Romit Thapar
Sr. Manager, Agile Transformation & Portfolio Management
New Delhi
Summary
- A multifaceted digital leader with diversified international experience of over 15 years in Information Technology industry, with strong emphasis on Enterprise Agile Coaching, Digital Transformation, Design Thinking, Application Delivery Management & Product Design.
- Certified Scrum Professional-ScrumMaster (CSP-SM) and Certified Scrum Lead (CSM) from Scrum Alliance. ICP-CAT: IC Agile Certified Professional in Coaching Agile Transformations, ICP-ENT: IC Agile Certified Professional in Enterprise Agile Coaching, ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC), SAFe Agilist, & Six Sigma Green Belt (IIT-Delhi) with an MBA (Colorado State University, USA).
- Agile coach with an extensive experience in both Application Product development & Project management on wide variety of business applications & domains.
- Has great experience in Digital & Agile transformation of very large scale global distributed teams, using Digital disruption strategies, Scalable Agile methodologies & Design Thinking innovative approach.
- As an Agile Coach - Train; Transform the Teams on Agile Philosophy, Manifesto, Principles, Values, Mentor and Adopt teams as Agile professionals.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, good analytical reasoning, and ability to learn quickly, high adaptability to new technologies and tools.
- Also, have an Entrepreneurial bend of mind, always interested in innovative ideas which can turn into excellent projects.
- Led the initiative for developing a custom GPT solution for Agile CoE, defining and finalizing a robust approach to create an MVP product.
Tools: Agile Coach | JIRA and Jira Align | Redmine | Zoho | Rally | Trello | VersionOne |Target Process | Selenium IDE & RC | Appium | Zephyr
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
7
7
Certificates
Work History
Global Scrum Lead - Senior Manager
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
7 2019 - Current
- As a Global Scrum Lead at BCG, help coach squads/tribe in BCG on the agile methodology and oversee the journey and development of squads to bring overall efficiency.
- Managed a portfolio of Gen AI projects, ensuring timely delivery, budget adherence, and alignment with strategic objectives.
- Planned and conducted custom Gen AI sessions for various functions, curating specific use cases to enhance operational efficiency.
Agile and Design Thinking Coach
Accenture
07.2017 - 07.2019
- As an Agile and Design Thinking Coach at Accenture, Gurgaon, India I am responsible for enabling Accenture people and its clients on their Agile Transformation journey.
Project Manager - IT Applications | Agile Coach
BluEnt e Solutions (P) Ltd.
02.2017 - 07.2017
- I was Agile Coach for Open Source Team as well for other IT applications teams across the organization.
Project Manager | Agile Coach
Copper Mobile, India
10.2015 - 12.2016
- Conducted various in-house Agile workshop for the organization to embrace Agile culture.
QA Analyst | Scrum Lead
Aequor Technologies
12.2011 - 10.2015
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective, Daily Scrum Meetings and Sprint Reviews as a Scrum Lead and helped remove the impediments from the project.
Business Analyst
Walmart Inc.
12.2009 - 10.2011
- Created As-Is Model and performed complete GAP analysis to identify parameters for incorporating the To-Be Model.
Graduate Assistant
Colorado State University
01.2009 - 12.2009
- Assisted professor in maintaining Data-Backup and recovery for rosters and grades of approximately 400 undergrad students on MS Excel and assisted in maintaining university website.
Education
B.Sc. -
Sikkim Manipal University
Master of Business Administration -
Colorado State University
CO, USA 01.2009 - 05.2009
Skills
Agile Coach
Design Thinking Coach
Product Management
Digital Transformation
Delivery Management
Project Management
Business Storyteller
Portfolio Management
Certification
CSP-SM