Production builds from Torino Italy and Opel Frankfurt DE
- Derived Design Team to Release designs Ontime with 0 Math Spills and Tolerance stackup Analysis team to verify Designs for Engine components - Exhaust manifold, Turbocharger, Catalytic converter, Head and Valve train, Block and Crank train
Education
MIT Campus, Anna UniversityChennai, India
Bachelor of Engineering from Automotive Engineering
07.2002 - 05.2006
University Overview
Skills
Microsoft Office
Continuous Improvement
Self-Motivated
Training and mentoring
Customer interaction
Project Management
Scrum Framework
Agile Methodology
Visual Basic
VBScript
Microsoft SharePoint
JIRA
Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Office
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Timeline
Program Manager / Scrum Master - Embedded System
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2023 - Current
Engineering Manager - Design Tools
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
10.2019 - 03.2023
Engineering Manager - Engine Design
General Motors Technical Center India Ltd
07.2006 - 09.2019
MIT Campus, Anna University
Bachelor of Engineering from Automotive Engineering
07.2002 - 05.2006
Accomplishments
Accomplishments
- 3 DFSS Black Belt Projects
- Developed a new modeling procedure using Six Sigma DMAIC for bucket stage 1 cooling holes resulting in 30% modeling time reduction.
- Started Engine design team for Italy with 3 members and increased Head count to 40+ in a span of 3 years
Certification
Certified Scrum master