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• Exhibiting lean agile leadership by helping teams embrace SAFe core values, adopt and apply SAFe Principles and implement SAFe practices.
• Assist in overall program/project planning and ensure cross-team dependencies are well-understood and modeled in project plans and timelines.
• Coaching Product Owners and other teams in role execution, backlog management, facilitating meetings/ceremonies and conflict resolution.
• Identify, document, and publish risks and issues related to the overall program and define resolution paths where required.
• Possess excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams with diverse personalities, during high pressure scenarios, within extremely tight deadlines.
• Team award for consistent delivery excellence for 3 consecutive quarters, achieved through early identification and removal of blockers, consistent team coaching and training.

• Organized and facilitated scrum team events: sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review - demo, sprint retrospective, backlog refinement, release planning etc.
• Collaborated with developers, product owners and stakeholders to break down epics to small slices that do not span iterations or programmed increments.
• Led and assist teams improve and sustain the teams ‘velocity and the delivery of backlog items ahead of stipulated deadline.
• Coached teams to stay focused on value delivery and not the process so they stay aligned to Agile principles.
• Encouraged teams to become self-organized, cross functional and more focus on their tasks for a quicker turn around.
• Tracked risks and dependencies at program level for visibility while guiding towards proper removal of blockers to increase productivity and reduce defects.

• Ensure cross functional coordination (analysts, developers, and testers) is occurring early and often.
• Track and communicate team metrics to team, management, and stakeholders to maintain transparency and manage delivery expectations.
• Worked with teams as servant leader to assess progress, improvement opportunities and celebrate every stride in their Agile transformation journey.
• Implemented industry best practices for software engineering, including Agile methodology, UI/UX design, DevOps, code review and testing.

High School Diploma

Bachelors Of Arts, Entertainment Business Management