SUDHEENDRA RAYABHAGI, ICP-ACC, PMP

Sr. Project Manager Agile Coach Release Train Engineer

+91-900-***-**** ad1hql@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/srayabhagi/ SUMMARY

A seasoned IT Professional with 16.5 years of experience, with 9 Years of exclusive Agile Mentoring and implementation. Worked with Airline, Banking, eDiscovery, US Healthcare Insurance, and Education domain of global customers driving Agile in accelerated delivery, Digital, App Transformation and Cloud Platforms. Helping and coaching clients, senior leadership, managers and teams to realize their Agile aspirations. Continually maturing internal and client Agile delivery practices, Agile culture, tool, people capability to an agreed mature state. An SME in driving Agile transformation by integrating lean and agile methods.

PMI Certified Generative AI for Project Managers.

Completed Udemy Course on Generative AI Bootcamp, Pursuing Data Science and ML Bootcamp on Udemy

Worked onsite in Doha, Qatar, multiple locations in the US.

Handled Clients, maintained partnership with clients located in the USA, UK, GCC, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, China and India

Performed versatile roles such as Release Train Engineer, Agile (Transformation) Coach, ScrumMaster, Project / Delivery Manager, Business Analysis, Consultant, and stakeholder engagement. Implementation and support of various IT systems for leading clients across the globe.

Played crucial role in all phases of (traditional) Project lifecycle. Especially in planning, risk / dependency identification / mitigation, plan for contingency, Project metrics, KPI and Project delivery.

Coached 9 Agile teams, performed 4 (mid – large projects) Agile transformations.

Model Agile behavior & mindset and able to coach 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.

Setup and run Agile CoE, setup best practices for organizational agility.

Conducting team agility assessments effectively to evaluate and drive potential improvement areas.

Transitioned multiple teams from Waterfall to Agile.

Trained and coached new Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and stakeholders to be able to lead Scrum teams to deliver every sprint. Tailored training depending on the participants.

Mentored PMs, POs, Scrum Masters in servant leadership principles, and continuous improvement.

A great partnership builder, with a proven track record in building high-performance teams. SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER ITC INFOTECH [DOHA / BENGALURU] - 3/2021 – PRESENT Roles: Agile Transformation Coach, Release Train Engineer, Program Manager

Led a team of 4 Scrum Masters, POs, various stakeholders. Coaching, training more than 65 members from freshers to VP.

Enable. Empower Scrum Masters, POs, and teams for effective adoption of Scrum.

One of the CoP leads – strategizing the Agile transformation of

Improve ART Manage and optimize the flow of value through the program using various tools, such as the Program Kanbans and information radiators

Executed one Program Increments (PI) as RTE and participated in 4 PIs as Senior ScrumMaster.

Establish, Facilitate and communicate the annual calendars for Iterations and Program Increments (PI)

Aggregate Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives and publish them for visibility and transparency

Facilitate periodic ART sync, Scrum of Scrum (SoS) and PO Sync. Escalate and track impediments.

Develop and maintain scorecards. Work with business partners to track and report benefits and impact of the program and disseminate success stories

Engage directly with stakeholders to define mission value and prioritize work and build Roadmaps

Work with program architects and champions to design deployment roadmap

Act as Account Manager, helping Org on new business, act as an escalation point. ESTEEMED CLIENTS: Standard Chartered Bank, Qatar Airways, PWC, VISA, Shell, CastLight Health, Pearson LICENSES

SAFe Agilist 5.0 PMI PMP ICP – ACC PSM II PSPO II SAFe POPM 5.0 CSP – SM CSP – PO Certified Scrum Master (CSM) KMP ICP – ATF Prince 2 Practitioner OKR Fundamentals PMI Certified Generative AI overview for Project Managers TOOLS JIRA Confluence Azure DevOps (ADO) ServiceNow MS Office suite SUDHEENDRA RAYABHAGI, ICP-ACC, PMP

Sr. Project Manager Agile Coach Release Train Engineer

+91-900-***-**** ad1hql@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/srayabhagi/ MANAGER - PROJECTS [CHENNAI] - 06/2016 – 03/2021 PROJECT MANAGER [HYDERABAD] – 11/2014 – 06/2016 COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION PRAMATI TECHNOLOGIES Roles: Senior Scrum Master, Project Manager

Facilitated effective Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Retrospective events and Refinement, empowered multiple Scrum teams.

Demonstrate Servant leadership, remove Impediments

Work closely with PO and stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment with organizational roadmaps.

Make sure that team is following agile processes in each sprint at user story level as per the Definition of Done (DoD) and Definition of Ready (DoR)

Drive continuous improvement via facilitating workshops; assess the agility level of the program and push teams to improve

Monitor development for bottlenecks and provide input on addressing same

Build and maintain boards that radiate information such as backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, lead and cycle times, and task definition to ensure transparency.

Conducted Value Stream Mapping and identified VA, NVA and improved the throughput of the team by removing NVAs. EDUCATION

Post Graduate Diploma [IT Management] TNOU [2018 – 2019] B.Tech [Computer Science] Narasaraopet Engineering College, JNTU [2001 – 2005] REWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

ITC Infotech: Best Performer award Cognizant: Won Kalam award Infosys: Won Extra Miler award HP: Received Quality Excellence award. Reuters: Won Best Poster prize award in the Won the best contributor award for my contribution T20 championship contest in the categories of to the FAW (Fun at Work) committee. creativity and content in the Org wise competitions. Won 1st prize in a national level technical paper contest ASSOCIATE MANAGER [PUNE] – 02/2013 – 11/2014 PROJECT MANAGER [BENGALURU] – 01/2008 – 02/2013 INFOSYS BPO HP

Role: eDiscovery Consultant, Project Manager Licenses

Own End to End Project / Product lifecycle management o Participate from the ideation phase through project closure phase o Executed Proof of Concepts and generated relevant feedback for product refinement o Own supplier management/remediation

o Played a key role in the retirement of features and implementation of new features.

Identify critical path and ensure all roadblocks are cleared for the activities in critical path

Establish, communicate and facilitate the annual calendars for Iterations and Program Increments

Responsible for adhering to SLAs and publish the SLA metrics on monthly basis

Played a key role in rolling out CSAT to clients and capturing the outcomes of the survey

Define, report project roadmap, status, development issues and success metrics.

Facilitating communication and collaboration among various stakeholders. o Responsible for Onsite/Offshore Project Management. o Workflow management, Pre-production planning, Job allocation & adherence of priorities o Maintain & verify various reports while processing o Own team management & development including performance reviews, and conduct training.

Presales Support

o Sales Demo/Training to Prospective clients.

o Participate in Business proposal activities (RFP / RFQ / RFI), work on resourcing and budgeting for upcoming projects Role: eDiscovery Consultant, Project Manager

Facilitated meetings for the identification, understanding, and documentation of business requirements.

Organized these requirements systematically, evaluated the feasibility and compared potential solutions based on the project scope and documented the same in Business Requirement Document (BRD).

Comprehensively worked with Users for Requirement Gathering/elicitation and conducted Workshops, Interviews, and Interface Analysis to produce initial requirement data to create User Interface/prototypes and Business Process Requirements.

Create User flow, diagrams, story maps for better requirement traceability and preparation and discussion on GAP Analysis.

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