Kumar Abhishek

Kumar Abhishek

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Program Manager at CGI| SAFe Agile Professional| Digital Transformation

  • Education

    • Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT)

      1997 - 2001
    • Sikkim Manipal University of Health, Medical and Technological Sciences

      1997 - 2001
      Engineer’s Degree Electronics and Communications Engineering First Class with Distinction
    • Sunstone Business School

      2014 - 2015
      Post Graduate Program in Management
  • Experience

    • HFCL Satellite Communications Ltd.

      Jan 2002 - Jan 2003
      Project Engineer
    • IBM

      Jan 2004 - Jan 2005
      Software Engineer
    • CGI

      Jan 2005 - Jan 2014

      Worked as Project Lead providing Application Management services to a large Canadian Telecom customer.I have been involved in the successful transition of a suite of telecom applications from onshore to offshore.My roles and responsibilities include:1. Project Management activities in day to day operations.2. Incident Management.3. Problem Management.4. Customer facing, recommendation proposals, service planning.5. Mentoring and coaching to new members of the team.6. Status meetings with the higher management about the project planning and delivery. Show less

      • Lead Analyst

        Jan 2012 - Jan 2014
      • Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer

        Jan 2005 - Jan 2012
    • Covansys

      Jan 2005 - Jan 2005
      Associate - Projects
    • CGI

      Dec 2014 - now

      Key Responsibilities: • Overall Project Lifecycle Management• Project & People Management Activities• Acted as Scrum Master for Product teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work• Assisted teams to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes• Planning, Estimation, Budgeting, co-ordinating among multiple stakeholders• Worked closely with business product owners and development teams in backlog management and continuous delivery of features• Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog• Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings• Coaching and mentoring other Scrum Masters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams• Successfully managing different development Projects with following technologies Angular, Dot Net, VueJS, SQL Server, Oracle and MongoDB• Issues and Risk Management• Performance Metrics’ and schedule management• Client interface and reporting Show less Key Responsibilities: • Overall Project Lifecycle Management• Project & People Management Activities• Acted as Scrum Master for Product teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work• Assisted teams to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes• Planning, Estimation, Budgeting, co-ordinating among multiple stakeholders• Worked closely with business product owners and development teams in backlog management and continuous delivery of features• Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog• Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings• Coaching and mentoring other Scrum Masters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams• Successfully managing different development Projects with various technologies• Issues and Risk Management• Performance Metrics’ and schedule management• Client interface and reporting Show less

      • Senior Delivery Manager & Agile Coach

        Apr 2018 - now
      • Delivery Manager & Scrum Master

        Dec 2014 - Apr 2018
    • SAESIF

      Mar 2016 - now
      Angel investor

      Sunstone Alumni Early Stage Investment Fund (SAESIF) is started by the Sunstone Business School Alumni with an objective to fund Tech(Mobile & Internet) startups. We mostly write very early stage cheques to startups in MVP or Pre-MVP stage.contact me & send your plans at: talktoabhi26@gmail.com

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • ITIL V3 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

      Jan 2012
    • IBM Certified Database Associate DB2 UDB Family

      IBM
      Feb 2010
    • Certified SAFe® 6 Advanced Scrum Master

      Scaled Agile, Inc.
      Mar 2024
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    • Certified SAFe® 6 Agilist

      Scaled Agile, Inc.
      Mar 2024
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    • Certified SAFe® 6 Practitioner

      Scaled Agile, Inc.
      Mar 2024
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    • Certified SAFe® 6 Product Owner/Product Manager

      Scaled Agile, Inc.
      Mar 2024
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    • SAFe Practitioner

      Scaled Agile, Inc.
      Aug 2018
    • Certified Scrum Master

      Scrum Alliance
      Mar 2016
    • Certified SAFe® 5 Release Train Engineer

      Scaled Agile, Inc.
      Mar 2023
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    • Post Graduate Program in Management

      Sunstone Eduversity
      Jan 2015