Gopi Komma
Southfield,MI
Summary
Talented professional considered knowledgeable leader and dedicated problem solver. Bringing 8 years of valuable expertise to forward company objectives. Attentive to detail with experience in coordinating projects, programs, and improvements. With a proven track record of successfully leading teams in developing high-quality software solutions on time and within budget. Skilled in multiple Agile methodologies, stakeholder management, and sprint planning. Highly organized in managing complex projects with multiple deadlines.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Agile Project Manager / Sr. Scrum Master
Optum
07.2022 - Current
- Transformed team from Scrum framework to Kanban
- Build custom metrics reports using Rally for deliverables
- Implemented backlog view for external vendors using Rally
- Assisted in the integration between Rally & SNOW using integration tool (Task Top)
- Closely worked with Program and Portfolio teams to deliver code and system
- Interaction with product management & Product owners to build Epics and Features, and continuous deliverable code packs
- Monitor key product metrics and performance indicators to evaluate product success and identify areas for improvement
- Use data-driven insights to optimize product features, user experience, and business outcomes
- Used Rally for features, stories, tasks, etc., and coached the team effectively on the effective use of the tool
- Miro/White Board for retrospective & collaboration
- Maturity assessment and coaching plans
- Coordinate the release process, including defining release milestones, coordinating with development teams to ensure on-time delivery, and communicating updates to stakeholders
- Track burn down, issues and progress in Rally
- Work with component teams to resolve issues
- Helped teams apply the Kanban Framework and principles of agility to the benefit of the team and organization
- Supported greatly enhancing payer experience
- This includes offering multiple channels for communication, such as phone, email, chat, and self-service portals, and ensuring timely resolution of inquiries or issue
- Tailoring communication and engagement efforts to the specific needs and preferences of individuals to improve payer experience
- Embody agility using a servant leadership approach and leading by example
- Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and team backlogs
- Assisted team to remove impediments by understanding the control and release processes.
Program Manager/ Integration Coach
Ford Motor Company
10.2019 - 05.2022
- Coach and Train at product and team level
- Coach the product delivery teams on agile practices and principles while ensuring the team understands the mechanics behind delivering iteratively and incrementally – shifting the mindset from output to outcomes and showcased their maturity level in various assessments
- Facilitated the training for teams & servant leadership teams understanding the agile process
- ART-AgileRelease Train and Solution Train using various tools, such as the Program Increments (PI) and Solution Kanban
- Improved the flow of value through value streams using the Continuous Delivery Pipeline and DevOps
- Experience with ART-AgileReleaseTrains & PI Planning Sessions
- Coached-self-organizing teams to increase productivity & committed velocity
- Coordinate PI (Program Increment) planning and coached servant leadership teams in setting up ART (Agile Release Trains)
- Coach teams on Rally tool & help them understanding it use for better collaboration
- Coach teams& servant leadership teams understanding the Metrics & SDPI metrics for improving the team’s performance
- Established a completely new portfolio hierarchy for the product& help them building the backlog
- Coach and direct multiple teams working on different problem areas with different Agile methodologies
- Accountable for establishing and managing the framework for the governance of Scrum and Kanban teams
- Established product champions & integrations teams for the continuous Improvement Backlog
- Set up Agile center of excellence and championed best practices such as Test-drivendevelopment (TDD), Pair programming and continuous delivery
- Led software engineers through Behavior Driven Development (BDD) definition within user stories until they were fully adept at doing these themselves
- Coordinate with the product managers, and product owners to do sprint and release planning for the platform
- Train Managers and Product owners in Leading SAFe
- Successfully lead two expeditions (Powertrain & Design, NA Plant Floor Services) reaching Target Base Camp 0 – Target Base Camp 1
- Conduct Agile Learning Sessions on specific principles; Values of Agile, Splitting Stories, Backlog Prioritization, etc
- Product Line champion for EAMS Application Portfolio Management for Design Studio.
Agile Coach/Agile Transformation
Citi
09.2018 - 09.2019
- Coached 'Branded Cards' LOB with newly formed Onshore/Offshore teams, new to Agile/SCRUM through a transformation from Waterfall - recording methods, procedures, challenges, and resolutions for Agile Maturity Assessments
- Facilitated/Coached the formation of Scrum-of-Scrum and Agile Center of Excellence (CoE) and trained on its importance
- Created Lean Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) comprised of people dedicated to implementing SAFe Lean- Agile way of working
- Coached onshore/offshore teams hands-on through Agile Bootcamps, Sprint 0 and 1st releases, using agile principles, self-organization, effective user stories, estimation and daily/weekly/sprint/release routines/ ceremonies
- Developed Onshore/Offshore model to increase collaboration and Agile/SCRUM effectiveness across distributed teams
- Coached Distributed (Onshore/Offshore) teams to use multiple development methods - teams reached self-organization, completing all sprint functions: requirements analysis, planning, design, coding, unit testing, and acceptance testing
- Coach the teams on best engineering practices like BDD, TDD, continuous integration and Continuous Deployment practices
- Own, advocate, and coach multiple new and existing teams, in parallel, on Agile methodology and scrum practices
- Coached/mentored Scrum Masters, Product Owners, BA/SA, TPM and Developers with regards to the application of Agile practices
- Partnered with multiple management teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet transformation goals; identified and defined necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process enhancements
- Provided in-depth and interpretive analysis to define problems, develop innovative solutions and communicate risk and impacts.
Enterprise Agile Transformation Coach
AT&T
10.2017 - 08.2018
- Served as AgileCoach for team's adoption the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)- enterprise level and SCRUM for team level
- Enterprise Level Coaching- SAFe Framework
- Coached team in the implementation of adoption of Agile Practices utilizing SAFe for a large program
- Coached the Development Teams and teams-of-teams in self-organization, continuous improvement, cross-functionality, risk identification, dependency management, conflict resolution, and software craftsmanship
- Educated and coached executives, managers, stakeholders, and others throughout the organization regarding Agile SAFe (enterprise level) and SCRUM (team level) practices and how their roles and interactions may change
- Facilitated SAFe PI Planning Sessions and coaching RTES, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Team Members
- Implemented TDD at team level
- Aggregated team objectives into Program PI Objectives creates and publishes a roadmap for visibility and transparency
- Assessed the maturity of teams and provided recommendations for a framework to implement and created a roadmap to train and tech organizational leaders involved with transformation
- Collaborated and partner with Senior Leadership to plan, set vision, and roadmap Agile Transformation
- Responsible for adapting and executing the following Agile engineering practices: Pair Programming, Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development (TDD), etc
- Trained multiple Teams on Scrum, Agile Requirements, and SAFe Principles
- Assisted in PI planning, worked closely with the RTE
- Prepared the Scrum Team for PI meeting
- Reviewed PI objectives with the Scrum Team to achieve the PI objective.
Scrum Master/ Product Manager
Walmart
07.2016 - 09.2017
- Led and coached teams to organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings
- Closely worked with Scrum, Program and Portfolio teams to deliver code and system
- Interaction with product management to build Epics and Features, and architects to build the architectural runway with team sprint plan and stories
- Used JIRA for features, stories, tasks, etc., and coached the team effectively on the effective use of the tool
- Employed agile best principles like TDD, Pair programming, and Continuous integration to avoid any future technical debt
- Scheduled and coordinated both internal and system DEMO
- Assisted the Lean Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) Director to develop and administer Agile team maturity assessment and coaching plans
- Track burn down, issues and progress in Version One
- Work with component teams to resolve issues
- Helped teams apply the Scrum Framework and principles of agility to the benefit of the team and organization
- Embody agility using a servant leadership approach and leading by example
- Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management
- Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
- Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery
- Assisted team to remove impediments by understanding the control and release processes.
Business Analyst/Junior Scrum Master
Deutsche Bank
10.2015 - 06.2016
- Transitioned Waterfall development organization into an Agile organization, one business unit at a time
- Introduced Test Driven Development (TDD) and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) as the foundation for the future DevOps transition
- Built a proof of concept for the future DevOps transition to Continuous Deployment using Java, JAMA, JIRA, Jenkins (formally Hudson), Subversion, Sonar and Maven
- Stakeholders of Equity Trading Systems and Derivative Trading Systems to coach them in Agile practices and teach them how to align program level roadmaps in an iterative environment
- Agile coach for multiple scrum teams, responsible for continually improving the process and ensuring adherence to agile principles with regular Agile Maturity assessments
- Agile Boot Camp educated team members and Senior Level Personnel to the changes and benefits of establishing Agile Practices and provides a path forward for planning the transition
- Engaged with Directors and Senior Managers to plan for self-organization of department into function units to reduce and eliminate middle managers and return the middle managers to productive work
- Engaged the newly created, self-organized functional team members to build product backlogs from the resources doing the work
- Implemented LeSS Agile Model for larger scale projects
- Standardized how Story Point estimation was performed throughout the business units engaged with and throughout the bank by working with the various Agile Center of Excellence forums and meeting.
Education
Bachelor’s - mechanical engineering
JNTU
Mater’s - Computer Science
Silicon University
Master’s - information technology
Campbellsville University
Skills
- VersionOne, JIRA, Rally, Visio, SharePoint, Confluence, Miro, White Board, BlueScape, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Power BI
- Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11 and Mac OS
- Oracle, Oracle 11G& 12C, 19C, AWS, Azure
- Advanced Ms- Excel, MS Office, MS Project, Word, PowerPoint
- Cost Control
- Project Planning
- Risk Management
- Strategic Planning
- Vendor Sourcing
- Project tracking
- Technical Support
- Productivity Improvement
- Schedule Management
- Document Management
Certification
- Certified SAFe 5.0 Advanced Scrum Master
- Certified SAFe 6.0 Advanced Scrum Master
- Certified Scrum Master
Timeline
Agile Project Manager / Sr. Scrum Master
Optum
07.2022 - Current
Program Manager/ Integration Coach
Ford Motor Company
10.2019 - 05.2022
Agile Coach/Agile Transformation
Citi
09.2018 - 09.2019
Enterprise Agile Transformation Coach
AT&T
10.2017 - 08.2018
Scrum Master/ Product Manager
Walmart
07.2016 - 09.2017
Business Analyst/Junior Scrum Master
Deutsche Bank
10.2015 - 06.2016
Bachelor’s - mechanical engineering
JNTU
Mater’s - Computer Science
Silicon University
Master’s - information technology
Campbellsville University
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Accomplishments
- Reduced department operating costs by 12% in 6 months.
- Supervised a team of 16 staff members.