Enterprise Agile Coach

Ashish A. Pathak

Summary **+ years of experience in delivering program/project goals and objectives. A passionate and self- motivated professional who uses using Lean and Agile principles and practices to create customer focused, high performance teams helping deliver value to the customers and the business. A framework-agnostic approach in creating an ‘Agile’ environment in the organization. Experience 18+ years of total experience

August 2017 to date ExxonMobil (through Manpower Group) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Agile Coach

§ Leading Agile Transformation for Exxon’s IT Infrastructure teams in Kuala Lumpur – this involves DevOps, SAFe, Scrum and Kanban (Agile in IT infrastructure domain)

§ Member of global Agile Transformation group helping plan and launch transformation programs; looking at transformation from Change Management perspective instead of a framework perspective

§ Planning and helping programs launch Agile Release Trains by ensuring readiness and training/coaching RTEs, Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Agile Teams

§ Coaching other teams adopt Kanban to manage operational work

§ Developed Agile asesssment kit

§ Conducted a 3-day strategy building workshop for ExxonMobil’s IT leadership team; was also part of the team that designed the workshop

§ Conducted requirements discovery workshop with stakeholders to identify Minimum Viable Product for release, helped develop roadmap and also identify Value Stream for process improvement

§ Conducted SAFe related and leadership oriented trainings October 2013 – August 2017 Persistent Systems Limited Pune, India Agile Coach

§ Successfully lead an Agile Transformation for a top European Bank’s IT establishment. This involved managing change at all levels in the organization using Agile Principles and Practices rather than any particular framework

§ Coached 4 teams spread across 3 programs/portfolios

§ Conducted SAFe trainings, setup Agile CoP

§ SME for Atlassian Jira implementation

§ Pre-Sales support for Lean and Agile consulting opportunities for Persistent

§ Created collaterals for Lean and Agile Centre of Excellence

§ Awarded ‘Rising Star’ award for excellence in Lean/Agile Coaching and consulting and leading the engagement of 4 Agile Coaches.

June 2013 to August 2014 RedKnee Inc. Pune, India

Sr. Project Manager – R&D and Agile Coach

§ Plan, Monitor and Control the product releases. Manage resource allocation across releases and other maintenance work. Generating weekly status reports and implementing the governance model.

§ Funnel demand (new features) and create plans matching it with supply (capacity)

§ Interfacing with Implementation teams and Support teams to manage unplanned work and escalations

§ Agile Coach and ISO MR for Pune location – responsible for agile trainings, implementation and tracking Agile Adoption targets set by corporate

§ Driving Agile adoption. Completed a pilot 2 month project; saved 1 week of duration by releasing early with better quality.

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§ Implemented SCRUM in 3 releases successfully; along with Jira as the agile project management tool March 2011 to April 2013 BMC Software India Pvt. Ltd. Pune, India Sr. Project Manager – R&D

§ Managing the delivery release cadence for Service Packs across all Product lines of BMC. Successfully implemented the new SP process within 1 quarter.

§ Accountable for monitoring and reporting SP progress and resolving conflicts. Developed weekly dashboard for leadership. Automated defect and RFE data collection using BI tools.

§ Working on an organization wide process simplification project using Lean tools. Proposal of future state process and improvement recommendations made within 2 months of starting the project.

§ Core member of the “Agile Tribe”; setup to popularize Agile practices within the organization and mentor Team Leads on live projects

§ Administrator for Rally – an enterprise Agile Project Management tool.

§ Worked as a Program Manager for a multi location, ~200 people strong Product BU

§ Responsible for overall Project Planning, monitoring, Process Improvement and SOX compliance, Risk management and Integration Management

§ Project Management – tracking Backlog completion, coordinating across product lines for Release, Defect Management, publish weekly quality reports

§ SOX Compliance – Monthly S/W Capitalization and Forecasting May 2010 – March 2011 Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Pune, India Associate Consultant

§ As part of the Global Consulting Practice of TCS, worked with a large European Banking giant with Process Management.

§ Designed and defined Agile Life Cycle which is in line with their current Governance model. Suggested changes to the Control Gates (Funding/Quality) to better accommodate Iterative and Incremental software development.

§ Also, contributed Process Definition for their global testing services unit

§ Simplified the current detailed Project Plan template (MPP) to help PM community. Jan 2007 – May 2010 BMC Software India Pvt. Ltd. Pune, India Staff Project Manager

§ Worked in a PMO of a 50 people strong BU. Responsible for annual Roadmap/Release planning, project planning, tracking, forecasting, escalation to Sr. Management and Process Management.

§ Performed role of Scrum Master for 5 projects over 2 releases in ~2 yrs. Later helped Team Leads to take up the Scrum Master Role.

§ Coordination and follow up with external stakeholders like Product Ops, Sales, Marketing, IDD

§ Administrator for Rally – the enterprise agile project management tool for managing requirements, maintaining traceability and monitoring and controlling project progress.

§ Conducted QMS trainings across BU

§ Responsible for implementation of BMC governance model (PDP) within the BU and SOX Compliance

§ Ensured complete process compliance for maintenance (patch) processes

§ Also worked on a Process Improvement project with IDD to reduce cycle time in delivering Technical documentation within the given constraints

§ Previously was responsible for ISO 9001:2000 and SEI-CMMI v1.1 implementation in all BUs in Pune. This included vendor evaluation (training, consultants and certification body). Successfully taken a BU to ISO 9001:2000 certification

May 2006 – Dec 2006 NIIT Technologies Ltd. New Delhi, India Team Lead / Process Consultant

Worked for British Airways, UK as a process consultant on a 4 month assignment

§ Studied their ‘as-is’ requirements management process for the entire organization and proposed approaches

§ Conducted Lean workshop along with BA’s Lean expert to come up with a Value Stream Analysis of the process (both current state and future state)

July 2004 –May 2006 Kanbay India Pune, India

A/C Quality Manager (330 people, 10 Dev. Mgrs., 12 projects)

§ Promoted to the Quality Manager position from Quality Lead within a year of joining

§ Account health report to Account Sr. Management (Risk Management)

§ Project Management for critical projects of the account

§ Successful (Account-wide) implementation of estimation model – FPA based July 2003 –July 2004 Geometric Software Limited Pune, India SEPG Member

§ CMMI Implementation related activities: Process Definition & Implementation, Process Improvement, Process tailoring, Project Management (by metrics), Proposal reviews Dec 2002 – June 2003 Patni Computers Mumbai, India Sr. Software Engineer

§ Worked with the Process Consultancy Practice for implementing CMMI and Six Sigma June 2002 – Dec 2002 vMoksha Technologies Pune, India Software Quality Assurance Engineer

§ Process Definition, Approval and Implementation for CMMI v1.1 Aug 2001 – Jun 2002 Applictech Solution Ltd. Ahmedabad, India Software Quality Engineer

§ Conducting Process Compliance (internal) Audits (CMM) and S/W Testing with auto. testing tools for testing

§ Metrics Council member responsible for Data Collection, Analysis, Metrics Training Mar 2000 – Aug 2001 Systems Plus Pvt. Ltd. Ahmedabad, India Systems Executive

§ Software development in VB 6.0 and MS Web technologies like ASP, IIS 4.0, Oracle 8i and MS-SQL Server 7.0

Education 1996–2000 British Columbia Open University (now Thompson Rivers University) Vancouver, Canada

§ B.Tech. (Computer Systems)

§ GPA 3.02 on a scale of 4.0

Trainings

Attended

1. SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) – active

2. Certified PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Professional) – in activet 3. Certified PMI PMP (Project Management Professional) – in active 4. ITIL v3 Certified – Score 36/40

5. Certified Scrum Master (in active)

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