Kalaiarasan Kuppusamy
Agile Consultant
Syracuse,NY
Summary
- Versatile, seasoned professional to drive organizations transform in AGILE way of working
- Experienced Agilist executing various roles as Coach, Trainer, Change Agent, Enterprise Agile Transformation leader and Scrum Master utilizing AGILE way of working for past 10 years
- Experienced Program Manager/Project Management with a total of 18+ years software industry experience in managing and leading distributed teams across multiple software platforms/domains Influence Leadership on AGILE principles, values, mindset and best practices on how to build, grow and maintain a thriving Agile organization
- Mentoring and leading organizations becoming high performance organizations using AGILE way of working
- Primarily worked with executive level people in helping them to create strategy, roadmap, process, guardrails, contribute to Agile community of practice for Agile Transformation program and be part of Agile Transformation office.
- Highly skilled in leading the exploration, analysis and synthesis of issues affecting the performance of value streams and business processes.
- Train and coach teams in SAFe, Spotify, Scrum, Kanban and Lean frameworks to become a high performing value streams/tribes/squad respectively
- Governing, scaling and measuring AGILE maturity across the enterprise and focus on evangelizing AGILE values and principles across the organization.
- Professional strengths include strong consulting skills and ability to adapt and work effectively in matrix organizations or loosely structures non-hierarchical organizations.
- Managed multiple large scale and critical programs with budget from $500k to $10M.
- Resource planning, portfolio management including building and managing large cross functional teams
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
10
10
Years as an Agile Evangelist
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Enterprise Agile Coach
Tata Consultancy Services
Syracuse, NY
06.2016 - Current
- Coaching, encouraging, and mentoring organizations to inspire transformational change in conjunction with Agile Sponsor team represented by areas Business, Finance and IT
- Coached, trained and mentored leaderships, Product Management and program teams in servant leadership, inspect, adapt, deliver and mature strategies and techniques
- Be part of creating sustainable scaled agility at organization level be facilitating Agile COP’s monthly
- Created Agile materials and conducted trainings in Scrum/Kanban/SAFe/Spotify frameworks, Epic/story writing techniques, Estimating/Sizing, Agile Project Management tool like Jira/Rally/ADO
- Assessing the organization's ability to change, build an implementation roadmap to scale Agile to the enterprise level, and then use Agile methods to effectively transform the organization and provide ongoing coaching to the teams
- Helped organization to define an assessment model that was used to evaluate Agile maturity on team and organization level
- Helped organization to effectively track Enterprise portfolio level starting in Ideation, Conception, Planning, Execution and tracking using ADO/JIRA/Rally
- Agile Coach for teams and individual role players (Product Owner, Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer, Product Managers/Orchestrators)
- Mentored and coached 50 teams in an Enterprise Agile adoption
- Helped organization to scale Agile adoption by developing Agile playbook at Enterprise level
- Facilitating workshops like Systems Thinking, improve customer experience through journey maps, design thinking to optimize the delivery objectives
- Help identify and coach campions with each business area who can continue the maturity journey and act as an internal mentors/coach for squads
- Fostered continuous improvement by identification and escalation of organizational impediments using ADO tool
- Introducing engineering practices, e.g., BDD, TDD, CI/CD, Automated Testing, etc.
Agile Coach/Technical Program Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai, India
04.2011 - 05.2016
- Coach Release Train Engineers, Product Owners, Product Managers, Scrum Masters for ART launch preparation
- Assisting the Product Managers/Orchestrators in portfolio backlog creation and refinement
- Training and coaching product owners with the creation of Epics and Features, as well as performing continuous prioritization/refinement of both portfolio and program backlogs
- Assisting in Big room Planning; Provide RTE/Program Manager guidance in creating OKR’s and Roadmap artifacts; create/update Release/Program Plans with features and dependencies; and assist in WSJF discussions and calculations
- Facilitating PI Planning, backlog refinement activities, and Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshops
- Managed major impediments across Agile teams in support of the program
- Implementing relevant Scaled Agile Framework metrics at the team, program, and portfolio levels; evaluate the results, and recommend course corrections to help the teams continuously improve their delivery activities
- Performing Agile team assessments and identify the areas to improve ART maturity
- Coaching, mentoring, and supporting other Scrum Masters that will be assigned to squads in iterative product development, including following the Scrum Framework, communicating effectively, managing conflict amongst team members, identifying and removing impediments, and applying self-organization and shared leadership with the team
- Creating and updating the Executives with the following dashboard reports: Burndown Charts, Cumulative Flow Analysis, Defect Trending Analysis, Velocity Trends, Effort Trend Analysis, Initiative Summary Trend Analysis, Team Capacity Analysis etc.
Scrum Master/Project Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
Jersey City, NJ
04.2009 - 03.2011
- Successfully managed and implemented 18 releases incremental from inception to value delivered to business
- Facilitate Backlog refinement, Sprint planning, standup, demo and retrospective ceremonies
- Working collaboratively with squad and chapter leaders to enable delivery of the squad's mission through well-executed sprints
- Manage and coordinate multidisciplinary onshore/offshore/Nearshore cross-functional squads to achieve the Sprint goals
- Accelerating overall squad performance, efficiency and value delivered by engaging within and across squads to find opportunities to improve squad maturity and providing coaching and training
- Maintaining and visualizing squad information radiators like Velocity, burn down charts, predictability, Bugs Trend artifacts to ensure accurate and clear feedback to the squad members and transparency to other partners
- Participate in Scrum Master guilds to further build better scrum behaviors in the environment.
Systems Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai, India
06.2007 - 03.2009
- Involved in enhancements of existing PPM 9.x implementation in Project Management, Resource Management, Finance Management, Demand Management and modifying Database Packages, Functions and Procedures as per the client’s requirement
- Support of existing Project, Resource & Financial Management Reports and Bug-Fixes
- Assessed business requirements to create focused solutions
- Gathered requirements and performed gap analysis through design workshops with users.
- Implementation and development of changes in existing data extracts, views, packages, functions etc as per the required functionality
- Improved systems with addition of new features and infrastructure.
- Creation and modification of Web service script to integrate tools with PPM
- Implementation of Dashboards
Developer
Ramco Systems
Chennai, India
12.2004 - 05.2007
- Involved in Analysis, Design, Coding and Testing activities
- Responsible for Requirement analysis & gathering, Code & design review
- Key projects implemented using VB.Net, SQL Server & Microsoft Technology (Team Size : 3 - 20)
Education
Bachelor - Computer Science
University of Madras
Chennai, India 06.2000 - 05.2004
Skills
Seasoned transformation coach with proven expertise in Scaled Agile frameworksundefined
Accomplishments
· Developed Agile Transformation plan and implementation resulting in 25% increase in productivity by the overall organization involved in the transformation, plus a reduction in staff providing a higher ROI.
· Created 25% cost savings for Cloud migration program by re-organizing and re-structuring multiple workstreams focusing on minimum viable product.
· Implemented Agile proven practices in IT Infrastructure & Operations area by applying agile, Kanban techniques, resulting in cost savings of 20%.
Certification
SAFe Program Consultant
Timeline
SAFe Program Consultant
12-2020
Certified Scrum Professional - SM
04-2018
Certified Scrum Professional - PO
04-2018
Certified Scrum Product Owner
06-2017
Enterprise Agile Coach
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2016 - Current
Certified Scrum Master
08-2014
Agile Coach/Technical Program Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2011 - 05.2016
Scrum Master/Project Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2009 - 03.2011
Systems Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2007 - 03.2009
Developer
Ramco Systems
12.2004 - 05.2007
Bachelor - Computer Science
University of Madras
06.2000 - 05.2004
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