Vetri Kamalakkannan
Agility Lead / Senior Scrum Master
Allen,TX
Summary
Results-driven and passionate Leader. AI & Innovation Champion. Partnered with Customers, Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Support, Vendors, and key stakeholders to deliver products with more than $150,000,000 in revenue. Recognized for customer focus. Proven effectiveness in: Innovation, Building global teams, Championing AI, Developing Leaders, Continuous Improvement, Release Planning and Product Backlog management.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Agility Lead / Senior Scrum Master
JPMorganChase
Plano, TX
08.2023 - Current
- Coached multiple product/development teams through all phases of development and delivery for several critical Consumer Banking Applications, with a passion for AI adoption and consistent innovation
- Empowered Product Teams: Recognized for passion, creativity and advocacy in coaching Product Leaders to effectively create, manage and gain visibility into their product backlogs
- Release Planning & Execution: Guided Product and Engineering teams to: visualize and break down large initiatives; map the deliverables to appropriately sized epics and stories; self-organize across multiple teams and sprints; review progress over time; and adapt the plan based on feedback
- AI & Innovation Champion: Enthusiastic advocate and leader in adopting and experimenting with AI assistants
- Encouraged the organization to use AI tools to enhance learning, accelerate delivery and enable efficiency
- Pioneered the use of Lucid Suite and JIRA Align to visualize, plan and manage large initiatives
- Participated in a Hackathon to develop a Commerce Center Chat AI Assistant
- Developing an AWS Deep Racer AI Assistant [chat bot] to help train and guide teams
- Presented to Communities of Practice on Generative AI trends & offered guidance on how to thrive in the AI age
- Continuous Improvement Champion: Challenged teams to consistently look for ways to improve collaboration, create value and team happiness
- Encouraged teams to learn from feedback and setbacks
- Value Stream Mapping: Guided value stream map creation and brainstormed approaches to reduce cycle time
- Experiments included identifying and reducing delays, LLM adoption and automation
- Executive Alignment & Transparency: Led the creation of Project State [Lucid] and Integrated Sprint Reports [presentations]
- Created multiple Rich Filter based JIRA dashboards to provide a real time view of ongoing initiatives along with relevant metrics
- Elevate Communities of Practice: Empowered communities of practice and local organizations by helping plan and organize their projects, offering training, raising awareness on the latest developments in Gen AI and enhancing collaboration tools such as Confluence Spaces
- Connected communities of practice to local industry events and conferences to enhance learning opportunities and networking
- Created Alignment Out of Confusion: Created transparency and alignment through team coaching and introducing tools such as Align, Lucid and JIRA Reports & Rich Filter based Dashboards
- Helped achieve effective coordination in sprint and release planning between teams spread across several locations in the US and India
- Recognized for helping to eliminate confusion and opacity regarding product backlogs
Senior Scrum Master, Mobile Video & Analytics
MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS
Plano, TX
11.2018 - 05.2023
- Company Overview: A global leader in public safety, enterprise security, radio communications & video security
- Built and coached multiple product/development teams through all phases of development and delivery for two critical products: Body Worn Camera and In-Car Video System for law enforcement
- Formed and trained 8 globally distributed teams (US, Israel, Poland)
- Enabled teams to be cross functional, responsive to change, and focused on delivering customer value
- Coached teams to adopt an Agile mindset, Agile values, and core Agile practices
- Guided the adoption of Scrum and Kanban
- Encouraged commitment to deliver value the right way, while continually looking for ways to improve and excel
- Helped the teams achieve consistently high performance
- Partnered with product teams to organize the backlog into a prioritized hierarchy of Initiatives, Epics and User Stories
- Championed the adoption of quarterly release planning
- Coordinated dependencies and deliverables across the Hardware, Application Software, Technical Support, Training & Documentation teams
- Enabled teams and executives to inspect/adapt and comprehend project state by creating JIRA Dashboards, and facilitating communication using JIRA burndown, control and other charts
- Executed multiple continuous improvement initiatives, including cycle time reduction, technical debt management and code quality enhancements
- Engaged leadership to explore the use of AI (e.g., Chat GPT, GitHub CoPilot) across the organization
- Mentored Scrum Masters and developers; coached solutions-focused approaches
- A global leader in public safety, enterprise security, radio communications & video security
Release Train Engineer
GLOBAL PAYMENTS
Plano, TX
08.2018 - 10.2018
- Company Overview: A leading worldwide provider of payment technology and software solutions
- Led a release train that consisted of multiple scrum teams
- Helped organize the backlog, coached the team on Agile practices, and mentored Scrum Masters
- A leading worldwide provider of payment technology and software solutions
Senior Scrum Master/Agile Delivery Lead
CAPITAL ONE
Plano, TX
05.2017 - 07.2018
- Company Overview: A Fortune 500 company and one of the nation's top 10 banks
- Led Agile adoption by 3 new development teams adopted and helped them grow and mature in their Agile mindset and practices
- Implemented effective techniques and practices, such as swarming and pairing, to improve velocity, throughput, and team collaboration
- Partnered with 3 different Agile Release Trains (30+ teams) to plan and coordinate product releases, handle program level dependencies, and resolve impediments
- Coached 3 teams of about 15 engineers to plan and execute projects including AWS Cloud Migration
- Executed SAFe PI Planning for multiple teams
- Guided the refinement of epics and stories, capacity planning, dependencies management and resolution
- Coordinated SAFe ceremonies including Inspect/Adapt, Features and Dependency Walkthrough
- Achieved alignment with senior leaders by sharing program state through JIRA Release Train Dashboards in Scrum of Scrums & Program Reviews
- Ran training: Effective Daily Scrums, Retrospectives, Refinements and Estimation Techniques
- Ran team health checks: sustainable pace, sprint health and team happiness
- A Fortune 500 company and one of the nation's top 10 banks
Senior Scrum Master, Dell Data Protection/Encryption
DELL
Plano, TX
01.2014 - 01.2015
- Coached multiple teams and helped deliver Data Protection solutions for comprehensive encryption, advanced authentication and leading-edge malware prevention to key customers like the University of California, Home Depot, Federal Government etc
- Fostered a team culture that encourages innovation
- Enabled scrum adoption by 3 teams of about 30 engineers
- Helped teams plan, develop, and release new data encryption software packages
- Collaborated with Vendors, Support, and key stakeholders
Product Owner & Scrum Master, T-Mobile Carrier Acceptance Test Software
ANRITSU
Richardson, TX
01.2007 - 01.2014
- Company Overview: A global leader in innovative wireless test and measurement solutions
- Drove product development throughout the lifecycle, from inception to launch
- Directed global engineering teams [US, Russia, and India] in the delivery of T-Mobile LTE and UMTS/GSM Carrier Acceptance Test [CAT] software
- Recognized by Anritsu Leadership - promoted twice
- Coached teams of about 20 engineers to plan, design, develop and release new CAT software packages to key customers like T-Mobile, Samsung, Qualcomm, HTC, LG etc
- Managed 3 concurrent projects involving diverse technologies and teams
- Delivered product releases on time, earning great appreciation & trust from T-Mobile leadership regarding product quality
- Fostered a team culture that rewarded superior performance
- Mentored team members and led technical training sessions
- Implemented performance appraisals and salary reviews
- A global leader in innovative wireless test and measurement solutions
Project Technical Leader & Senior Software Engineer, Wireless Networking
NORTEL
Richardson, TX
01.1995 - 01.2007
- Company Overview: Mobile Networking & Communications Technologies
- Technically directed a team of 10 software engineers in the analysis, software architecture, design, implementation and deployment of wireless networking products
- Mobile Networking & Communications Technologies
Education
M.B.A. -
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS
Richardson, TXM.S. - Computer Science
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS
Richardson, TXSkills
- AI & Innovation Champion
- Agile Leadership & Coaching
- Release Planning
- Systems Thinking
- People Development
- Customer Collaboration
- Team Happiness
- Product Backlog Management
- Culture Shaping
- Value Stream Mapping
- OKRs
- Executive Partnership
- Lucid Suite
- Mural
- Miro
- Trello
- Visio
- JIRA Align
- JIRA
- Confluence
Servant leadership
Retrospective analysis
Product backlog management
Sprint planning
Team facilitation
Customer interaction
Stakeholder management
Certification
Generative AI, LLMs, Responsible AI [Microsoft & Google]
Timeline
Agility Lead / Senior Scrum Master
JPMorganChase
08.2023 - Current
Senior Scrum Master, Mobile Video & Analytics
MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS
11.2018 - 05.2023
Release Train Engineer
GLOBAL PAYMENTS
08.2018 - 10.2018
Senior Scrum Master/Agile Delivery Lead
CAPITAL ONE
05.2017 - 07.2018
Senior Scrum Master, Dell Data Protection/Encryption
DELL
01.2014 - 01.2015
Product Owner & Scrum Master, T-Mobile Carrier Acceptance Test Software
ANRITSU
01.2007 - 01.2014
Project Technical Leader & Senior Software Engineer, Wireless Networking
NORTEL
01.1995 - 01.2007
M.B.A. -
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS
M.S. - Computer Science
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS
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