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Cary

- Provided mentoring and coaching for multiple squads at different agile maturity levels.- Collaborated with the squad leads and product area leads of multple squads to ensure squad objectives and KPIs were aligned with product area objectives.- Facilitated all Product area` planning and retro events, ensuring effective communication and alignment within the teams.- Coached scrum masters on conducting effective Agilty Health retrospectives for their squads and reviewed progress at the domain on a regular cadence.- Coached the Cognitive Computing Platform on Objective based quarterly planning sessions , enabling them to pivot from a work based mindset to a value based mindset.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

- Contributed significantly to laying out the agile playbook for the provider division of Watson Health.- Coached senior leadership on agile processes and facilitated offering prioritization meetings.- Actively fulfilled the duties of Release Train Engineer (RTE) for the provider value stream, ensuring smooth SAFe implementation.- Managed a team of scrum masters and business analysts for the Bundle payments value stream, fostering Agile practices.- Orchestrated and facilitated executive leadership idea prioritization sessions.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

- Consolidated projects into Agile Release Trains (ART), conveying ART health status to senior leadership weekly.- Implemented the first Enterprise Datawarehouse project across diverse locations effectively, enabling efficient data utilization.- Established a common release cadence across all products in the ART for streamlined execution.- Championed scrum team and train-level quality practices by adhering to SAFe’s Agile Software Engineering Practices.

Cary, Nc

- Improved time to market, quality, and customer satisfaction by embracing agile methodologies across products.- Coached all business and IT development teams in SCRUM and KANBAN, ensuring effective implementation.- Implemented KANBAN model for maintenance projects, enhancing efficiency in project management.- Built high-performing teams, communicated program health effectively through an interactive program dashboard.

Richmond, Virginia Area

- Transformed projects to SCRUM methodology, reducing development cycles and increasing productivity significantly.- Tracked release plans, maintained project backlogs, and evaluated burn down charts daily for effective project monitoring.- Successfully applied AGILE principles to mainframe products, resulting in quicker turnaround times and efficient product lifecycle management.

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Planned and executed the project (Virginia Offender Registry Management System) from inception to completion as per project management standards and guidelines.• Achieved NPR score of 52 with the customers.

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Managed the Point of Sale (POS) and back office systems which were built upon a J2EE/Oracle based solution.• Ensured that the projects were always within the triple constraints.• Successfully integrated the customer feedback/input cycle at all phases of the project which enabled us to gather early feedback and subsequently high-quality products.

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Performed all activities typically expected of a consultant from the requirement gathering phase till the delivery of solution (Credit Card Management System) to the customer.

West Palm Beach, Florida Area

• Developed and maintained the Mortgage Management System with 100% unit test coverage and low bug count .

Barbados

• Led design, construction and testing and deployment of the Documentation System(DOX) for J.P.Morgan .• Key contributor in the project feasibility study and process analysis.

Masters Degree In Computer Science, Computer Science, 4.0

Masters Degree in Computer Applications

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Chemistry

Masters Degree in Chemistry

Under-Graduate, Physics , Chemistry , Maths