Raja Nepolion Nandy
Agile Coach | Lead Scrum Master | Agile Project Manager
Bangalore,TG
Summary
Motivated business leader with 18+ years of progressive experience. Team player dedicated to helping employees improve their skills and techniques in order to reach larger goals. Visionary behind company operations and strategies. Detail-oriented multi-tasker who thrives in fast-paced environments.
Total Experience Scrum Master, Agile Coach. : 18.9 Yrs
Project / Program Management Experience : 13 Yrs
Development Experience (QA Manual & Automation) Experience : 6 Yrs
Early 6 Yrs Involvement & Responsibilities: Agile Coach, RTE, Lean Consultant, Transformation Expert, Enterprise Agile coach, Jira Admin AI / GEN AI / Chat GPT Driven. (use in Org) Digital Transformation of Org. Program / Project management. Risk Management. RAG & RAAID Conflict Management. Quality management. Process management as PMO. Project & Program Management Processes & Operation. Customer Negotiation & Satisfaction. Release & Version control management. Change request Management / CCB engagement. Stakeholder identification and Engagement. Strategic Gap Analysis & Correction V/s Bridging. Milestones in MVP. Project Lifecycle & Iterative Process. Monitoring Communication Channels. Capacity utilization, Metrics, Reporting, Brainstorming, Improvement plan. Proxy to Product Owner, help and coach them for backlog refinement and iteration. Facilitating Scrum ceremonies, planning, DEMO, brainstorming’s, DOR, DOD, Documentation & feedback sharing. Social Contract, Team Temp, CSAT Jira Admin & Project Admin. Faccilation of productive Ceremonies, Brainstorms & Followups / Update calls. Impediment Removal and Continuous Improvements. Reporting, Metrics & Presentations. Org Structural change towards High performance and productivity. Coaching and mentorship for Leaders , Team members , PO and Scrum Masters. Strategic Planning: Contributing to organizational strategy, ensuring alignment with Agile values and principles. Tooling and Technology: Advising on and supporting the implementation of appropriate Agile tools. Knowledge Sharing: Facilitating knowledge sharing and best practice adoption within the organization. Practice of SCRUM, KANBAN, TDD, FDD, BDD, SAFE, SOS, waterfall etceteras.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
11
11
Certifications
5
5
Languages
Work History
Agile Coach | Lead SM | Agile Project Manager
Motorola Solutions
03.2021 - Current
- Agile Transformation across departments like - Business, Engineering, IT, Support, Marketing, HR, Finance, Travel desk, R&D / Innovation / Copywrite.
- Digital transformation.
- AI help in Projects. (Development, Quality, Reporting/ metrix and Business side)
- Quality Control.
- Customer satisfaction.
- Stake Holder engagement / management.
- Risk Management.
- CCB - Change Control Board.
- Release Control / Branching strategy. (CI/CD)
- Business Backlog Ranking.
- Communication Channel.
- Retrospective - (Business/ Management/ Design/ Engineering...all levels)
- Brainstorming.
- Estimation & Risk Forecasting.
- Cross Functional and self Managed teams/ dept . creation.
- Domain: Security system for defense, industry, police, traffic and public.
Communication System.
AI based Cams.
Lead Consultant (SM & Agile Coach)
HCL Technologies
04.2019 - 03.2021
- Agile Coach and Project Manager.
- Risk management.
- CCB
- Estimation.
- Agile Transformation.
- Digital Transformation.
- Coaching / Mentoring.
- Risk assessment.
- Upskilling Plans. (Cross Functional Teams)
- Communication channel tracking.
- Stakeholder engagement.
- Scrum / Kabnan/ FDD, TDD, SAFE, SOS Implementation.
- Release control / Management.
- many more....
- Domain: Ecommerce, Core Banking, Healthcare
Sr Engineer
BirlaSoft (KPIT)
05.2018 - 01.2019
- Scrum Master for couple of Teams.
- Agile transformation & Improvements.
- Quality control.
- Risk Assessment.
- Communication channel monitoring.
- Team improvement.
- Mid management , Teams agility.
- many more...
Sr Engineer
IG Infotech
04.2012 - 05.2018
- Started Scrum Master carrier here.
- Quality Assurance & Control as Lead.
- Worked as Business experts helping PO & Arch.t
- Process gaps.
- Written use Cases and Acceptance criteria's for Entire IG product & Validated also.
- Did Automation & Load testing - by Jmeter.
- Defect log Analysis and Log pulling for developers for critical issues.
- Release codes to environments DEV-UAT-DEMO.
- many more...
- Domain : Payments (Card payments + Bank Payments + Financial Trading & Settlements + Batch processing)
Associate
Jairam
07.2006 - 02.2012
- Quality Engineer supporting IT dept.
- Domain: Steel plant IT Dept
Education
B-tech - E.C.E
Biju Patnaik University of Technical Education, BPUT
01.2002 - 01.2006
Skills
Iteration management
Value stream mapping
Agile framework expertise
Agile estimation techniques
Agile training
Agile metrics analysis
Organizational agility
Servant leadership
Agile risk management
Team facilitation
Lean thinking
Agile tool proficiency
Release management
Scrum mastery / Backlog grooming
Sprint planning
Adaptive planning
Backlog grooming
Scaling agile
Product owner support
Retrospective facilitation
Planning and coordination
MVP / Mile stones
Change control
Risk forecast
Quality Assurance and Control
Program management
TOOLS:
JIRA
TFS
Aha
Version 1
BigPicture
MPP
Projectmanagercom
Jira-Zephyr
Test Rail
Test Link
Easy test
Confluence
Wiki
Survey Monkey
SharePoint
Slack
Ideaboardz
Planning Pocker
Co-Pilot
Gen AI Chat GPT, Gemini, Claude Sonet, Amazon Nova, NotebooklmGoogle, Co-Pilot, Codium
Crucible
Splunk
App Dynamics
Putty
Sonar-cube
Certification
AI for Scrum Master (Microcredential)
Social Involvement
- Agile Network India
- Agile-Vergin
- Agile-A-Thon
- Agile Alliance
- ERA
- Aspiring Agile Coaches
- HCL Foundation
- Motorola Solutions Foundation
- May I help you Social Org
- Lions Club
Involvement Responsibilities
- Agile Coach
- RTE
- Lean Consultant
- Transformation Expert
- Enterprise Agile coach
- Jira Admin
- AI / GEN AI / Chat GPT Driven
- Digital Transformation of Org
- Program / Project management
- Risk Management
- Conflict Management
- Quality management
- Process management as PMO
- Customer Negotiation & Satisfaction
- Release & Version control management
- Change request Management / CCB engagement
- Stakeholder identification and Engagement
- Strategic Gap Analysis & Correction V/s Bridging
- Milestones in MVP
- Project Lifecycle & Iterative Process
- Monitoring Communication Channels
- Capacity utilization, Metrics, Reporting, Brainstorming, Improvement plan
- Proxy to Product Owner, help and coach them for backlog refinement and iteration
- Facilitating Scrum ceremonies, planning, DEMO, brainstorming’s, DOR, DOD, Documentation & feedback sharing
- Social Contract, Team Temp, CSAT
- Jira Admin & Project Admin
- Facilitation of productive Ceremonies, Brainstorms & Followups / Update calls
- Impediment Removal and Continuous Improvements
- Reporting, Metrics & Presentations
- Org Structural change towards High performance and productivity
- Coaching and mentorship for Leaders, Team members, PO and Scrum Masters
- Strategic Planning: Contributing to organizational strategy, ensuring alignment with Agile values and principles
- Tooling and Technology: Advising on and supporting the implementation of appropriate Agile tools
- Knowledge Sharing: Facilitating knowledge sharing and best practice adoption within the organization
- Practice of SCRUM, KANBAN, TDD, FDD, BDD, SAFE, SOS, waterfall etc.
Project Management Experience
- Portfolio backlog management
- Program Governance
- Product Backlog management & Governance
- Strategic Project Planning & Alignment, Roadmaps, CheckBook, MVP, Milestones
- Estimation & Capacity based Planning
- Resource Management
- Project Risk management
- Schedule management
- Communication Management
- Stakeholder identification & Engagement
- Team, Leadership engagement & Coordinations
- Quality management
- Cost Management
- CCB – Change control board / Change management
- Defect management
- Dependency management
- Release management & Release Version control
- Traffic control & Non-Functional requirement implementation & tracking
- Procurement & Vendor management
- Monitoring project Status & Timesheet approvals
- Preparing: Project Charter, WBS, Gant- Chart, RACI matrix, Project Management Plan, lesson learned documents
- Followup / wrap-up / Kick-off
- Documentations management & Closure Doc
Technical Skills And Tools
JIRA, TFS, Aha, Version 1, BigPicture, MPP, Projectmanager.com, Jira-Zephyr, Test Rail, Test Link, Easy test, Confluence, Wiki, Survey Monkey, SharePoint, Slack, Ideaboardz, planningpocker, Co-Pilot, Gen AI Chat GPT, Crucible, Splunk, App Dynamics, Putty, Sonar-cube, Jenkins, Git-Hub, Apache JMeter, NeoLoad, Blaze-Meter, Simulator/ Emulator, postman, Swagger, QF test, Cucumber, Bamboo, GIT, SVN, Oracle (SQL), Mongo DB, 4 yrs Exp in Safety / Defence, Security & Communication system, 6+ yrs exp in BFSI: (Card Payments, Bank Payments, PayPal Integration, Cheque, Cash), 6 yrs exp in Financial Trading: (CFD, spread bet, Nadex, Share dealing, SIP, Settlement, Reconciliation, MUREX), Web Development: (Language- English, German, Japanese, Spanish), CRM: (Salesforce), Taxation & Audit: (Reconciliation and Scheduler Reports integration with PWC), Data warehouse, Healthcare, Telecom domain, Java, .Net, C, C++, Golang, Python, Groovy, Java Script, Selenium
Personal Information
- Pan Number: AFCPN9489D
- Passport Number: Z3115375
- Father's Name: Subhrangshu Sekhar Nandy
- Date of Birth: 06/13/82
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Agile Coach | Lead SM | Agile Project Manager
Motorola Solutions
03.2021 - Current
Lead Consultant (SM & Agile Coach)
HCL Technologies
04.2019 - 03.2021
Sr Engineer
BirlaSoft (KPIT)
05.2018 - 01.2019
Sr Engineer
IG Infotech
04.2012 - 05.2018
Associate
Jairam
07.2006 - 02.2012
B-tech - E.C.E
Biju Patnaik University of Technical Education, BPUT
01.2002 - 01.2006