Anand R.-SASM/Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
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Senior Agile Transformation Coach/RTE & SAFe Senior Scrum Master
Arcelormittal
- Senior Agile Transformation Coach and SAFe Senior Scrum Master as part of an enterprise-wide Lean-Agile transformation, focusing on organizational development, delivery excellence, and value-driven product development.
- Responsibilities
- Coaching leaders, Product Owners, and development teams to embed a Lean-Agile culture sustainably
- Supporting the organizational transformation from project-based structures to value-stream-oriented product organizations
- Building high-performing, self-organizing teams with clear accountability for results and continuous improvement
- Establishing transparent delivery processes to improve predictability, throughput, and business value
- Identifying and removing systemic organizational obstacles to improve end-to-end value flow
- Managing and optimizing collaboration across teams and dependencies in a scaled SAFe environment
- Advising management on the development of agile organizational structures, governance, and decision-making processes
- Promoting data-driven decisions through the use of relevant delivery and flow metrics
- Supporting continuous improvement at the team, ART, and organizational levels
- Promoting a culture of ownership, transparency, collaboration, and continuous learning
- Tools/Methods
- SAFe, Lean, Scrum, Kanban, Azure DevOps, PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, Flow Metrics, Value Stream Thinking, Leadership Coaching, Servant Leadership, Continuous Improvement, Stakeholder Management
Freelancer Scrum Master, Mentor and Strategist
Confidential Fintec Startup
- Provided coaching and support to Scrum teams to adopt and implement agile practices effectively
- Analyzed business requirements and identified IT solutions to support business goals
- Evaluated existing IT systems and processes to identify optimization opportunities
- Managed stakeholder relationships and coaching
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and ensured adherence to Scrum principles and practices
- Identified and implemented lean startup process improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of development and business processes
- Developed and monitored daily business strategies to ensure development goals were met
- Developed and implemented OKR strategies to align team goals with company objectives
- Tools/Methodology: Jira, Confluence, Miro, PowerBI, team building & mentoring, conflict resolution, impediment resolution
Senior Scrum Master, Freelancer
RTL+
- Migrated and consolidated reporting and BI project from AWS to Google Cloud
- Coached and served as Scrum Master for two SAFe teams within the same release train
- Coached Product Owners and business analysts on writing value-driven user stories
- Coached teams on agile ways of working and prioritization
- Managed stakeholders and coordinated cross-department dependencies
- Coached on writing user stories and acceptance criteria, and on estimation
- Facilitated daily business operations with continuous improvement
- Led PI planning and defined business objectives based on OKRs
- Tools/Methodology: Jira, Confluence, Miro, PowerBI, SAFe, PI planning, OKR objective definition, DOD/DOR monitoring, backlog grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, test-driven development
Freelancer Senior Scrum Master
NordLB (Landesbank Nord)
- Coached and served as Scrum Master for three data integration teams migrating from legacy systems to SAP HANA
- Implemented DevOps processes and test-driven development
- Facilitated Scrum of Scrums coordination
- Coached Product Owners and business analysts on writing value-driven user stories
- Coached teams on agile ways of working and daily continuous improvement
- Tools/Methodology: Jira, Confluence, Miro, PowerBI, SAFe, PI planning, team mentoring, backlog grooming, performance monitoring, retrospectives
Freelancer Senior Scrum Master
Deutsche Telekom
- Coached and served as SAFe Scrum Master for three teams within a release train
- Analyzed business requirements and developed functional and non-functional requirements documents
- Collaborated with stakeholders to ensure developed solutions met their needs
- Managed stakeholders and refined features, epics, and user stories
- Implemented quality assurance and test management processes
- Established a continuous deployment system and led PI planning
- Coached on prioritization, user story splitting, estimation, and agile processes
- Tools/Methodology: Jira, Confluence, Miro, SAFe, PI planning, OKR definition, DevOps, MoSCoW, DOD/DOR monitoring, backlog grooming, sprint planning, test-driven development
Freelancer Interim COO
Prodanet GmbH
- Served as agile coach, SAFe RTE, Scrum Master and product owner
- Coached management, development and sales teams on agile mindset and practices
- Implemented quality assurance and test management processes
- Managed risk, controlling and team building initiatives
- Facilitated stakeholder management and conflict resolution
- Implemented loop approach for transformation and automated testing to support continuous deployment and release on demand
- Led multiple agile programs and teams across India, Spain and Germany
- Tools/Methodology: Miro, PowerBI, SAFe, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, Office365, lean process optimization, conflict resolution, retrospectives
Freelancer Product Owner Anti Financial Crime
Deutsche Bank
- Served as product owner for anti financial crime initiatives
- Managed stakeholders and architecture of name list screening system
- Handled requirement and backlog management, MIS architecture optimization and tuning
- Acted as liaison to business units and performed analysis for screening and batch processing
- Designed MI reporting for investigators and test plans with execution
- Tools/Methodology: Jira, Jama, Confluence, Miro, PowerBI, Scrum of Scrums, Fircosoft, backlog grooming, user story and epic definition, sprint planning
Head of IT Operation and Business
ucs.consulting
- Served as senior Scrum Master and product owner
- Managed stakeholder relationships and coaching
- Headed sales, operations and waterfall program management
- Led IT architecture team and set up disruptive ecommerce team from idea to revenue generation
- Defined targets and strategies and built winning teams through hiring and integration
- Created self-controlling operation system, monitored ROIC path and fine-tuned KPIs
- Tools/Methodology: Jira, Confluence, Miro, PowerBI, Scrum of Scrums, Azure DevOps
Head of Enterprise eCommerce (SAP-hybris Practice)
Embitel Technologies
- Led team of 35 SAP-hybris developers and architects for B2C retail and telco implementations
- Hired and trained 25 Java Spring resources with 12 obtaining SAP-hybris certification
- Managed Scrum and waterfall hybris ecommerce project with €1.4m budget
- Achieved 85% of sales target in Q3 2014-2015 and maintained >85% efficiency with 32% profit margin
- Reduced attrition rate to below 6%
- Managed 25-member non-hybris team developing core ecommerce platform MB3
- Led implementations of Bigbazar and Hometown ecommerce platforms in India
- Tools/Methodology: Jira, Confluence, Miro, Scrum of Scrums, Office365
Business Head (Head of Delivery)
Uniqueware GmbH
- Led agile and waterfall project managers and teams developing BI and reporting applications for BFSI
- Administered operations to outperform annual objectives and delivered projects on schedule
- Conducted project planning, scoping, activity sequencing, estimation, tracking and contingency planning
- Executed project controlling to meet cost and time targets
Business Head
Extentia Information Technology
- Headed European business unit with 60 developers and 10 project managers
- Managed marketing, strategic planning, project execution, pricing, contracts and customer relationships
- Established quality assurance team and test simulation environment
- Built organizational structure, acquired over 10 clients in one year, and trained project managers on German work culture and risk management
- Achieved high client satisfaction and guided team on time, budget and quality delivery
Managing Partner & Head Software Development
Exited GmbH
- Headed software development department and oversaw marketing and pre-sales activities
- Managed ongoing projects, hired teams, established outsourcing partnerships and executed delivery
Senior Technical Architect & Project Manager
Postbank Vermoegensberatung GmbH
- Set up IT environment including call center, CRM, consulting portal and data warehouse integration from scratch
- Led feasibility project for platform, technology, architecture, CRM and portal selection
- Managed development and integration of CRM system, online/offline interfaces and daily data processing
- Liaised with external consultants and internal teams on data modeling and architecture
Technical Architect & Project Manager
Credit Suisse
- Managed project, technical and application architecture for CRM integration
- Played key role in core banking system GLOBUS implementation and external asset management portal
- Led team of 100+ stakeholders, controlled time, budget and quality
- Developed portal for external asset managers and finance consultants, and created local disaster recovery plan in Germany
Senior Consultant, Project Manager
FACT Unternehmensberatung GmbH
- Developed advanced software tool for asset and investment controlling for insurance companies
- Evaluated assets, simulated market and currency risk scenarios to support decision making
- Led implementation of tool for major insurers: R+V, Victoria, Mannheimer, Swiss Life, Gerling
- Developed portfolio optimization and reporting tools based on Reuters portfolio management system
Software Developer
Prodanet GmbH
- Designed and developed a facility management controlling application for Deutsche Flugsicherung
- Programmed online/offline catalog systems for an electronics dealer and a driver for Windows 95
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Experienced in Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Retail, Telecommunication, Insurance, and Aerospace and Defense.
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Experienced in Project Management, Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Operations, and Marketing.
Summary
Extensive experience in executing full life-cycle development projects; ramping up projects within time, budget & quality parameters, in line with Lean Agile project management and best practice guidelines
A competent professional with nearly 30 years of experience in: Lean Project Management, Delivery Management, Lean Startup, Strategic Planning, Six Sigma, Technical Architecture, Test Management, Risk Analysis, Quality Assurance, SCRUM Master, Product Owner, Scaled Scrum
Expertise in Program and Project Management: Extensive knowledge of program/project management, software development processes, and associated tools.
Agile Development Expertise: Proficient in SAFe and Scrums of Scrums agile development methodologies.
Team Leadership: Demonstrated excellence in leading global teams to design, integrate, and implement software solutions across various domains and technologies, consistently achieving goals.
Operational Efficiency: Successfully achieved average resource efficiency above 85% with a profit margin of 32% through optimized operations and project planning for offshore e-commerce development.
Comprehensive Project Management: Skilled in all aspects of project management, including planning, requirements management, design, architecture, estimation, resource management, and project completion.
Cross-Cultural Team Management: Strong ability to manage cross-cultural teams and build high-performance teams. Proficient in program/project management knowledge areas, software development processes, and associated tools.
Skills
Project/Program Management/Agile And Lean Delivery
Agile Lean Management
Business And It Analysis
Resource, Demand And Capacity Analysis
Leading Process Improvement Projects
Statistical Project/Process Data Analysis
Developing And Delivering Lean And Six Sigma Methodologies, Tools, And Techniques
Okr Strategy
Using Ai To Optimize The Agile Process
Design & Systems Thinking
Scrum Master And Product Owner
Modern Innovation Management And Agile Development
Agile Coaching And Implementation Of An Agile Mindset In The Company
Building High-Performing Teams With Servant Leadership
Defining A Process For Continuous Deployment And Release On Demand
Facilitating Discussions On Mvp
Empowering The Team
Test-Driven Development
Implementing Scrumban
Identifying And Mitigating Agile Anti-Patterns
Test And Quality Management
Networking With Top Management, Designing Effective Communication Solutions, And Analyzing Information And Data Related To Relevant Areas For Business Growth
Overseeing Project/Program Transitions To Offshore, Including Conducting Feasibility Studies, Defining The Transition Engagement Process, And Preparing/Framing An Onsite-Offshore Model
Completing Project Fielding/Deployment On Time And Within Budget
Mapping Requirements And Providing The Best Solutions, Including Evaluating And Defining The Project Scope And Finalizing Project Requirements
Leading It Operations And Managing Customization, Implementation, Maintenance, And Support Of The E-Commerce Platform To Provide A User-Friendly And Customer-Centric Application
Designing The Execution Model Within A Project Scoping Document, Including The Design, Specification, And Integration Of Software Products In Various Customer Environments
Handling Consulting, Technical Architecture, And Application Architecture, Along With People And Technology Management
Leading Large Teams By Empowering And Engaging Every Stakeholder In The Success Story, And Using Innovative Control Mechanisms To Improve Efficiency
Well-Versed In Technical And Application Architecture, Enterprise Application And Portal Technology Design, Sql, And Databases
Operating System: Windows, Linux
Networking: Lan/Wan, Radius, Firewall, Tcp/Ip, Router, Penetration Test, System Audit, It Security
Programming Language: Assembler 8086, Visual Basic, Vba, Java, Javascript, Shell Scripts
Database: Jdbc, Ms Sql Server, Mysql, Oracle, Odbc, Sql
Architecture: Mvc, Microservice
Framework: J2ee, .Net, Sap-Hybris
Tools: Ms-Project, Jira, Confluence, Azure Devops, Miro
Project Management: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban
Process Management: Lean And Six Sigma, Process Modeling, Statistical Simulation
Languages
Education
University of Applied Science, Frankfurt
B.Tech., Electronics · Electronics · Frankfurt, Germany · 2
Lohia University
BSc (Bachelor of Science) · Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics · Faizabad, India · 2
Certifications & licenses
Certified OKR Professional
Prompt Engineering For ChatGPT
Vanderbilt Universitaet USA
Statistics
Experience
Global experience
Expertise
Qualifications
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Anand is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and prefers 100% remote projects.
Anand speaks the following languages: Hindi (Native), German (Advanced), English (Advanced).
Anand has at least 33 years of experience. During this time, Anand has worked in at least 15 different roles and for 15 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 1 month. Note that Anand may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Anand would be well-suited for roles such as: Senior Agile Transformation Coach/RTE & SAFe Senior Scrum Master, Freelancer Scrum Master, Mentor and Strategist, Senior Scrum Master, Freelancer.
Anand's most recent position is Senior Agile Transformation Coach/RTE & SAFe Senior Scrum Master at Arcelormittal.
In recent years, Anand has worked for Arcelormittal, Confidential Fintec Startup, RTL+, and NordLB (Landesbank Nord).
Anand is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Banking and Finance, and Retail. Anand also has some experience in Telecommunication, Insurance, and Aerospace and Defense.
Anand is most experienced in business areas like Project Management, Information Technology, and Business Intelligence. Anand also has some experience in Strategy, Operations, and Marketing.
Anand has recently worked in industries like Banking and Finance, Media and Entertainment, and Manufacturing.
Anand has recently worked in business areas like Business Intelligence, Project Management, and Strategy.
Anand holds a Bachelor in Electronics from University of Applied Science, Frankfurt and a Bachelor in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics from Lohia University.
Anand has 7 certificates. Among them, these include: Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Certified OKR Professional, and Certified Scrum Master.
Anand will be available full-time from January 2027.
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