Saurabh Gupta Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas Area

• Took ownership of multiple programs in the security portfolio, involving existing running program and established a new program, simultaneously involving teams in multiple time zones that cut across multiple business groups putting on multiple hats.• Actively tracked risks & dependencies and worked with stakeholders to have mitigation plans in place.• Improved processes backed by data-driven decisions and feedback that resulted in delivering higher value.• Turned dysfunctional team to a motivated high performing team with empathy, enthusiasm, positive attitude, listening, and organizational skills solving people issues that come with geographical diversity • Well versed in Agile Program Management processes, dealt well with rapid changes, comfortably navigated uncertain/ambiguous situations to bring clarity among internal and external stakeholders.• Facilitated communication with a wide spectrum of roles to achieve good information flow among stakeholders, resulting in keeping the teams in sync across time zones.• Presented the programs to senior leadership for their approvals in front of large audiences.• Kept a 3600 view of the programs that included cross-functional teams including development, QA, documentation, services, beta release and ensured the program stays focused on delivering value as per commitments. Ensured support and service organization is getting trained on new features.• Communicated health of the programs to the executive leadership and the stakeholders via constant communication, information radiators, and presentations.• Built relationships across business groups, to drive the programs involving integrations to success.• Lead the migrations program to build migrations from cisco products and competitive devices to the latest Firepower platform and made continuous improvements based on telemetry data.

Bedford, Ma

•Spearheaded the development & release of the new SaaS clinical trial platform (Clinical One) from ground up with 7 distributed teams, transforming them from waterfall to agile. •Created the information radiators to effectively communicate the timelines and progress using confluence and JIRA dashboards.•Created plans that fits scope; define and clearly articulate project goals and milestones (stretch, yet realistic); assigned and tracked action items,to drive on-time completion of tasks from initiation to delivery to cloud. •Lead the Program Review Team to manage the program backlog, review the Functional requirements, t-shirt size, assign the Epics to individual teams. Monitor staffing and remove bottlenecks. •Reported the health of the program to management and other stake holders, effectively communicating risks and mitigation. Evaluated the performance of teams. Worked with QA and management to establish the quality criteria. Tracked these quality goals throughout the release. •Managed the development teams as the Uber Scrum Master, using Scrum of Scrum, to coordinate, remove impediments, and resolve dependencies in a timely manner. Mentored teams in Scrum and Kanban.•Developed in-depth SaaS/PaaS hosting requirements and managed development teams, helping them understand and prioritized key requirements for their successful cloud hosting•Implemented techniques like Bug bash events during HIP sprints to bring quality and innovation to the product, resulted in development teams synced up on features and functionality.•Accelerated cross functional efforts working with Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Support, Documentation, Operations, and Compliance. Ensured they are achieving their goals in a timely manner and are trained and ready to support the release.•Consolidated the Cloud Readiness effort, to host the product in Oracle Cloud for Industry, tracked all the artifacts and readiness activities needed to prepare OCI to host, and HSGBU to support Clinical One.

Andover, Ma

Certified Scrum Master: Coached various teams to start using Agile methodologies more specifically promoted the adoption of Agile within the development department by showcasing the value driven software development and grooming high performance teams using Scrum and Kanban. This is done by:•Preparing, moderating, analyzing and facilitating meetings for the team ( Planning, daily standup, Retrospectives, Sprint demo’s)•One-on-one coaching of team members•Fostering self-organizing traits in the team•Coaching with writing user stories, splitting user stories•Helping team to get rid of impediments•Helping the team with definition of done, creating a culture of minimal technical debt.•Mediating between Product owner, Management and the team•Helping product owners to write the product vision•Working with product owners, making sure backlog is prioritized maximizing value•Working with different departments to foster collaboration and communication.•Facilitating scrum of scrum to make sure communication between interdependent teams happens, ensuring alignment between teams with bigger picture in mind•Coaching the teams with information radiators, to keep Management and other stake holders aligned and up-to-date on the progress of the project•Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders•Organizing lean coffee, to harbor exchange of ideas and remove inter organization communication walls and further agile and lean values within the organization• Reflecting agile and team values to the team, and helping the team and bringing the culture of continuous improvement and creating a safe environment for the team•Conducting agile training internally, coaching Kanban and Scrum.•Used influencer models to influence the individuals in key roles to go agile.•Used TDD (test driven development) & BDD in forms of user stories techniques.

Andover,Ma

Served as Product Owner for Physician Portal and Patient portal:•Created product vision, to clearly communicate purpose and direction of the project with different stake holders •Worked with various internal and external stakeholders on the project to gather requirements, and gather feedback.•Visiting customers to understand the business cases and the desired user experience•Working with management, did product roadmap planning•Collaborated with development team and the Scrum Master working in Scrum.•Captured the desired user experience as user stories in the product backlog and communicated it the development team•Prioritized the product backlog and communicated Sprint goals to the team•Did sprint demos and product demos to the internal and external customers to validate the direction and experience of the product.•Analyzed the feedback gathered during the demo’s turning this into product backlog•Coordinated the release and launch activities, with sales, marketing and support teams.•Worked with Sales on pre-sales cycle and helped Services with existing opportunities.•Communicated project progress to stake holders and the management.Participated in company book and innovation club to bring fresh ideas to table that can inspire employees and not just keep pace with the industry but find ways to be ahead of the curve. Some of these books include Influencer, Management 3.0, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Succeeding with Agile, Lean Software Development an Agile Toolkit, and Kanban

Salem, Nh

Managed the implementation of Enterprise software in healthcare environment. Responsibilities included defining project scope, running project status calls, training, and managing customer expectations. Microsoft Project was used to manage and track the project work.Internally worked with engineers and QA, managed the development of Enterprise web applications deployed using open source Apache Server. Hands on deployed and worked with customers to troubleshoot problems. As a liaison, managed the partnership with a Canadian company that involved frequent interaction with their CTO as well as requirements exchange and clarification meetings between the developers of the two entities.

Nashua, Nh

Designed and Tested the Document Management product. Also did the Market Research for the product. Work involved developing the functional specifications of the product and testing the developed components.

Burlington, Ma

Experience included working on their Content Server and Content Center. My focus was working on different Application Servers, Web Servers and Databases along with other supporting technologies such as LDAP and SSL. Wrote smoke tests APIs using Java.Took full ownership of testing and qualifying company’s Content Management products on LDAP, SSL and Clusters technologies under different App. servers.  Using Weblogic application servers, executed system testing including stress testing, performance testing and tuning to obtain optimal parameters in various scenarios. Communicated this information which was incorporated in product documentation.

Littleton, Ma

Member of the PATHWORKS for OpenVMS server team that designs and ports Windows NT Advanced Server (V3.51) to OpenVMS VAX and AXP. My achievements include:Install Utility: Designed and developed the install utility for the Advanced Server. This was done using CServer Testing: Tested fixed the Advanced Server for proper functionality. This included simulating a client server environment, simulating users, and putting heavy network loads on the server to test its robustness, y2k testing and fixing bugs as found.

Durham, Nh

Performed Interoperability testing on DEC servers running Windows NT. Multiple configurations and network cards were used to test servers in different scenarios and technologies. Received extensive training at the OSI layer level, in all LAN and WAN network topologies. This included LAN technologies and network topology, WAN technologies like routing and internetworking.