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BENCION PICHHADZE

Citizenship: USA

Tel: 929-***-****

Home Address: Los Angeles

Email: ad1dji@r.postjobfree.com

Profile

Summary Experienced technology and business leader with focus on organizational transformation, strategy, and vision for implementation of mission critical initiatives. Proven ability to boost productivity and reduce waste across teams through a leadership style that believes in the power of collaboration between business and technology. Excellent experience with executive piers and C-Level. Key Skills

Digital Transformation, Strategy

and Business Engagement,

Program and Product

Management, End to End

Journey, Vendor Management,

Relationship Management, Cross

Functional Teams, Turn Around,

User Experience, Mobile

Platforms, AEM

Scaled Agile Framework,

LeSS, SAFe, PMP, CSP, CSM,

CPO, AGILE, PMO, RFP’S,

KPI’s, LOE’S, Platform

Owner, Enterprise

Delivery Management, and

Budgets. MS Office, MS

Project,

SQL.

Windows, Unix, Sun-

Solaris, Linux, iOS,

Android, Web

Technologies and Cloud

computing, Amazon

Services, IAM, Identity Access

Management, FAST, Rally,

Chrome-River,

Concur, Web Objects,

SharePoint, Visual Studio,

Adobe Manger

Training & Recruitment, Innovation,

Atlassian tools:

Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket,

Bamboo.

Firebug, Fiddler, TFS,

SharePoint, SOX, FIX

Protocol, STP, CMS,

Alfresco Pub3, SAS, VSS, RUP,

Waterfall,

CRM, Salesforce, Adobe Amazon

AWS, CMM,

Professional Experience:

Farmers Insurance, Los Angeles, CA Contractor

SENIOR SCRUM MASTER March 2020 to Present

• Worked as the SAFe enterprise senior scrum master and coach for Farmers insurance.

• Worked with various management groups within the marketing area of the company to help transform the portfolio and programs and progress within the Safe maturity level.

• Was part of the leadership team to help LACE, Scrum Masters, Product, Business, RTE’s, and leadership to ensure the successful delivery of various product lines and initiatives that included integrations of existing and integrations between various companies Farmers purchased such as Metlife, Foremost, and Bristol West

• Worked with leadership teams to align the overall strategy to achieve short term and long-term goals.

• Helped various groups such as product, RTE, technology, and the business marketing to ensure the vision is realized by delivering the best possible online experiences across the various product lines such as home, auto, condo, and renters.

• Ensured continued education and adherence to SAFe framework and agile mindset, with continued drive for relentless improvements.

• Ensured the teams followed proper PI events and running of scrum for execution of stories, tracking progress, and dealing with change and adaptation of compliance as well as sign-offs City National Bank (CNB), Los Angeles, CA Vice President SENIOR SCRUM MASTER October 2015 to February 2020

• Worked as the senior scrum master and agile coach for the bank.

• Owned and drove the transformation of digital delivery product line within City National Bank that included activities with the internal CNB departments and outside vendors to promote the digital delivery from inception to production of various products to the market place

• Worked and coached all the delivery management groups within the Digital Channels Group to lead the online services portfolio of initiatives and programs to help deliver next generation cutting edge software applications.

• Part the LACE, Scrum, Product, Business, RTE’s, and leadership to ensure the successful delivery of various product lines and initiatives that included two of the bank’s main portals including the Business and Personal Portals

• Coached the work to teams to align with banking wide strategy to achieve short term and long-term goals.

• Worked hand in hand with the various heads and senior product owners to ensure the digital channels vision is realized by delivering the best possible online experiences for bank end users.

• Ensured the division adhered to SAFe framework mindset, with continued drive for relentless improvements. 1 - Ben Pichhadze - ad1dji@r.postjobfree.com

Disney – ABC, Burbank, CA Contractor

SENIOR SCRUM MASTER July 2013 to September 2015

• Served as a senior scrum master and agile coach for the Disney ABC MRM team that support various internal financial/ billing/ and P&L applications.

• Worked on transforming the route 66 from Waterfall model to Agile / Scrum across all of its teams and environments to ensure successful launches of each initiative using the SAFe agile enterprise framework along with scrum methodology by coaching and working hand in hand with all functions of the IT members.

• Managed resources and project allocations to provide estimates; prioritizes and assigns work to teams to align with strategy.

• Lead the MRM IT team from no tracking / accountability to full accountability for every sprint release and efforts to ensure successful releases and deployments.

• Established procedures for running and execution of stories, tracking progress, and dealing with change and adaptation of compliance as well as sign-offs.

• Managed an onshore Irvine team which consisted of a development and QA team members.

• Utilities TFS and Rally (+ Confluence) to track project progress, deliverables and status of each major and minor release

McGraw-Hill, Westlake Village, CA Vice President

SENIOR SCRUM MASTER June 2011 to July 2013

• Served as an agile leader for the company transformation from Waterfall model to Agile / Scrum across all it teams and environments to ensure successful launches of each initiative using the agile / scrum methodology by coaching and working hand in hand with all functions of the IT members.

• Interfaced Senior Director of Digital IT that lead the Lean PMO team and owned the transformation for all applications within the company.

• with technology partners to establish and enforced metrics standards; strategic planning, budgeting, standards setting.

• Made sure that quality and on-time results were met within various allocated project budgets

• Produced bi-weekly, monthly and annual reports to IT leadership team and EC (C-Level) committee.

• Oversaw ETL testing structures around data transformations to our various back end systems and DR sites.

• Established and lead cross-functional teams; ensure committed resource requirements over the lifecycle of the project through the process of estimation, expectation setting and escalation. Morgan Stanley, New York, NY Contractor

PLATFORM OWNER January 2010 to June 2011

Edmunds.com, Santa Monica, CA Contractor

SENIOR SCRUM MASTER August 2006 to December 2009

Smith Barney (CITIGROUP), New York, NY Senior Vice President IT PROGRAM MANAGER May 2002 to March 2006

Deutsche Bank, New York, NY

SENIOR IT MANAGER

Contractor

April 2000 to April 2002

Education

Queens College

1998

Queens College: B.A. in Computer Science English 2004 Project Management Professional (PMP)

2006 Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

2013

2016

2016

Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)

Certified Product Owner (CPO)

Agile Coach Leadership Certified

2018 Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

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