Vaibhav Deshmukh Email & Phone Number

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Successfully lead multiple Scrum teams and program as Agile Coach and scrum master teams to achieve PI deliverables by facilitating PI/ release planning, SoS and PI/sprint ceremonies.• Developed and delivered team and organization training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile transformation.• Established and supported Communities of Practices (CoP) to promote organizational understanding of Agile roles and to help individuals develop into them.• Coached and mentored teams, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Managers and Executives on Agile values and principles to promote continuous improvement in practices and artifacts.• Developed the roadmap for all teams to evolve toward predictive velocities• Brought in Agile best practices such as time-boxing, Shift left testing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, Jira tracking, technical debt reduction, self-management, empowerment and role training resulting in realized velocity improvement of more than 100%• Worked closely with Product owners and stakeholders in backlog management and continuous delivery of features across Sprints. • Defining metrices for measuring and monitoring the agile transformation and delivery effectiveness by burn down charts, burn up charts & Sprint Dashboards. Present dashboard to project stakeholders.• Helping team to focus by protecting them from distractions, build a safe and trusting environment where conflicts can be managed in a healthy way without the fear of blame.• Digitalization – Managing digitalization projects to adapt old business models to new technologies and embraced digital technology’s potential to collect data, identify patterns, and make smarter business decisions.• Enhancements to demand forecast process which resulted into more accurate forecast of deliverables and resources.• Registering & communicating risks to stakeholders - managing RAID logs.

Mumbai Area, India

• Facilitate backlog refinement meeting between Product Owners, Business Analyst and technical team to capture and finalize requirements in Product Backlog. • Coach the Product Owner for Scrum working and impart assistance for backlog creation and its priority.• Engage Product Owners/business to ensure that work is ready for development team.• Plan & schedule work iterations through Program Increment and Sprint planning.• Ensure adherence to policies and procedures through Scrum ceremonies.• Prepare burn down charts and other matrices for reporting status of project to stakeholders.• Resolve & escalate any impediments raised by the team to relevant stakeholders• Facilitate Scrum of Scrum (SoS) meetings for Scaled Agile projects with multiple agile teams.• Generate and discuss fortnightly and monthly reports with higher management and customer.• Create, maintain and discuss Risk Register• Manage & resolve Project Escalations by engaging related stakeholders• Manage project billing, plan resources and calculate matrices.• Conduct Scrum Training & Interviews for onboarding of resources.• Conduct and Manage Project Audits.• Conduct Performance Appraisals foster open communication through one on one discussion.• Provide Billing/invoicing details to Finance team to determine project costs.• Forecast work to plan resources and foresee any challenges.• Project closure and document lessons learnt for future use.For SDLC projects:• Conduct kick-off meetings and review the overall project plan• Create, track and forecast changes in project budgets.• Develop a detailed project plan with identified critical path tasks.• Define, Estimate scope and prepare schedule based on scope.• Ensure that projects are executed as per time, cost, scope and quality gates are met.• Manage & resolve Project Escalations by engaging related stakeholders• Budgeting & Project cost estimation. Resource forecasting• Project closure and document lessons learnt for future use.

• Incident, Problem and Change Management• Requirements development and finalization with stakeholders• Coordinating with external & internal stakeholders such as SAP consultants, L1 support, business users etc.• Impact assessment, estimations and feasibility study of the change.• Planning, schedule and manage multiple engagements with clients• Guide the team during various phases of SDLC cycle.• Ensure process adherence and conduct RCA meetings with support teams• Perform trend analysis and management reports based on business requirements.• Ensure adherence of SLA for incidents, problems and change requests.

Mumbai Area, India

• Steered Change and Problem management• Attended CAB meetings & Requirements Development• Followed up with external & internal stakeholders such as SAP consultants, L1 support, business users etc.• Performed Scope and Estimation review• Delivered CR in budget and ensured adherence to SLA and with agreed quality• Worked on the development of internal change requests and local change requests• Coordinated with countries for year end and re-org activities• Managed Incident investigation and offered resolution as per priority and SLA• Reported to senior management with CR volumes, KPI achieved and monthly billing data• Handled the migration of web application from Livelink to Java • Creating High level and Low-Level Design documents. • Developing webpages and business logic using Java, Javascript and Livelink technologies• Implementing solutions as per the design• Write unit test cases for various use cases• Code / Peer review the changesTools & Technologies SAP IMS, TOAD, Dreamcoder, Eclipse, Netbeans, MS VSS, Java, J2EE, Javascript, Livelink, Oracle database, Apache Tomcat

Mumbai Area, India

• Developing webpages and business logic using Java, Javascript and Livelink technologies• Implement Oracle database procedures, triggers and functions• Implementing solutions as per the design• Write unit test cases for various use cases• Code / Peer review the changes• Testing software and fixing problems• Maintaining systems once they’re up and running• Being a part of technical designing• Integrate software components• Producing efficient codes• Writing program codes for reference and reportingTools & Technologies:SAP IMS, TOAD, Dreamcoder, Eclipse, Netbeans, MS VSS, Java, J2EE, Javascript, Livelink, Oracle database, Apache Tomcat

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Information Technology, First Class

Master’S Degree, Computer Applications, Distinction

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science, First Class

High School, Computer Science, First Class

High School, Distinction