SUMIR TAWAR

Maruti Suzuki Website Revamp (MSIL Nexa & Arena – Adobe Transformation)

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Key tools and frameworks: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Git, AEM, SAFe, and Scrum.

Methodologies: Agile (Scrum and Kanban), DevOps, Scaled Agile

Domain: Automotive, Digital Experience Platforms, CMS (Adobe)

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• Led the Agile transformation of a flagship digital experience initiative for Maruti Suzuki, steering the end-to-end revamp of the customer-facing website across engineering, design, marketing, and vendor teams.
• Facilitated Agile ceremonies with consistency and impact (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Reviews, and Retrospectives), maintaining a 95% sprint commitment accuracy, and ensuring seamless alignment with product and technology roadmaps.
• Drove close collaboration between cross-functional stakeholders—product managers, UI/UX teams, QA, cloud engineers, and external partners—to streamline delivery workflows and reduce feature lead time by 20%.
• Acted as a delivery enabler by proactively identifying and eliminating blockers, optimizing sprint flow, and building a culture of transparency and continuous improvement across Agile squads.
• Championed the adoption of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) by coaching Agile Release Teams and business units, resulting in synchronized planning, improved backlog health, and a 2-day reduction in the average sprint cycle.
• Enabled CI/CD integration by partnering with DevOps teams to build and refine pipelines using Jenkins, Git, and Kubernetes, achieving a 40% improvement in deployment velocity, with higher release stability.
• Mentored and upskilled over 15 team members on Agile values, principles, and tools, creating a resilient, self-organizing team culture that drove delivery excellence in a dynamic automotive environment.
• Established Agile performance dashboards using Excel and Jira to monitor sprint velocity, team throughput, and backlog maturity, reducing reporting overhead by 2 hours per member, and improving forecast accuracy by 25%.
• Collaborated with senior leadership, digital transformation units, and technology partners to align delivery with strategic business objectives, ensuring compliance with governance, security, and quality standards across product increments.

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OTSUKA MIREVO Digital Health.

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Key Tools and Frameworks: Jira, Confluence, AWS (S3, Lambda), Jenkins, Talend, Apache Spark.

Methodologies: Agile (Scrum), DevOps, SAFe, Clinical Compliance (HIPAA).

Domain: Healthcare, AI/ML, Clinical Informatics, and EHR Systems. Fin Nova NPBS Innovation (Nordea Personal Banking Service Innovation).

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• Facilitated Agile delivery for an AI-driven platform supporting predictive diagnostics and real-time clinical recommendations across hospitals and care providers.
• Coordinated two Scrum teams building machine learning pipelines and user interfaces for doctors, radiologists, and lab technicians, ensuring sprint flow and clinical relevance of deliverables.
• Partnered with data engineers and healthcare SMEs to prioritize backlog features related to patient risk scoring, early diagnosis, and symptom prediction.
• Orchestrated collaboration with QA and compliance teams to conduct HIPAA-aligned testing and documentation, reducing rework and audit risks.
• Integrated delivery workflows with AWS-based data lakes and orchestration tools (e.g., Talend), enabling seamless EHR ingestion, and standardized patient data processing.
• Enabled DevOps maturity by guiding the setup of CI/CD automation using Jenkins, resulting in faster deployment of AI models, with rollback assurance.
• Drove continuous improvement by running retrospectives focused on clinical safety and data quality KPIs, leading to a 30% reduction in defect density over five releases.

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Fin Nova NPBS Innovation (Nordea Personal Banking Service Innovation)

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Key Tools & Frameworks: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, AWS, Docker, Python (for AI team integration), SAFe.

Methodologies: Agile (Scrum), DevOps, Scaled Agile, AI/ML Delivery.

Domain: Banking, AI & Automation, Regulatory Compliance, Cloud-Native Services.

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• Led Agile execution for an AI-enabled banking transformation project focused on intelligent document processing, chatbot integration, and personalized financial insights.
• Acted as a Scrum Master for two cross-functional pods—data scientists, backend engineers, and testers—ensuring iterative delivery of AI microservices within 2-week sprint cycles.
• Collaborated with Product Owners and SMEs to break down epics related to fraud detection and customer onboarding into actionable user stories, enhancing backlog readiness by 30%.
• Ensured AI model deployment cycles were seamlessly integrated into CI/CD using Jenkins and Dockerized containers on AWS, reducing go-to-market time for new ML models by 35%.
• Navigated regulatory compliance (KYC/AML) during sprint reviews, ensuring model behavior aligned with data privacy and audit readiness across sprints.
• Established Sprint KPI dashboards to track model accuracy trends, release cycles, and impediments, which led to improved transparency and model refinement feedback loops.
• Enabled scaled coordination across AI squads by facilitating quarterly PI Planning events under SAFe, ensuring inter-team alignment on roadmap goals, and delivery cadence.

• Test Plans, Test Strategies, and Test Estimations, team management, and seamless cross-functional coordination and driving innovation targets to managing overall testing activities for Mobile, Web & ERPs.
• As an Innovation Champion, driving APE savings and supported Pre-Sales and RMG initiatives with impactful solutions.
• Project Co-Ordination, V & V Metrics & Testing KPIs, EHAR Reports, Efforts Estimation, Resource Management.
• Following Scrum Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily Stand Up Meetings, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Backlog Refinement, Product Backlog Refinement)