Aniruddha K. Email & Phone Number

Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

• Led and driven Program Increments by aligning to PI objectives to deliver value on demand• Own the Agile Transformation, including the use of scaling methods and value stream identification and optimization• Mentor junior Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, Product Owners/Managers, and Program Managers to continuously evolve and mature to Agile ways of thinking. – Help and provide guidance on setting up communities of practice (CoP) and sustaining them• Trained and coached teams in backlog refinement, estimation, planning, measuring, and reporting• Led workshops and training sessions focused on educating individuals within a portfolio including growth mindset, agile values, principles and practices, and tool enablement• Used Agile techniques to help the business build product backlogs, prioritize them, and drive value for Agile Delivery Teams within a scaling effort• Contributed regularly to the Agile roadmap and enables the transformation of a team across the portfolio and requisite business partners on transparency, empowerment, self-organization, and responsive action• Guide Agile teams, shared services teams, systems teams, etc. to improve their ability to be predictive using the right estimation and capacity planning techniques• Drive and participate in agile maturity assessment and assist teams and programs in implementing assessment recommendations• Managed cross-value stream coordination and collaboration and Stakeholder expectations with a good understanding on tracking upstream / downstream dependencies along with delivery milestones• Empowered teams to create and execute self-governing structures so they make decisions to drive development through iteration• Aligning to the Agile Coaching Office strategy and support Enterprise Coaches and/or peers through the organization• Analyzed release performance of teams and programs and periodically published team and program level metrics

Bloomington, Minnesota

Richfield

Best Buy is a Fortune 50 enterprise with more than $50 billion in annual revenues, and 167,000 employees working in more than 4,300 storefronts around the world. I was working with the CRM Symphony team as a Scrum Master for the In-Home Advisor (IHA) project. IHA program delivers capabilities and processes for IHAs to provide a tailored sales experience for individual customers and build an everlasting relationship with customers with the purpose of driving future business.Responsibilities:• Planned and executed release planning, user journey mapping and backlog creation sessions.• Preparing project plans with timelines and milestones and thereby managing sprints through identified development plan.• Estimating resources and capacity while assisting the program director in budgeting.• Conducting Sprint ceremonies - Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Scrum of Scrums, Review and Retrospective meetings – religiously on every sprint basis.• Maintaining relevant metrics and dashboards to help management get a visibility on project status.• Management and triaging of issues, defects, risks and configuration. • Effectively analyze, troubleshoot any issues and defects encountered and follow up with vendor on any product defects.• Support and perform end to end testing on vendor solutions in various environments.• Pro-active and assertive towards removing obstacles and clearly communicating to outside teams.• Ensuring, facilitation and co-ordination of solution Development, solution review and design meetings takes place.• Assists the Product Owner in keeping the backlog groomed.• Ensures Sprint commitments are made and kept while protecting the team from outside disturbances while in a Sprint.• Elicits team discussions regarding the effects of discovered items on the current sprint.• Supports collaboration/coordination between all roles and team members• Tracks individual capacity and milestones daily and reacts accordingly.

Chanhassen, Mn

Life Time is a privately held, comprehensive health and lifestyle company that offers a personalized and scientific approach to long-term health and wellness. I was the P.O/S.M for the Total Health team where we came up with a new website from scratch for customers’ registration and enrollment into new programs and helping the mobile app team with their backend API requirement. I also managed the B.I & D.W (Business Intelligence & Data Warehouse) team that is currently trying to merge different data warehouses of Lifetime Fitness into one Universal Data warehouse (UDW). I was responsible for one Agile Scum and another Agile Kanban team.Responsibilities:Organized Sprint ceremonies to decipher intrinsic notions and severity of items in the Product Backlog.Communicated team status in super scrum so inter-team dependencies are resolved and every team is aware of the progress.Sprint reviews were given to stakeholders at the end of every sprint as well as coordinated the incremental product demos.Helped the team in understanding the notion of complexity and story points Triaged new issues that come in on a daily basis to have a viewpoint on what’s important and what can wait.Performed T-Shirt Sizing, Planning Poker and MoSCoW techniques to prioritize and estimate the product backlogUsed various metrics and made team’s dashboard to visualize sprint using different filters and reports.Enforced time-boxing to ensure that the time invested in the meetings had positive outcomes.Liaised between technical staff and business users by having a thorough understanding of interpreting customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.Prepared use cases and/or user stories for all functions to make sure that all the use cases are mapped against functional requirements.Followed and supported change management process, including documenting scope and impact of change.

Sacramento, California Area

The CCCTC, hosted by Butte College, facilitates and coordinates the work of system-wide technology projects. In an effort to enhance existing processes, I was working as a BPM BA. In collaboration with the Chancellor’s Office team and other university offices the efforts were to support, maintain and improve student service systems.Responsibilities:• Created a strategy, plan for implementing Business Process Management (BPM) framework and BPM lifecycle methodology using BonitaSoft BPM• Identified process improvements and designed system modifications to streamline and automate business processes to improve college and university collaboration.• Developed and documented business process model and workflow to help the customer visualize their specifications.• Used Bonita BPM Studio for modeling business processes like creating workflows, message flows and timer events which reduced keystrokes for the customer to interact with the university.• Managed various project milestones, deliverables, resources and environments towards successful execution of the project.• Analyzed the team’s velocity and thereby planned sprint accordingly.• Performed T-Shirt Sizing, Planning Poker and MoSCoW techniques to prioritize and estimate the product backlog.• Facilitated daily and weekly events between the Customer and Technology teams to track and improve customer satisfaction.• Captured empirical data and updated Sprint tasks in the daily scrum to ensure the item pulled in sprint backlog is completed by the end of on-going sprint cycle.• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams using UML and Rational Rose.• Identified defects, issues, enhancements related to projects and initiated appropriate Change Management tasks and work towards finding a resolution.• Updated project status to the Project Sponsor, Business Customer and Sr. Management on a regular basis.

Greater Chicago Area

During my stint with Motorola, I was working for Motorola’s new ecommerce enabled website expansion to China. It opens up Motorola to one of the most populous customer base. Successfully brought Motorola’s smart watch –Moto 360 in the market where users can configure it and customize it. Also brought Motorola`s new customization option of “Red Leather” in the market.Responsibilities:•Created and executed strategic and tactical product plans with regional managers for expanding direct to consumer experience to design Motomaker to China.•Coordinate the efforts of 2 scrum teams totaling 24 personnel across various locations in Brazil, Chicago, India, and Romania.•Successfully completed various workshops like Requirement refinement and granularization, Story Point estimation, Iteration Management, Acceptance Criteria among various others during agile transformation.•Analyzed company performance versus competitors and industry benchmarks. Perform ROI analysis - financial return on new products, events, or initiatives.•Performed, analyzed and presented to senior management - competitive advantages, pro-forma cost analysis and vendor comparison during vendor selection process, and new product opportunities.•Using google analytics and beta testing, came up with Mobile site improvements involving customer in this change process. The new change resulted in increased traffic on our mobile site.•Played key role in go-to-market strategies for new product launches for horizontal expansion of Motorola across the globe•Wrote comprehensive user stories, and maintained well-groomed product backlog in JIRA for execution of tactical plans in the agile environment.•Conducting bi-weekly backlog grooming sessions with leads from Design, content and Development team.

Master In International Business, International Business

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Information Technology