Oct 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Identifying project goals, needs, and scope
• Planning, monitoring, and documenting tasks throughout a project
• Ensuring all tasks, deliverables, and project materials are delivered promptly
• Managing all resources (Team of 21 members) necessary for project execution
• Fostering effective communication with stakeholders concerning project status
• Foreseeing and strategically eliminating blockers and potential risks
• Project budget and Forecasting.
• Deliver projects and products using the appropriate agile project management methodology, learning & iterating frequently
• Lead the collaborative, dynamic planning process – prioritizing the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team.
• Identifying project risks, issues, and dependencies and develop mitigation strategies to minimize project impact.
• Monitor and report project progress, including milestone achievements, budget variance, and project risks, to stakeholders and senior management

Jul 2015 – Sep 2022 · 7 yrs 2 mos

• Responsible for leading a cross-functional team which includes Architects, DevOps Engineers, and Configuration managers both off-shore and On-shore (Team of 15) for a client using an Agile approach.
• Support the team in meeting the engagement delivery goals, partnering with the Delivery Manager as appropriate.
• Develop, implement and coach the project team on tailored Agile practices including removing impediments, coordinating with other Agile and internal support teams.
• Acts as Servant Leader to leads and guide the team ceremonies including Iteration Planning, Stand Ups, Backlog Grooming, and Iteration Review/Retrospective. May tailor or adapt ceremonies or artefacts to meet client requirements.
• Manage Azure DevOps activities, create dashboards, assist with configuration, train team members, etc.
• Works with the Product Owner and other development team members to facilitate backlog grooming.
• Ensures all team features/stories/tasks aligned and maintained in DevOps, and task board/backlog views available.
• Educate and make the team adhere to the scrum process and train them with agile practices.
• Worked on SAFe framework with other scrum teams, organise Scrum of Scrums to coordinate dependencies across various other scrum teams in Agile Release train, worked with Release Train Engineer, System Architects and system Team for Infrastructure requirements and to support integration testing,
• Attended PI planning workshops and facilitated system demo, inspect and adapt workshops for future PIs and Release Management meetings.
• Identify the risks and issues during the planning and come up with mitigation plans.
• Partners with the Delivery Manager as appropriate on schedule, budget and reporting related tasks.
• Works to remove team impediments, and creates/escalates impediments to the Delivery Manager or other project leads that cannot be resolved at the team level.

Sep 2008 – Jun 2015 · 6 yrs 9 mos

• Lead cross functional Team (of 7 members) working on technologies like C++, C#.Net, Python, PHP, MSMQ, PL/SQL, Javascript, working in a blended onshore/offshore team.
• Design, develop, and unit tests applications in accordance with established standards.
• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code. Package and support deployment of releases.
• Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget.
• Support the entire Development Process required for the Team.
• Facilitating scrum activities including sprint planning, sprint review, Retrospectives, and Daily Scrums
• Creating a forum for communicating vision, goals, and Product Backlog items to the team
• Identifying project Risks and issues and managing and helping in mitigating them.
• Ensure team execution and delivery to committed sprint work- maintaining the momentum of the initiative and upholding a sustainable pace of delivery
• Demonstrated competency in managing resources to meet project goals.
• Demonstrate and present the best practices and innovations implemented in the project across to the clients visiting the team and within BU.
• Identifying talented technical members and on boarding them for other engagements in the Business Units.
• Reporting Agile metrics, Operational Excellences for the Project to QA team
• Ensuring high quality code by scanning tools like Coverity, SonarQube.
• Domain: Banking
• Release manager – Release management, VSS integration, version control, creating the build, consolidate the defects, CR’s and enhancements to a planned release, release note preparation and final release. Release of Hot fixes, Monthly Release.
• Developed features like Mobile banking, CRR which are used by most of the banks today.
• Lead a Logica team of 4 software engineers responsible for L3 support, Design, Analysis, Development of new features for core banking (enhancements), Testing.

Oct 2005 – Oct 2007 · 2 yrs

Oct 2004 – Oct 2005 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

May 2001 – Oct 2004 · 3 yrs 5 mos