Karthik S
A conscientious leader who utilizes effective business strategies that yields profits consistent with the best interest of the clients, organization and communities
Experience
Enterprise Agile Coach – Lululemon
ALTIMETRIK PVT INDIA LTD
Domain: Retail Apparel Presented the ASIS state of aProgram which has adopted Scaled Agile recently. Worked with Leadership to address and rectify the shortcomings in delivery Conducted brainstroming session with Scrum leaders and RTE. Applied systems thinking to remove the impediments across the teams Coaching the teams to mature in the agile ways of working by assessing the current state of agile and helping them to improvise in achieving higher maturity
Enterprise Agile Coach - BNY Pershing
ALTIMETRIK PVT INDIA LTD
Domain: Trading Platform Trained teams (RTEs, scrum masters, product owners) to adopt agile working practices. Facilitating ART Launch and Execution of Kaizens in ART release for efficiency improvement. Conducted brainstorming session and various SAFe Workshops like Inspect etc. Coached leaders and managers in empowerment and servant leadership-based management of teams and team-members Used a variety of Agile facilitation, mentoring, coaching, and teaching techniques in individual and team settings to help introduce/ improve on Agile mindset, practices, and tools. Conducted team agility assessments effectively to evaluate and drive potential improvement areas in the Agile teams.Worked extensively on JIRA on analysing team’s perfromance Applied systems thinking to measure, analyse, and remove impediments across the organisation Setup and drive Communities of Practices (CoP) that help enable sharing best practices across the organization
Program Manager /Embedded Agile Coach(SAFe)
SOCIETE GENERALE
Domain :Banking Implement agile practices: employee training and coaching, Product Owner support, long-term implementation of agile principles, organization of ceremonies, etc.Draft delivery and production reports with the Product Owner. Establish a continuous improvement program for teams. Monitor the budget and the Agile roadmap. Drove Agile Transformations and adoption Maturity through Agile Leadership. Planning, Estimations (Ideal time and Story points), Test Driven Development and other areas related to JIRA.
MDM Integration using APIs – Agile Coach/Agile Program Manager
Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt India Ltd.
Client : Astrazeneca Domain :Healthcare Co-ordination between three teams and involved in go live activities across the project. Lead release through look ahead planning, release planning, backlog grooming, sprint planning and defect management. Lead defect triage meeting with stakeholders, product owners and development team. Provide updates to the steering committee on weekly basis. Remove Team Impediments and monitor key Agile Metrics.
API Development using Java - Agile Coach(SAFe)
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Client: TravelPort Domain :Travel and Hospitality Managed two Teams, Facilitated Daily Scrums, Retrospectives and Demos every two weeks. Groomed Backlogs every two weeks and adjusted priorities weekly. Planned, managed and facilitated Safe Agile Release Train Program Increment (PI) sessions. Attended Scrum of Scrums to coordinate dependencies across various other scrum teams in Agile Release train. Performed the role of RTE and facilitated multiple PI planning sessions
Big Data Development using Hadoop— Program Manager /Agile Coach
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Client: Tigo Une Domain :Telecom Helping to form four Agile Cells providing support to the senior leadership teams on the key project initiatives and information radiators (Kanban and Burndown charts) Supporting business process improvements and process reengineering, process reviews and audits. Evangelise and assist teams in JIRA and Scrum Values. Facilitated close integration with business intent owners and senior leadership.
BI Development using MicroStrategy — Release Train Engineer
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Client: The Home Depot Domain: Retail Created Tables, migrated from Teradata to Google Cloud and Migrated the reports from MicroStrategy 9.4 to 10.10. Played multiple roles as a Project Manager, Sr.Scrum Master and RTE. Closely work with various Business Units (BU), Product Owners, Vendors, Contractors, Developers, System admin teams to ensure the proper understanding of the user stories to ensure the operations and process governance on various systems.
BI-Data Analytics & Reporting- Agile Coach
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Client: Nielsen (Kimberly Clark) Facilitated Sprint Planning (Roll wave planning), daily stand-ups, Retrospectives, Stakeholder meetings and Software demonstrations. Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline. Worked closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features. Educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
BI Development using MicroStrategy— Team Lead
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Client: Nielsen (Walmart) Performed a dual role as a Team Lead and Designer in the project by tracking the project health and providing development assistance. Understood the data model and Business requirements of the Project. Worked in Bigdata Cloud technologies like cloudera with impala as database.
BI Development using MicroStrategy—Senior Developer
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Client: Nielsen (Unilever) Worded as a Senior developer tracking the project health and providing development assistance, data model and Business requirements of the Project, Development of Dynamic Dashboards. Worked in Agile and Successfully deployed the project in QA and UAT and PROD environments.
Testing & migration of database — Business Analyst
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Client: Nielsen (Kraft) Identified and Reported defects in UAT environment, Resolve Data Issues by working with the developers, Performed Root Cause Analysis, Performed Data migration, Data slicing and Data Swap across servers.
Production Support — Support & TestAnalyst
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Client: Nielsen (P&G & Kraft) Domain : Market Research Migrated tables to Netezza Server, rendered reports, Creating and validating staging, dim and fact tables, Tested and migrated of data into the tables.
Backup Administration —L2 Admin
THINKSERV TECHNOLOGIES PVT INDIA LTD
Client: TATA Communications & Vodafone Domain :Telecommunications Monitored Scheduled Backups, Tape Library and operations, Troubleshoot Tape Library, Backup and Restored of jobs on request, Managed offsite tape movement and tape collection.
.NET Development — Developer
COMPUCRAFTERS PRIVATE INDIA LTD
Client: Internal Designed, Developed and Tested the UX for HR Payroll using ASP.NET
Education
Panimalar Engineering College, Anna University
B.E.
Skills
LEADERSHIP
Integrated Scrum and Agile Methodologies through collaborative participation in COPs and brought those practices to the team. Reducing employee onboarding time by 50%. which resulted in 15% improvement in customer service and proper upskilling which further resulted in 50% reduction in decision making time.
PROJECT SUMMARY
ALTIMETRIK PVT INDIA LTD Enterprise Agile Coach – Lululemon Nov – till date Domain: Retail Apparel Presented the ASIS state of aProgram which has adopted Scaled Agile recently. Worked with Leadership to address and rectify the shortcomings in delivery Conducted brainstroming session with Scrum leaders and RTE. Applied systems thinking to remove the impediments across the teams Coaching the teams to mature in the agile ways of working by assessing the current state of agile and helping them to improvise in achieving higher maturity Enterprise Agile Coach - BNY Pershing Mar 2022 – Aug 2024 Domain: Trading Platform Trained teams (RTEs, scrum masters, product owners) to adopt agile working practices. Facilitating ART Launch and Execution of Kaizens in ART release for efficiency improvement. Conducted brainstorming session and various SAFe Workshops like Inspect etc. Coached leaders and managers in empowerment and servant leadership-based management of teams and team-members Used a variety of Agile facilitation, mentoring, coaching, and teaching techniques in individual and team settings to help introduce/ improve on Agile mindset, practices, and tools. Conducted team agility assessments effectively to evaluate and drive potential improvement areas in the Agile teams.Worked extensively on JIRA on analysing team’s perfromance Applied systems thinking to measure, analyse, and remove impediments across the organisation Setup and drive Communities of Practices (CoP) that help enable sharing best practices across the organization SOCIETE GENERALE Domain :Banking Program Manager /Embedded Agile Coach(SAFe) Jun 2021 – Feb 2022 Implement agile practices: employee training and coaching, Product Owner support, long-term implementation of agile principles, organization of ceremonies, etc.Draft delivery and production reports with the Product Owner. Establish a continuous improvement program for teams. Monitor the budget and the Agile roadmap. Drove Agile Transformations and adoption Maturity through Agile Leadership. Planning, Estimations (Ideal time and Story points), Test Driven Development and other areas related to JIRA. MDM Integration using APIs – Agile Coach/Agile Program Manager Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt India Ltd. Client : Astrazeneca Domain :Healthcare Dec 2020 – Jul 2021 Co-ordination between three teams and involved in go live activities across the project. Lead release through look ahead planning, release planning, backlog grooming, sprint planning and defect management. Lead defect triage meeting with stakeholders, product owners and development team. Provide updates to the steering committee on weekly basis. Remove Team Impediments and monitor key Agile Metrics. TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES API Development using Java - Agile Coach(SAFe) Client: TravelPort Domain :Travel and Hospitality April 2019 – Aug 2020 Managed two Teams, Facilitated Daily Scrums, Retrospectives and Demos every two weeks. Groomed Backlogs every two weeks and adjusted priorities weekly. Planned, managed and facilitated Safe Agile Release Train Program Increment (PI) sessions. Attended Scrum of Scrums to coordinate dependencies across various other scrum teams in Agile Release train. Performed the role of RTE and facilitated multiple PI planning sessions Big Data Development using Hadoop— Program Manager /Agile Coach Client: Tigo Une Domain :Telecom Jan 2019 – April 2019 Helping to form four Agile Cells providing support to the senior leadership teams on the key project initiatives and information radiators (Kanban and Burndown charts) Supporting business process improvements and process reengineering, process reviews and audits. Evangelise and assist teams in JIRA and Scrum Values. Facilitated close integration with business intent owners and senior leadership. BI Development using MicroStrategy — Release Train Engineer Client: The Home Depot Domain: Retail August 2018 - Jan 2019 Created Tables, migrated from Teradata to Google Cloud and Migrated the reports from MicroStrategy 9.4 to 10.10. Played multiple roles as a Project Manager, Sr.Scrum Master and RTE. Closely work with various Business Units (BU), Product Owners, Vendors, Contractors, Developers, System admin teams to ensure the proper understanding of the user stories to ensure the operations and process governance on various systems. BI-Data Analytics & Reporting- Agile Coach Client: Nielsen (Kimberly Clark) Jan 2017- May 2018 Facilitated Sprint Planning (Roll wave planning), daily stand-ups, Retrospectives, Stakeholder meetings and Software demonstrations. Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline. Worked closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features. Educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders. BI Development using MicroStrategy— Team Lead Client: Nielsen (Walmart) Jul 2015 – Aug 2016 Performed a dual role as a Team Lead and Designer in the project by tracking the project health and providing development assistance. Understood the data model and Business requirements of the Project. Worked in Bigdata Cloud technologies like cloudera with impala as database. BI Development using MicroStrategy—Senior Developer Client: Nielsen (Unilever) Jul 2014 – Jul 2015 Worded as a Senior developer tracking the project health and providing development assistance, data model and Business requirements of the Project, Development of Dynamic Dashboards. Worked in Agile and Successfully deployed the project in QA and UAT and PROD environments. Testing & migration of database — Business Analyst Client: Nielsen (Kraft) Dec 2013 - Jul 2014 Identified and Reported defects in UAT environment, Resolve Data Issues by working with the developers, Performed Root Cause Analysis, Performed Data migration, Data slicing and Data Swap across servers. Production Support — Support & TestAnalyst Client: Nielsen (P&G & Kraft) Domain : Market Research Jul 2011 - Dec 2013 Migrated tables to Netezza Server, rendered reports, Creating and validating staging, dim and fact tables, Tested and migrated of data into the tables. THINKSERV TECHNOLOGIES PVT INDIA LTD Backup Administration —L2 Admin Client: TATA Communications & Vodafone Domain :Telecommunications Aug 2008 - Aug 2010 Monitored Scheduled Backups, Tape Library and operations, Troubleshoot Tape Library, Backup and Restored of jobs on request, Managed offsite tape movement and tape collection. COMPUCRAFTERS PRIVATE INDIA LTD .NET Development — Developer Client: Internal Sep 2007 - Feb 2008 Designed, Developed and Tested the UX for HR Payroll using ASP.NET
CAREER PORTFOLIO
Experience in working with Product Owners, Teams to define user stories, Release process related to development by using extreme and pair programming and used techniques principles like DevOps, Lean and Kanban. Release Management Budgeting .