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Phone: PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE Email: EMAIL AVAILABLEAgile CoachAgile Coach with over 9 years of hands-on Agile transformation experience (Inception to complete Agile adoption). Proven ability to understand different flavors of Agile and design and implement Agile adoption as per client's expectations and needs. Process driven but flexible, adaptable and cognizant of organizational challenges. Influential communicator who builds positive relationships with cross-functional business units, Executives, technical as well as non-technical stakeholders with an emphasis on transparency, collaboration, results driven outcomes and continuous improvement. Adeptly skilled at taking a team with resources possessing different Agile maturity levels and bringing them together to function as a single cohesive unit. Well versed with multiple scaling frameworks including Scrum@Scale, SAFe, and Spotify. Strong coaching and mentoring experience across all levels; team, programs and executives.EXPERIENCEAgile CoachMorgan Stanley June 2019 May 2024, New York, NY Designed and implemented Agile methodology across Global banking areas in Wealth Management in three Agile transformation phases over a span of 4+ years. Coached and mentored leadership and stakeholders on Agile/Scrum methodology, benefits of Agile adoption, Agile mindset through training workshops and 1:1 Coaching sessions. Coached and mentored leadership and teams to adapt to the Agile ways of working from a Waterfall setup and supported them through the common roadblocks, pain points etc. Coached and mentored over 40 teams on Agile principles, values, methodology and best practices resulting in improved team productivity and reducing delivery time by 25%. Collaborated with other Senior Agile coaches and executives to create an Agile Playbook that serves as a guide to all Agile roles in the organization. Collaborated with other Senior Agile coaches to create a customized Agile Maturity survey for all teams in the organization in order to assess and improve on their Agile maturity levels. Assessed transformed teams' Agile maturity levels quarterly to evaluate and promote continuous improvement in behavior patterns, best practices, product quality and efficiency in delivery. Designed and rolled out Agile training sessions and workshops on Agile roles, Scrum, Kanban etc In partnership with stakeholders, designed and managed Agile training sessions and workshops for over 1700 newly acquired employees after an acquisition as their onboarding process. Mentored and provided 1:1 coaching to Leadership, Scrum masters and Product Owners. Standardized Agile ceremonies, cadence and best practices across teams and enterprise level for increased transparency and visibility into progress of all projects. Standardized the use of custom JIRA Agile workflow, dashboards, issue types and reporting for over 40 teams to support overall organization transformation effort. Empowered teams to sort through cross-team dependencies, inter-team coordination, and department / program level roadmap discussions with business and IT stakeholders. Served as a Senior Agile Coach Faculty for an internal Morgan Stanley Agile education and awareness program designed to support all roles in all divisions during the Agile Transformation phases. In partnership with leadership, helped set up Scrum Master and Product Owner guilds and served as a Senior Agile Coach to facilitate lean coffee sessions over various Agile topics for 2 years.Agile CoachKPMG September 2018 - May 2019, New York, NY Partnered with leadership to lay out an Agile transformation and transition plan. Coached Stakeholders and Technology pilot teams on benefits of Agile and plan to start the transformation efforts. Collaborated with leadership on creating Scrum teams, establishing Agile roles and helped them set up Agile/Scrum framework within their business units. Ran Agile surveys across all teams to assess and understand various Agile maturity levels and ways of curving them via Agile training workshops, 1:1 coaching and mentoring. Coaching scrum teams in managing their own conflicts and motivating them to be self-organized, collaborative and foster transparency amongst themselves. Mentored Scrum masters on their role and helped them identify and overcome daily challenges, roadblocks and improve team efficiency. Ensured Leadership engagement by reporting on Agile Adoption and delivery metrics. Standardized JIRA dashboards for tracking teams' progress and reporting.Agile CoachMasterCard January 2015 - August 2018, New York, NY Coached 12 Technology pilot teams on Agile adoption, which led to a 20% improvement in productivity. Facilitated training workshops on benefits of Agile, Scrum framework, Agile roles and responsibilities and Scrum ceremonies. Supported the day-to-day transition from Waterfall methodology to Agile framework focusing on JIRA set up and standardization, mindset change, deep understanding of Agile roles and responsibilities. Coached scrum teams on conflict resolution, continuous improvement and improve efficiency. Coached and mentored Scrum masters, Product owners, Business analysts on Agile methodology. Worked with other Coaches to maintain consistency in Agile standards, coaching and overall transformation progress in the organization. Ensured Leadership was engaged and kept in the loop via regular 1:1s and reporting of all scrum teams' progress. Coached Agile teams on the overall SAFe framework. Partnered with leadership and other Agile coaches on designing and creating various ARTs (Agile Release Trains) in the organization. Coached and supported Release Train Engineers on their role, responsibilities and the ART process in its entirety. Partnered with other Agile coaches on setting up and facilitating training workshops for PI (Program Increment) Planning in the organization. Worked with RTEs to ensure that Scrum teams attended PI planning successfully laying out their PI objectives, listed all dependencies/blockers and were realistic in achieving their goals and objectives every quarter.Scrum Master/ Agile CoachTMP Worldwide Inc March 2012 - December 2014, New York, NY Scrum Master for multiple concurrent business-critical projects. Projects spanned application development, production support, operations, and maintenance/enhancements. Led/facilitated all scrum ceremonies: Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Backlog refinement, Sprint retrospective and biweekly demos. Worked in collaboration with Product owners and Business analysts for teams' backlog management and continuous delivery of features/products. Tracked and managed product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown. Made production defect resolution a Kanban process, resulting in resolution time reduction by 20%. Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks. Escalated all removed obstacles for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution. With direction from leadership, coached other Waterfall teams on benefits of Agile and help with the overall Agile transformation plan.Coached and mentored junior Scrum masters on Agile methodology and helped them identify and remove impediments. Established Scrum of Scrums ensuring management of cross team dependencies. Defined and identified high performance teams and continuously challenged them to achieve higher results. Ensured Leadership was engaged and kept in the loop of scrum teams' progress. Established Agile Standards for reporting metrics and set up team as well as senior management dashboards.SKILLSAgile Transformation, Executive/Leadership Coaching, Team level Coaching, 1:1 Coaching, Implementation of Agile Framework(s), Enterprise Planning, Collaboration, Communication, Instilling Transparency across all levels, Value Stream Mapping, Organizational and Behavioral Change Management, Continuous Improvement, Emotional Intelligence, Problem solver, Conflict Resolution, Strategy, Team Management (Onshore and Offshore Teams)Education & TrainingICP-ACC (Agile Coaching Certification), ICAgileCertified Scrum Master, Scrum AllianceMaster Of Science, New York UniversityBachelors of Architecture, Pratt Institute |
