NIT Graduate with 18 years of experience in IT Industry mainly in Product Development, BFSI/Investment banking Domain.
Coach and Consultant for like Microsoft, Capgemini, Thomson Reuters, KPMG, Sungard Availability Services, Quinnox, PFS, Knorr Bremse, Honeywell, MicroFocus, SCB, SLK, and L&T.
Agile Transformation Coach helping organizations transition from Waterfall to Agile frameworks. Specialized in Scrum/XP/Kanban adoption.
People coach who helps teams develops ways of delivering the most value from their talents and efforts. Focused on delighting customers through high value outcomes
As Agile coach facilitated the transition of a Business Unit (100+ people) from waterfall to Agile while also acting as the Scrum Master of 3 mixed on/off shore teams. primary focus was coaching the teams on how to write good stories, order the work based on business value and how Dev teams create tasks.
Facilitated adoption of Agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, tracking (TFS/VersionOne), product visioning, spiking, slack, generalized specialist, technical debt reduction, self management, Kanban, team empowerment. • Experienced Agile Trainer – Conducted more than 250+ Agile workshops and trained more than 10,000+ professionals in Scrum, XP, Kanban. Co-trained with CSTs (Certified Scrum Trainers) on CSM/CSPO workshops.
Active Agile Community member – Helps spread Agile adoptions in the Community by sharing/participating in Agile community events
Seasoned and dynamic Project Management professional offering a distinguished career of over a decade donning leadership role with insightful exposure to Program Management, across industry verticals such as Banking, Legal and services.
Thorough understanding of Project Management Methodologies – Traditional; all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle, Project Scoping, Requirement Analysis & Technical Specifications, Effort Estimates through Functional Point Analysis, Risk Management, Project Monitoring & Tracking, Reporting & Communication Management, Process Compliance & Management, Change Management and Resource Optimization.
Agile; Iteration planning, Release planning, Iteration tracking, Continuous integration, Story/task estimations, Iteration velocity calculations, Iteration graphs – burn up/down charts, Cumulative Flow Diagrams, Risk burn Down/up charts, proficient in using project management tools like TFS for Agile based projects.
Demonstrated excellence in leading and managing multiple project teams having varied skill sets spread across different geographical locations such as Australia, London, Singapore, US.
Prolific relationship builder successfully handled Domestic & International key accounts; thereby garnered the ability to work in highly diverse environments with people from varied backgrounds.
Demonstrated Technical excellence mainly in Unix, Oracle databases, Pl/Sql, Java, Perl and Informatica.
Education and Certification
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Mechanical Engineering | NIT Calicut | March 2001
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA Level 2) | Charlottesville, VA, USA | June 2007 |
PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) | Project Management Institute (PMI) | May 2011 |
Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) | Scrum Alliance | September 2013 |