Foram Varia
Plainsboro,NJ
Summary
- With 12+ years of experience as an Agile Product Owner delivering technology, modernization and regulatory initiatives in financial services. Including 4 years at Fannie Mae.
- Proven track record of increasing velocity (25–40%), reducing cycle time (up to 30%), and improving on-time delivery (60% → 90%) across distributed teams.
- Known for elevating Agile maturity, strengthening cross-team alignment, and enabling data-driven decision-making through portfolio visibility, metrics, and workflow optimization.
- Adept at leading enterprise migrations, improving delivery predictability, and building high-trust teams that consistently deliver business value
- Led the strategic portfolio management migration, aligning budget, resources, and daily work to divisional priorities and enabling data-driven investment decisions.
- Lead the cross-organizational migration from Jira Data Center to Jira Cloud (SaaS) successfully.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Agile Product Owner
CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc.
Remote
04.2022 - Current
- Led the strategic portfolio management migration, enabling alignment of budget, resources, and day-to-day work to divisional strategic priorities, resulting in greater investment transparency and faster, data-driven prioritization decisions.
- Worked with the team to deliver a one-button test-and-fix shakeout model, reducing validation cycles and ensuring environments remain healthy with minimal human oversight.
- Operational Excellence — Improved uptime by integrating predictive analytics and automated runbooks and health checks into production workflows.
- Motivated, coached, and led multiple high-performing distributed teams, improving delivery predictability and increasing sprint goal attainment by 20–35%.
- Directed the cross-organizational migration from Jira Data Center to Jira Cloud (SaaS), improving system reliability and enabling 30–40% faster reporting and workflow automation.
- Created road maps and KPI, effective stakeholder conversations including scrum ceremonies, refinement of epic and features, and cross-team huddles, improving alignment and reducing blockers by 40% across product and engineering groups.
- Built AI skills for creating roadmaps, velocity and burn down chart and sprints release notes and PR review automation leading to improving efficiency by 60%
- Delivered an AI-enabled leadership dashboard that highlights automation impact, operational trends, and capacity savings, strengthening strategic planning and prioritization.
Agile Product Owner/Scrum Master
Magnus Technology, Inc
New York
10.2012 - 04.2022
- Improved Delivery Predictability — Increased on-time delivery by refining release plans, prioritizing backlog items effectively, and adjusting scope based on sprint review insights.
- Enhanced Team Performance — Boosted collaboration and productivity across distributed teams, reducing cycle time and improving sprint goal attainment.
- Strengthened Stakeholder Alignment — Improved decision-making by providing clear visibility into project status, risks, dependencies, and expected outcomes.
- Optimized Workflow Execution — Increased throughput by breaking work into actionable stories/tasks and using dashboards to surface progress and bottlenecks.
- Accelerated Issue Resolution — Reduced blockers and delays by coordinating with external teams and applying structured root-cause analysis.
- Improved Agile Maturity — Elevated team performance through effective facilitation of Agile ceremonies, coaching on estimation, and adoption of Jira/Confluence best practices.
- Strengthened Governance & Readiness — Improved deployment readiness and release quality by establishing governance templates, release notes, and planning standards.
- Data-Driven Performance Management — Enabled better forecasting and planning by tracking velocity, cycle time, and burn-down trends.
Education
BBA - Business Administration And Management
SNDT University
India03.2003
Skills
- Agile framework expertise
- Product backlog management
- Customer engagement
- User story creation
- Data-driven decision making
- Product vision development
- Product lifecycle management
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master- Scrum Alliance
- PMP Certification in progress- Skillsoft. Completed 35 hours of bootcamp
- Generative AI overview for Scrum Masters
- AI for Scrum Master
Timeline
Agile Product Owner
CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc.
04.2022 - Current
Agile Product Owner/Scrum Master
Magnus Technology, Inc
10.2012 - 04.2022
BBA - Business Administration And Management
SNDT University