RAVI NANDRU

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774-***-**** - US Citizen

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravinandru/

CAREER PROFILE

● 20+ years Program, Project, and Delivery management ● 12+ years Agile methodologies

● 5+ years of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) practice ● 3+ years of cloud platform migration

● 3+years of SAP Implementation(S4) ● 5+ years of DevOps

● 2+ years of Jira Align Administration ● 5+ years of Jira Administration

● 2+ years of ML/AI and IoT

CAPABILITIES/ EXPERTISE

● IT roadmap and execution ● Agile Transformation

● Agile Coaching/Training and Mentor ● DevOps/Solution Architect

● Program/Project Management ● Reporting and KPIs Monitoring

● Financial Management ● Risk Management

● Governance ● Continuous Improvement

● Global Implementation ● Vendor Oversight

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Definitive Healthcare, Framingham, MA 09/2020 – 3/2021

Agile Coach

Build and establish the DH Agile way framework, based on Scrum@Scale.

Developed and delivered team and organization training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile Adoption.

Coach teams on TDD, BDD, pair programming, and CI/CD.

Accenture, Boston, MA 01/2017 – 08/2020

Agile Coach

Worked as Agile coach on an Agile Transformation of SAP S4 Hana Greenfield implementation for Retail clients with 300+ People and 10 scrum teams.

Conducted initial assessments to identify gaps and worked with Executive leadership (ELTs) to create a solution to achieve the desired outcome.

Worked with internal leaders to begin working on a Sustainable Agile process which will soon be used as an Incubator for all programs.

Responsible for coordinating with Stakeholders to align with agile practices, product discovery, and delivery.

Reduced delivery frictions by working closely with up/downstream, E2E testing teams.

Developed and delivered team and organization training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile transformation.

Established and supported communities of practices to promote organizational understanding of Agile roles and to help individuals develop into them.

Coached teams, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Managers, and Executives on Agile values and principles to promote continuous improvement in practices and artifacts.

Jira Admin for the entire program, and created Dashboards for the team, Program, and Portfolio.

Coach teams on TDD, BDD, automation, pair programming, and CI/CD.

Tata Consultancy Services, Boston, MA 09/2014 – 12/2016

Agile Coach

Conducted assessments and worked with executives to strategically plan agile software development best practices throughout the organization.

Coached, mentor the 7 scrum teams on Agile adoption.

Coach teams on DevOps pipeline (Jenkins, Kubernetes, Ansible)

Managed the technology vendor relationships.

Assisted in providing strategic direction to Executives on the communication and implementation of CIO’s Strategic Agile Plan to stakeholders.

Provided solution to integrate technology across the enterprise and procurement partners to better align with the strategic plan.

Identified gaps and investigated solutions to help an organization to follow Agile Transformation using SAFe.

Managed change and planned continuous improvement by increasing the productivity of teams.

Successfully implemented DevOps plan for Agile Release Train to efficiently work with cross-functional teams and vendors including Demand, Global Change Office, Governance & Architecture, and Production Support.

RAVI NANDRU

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Infosys, Boston, MA 10/2011 – 09/2014

Senior Manager/Agile Coach

Conducted sprint planning sessions for the prioritization of the stories.

Managed large complex Business Intelligence programs containing multiple, interrelated projects targeting achieving an overall business goal.

Coached, mentor the 5 scrum teams on Agile adoption.

Responsible for application development and enhancement projects using Agile/SCRUM.

Facilitated scrum ceremonies - grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups for 2 Scrum Teams.

Managed project budgets and financials, including Business Case development for all assigned projects. Assisted in the development of departmental budgets and forecasts, as well as the tracking of actual forecasts. Monitored project progress and adjusted resources and priorities accordingly.

Resolved issues and conflicts with affected management, technology peers, and business partners.

Provided escalation to senior management when appropriated. Provided accurate project task estimates and resource planning forecasts.

Lead multiple cross-functional virtual teams.

DivIHN Integration INC, Hoffman Estates, IL 01/2005 – 09/2011

Director/ Solution Architect

Oversaw an Enterprise Document Management System (EDM) and served as a solutions-focused consultant to domestic and international clients on EDM and Business Process Management (BPM) strategies and usage. Successfully project-managed and / or served as a technical lead on multiple mission-critical projects.

Analyzed project goals and team progress on EDM database system conversion project (Informix to Oracle), developing streamlined plans to move team forward, realizing substantial annual savings.

Piloted Agile development techniques for a web-based version of an EDM product employing a cross-functional, matrix team across four different states – outperforming all other development projects in terms of cost, quality, delivery dates, and user acceptance for five years.

Merged two EDM systems involving 20+ system integration points and 100 million+ document pages.

Learning Soft, Miami, FL 2000 – 2004

Project Manager/Solution Architect

HDFC/BHEL in Hyderabad, India 1997 – 2000

Delivery Lead

EDUCATION

Accelerated Management Program - Yale School of Management – 2020

Master of Science, Management and Leadership - Western Governors University- 2021

Master of Business Administration – Quantic School of Business and Technology 2022

Master of Technology, Mechanical Engineering – NIT, Warangal - 1996

Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering – Nagarjuna University - 1994

CERTIFICATIONS

Scrum Inc - Certified Scrum@Scale Practitioner

LeSS Company - Certified LeSS (Large Scale Scrum) Practitioner

Scaled Agile Academy - SAFe SPC 5

ICAgile -Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF), Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)

Scrum Alliance – CSM, CSP, CSPO

Certified AgilityHealth® Facilitator

Project Management Institute - PMI-ACP, PMP, PMI-RMP

Blue Ocean Practical Introduction - Blue Ocean Academy

ITIL Foundation – EXIN

AWS - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Stanford University(Coursera) - Machine Learning

DeepLearning.AI - Deep Learning Specialization, DeepLearning.AI TensorFlow Developer Professional Certificate

edx (Harvard) -Certificate for Data Science: Visualization, Certificate for Data Science: Linear Regression, Certificate for Data Science: Machine Learning, Certificate for Data Science: Wrangling, Certificate for Data Science: Inference and Modeling, Certificate for Data Science: Probability, Certificate for Data Science: R Basics

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