Divya Bansal Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Ohio Area

Dublin, Ohio, United States

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Performed Agile Coach role for Retirement Plan public and private sector to support $150M Tier 1 program to establish Common Business Process and adopt a Single, Enhanced Technology suite; resulted in High Transparency, Continuous Delivery, Proactive Risk Identification, better Decision Making, and Streamlined Process.• Proven ability to handle multiple teams and projects. Expert in bringing cultural change. Established a culture of collaboration within and across teams, high moral, continuous improvement, no silos and high sense of responsibility resulting in 8 successful releases with no release exceptions and defects reduction by 92% within 4 months.• Collaborated with other Coaches on plans and techniques for accelerating and advancing the organization's transformation.• Created enterprise wise accepted and adapted tool to aid program in achieving visibility of Real-Time Scope Delivery; which helped dept. leaders in making informed financial decisions proactively. Created documentation and provided coaching on managing and maintaining this tool.• Implemented a consolidated view of projects and releases across public sector to promote the culture of partnership and transparency and to eliminate 35 hours of meetings held weekly across department for discussing scope, status, risks, issues, defects and dependency. • Developed and promoted the tool for better estimation, planning and forecast which resulted in avoiding management oversight. • Ability to adapt and maintain control under stressful situations. Displayed business acumen/partnership, though leadership, managerial courage.• Coached leaders and teams through the transformation and provided the necessary training and references to enable the ideal management and team structures. Created and conducted training courses for Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters and teams related to agile best practices, understanding and improving team dynamics and team performance.

Chandīgarh Area, India

• Effectively lead the setup and stabilization of a Startup Company. Partnered in creating Business Strategy, Team building, Project Management, and Hiring and Financial decision. Introduced and implemented the concept of Agile/Scrum in the company and mentored company heads, managers and team to utilize these concepts. As a result completed project in 4 months instead of 6 months.• Initiated and implemented Continuous Improvement process at a company facing challenges to increase efficiency in delivery and overall quality. Provided leadership and vision to the overall development life cycle and served as point of escalation, review and approval for key issues and decisions. The improvements resulted in more than $1.1 million in cost savings and reduction in number of defects by 72%.• Provided guest lectures and career counselling to Computer Science, Information Technology and Business Administration post graduate students of Chandigarh University.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Performed Iteration Project Manager Role for agile team of 40 members, helped setting up new teams in support of $6.95M Identity Management and Mobile application portfolio, providing project and operational support through agile development methodologies, collaborating with business partners, project and dependency teams. • Established a culture of pride, increasing sense of ownership within team while dramatically improving quality and productivity. As a result, team defects reduced by 88% in just six months and team received a continuous improvement award.• Performed Feasibility and Risk analysis and incorporated avoidance, minimization and mitigation strategy in project management plan hence avoiding major cost overrun. • Worked with Program Dept. Heads to develop IT Budget and resource plan, determine hiring needs, and take infrastructure decisions for department. Provided and implemented strategy to leverage existing resources and infrastructure which saved time and cost. • Assisted in defining and implementing Engagement Model for offshore team outlining work management, decision framework, criteria for success which enabled offshore team to meet the demand within time constraints.• Seasoned communicator and negotiator. Facilitated and managed cross-departmental relationship with numerous dependency groups in an effort to foster a positive and productive environment for the teams working on the same projects or issues; resulting in reduced turn-around time in issue resolution.• Championed in using Project Management tools like Clarity and RTC to manage and measure the team’s effort. Designed team's Iteration and Release Dashboard in RTC to bring transparency to monthly and yearly scope delivery and release status. Implemented the dashboard across organization.• Mentored and coached other SMs, Application Enhancement Coordinators and PMs as they onboard into the organization and to manage process competencies between the standing teams.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• In-Depth Knowledge of - ESDm (Nationwide’s Enterprise Solutions Delivery Methodology – built on best practices); and other Delivery frameworks and methodologies including Agile, Waterfall. RequisitePro.• Elicited and documented requirements, lead JAD sessions, understood functional requirements and determined their impact to the business objectives. • Created a story card template and Promoted the use of similar templates across multiple teams, which increase team effectiveness and reduced management oversight.• Strong leadership and communication skills.• Gap analysis to identify and highlight deviations between the current state and to-be state and effectively communicate them to the primary stakeholders• Worked with the user community and the project team to define a scope that meets the business case. Negotiation and Collaboration being key.• Managed requirements volatility, integrity, and continuity via change management and re prioritization.• Software development acumen.• In-Depth technical knowledge to understand Developing and Testing team needs.• Acted as backup Scrum Master, when required. Facilitated scrum meetings, updated RTC with current iteration work information. Introduced the concept of visual charts to the team which helped them in gauging their day to day progress and meet their commitments.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

• Research, design and development of Software System to meet client’s Requirements. Investigated enhancements in Technology, made recommendations and implemented advanced and cost effective solutions within schedule and budget constraints to improve organizations’ business networks and client’s systems.• Enhanced the requirement elicitation process using prototyping, Business Process engineering for modeling As-Is and To-Be System, Gap Analysis, project design planning using RUP, resulting in better requirements, customer/stakeholder satisfaction hence enhancing company’s reputation. • Performed Scoping, Planning, Scheduling, Estimation, Risk Management and Implementation till closure of simple, complex and unique local, national and international client projects.• Involved with vendors for Request for Quotes, Procurement and Delivery. Interacted with Customer technical representatives (as well as internal groups Technical Designers and 3rd party vendors) to ensure that the requirements are understood and the delivered solution is as per the requirements.• Ownership, creation and delivery of all project documentation for the detailed design, validation and support consistent with the established templates, or customized as required.• Provided regular status reports and communication to all the stake holders. Provide internal feedback to, and ensure acceptance from, various groups for capacity planning, infrastructure requirements for all design and deployment dependencies.• Manage handover of projects including Operation readiness testing and in-life.• Provided continued improvement, efficiency and cost savings through standardization, consolidation and cross-departmental harmony, wherever possible.• Developed in different programming languages, framework, databases including Java, Javascipt, VBscript, Coldfusion, VB.net, C#, PHP, Oracle, SQL, MySql with specialization in .net, scripting languages and SQL to cater different project needs.

• Co-developed a ‘Dynamic Data driven application system’ test bench for simulating element based algebraic multigrid method, which can be used in number of fields like medicines, natural disaster management, research and education etc.• Positioning of wildfire locations on Google map on real time basis.• Published paper: C. C. Douglas, D. Bansal et al. Dynamic data-driven application systems for empty houses, contaminant tracking, and wildland fire line prediction, submitted to Proceedings of WoCo9, 2006, P. Gaffney (ed.), IFIP series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

• Digitally processed newspapers using zoning and image verifying tools, • Trained new employees, • Reviewed the work done by co-workers.

Louisville, Kentucky

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, M&A, Entrepreneurship, Global Business

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Phi

Ms In Computer Science, (Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems, Algothm, Numerical Analysis, Networking, Network Security,

• Awarded with merit-based Kentucky Graduate Scholarship for complete period of study. • Member of 'Multilevel, Dynamic Data-Driven.

Mscit, Information Technology

• Awarded Honor for scoring top scores in MScIT finals. • Participated in On-site software development competition held in Chandigarh.

Bit, Information Technology

GPA : 4.0/4.0 • Topped in North Indian Zone with all A's. • Teaching Assistant, taught Oracle, C++.