Yasha Bhatnagar Email & Phone Number

United States

Bloomington, MN, US

Seattle, WA, US

Mclean, VA, US

• As an Agile Coach/Scrum Master, coached first Agile Pod for Retail Bank Operations’ Process Change and Delivery efforts. Team reached hyper productivity by the 4th Sprint and delivered business goals and objectives 3.
• Scrum Master for 2-5 high-performing software development teams in a heavily regulated environment. Serving as the coach to transform organizations to Agile, the responsibility was to lead, help and grow the teams’.
• Optimized the Scrum events with proven pattern libraries found in flawless execution. Primary focus was on delivering retrospective action items.
• Targeted Scrum, Agile, Lean and Flawless Execution coaching and training on project managers, business analysts, product owner and higher organizational leaders.
• Shared best practices, lessons learned, and other proprietary approaches with Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches at the Retail Bank Agile Community of Practice.
• Coached delivery teams with the Kanban framework focusing on visualizing workflow, process improvement, and optimizing lead and cycle times.

Redmond, Washington, US

• As a SCRUM Master/Program Manager in the Enterprise Productivity Strategy & Architecture (EPSA) team at Microsoft, executed the agile transformation for the different teams – Platform & Data Services, Portfolio &.
• In the role as Vendor Scrum Master for different EPSA teams, provided guidance and exemplified best practices for the transformation of the waterfall methodology to SCRUM.
• Highly experienced as a SCRUM master for EPSA teams at Microsoft helping the Product Owner maintain the product backlog in a way that ensures the project is well defined and team can continually advance forward on the.
• Helped EPSA teams on the formation and the achievement of the Sprint goals, advancing accomplishment of iteration commitments. Coached the team within the SCRUM principles to achieve the goals and deliverables.
• Defined and generated SCRUM metrics framework, identifying team and organization progression, key opportunities, advanced measurability through VSO administration and reporting. Facilitated the team meetings to ensure.
• Executed the Agile framework based on industry best practices and developed continuous improvement initiatives for EPSA teams.

Dallas, TX, US

• API platform deploy rich APIs to empower developers to develop high value applications. It enables the Web developer community to write rich HTML 5 applications leveraging rest API’s and SDK. Drove project across.
• Provide program management support to key business initiative of creating and managing stable API platform for external 3rd party development teams.
• Worked cross teams and proactively defined defect management processes that impacted the larger IT community
• Developed Risk Management Plan to proactively identify risks and created mitigation and contingency plan.
• Demonstrated experience in defining, managing, and delivering complex, mission-critical initiatives and considered “go-to person” to immediately turn around troubled programs
• Worked with executive team and Senior management to identify and prioritize opportunities for utilizing IT to achieve the goals of the enterprise.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Managed the B2B portfolio of applications for Verizon Wireless. Worked cross teams and drove key initiatives across teams.
• Managed Production Support projected by driving root cause identification for Incidents, to minimize service interruptions and raise service quality for customers. Monitored, tracked and summarized progress of trouble.
• Managed Communications for Service outages and performed root cause analysis for outages
• Led the requirements effort and organized Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions with all key stakeholders from each program.
• Worked as a liaison with Program Management, Development, QA, and Release team during all cycles of SDLC.
• Tracked key project milestones and communicated status to all stakeholders and made changes to meet dynamic requirements.

Everett, WA, US

Bachelor Of Science (Bs)

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)