Aditi Vashishta
Santa Clara,CA
Summary
Collaborative Senior Technical Program Manager partners with executive teams to define and develop solutions. Skilled in project management to efficiently manage customer deliverables. Creates cross-functional partnerships to drive effectiveness.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Program Manager – SW Devices
Amazon
02.2019 - Current
- Launching devices focusing around Health and wellness needs for customer
- Driving cross functional teams and tracking dependencies to mitigate risks leading to product launches
- Innovation using computer vision and reporting algorithm development focusing key customer facing issues
- Measured and reported Key performance indicators
- Conducted launch readiness meetings, driving the launch schedule
- Working closely with PMs in defining the requirements and progress on the same
- Managing and tracking sprints and bug triage for algorithm development and cloud services team.
Program Manager – SW Devices
Amazon
08.2017 - 01.2019
- Launching Devices with the customer feedback loop
- Deploying SW Builds to internal customers and getting their feedback to improve the Device performance
- Planning and Prioritizing with the Product Management team and Development sprint plans
- Customer Satisfactory survey and data analysis to improve the device efficiency and raising the quality bar
- Risk Management
Senior Scrum Master (Technical Project Manager)
The Coca Cola Company, Freestyle
04.2013 - 08.2017
- Coca-Cola Freestyle is a new product development initiative that provides beverage variety of 125+ branded beverages from a fountain dispenser
- Project and Release Management
- Servant-leader serving as Release Lead and RTE (Release Train Engineer) for 2 Agile Release Trains (ART) to deliver multiple software releases with 2 code bases and eight Agile teams in high velocity and high performance environment
- Led 6 Scrum Masters located on three geographical locations (two in US - Atlanta, Bellevue and one in India - Mumbai)
- Conducted formal reviews of business user-stories, functional requirements, feature designs, test plans
- Conducted Release planning session with cross-functional teams to build feature delivery schedules and identify potential dependencies and reduce risk to deliver on time with prioritized backlog
- Championed continuous backlog prioritization and change management for roadmap features with Product Owners by providing clear scoping with resources assignments and estimates using points based system in regular cadence of backlog grooming sessions
- Conducted regular bug triage meetings with Product Owners to drive right priority and categorize to right severity
- Led the Content deployment features with Business Analyst and System analyst to implement and deliver Customer specific Content with off shore team with low cost, round the clock model
- Collaborate with System Analysts to breakdown Epics into Features and Features into PBIs (Product Backlog Items) to be delivered in 2 week sprints with multiple Agile teams on single code base
- Facilitated and participated in the bi-weekly Software Steering team meetings comprising of leadership team of Senior Management, System Analysts and Scrum Masters
- Also chaired the weekly S2 (Scrum of Scrums) meeting for all SAs and Scrum Masters
- Enforced the Definition of Done (DOD) with development team to maintain high quality incremental deliverables
- Led the daily cadence process to drive continuous integration, daily smoke and regression test to build a continuous delivery process working with 'follow the sun' model.
Scrum Master - QA Test Lead
04.2012 - 04.2013
- Led SCRUM Ceremonies (Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Demos) including Burn Down charts, Weekly Status Reports
- Motivated the team to come up with quality shippable product and meet the product goals
- Ran Daily bug scrubs to triage, track and close In-Sprint created defects
- Facilitated agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance.
Business Analyst (Intern)
Nestle Waters North America
05.2011 - 08.2011
- Elicited business requirements and translated them into specific technical software requirements
- Analyzed technical designs and specifications
- Developed logical data models to help Customer Service representatives retrieve data quickly and accurately
- Effectively communicated with external clients and the internal team to deliver GUI screen designs.
Education
MS in Electrical Engineering -
University of Bridgeport
Bridgeport, CT01.2011
BS in Electrical Engineering -
Rajasthan University
01.2008
Skills
- C
- C
- JIRA
- Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
- Interface based Design
- Service Oriented design
- TDD
- Confluence
- OrCad
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Automation
- Building User stories, Agile Best Practices & Metrics, Team Capacity planning, Software Feature estimation, Release and Sprint Planning
- Test Strategy, Automation, SAFe (Scaled Agile for Enterprise) Certified Trainer for Agile Release Trains (ART)
- Presentation and Facilitation
- Continuous Process Improvements
- Project Leadership
- Agile Methodologies
- Project Management
- Agile Project Management
- Process Development
- Project Planning
- Developing Project Strategy
Certification
- Scaled Agile for Enterprise SAFe Certification, 2015
- Scrum Master Certification, 2013
- Product Owner Training, 2013
- Agility Health Tool
- Facilitate the Demo to product owners on compliance and limitation of the feature to the requirements
- UX Design Training, New York Institute Nov 2016
- Agile Coach & Mentoring Process Ownership
Challenging Projects
- Common Core Universal Architecture across all platforms to optimize team size and cost
- SAFe and Scrum extensions for offsite teams leading to efficient multisite process
- Story Points system for Platform Owners
Timeline
Technical Program Manager – SW Devices
Amazon
02.2019 - Current
Program Manager – SW Devices
Amazon
08.2017 - 01.2019
Senior Scrum Master (Technical Project Manager)
The Coca Cola Company, Freestyle
04.2013 - 08.2017
Scrum Master - QA Test Lead
04.2012 - 04.2013
Business Analyst (Intern)
Nestle Waters North America
05.2011 - 08.2011
MS in Electrical Engineering -
University of Bridgeport
BS in Electrical Engineering -
Rajasthan University