Gopal Kandasamy

• Championed Lean-Agile practices and mindsets with leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters.
• Worked closely with Enterprise Architecture team and Business teams to groom Features and Epics ahead of PI Planning.
• Facilitated PI planning events.
• Published Projects metrics, for Product council Review meetings
• Build excellent relationships with Product Owners, System Architets and Project Teams to facilitate smoother delivery.
• Drove Innovation journey for scrum teams through events.

• Launched Agile Release Train to enhance applications that enables agency to maintain Virginia Roadways Network.
• Led and Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies.
• Coached teams on Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset towards Agile methodologies.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum leads to define solutions and drive progress.
• Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
• Break down silos and encouraged cross communication processes

Managed application development teams to enhance mortgage loan application scoring system.

• Define and initiate project and manage cost, schedule, and performance of the project.
• Build credibility, establish rapport, and maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple levels, including those external to the organization.
• Maintain continuous alignment of project scope with strategic business objectives and make recommendations.
• Coach, mentor, and lead personnel within project team.
• Present periodic Dashboard reports on the current program, future opportunities, and client issues.
• Established team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance.
• Orchestrated smooth and efficient program development by collaborating cross-functionally across departments.

• Worked as Scrum Master to deliver products to handle various programs that enable High speed connectivity in rural America.
• Delivered Connect America Program to handle funding provided by FCC for three High speed connectivity programs.
• Worked in a matrix environment, involving experts from other workstream to resolve impediments.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies and maintained sprint velocity.
• Conducted Business process analysis to develop Activity diagrams for the To-Be systems.
• Lead Retrospective sessions and follow-up with action plan to improve the effectiveness of the team.

• Collaborate, facilitate, lead and coach Scrum team responsible for developing web based software products for the customers to submit Claims on-line.
• Successfully migrated 4 clients from legacy to new platform in 1 year.
• Developed plan for new site. Managed full project lifecycle: strategy, design, development, testing, and implementation. Increased online transaction by 16%, and improved user engagement.
• Coached the new product owner and 8 team members on Agile principles and enabled the team to self-manage.
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning and demos.
• Built relationship with other stakeholders to facilitate team’s interaction.
• Conducted retrospective sessions for the team to identify opportunities for improvement in delivering quality and quantity of stories delivered..

• Worked with Data Warehouse development team to deliver Data warehouse that source data from 4 transactional applications to profile the customer calls to handle customer calls effectively.
• Delivered Data Lake for Customer Call data to improve the efficiency in serving customer requests.
• Streamlined approach to develop the solution by building self-organizing team.
• Worked with business partners to identify and prioritize features to be delivered.
• Managed schedule and Budget.

• Worked as project manager at CapitalOne to manage Access Management for personnel acquired from HSBCs credit card business.
• Managed the process of on-boarding and provisioning of around 5000 new associates and contractors from the acquired business entity into CapitalOne enterprise applications.
• Managed user access certification for SOX compliant applications.
• Managed on-boarding of 64 HSBC applications into CapitalOne enterprise applications access request system.

• Provided leadership and project level management in implementing and enhancing Agency applications.
• Managed the development of web-based licensing system that enabled agency to receive 50% of banquet license applications through the web.
• Managed initiative to maintain secured environment for card holder data.
• Led the initiative to select and implement Source Code analyzer tool ‘FORTIFY’ to meet PCI compliance requirements.
• Implemented COTS Product to collect and report criminal offense data.
• Implemented Document Management System (Invize), Flux Workflow Management Tool and Windward Reports to improve the efficiency of law enforcement division.