HARSHAL SANGANI

Lead Scrum Master - Agile Coach (SPC5, ICP-ACC)

adgao6@r.postjobfree.com 470-***-**** Atlanta, GA

Results-driven Lean-Agile leader with expertise in coaching, training and serving teams and leaders on their journey to deliver value for customers. Certified SAFe SPC5, ICAgile ICP-ACC and Certified Scrum Master with 16+ years of professional experience consisting of agile transformation and implementation using frameworks like Scrum, SAFe and Kanban. Demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach Scrum teams across multiple locations, with a verifiable track record of managing complex projects while delivering on time, under budget and above expectations. Practical experience working at Fortune500 companies such as Deloitte, NCR, AT&T, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, CapitalOne etc. Team player with excellent communication skills, problem solving skills and presentation skills.

CORE COMPETENCY

●Agile Transformation

●Project/Program Management

●Cross-functional Team Building

●Offshore Development

●Agile Coaching

●Scrum/Kanban/DevOps

●Scaled Agile-SAFe

●Agile Training

●PI Planning

●Design Thinking

●Process Reengineering

●Organizational Change Management

●DevOps

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lead Scrum Master/ Agile Coach (Deloitte, GA) 07/2019 - 08/2020

●Coached SAFe at team and program-level with focus on Scrum, Kanban and Program Backlog.

●Led multiple teams as part of an enterprise transformation to Agile/Scrum.

●Team coaching included initial Scrum training, Scrum Master and Product Owner roles and responsibilities, relative size estimating and user story workshops, backlog refinement objectives and practices, acceptance criteria, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, emphasis on finishing work vs. starting it, and using retrospective results to inform sprint planning.

●Introduced & taught principles of Scrum, and engineering practices such as paired programing, continuous integration, refactoring to the team which resulted in timely delivery of project and reduced process waste caused by lack of common understanding.

●Introduced best practices like CoP, Lean Coffee and other Agile events that were adopted across the program.

●Proactively communicated any risks, design and quality issues, or increases in scope/time required to ensure projects remained on track.

●Organized agile games during various ceremonies to create a fun-loving environment thus promoting interactions among individuals creating cross-functional and self-organizing team.

●Reduced ‘Lead Time’ by creating a separate KANBAN board and training production support and shared services.

Lead Scrum Master/ Product Manager (NCR, GA) 09/2016 – 07/2019

●Led an agile transformation initiative with 3 teams to deliver 19 projects in 2.5 years with increased quality and better time to market

●Led highly visible AMC A-List program which got 800K subscribers in first 8 months of launch and made AMC number 1 subscription moviegoing service in the country.

●Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings for globally diverse teams.

●Collaborated closely with product owner on backlog refinement to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria were agreed upon and stories were ready for sizing.

●Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.

●Organized and facilitated the weekly Scrum of scrum meeting.

●Effectively tracked team’s progress, including burn down, velocity and release forecasting.

●Created, managed and presented team level financial budgets to leadership and assisted in budget forecasting.

Scrum Master/ Product Owner (D3 Services, GA) 2010-2016

●Landis+Gyr: Digital transformation and integration of CRM and ecommerce application using agile implementation. Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning and story slicing into sprint planning sessions.

●AT&T: Projects involved implementation of Direct TV marketing products in 300+stores.

●National Student Clearinghouse: Involved in development of application which tracks student from high-school to college resulted in reductions of cycle times by 20% by managing WIP.

●CollegeBoard: Involved in development of application which delivers 23 different reports related to AP exams to students, schools and districts. Increased time to market from 2+ months to real time.

Sr Business Analyst (CompuGain, VA) 2006-2010

●Fannie Mae: Led the change management board of Restatement project ($800M budget).

●Freddie Mac: Involved in business analysis activities for reconciliation of accounting engine to trading system to custodians.

Business Analyst (eBAS, NJ) 2004-2006

●Capital One: Involved in development of CRM application for marketing multiple financial products.

●Medco: Involved in development of web application for client eligibility requests.

Research Analyst (Institute for Simulation and Training, FL) 2002-2004

EDUCATION

MS in Modeling and Simulation, University of Central Florida (2004)

CERTIFICATION

●SAFe Program Consultant, SPC5, Scaled Agile Inc

●ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP - ACC), ICAgile Inc

●ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Team Facilitation (ICP - ATF), ICAgile Inc

●Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance

●Design Thinking for Innovation, University of Virginia

CERTIFIED TO TRAIN

●SAFe Practitioner Certification (SAFe for Teams)

●SAFe Scrum Master (SAFe for SM)

●SAFe Product Owner/ Product Management (SAFe for PO/PM)

●Leading SAFe (SAFe for Leaders)

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