Agile Coach
Resume:
Sanjay Sahni CONTACT
***************@*****.***
www.linkedin.com/in/sanjay-sahni-0ba96729
An accomplished Agile coach and a Product Leader with strong technical experience.
Transformed start up’s and mid-level organizations into agility. Trained and built several cross functional teams - Coaching Product Owner, Scrum Master and Scrum Developer courses. Coaching Product Managers, Product Owners, C Level executives, Developers, QA teams - A 360 degree pathway to agility. Experienced in delivering quality products across several business verticals like Investment Banking, Payments, Corporate Restructuring and Entertainment.
Excellent customer engagement exposure supporting pre-sales, understanding user issues and pain points, risk evaluation and product delivery.
Author, Speaker on Product Management, Corporate Integrity, Team Building.
EXPERIENCE
Stretto, Irvine - Sr. Product Manager, Enterprise Agile Coach (August 2018 - till date)
● Responsible for end to end enterprise level agile transformation
● Establishing and building corporate transformation strategy which is in alignment with business &
productivity.
● Conducting in person and virtual agile coaching sessions at team and corporate level.
● Equipping teams and managers with the best practices to induce motivated corporate culture
● In charge of formation and managing cross functional teams in multiple geographic locations - India, Poland and US.
● Establishing clear and consistent metrics at team and product level to enable transparency for C Level executives reporting.
● Responsible for managing product-line supporting Corporate Restructuring Business.
● Conducting product road maps planning meetings.
● Creating a platform and process that enables
communication between teams and users. Thus providing users clear insight into features, useability and timelines. SKILLS
Certified Advanced Scrum Product
Owner, Certified Scrum Product
Owner, Product Management,
Product Roadmap, Product Strategy,
Agile Coaching, Agile, Agile
Adoption, Jira,AHA, IceScrum,
Sketch, Metrics, Sprint Velocity,
User stories,, Refinements, SDLC,
Waterfall, MS Word, Excel,MS Power
Point
Technical Skills
Java, Spring, Hibernate, JMX, JMS,
JXB, JUnit, JMock, Eclipse, Oracle,
MySql, HTTP, XML, XSLT, SOAP,
WSDL, XSD, Maven, Cloud
Computing, AWS,Unix, SOA,SQL,
UML, Multithreading,
Test Driven Development,Unit
Testing, QA, OOAD, Shell Scripts
Exactuals LLC, Los Angeles — Product Manager (Agile)
(An RBC - CNB Company)
January 2015 - June 2017
● Enabled an automated payment processing solution from ground up to successful phase 1 and phase 2 launch
● Liaised with key Exactuals customers like SAG-AFTRA, NBCU to understand complete set of requirements for a success launch
● Liaised with key Exactuals partners/service providers such as City National bank to align and integrate their services to our systems
● As a product owner defined correct set of priorities for a given sprint and future sprints for development teams
● Wrote user stories and built storyboards that accurately reflected customer requirements and timelines for
establishing clear goals for development teams
● Strived for quality sprints and hence a quality product by constantly including performance and quality test stories as a part of the sprints
● Ensured the product being developed took into account a variety of customers with a set of different needs
● Created proof of concepts and MVP demo models for customers and stakeholders to provide them with a “look and feel” of the upcoming features and product
● Supported sales team in business development and pre-sales meetings with the potential customers
● Wrote several regression test tools and quick POC’s using Java on Eclipse and Java based lambda functions on Amazon Web Services.
● Conducting in house trainings:
Knowledge Transfer
Customer Intimacy
Agile
Chrome River, Los Angeles — Product Manager
January 2014 - January 2015
● Collaborated with partners such as AMEX to gather integration requirements
● Worked with development team, QA team to provide an E2E solution for Chrome River/AMEX credit card
transaction capturing system.
Morgan Stanley, New York — Associate( Development
Lead)
June 2007 - March 2013
● Acted as a single point of responsibility for MS stock trading system
● Single point of contact for traders, users and compliance for new feature requests
● Delivered multiple features for the trading desk using Java, Swing UI & Spring such as
FaceBook IPO
Mass Stock Release and Cross Function.
Market Data Blotters
Risk Evaluation tools
Deutsche Bank, New York — Assistant Vice
President(Development Lead)
November 2006 - June 2007
● North America lead for a fixed income trading system trading T-Bills, US Bonds, Corp Bonds
● This trading system was a monolithic Java application which was difficult to maintain
● Delivered hands on features and bug fixes on the system
● Replaced this large and difficult to maintain monolithic Java applications using modular approach and service oriented architecture (SOA ), WSDL, Spring
HSBC Securities, New Jersey — (Development Lead)
November 2004 - November 2006
● New York Technical Lead for Analysis, design and development of FIERCE, an HSBC Flagship Global project developed using core Java, Spring & C++
FIERCE enables cross border and local trading
with features like Indicative Prices, Executable
Prices, Analytics, STP, Spreads,Credit Limit Check and Auto Pricing
Gluon Networks, Petaluma, CA — Software Developer
May 2001 - November 2004
● Designed, developed and tested telecom feature
applications using OOAD techniques using C++ on
Windows, UNIX and real time operating system (pSOS) Larsen & Toubro, Mumbai, India —Software
Developer
May 1999 - May 2001
● Designed and developed an ATM machine monitoring system using MFC, Sockets and C++
WORKSHOPS CONDUCTED
● “A journey from an Idea to a Product” for Code District http://codedistrict.io/
● Product Life Cycle - POC, MVP for Code District, LA http://codedistrict.io/
PUBLICATIONS
● Sanjay Sahni. A Servant Leader, LinkedIn, September 2016
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/servant-leader-sanjay-s ahni/
● Sanjay Sahni. 5 Questions a Product Champion should ask, LinkedIn, March 2019
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-questions-you-shoul d-ask-yourself-product-champion-sanjay-sahni/
EDUCATION
Certified Scrum Product Owner, Los Angeles, CA
Center for Development in Advanced Computing
(CDAC), Delhi, India
June 1998 -January 1999
Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Hyderabad,
India
April 1991 -March 1995
CITIZENSHIP
US Citizen
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