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About Me
A certified Program Manager / Product Manager / Scrum Master with close to 14 years of experience in Agile PLM involving Scrum, XP, Kanban, SAFe, and Scrum of Scrums. An inquisitive quick learner with a passion for continuous improvement using sound ...
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Portfolio Projects
Description
- Design, develop new features, and contribute bug fixes for existing defects in System 1® 6.11, 6.12, 6.5, and 6.52 as well as Kn3™ 1.5 and ADOE 1.0
- Mentor new engineers joining the team on C# and condition monitoring domain
- Gather and build feature backlog for Kn3™ 1.5. Played a major part in gathering requirements as well as demonstrating prototypes to internal customers (Commercial team)
- Technical Lead for a team of three engineers for developing new features in Decision Support module in System 1® 6.52
- Received Management Award for greatly improving the quality of System 1® 6.52 Decision Support module
- Singlehandedly created the RulePak ReImport Tool that was projected to save between $13K to $26K in services cost
- Contributed immensely to the overall business goal to reduce >1000 defects to <40>10 million lines of code
- Received 3 GEAR awards for contributions in Kn3™ 1.5 and System 1® 6.5
- Received GEAR award for System 1® 6.0 testing efforts
Description
- Drive Agile Scrum/Kanban in the team. Conduct daily stand-up meetings
- Lead a team of 3-5 engineers as a Scrum Master cum Lead Developer
- Design and develop new features in System 1® 6.7, 6.75, and 6.81
- Collaborate with the remote team in New Zealand to integrate Ascent™ into System 1®
- Participate in code reviews and pair programming sessions
- Delivered both System 1® 6.7 and 6.75 on time, in budget, and with zero known Severity 1/2 defects
- Contributions made towards System 1® 6.75 resulted in Direct Material Productivity worth $1M
- Received 4 awards for contributions to System 1® 6.7, 6.75, and 6.81
- Contributed major changes in integrating Ascent™ in System 1® 6.81
- Fixed critical defects in Wireless Device Service module
Description
- Liaise with the team, product owner(s), architecture, support, and sales stakeholders to define and manage the various product releases including System 1®
- Ensure the delivered features are always value driven
- Drive Scrum/Kanban in the team leading as a Scrum Master to realize process excellence
- Measure team productivity using metrics such as velocity, CPI, SPI, etc. Regularly retrospect to find ways to constantly improve productivity
- Mentor the team on domain/technology/architecture/design. Conduct design and code reviews
- Collaborate across different teams building on the NextGen Platform with respect to requirements, design, UX, architecture, and dependencies
- Prioritize incoming Customer Reported Defects (CRDs) and disposition them in a timely manner to maintain < 20>
- Ensure the project milestones of BR1, BR2, and BR3 are on schedule, within budget, and with requisite quality
- Ensure >80% test coverage in the product
- Filed 9 patent disclosure letters of which 2 patents were granted
Description
- Represent the business in planning and execution of various products of Network Security Group (CROS, SFOS, SFM, CFM, iView, CCC, etc.)
- Work with the product management, engineering, sales, and support stakeholders to plan the product releases
- Consult the product management on value driven delivery
- Conduct reviews to monitor and control the product releases
- Manage external contractors on the project(s) from RFQ to delivery
- Conducting reviews with the teams to monitor progress, identify impediments, and device actions to prevent/mitigate them
- Coach the team on Agile/Scrum/XP/Kanban
- Lead the ISO 9001:2015 certification effort
- Part of the team to ensure Sophos compliance to GDPR
- Drive Continuous Improvement
- Improve team productivity by identifying and eliminating wastes
- Lead the Scrum Master Community of Practice at Ahmedabad to share best practices and learning across the site
- Introduced the Scrum Maturity Assessment as a tool to measure and improve team agility
Description
- Work with the ADGEs (Abu Dhabi Government Entities) to package the services provided by them into end-to-end journeys for the Abu Dhabi residents.
- Coach the team including the BAs, Designers, Devs, QAs, and the PO on Agile/Scrum
- Facilitating the Scrum events
- Ensuring stakeholder engagement by providing up-to-date reports on the progress, risks, and opportunities
- Conducting reviews with the teams to monitor progress, identify impediments, and device actions to prevent/mitigate them
- Share knowledge and learning with the guild of Scrum Masters working on the Tamm project
- I have been responsible in making Find a Job in Abu Dhabi journey the most used product on Tamm platform
- The Social Services journey provides over 50 social services proactively to the Abu Dhabi residents from a single window.