Leading SAFe 6.0 - Certification Workshop (Private) 1, 2 & 3 Nov

Professional Summary:

• 25+ years of industry experience with proficiency in lean methodologies, hands-on and tactical program execution to enhance organizational adaptability & resilience.
• Experienced in leading 5+ pivotal enterprise transformations strategizing, charting roadmaps, planning and executing using organizational change management (OCM) principles and practices.
• Successfully launched 20+ Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and scaled-up consistent agile and scrum practices.
• Mastery in enabling teams and leaders to embrace self-organization, customer centricity, value maximization, product orientation and lean-agile adoption. 
• Coaching and mentoring for all levels: executive, portfolio, program, & teams.
• Possesses a robust technological foundation, fortified by years of hands-on experience and continuous learning in emerging tech trends and practices.
• Successfully managed and delivered a range of software solutions, from focused small-scale projects to comprehensive large-scale endeavors involving globally distributed on-site and offshore teams.
• Orchestrated presales activities, including proposal preparation and persuasive presentations to C-level executives with high success rate.
• Managed multiple client accounts, fostering relationships, ensuring satisfaction, and contributing to revenue growth by understanding and meeting client-specific needs.
• Entrepreneurship: Co-Founded a startup company, Terrastra Solutions, developing AI powered commercial property management software; Responsible for Vision & Product conceptualization; Business development; Marketing & Sales
• Interests: Fundamental Science, Space and Philosophy enthusiast 

Certifications & Education

• SAFe Practitioner Consultant   SPC6.0  Scaled Agile Inc   Jan 2023
• Certified Scrum Master   CSM  Scrum Alliance  Sept 2009
• SAFe Practitioner Consultant   SPC4.0  Scaled Agile Inc   Nov 2016
• Certificate in Design Thinking   CDT  INSEAD   Aug 2023
• Release Train Engineer   RTE 5.1  Scaled Agile Inc   Dec 2020
• Training from the back of room  TBR TBR   Apr 2022
• Certified Less Practitioner  CLP  LeSS.works   Aug 2022
• Project Management Professional PMP PMI Nov 2005
• Certificate in General Insurance   INS-21  IIA  Jun 2005
• Agile Certified Coach  ICP-ACC IC-Agile   Feb 2019
• 100+ Hrs of German lessons Certificate various  Jun 2003
• Foundations of Everyday Leadership  Certificate University of Illinois Urbana-Champ.  Jul 2017
• Master of Science - Space Physics MSc Andhra University, India, May 1995 with University 1st rank!
• Thesis work on ISRO project (SROSS 3 RPA payload) at National Physical Laboratory (NPL) New Delhi 1995

Skills

• Frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework SAFe, LeSS, Product, RUP,XP and PMI CPM
• Specialties: Big room (PI) planning, Value Stream Mapping, Personas & Customer Journey, Design Thinking; Teaching and training using TBR techniques.
• Coaching & Mentoring: Role based mentoring product managers, product owners, RTEs, Scrum masters, team, executives, and senior leadership; Agile maturity assessment, transformation strategy, roadmap and planning; Delivered all SAFe certification and Foundational Agile (Agile, Scrum & Kanban) training for over 200 teams.
• Tooling:  PPM: JIRA Align, Planview PPM; ALM: JIRA, Rally, VersionOne, Azure DevOps, SLACK, Miro, MS Teams, Zoom, Atlassian
• Technology: Cloud transformation (AWS, Azure); Legacy Modernization, AI/ML, NLP, payment gateway Data transformation (ETL), Web (java, reactJS, angular), REST APIs, LAMP stack, Pega, Salesforce, RDBMS, SQL
• Business Domains: Banking, Financial, Insurance, Health care, Pharma, Auto and Govt

Interests include: Travelling, Fundamental physics, Deep Space,  Advaita philosophy,Feynman, Annamayya,  Iliyaraja