Solution Delivery Lead

• Jul 2020 - Present

Agile Engineering Manager

• Oct 2015 - Jan 2020

As a part of the global R&D team, headed & delivered projects across multiple functional areas and release trains. Key accountability for product development, project management, performance management, project strategy delivery, change management governance, budget resource governance, risk and issue management, and staff leadership. Reengineered vendor policy to enhance quality assurance and to identify risks and issues at earlier stages during the project, manage contracts for all IT vendors including software development, hosting, IT operations, and IT application development. Formulated and defined project management processes, including those related to requirements management, change control, and user acceptance testing.

Technical Project Manager and Agile Coach

• Jan 2010 - Sep 2015

As Technical Project Manager, managed multiple Business Intelligence products and distributed teams for Siemens Medical Solutions(Cerner acquired). I successfully championed agile culture by coaching and mentoring the team members, driving product roadmap and building efficiency within engineering teams. Achieved great success in improving product quality and development practices. - Responsible for the planning, development and timely release of various versions of Siemens Quality Reporting systems. - Supported customers for adherence to core measure submissions for 'Meaningful Use' as part of federal regulatory requirements. - Demonstrated excellence in guiding the work of technical teams. Articulated project goals and scope, translated business needs into technical terms, prepared detailed work breakdown structures (WBS) and instilled shared accountability for achieving project milestones. - Extensively used Agile Methodologies including SCRUM and KANBAN for effective and faster project execution and delivery. - Provided mentoring and coaching to teams to successfully implement agile practices. - Resolved numerous project issues including staffing shortages, tactical matters, scope creep, and divergent business and user needs. - Responsible for organizational initiatives like the PLM excellence program at BI India locations. - Effectively guided a team of Clinical Analysts, Architects, and Scrum masters. - Successfully managed project work across geographically distributed teams. SIEMENS IT Services division was taken over by Cerner Corporation in Jan 2015 and my work from Jan 2015 till Aug 2015 was part of Cerner.

Scrum Master & Development Lead

• Jan 2006 - Dec 2009

Responsible for the first pilot and agile transformation from the conventional software development model to the Agile Scrum model of software development. Led development lead role as well as Scrum Master role managing both project delivery as well as scrum teams. Key Responsibilities: • First time right software delivery with agile scrum practice for the pilot program in agile transition.• Keeping up with the dynamic and continuously changing regulatory environment and guidelines as part of the healthcare reforms in the US healthcare sector and accordingly delivering the software on demand.• End to end ownership of regulatory releases involving analysis of CMS guidelines, decoding and converting the clinical documents to requirements and then processing it further to create backlog items for the engineering teams.

Information Technology Software Developer

• Aug 2003 - Dec 2005

As a Software developer, worked with the research team(scientists) from Siemens Medical Solutions, USA to derive software requirements for Record Linkage® and developed the first prototype, which was later productized and patented as Patient search tool and integrated with larger solutions of Siemens to support patient admission workflow at the hospital.