Sunil Manohar Upadhye

Iselin, NJ *****, US Citizen

Cell – 309-***-**** / ® 732-***-****

Email – adl6aj@r.postjobfree.com

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunilupadhye/

Agile Core Competencies

Expert in custom specific coaching needs for chairman, board of directors, teams, individual across board to produce visible results of enterprise agile transformation that can be quantified technically, productivity, time to market, customer satisfaction and customer or business growth around the world

Highly experienced in building strong relationships in bonding with leaders from every single background from 1991

Working with leadership to put foundations in place to better execute Agile

Experience with CI/CD and DevOps, Enable Product Owners in defining vision, prioritizing work, and partnering with development teams

Have strong hands on Agile transformation experience with any formal agile scaling framework, Extensive experience with product management, Servant and Thought Leadership, communicative, emotional and social intelligence, Facilitative, Assertive, Situationally and Self Aware, Enthusiastic, strongly believe in Continuous Improvement.

Conflict and ambiguity Resolution expert, Attitude of Empowerment and Transparency, Quickest learner and has Lean-Agile mindset

Expert in creating Common language between business and technical to resolve ambiguity and produce business results using ATDD

Technical Skills

Programming Languages:

C, C++, Java, COBOL, FORTRAN, Basic, UML, J2EE, SQL, XML, JSP, JavaScript, FoxPro. Communication Technologies

Video Conferencing, Satellite communication, WebEx, Webcam

Software/Databases: Design, Table Design, 4 NF, Documentation, B2B, B2C, B2E, BPR, JBDC, Oracle 8.0, TIBCO adapter, SCHEMA, LDAP, DOJ, CNN, MS Rational Rose 2000, Web design, Primavera 4.0/5.0, Client Server, UTF-8, API. Eclipse, Hudson, Fitness, SVN, Times Ten In-Memory Database, DB2, Medline – Medical Research database of 140 countries

Operating Systems: Windows NT, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Linux

Architectures - N-Tier, MVC (3 Tier with thin client), B2B, B2C, C2C (Client-Server thick client), Cloud. Testing Suites: Fitness, Selenium, HP. Networking:

LAN, Cisco, TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, SMTP, RMI-IIOP, COBRA

Web Applications: Java Beans, EJB, Struts, Angular

Project & Budget Management: Primavera, MS Project, Plan view, MS-XL

Agile Scaling Frame Works - SAFe, Nexus, LeSS, DAD, Spotify, Custom Build Lean-Agile based on existing culture

Domain Knowledge: Health Care, Finance/Banking, Telecom, Insurance, Web Content, Energy and Utilities, Payroll / HR, Derivatives and Settlement

Agile Tools Expertise -

Jira, Rally, Version One, Agile vision, SharePoint, MS XL

Highest Education Level

Master’s in Computer Management – University of Pune, Maharashtra, India, May 1999

Master’s in Science (Agri. Economics)

Certifications/Licenses

Certified Scrum Master. Certified SCRUM Practitioner

Primavera Certification (Basic + Advance) – Project Management

Recognitions and Awards

5/5 Customer Satisfaction Award from Cisco, San Jose, USA

Driving Result for entire year 2014 award from CEO Horizon, BCBS NJ

Leadership

BULETS Certification from Cambridge

SPECTRUM Certification from Harvard – Leadership program

LAP – Leadership Advantage Program from Cap Gemini Virtual University

NLP – Neuro-Linguistic Programming – Practitioner

Emotional and Social Intelligence

Technology

E-Commerce Certified from IIT Kharagpur. Microsoft Certified Professional – MCSE Track. DevOps (CI-CD) and AWS Cloud

Professional Experience

DTCC Jersey City, NJ

05/2017 – 03/2021

Agile Coach

Received great feedback for my coaching from every single team. Used multiple and mixed approaches depending on the project and team needs like (Scrum, Kanban, Lean) and set up agile at scale teams using - Spotify

Implemented Spotify SQUAD Model and produced results from 5 SQUADs at same time within 4 months. Highly experienced in scaling up OKR across the board from teams to middle management and board one on one coaching, customized team coaching addressing very specific issues to produce desire OKRs within time to gain highest productivity across board and enterprise on single dashboard

Delivered High value ‘Sustaining Motivation during Stressful time” customized workshop for PMO.

Coached 10 Scrum Masters, 5 SQUADS at same time, teams across multiple business domains.

Customized agile values and principles based on actual needs to produce outstanding business results.

Use Mixed, Hybrid approach like Scrum ban, Kanban, TDD, Value Stream flow based on specific needs.

Coached and worked with coaches, build various community of practices for Enterprise Agile Transformation.

Johnson & Johnson – Somerville, NJ

01/2016 – 04/2017

Agile Coach

Mentored teams of polyglot IT professionals and DevOps on using SAFe agile principles.

Coached programs and teams on Agile, Lean, Kanban, Scrum and SAFe 4.0 Implementation. Responsible for facilitating Scrum/Agile ceremonies.

Responsible for Agile SDLC artifacts review and maintain it up to date.

Training product owners and facilitated conflict resolution around user stories.

Mentored and Coached multiple teams on Scrum best practices.

Horizon BCBS – Newark, NJ

02/2012 – 12/2015

Agile Coach

Mentored teams of polyglot IT professionals using agile principles.

Coached executives, product owner, portfolio directors on Agile Values and Principles and how to adopt agile best practices to improve project outcomes.

Created work request and drove work requests to complete closure, getting SIT sign off, UAT Sign Off, Postproduction Sign off, deploying production jobs like NOA, File Upload, Bulk Attribution.

Created HP Service tickets, DBA requests for production jobs.

Responsible for QA review, keeping of user stories updated on SharePoint with all signs offs.

TDD, UAT Master Test Plan, UAT result, RTM, Acceptance criteria, BDD and ADD.

JP Morgan Chase – New Port, NJ

07/2011 – 01/2012

Agile Coach

Coached 6 teams on Scrum processes and made them self-organized and self-managed.

Conducted accelerated business case workshop taking team from initiation of project till sprint backlog.

Assessed existing Scrum Team for performance, agile compliance, and Scrum processes.

Based on assessment created action plan for improvement and brought up teams to high performance state.

Created big movement through constant coaching, big visible charts, vision board, Scrum board, Blocker board, decision making board.

STATEAUTO, Columbus, Ohio

02/2009 – 06/2011

Agile Coach

Served as Scrum Master for 2 teams

Facilitated daily standup, sprint retrospective, sprint demo, sprint planning

Worked with product owner to create product backlog for all sprints

Helped on estimation and story pointing using planning poker

Resolved impediments and generated burn down chart report

Trained new team member on Agile process and Scrum that we are using in project

Conducted story writing workshop for team

Represented teams to program committee, created weekly reports

Control and manage project using Version One

TELCORDIA, Piscataway, NJ

03/2009 – 11/2010

Agile Coach

Implemented big projects using Agile and trained 100s of people in Agile.

Significant experience in multi-site and international environments, sensitive to various cultures

Extensive experience in development and delivery of workshops on Agile, iterative process, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Scrum, Pair Programming, etc…

Excellent communication skills and hands-on fit scripting strong experience, written 100s of fit scripts.

Excellent training, presentation, coaching and team facilitation skills

Ability to interface with and effectively influence all levels of the organization

Build strong and lasting relationships

Agile solution provider for RandD Applications such as Bandwidth Manager and Real Time Data Charging for Telecom

EMDEON, Nashville, TN

06/2008 – 10/2010

Agile Coach

Help product owner and business analyst to create prioritized product backlog.

Create onsite resources Sprint backlog and review offshore Sprint backlog.

Conduct professional Agile training for Emdeon University and trained more than 560 people

Promoted adoption of Agile/Scrum vision by the organization and enabled effective delivery on project goals by removing barriers to foster understanding between teams, their customers, stakeholders, and management

Teaching teams Agile/Scrum tactics for maximizing value delivery and meeting team objectives

I worked on various projects in various roles. Started as a developer in 1991, worked as system analysts, team lead, project manager, senior project managers with various client’s projects as below

STATE FARM INSURANCE, Bloomington IL

Scrum Master

05/2006 – 03/2008

GIP / ONE BP (Utilities and Energy) – Bangalore, India

Senior Project Manager

04/2005 – 05/2006

ADP, Chicago, IL

Project Manager

09/2004 – 04/2005

CISCO, Research Triangle Park, NC

Project Manager / Project Leader/Architect

10/1999 – 08/2005

NATIONAL INFORMATICS Center INC.- Pune, India

Programmer/Team Lead/System Analyst/Project Manager for several projects

07/1991 - 09/1999

REFERENCES: Available upon request.

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