Lakshmi Easuwaran
Sydney, Australia
My certifications

Certified Team Coach™

Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster

Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner

Certified ScrumMaster®

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
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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)