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• A highly accomplished program manager adept at implementing innovative cross-functional initiatives, strategic direction, and leading high-performance teams. • Software Professional with 22+ years of experience - Specialisation in Program Management, Agile Methodologies, Scrum Master, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure, Networking, etc. • Responsible for leading high-performing Agile teams, applying broad-based technical, client-facing, and industry experience to deliver business-critical initiatives and support new strategic goals and objectives. • Handled multiple initiatives involving cross-component teams and brought to a successful delivery on time, with quality and with a good return on investment. • Managed the program component alignment to ensure that program goals are met and benefits are given to the greatest extent possible. • Ensured that a program's project is effectively aligned, integrated, and controlled through: program strategy alignment, program benefits management, program stakeholder engagement, program governance, and program life cycle management. • Responsible for identifying, managing, and mitigating project and team risks, as well as tracking projects against delivery metrics, preparing program review reports, external team communications, and delivering product demos, all while managing product scope and controlling scope creep during development sprints. • Facilitated Root Cause Analysis, Change Control Board management, Operational Reviews, Dependency Management • Kicked-off new initiative with the leadership, development team, and PMs. Moderated Re-Prioritization Meeting, Trade-Off management and clean escalations, • Developed and managed a project backlog in collaboration with several teams to understand the business needs, define and prioritize project requirements, and establish and maintain a project backlog. • Facilitating effective Agile team meetings: stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos while successfully managing the sprint backlog and key project elements - risks, scope, schedules. • Liaised between the Scrum Team and Project Management to ensure that user stories and acceptance criteria were clearly defined, understood and successfully implemented. Guided and coached the teams on Scrum and Agile practices consistent with team standards and helped them achieve their commitments and objectives day to day, sprint-to-sprint.