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Vice President/Lead Scrum Master at Wells Fargo

About

An accomplished and driven Technology Leader with extensive experience in delivering transformational IT programs for clients across multiple industries, including Financial Services. Successfully developed and delivered strategic and tactical business solutions aligned with strategic objectives. With expertise in Management, Program Governance, Digital Transformation & governance for complex multi-functional, geographically distributed, multi-site projects from inception to closure. Strong team builder and motivator who leads by example with a focus on integrity, transparency and accountability. Excellent communication skills combined with strong analytical abilities ensure a clear understanding of technology issues  Experienced Program/Project/Product manager with 20 years of expertise in managing and leading all phases of software development and digital transformation projects especially in the BFSI sector; ITIL Certified, CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER, SAFE Agile 5.1 and PRINCE2 Practitioner.  Exceptional Project and Program Management skills; successfully planned and managed multimillion-dollar projects, with focus on digital transformation, aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, gain competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.  Expert in waterfall and AGILE methodologies. Managed large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that within the specified timelines and budgetary targets. Executed several Agile projects successfully.  Accomplished People manager: Led teams from 4-60 people.  Outstanding work experience in top companies like Wells Fargo, Perot Systems(NTT Data), HSBC, IBM, Accenture, Deutsche Software and Kanbay, Datavail and Danske IT.  Successfully completed Post Graduate Diploma in Data Analytics from IIITB, Bangalore with 3.8/4.0 CGPA. Have executed projects on Machine Learning and AI using Python. GenAI Expertise: Hands-on builder of AI-powered products, having successfully shipped 3 production-ready Generative AI solutions from 0→1. Developed an Agentic AI system using LangGraph to modernize legacy COBOL applications into Python, a PM Copilot Chrome Extension powered by GPT-4o for generating PRDs, User Stories, and acceptance criteria, and a Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) Toolkit using OpenAI. Passionate about leveraging Generative AI to accelerate product development, enhance decision-making, and drive innovation in product management. Github link: Branches · https://github.com/nvijaykishore/ Portfolio: https://nvijaykishore.vercel.app/

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Sr. Project Manager at Wells Fargo, May 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 2 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India,  Managing multiple projects, including cloud enablement and digital transformation in the Treasury Management space  End to End Project planning, Resourcing, Budgeting and Risk Management of the project  Ensuring timely compliance of all deliverables and approvals  Effected successful stakeholder management and communication for successful project deliveries  Well versed in all the PM Tools and processes  Used Jira, SharePoint, Clarity (PLM) etc. to manage the projects successfully  Partnered with Product Owner to manage product backlog  Built strong will all stakeholders  Ensured the team followed all the processes for a successful delivery  Managed projects with all flavors. Mainframe, Oracle, .Net and Java

Vice President/Lead Scrum Master at Wells Fargo, May 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 2 mos, Hybrid

Development Manager at Danske IT and Support Services India Pvt Ltd, Feb 2018 - May 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bangalore,  Lead a team of technologists (18) working on Mainframe and Distributed technology providing production support to a range of Developer tools on Mainframe and off-Mainframe  Executed and directed multiple scrums in AGILE Methodology. Each Scrum was for a duration of 3-4 weeks.  Acted as an AGILE Coach to the new developers and testers.  Applied Risk Management techniques to manage risks at various phases of the project  Used ServiceNow and Tableau extensively  Used Agile tools like Atlassian and Jira to manage the Scrums and for reporting the same.

Practice Manager at Datavail, Aug 2017 - Feb 2018 · 7 mos, Bangalore,  Lead a team on DB2 DBA’s at offshore, working on multiple clients  On board new clients and work on the Knowledge transfer for the same  Lead and motivate team to adhere to SLA’s and provide RCA for any breaches.  Recruit and hire the best resources  Perform Performance Appraisals and provide feedback to the team members  Apply Risk Management techniques to manage risks at various phases of the project  Lead a team of 18 High Performing Tier1/2/3 DBA’s effectively  Incident Management was done using ServiceNow

Software Development Manager at Dell, Jun 2007 - Aug 2017 · 10 yrs 3 mos,  Planning and designing the program and proactively monitoring its progress, resolving issues and initiating appropriate corrective action  Defining the program's governance arrangements  Managing multiple projects in Agile and Waterfall, which digital transformation of their legacy projects  Acted as AGILE COACH to the developers and as AGILE evangelist to the Product Managers and Business Analysts  Ensuring effective quality assurance and the overall integrity of the program - focusing inwardly on the internal consistency of the program, and outwardly on its coherence with infrastructure  Managing the program's budget, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realized benefits as the program progresses  Led teams across geographies and technologies. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.  Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving business environments.  Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.  First line escalation point for Support streams.  Drove and implemented cost saving processes in Support and Development up to USD 1 million year on year  Mentored the team to come up with innovative ideas to improve the overall processes  Actively rolled out number of efficiency processes in the Support stream which brought down the overall cost and improved productivity  Honored with EXCEL awards by EXPERIAN and outstanding employee of the quarter couple of time.

Manager at HSBC, Nov 2004 - May 2007 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; USA, Co-ordinated effectively with various teams, to understand requirements and translate them into solutions mainly in BASE SAS, SAS ACCESS, SAS CONNECT, SAS IntrNet on Mainframe. Effectively led teams through full scale projects and helped increase the Cross Sell Business from $400 million to $1.3 billion. Drove various process improvements, resulting in huge savings to the client.

Education

Post Graduate Diploma in Data Sciences, Data Science, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, nagpur university