As an Enterprise Agile coach and project management professional, I focus on helping teams develop a Lean/Agile mindset and perform only value-added activities, not everything, keeping it simple, strategic and incredibly efficient. This is the key to delivering business outcomes, quickly.- Successfully led multiple Agile transformation for IBM and other large and medium size organizations with team sizes ranging from 20-400. Transformed more than 200 teams and 5000 professionals in last 6 years.- Coached a large team of 100+ professionals to almost triple their Agility, improve lead time by 26% and customer satisfaction by 31%.- Developed and implemented fit-for-purpose Agile operating models that delivered 20-90% gains in less than 3 months. The new Agile operating models were a blend of agile values, principles, practices, methodologies, frameworks designed keeping in mind the ground realities of the business and the organizational constraints.- Lead a project recovery project in which sponsors and stakeholders were losing hope day by day, saving millions of dollars and relieving stress.- Implemented an integrated process combining Agile and waterfall for a multi-billion-dollar insurance company in the Midwest, involving state-of-the-art and legacy/mainframe technologies.- Cultivated solid project management practices. project delivery capability and project management talent for a midsize private university while successfully leading a large ERP implementation. - Implemented numerous process improvements projects in IT and PMO areas resulting in improved quality (50%+ reduction in defects), improved turnaround time (reducing QA cycles from three months to one month) and significant cost savings. - Trained/mentored hundreds of students on current topics in project management, Agile/Scrum, SAFe, certification prep (PMP, PMI-ACP), etc.

Leading a global Data Analytics/BI team to deliver 3 key EPICs, including 3 business departments, IT and PMO teams of the District and a vendor team in India.Providing agile project management coaching to implement agile values and principles mainly using Scrum and Kanban. Resolving blockers, managing risks and keeping the cost in control while executing the project in an agile manner.Key Outcomes - 2 EPICs have already gone live and users are using them. The 3rd EPIC is planned go live in a couple of weeks. Achieved full marks on customer satisfaction on successful delivery of 3 of their key and highly complex EPICs.

Coached multiple Scrum and Kanban teams, Scrum Masters, Delivery Leads and Product Owners as a part of overall transformation for a unit within Wells Fargo that has over 60 teams and 600 team members. Almost all transformations started with Dojo sessions/ discovery workshops.Coached teams to improve predictability, churn, and cycle time by 30-50% by reviewing and analyzing Tableau reports and effectively conducting retrospectives. Key Outcomes - The teams started showing improved predictability, churn, and cycle time within 90 days to demonstrate benefits from coaching.

Coached an organization within Charter to improve their Agility by demonstrating business outcomes based on data and metrics. Encouraged and supported teams to understand and adopt Agile mindset and transform to a true Agile culture. Worked with multiple teams to design and operationalize a fit-for-purpose Agile operating model based on the nature of work those teams do.Key Outcomes - Agility of the teams improved 2.4 times, customer lead time improved by 26% and customer satisfaction (NPS) improved by 31%.

Coached more than 2 dozen teams and over 4000 team members across the globe to transform to Agile delivering business outcomes such as improved lead times and throughput. Had an opportunity to work with infrastructure, network and security teams of some of the very large organizations such as State Street Bank, AMEX, USAA, Honda Motors, Walgreens, Kaiser Permanente, Sysco Foods, Caterpillar, and DOW Chemicals.Led Agile transformation for IBM’s senior account leadership in the USA to develop alignment with their clients for Agile transformation.Led Agile transformation workshops for IBM delivery teams in USA and India to implement IBM’s Agile for Services framework. Provided follow up coaching to help teams implement the framework and achieve business outcomes using Design Thinking, Dojos/Discovery sessions & Agile practices.Key Outcomes - Several teams delivered measurable business outcomes such as improved predictability, shroter lead times, lesser SLA breaches, improved quality, by 15-40% within 4-8 weeks of coaching.

Championed project management, business development, financial management, process improvement, risk management, quality assurance and client relations activities on behalf of this 55-employee North Carolina-based software design and services company. Rapidly promoted to increasingly responsible positions. Oversaw team of 25 employees focused on the delivery of IT projects and consultative services. Key OutcomesSignificantly improved productivity and asset utilization, yielding earnings ratio of 95%+ monthly for entire business unit through resource optimization and continuous process improvements.Integrated new project management capabilities; improved bottom line profitability for customer base by 10-20%.Lead project manager and consultant on numerous multi-year, multi-million-dollar IT projects: 100% success rate track record, 95%+ on-time completion rate, under budget by 10%.Recovered and turned around several floundering projects, saving clients millions of dollars.Cultivated detailed planning and execution process to track financial projections on weekly basis and get as close to actual as possible. Efforts resulted in vastly improved data integrity and record low deviation rate.Developed high-level communications including dashboards and scorecards to allow C-level executives to make decisions based on metrics and an understanding of the big picture—not guesswork.

Entrusted to manage large projects and grow business for insurance practice portfolio of the company.● Recovered $12M project and retained the customer for 10+ years by assuming ownership of a previously failing project, spinning the project to profitability and realizing fruition within just 8 months. Successful efforts included needs assessment, client communication, resource management, risk management, improved communication and re-energizing the team members to achieve project completion.● Managed the Indian operations of the company; leading all aspects of the business as well as a team of 70+ employees.● Successfully delivered a 2-year, 4.5 million dollar project for a large insurance company within budget and one month ahead of schedule.● First employee to receive Doris S. Knecht Principles and Values Award for outstanding job performance.

Led a team of 30+ team members (developers, architects, BA and QA) to deliver of large and complex global projects.

Led Management Information Systems (MIS) group within C-DOT. Managed a team of 10+ software engineers to develop and support in-house applications.

Provided hardware maintenance support to 40+ customers in North India.