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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.• Facilitate retrospective sessions using different approaches to ensure team participation and increase morale.• Demonstrate ability to work closely with delivery teams to establish expectations and ensure tasks remain on track.

• 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