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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Managed complex projects across cross-divisional business units with circa ~£10m allocated budget for the sub-portfolios/programmes.Identified and tracked key technical dependencies and competing priorities to prepare Portfolio Roadmaps.Formulated Risk management plans for high-stake projects, reducing potential setbacks by 25%.Established a structured communication protocol to enhance team productivity by 30%.Collaborated with Senior Product and Business leads on product strategy and growth.Delivery lead for Bangalore teams leading a team of 80+ developers.Fostered a team environment that prioritized learning, leading to a 15% improvement in employee satisfaction score.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Technical Delivery Lead for key initiatives integral to the success of new Tills software being rolled out by a leading UK based Retailer, budgeted at £85M with primary focus at reducing the total operating costs by 20% YoY. Involved with delivery, coordinating with cross-functional teams, and release strategy to cause minimal impact to customers and store colleagues. As of Feb, the target rollout to 42% of stores was achieved. Enforced the concept of feature teams and effective use of discovery workshops to improve the efficiency and quality of delivery projects.• Delivery Lead to migrate monolithic legacy to Microservices/Open API based design patterns with numerous downstream and upstream systems, including third party vendors and payment services such as SWIFT, FSP etc. These microservices were critical in overall Open Banking plan of a £25 million project. Project involved managing a mix of teams across clients and multiple vendors, to ensure the delivery and timeliness as agreed are met. Successful delivery enabled us to win phase 2, which involved the migration of remaining microservices set at a budget of £52M.• As Agile Coach successfully implemented Agile methodologies of Scrum and Kanban to bring in more value driven delivery for 3 verticals (approx. 18 teams) which resulted in a direct savings of over £350,000 across 2 quarters. Introduced concepts of continuous discovery and feature team development which was adopted as a case study to be rolled out for the other teams within the company.• Setup the first Agile team within the Retail Business Unit as a case study to optimize delivery to clients using Agile methodologies. With this success formed an Agile Centre of Excellence that helped people and projects with Agile Transformation and helped win major clients amounting to over $60 million USD.• Built and setup engineering team of 60+ members across the UK and India to manage the technical stack and lead the digital transformation for clients.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Role Description:Led scrum sprints using the core tenets of the scrum framework to help scrum teams deliver the highest quality products within tight schedules. In this capacity, led the successful transformation of the teams' waterfall mindset to agile by developing effective training materials and coaching.Key Responsibilities:• Present Agile best practises and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.• Coached teams in Agile practised and provided necessary training to create a positive mindset to Agile methodologies.• Worked effectively with multiple scrum team spread across continents.• Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.• Adjusted project plans to account for dynamic targets, staffing changes and operation specifications.Key Projects:• Lead project manager on a project to enable customers to transfer money between IRA accounts and banks using mobile Apps, thereby enabled increasing commission for Fidelity by around $125,000 per quarter.• As a Scrum Master worked with cross-functional teams to deliver a project to meet US regulatory timelines placed on specific funds to prevent commission losses up to $500,000.• As a project manager, reduced drop-out rates during beneficiary registration for their accounts by 87% and savings of $150,000 in customer-service call-ins.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Development of web pages for reporting the projections for the company's sales of upcoming years. • Gathering requirements for the front end pages, required for the reporting tool of the client required for company's audit process.

Mechanical Engineer

12Th Std Science, Mathematics And Computer Science