Tejaskumar Dave

ENTERPRISE AGILE COACH

424-***-**** • adcmmr@r.postjobfree.com • LINKEDIN.COM/IN/TEJASKUMARDAVE I am an Enterprise Agile Coach with specialization in driving Non-Resistance Agile transformation and fostering Organic Agile maturity. Expert in designing & implementing Scaled Agile solutions that meet your organization’s needs. You will see the same cutting-edge Agile adoption strategies that I used at Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies & produce similar results.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master (CSM); Agility in the Enterprise (ICP-ENT) Certification; Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO); Coaching Agile Transitions (ICP-CAT) Certification; Certified Scrum Professional (CSP); Certified Methodology Black Belt (CMBB); Certified SAFe Agilist (SA); Certified Agile Test-Driven Development (TDD); Certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) 5.0; Certified SAFe DevOps; Certified LeSS Practitioner - Principles to Practices; Certified Enterprise Architect (EA); PEGA Certified Direct Capture of Objectives (DCO) Architect; Project Management Professional (PMP); EDUCATION

Master of Science Computer Science (MSCS), ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Chicago, IL 07/2009 Bachelor of Computer Engineering, PUNE UNIVERSITY, Pune, India 07/2005 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Costa Mesa, CA 10/2018 – 03/2020 Enterprise Agile Coach

• Enabled a successful Enterprise Agile transformation by creating and delivering organizational training courses and materials to train Executives, Line Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Development Teams.

• Advanced the organization's transformation by coordinating with HR to define the role, career path & performance appraisals for Scrum Master, Product Owner and Area Product Owner roles.

• Coached and mentored Executives, Group Managers, Line Managers, Product Owners and Scrum Masters through focused hands-on Dojo Sessions.

• Established SM, PO, Agile, Lean Development, Line Manager, DevOps, and Security Community of Practices (CoP) to enable sustainable, smooth and organic Agile Transformation.

• Helped Product Owner and Teams master the art of User Story, Gherkin’s (GWT) Acceptance Criteria, Specifications by examples, RoadMap, Vision Board and WSJF to better understand the customer’s needs. Tejaskumar Dave Page 2 of 4

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• Improved team dynamics & team performance by coordinating several 3-days hands-on Agile Training

& Inception Exercises covering Definition of Done (DoD), Definition Of Ready (DoR), Team Working Agreement and advance Agile artifacts to transform the new-to-Scrum Component teams into Functional Scrum Teams.

• Reduced the concept-to-cash time from 6 months to releasing every month through strategizing 3 LeSS Huge Agile Frameworks to promote continuous Exploration, Development, Integration and Improvements in Agile practices.

• Identified & resolved organizational impediments including reporting structure, geographically co- location of teams, performance & bonus evolution, WIP limit for organizational initiatives and value stream mapping to eliminate organizational waste.

ANTHEM (S&P 500), Cerritos, CA 01/2018 - 09/2018

Enterprise Agile Coach

• Championed a cultural change by deftly transforming the organization from waterfall to Agile within 6 months to include defining the transformation strategy and leading the execution of the strategy.

• Drove a non-resistive organic Agile maturity through efficiently developing and introducing Lean Coffee, Scrum Master, Product Owner & DevOps Community of Practice (CoP), and advance strategies.

• Removed impediments and distractions that interfered with the transformation by identifying process changes required to accelerate development and removing major impediments.

• Coached Mobbing, Pair Programming and Swarming for systems optimization. SYMANTEC (S&P 500), Culver City, CA 07/2015 – 12/2017 Agile Coach

• Reduced time to market from yearly to quarterly in 2016 and multiple, just-in-time, releases in 2017 while also maximizing ROI and customer satisfaction by managing roadmap planning efforts and coaching to roll out of an Agile transformation for Mac and PC program.

• Eliminated significant roadblocks, resolved dependencies, mitigated risk and increased team’s co-ordination by introducing, planning, adapting and executing weekly Agile Release Trains (ARTs) sync-up meetings and quarterly Program Increment (PI) meetings.

• Conducted enterprise-wide SHU-HA-RI survey to measure Agile Maturity progress across enterprise. DEXMEDIA, Santa Monica, CA 06/2014 – 07/2015

Agile Coach

• Drove effective Agile transformation across the organization through creatively planning and directing all phases of the roll out of an Agile Mentoring Program (AMP).

• Increased overall program rollout efficiency by coordinating with other Coaches on plans and techniques for accelerating and advancing the organization's transformation.

• Championed transformation efforts & ensured execution to completion by suggesting process changes and ensuring development met company functional goals and requirements. Tejaskumar Dave Page 3 of 4

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VISION SERVICE PLAN (VSP), Sacramento, CA 10/2013 – 05/2014 Agile Coach (Consultant)

• Spearheaded and drove successful Agile engagement and adoption by efficiently coaching leaders and teams through the Agile transformation, utilizing each member's strengths and personal growth interests in development process.

• Facilitated ideal management and team structures through expertly providing training, references and videos to include managing major collective activities, issues, and risks in support of the program. BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF KANSAS, KS 05/2012 – 09/2013 Agile Coach (Consultant)

• Minimized scope drift and costly rework while also maximizing customer satisfaction by training & coaching Product Owners to generate & prioritize requirements leveraging MoSCoW, Gherkin's GWT, and INVEST.

• Piloted, promoted and coached the use of agile development practices, facilitating shared knowledge and broadening pool of agile-capable dvelopers, ensuring set goals were realistic and achievable. EXPRESS SCRIPTS / MEDCO (S&P 500 & Fortune 35), Franklin Lakes, NJ 09/2011 – 05/2012 Agile Coach (Consultant to PMO)

• Increased engagement efficiency that resulted in a smooth merger with Express Scripts by planning and executing strategies for Agile transformation for $300M PEGA engagement, the largest PEGA engagement. kCura Corporation, Chicago, IL 07/2009 – 08/2011

Scrum Master

Security Benefit, Topeka, KS 12/2007 – 05/2009

Senior Programmer Analyst

Igen, Pune 08/2004 – 06/2006

Senior Programmer Analyst

PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES

Core Competencies:

Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) ART Sync Automation, Behavior Driven Development(BDD) Community Of Practice (COP) Continuous Delivery (CD) Continuous Integration(CI) CI/CD DevOps Gherkin’s

(GWT) Jira Inspect & Adapt INVEST method Lean Coffee Lean Development Lean Waste Identification LeSS Overall Sprint Planning 1 LeSS Overall Refinement LeSS Overall Retrospective Mentor MoSCoW Organization & Team Transformation Trainor Pair Programming PI planning PO Sync Program Retrospective Rally Scrum Of Scrum Sprint Demo Sprint Planning Sprint Review Swarming Test Driven Development (TDD) WSJF

Methodology & Models:

Agile, eXtreme Programing (XP), Kaizen, Kanban, Lean Development, LeSS, LeSS Huge, SAFe, Scrum, Scrumban. Tejaskumar Dave Page 4 of 4

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RECOMMENDATIONS FROM LINKEDIN

“Tejas is especially adept at working with teams and stakeholders, helping to guide them in a manner that is not threatening yet adheres to the principles of Agile (and the things we know work). In addition to his day to day coaching of the product teams in the largest product area (LeSS Huge product with over 16 teams) he has conducted many initiation training sessions - 3-day Scrum initiation sessions for new Scrum teams. This in-house training allowed us to launch a large number of teams fairly quickly and maintain the education quality and adherence to the Large-Scale Scrum model and Agile values. More important than all of that however, is his attitude. He’s an expert with enough humility to ask questions and seek a deeper understanding about the organizational context he’s operating in. It’s an unusual stance in my experience for a consultant to have and one that I appreciated very much”

- David Stackleather, Enterprise Strategy & Organizational Design

“Tejas is an amazing leader who helped to ensure the successful adoption of SAFe, by showing the business results the Lean enterprise can deliver. Tejas’s dedication to the SAFe process helped to empower individuals and teams to build better software and systems by learning, exhibiting, teaching, and coaching SAFe’s Lean-Agile mindset, values, principles, and practices. Tejas helped guide the activities necessary to understand and continuously optimize the flow of value through the organization. He helped our teams to organize and reorganize value, he identified queues and excess Work in Process (WIP), while continually helping teams focused on eliminating waste and delays. Tejas helped to abolish demotivating policies and procedures in favor of inspiring and motivating others, and create a culture of relentless improvement that protects the resources required for teams to innovate. Tejas would be an asset to any company looking to implement the agile process into their business.”

- Laila Fritz

“Tejas is a great Coach. He took CareMore from its infancy as far as SAFe Agile is concerned to full blown implementation and completely independent in 4 short Program Increments. He has the ability to make the complex simple. And once CareMore got down the mechanics/process of Agile, he focused on solving issues of team unity, culture and organizational behavior— issues that are, frankly, require many nuanced approaches but are instrumental in the success or failure of Agile. He made sure that we don’t sprout the words du jour but still following waterfall. CHANGE is hard for any organization; Change with Tejas is a little bit easier.”

- Tawny Tran, BSN, MBA Strategic Portfolio Management

“Tejas is an outstanding coach and mentor. Not only does he understand the subject matter and have a wealth of experience, he also has a people first mentality. As a result, our teams trusted him and were receptive to his message. I would highly recommend him to any organization.” – Brian Fishman

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