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Kishor Kunal

Kishor Kunal

Agile Coach/Scrum Master
Pune

Summary

Experienced Scrum Master with proven track record of successfully leading teams in developing high-quality software solutions on time and within budget. Skilled in multiple Agile methodologies, stakeholder management and sprint planning. Highly organized in managing complex projects with multiple deadlines.

Overview

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years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Agilist

Cognizant
Pune
01.2022 - Current
  • Facilitated discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution across 4 cross-functional teams
  • Coached 10+ teams to higher levels of maturity by improving their process and ensuring tam adhered to the Scrum framework
  • Ensured user stories were 100% ordered, defined, and ready to be worked on by the team
  • Guided Agile principles and facilitation skills to ensure teams were working in an Agile mindset and utilizing Scrum practices
  • Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
  • Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
  • Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
  • Operated infrared and low light television sensor systems and illuminator equipment
  • Performed preflight and post flight aircraft and sensor inspections
  • Maintained detailed notes to complete mission flight logs and progress reports

Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master

CoreCardIndia
Pune
03.2020 - 01.2022
  • Empowering team by removing 99% of impediments
  • Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
  • Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
  • Drafted project reports to identify successful outcomes, insights and future recommendations.
  • Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
  • Identified 10+ complex impediments and assisted 5+ teams in identifying a path to deliver on time
  • Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.
  • Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety

Project Lead

PayTack AB
Pune
06.2019 - 03.2020
  • Worked with 2 clients to understand client pain points, and demonstrated that data in team presentation
  • Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
  • Coaching the team and removing their impediments
  • Used Agile methods and processes to coach 4 product owners through complex problem-solving and solution strategies.

Scrum Master

Evolve Technologies and Services (P) LTD
Pune
08.2015 - 06.2019
  • Facilitated discuss
  • Ensured 3 project teams lived Agile values and principles and followed client-required processes and practices
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
  • Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.
  • Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks.
  • Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
  • Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value.
  • Lead daily stand-ups and Scrum ceremonies for two Scrum teams.

Project Lead

MTT Wireless
Mumbai
02.2014 - 03.2015
  • Lead daily stand-ups and Scrum ceremonies for two Scrum teams
  • Collaborated with the product, business, marketing, and engineering teams to develop and maintain product backlogs
  • Working with 2 agile coaches and 1 scrum master for data visualization
  • Coached new SM and trained global teams, which resulted in early delivery of projects and reduced process waste caused by a lack of common understanding.

Senior Radio Frequency Engineer

TDS/Asmaitha Wireless
Bangalore
12.2010 - 01.2014
  • Streamlined the process of troubleshooting and monitoring LAN/WAN activities, leading to an improvement in up-time of 27%
  • Improved the response time to incoming incident response tickets by 15% through an automated process that assigns a ticket to qualified network engineers
  • Improving the KPI Optimization by 60%.

Education

Post Graduation Cloud Architect - Cloud Computing

Great Lakes Institue
Chennai
09.2023 - 02.2024

B.E - Electronics & communication

Bhartiya Vidya Mandir College of Technology
Gwalior
01.2006 - 2010.04

Skills

Empowering team

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Timeline

Post Graduation Cloud Architect - Cloud Computing

Great Lakes Institue
09.2023 - 02.2024

Senior Agilist

Cognizant
01.2022 - Current

Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master

CoreCardIndia
03.2020 - 01.2022

Project Lead

PayTack AB
06.2019 - 03.2020

Scrum Master

Evolve Technologies and Services (P) LTD
08.2015 - 06.2019

Project Lead

MTT Wireless
02.2014 - 03.2015

Senior Radio Frequency Engineer

TDS/Asmaitha Wireless
12.2010 - 01.2014

B.E - Electronics & communication

Bhartiya Vidya Mandir College of Technology
01.2006 - 2010.04

Websites

Certification

Safe RTE

Safe Agilist

PMI-ACP

PSM

CSM

Cloud Architect

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