Mahendiran Periyasamy

 

• Certified Agile Coach, Project Management Professional (PMP®), PMI-ACP®, CSM®, CSP®, CSPO®, ICAgile Certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC), ICP-ATF, SAFE Agilist (SA), Lean Kanban TKP®, Certified Disciplined Agilist (CDA)®,  ITILV3F® and Six Sigma Green Belt (SSGB) with around 20+ years of Total IT experience, including13+ years of Project Management experience by leading/coaching distributed Agile teams & Corporate-wide initiatives like Lean, Agile, Six Sigma for various Fortune 100/500 companies/customers like FannieMae, GE Aircraft Engines, Humana, Allstate Insurance CareFirst Blue Cross, Blue Shield, eBay / PayPal, Syntel, Trigent, and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) on complex & large multi-project environments, including around 8+ years of USA & UK on-site experience with GE, Humana, Allstate, PayPal, CareFirst, FannieMae etc.

 

• Having Expertise in Agile Coach / Agile Scrum Master / Kanban Master / SAFe Agilist in SAFe Agile environment / Lean Champion and  Program/Project Management skills and strong expertise on multiple domain areas (HealthCare, Aeronautical, Production Planning, Loan Mortgage, IMM, Telecom, Financial, HR, etc.) with good understanding of Agile Scrum / Kanban, Extreme Programming, ITIL & Six-Sigma / Lean process areas on full life cycle implementation, Enterprise Data Warehousing,  BI, Maintenance, 24x7 Prod support, IT Pre-Sales, etc.

 

• Masters of Computer Science | Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India | 1997
• Bachelor of Computer Science | Nehru Memorial College, Bharathidasan University, Trichy, India |1995

 

• Project Management Professional® (PMP)
• PMI Agile Certified Professional® (PMI-ACP)
• ICAgile Certified Agile Coach® (ICP-ACC)
• ICAgile Certified Agile Team Facilitator (ICP-ATF)
• Certified Scrum Master® (CSM)
• Certified Scrum Professional® (CSP)
• Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO)
• Certified Disciplined Agilist® (CDA)
• Certified Lean Kanban – Team Kanban Practitioner® (TKP)
• Certified SAFe Agilist® (SA)
• Six Sigma Green Belt (SS GB)
• Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practioner – Certification In Progress   
• Corporate Trainer - Training teams on  PMP, ACP, Agile, Lean, Six Sigma Scaled Agile Framework 
• Conference Speaker  in PMI (USA & India),  Toastmasters and Educational Institutions /Colleges / Schools
• Trained Personal Coach  & Certified Teacher on Re-Evaluation Co-Counseling (www.rc.org)

 

Invited Guest Speaker in various Corporates, PMI and Agile Conferences/Meet ups including the below few

 

• Agile CoE Coaching Corner Webinars in FannieMae  (Recorded Session: https://tinyurl.com/ycr5amd6)

 

• University of Maryland : http://pmsymposium.umd.edu/pm2017/session/energiles-agile-coaching-skills-to-build-high-performing-teams-and-high-performing-organizations/

 

• PMI Baltimore Chapter - https://pmibaltimore.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=350:2017-professional-development-event-schedule-at-a-glance&catid=31&Itemid=125

 

• PMI Washington DC  - https://www.pmiwdc.org/session/agile-coaching-build-high-performing-teams-and-high-performing-organizations

 

• PMI Silver Spring Chapter https://pmissc.org/events-registration/chapter-meeting/may2017-dinner-meeting

 

• Agile Professionals of NoVA https://www.meetup.com/Agile-Professionals/events/239687437/

 

• Agile Leadership Network – Washington DC Chapter - https://www.meetup.com/Agile-Leadership-Network-ALN-Washington-DC-Area-Chapter/events/234656846/

 

Eliassen LLC, USA  (Client: FannieMae)                                                                            Mar 2016 – Till Date

Senior Agile Consultant (Scrum / Kanban / DevOps / Agile)           

 

Altek Information Technology Inc. (Clients: CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield FEPOC) Mar 2016 – Jul 2016

Agile Project Manager           

 

Syntel Inc., India/USA/UK (Clients: Humana, Allstate, PayPal, SMS/800, FedEx etc)       May 2006 – Feb 2016

Agile Project / Program Management - Agile Center of Excellence (CoE) & Coaching           

 

GE Global Technology Solutions (GE Aircraft Engines), Bangalore, India                Nov 2001 – Apr 2006

Business Analyst / Application Project Leader          

 

Trigent Software Ltd., Bangalore, India                                                                              Nov 2000 – Oct 2001

Software Engineer

 

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., Bangalore, India                                                                          Jan 1997 – Nov 2000       

Project Engineer Trainee / Sr. Software Engineer       

 

 

• Agile Transformation Consulting/Coaching through Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Hybrid Agile – Agile Facilitation, Coaching/Training for clients/teams/stakeholders at different levels of maturity-  across portfolios, programs and development teams  
• Part of Agile Center of Excellence (Agile CoE) – Agile Coaching/Training for clients/teams/stakeholders at different levels of maturity-  across portfolios, programs and development teams  
• Partnered with leadership, product development and delivery teams to identify and prioritize opportunities for implementing Agile and to achieve the goals of the Portfolio Programs and Projects
• Wearing multiple Agile Hats through applying the learnt skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, trainer, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency in day to day work
• As Enterprise Evangelist of Agile ceremonies, following practices and injecting values Through Scrum, Kanban, Lean and other eXtreme Programming (XP) Agile practices
• Lead Agile Transformation independently by working closely with leadership, product and delivery teams

 

• Agile Project Management/Tools: Rally, Jira, VersionOne, HP Agile Manager, MS Project, Agile GEAE Kintana/PMM, Clarity, SharePoint
• Methodologies / Process Areas: SDLC, Agile Scrum / Kanban, Extreme Programming, Disciplined Agile, Scaled Agile (SAFe), Six Sigma, LEAN, ITIL V3® 5D
• RDBMS: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle - 7.x to Oracle10g, MySQL
• Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Tools: SQL Server 2005/2008 BI, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS
• Other Tools: AppWorx, HP-Openview, PVCS, VSS, CVS, Eureka IQ Reporting Tool, Mini Tab & Data Warehousing tools – BI Publisher, Informatica & Cognos

Professional Awards

• Syntel’s SMART Value Award and SPOT Recognition Award from Syntel Corporate for efforts in PayPal’s Global Credit Expansion (GCE) project  - 2014
• 'ZAPP' Client Appreciation Award from GE Aircraft Engines for Enterprise Data Modeling - 2002
• Best Suggestion Award from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Aircraft Division recognizing Labor Productivity Savings of 400+ (Approx.) manual hours for solving Y2K bugs  – 2000
• Team Excellence Award twice from GE for meeting 100% SLA in stringent timelines - 2004 & 2005
• "CIO Appreciation Award" fromGE Aircraft Engines (GEAE) - 2005
• Appreciation Award from GE Aircraft Engines for leading the feasibility testing of migrating OSB from Oracle 7.x to Oracle 9i and for coordinating with UNIX / other application teams - 2004
• Appreciation Award from GE JFWTC EHS for bringing the safety at work  - 2005
• Created and facilitated a GE-wide Oracle SupportCentral Technical Knowledge Portal focusing Oracle CoE in GE with team of 150+ Experts &1600+ employee subscribers (ROI: $65750) with global recognition across GE – 2002 - 2006
• Played various Volunteer roles with local Project Management Institute (PMI) Chapters in USA and India. Also played the key role as core team for Syntel’s Project Management Community (SynPMCom), which facilities, collaborates and  coordinates various Project Management events.
• Speaker/Trainer/Workshop Leader in Corporates, Conferences, Professional Forums like Project Management Institute (PMI) India and US Chapters, Meet up Groups. Toastmasters International, Colleges and Schools
• Winner of Area Level Toastmasters International Speech Contests(in 2009, 2014 and 2015)& Table Topics Contests (2014 and 2015) in Louisville, KY and Baltimore, MD, USA
•  “Advanced Leader Bronze (ALB), AdvancedCommunicator Gold (ACG) Leadership and Communication Awards from Toastmasters International – 2008-2009
• Serving as Director of Communications / Social Media & External with PMI Baltimore Chapter
• Recognized with ‘Kentucky Governor’s Citation Award’ for the various community service projects in Louisville, KY, USA -2010
• Honored with “Kamarajar Award for the year 2005” for the various social initiatives including Tsunami Relief, Working with Orphanage Home, Physically challenged and for leading  ‘HelpingRoot’ which provides employment opportunities by guiding the 1000s of youth - 2005
• Co-Founder and Secretary for ‘Wings Of Fire’ (www.wingsoffire.net ), a national level social organization with the mission to make India as the Superpower Nation by 2020 – 2005 – Till Date
• GE Corporate Gerald Philippe Team Award for the project contributions with the GE Elfun Social Project ‘ Each One Teach One’ in bringing out the Computer Literacy to the downtrodden poor students - 2004

•  “Super Star : Most Valuable Volunteer Award" from Every1Reads Jefferson County Public Schools, KY USA - 2009
• Recognized by GE Volunteers Bangalore Chapter for the contributions on GE Corporate Social Projects including EOTO, SKID, LISTEN, NAB etc. and played the role as Project Leader by  managing a team of 75+ GE Employee Volunteers from various GE business Units in Bangalore - 2003
• Recognized with“Champion of Service – Syntel StarVolunteerAward”for initiating and leading Syntel’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) wing called S’Prayas in USA. Have also initiated few social projects in S’Prayas Chennai in the past and extended support to get other USA S’Prayas chapters started in Phoenix, Memphis, Chicago, Boston, etc.– 2008 & 2009
• Trained Personal Coach by Total Coach Inc, New York and Certified Teacher for Re Evaluation Co-Counseling (www.rc.org), which helps to coach teams and to guide team members to reach higher levels
• Serving as Area Director for North Baltimore area Toastmasters International clubs and also in the past served as Area Governor for Louisville Downtown (Area 66, Division F) through Toastmasters International - mentored the members/ clubs aimed towards Leadership & Communication excellence. Also served as Vice President – Education and other key officer roles for Humana Speaks Up – 2010, as Vice President – Public Relationsin Allstate Insurance SpeakEazys Club - 2013 and as Vice President – Public Relations / Membership in Valley Toastmasters, Hunt Valley, Maryland, USA – 2014 - 2016