Chirag B. Email & Phone Number

United States

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Worked with teams within Elsevier’s Identity, Privacy, Access & Administration team to lead the Agile Transformation/Transition. Oversaw the delivery of the Product Roadmap for 12 Agile Development teams.Business Impact● Turned around a program that had missed many delivery dates into teams that delivered on cadence, on time, on schedule, thus greatly increasing Product organization’s roadmaps for Clients/Customers● Introduced/led program-wide Quarterly Release Planning (QRP) over the last 2 yrs bringing greater Program synchronization● Increased QRP Roadmap Completion rate from 33% to 90+% as an Organization over 2 yrs● Increased Sprint completion average to over 80% for 8+ teams with several achieving over 90% for the whole yearAgile Leadership● Created Organization-wide Atlassian ARJ (Advanced Roadmaps for Jira) connecting OKRs → Initiatives → Epics → Stories giving Leadership, Stakeholders complete view across entire Organization Roadmap● Trained and taught teams Story Point estimation, Capacity Planning and DoR/DoD● Increased collaboration between Leadership, Product Mgrs, Developers and QA teams● Mentored all Scrum Masters and Product Mgrs on Agile best practices

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Personally asked by Elsevier CTO to help lead Scaled Agile Transformation of Elsevier’s Aries Systems Corp, a 150+ person company, from a pure Waterfall software development process. As a result of my eff ort over 2+ yrs, I received a promotion by the CTO for my performanceBusiness Impact● Increased Sprint completion average, for all 6 Dev teams, to over 85-90%● Created Organization-wide Atlassian ARJ tying OKRs down to Story level giving Leadership, Stakeholders complete view across entire Organizational Roadmap for the fi rst time ever● Collaboration between Leadership, Stakeholders, Product, Developers, and QA teams increased significantly under Agile methodology whereas before under Waterfall it was very littleAgile Leadership● Created and implemented overall Agile Transformation plan for the entire company, from Leadership down to all individual teams● Trained ALL company teams and verticals on Jira/Confluence adoption, greatly increasing Company collaboration● Trained all 6 Dev teams, one by one, in Scrum methodology and Agile best practices, including proper Story Point estimation and Capacity Planning, DoR/DoD, etc.● Trained Mktg/Client Services/Operations/Sales Depts in adoption of Agile best practices and Jira to make all of their work transparent to rest of company● Mentored, trained, and developed Scrum Masters, Product Owners for all 6 Dev teams● Introduced/Led Quarterly Release Planning with Product/Dev/QA teams over 2 years● Overwhelming positive feedback from Aries Leadership and Depts on Agile Transformation

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Helped with Agile transformation for Elsevier Technology Infrastructure & Operations (TIO)Business Impact● Consolidated 10+ JIRA boards down to ONE, resulting a huge win for the team and stakeholders● Introduced 3-level SAFe hierarchy in JIRA. Positive reception by VP and Mgmt as it gave clear transparency on what was being worked on by the teams both tactically and strategicallyAgile Leadership● Trained teams from scratch to success on Agile Kanban best practices● Introduced Program Demo for all teams which greatly increased visibility for Leadership, Product, and Teams

Coppell, Texas, Us

Participated in supporting Aetna’s 50+ team successful Agile Transformation project using 100% SAFe/Agile/Scrum methodology* Remotely supported a brand-new team (US/India), with minimal to no Agile/Scrum experience, and helped them learn, adopt, and apply Scrum and Agile best practices. * Guided team in adopting best practices in their migration to a SAFe methodology for their software development, including Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, Quarterly Release Planning and Release Retrospectives.

Pune, Maharashtra, In

Worked on GE Aviation 35+ team Agile Transformation, along with other Agile Coaches to help the transition from Waterfall to a 100% Agile/Scrum methodology* Scrum Master for 3-5+ teams in parallel, helping in Scrum adoption and Agile best practices and additionally coached junior peer Scrum Masters in the same* Provided numerous Agile/Scrum best practice recommendations to GE Aviation Leadership, resulting in company-wide adoption. These included, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, Quarterly Release Planning and Release Retrospectives, and Release Burndown Charts, etc.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

* Scrum Master for 6-7 teams over 3 yr period, with teams spread across Europe and India* The velocity of EACH team greatly improved after I took over SM duties and helped teams adopt Scaled Agile principles and methodologies* Given Scrum/SAFe experience and certifications and success of my teams, was tasked by Senior Director in 2016 to review all Scrum ceremonies for all 20+ Scrum teams to determine and report how each team could improve* Site Administrator for Atlassian Confluence/JIRA installations

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

* Routinely led 3-4 concurrent large Waterfall projects thru complete life-cycle* Mentored peers on basic/advanced usage of MS Project 2010, SharePoint 2010/2007* Introduced and trained PMO on concepts of Cross-Project linking across all project plans and concept of hierarchical cross-project linking resulting in adoption by entire PMO, increasing accuracy of each release* Given Elsevier Achievement Award, only 5 months after starting job, for contributions made to Elsevier

Ms, Computer Science

Bs In Bus Adm, Mgmt Information Systems

Diploma With Distinction