Satish K. Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Bloomington, Minnesota

Transformed a waterfall application team to a highly performing agile team. Shared the pains & excitement of this journey collectively w/the team.• Handled 3 stable teams (7-8 members in each team) at a time with different focuses… Application Development, DevOps/Cloud/CI/CD, Production Support, all while giving each of the teams the best guidance that I could each and every day.• Mentored team members/leads to be Scrum Masters so that they understand the value in working in an agile environment.• Fostered constructive feedback & action items in retrospectives from all team members. Facilitated iteration planning & backlog refinement sessions.• With great partnership w/the cloud platform architect, we transformed a struggling cloud/devops team to be a highly successful team in less than a year.• Completed a long list of cloud roadmap initiatives like Blue/Green Deployments, Improved Cloud Monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, Pager Duty, Improved Cloud Security by partnering w/NetSPI, Evaluating and implementing managed kubernetes tools like EKS, AKS, Kubespray, KOPS etc.,• Successfully implemented projects which helped w/psychometricians, content developers, program management, operations & results processing teams.• Worked closely w/management to get the application development teams to work on latest technologies like Angular, Docker, Spring Cloud Config, RabbitMQ, MongoDB etc.,

• Managing Project Execution from Project Approval to Implementation & Pilot.• Developing & Maintaining Full-Scale Project Plans (60,000 hours, multi million $) & associated status/communication documents using SDLC processes.• Contributing to resource planning, budget planning & managing changes in project scope using change control process.• Create, Manage & Maintain Resource & Task Allocation in Clarity Workbench & MS Project.

• Developed Program & Resource Plan using Project Management tools like Niku/Clarity & MS Project.• Responsible for Weekly & Monthly Project Forecast/Earned Value, Schedule, Allocation & Estimation Reports. These reports were analyzed at Director Level.• Effectively and efficiently managed team sizes of 30+ resources both at onsite & offshore.• Communicated & Coordinated Testing efforts between almost 25 internal & external partners/vendors for Target.• Developed Program/Project Testing Strategies for on-time, on budget, quality project implementations.• Performed Resource Management Tasks for the Testing Team & worked closely with Managers both at Onsite & Offshore.• Day-to-Day Project Management/Lead Activities to check for on-time delivery of deliverables, estimation, issue management, change management, addressing roadblocks & mitigating risks.

• Involved in the modern concept of software development in an Iterative & Agile Process.• Involved in Iteration Planning, Scrum Meetings. Maintaining Product & Sprint Backlogs in various Iterative projects.