Daanish R.

Daanish R.

Journey Manager

Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates

Experience: 14 Years

Daanish

Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates

Journey Manager

108000 USD / Year

  • Start Date / Notice Period end date: 2020-06-01

14 Years

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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