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Kaliprasad Varanasi

Kaliprasad Varanasi

Edison, NJ, USA

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Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster
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About

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Title: ENTERPRISE AGILE COACH

Kaliprasad Varanasi Agile Coach and Program Manager with proven success as Agile Coach; Strong background in Project and Portfolio Management. Certified SAFe Program Consultant with extensive experience in Enterprise Agile implementation, roll out, handholding and Training. Currently working as Agile Coach for American Express since February 2015 in CPSOT division,; has extensive couples extensive technical knowledge with leadership skills to maximize operational excellence.  20 years of experience in Program/Project Management, coaching and Process improvements  Design and Implementation of Agile Scrum methodologies  Training and mentoring as Agile coach to project teams and product owner  Scaling Agile through Enterprise and SAFe implementation and training  Design, development and implementation of Process Excellence Programs  Process Definition and Implementation of Quality frameworks as per CMMI, ITIL, ISO 9001 etc.  Six Sigma, Kaizen and Process Improvement programs  SCAMPI Appraisal and Quality Audits and Assessments Core Competencies  Working as an Agile Coach/ Scrum Master for more than 10 years; Championed the organizational transition from Water fall methodology to Agile and Scrum methodologies  Program and Portfolio Management  Coached Scrum teams on the Scrum process and guided through Sprint lifecycle for large programs across multiple geographies  Strong Project Portfolio and Program Management experience managing large programs; Design and implementation of multiple SDLC methodologies  Design and customization of Tools for Agile methodologies  Design and development of Metrics program (Project and Process Metrics)  Familiar with customized and standard tools like Rally, JIRA, JIRA Agile (Green hopper), Version One etc.

Experience and services

  • Career history

    • 2015-01-26 - present - AMERICAN EXPRESS (AGILE COACH)
    • 2014-05-05 - 2014-12-24 - ADP (Agile Coach)
    • 2012-08-01 - 2014-04-30 - Reader's Digest (Agile Coach)
    • 2013-06-10 - 2013-12-13 - Delaer Track Technologies (Agile Coach)
    • 2012-09-17 - 2013-04-19 - Opera Solutions (Agile Coach)
    • 2009-05-18 - 2012-08-10 - Credit Suisse (Agile Coach and Process Mentor)
    • 2006-09-04 - 2009-05-04 - Wipro (Agile Coach and Process Mentor)