Vinay Kumar

• Spearheaded Program Management and Looked after the overall delivery of the two programs within the banking sub-domain while also played a major role in SAFe transformation of the entire portfolio
• Leading the Innovations Axess Labs which caters to needs of multiple domains within bank w.r.t new initiative around data science/AI-ML and the outcome of every initiative is usually used to enhance the business of various domains within the bank
• Loan Default, Credit Risks, Personalized Credit Card Recommendation, Personalized Financial Planning, Predictive Analytics for cross-selling, Sentiment Analysis, Customer Lifetime Value, Customer churn, Preventive Identity theft to name a few initiative which are at work in the bank
• Played a key role in defining restructuring of the portfolio, a digital transformation org initiative to transform the entire organization from Project Based organization to Product Based Organization
• Strategically created value streams/hives which will contain similar products where teams will now work on a value streams rather than individual projects leading to focus shifting to Value rather output
• Flow Radiators were used to continuously improve the value streams
• Multiple VSMs were conducted which resulted in significant improvement in the existing processes, in some case up to 43% reduction in time
• Key KPIs were inducted to measure the performance of the value streams/ARTs and multiple metrics were introduced at teams level for teams to measures their own performance
• Overseen programs delivery to ensure on-time project completion while maintaining high-quality standards, focusing on continuous improvement using Lean principals and Kaizen approach and effective Delivery Management
• Mentored teams across multiple projects, promoting self-organized Team Management, innovation, and continuous learning to ensure high performance and consistent delivery of quality outcomes
• Worked closely with seniors leaders (C-level) on various bank wide initiatives.

• Oversaw Program Management for UK's largest petroleum organization ensuring successful delivery and strategic outcomes
• Implemented Agile principles to drive successful digital transformation across the account, incorporating Kanban, XP practices to foster collaborative and flexible environment for effective agile adoption
• Re-structured the account and multiple agile (Scrum, Kanban) teams were created who would strategically cater to the end customer needs
• The transformation's key highlight was a significant reduction in defects (~80%, at both Development and Production levels), a notable increase in client satisfaction, and a ~30% reduction in lead time
• Provided SAFe coaching services to US one of the largest electronic organizations in their scaling transformation journey
• Multiple Value Stream Mappings were conducted to identify the delays in the processes and subsequently action items were created to remove the delays
• Multiple TMIs (Team Maturity Assessments) were conducted and action items were created to ensure that roles & responsibilities, processes and practices were improved and hence overall agile adoptions.

• Acted as a Release Train Engineer (RTE), led the improvement in ART w.r.t their PI planning event, brought in an effective way of identifying risk and dependencies, identifying and resolving bottlenecks
• Strategically brought new kaizen process which led to the overall reduction in Production defects numbers, producing quality stories, working with leadership on setting up agile environment for new teams adopting agile, stabilized, increased & consistent delivery
• Used the approach to integrate the principles of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) with a deep understanding of product development and program delivery
• The result: a substantial amount (~3M Euros) of revenue generation for the organization through one of its kind feature (unborn insurance) implementations within the ART and specifically well within the challenging timelines
• Enabled teams to do effective sprint planning, well organized demo and effective retrospectives
• Formed and led agile Community of Practice across 5 locations (India & US).

• Scrum master & PM Responsibilities

Scrum master & project lead responsibilities.

Module lead responsibilities