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Lakshmi Easuwaran

Sydney, Australia

My certifications

Certified Team Coach™ badge
Certified Team Coach™
Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster badge
Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster
Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner badge
Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner
Certified ScrumMaster® badge
Certified ScrumMaster®
Certified Scrum Product Owner® badge
Certified Scrum Product Owner®

About

About

  • Australia’s first woman to be awarded Certified Team Coach and 7th in Australia.
  • Most likely, first woman from product management discipline to be awarded Certified Team Coach.
  • 2021 Women Leading Tech national level award winner in Engineering category organized by BandT
  • Believe and practice being a “Leader as a coach” to anchor business agility and enable teams to focus on product innovation and customer focus.
  • Senior product management / product ownership leader that delivers results for customers
  • A passionate leader that has created a huge positive impact at the Organization level in terms of operational excellence, productivity, innovation and process improvements
  • High-performing, fast learning senior leader with advanced development, Delivery, QA experience.
  • Successful track record of charting a path and making decisions with ambiguity and limited information
  • My agile coach manifesto - I want to bring the best version of people to make invaluable human systems enabling organizational agility.

Career highlights

  • Currently working as a chief product owner for a team of ~450 and an Agile Coach at Telstra
  • A decade of product ownership experience across multiple business domains and technologies
  • Incubation of persistent capability scrum teams by being their product owner and an agile coach
  • Instrumental in leading test strategy by creating a robust test framework for embedded systems, enabling huge cost savings.
  • Achieved enormous cost savings by reducing source code compilation time from 50 minutes to 15 minutes across the entire business.
  • Implemented continuous delivery for embedded domain across the entire business.
  • Managed product strategy, research, development, and testing for multiple customer-facing teams.
  • Improved SDLC and operational processes that improved customer satisfaction with reduced costs.
  • Served as a coach and mentor to Managers, Team leads, Engineers to inspire better productivity
  • Highly skilled at managing projects with both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
  • Keynote speaker on various topics like Product Ownership, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, women in tech, etc

Experience and services

  • Career history

    • 2018-11-01 - present - Telstra (Chief Product Owner )
    • 2000-08-02 - 2007-01-31 - Covansys India Private Limited
    • 2007-02-01 - 2007-12-31 - Hewlett Packard (Project Manager)
    • 2008-03-17 - 2013-04-30 - NDS Services Pay-Tv Technology Private Limited (Program Manager)
    • 2013-05-03 - 2017-07-07 - Cisco (Scrum Product Owner)
    • 2017-08-21 - 2018-07-22 - Telstra (Product Owner and Team Coach)
    • 2018-07-23 - 2018-10-31 - Telstra (Agile Coach)