Dynamic, creative and accomplished professional with over 24 years of experience. Lean & Agile Coach in Michelin and Intrapreneur in Michelin Innovation Lab.
Trusted change agent who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders. Efficient team leader with strong interpersonal skills, problem solving, relationship management and leadership capabilities.
Excellent coaching, mentoring, facilitation & training skills, conducted certification training for SAFe Product Owners, SAFe Scrum masters, Six Sigma Green Belts, Lean facilitators, Lean practitioners and Internal auditors for ISO & CMMI. Conducts agile, problem solving and behavioral training. Facilitates creative events for idea generation.
Expertise in scaled agile, lean, creative events, process improvement, quality management, project and program management. Deep understanding of Agile values and principles; expertise with methods such as Scrum, Lean, kanban and SAFe; rich experience in distributed agile development.
Expertise in CMMI-DEV/ SVC v1.3, ITIL v3.0, ISO 9001, ISO 20000, TL9000 and AS9100c.
Expertise in software design & development, steering projects and ensuring quality deliverable within time, quality and budgetary parameters.
Lead process & performance improvement through Lean and Six Sigma. Completed 5 Six Sigma projects & 23 Lean projects; some of the facilitated benefits Incoming ticket reduction led to team size reduction & benefit of $72,000 YoY. Customer satisfaction improved by reducing PRs/ SRD from 1.31 to 1.14 on avg. Quality SLA improved - 64% to 80%
Consistently achieving and driving results for clients from Automotive, Manufacturing, Banking & Finance, Telecom, Aerospace, Healthcare and Logistics industries.
Accelerate coaching based on DORA metrics to accelerate software delivery performance. Does coaching on SAFe, kanban and scrum transformations of teams. Growing progress competencies across the group to promote operational excellence. Coaching Six Sigma Green Belt Coaching on the certification journey.
Does Agile, Accelerate, Lean, Problem Solving, Design Thinking, SAFe training. Creates training assets. Does Ecodesign training for digital sustainable approach to minimize the impacts of digital activities on the environment.
Promoting innovation through creative events.
Managing change deployments using Michelin's PEAS method.
Created a team of 6 Lean & Agile coaches for Lean and Agile adoption in Michelin's IT Organization consisting of teams from France and Pune.
NurturingCommunity of Practise for Scrum Master and Product Owners.
John Mattone Global Intelligent Leadership Advanced Certified Coach (2025-04)
John Mattone Global Certified Intelligent Leadership Coach (2025-01)
Thiga Academy Product Strategy (2024-10)
Michelin Design Thinking Level3 (2024-02)
Michelin Entrepreneurship Level3 (2024-02)
Thiga Academy Certified Product Manger (2023-10)
Michelin Six Sigma Black Belt (2021-08)
Scrumorg Professional Scrum Product Owner (2020-09)
ICAgile ICP CAT(2020-07)
SAFe Agilist (2018-10)
Scrum Master Plus (2018-09)
Scrum Master (2018-07, 2014-03)
Lean Coach (2017-10)
Internal Auditor trainer (2017-08)
ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt
Wipro Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (2016-03)
ITIL V3 Foundation (2015-03)
QAI Certified Internal Auditor for CMMI Dev v1-3 and ISO 9K(2014-08)
Lean Facilitator (2013-01)
Wipro Project Management Certification, PMA1 (2009-03)