Kavya Kosalaraman Email & Phone Number

Beaverton, Or, Us

Beaverton, Oregon

• Independently led multiple Agile squads (up to 40 engineers) to deliver a multi-year SAP S4 initiative that integrated wholesale vendor partners across multiple regions, resulting in a unified supply chain solution for partners across North America, Greater China, and EMEA.• Worked closely with product managers to optimize backlog refinement, prioritizing user stories that align with the business's strategic objectives, which led to a 40% improvement in sprint delivery.• Managed risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints across Agile programs, implementing solutions to mitigate risks and escalating issues when necessary to maintain project timelines.• Carried out pre- and post-go-live assessments to measure the delivery of business value. Created JIRA program-level reports for C-Level Executives, showcasing squad progress and providing real-time visibility into team progress.• Implemented strategies for continuous improvement by introducing new tools and techniques for Agile teams, which led to a 25% improvement in overall team efficiency.• Mentored junior team members in Agile methodologies, resulting in the successful upskilling of team members, which led to an increase in overall team velocity.• Guided teams on Agile best practices and facilitated knowledge-sharing sessions through the facilitation of an Agile chapter.

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

• Coached team members on Agile principles through training sessions and workshops and designed strategies for adopting Agile best practices.• Communicated Agile principles and practices across cross-functional organizations.• Organized and facilitated Scrum of Scrums, sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, release planning, and demos.• Assisted development teams and product owners in creating user stories with definitions of done and acceptance criteria.• Monitored project progress, tracked activity, removed impediments, resolved problems, and published progress reports.• Improved team velocity through capacity planning during sprint planning sessions.

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

• Led IT transformation, converting project and service models into Agile teams and product models resulting in enhancing strategic alignment and delivery timelines.• Facilitated PI Planning readiness and planned the first-ever PI event for SAFe Agile implementation.Organized and facilitated Scrum of Scrums, sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, release planning, and demos.• Assisted product owners in creating product and sprint backlogs.• Worked closely with the Release Train Engineer (RTE) to facilitate program-level execution, impediment removal, risk and dependency management, and continuous improvement.• Monitored project progress, tracked activity, removed impediments, resolved problems, and published progress reports.

Bloomington, Illinois

• Spearheaded Agile transformation efforts by fostering a culture of innovation, organizing jam sessions and idea generationsessions that improved problem-solving capabilities across teams.• Created SAFe Agile framework at the program level, including vision, roadmap, portfolio backlog, PI objectives, and iteration goals.• Facilitated cross-team retrospectives to build good working relationships among multiple Agile teams.• Coached team members on Agile principles, improving team performance by 20%.• Assisted product owners in creating product and sprint backlogs, increasing efficiency of story delivery.• Performed risk and issue assessments and analysis sessions throughout the PDLC.• Communicated progress to senior management through burndown charts and monitored quality through metrics.

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

• Identified stakeholders and drove out business and technical requirements.• Implemented program and solutions Kanban systems to visualize and manage the flow of features and capabilities.• Facilitated Inspect and Adapt meetings in the form of Scrum of Scrums with Scrum Masters, focusing on cross dependencies, risks, issues, and ongoing updates.

Middletown, New Jersey

• Liaised among stakeholders to understand the structure, policies, and operations of the organization, recommending solutions to achieve organizational goals.• Gathered and documented business and functional/system requirements from stakeholders, trading partners, user groups, and vendors.• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with stakeholders, business users, and SMEs to clarify project requirements.

• Developed the B2B Extended Store Business Model and shopping cart flow for Hallmark, including shopping using rewards points.• Designed various business use cases and class diagrams.

Masters In Electrical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering