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Sydney, Australia

• Program Management and Delivery – Establishment of organisation-wide agile release cycles. Facilitating Scrum of Scrums, risks management, dependency negotiation and resolution. Handling progressive requirements elaboration and communication with stakeholders.• Organisational Agility – Coaching organisation towards culture of agility with flow-based value delivery; bringing product, engineering, and other associated departments together for faster value realisation.• Squads Agility and Coaching – Structuring several atomic agile teams from disparate pools of resources to form skilled feature teams.• Team Management – Facilitating Scrum teams in adoption of best practices and self-management.Accomplishments:• Implemented continuous, predictable, and on-demand release cadence (where one was virtually non-existent); while in-parallel supporting fortnightly production support releases to customer in a program encompassing several engineering squads.• Oversaw and facilitated planning, development, and delivery of 3 major and numerous minor releases of company’s flagship product across a program of work involving over 100 members spread around multiple geographies.• Developed a new light-weight system for financial reporting from software engineering teams, reducing time required for report generation from several months to less than two weeks; saving nearly 100% of engineering manager’s time and more than 75% of financial team’s time.• Established company-wide agile centre of excellence and several other guilds for sustained process improvements.• Taught agile ways-of-working to Engineering and Business stakeholders through targeted and general coaching sessions and training. Established several feature teams, focusing on progressive refinement and implementation and empirical learning culture.

Sydney, Australia

• Team Agility and DevOps – Coaching several teams in adoption of Scrum, maturing agile practices, implementation of technical excellence practices.• Team Management – Facilitation of sprint planning, backlog grooming, estimation, reviews, and retrospective of multiple development teams. • Project Management – Tracking, monitoring, reporting and delivery of digitisation projects. Risks management and impediment resolution with engineering and business stakeholders.Top accomplishment:• Delivered 3 multi-million dollars digitisation and modernisation initiatives to customers over the period of 2 years at Telstra Digital.

Islamabad, Pakistan

• Agile Transformation – Coaching teams in learning and adoption of Scrum and agile practices.• Team Management – Facilitation of sprint planning, estimation, demonstration, and retrospective of all project activities.• Project Management – Running project scheduling, road mapping, planning and estimation efforts for multiple parallelly executing projects.• Software Architecture – Leading software architecture, design, and implementation efforts of various platform projects.Top accomplishment:• Consulted team in adoption of architecture and development guidelines enabling rapid agile development resulting in increased throughput by more than 200%.

• Team Management – Managed complete development program as Chief Scrum Master, working in a Scrum of Scrums formation.• Project Management – Responsible for and managed complete development program while interacting with various stakeholders including design, engineering, quality, and marketing teams.• People Management – Successfully inducted new people in teams as well as started new teams for development of various products. • Technical Management and Architecture – Key technological and architecture design decision making. Delivered releases and features on all platforms, including mobile (iOS, Android), desktop (OS X, Windows) and server. Running architecture and design decisions, hands-on problem-solving sessions with developers and solution hunting for all technical impediments.Top accomplishments:• Oversaw and increased expansion of company’s product portfolio from 2 to 7 products.• Hired and expanded development team size from initial size of 10 to over 30 people.

• Project Management – Transitioned teams from traditional waterfall development model to Scrum. Release frequency brought down from semi-annual to monthly cycle. Product management and ownership of a SAAS product with team comprising over 50 people.• Scrum Coaching – Coached teams in Scrum framework areas like estimation, planning, cross-functional teams, agile development as well as extreme programming.• Product Ownership – Product and release backlogs creation, elaboration, story writing and prioritization.

• Project Management – Leading team of over 10 people. Undertook planning, scheduling and release responsibilities as team’s Scrum Master.• Software Engineering – Engineering of content management and workflow modules of a highly scalable cloud product. Architecture and design of modules encompassing whole product spectrum from front-end interfaces to back-end services.• Software Development – Designing and development experience of product modules employing Java, Spring framework, Flex, HTML5 and JavaScript along with other platforms and technologies.

• Software specialist consultant to Hypothekar Bank, Switzerland, designing and development of a high performance, high throughput workflow server used in everyday banking• Development experience in Visual C, Visual Basic, COM+, DCOM, SQL Server• Development of various other banking modules

• Development of distributed system capable of designing and deploying business logic without need of core programming skills