Yami G

Experience

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  Tennessee Tech

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2003

  Research Assistant and Student

  Emphasis on Software Systems, Communication and SIgnal Processing

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  Tallan

  Dec 2003 - Oct 2011

  Senior Technology Consultant, Top Contributor

  - Senior Web Applications Development and EAI/B2B Consultant with Tallan. - Client experience includes Disney, Ingram Micro, Talbots, Fedex Kinkos and Cashcall.- Six years experience with J2EE technologies in web applications backend development- Two years experience with EAI/B2B using Tibco Active Enterprise Suite

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  Springer Nature Group

  Oct 2011 - May 2013

  Agile Trainer, Technical Project Manager (Consultant)

  - Created a new IT vertical and built a tier 1 team of 10 members and a tier 2 team of 15 members comprising of managers, architects, tech leads, developers and QA through a strict recruitment process- Managing application development for IT Services wing including branding and administrative responsibilities.- Introduced Agile scrum methodology to manage the lifecyle of all web projects and introduced Test Driven Development to improve the quality of deliverable.- Created a training and mentoring unit for 10 junior developers.- Coaching and Motivational speaking Show less

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  John Deere

  Aug 2013 - Apr 2015

  Agile Coach (Consultant)

  • Working with the clients to set and communicate realistic expectations and ensuring that the team is making and delivering upon their commitments• Communicating project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies• Building, motivating, and partnering with high performing teams• Maintaining the fit and fitness of the team• Identifying, tracking, reporting on meaningful performance/progress metrics, and assisting the team in achieving performance goals• Facilitating continuous planning and communicating changes• Continuous Improvement• Working with the client as a trusted partner, suggesting innovative approaches to solving their business problems.• Identifying performance breakdowns and leading remediation• Working within the enterprise to pave the way for organizational changes. Show less

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  Hike

  Jan 2016 - Jul 2017

  XP coach (Consultant)

  - coach the core messaging stack teams on software craftsmanship practices- identify hotspots in the android client code base and apply refactoring and clean code techniques to reduce complexity, crunch and increase coverage- Help developers become more productive with CI/CD practices and automation- Develop an automated deployment pipeline by dockerising microservices-Helped facilitate container management through kubernetes. Also helped setup prometheus for container monitoring- team with other coaches in building a strong culture of process, behavior and software craftsmanship in line with the agile manifestoTech Skills: TDD, Clean Code, Refactoring to patterns, Docker, Git, Chef/ansible, Java, Spring, Hibernate, MongoDB Show less

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  Yara Digital Lab

  Sept 2017 - Aug 2018

  Agile Coach

  - Helping create structural changes for the lab to align with intrapreneurial mission within an enterprise.- Helping identify success metrics for the lab- Bringing together all stakeholders across different geographical solutions to the creation of one common backlog for agricultural as well as industrial solutions- Create a culture of innovation amongst team members

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  Flix

  Sept 2018 - Feb 2019

  Agile Coach

  Coached the McDriver team and helped align the backlogs of their different stakeholders into oneCoached the network and infrastructure team into becoming autonomous and introduced the kanban practice.Helped facilitate the agile journey workshop for two teams and co-hosted the org-wide fishbowl discussion on the results of this journey.Helped other coaches identify the OKRs for the agile coaching chapter

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  Personio

  Jul 2019 - Jan 2020

  Agile Coach

  At Personio I was hired as their first agile coach towards their journey towards agility at a time when they were just about to scale. In six months they have doubled their product and engineering teams and I was put to the challenge of scaling agility along with it. I coached four Product and Engineering teams, 2 at a time, in adopting scrum, kanban,etc. and brought in a culture of being pragmatic about which framework to choose. Some of the practices I was able to influence the org with are Pair programming, mob programming, red green refactor TDD cycles, clean code principles, etc. One of my most recent challenges which I am currently on is to create a common goal for their payroll vertical which comprises of three teams and structure a team around end to end value. My responsibilities at Personio include- Team coaching (2 teams at a time)- Health check and influencing management to act upon organizational level impediments- Help with OKRs for teams- Conflict resolution and mending disparate cultures in case of acqua-hired teams- Individual Coaching- Cross team collaboration Show less

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  Relayr

  Apr 2020 - May 2021

  Agile Coach

  - Coach the leadership with creating a matrix organisation to support cross-functional teams- Facilitate OKR workshops with the management and teams- Coach the core platform team into aligning their engineering and product vision- Help create alignment between sales and engineering- Coach the teams in measuring their progress towards agility

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  Boehringer Ingelheim

  May 2021 - Sept 2022

  Senior Agile Coach

  At BI I was to engage with the Agile Coaching chapter within their innovation hub called as BI-X and help coach at various levels. At the team level I took up coaching one of their teams that is building a clinical decision making tool to help bring in behavioral change among physicians towards shared decision making with the patients by adhering to the prescribed medical guidelines of the given country. Part of my accomplishment here was to help bind the team together and ensure working towards a common vision in the face of uncertainty they faced in building the tool when their initial hypothesis was difficult to prove. Another contribution of mine was to constantly question the application of regulatory measures on the tool while the tool was going through testing and pilot phase so that the team could focus on innovation and not slowed down by regulations before it matured into a product.At the chapter level I helped the company rethink their innovation channels to invite ideas from a global audience rather than from internal employees. I worked with their innovation scouting team in creating an end to end process of scouting and validating ideas that are revenue generating potential.At the chapter level I also helped bring in a culture of radical candor feedback giving to other chapters as well as teams.And lastly I contributed towards validating if agile coaching is an option to the rigid pharmaceutical manufacturing processes for a particular Business Unit Show less