Sakshi Mahajan

Dynamic Agile Coach with extensive experience at CareFirst Bluecross BlueShield, driving transformation through SAFe and Scrum methodologies. Expert in continuous improvement and team facilitation, I empower organizations to embrace Agile mindsets, enhancing collaboration and productivity. Proficient in Java and transformation strategies, I deliver impactful workshops that foster innovation and growth.

• ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)
• PMI-ACP Certified (since Jun 2013)
• SAFe Agilist 4.5

eScription Editscript (2 Teams Size: 6 each) Nuance is the leaders in medical transcription and speech reorganization Software Company. EScriptions is the leading on-demand platform for computer aided medical transcription. With this solution, intelligent speech recognition software turns clinician dictations into formatted draft documents that medical transcriptionists quickly review and edit, often doubling productivity. Deployed enterprise-wide at healthcare organizations, the eScription solution is proven to improve turnaround time, increase productivity, and reduce costs of medical transcription, without interfering with clinician workflow. EScriptions is a centralized SOA based platform., Roles and Responsibilities, Setup the team from start and played the role of a process Coach as well as a Technical Coach., Assisted them to adopt the core XP practices, viz., TDD, CI (using Jenkins) and Pair Programming., Involved in functional/technical discussions with the team and onsite team., Involved in important events like Sprint Planning Meet, Scrum Meetings, Retrospection, Sprint Review, Weekly Meetings. LifeWay.com ecommerce website, LifeWay (Team Size: 12) LifeWay.com is an e commerce website focusing on selling of biblical content online. The site is made using IBM Websphere commerce, and is the main revenue generating site for LifeWay. The site was also social commerce enabled., Roles and Responsibilities, Setup the team from start as Agile Manager/Scrum Master. Also played the role of a process Coach as well as a Technical Coach., Assisted them to adopt the core XP practices, viz., TDD and CI (using Jenkins)., For an integrated source code management and build system, configured SONAR as static code analyzer., Used Mingle for user stories and configured it with SVN for source code management and Jenkins as the build server., The project was JAVA/JEE based application with various Spring frameworks and JQuery. MyCurriculum Manager, LifeWay (Team Size: 13) MyCurriculum Manager is schedule management tool for LifeWay to give a rich teaching experience to Churches & organizations on LifeWays curriculum. Its rich enough to handle access rights and define schedules for various curriculums bought online on LifeWay.com, Roles and Responsibilities, Acted as a Proxy Product Owner for the team, acting as a liaison between the team and product owner., Used Mingle for story writing and was active participant in all sprint demos and retrospective., Trained the team to use BDD and write feature files using Cucumber., The project followed XP practices like TDD and Pair programming., The project was JAVA/JEE based application with various Spring frameworks and JQuery. mCore Portal, Motricity (Team Size: 60) MCorePlatform Product enables wireless carriers to design, configure, customize, and implement highly personalized, high value mobile data solutions. MCore is designed to bring together the three primary participants in the mobile data services ecosystem: wireless carriers, mobile content and application providers and mobile subscribers. By bringing these participants together, mCore facilitates the distribution and use of mobile content and applications, electronic commerce, and other mobile data marketing services., Role and Responsibilities, Functional Analyst (Proxy Product Owner), Used TFS for Story writing and detailing. Velocity, Anystream (Team Size: 7) Anystream Velocity is a web application that automates the workflows to enable media companies to efficiently and reliably manage the complexities of on-demand services. Centralized scheduling, asset management and reporting capabilities ensure content is confidently and securely delivered to the right place at the right time to maximize revenue., Role and Responsibilities, Lead- Engineering, Interacted with client to understand requirements., Involved in requirement analysis and design creation., Involved in Development and Unit Testing., Involved in technical discussions with the Velocity, US team., Involved in the activities like Weekly Status Report Creation, Metrics updation and other Audit related activities.

• Working with carefirst(FEPOC) for the past 6 years.
• Worked with Pentagon Federal Credit Union as an Agile Coach.
• Worked with Capital One as Agile Technical Coach.
• Worked as a team to bring change in the mindset of the management as well as the team.
• Worked with 3 ARTS in Capital One – almost 7 teams each in Scale Agile Train.
• Coached RTE/Scrum Masters on Scrum ceremonies including Standups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Retrospective and Reviews.
• Helped them understand the agile tools used and usage of burndowns and backlogs
• Facilitated some of the ceremonies as an RTE and Scrum Master for the teams to model.
• Conducted Workshops on Story Writing/Slicing/Pointing/Tasking
• Worked one on one with Product Owners in story splitting
• Organized code katas for people to understand eXtreme Programming practices like TDD and ATDD
• Mobbed with teams to start a story from scratch – following ATDD, TDD, CI and emphasizing on Clean Code, Emergent Design, Refactoring, etc
• Paired with individuals to get them in the discipline of TDD,ATDD, etc
• Coached and worked with the various ART Teams to help them understand the practices and propagate them to the team

• CareFirst Bluecross BlueShield (Reston, Virginia and Remote)
• Pentagon Federal Credit Union (Tysons, Virginia)
• Capital One (McLean, Virginia)
• LifeWay Christian Resources, Nashville (TN)
• Nuance Communications, Burlington(MA)