Ganapati Siddheshwar

GANAPATI SIDDHESHWAR

 [email protected]  +91 966 331 3528 Bangalore KA, India in.linkedin.com/in/gana111

 

Gana is an agile professional with expertise in setting up the agile environment, processes, methods and mindset by providing leadership, direction, and consulting for projects in alignment with the applicable frameworks

As a change agent, he has ensured the continuous development of the teams, optimizing the performance. He comes with immense software development, engineering, delivery, quality and process implementation experience gained through reputed organizations in the industry verticals spanning across, Energy, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, Life Sciences and Analytics. He is passionate about addressing the challenges associated with agile thereby unlocking the true value creation for the organization as well as its stakeholders in the longer run

Specialties: Product Development, Coaching, Mentoring, Classroom and Virtual Trainings, Consulting, Agile Assessment, Adoption, Transformation Process & Delivery Frameworks, Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, Continual Improvement, TDD, DevOps-tools, Project and Delivery Management

 

Summary

• He has assessed the agile maturity of the teams and coached them to next levels of maturity, at a sustainable pace
• Guided the team on Agile practices and values
• Kick-started FOAK agile product development assignments from scratch
• He has assessed the training needs and designed the training programs for both the individual teams and collectively for the organization covering people, process & tools - through different channels
• Familiarity in applying Agile at scale – SAFe, SoS and Daikibo
•  Agile program management experience with multi-group / multi-disciplinary projects. He has developed the delivery and process frameworks for the projects in Application Development, Support, Migration and Product Development arena
• He has the experience in influencing and interacting at teams and management levels thereby facilitating the continuous improvement
• He has expertise in agile adoption roll out, release planning, guiding on themes, epics, user-stories formations, backlog grooming, sprint planning, DoD, DoR, story pointing, daily scrums, sprint demos, retrospectives, emotion seismograph, velocity chart, sprint and release burn downs, hybridization of scrum
• He has developed agile transformation roadmap, implementation plan and training materials for the teams.
• Managed the transitions from onsite to offshore
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong analytical bent of mind
• Proficient in responding to RFPs, writing proposals
• Core expertise in web development projects, worked across different technologies and platforms

Certifications (in reverse chronological order)

• Certified Scrum Professional (Scrum Alliance)
• Certified Agile Coach ICP-ACC (ICAgile)
• Kanban Management Professional-1(Lean Kanban University)
• SAFe Agilist 4.0 (Scaled Agile Framework)
• Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance)
• Sun Certified Java Programmer (Sun Microsystems)

Career History

• Cognizant Technology Solutions (May 2015- till date)
• IBM India Pvt Ltd (Sep 2005 – Apri 2015)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers India Ltd (Jan 2002 – Aug 2005)
• Ind-Telesoft Pvt  (Jul 2000 – Jan 2002)
• Energy Solutions International (formerly WLA India Pvt. Ltd) (Jul 1999- Jul 2000)
• The Energy and Resources Institute (Jul 1996- Dec 1998)

Education

• M.Tech (Power & Energy Systems) - National Institute of Technology, Karnataka
• BE (Electrical & Electronics) - BVB College of Engg, Hubli,

Other Highlights/ Accomplishments / Notable Achievements

•  An active member as a blogger, writer in agile discussions groups on LinkedIn, ScrumAlliance and Quora. Also a freelance-trainer
• Emerging Leaders Program – Jun’17
• Coaching as Leadership Style Program – Aug’16
• AHM 250 Certification (internal) – Jul’15
• Consulting - Experienced to Expert – Apr’14
• PM 10G - Project Management Training – Aug’10
• Power of Ownership and Drive for Achievement – Jun’09
• Thesis Presented “A Neural Network Based Controller for Power System Stabilization”, (Dr. A. Srinivas & Ganapati Siddheshwar) at the National Symposium on Power System Instrumentation & Control, CPRI Bangalore – 1996

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND PRIOR EXPEREINCE DETAILS

1. As a Coach for the CognizantBusinessCloud based product development in Clinical Performance Management arena in Life Sciences domain

• Brought in the cadence - aligned the product releases across the tracks bringing in the different stakeholders to consensus
• Restructured the team of 60+ members across locations into cross-functional scrum teams - implemented Daikibo Framework
• Coached the teams on agile mindset, estimations and commitments, thereby building high performing teams, which was evidenced through the quality metrics - sprint after the sprints
• Worked across the product teams for defining, documenting the roadmap, release plan and validation plan

• Worked on implanting SAFe for a major Healthcare Product team– May’15

• Design and development of the artifacts, documentation and training on the best practices and processes as per the SAFe
• As the scrum master of the SAFe-architect team –developed the architectural runway for the flagship product ‘Facets’
• Collaborated across the teams and RTEs for the release planning, backlog grooming and execution review in cadence with the ART

 

1. With IBM India as a Smarter Commerce Project Manager; For a major Telecom client from Germany took up the agile assessment for the program – Jul’14

• Came up with the transformation roadmap for the agile adoption
• Conducted phased trainings to the teams through class room, virtual/ online sessions, and workshops
• Mentored teams on agile practices for the successful agile adoption

• Lead the enhancement and support for the client – a product company in banking. – Jan’14

• Established the ceremonies, estimation, review process
• Defined DoD and DoR -  reviewed the backlog and acceptance criteria
• Provided the decision inputs on the ‘Spike’ sprints to achieve PoCs/ prototypes
• Provided regular updates to the stakeholders on the state of agile implementation and adoption
• Brought in the DevOps practices for build and test automation

• Managed the production support for the e-commerce portal of a major retailer in UK, built on WCS V7 2012-13

• Applied Kanban practices to manage the incidents, analyzed the value streams to optimize the flow. Ensured that the service levels are met
• Developed SOPs, Lead the multi-location team, to migrate of client’s UK website from WCS V5 to V7
• Provided client, the business critical support during the major events called Mega weeks. Client has credited the team for helping the record sales increase of 131% on their site in 2012

• For a major logistics company from France, lead the complex web development project on cargo scheduling and loading optimization. Feb’11

• Advised the client/Product Owners on transitioning into agile model in terms of release planning, capacity planning, backlog grooming, tools selection and team structure
• Setup/configured the Rational Team Concert for the team, Maven for CI and Sonar for code review
• Addressed the challenges around refactoring, backlog re-prioritization and agile mindsets

• As an Agile Project Manager, kick-started an FOAK agile project for an audit-analytics product company from Canada - Sep 2010

• Prepared SoW, wrote the MoU, managed the project transition from onsite. Brought the project into steady state within 3 months
• Worked as the Scrum of scrum master for the multi-disciplinary scrum teams
• Established the delivery and process frameworks, mapping IBM's processes with client's practices

Conditions of Satisfaction from the client has rated the project as “Exceeding expectations”

• Lead the development of a strategic and business critical product as the Scrum Master for a major Healthcare PBM company in the US – 2005

• Transformed the project from conventional SDLC to agile, showcasing that by the target release, the project could complete 120% of the baselined requirements; with 40% lesser effort
• Implemented Continuous Integration and Delivery; worked also as the Build Master
• Honored with CIO Excellence Award from the client        

Other Accomplishments

• Defined the processes for a product development in clinical metadata management
• Competency development/ CoE activities, contributed to client visits, floor walks and project demos
• Recognized as an SME for product reviews
• Developed RFP on Lean six sigma for an insurance client in US

 

1. With PricewaterhouseCoopers India as a Consultant with deep domain expertise, worked on IT enablement assignments in the Energy sector as part of the Power Sector Reforms across different states in India – 2002- 2005

• Analyzed client’s business processes, understood the functional and non-functional requirements to develop the solution frameworks
• Developed business-intelligent database applications, built on Oracle 8i/9i, Forms, reports, D2k and Java; followed XP Practices
• Accomplished all the aspects such as installation, configuration, troubleshooting, testing at the client locations
• Training need-assessment and developed instructional contents
• Developed implementation and test strategies, built the user acceptance criteria, coordinated with clients for the acceptance
• Reviewed client’s IT infrastructure, doing the gap analysis
• Prepared technical proposals against the Tenders, RFPs and EOIs
• Demonstrated working PoCs and COTS products evaluation

1. Lead the team at Ind-Telesoft for a major mobile service provider in UK, developing a web based intranet application – Jul’00

• Received Bravo award (2000) and Thanks award (2001)

1. Worked on developing new functionalities and feature enhancements for the flagship product of the company - WLA India Pvt Ltd., Gas Load Forecaster a neural network driven demand forecast system. As a Developer worked on developing neural net algorithms, learning sets and training

Started the career with TERI Bangalore. Worked on energy conservation studies and energy audits across various industries in India as a team member

Technical Skills

Agile: Scrum, XP, SAFe, Kanban, Daikibo, TDD and Spotify

DevOps Tools: VersionOne, Rational Team Concert, JIRA, Jenkins, Maven, GitHub, SVN, TeamCity, Sonar,             Checkstyle, PMD, JUnit, JMeter

Web: Java, J2EE, Oracle ADF, Websphere Commerce V7, GWT, Spring, Struts, Cocoon

IDEs: Eclipse, JDeveloper, RSA, RAD,

Database: Oracle, LDAP, LN Domino

Web: JMeter, ClearQuest,

Middleware: Nectar (Corba Compliant broker), XML, Domain models, MQ

Version Control: Rational Clearcase, Harvest

Project Management:  MS Project

Others: Oracle D2k, TOAD