Engineer Software

Albert Arul Prakash

Phone: +91-990******* Email: ********************@*******.*** LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/albertarulprakash

Executive Summary

Over 17 years of IT experience with agile coaching, agile project management, engineering manager, product owner, software craftsmanship and COE.

Spearheaded 3 enterprise agile transformations & partnered for 4+ client accounts based transformation.

Trained about 190 members in 2 days basic agile, scrum, Kanban, 80+ members in 2 days SA and about 400+ people in 1 day agile crash course trainings inside multiple organization transformation.

Collaborated with leadership to launch self-organized CoPs (SM, PO, DevOps, Software craftsmanship) to amplify, accelerated learning within organization.

Conceived & formulated 2 course curriculum for SM & PO as part of organization (GE) agile career progression program.

Identified & strategized, regularly asked customer enhancements into core product features resulted in 4 new upgrades realized additional maintenance revenue of 10M USD in 6 to 8 months period.

As a product owner, led a CRM platform as a product, for eGovernance, Banking & healthcare, Education institutions domains.

Co-organizer for ScrumBangalore, an agile community group to build, network, share knowledge on Agile & Scrum for past 10 years.

Volunteered to organize Agile Conferences with TAC (2018-2020), RGSI (2018-2019), DiscussAgile (2017).

Agile Certifications

1.Certified Product Owner (Link), Certified Scrum Master (Link)

2.Certified Scrum Professional – (SM) (Link) (PO) (Link)

3.SAFe Program Consultant 3.0

Experience

Staff Agile Transformer August 2019 – Present

GE Healthcare Limited, Bangalore

Highlights

1.Spearheaded, designed & facilitated two CT programs as part of GE Healthcare agile transformation across Bangalore, China, Japan, and Israel.

2.Achieved teams delivering 90% of planned features consistently in every PI across two CT programs by training, coaching & mentoring multi-geo team members (150+ CT NGX members & 60+ PET CT members) and ensuring FDA compliance without delay.

3.Designed, facilitated workshops to identify transformation champions from leadership team & focus areas of improvement, helped me to coach, drive the transformation across CT organization.

4.Co-ordinated & Implemented DevOps, Software-XP Practices ensuring high quality software & hardware systems (CT, PET) integration.

5.Co-created agile governance & OpMech for CT programs to ensure set priorities are achieved, propagating program progress visibility, identify & track process improvements & take appropriate actions required.

6.Coached & ensured, business user (business owner, clinical technicians, program team) participation and system demos goes hand on hand using actual hardware system in test bed area.

7.Launched self-organized CoPs on specific domain areas to build Spotify style culture, now collectively have about 500+ members from various products sharing their knowledge across GE (India) healthcare.

8.Mentored, coached RTEs & facilitated program & solution level events for successful program execution, timely impediment resolution & visibility towards the progress.

Senior Engineering Manager April 2016 – August 2019

Mindtree Limited, Bangalore

Highlights

1.Dedicated contributor of Agile CoE, developed unified agile process & worked with multiple accounts for their transformation needs.

2.Trained 400+ developers in classroom setup on Basic Agile (Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe) practices.

3.Coached & facilitated value stream mapping that helped team to visualize all steps involved in developing, deploying and supporting ‘Delivery platform’ product of Mindtree.

4.Achieved 60% increase in production deployment, and 80% of feature usage by users through implementation of Agile (Scrum, Kanban), DevOps practices for ‘Delivery platform’ product team.

5.Ideated & engineered a NoSQL based architecture & refactoring code for performance, helped achieve 400% system performance & 200% decrease in load times.

6.Mentored 50 ASP.Net MVC technical members to be a full-stack developers which ensured 99.5% uptime.

Senior Engineering Project Manager June 2014 – April 2016

CA Technologies, Bangalore

Highlights

1.Helped product management team to know about product agility & market competitive analysis that led to take quick validated actions based on MVPs and assumptions.

2.Trained, facilitated workshops and coached leadership & team members on Agile, Scrum, SAFe values & practices resulted in consistent engagement from leadership towards transformation journey.

3.Trained, Facilitated multi geo (India, France, and Germany) team of specialists to establish full team cadence, one planning, and better visualization of dependencies resulted in on time execution of project with high collaboration & commitment.

4.Coached and mentored other scrum masters on agile manifesto, principles and product development etc.

Scrum Master January 2013 – June 2014

GT Nexus Software India Private Limited, Bangalore

Highlights

1.As part of agile practice enablement for 4+ product lines, advocated teams to implement Agile, DevOps, Software-XP practices to build high quality product functionalities with minimal lead time.

2.Trained, mentored, coached product owners, co-authored effective user stories, devised better slicing strategies and implemented ways to deploy high value MVPs every 2 weeks.

3.Trained team members, leadership on basic agile, scrum to kick start using agile practices.

4.Facilitated scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, daily scrum, refinement, sprint review & retrospective.

5.Worked with leadership, to build value stream, critical systems & potential wastes helped to identify improvement opportunities, increased team throughput by 60% and reduced cycle time by 70%.

6.Worked with support organization to implement Kanban system to optimize and visualize flow.

7.Ideated, worked with leadership to enable Scrum Masters CoP, to share knowledge on agile practices.

Senior Product Specialist December 2011 – January 2013

Consona Software India Private Limited, Bangalore

Highlights

1.Achieved 3 months (from 4 years) GA release cadence by implementing better user story priority, high value MVPs and other product owner strategies.

2.Conceptualized mobile app strategy to ensure increased productivity from on-field users by reducing paper work & providing updated information all time.

3.Increased customer satisfaction through cadence based customer engagement helped to focus on delivering customer needs & priority and new workflows in every GA release.

4.Identified & strategized regularly asked customer enhancements into core product features resulted in 4 new upgrades with additional maintenance revenue of 10M USD in 6 to 8 months period.

5.Partnered with other product owners on crafting better ways of product management practices to initiate transformations across other product.

Principal Software Engineer/ product owner April 2011 – December 2011

Consona Software India Private Limited, Bangalore

Senior Software Engineer/Tech lead, Scrum Master January 2009 - April 2011

Consona Software India Private Limited, Bangalore (Jan 09 – Apr 11)

Wipro Technologies, Bangalore (Aug 06 – Aug 07)

Software Engineer August 2003 to August 2006

Consona Software India Private Limited, Bangalore (Aug 07 – Dec 08)

Annik Technologies Private Limited, Delhi NCR (Dec 05 – Aug 06)

CyberAstro Limited, Delhi NCR (Jun 04 – Nov 05)

Networld Computers, Madurai (Aug 03 – Apr 04)

Education Profile

Master of Computer Applications

Raja College of Engineering and Technology, Madurai, Tamil Nadu - 2003, 72.2%

Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)

Madurai Kamaraj University Collège, Madurai, Tamil Nadu - 2000, 54.1%

Technical Knowledge and skills

Agile Tools: Rally, JIRA, TFS

Wire Frame: mockingbird, Conventional Pencil and paper

Mind Mapping Software: xMind

Languages: Visual Basic 6.0, C#, JavaScript, and VBScript

RDBMS & Tools: SQL Server, MySQL, and Toad

Server-Side Programming: ASP 3.0, ASP.Net, WCF, REST-based services

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