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Lakshmi Easuwaran

Sydney, Australia

My credentials

Certified ScrumMaster<sup>&reg;</sup> badge
Certified ScrumMaster®
Certified Scrum Product Owner<sup>&reg;</sup> badge
Certified Scrum Product Owner®
Certified Scrum Professional<sup>&reg;</sup> - ScrumMaster badge
Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster
Certified Scrum Professional<sup>&reg;</sup> - Product Owner badge
Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner
Certified Team Coach<sup>&trade;</sup> badge
Certified Team Coach

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

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