Sameer Kumar

POC: Sathish Kumar

sathish@deltacubes.us

+91 8686415440

Summary

Sameer, Scrum Master/Agile Coach with 16 years’ experience with vast Agile (08 years) experience in various large accounts, serving various organizations.

Highlights

• Strong experience in Agile Transformation, Training, Coaching and Mentoring
• Excellent record in working with global clients Unilever, Coca-Cola, Bank of Nordea, BMW and Mc Donald.
• Part of Agile Core team, contributing in RFPs, business development, helping accounts in Agile enablement
• Contributed as part of Core Agile Group in setting up Agile transformation roadmap, community of practice, establishing the Governance/Assessment framework
• Experience in conducting and driving the Agile and DevOps Maturity Assessments.
• Supporting the Product Owners, Managers, and external teams on applying Agile best practices
• Experience in supporting Agile-Scrum teams in SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) involving 20+ geographically dispersed scrum teams and 200+ team members
• Vast experience as scrum master in distributed agile with stakeholders/teams/vendors across multiple locations\time zones
• Exposure to DAD (Disciplined Agile Delivery), FDD (Feature Driven development), Lean, Kanban, Spotify, XP, TDD, Scrum Scale
• Rich experience in coaching new agile project teams, setting up processes, helping avoid hurdles, remove bottlenecks and enable satisfactory deliveries of projects.
• Strong experience in managing large team up to 50+ team members working in multiple projects.
• Strong experience of effectively managing large test teams, test management, motivating/mentoring teams, managing resources/attrition and delivering complex project within budget, schedule and skill constraints.
• Strategic Planning, Digital and Enterprise Agile Transformation, Building Hyper Productive Teams, Program Delivery, Implementing industry best practices and continuous improvement programs.
• Identifying Agile Transformation strategy based on business needs and developing the Agile Adoption Framework
• Planning and Execution of Agile Adoption Framework which involves a series of company-wide Training, mentoring, and coaching
• Working with Multisite Enterprises for their Enterprise Agile transformation
• Developing Team level / Individual-level Competency Frameworks which helps them to continue their Agile journey as part of the Agile transformation.

Career Timeline

Timeline –

1. Deltacubes Technologies: Oct 2018 to Till Date
2. Experis : Apr -2017 to Feb 2018
3. NTT Data: Jan 2012 to Jan 2017
4. Drop Soft: May 2006 to Apr 2012

Core Skills

• SAFe
• Scrum, Kanban, Scrum ban
• Transformation
• Design Thinking
• Release Planning
• Agile Estimation
• Business Development
• Test Management

Certification

• SAFe Agilist
• ICP ACC
• ICP CAT
• CSM, CSPO
• KMP 1-2
• E- Design Thinking Co-Creator
• E- Design Thinking Practitioner

Tools

• JIRA, Rally
• Confluence
• VersionOne
• Mural
• Slack
• Azure DevOps

Achievements

• Productivity increased by 25%
• Predictability increased by 50%
• Successfully set-up 2 ODCs
• Delivered 2 Agile Transformations

Education

• PGDBA – IIM Kolkata
• M Tech – SVU, Tirupati
• B Tech – JNTU, Anantapur