Ganesh Gopalakrishnan

• Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
• Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.
• Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks.
• Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
• Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value.
• Reported regularly to managers on project budget, progress and technical problems.
• Recruited and oversaw personnel to achieve performance and quality targets.

• Gained strong leadership skills by managing projects from start to finish.
• As a Servant leader & SAFe change agent on cross-functional program, coach and lead 10 geographically
  distributed cross- functional teams.
• Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering a Continuous Exploration process which drives the synthesis
  of a Vision, a Roadmap, and Backlogs, and through Pre- and Post-PI Planning events
• Summarize Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives (the RTE) , Solution PI Objectives (the STE) and publish them for visibility and transparency Summarize program
• Assist tracking the execution of features and capabilities
  Facilitate periodic synchronization events, including the ART sync at the Essential Level and the Solution
  Train sync for Solution Trains.
• Assist with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and capability estimation by teams and the roll-up to Epics, where necessary Coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets.
• Help manage risks and dependencies,Escalate and track impediments.
• Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottle necks
  Encourage collaboration between teams and System and Solution Architects/Engineering Work with Product and Solution Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment.
• As an integrated member keep the team focused on delivering incremental customer value via coaching
  onsite and offshore teams on Agile, Lean, Kanban, Scrum, Rally & SAFe, ensuring adherence to Lean Agile, SAFe manifesto, and SAFe's release train model.

• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
• Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks.

Recommended by Daniel Volk (CIO- US Services at Crawford & Company) in my LinkedIn profile for my excellent work in this project.

• Supported leadership team with reporting, analysis, and business presentations to inform divisional strategies..
• Managed team performance by implementing measurable metrics to track delivery of supporting requirement artifacts.
• Effectively supervised team performance by implementing measurable metrics to assess delivery of requirements.
• Created new analytical systems to boost vital business metrics visibility.
• Worked with team leads and managing leadership, establishing robust talent pool with focus on people and continuous improvement.
• Analyzed performance metrics to identify opportunities to increase sales.

• Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.
• Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
• Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
• Generated business intelligence reports to inform strategic decision-making.
• Performed gap analysis to identify areas of improvement.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.

• Evaluated and improved development work of other developers on team, working to provide training, constructive criticism and knowledge transfer.
• Coordinated efficient large-scale software deployments.
• Planned and developed interfaces that simplified overall management and offered ease of use.
• Collaborated with fellow engineers to evaluate software and hardware interfaces.
• Developed clear specifications for project plans using customer requirements.
• Developed programs from ground up using measured, market-focused approach to eliminate waste and streamline implementation cycle.
• Discussed project progress with customers, collected feedback on different stages and directly addressed concerns.
• Worked with users to gather requirements and evaluate ease of use.
• Documented software development methodologies in technical manuals to be used by IT personnel in future projects.