Kumar Swamy

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Career Summary

An accomplished Senior Software Project Manager, a certified PMP (Project Management Professional, CSM (Certified Scrum Master) and a SAFe Agilist with over 15 years of seasoned software experience in Healthcare IT, Wireless and Telecom industries. Demonstrated track record of excellent leadership in full product life cycle (product envisioning, requirements, development, integration, testing, delivery and support) and consistent delivery of large scale enterprise web services /software solutions on time, with quality & within budget through collaborative cross-functional team work

Recent Healthcare IT Project Management experience at Bay Area companies including Philips Healthcare Informatics and Kaiser Permanente. Previously a Senior Program Manager with Qualcomm Core Platform, Agile SW and prior 8 years with Motorola’s Mobile Devices, successfully managing multiple SW projects (Agile/Scrum, Lean/Kanban, Waterfall and hybrid)

Areas of Expertise / Demonstrated Key Skills

Senior Project Manager and Scrum Master for multiple teams and large scale (enterprise, cloud) projects

Active facilitation of Sprint ceremonies (stand-ups, planning, review / demo, retrospectives)

Creating a trusted and open agile environment for Agile teams and removing the impediments

Partnering with Business teams and Customers to gather, refine, elicit and analyze Requirements

Experienced in other agile roles including Product Owner, Coach and Scrum of Scrums SAFe Lead

Supporting agile transformation of teams and organizations as they mature to higher levels of agility

Various agile methods including extreme programming XP, TDD, BDD, UAT, Micro services and CI/CD

Excellent experience with software lifecycle tools including JIRA, TFS, Rally (CA) and Confluence

Expertise in Product Backlog refinement, effective prioritizations of Product and Sprint backlogs

Facilitating user stories creation, refinement along with good acceptance criteria and definition of done

Driving the execution and timely delivery of software for a large portfolio of concurrent projects

Agile reporting, risk management and estimation techniques and software quality (ISO 9001, 13485)

Leading widely distributed software teams (different time zones, cultures and skill sets)

Traditional waterfall approaches including project plan creation (MS project) and tracking to delivery

Working with third party software suppliers and open source code, AWS/cloud-based enterprise solution

Professional Work Experience

Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master July 2015 – April 2017

Philips Healthcare Informatics, Foster City, CA

Agile Project manager and multi-team Scrum Master in the Enterprise Imaging Group of Philips Healthcare to lead fast paced projects with a lot of customer interaction in the areas of Advanced Analytics and Data Management.

Active facilitation and refinement of User Stories to have a good acceptance criteria and definition of done, along with a Test driven development (TDD) approach, automated functional testing and hackathon/extreme programming. Technology stack included Java script (Angular) front end, Hadoop, Spark and AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Pivotal Cloud Foundry micro services. Tools included Atlassian JIRA Agile and Confluence. Provided Coaching and an active leadership for sprint ceremonies including planning, daily standups, demonstrations and retrospectives, removing all impediments and following through with tangible actions and team performance optimization.

Agile Project Manager and Scrum Master (Contractor) April 2015 – July 2015

Kaiser Permanente, Pleasanton, CA

Consultant Project Manager and Scrum master for Healthcare IT projects at Kaiser to make rapid progress on critical needs.

Responsive web designs, mobile channels, BDD, HTML5, CSS, UI/UX close interaction with customers for user stories.

Scrum Master / Product owner

Cognitive Medical Systems, San Diego, CA October 2014 – March 2015

Clinical Decision Support software for Veterans, using Open CDS engine, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBOSS BRMS DROOLS expert system Node.js and Java based, HIPAA compliant, meaningful use EHR, fast paced SCRUM bi-weekly Sprints using Rally, Confluence, Jira Agile tools and methodologies. User stories creation, estimation, sprint planning and effective execution, retrospectives and continuous improvement.

Senior Program / Agile Product Manager January 2013 – July 2014

Qualcomm, San Diego, CA

Software technology program and product manager in the Core Platform software team

Program manager for four advanced software technology teams with about 60 developers

Analyzed and fulfilled Feature Requests, working closely with requesters and engineering team

Led cross-functional teams through work estimation, planning, resource allocation and execution

Lean approach and Kanban for the maintenance phase of key projects.

Collaborated with Stakeholders and ensured good engagement, alignment and positive outcomes

Identified and tracked Risks and key dependencies amongst the teams to ensure overall delivery

Created and presented project updates including status reports, risk registers and resource loading

Supported the methodology for requirements traceability (DOORS) and end-to-end use case scenarios

Enhance productivity using various tools including MS Project, MS office, TFS, share point, DOORs, JIRA

Senior Software Engineer / Scrum Master / Project Manager March 2005 –August 2012

Motorola Inc. / Motorola Mobility, San Diego, CA

Software Program management of Linux/Java/Android Smartphones (Droid and RAZR family) during 2008-2012

and CDMA BREW phones using Qualcomm MSM chip modems(1x,EVDO,WCDMA,3G) during 2005-2008.

Accomplishments include Requirements Gathering, Scope management, establishing Plan of Records, Schedules tracking and Risk Management, Budget and Resources management (20 direct reports, 40 matrixed /off-shore). Lead for the technical meetings, Design Reviews, Program Reviews, customer interaction, Quality management and communication.

Key projects include Verizon and AT&T, 4G and LTE technologies, M2M, Telematics, and Android Software Upgrades

Participated in and supported the Organizational transformation to adapt to Agile culture

Led the SW feature estimation and release planning (2-4 week Sprints, Quarterly releases)

Led SW Scrums, Scrum of Scrums, Scaled Agile Framework, Sprint retrospectives, Release Readiness Reviews

Monitored the Project health (time, cost, quality, resources) and shared the key artifacts (Integrated Master Schedules, EVMS, Gantt charts, milestones charts, PERT, critical path tasks, velocity, burn-down, defects, scope changes, risk matrix, root causes) to take appropriate corrective actions to achieve successful deliveries.

Created JIRA dashboards for project issues tracking and enhanced visibility of project status

Drove the creation and integration of software components from various teams (platform, security patches, BSP/drivers/VxWorks, middleware, carrier / 3rdparty / in-house MVC .NET, C++, Java Apps) and OTA upgrades

Data mining (SW defects, Logs, HW manufacturing data, Location/ Imaging/GPS/RFID) and Data extraction for preventive diagnostics, predictive analytics and issue/trend forecasting via big data analysis tools.

Coordination with Application Testing (preloaded and downloaded Apps) to ensure compliance with QSR 510k, network security and bandwidth consumption (Android, HL7 medical, bioinformatics Apps)

Senior BREW Applications / Software Consultant January 2003 – February 2005

Voice Genesis (Los Angeles), Teleca (San Diego) CA

oSpecialized in BREW SDK and applications development for voice, data and Multimedia

oWorked in J2EE environment, Apache web server, HTML/CSS, PHP queries and SQL databases

Software Development Manager, Base Stations Group June 1999 – December 2002

Motorola Inc. (Chicago Illinois and Ft. Worth Texas)

Managed a team Software Leads and Senior Engineers working in C/C++/UNIX, OOA/OOD methods

to develop, release, and support key features for Japanese PDC and CDMA base stations / SDUs.

Supported the IS0 9000 / 9001 audits and FMEA / CQI DFSS/DMAIC with the SW Quality team

Scope management via Feature Review Boards (FRB) and requirements tracking via DOORs

Education

Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada - Master’s in Computer Science - Specialized in Computer Graphics, Computer Aided Design of ICs, Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Computing and Parallel Processing

Indian Institute of Science –Bangalore Bachelor’s degree, Electrical & Electronics Engineering – Course work in Digital Circuits, Micro Processors, Power Systems, Electrical Motors, Digital communication systems

College of Engineering Guindy, Madras, India - Bachelor’s degree in Applied Sciences (Math and Physics)

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