Lean/Agile Coach with expertise growing highly effective teams who frequently delight customers; creating software products and services people love to use. Deeply understands the conditions needed for teams to self-organize, fully own their work, and continuously improve to higher levels of performance. Draws on broad, deep experience to facilitate quickly drilling down to determine root causes and engaging organizations in resolving them.
Overview
4
4
years of post-secondary education
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Enterprise Agile Coach
DELL EMC
BANGALORE, Karnataka
04.2019 - Current
Created an Agile coaching strategy for diverse teams to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
Primary coach for Agile/Scrum transformation of DELL EMC product development; VPs cited exceptional results as major factor in increasing customer satisfaction/subscriptions.
Coached Program and Portfolio Management from an Agile perspective with the goal of facilitating scaled agile.
Coached many struggling teams and helped them achieve performance measured by faster Development and higher quality.
Helped organizations in better way of tracking impediments and then guided them to remove them in minimal time.
Coached leadership team about Agile best practices and helped resolve numerous problems regarding predictability, transparency, estimation accuracy, and faster deployments.
Coached multiple teams to adopt lean-agile mindset, improve and scale in agile implementation
Managed multi-vendor, inter-dependent and distributed team for Agile project management.
Led transformation program for business intelligence, Developed customized Agile delivery model.
Led multiple scrum teams from Sprint planning to sprint closure as Agile Manager cum coach
Conducted training sessions on agile principles and Scrum methodology to understand the process.
Led the team in DevOps implementation with tools like Rally, Git, Maven, Selenium, Junit and Jenkins.
Facilitated Change Management, Process optimization, Organization capability building
Refined team structure & Roles and Responsibility to ensure optimum organizational capability
Streamlined Impediments, risks, dependency management in JIRA.
Implemented DoD, Bug mandate, Design reviews, System demos and Simplified KT sessions.
Agile Coach/Release Train Engineer
MERCK
BANGALORE, Karnataka
06.2017 - 04.2019
As an Agile Coach, experienced in developing and delivering team and organization training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the cultural and organizational transformation.
As Release Train Engineer, responsible to facilitate the ART events and processes and assist the teams in delivering value.
Communicate with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement.
Servant leader and coach for the Agile Release Train (ART).
Lead Scrum Master/Engineering Manager
McWane
BANGALORE, Karnataka
02.2016 - 05.2017
As a Lead Scrum Master, responsible to facilitate the team for better creativity and tries to improve the efficiency of the development team.
As an Engineering Manager, responsible for people management and product Deliverables.
QA Manager
ADP
Hyderabad, TELANGANA
10.2013 - 02.2016
As a QA Manager, responsible scrum releases on schedule and agile scrum process.
As a Scrum Master, Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in Agile methodology.
Cooperated with engineering, manufacturing and corporate accounting to verify adherence to quality standards.
Implemented new quality assurance and customer service standards.
Senior Associate
CTS, Chennai
Chennai, Tamilnadu
02.2007 - 10.2013
As a Scrum Master, responsible for adopting and implementing agile methods to increase team productivity and efficiency and improve the quality of the deliverables.
As a Test Lead, responsible for business requirements review, coding, writing test cases, test execution, defect analysis and project delivery.
Approached each problem with fresh mind and analytical strategies to quickly resolve concerns.
Cultivated and strengthened relationships with new clients and educated clients on account services and capabilities.
SENIOR PRINCIPAL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE MANAGER at DELL Technologies (DELL EMC + Dell Entities)SENIOR PRINCIPAL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE MANAGER at DELL Technologies (DELL EMC + Dell Entities)