Background
An experienced trainer and consultant in Project Management and Agile Methodologies (since past 4 years)
- About 18 years of overall professional experience
- Worked with Fortune 500 IT services organizations like Cognizant Technology Solutions, as well as IT product organizations like SunGard
- While employed with Cognizant, was responsible for a portfolio of projects, worth more than $15 million
- Managed big, complex global IT projects and programs having teams spread across goegraphies
- While working for Sungard, was responsible for setting up an offshore team from scratch, for one of the flagship products of Sungard
- Rich experience of working closely with customers around the globe
- Was deputed for assignments in USA and Europe
- Has been involved hands-on in transition of projects from traditional waterfall to agile (scrum)
- Practiced agile methodologies like Scrum and techniques like Kanban
Consulting and Training
- Coached agile teams for various s/w product development and services organizations
- Facilitated training and coaching assignments on Agile / Scrum, XP practices like continuous integration, TDD, BDD. Also done assignments for MSP, Six-Sigma, PMP and PMI-ACP certifications
- As a freelance trainer / consultant, associated with more than a dozen training organizations in India and abroad for conducting training and consulting
- Have developed course contents for PMP, PMI-ACP, microsoft project and various other specific project management training requirements
- Delivered assignments for various customers across different industries and domains
- Experience of delivering assignments, within India as well as internationally (Dubai, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong)
- About 18 years of rich experience in IT project management, international exposure, agile project management capabilities and ability to unfold complex concepts in simple language
- Always strive to make any facilitation a “learnriching” experience for the participants.
Sachin is an engineering graduate from Govt. College of Engineering, Pune (COEP), with Post Graduate Diploma in Finance from SIBM. He is a PMP ®, PMI-ACP® – Agile Certified Practitioner, both accredited by PMI USA. He is a PRINCE2-Practitioner ® accredited by APMG. He is also a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Certified Scrum Professional (CSP).
Training Experience:
Note: Most of the following assignments have been done in association with some training organizations, with whom I have been associated.
| Consulting, Coaching and Training | Indicative assignments done in various organizations… |
|---|---|
| Scrum Coaching & Consulting | (Scrum assessment) Giesecke & Devrient, PointCross, (Scrum coaching) UK based education domain product company, Canada based telecom product company, A telecom domain product company, (Handholding for TDD and Scrum) Cognizant Technology Solutions |
| Agile / Scrum / TDD training | A telecom domain product company, ACI worldwide, JPMorgan Chase, Amazon (Hyd), Principal Financial Group, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Talentica, The Digital Group, Datavision, Media Ocean, PointCross (life sciences domain), Adtran, Maxima IT Consulting, Mumbai based product dev, engineering and consulting services company, IT captive of US based healthcare company, IT captive of US based telecom giant, an outsourced product development company in Pune, big Japanese brand names, Vadodara based product development company, Chennai based outsourced IT product development firm, A big brand in supply chain and logistics software products, Open house workshops (within and outside India) |
| Microsoft Project (MPP) | FundTech, Western Coal fields Limited, Mid-size IT services firm (Hyd), Consulting firm based out of Malaysia, Big IT product company, big Japanese brand names, German pump manufacturing unit based out of Pune, Mid-size firm in infrastructure projects, Open house workshops |
| PMP Exam Study Facilitation | World leader in industrial automation, Foreign government institutions, big IT captive unit of insurance & reinsurance, IT captive of leading UK bank, Sears holdings, mid-size outsourced IT product development company, IT captive of a telecom company, Design Tech, Open house workshops (within and outside India) |
| PM Orientation & Fundamentals | Refineries (NRL), Amazon (Chennai), India’s big brand in security solutions, FMCG & Engineering industry, Mid-size IT services firm, big IT product company, Big brands of industrial automation domain, Mid-size IT services firm (Hyd), Big Japanese brand names |
| PMI-ACP Exam Study Facilitation | JPMorgan Chase, Open house workshops (within and outside of India), Software services firms based in India and Dubai and Oman |
Certifications:
- Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Prince2-Practitioner
- PMP
- PMI-ACP certified