More than three decades of experience in Quality, Operational Excellence and Process Improvement in manufacturing, software products and software services companies. Hands on experience in setting up process excellence groups from scratch, managing complex Qualty Assurance functions of a huge corporation, helping companies on the process improvemet journeys through consulting assignments and conducting CMM and CMMI appraisals. I am mainly focused on bringing both agility and discipline through the practices of Scrum and CMMI together.My current passion is to bring execution excellence and making service deliveries better, cheaper and faster through the practices of Lean, six sigma and Theory of Constraints.Specialties: SEI Certified CMMI Lead Appraiser,Certified Scrum Master,Lean Six Sigma Champion,Trained Management Consultant (By Canadian Association of Management Consultants, CAMC),Focused Change Agent,Adjunct Professor, SMOT Business School, Chennai,Visiting Professor, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai,Visiting Faculty, Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore and College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai