416-***-**** @ adxiso@r.postjobfree.com in http://www.linkedin.com/in/sikunj

SIKUNJ SAVALIYA

Agile Coach

416-***-**** @ adxiso@r.postjobfree.com in http://www.linkedin.com/in/sikunj SUMMARY

A global professional Agile Coach with an exceptional track record in three countries with over fifteen years of experience. A transformation consultant helping clients to get highest business values faster with least transaction cost. An expert in translating vision into product roadmaps and creating outcome-based plans using story and value stream mapping. Skilled with leading chaos at scale with multiple frameworks including SAFe, S@S, LeSS, Kanban and hybrid. A passionate Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) with zeal to develop quality products. A certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC) that thrives on imperfect situations and evolves one initiative at a time. SKILLS

Coaching

Designed and implemented strategic enterprise transformation initiatives with $MM budgets in record timelines

Coached non-software initiatives like functions, regulatory and audit teams to embrace agility

Improved technical agility by coaching XP practices like ATDD, TDD, Pair programming, CI/CD, feature toggling

Created learning culture by helping build guilds, communities of practices from ground up with active mentoring

Influenced executives, functional heads to evolve into new roles and embrace accountabilities with minimal friction

Designed, transformed, and nurtured ecosystems by training, consulting, influencing, and mentoring

Exceeded the overall organizational goal by tracking and progressing the metrics and by day-to-day coaching

Continuously evolved the plan by identifying, analyzing, strategizing, and measuring agile adoption

Coached geographically diversified programs/teams and structured them to deliver outcomes

On boarded and sustained new and existing teams/programs that incrementally performed better with sustainable pace

Released business value sooner by helping teams to be disciplined and self-organized

Influenced teams to record and self-assess on Agile principles, values, and framework at each iteration

Successfully organized and facilitated ceremonies at team, program, portfolio, Business Unit (BU) level

Generated better ROI by continuously improving productivity and quality of deliverables Tools:

Jira, Confluence, Rally, LeanKit, Tableau, TFS, etc. EXPERIENCE

Export Development of Canada (EDC) May 2022 –September 2022 Agile Coach

Coaching Audience: Executives, Leadership, Chapter Leads Line Of Business (LOB): Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture Role/Achievements

Designed and implemented Chapters strategy across organization

Led multiple workshops and coaching sessions to evolve EDC’s org structure Methodologies/Framework: SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, DAD

416-***-**** @ adxiso@r.postjobfree.com in http://www.linkedin.com/in/sikunj TD Bank Nov 2019 –May 2022

Agile Coach

Coaching Audience: Executives, Leadership, Program Managers, Teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners Line Of Business (LOB): 16+ teams and programs combined across Insurance, Wealth Management, Enterprise Role/Achievements

Designed one of the largest frameworks that has ambitious goal of transforming entire TD with pilot finishing this year

Created vision and successfully transformed project-based pods to product-based yielding 64.28% year’s work in <4 months

Positively impacted 16+ teams to work seamlessly using a single backlog with 100% end to end traceability and 4x faster lead time

Co-designed and delivered trainings for new ways of working together across multiple roles

Carved out self-evolving people manager roles for sustainability of the operating model

Iteratively engrained data driven decision culture replacing intuition and/or gut-based verdicts

Introduced System Optimization replacing traditional local optimization

Worked relentlessly with leadership team to successfully evolve project-based funding model to envelope spending Methodologies/Framework: SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Scaled (Hybrid S@S, LeSS, SAFe) Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Dec 2015 –Nov 2019

Agile Coach

Coaching Audience: Executive, Leadership, Program Managers, Teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners Line Of Business (LOB): 12+ teams and programs combined across P&CB, Wealth, I&TS, AML, Cloud, CCT, T&O, etc. Role/Achievements

Increased Agile adoption by driving implementation of the overall philosophy, strategy, tools & practices

Promoted Agile culture and mindset throughout organization giving RBC a competitive edge on agility in the industry

Established team & leadership requirements for Transformation to create an Organization Design (OD) and transition plan

Collaborated with LOB to understand key value streams and helped enable alignment of OD

Supported the Agile Delivery Centre roll out plans and established near, mid and long-term objectives

On boarded new/existing groups or LOB into the transformation, provided overview and internalize Agile practices

Assessed emerging trends/best practices and determined implications on meeting BU strategy

Supported determining delivery frameworks to different complex initiatives (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile)

Created content that helped build organizational Intellectual Property (IP)

Coached offshore teams to deliver value using Agile

Testimonials by internal clients for transforming the teams with a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 9.6/10 Methodologies/Framework: SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Scaled (Hybrid S@S, LeSS, SAFe) Fulcrum Worldwide Software Services May 2014 – Jul 2015 Scrum Master

Coaching Audience: Team, Scrum Master, Product Owner Projects: Claims & Reserves, Integrated Media Solution (IMS) Role/Achievements

Zero delivery misses and client escalations

Educated, coached and mentored team to transition from traditional processes to create impactful business outcomes

Created pilot Agile team (IMS) that succeeded using Scrum

Delivered excellence at consulting engagement to implement Scrum at client premises in USA

Conducted trainings Organization wide on Scrum, Kanban, Pair Programming and Agile practices

Managed and tracked dependencies from third party vendor – worked with vendor to design workflows and implement custom tool

People Management role with testimonials on LinkedIn from direct reports Methodologies/Framework: Scrum

416-***-**** @ adxiso@r.postjobfree.com in http://www.linkedin.com/in/sikunj S&P Global (formerly SNL Financial) Nov 2009 – Apr 2014 Scrum Master

Coaching Audience: Teams, Leadership, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Stakeholders Projects: SNLi, Inquiry Loader, Factset Loader, Claims Loader, WEST, WESTx, Dashboard, etc. Role/ Achievements

Coached senior leaders and mentored scrum masters, product owners and team members

Coached multiple team product owners to prioritize and break down user stories to map technical dependencies

Communicated with stakeholders daily to maintain information flow using non-traditional techniques

Facilitated scrum ceremonies, Scrum Of Scrum (SOS), PO Sync, Mega SOS

Evaluated state of scrum and found ways to improve effectiveness and Return On Investments (ROI)

Prepared SQL queries. Procedures, triggers, and functions for all the projects and helped to review code and test cases

Organized events for employees by actively working in social committees

Awarded Most Valuable Professional for two consecutive cycles

Won 2nd Position in Google Productivity contest organized by Google across organization

Found contract violator client and worked with Chief Contract Officer to mitigate business risks

SNL sponsored “Leadership Training” program for 3 months Methodologies/Framework: Scrum, Scaled (Inspired by SAFe) Indusa InfoTech Services Jul 2006 – Apr 2009

Software Engineer

Projects: Archive Plus, Data Masker, FIS Data Feeder, Electronic Data Deliverable, eCommerce Portal – VFish Role/Achievements

Senior developer and team lead for the projects

Coordinator to get and maintain Intel, Oracle and Made in India Affiliations

Worked with sales team as technical solution presenter for clients

Sole point of contact for client interactions, support, product deployment and training to clients of top Fortune 100 companies

Feasibility study and implementation of techniques that boosted performance of the product by about 75%

Developed Third Party API Integration (FedEx/Google/Yahoo), Multiple Payment gateway integration, design and code algorithm Technology

Language: C#, ASP.NET, VB.Net VB 6.0, HTML, JavaScript, XML

Database: SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle

CERTIFICATION/EDUCATION

● ICP-Agile Certified Coach (ICP-ACC) IC-Agile 2020

● Certified Large Scale Scrum Practitioner (CLP) The LeSS Company B.V. 2017

● Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) Scrum Alliance 2016

● Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Scrum Alliance 2016

● Safe Agilist (SA) SAFe 2015

● Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Scrum Alliance 2012

● Bachelor of Computer Engineering Gujarat University, India 2006

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