Manash Chakraborty
Summary
Outcome-focused SAFe Agile Coach/RTE/SM/PM with substantial expertise in spearheading Lean-Agile transformations and propelling organizational agility and enhancement. Skilled in guiding scrum teams/leadership and stakeholders to embrace Lean-Agile methodologies, resulting in improved productivity, collaboration, and delivery of quality products. Proven track record of successfully implementing Lean-Agile strategies aligned with business objectives. Adept at coaching and mentoring project teams in Agile practices and fostering a culture of continuous improvement & innovation. Empowered project teams to adept, collaborate, innovate and deliver value incrementally. Committed to driving organizational success through Agile adoption and delivering measurable business values.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Agile Consultant (Coach/PM)
Fundquant (Gen10)
5 2023 - Current
- Facilitated workshops, training sessions, and agile ceremonies, fostering environment for cross-functional scrum teams to comprehend and adopt agile principles, values, and methodologies
- Facilitated agile software delivery, innovation, release planning & backlog management
- Coached and mentored teams to self-organize, prioritize work, and continuously adapt to changing requirements, resulting in increased team morale and a significant boost in productivity and delivery
- Conducted scrum team status meeting to identify issues, risks, dependency and any other impediments
- Managed multiple projects workflow(schedule/task) using MS project, Jira, confluence and communicated weekly status reports (trending charts, dashboard) to business stakeholders
- Identified bottlenecks (retrospectives) and inefficiencies in existing processes, helped teams to resolve conflicts, fostered environment for innovation, implementing targeted improvements to enhance program velocity and product quality
- Established meaningful metrics (burndown, predictability, velocity) to track program/team performance and ART progress, facilitating data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement efforts
- Oversaw Agile Train (ART) value stream by utilizing information radiators, kanban board, and CFDs to enhance visibility, leading to a 25% increase in ART 's productivity and a 15% improvement in delivery cycle time.
- Improved client satisfaction by effectively managing multiple projects and consistently meeting deadlines
- Analyzed data sets to identify trends and opportunities for process improvements within client organizations
SAFe Agile Consultant (Agile Lead/Sr SM/PM)
Bank of America/ML
08.2019 - 03.2023
- Provided custom coaching and mentoring to teams, scrum Masters, product owners, and stakeholders to build their agile skills, mindset, and knowledge
- Designed and delivered training programs, workshops, and interactive sessions on Lean-agile methodologies and practices
- Coached multiple agile teams in backlog grooming, story estimation, sprint planning, retrospectives, and release management
- Reviewed team progress, metrics, helped team in resolving conflicts, fostered a culture of innovation and improvement
- Facilitated ART PI events (Pre/Post PI planning, SoS, Inspect & Adapt workshops, system demo, PO sync) and Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, reviews, retrospective and backlog refinement
- Proactively managed program/project risk,budgets and dependencies, communicated and escalated as needed
- Conducted CoP and Coach Sync(SoS) and addressed issues, resolved conflicts, and exchanged ideas for improvement
- Monitored innovation iteration, system demo, inspect & adapt, and value stream level budgeting
- Facilitated team agile ceremonies, helping team members to align with lean agile principles/practices for development (using Rally) to delivery
- Managed cross-program risk, dependencies, delivery, and blockers and engaged appropriate level stakeholders to mitigate them
- Demonstrated proficiency in using resources, cost management, risk management and project tracking tools such as MS Project and PPM Pro
- Facilitated the transformation of 100 -employee enterprise to SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), and trained cross-functional teams in Agile methodologies, principles, achieving 30% increase in deployment frequency.
- Enhanced communication among team members, fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to successfully deliver comprehensive solutions for clients
Consultant (Agile Lead/Tech PM)
NJDOH-OITS(State of NJ)
02.2012 - 07.2019
- Assessed existing processes and organizational process assets
- Instrumental in leading process improvement identifying opportunities and delivering strategies using agile
- Reviewed and estimated project risk and guided multiple project teams for project timeline planning,delivery, and features deployment using agile with a reduced delivery time by 20%
- Launched ARTs, facilitated ART events (Pre-PI and PI planning, Inspect& Adapt, System demo, Innovation) tracked train KPI’s, organized train dashboard and communicated status to stakeholders
- Organized inspect and adapt sessions, monitored innovation iteration, system demo, release planning, and agility health of team and train
- Facilitated Scrum/Kanban agile process, managed program risks, status reports, burn-down charts, velocity,built transparency among stakeholders, built self –organized team and stakeholder confidence with delivery and completed projects 18% under budget
- Monitored scrum stand-up sessions, sprint planning, backlog refinement, demo, and decision-making processes to ensure quick inspection and proper use of the adaptation process
- Helped product owners to make product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for future sprint (SAFe)
- Partnered with tech team and business Sponsors to ensure design aligns with both business and technical requirements
- Managed issues, risk, dependencies, and change requests following established APMO guidelines
- Reviewed/analyzed system design, security architecture and system workflow
- Led brainstorming session to review technology stack and solution architecture
- (Java, WebLogic, REST API, Analytics) Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing, and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining scrum team standards, tools, and best practices, reducing development time by 25%.
Technology Project Manager/Architect
FundQuant (BoC/VITE)
10.2009 - 12.2011
- Managed IT development initiatives, and re-engineering efforts, supervised onshore, offshore, contract staff and budget
- Develop, implement, and manage IT strategy, system development, prod support, and delivery plan and procedures
- Directed, managed, and coordinated ntegration of existing and/or new technology solutions according to the requirements of one or more functions and/or IT transformation activities
- Establishes functional business plans and technical project/program objectives to meet short- and long-term goals and metrics of the organization
- Delivered Advisor Dashboard decision support tool for financial advisors/marketing professionals to model and demonstrate the possibilities/scope of various investments
- (Java, API, SOA) Led data analytics initiative for delivering actionable recommendations in credit/market risk business
- (Data mining, ML algorithms, Python/R, spark) Enacted change and continuous improvement increased productivity of Scrum teams and the quality of delivery by 20% and reduced development time by 25%.
Development Manager/RAD PM - Vice President
JPMorgan Chase
02.2006 - 09.2009
- Architected, developed simdesk pricing and risk management system (trade processing, on-demand pricing, exposure generation, PnL, market tweaks and risk reporting)
- Organized project working group meeting, prioritized projects, delivered components and BAU requirements, managed resources, stakeholder expectation, and budgets using RAD/Agile approach ((java/JMS/REST/MQ/XML/Oracle/Jason)
- Architected, designed, and developed Inflation derivatives credit risk solution (pricing, sensitivity, limit monitoring, and MC simulation) for emerging market portfolio
- Designed systems for counterparty limits monitoring, exposures, and traders Pl
- Efficiently managed multiple concurrent projects while maintaining a strong focus on quality control and client satisfaction
- Abstracting, architecting, designing, and syndicating solutions to opportunities identified
- Responsible for 24x7 application’s support, leading and managing key initiatives, strategic planning and technical decisions involving application development, data management and internal collaboration facilities (portals)
- Drove strategic planning and execution of Rapid Application Development (RAD) projects, successfully delivering 10+ software solutions that enhanced operational efficiency and generated revenue increase of 15% year-over-year.
Architect/Project Manager
Capital Management Group
04.2005 - 02.2006
- Architect application to validate corporate model (back testing framework) for interest rate derivatives using current market data
- Re-engineered technical architecture to process equity data, research reports from Multex and multicast them after converting to PDF
- Managed applications to test FIX engine functionality and associated API of multiple vendors
- Developed projects plan, development schedule, resource allocation and task- resource management
- Installed, configured, handled issues, and provided support for PayPlus CLS (Settlement) system (CLS Gateway)
Sr. Technical Specialist/Project Manager
Citigroup
08.2004 - 05.2005
- Led dev teams and delivered WA common services and legacy information handler
- Successfully deployed Webnas application in the WebSphere environment
- Identified and implemented code changes to separate static and dynamic content
- Managed migration initiative of Webnas applications for the enterprise environment
- Enhanced backend processing logic and approval workflow for Webnas Account management.
- Developed strategy and schedule for testing and deploying application on the enterprise application server
- Provided production support coverage and served as an escalation point for production issues
- Streamlined incident response workflow for critical production systems as a Sr
- Technical Specialist/Project Manager, reducing system downtime by 30% and improving resolution time for escalated issues by 25% through establishment of a robust triage and escalation process.
- Managed multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring each was completed on time and within budget.
Education
MS, Computer Science -
University of Louisiana At Lafayette
Lafayette, LAMS, Applied Maths -
Pune University
Pune, IndiaMS, Applied Maths & Computer Science(Minor) -
Indian Institute of Technology
KGP, IndiaSkills
Conflict Resolution, Strategic Planning, Regulatory Compliance
Budgeting & Resource management
Project Risk and Compliance management
SDLC,Scrum,Agile, ITIL , Java, C, SQL, XML, R, Python, Go
MS Project, JIRA, Jira Align, CA Agile -Rally
Confluence, Mural, Agile View
ChangeMgmt OWASP, Git, NIST RMF
DevOps(CI/CD), IBM MQ, Power BI, Tableau
Java, C, SQL, XML, R, Python, Go
DataStage, SnowFlake, Azure DevOps, Kafka,Sybase/Oracle/MySQL
Data Analysis, Change Management,
Certification
Certified SAFe SPC 5.1 (SAFe Practice Consultants), Advanced Scrum Master (SASM), Agilest (SA)
Timeline
SAFe Agile Consultant (Agile Lead/Sr SM/PM)
Bank of America/ML
08.2019 - 03.2023
Consultant (Agile Lead/Tech PM)
NJDOH-OITS(State of NJ)
02.2012 - 07.2019
Technology Project Manager/Architect
FundQuant (BoC/VITE)
10.2009 - 12.2011
Development Manager/RAD PM - Vice President
JPMorgan Chase
02.2006 - 09.2009
Architect/Project Manager
Capital Management Group
04.2005 - 02.2006
Sr. Technical Specialist/Project Manager
Citigroup
08.2004 - 05.2005
MS, Computer Science -
University of Louisiana At Lafayette
MS, Applied Maths -
Pune University
MS, Applied Maths & Computer Science(Minor) -
Indian Institute of Technology
Agile Consultant (Coach/PM)
Fundquant (Gen10)
5 2023 - Current