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Vijay Iyer

New York, NY

My certifications

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

Title: Senior Delivery Principal

Vijay Iyer is a Certified Scrum Professional who serves ThoughtWorks as a Senior Delivery Principal since July 2005.    He has extensive experience in planning, managing and driving complex projects and multi-project programs in a wide variety of business domains and has successfully managed co-located and distributed delivery using scrum, XP and lean development techniques.  He is also accomplished in organizational agile transformation, running agile assessments, planning and executing large multi-project programs, and meaningful communication and reporting to C-level executives.

In general, his role at Thoughtworks involves the following day to day responsibilities:

  • Overall delivery assurance and managing project governance  (change & risk management)
  • Work with the product owner and development team on release planning, and ensure that the release plan meets the product roadmap
  • Plan team capacity for a sprint working with the development team
  • Assist business analysts, developers and testers in being more productive by removing blockers
  • Shield the team from tasks that are not relevant to the core deliverable
  • Facilitate scrum meetings (Daily stand-ups, retrospectives, sprint reviews and sprint planning meetings)
  • Manage project reporting out to external stakeholders/management
  • Single point of contact for scope vs. time vs. capacity impact analysis
  • Escalation point to program management of blockers
  • Define resourcing needs
  • Manage and co-ordinate dependencies with other products/projects/vendors

More specific project experience is covered in the work experience section

Experience and services

  • Career history

    • 2013-05-13 - 2014-03-28 - Healthcare improvement alliance in Charlotte, NC (Client of ThoughtWorks) (Delivery Principal)
    • 2014-06-02 - 2015-03-31 - Large supermarket chain (Client of ThoughtWorks)
    • 2015-09-14 - 2016-04-01 - Large multinational consumer electronics provider (Client of ThoughtWorks) (Delivery Principal)
    • 2016-04-04 - 2017-04-28 - Large financial services company in Wilmington, DE (Client of Thoughtworks) (Delivery Lead)