Experience

Youngsoft Inc

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Scrum Master and Agile Coach

  • Mar 2020 - Present

  IS-APMO for Spectrum Health. * Scrum master and coach for agile team/s, utilizing SAFe for Infrastructure System maintenance and Enterprise Password modernization services. * Training and implementation of Agile (Scrum, Kanban, Safe), Jira for teams new to Agile. * Coaching Leadership, Product Owners, Scrum Master and Team members. * Assess the agile maturity of the teams, design and Implement Transformation roadmap * Facilitate discussion, Decision-making and Conflict resolution. * Helping Product owner on requirement refinement and maintaining the Product Backlog * Helping clients achieve greater throughput with Higher Quality, Faster Turn around time and team engagement * Helping Teams to get in an evolutionary mindset bringing an opportunity to learn with each new iteration. Show less



Wipro

• India
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Agile Coach

  • Jun 2019 - Dec 2019

  Process Consultant for Amway *Enterprise DevOps and Agile Transformation Advisory * Scaling Agile - SAFe * Helping clients achieve greater throughput with higher quality and team engagement * Training and implementation of agile methods, ALM tools Jira, AzureDevOps * Coaching Leadership and team members on Agile * Assessing the current Agile process maturity of the organization, benchmarking it with industry best-practices, analyzing the performance data of projects and providing recommendations on improving the efficiency of their software development and management processes. * Business transformation for enterprise Agile adoption, including recommendations for strategy formulation, business/IT roadmap, software delivery process, maturing Agile practices. Show less



Syntel

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Scrum Master Agile Coach

  • Jan 2015 - Jun 2019

  Working for client- Humana *Agile Champion for multiple teams Motivating change for business Agility, working with stakeholders and team to on-boarding them on the new tool/s usages. And making it happen. * Coaching/mentoring on Agile ways of working. Implementing communication process to produce round the clock productivity in distributed/multi-vendor teams’ in-line with scaled agile SAFe, Scrum of Scrum guidelines. * Defining the DevOps ways of working. Guiding and coaching Scrum Master, Delivery Leads on Scrum ceremonies. *Facilitating different ceremonies, sessions and deliverables providing end customer the value it has desired and agreed for. *Implementation of TFS, AzureDevOps Show less



Syntel

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Scrum Master Project Manager ITIL Process Consultant

  • Feb 2010 - Feb 2014

  Working for client- Humana* Scrum Master for a new Scrum Teams who have no previous working knowledge of Agile. *Guiding and training them on use of Kanban process. Helping them working in collaborative environment and bringing the agile principles to the forefront by early continuous delivery. * Guiding Product Owner on bringing the value proposition and prioritization to requirement. * Focus on continuous delivery of the work output to production in shorter turnaround time. * Defining/Designing process in line with ITIL framework. * Training, workshop, coaching and conflict resolution, Risk management for the teams and different stakeholders. * Introducing Kanban, agile methodology, AOC (Application operation center) for L0 Support and Dev-ops team for faster and effective production turn-out.* PMO activities - Designing, creating road map, training plan, driving Lean software engineering Initiatives and Automation Initiatives. Responsible for producing executive level reporting and Dashboard and its automation. Responsible for Resource demand and management. * Overall planning, execution, handling communications, Budgeting, and delivery of projects.* Mentoring teams. Identifying concerns, constraints and conflicts and resolving their issues. Team member career planning, performance review, etc Show less

• Lead Project Manager

  • Feb 2008 - Mar 2010

  Working for client- Humana, Coventry, Magellan, First Health*Project Assimilation – Requirement Analysis, Scoping & Estimation, Impact Analysis, Design, Build, Testing, Deployment, Project Meetings, Training, Transition, Post Implementation Analysis,• Resource Management• Metrics Collection & Reporting – Daily/Monthly/Post-Release, Internal Group communication• Defect Prevention and Quality Assurance activities.• Helping the team on technical and functional questions* ETL development and enhancement, Responsible for Oracle 9i to 10g Migration, HIPAA 4010-5010 migration and Testing Activity, CO1B to CO3B Cobol compiler changes, Mainframe to Informatica Migration.Earlier Experience (2003-2008)• Worked as a Contractor- Business Analyst/System Analyst for a Pershing-Bank of NY Mellon’s brokerage department in USA In-charge of Impact analysis code changes, development, testing and Implementation for Brokerage reporting modules changes due to Bank’s merger.• Worked as a mainframe developer (COBOL/JCL/CICS/DB2)/Software Engineer, Project Lead for client- Alliance-Bernstein, USA. Worked on Mainframe to Oracle 9i Migration. Worked on SOX compliance Activities. • Played key role in the implementation of CMMI level 5 for Hexaware – BNFS Unit Show less