Oct 2022 – Oct 2024 · 2 yrs · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Main Responsibilities:
• Performed duties of Delivery Manager/Release Train Engineer (RTE) for 3 teams (Total FTEs ~150) in parallel
• Spearheaded delivery of end-to-end time-sensitive and business-critical data projects ranging from $5M to over $50M and was responsible for their governance, resource management, budget estimates and financial forecasts
• Facilitated the program-level ceremonies including Program Increment (PI) Planning, Scrum of Scrum, ART Sync and RAID tracking
• Collaborated with product managers, senior management and stakeholders in defining and assessing project scope, tasks, resource requirements, and success criteria
• Effectively organised artifacts by deploying visual management techniques/tools like dashboards and collaborative applications (burn-down, burn-up, team velocity and capacity, task-time estimates, status)
• Achievements:
• Successfully delivered 30+ data projects on-time and under budget with zero P1 incidents playing instrumental part in technical release train implementation, including Program Shield- New Payments Platform (NPP) Data Integration to NetReveal
• Spearheaded the $20M ambitious project- Migration of Internal Lists from NetReveal to Microsoft PowerApps that focused on data accessibility, data compliance and real-time data ingestion and integration with various data sources
• Uplifted the Agile maturity of the team during their ‘Storming’ phase with a data-driven approach providing greater predictability and quality requirements while significantly increasing the NPS
• Increased the predictability from 30% to 90% and increased the quality requirements from 40% to 93%
• Grown the ‘Stakeholder Net Promoter Score’ from 4 to 9 on a scale of 0 to 10
• Continuously achieved the Gold badge for agile maturity KPIs on organization wide DeltaX platform for all 3 teams

Dec 2021 – Oct 2022 · 10 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• Main Responsibilities:
• Oversaw development of 14 complex projects from beginning to end against the baselined scope, cost, schedule and deliverables while managing risks and issues
• Coached and mentored 4 cross-functional teams (product, engineering, sales, support) removing any impediments or issues that hindered the progress of the team
• Established delivery processes within the first month of co-founding a fast-paced and lean start-up that increased overall performance by 50%
• Achievements:
• Rolled out JIRA and Confluence for the entire organisation within 15 days and coached the organisation to adopt agile practices and methods
• Led product development team to develop new product line that resulted in 35% increase in users
• Featured in Forbes 30 Inspirational Women for co-founding Lovelace Academy in Mar-2021

Nov 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

• Main Responsibilities:
• Managed the 2 Pricing teams located in 3 different geographies in a remote-team environment ensuring timely delivery of the quality deliverables
• Collaborated with 8 business partners of Tryg to keep them updated on the decisions by Tryg and resolved the conflicts
• Supported and educated the Product Owner to refine, groom and maintain the product backlog and to create the user stories and write acceptance criteria
• Reported progress on the project to key stakeholders, escalating issues, risks, incidents and complaints while suggesting actions against these where appropriate.
• Achievements:
• Spearheaded the Agile transformation for the largest Scandinavian Insurer by evaluating and successfully implementing JIRA and Confluence within 60 days across all the departments
• Delivered 20+ projects that include greenfield, brownfield, digital transformation and integration projects using DevOps accounting to over 70 million USD in revenue
• Led and designed robust and immersive Agile training programs for 9 newly hired Scrum Masters

Apr 2016 – Nov 2020 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

• Main Responsibilities:
• Coached and trained team members and business stakeholders in the benefits of using agile methods, whilst agreeing the best approach to implementing them, through regular workshops and presentations
• Management of diverse distributed teams across a range of clients, running agile ceremonies, handling conflict resolution and impediment removal
• Conducted comprehensive risk assessments across multiple projects in collaboration with third party vendors, agencies, client and internal Accenture teams
• Facilitating requirements gathering and business process analysis to ensure correct understanding and translation of business requirements to design and delivery artifacts
• Budgetary accountability including forecasting, reporting and reconciliation
• Worked across 4 sectors including Insurance, Banking, Retail and Healthcare
• Achievements:
• Led and executed a complex and large-scale GDPR project
• Managed a Cloud re-platforming project migrating 12 on-premise systems to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Directed 6 small to mid-scale projects ranging from $100,000 to 10 million USD for Llyods Bank
• Guided the delivery of over 15 complex projects that involved 3rd parties on-time with zero P1 incidents

Jun 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos

Jun 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Main Responsibilities:
• Took a hands-on approach in implementing QA processes from requirements analysis, drafting acceptance criteria, creating test plans through to test design, execution and automation
• Querying databases (SQL, Mainframe, MongoDB) and system logs to validate or troubleshoot test runs
• Organised releases into multiple environments as part of Continuous Delivery
• Utilised automated regression tests to ensure the addition of new features/bug fixes does not impact other programmes
• Achievements:
• Piloted Quality Assurance Factory model (Onshore+ Offshore) which led to ~50% cost savings to client and ~12% of increased profitability
• Implemented automated quality assurance framework in the project that reduced UAT testing duration by 75%

Mar 2012 – Jun 2012 · 3 mos · Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Apr 2011 – Jul 2011 · 3 mos · Bhopal Area, India