Gauravdeep Singh Kaberwal

 

 kaberwalz@hotmail.com, kaberwalz@gmail.com 

 

IT Solutions · Process management · Software Consulting · Coaching/Training

  

Objective:  IT Process / Business Process Consulting

 

My ideal position is a consultant role in Strategic and Management Consulting in technology or consulting firm. A mature organization seeking to grow market share and revenue will benefit from my extensive process solution building and client presentation experience. My experience is a mix of real time process implementation, pre-sales solution architecting and client consulting for multi-layered IT transformation engagements.

 

Profile  

 

A versatile, strategic and results-driven leader with a high commitment to quality that thrives on challenges.

I have more than five years of experience in IT process consulting working in leadership roles such as Process Coach, Project Mentor, Trainer and Assessor for eminent Europe and North America based clients. My specific expertise is in Process Management consulting delivered based on software methodologies CMMI, AGILE, ITIL and AUP for large IT transformation and total outsourcing deals.

My profile is a blend of process knowledge and niche consulting skills, and I am equally effective working in teams and as individual contributor. I have profound understanding of the latest process methodologies and market trends and have led or been part of teams devising IT Processes and guiding the implementations. I have been supporting the business development teams across geographies by building technology and domain specific solutions on global outsourcing delivery platform.

 

Professional Development:

§  Trained in Agile Project Management - by Craig Larman

§  Certified as Scrum Master by Scrum Alliance

§  Certified - ITIL Foundation and IT- Service Management

§  Certified for PRINCE2 foundation.

§  Trained as Internal Auditor of ISO-9001:2000 at Valtech for various Projects

§  Certified and trained for Foundation CMMI V 1.2 framework

§  In house Training for Software Metrics ( Org and Project levels)

§  Trained in Software Metrics ( Org and Project levels) in house training, Agile trainings

§  Member of Agile alliance forum, Agile Journal, ASCI and contributor.

§  Created IP offerings in Agile practice by designing Agile Process Management Model(APMM) for Agile Adoption and scaling agile practices to organization level

§  Socially active in Agile Community by blogging at http://agilecontemplations.blogspot.com/ 

§  White Paper published in Agile Conference 2008, Toronto on Distributed Agile for multi located teams

§  Presented at Computer Society of India, Ghaziabad Chapter on the behalf of Agile Community of India, ASCI for Agile awareness

 

Professional Experience

Increased knowledge base around structuring outsourced technological and functional solutions in process and application life cycle management and refined ability to communicate and generate total business value for the client with pre sales team.

 

 

Presales

§  Solution designing, proposal writing in response to RFPs, RFIs representing as single point of contact from the Wipro Process Consulting Group.

§  My specific expertise includes Total Outsourcing and IT Transformation deals delivered utilizing Global Delivery Model. To cite few examples:

o   Implemented AUP process model for a UK based BFSI major

o   Implemented Agile process model for a Minneapolis based retail giant

§  Marketing & Sales support by building sales collaterals, brochures and client presentations. Represented group at industry forums, such as Agile Alliance-Toronto, Agile Community of India (ASCI) through presenting and whitepapers.

§  Contributed significantly to the Agile based IP offering and Business models by my group. This is a Rapid Agile kit for expedited Agile implementations and process management modeling.

§  Worked with alliance partners for building solutions targeting specific technologies.

§  Led discussions with Fortune 500 clients to understand the business requirement and help the team in generating sales pipeline and long term roadmap through competitive analysis.

• Have shown exemplary initiative in business development/pre-sales (pre-wiring the practice with possibilities at BFSI and Telecom and other opportunities with telecom accounts in Australia and US

 

Consulting

§  Guide customers by recommending optimum process solutions meeting client’s specific requirements. Proven experience in requirements elicitation, identifying transformation needs and process re-engineering and modeling.

§  Strong process consulting experience in:

o   Agile modeling methodologies SCRUM, XP, AUP (inheriting Six Sigma and LEAN techniques)

o   Frameworks – ISO 9001:2000, CMMi Level 5.

§  In depth knowledge of Agile models and process frameworks/workflows.

o   Agile Models approach– Agile Transition, Readiness Assessment, Roadmap, Lifecycle – SCRUM, XP, TDD

·         Frameworks approach – CMMI : Discovery mode, Definition mode, Deployment mode & Verification mode

§  Trained and mentored various major global organizations implement process frameworks, improving business performance through increased productivity and reduced cycle times.

§  Guided client teams in performing Agile feasibility analysis orchestrating the future implementation roadmap.

§  Have been probably the most tenacious in terms of developing artifacts – Agile process model, Agile Contracts, Agile Consulting kits, Training kits, Jump start kits.

§  Participated in Program Management building Information repository, project prioritization, resource management, operation planning & forecasting – “Agiltic way”.

 

Some Project :

1.      Program : Motorola’s next generation public safety product suite on common technology architecture. Motorola has developed both the Mobile and Computer Automated Dispatch (“CAD”) applications.

Consultant role:

§  Maintain a unique people-focused implementation track to mitigate the impact of social and technical change.

§  Collaborate directly with product owner and other stakeholders on mechanics of Agile methods to achieve optimal team effectiveness.

§   Ensure the adaptive Governance with collaborative, flexible and learning-based management and portfolios for monitoring & reporting

§  Manages Program operations working closely with the Product owner, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Portfolio Manager & other stake holders

§  Ensures and reviews a unique process-focused implementation track to insure continuity of work flows.

§  Responsible for the execution of the Program, budgeting, risk management, resources allocation

§  Reviews the customized Agile training and internal Agile tools designed to enhance team collaboration.

§  Deep knowledge of Agile principles and practices and the ability to transfer that understanding at all levels of the organization.

§  Endorses program level objectives by formulation of Program strategy, reviews & monitors benefit plans

§  Instantiate Program Board in conjunction to Product owner and other board stakeholders with Program definition activities such as developing the Program Vision , Program Blueprint, high level plans

§  Reviews the Program Dashboard stating the Balance Score card with Senior management and team

§  Address the learning and the impediments chalked in retrospection across the projects in the program.

§  Identifies scope for improvements in the Program and appoints the Program  Scrum Master to adhere all levels control and monitoring

§  Consulting and facilitation skills in leading project teams in the adoption and improvement of agile methodologies.

 

2.      Program : Short Settlement Engine for next generations(SSE NG) focused on re-engineering applications and processes in the cash equities back-office to deliver  

Consultant role:

§  Understanding the Client process with Business perspective and defining a new Agile Process Model including procedures, templates and checklists. Archiving the process on WIKI by centralizing the information and making it transparent.

§  Involved in defining lightweight Agile Process Model, (SCRUM, XP– Best Practices and UP model) as well as the existing processes of the client.

§  Derived the team towards agile manifesto & Lean thinking with statistical analysis by using different metrics for development and testing activities is generated to evaluate the performance of the project at various grounds and work for its improvisation.

§  Facilitation of process by conducting the training sessions and practically driving the workshops by Agile Coach like Requirement/Design workshop, iteration planning, estimation planning , Standup Meetings, review process , Sprint Review meeting , retrospective sessions, Release ( assessment workshop)

§  Making a surprise checks to ensure and realize whether the processes are really “agilitic” in nature as the project is heading forward.

Achievement: Improved productivity by redesigning the client’s model, defining processes and institutionalizing metrics for process improvements. Process streamlining and standardization across the projects with tool base approach for whole program. Inculcated Agile ethos in the program by proposing a model (Agile process management model) where in every index scales the agile principles to attain the agility. Built self managed and self reliant Agile teams by effective communication and collaboration.

 

3.      Project: Developing eFASS (electronic Financial Analysis and Surveillance System) under the umbrella of Agile practices (Scrum)

Consultant Role:

§  Understanding the Client process with Business perspective.

§  Defining a new Agile Process Model including procedures, templates and checklists

§  To drive the team towards agile manifesto & Lean thinking.

§  Enable the team toward practicing Scrum and most of the best practices in Agile project management like Requirement Workshop, Design Workshop, SAD, Retrospective, Continuous Integration, Information radiator, Confluence WIKI usage etc

§  Collect, Analyze and present the metrics for the pilot projects to demonstrate value added by the new process though Project dashboard using Confluence WIKI

§  Created Scrum Assessment Test for the projects.

Achievement: Conducted effective Iteration retrospective in projects using various techniques like Heartbeat & Plus Delta. Helped in the usage of various low-cost tools that could be used to improve productivity and code quality such as JUnit, Cruise Control and JIRA for defect tracking and project Management activities.

 

4.      Project: Test Driven Development approach and leveraging the expertise to Sony Ericsson in Telecom Services (SCRUM, XP, TDD)

Consultant Roles:

§  Distributed development to attract plan-driven approach, detailed requirements and “defined” plans, separation by function (i.e., analysts onshore, developers offshore, etc.), there by developing a testing Model for multi located teams.

§  Applying Scrum practices effectively, Employing the right software development practices and Making the human dynamics successful  with focus on core process performance & customer satisfaction, manage the process life cycle through design, implementation, optimization and redesign and renewal

§  Facilitation in Production smoke testing, Defect retesting, Mobile phone testing, TC planning, and development, tracking and Defect logging in Rally.

§  Enable the team toward practicing Scrum and Lean Principles and most of the best practices in Agile project Retrospective, Continuous Integration and Information radiator.

§  Collect, Analyze and present the metrics for the pilot projects to demonstrate value added by the new process and created Project dashboard using Confluence WIKI

§  Collaborating the clusters of teams to discuss their work, focusing especially on areas of overlap and integration by team relationships

Achievement:

o   The contribution of Test Engineers from offshore was recognized as “full” regression test was complete before scheduled time there by proving good understanding testers and further test cases can determine if the test case passes or fails.

o   As part of the project, implemented effective Iteration retrospective in projects using various techniques like Heartbeat & Plus Delta

 

Technical Skills:

§  Operating System:                    Windows NT/2000/XP, UNIX.

§  Programming Lang:                  C, C++, Core JAVA, HTML.

§  Data Mining:       &nbs

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