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Carol Mathrani

Suwanee,GA

Summary

Dynamic Director of Technology and Agile Coach with 21 years of experience, successfully leading agile transformations for over 50 teams globally at UBS. Proficient in enhancing team agility, designing product roadmaps, and fostering stakeholder engagement through effective coaching and facilitation. Recognized for articulate communication skills and strong influence in cross-functional collaboration to meet project objectives. Committed to developing robust business solutions that integrate cutting-edge technologies and engineering principles.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Director of Technology - Agile Coach

UBS
Pune, India
01.2022 - 07.2024
  • Collaborated at the enterprise level across business functions to execute the agile transformation for 50+ teams.
  • Managed a team of Agile Coaches across various business groups and geographies.
  • Enhanced techniques for designing product roadmaps, team structures, and frameworks.
  • Build OKRs along with business leaders aligned to the product roadmap.
  • Refined existing roles and responsibilities to enhance agility within teams.
  • Established methods for increasing agility within team operations and the overall portfolio.
  • Conducted training sessions and workshops across UBS on Agile principles, conflict management, leadership coaching, and product roadmaps.
  • Elevated team productivity through the implementation of tailored OKR frameworks.
  • Implemented Kanban methods, enhancing workflow efficiency and ensuring on-time program completion.
  • Met with stakeholders to collaborate and resolve problems. Created the NPS, the Net Promoter Score, to gather feedback and create a backlog for quarterly improvements.
  • Developed program metrics to follow system build-out progress.

Agile Manager

ICE Mortgage Technology
Pune, India
03.2022 - 12.2022
  • Supervised Scrum Masters across diverse locations, mentoring, and guiding them to fulfill their responsibilities more successfully, resulting in most of them being promoted to senior scrum masters and program managers
  • Worked closely with human resources to support employee management and organizational planning.
  • Developed strategic solutions to facilitate agile transitions among various teams.
  • Formulated and deployed initiatives to improve workflow effectiveness within portfolios.
  • Synchronized product development schedules for a portfolio of more than ten simultaneous projects.

Enterprise Agile Coach - Sr Manager

Fiserv
01.2018 - 12.2022
  • Supervised agile transformations across 10 global teams, encompassing over 200 agile practitioners.
  • Scaled Agile adoption organization-wide by introducing metrics, process maps, and crafting transformation plans.
  • Coached and mentored Scrum Masters and development teams in Agile methodologies and lean practices.
  • Engineered and implemented the Agile Transformation Roadmap, as well as training and workshops for 10 business groups.
  • Presented at the APGI conference in 2019 on the topic of Technical Debt.
  • Mitigated technical debt by integrating CI/CD practices, and coaching development teams.
  • Executed large-scale transformations using SAFe across various business units, impacting more than 100 Scrum teams.
  • Provided SAFe training and coaching across global locations, including the US and Israel.
  • Collaborated with customers to build the portfolio backlog.
  • Facilitated workshops for over 1,000 employees across five global locations.
  • Boosted product engagement by 50% through refining user experiences based on customer feedback analysis.
  • Evaluated training materials prepared by instructors and offered actionable suggestions for improvement.
  • Conducted regular reviews of team performance against defined KPIs and metrics.
  • Recommended ways to improve processes through automation or streamlining existing workflows.
  • Mentored junior members of the team on the agile methodology.
  • Mentored women re-entering the workforce and recent college graduates.
  • Member of the CEO's team for efficiency and organization improvements, group to formulate plans and strategies to enhance the organization's effectiveness, and bring better opportunities for technical development.

Agile Coach - Manager

Amdocs
01.2008 - 12.2018

Agile Coach - 6years Amdocs

  • Delivered technical guidance during the creation phase of applications.
  • Directed comprehensive Agile transformation initiatives for product creation and delivery by employing various methodologies including DevOps, SAFe, Scrum.
  • Large-scale transformations across several business units, covering more than 50 Scrum teams, both in product and delivery groups.
  • Provided SAFe training and coaching across locations globally – the US, Israel.
  • Provided Agile planning guidance and helped the customers create the portfolio backlog.
  • Designed and managed the requirements for the in-house tools for agile management, as well as training and implementing the tool across the product business group as a product owner.
  • Collaborated with Product Owners to define user stories and prioritize backlogs.
  • Assisted teams in identifying blockers or impediments that were preventing them from achieving their goals.

Agile Product Owner - 2 years at Amdocs.

  • Crafted the roadmap and backlog for new tools introduced within the organization.
  • Conducted customer demos, and integrated feedback into the product backlog.
  • Managed a product backlog with over 500 features, spread across 20 global teams.
  • Facilitated 30 cross-functional workshops annually.
  • Created and delivered presentations to communicate product strategy and progress to senior management and external partners.
  • Performed QA testing of new features prior to their release into production environment.
  • Monitored performance metrics post-release to evaluate success of new features or products.
  • Managed sprints and monitored progress against project timelines.
  • Gathered and prioritized product requirements from stakeholders.
  • Established KPIs to measure product success and inform future development priorities.

Agile Program Management - 2 years at Amdocs.

  • Led program management for the Cross India Program Team, focusing on inter-unit process streamlining.
  • Assisted with the development of training materials related to program management processes.
  • Developed strategies for program management and delivery of projects, ensuring objectives are met within time and budget constraints.
  • Provided training and guidance to new employees on program management protocols.

Software Development Manager

OS2i
01.2006 - 12.2008
  • Oversaw project timelines, execution, and risk management.
  • Implemented strategies and managed associated risks.
  • Provided technical support during application development using various programming languages. C, C#, PHP, Database – MySQL, GUI – Corel Draw, Dreamweaver.
  • Reviewed technical designs against functional specifications.
  • Developed detailed test cases for efficient User Acceptance Testing.

Project Manager

Aptara
01.2004 - 12.2006
  • Developed project plans, managed budgets, coordinated with customers, and ensured adherence to delivery schedules

Education

MBA - specializing in Finance

Pune University
India
12.2004

Bachelor’s degree - commerce & economics

Pune University
India
12.2002

Skills

  • Coaching
  • Facilitation
  • Requirement Analysis and Breakdown
  • Product planning and roadmap
  • Agile Process Optimization
  • Engineering Methodologies
  • Coaching Dojo
  • Techniques
  • Change Management
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Leadership Skills Workshops
  • Continuous Integration
  • Delivery and deployment
  • DevOps principles
  • Produce development roadmap design

Tools

  • Jira
  • Kanban
  • Rally
  • Confluence
  • Power BI
  • SonarQube

Certification

  • CSA – Certified SAFe Agilist
  • ICP-ENT – Enterprise Agile Coaching
  • ICP – CAT – Coaching Agile Transformations
  • Scrum Alliance – CSM – Certified Scrum Master
  • Scrum Alliance – CSPO – Certified Scrum Product Owner

Languages

English
Full Professional
Hindi
Professional
Marathi
Professional
German
Elementary

Timeline

Agile Manager

ICE Mortgage Technology
03.2022 - 12.2022

Director of Technology - Agile Coach

UBS
01.2022 - 07.2024

Enterprise Agile Coach - Sr Manager

Fiserv
01.2018 - 12.2022

Agile Coach - Manager

Amdocs
01.2008 - 12.2018

Software Development Manager

OS2i
01.2006 - 12.2008

Project Manager

Aptara
01.2004 - 12.2006

MBA - specializing in Finance

Pune University

Bachelor’s degree - commerce & economics

Pune University
Carol Mathrani