Sibi Mathew

About Sibi Mathew

PROFILE SUMMARY:ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP-ACC), Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®) and Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®), with good experience in Agile principles & values through Scrum framework. Over 20 years of IT Project / Program Management Experience, along with expertise on ITSM processes & procedures, through ITIL framework. Experienced in bringing in Agile Transformations to client engagements and have a passion to coach and build teams thereby establishing the Agile mindset. Rich experience in Banking & Financial Services Domain and executed complex projects across geographies such as India, USA, Brazil, UK, Europe, Singapore. Highly result oriented professional with strong interpersonal & organizing skills, creating a positive influence on the team. An excellent project administrator, always willing to take on new challenges and a good learner. SPECIALTIES:IT Program & Project Management | Agile Implementation | Service Delivery (Incident Management)|Client Relationship Management | Change & Release Management | Team Building, Training & Development | ITIL Best Practices | Budgeting & CostingCORE COMPETENCIES:Delivery Leadership Skills: Excellent Delivery Leadership capabilities and extensive experience in managing 200 + team sized engagement in Managed Services (End to End) mode. Extensive focus in bringing Operational Efficiencies for respective engagements; benchmarked value-adds & innovations that saved considerable costAgile Implementation Skills: Rich experience in overall product roadmap by articulating and translating Agile roadmap into team specific release planning and sprint planning. Incident Management Skills: Contributed as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Banking & Savings Division for a top UK client; administered Incident & Problem Management stream as Delivery Support Manager (DSM). Drove industrialization & automation by ensuring process implementation across accounts namely ITIL, Business Process Modelling & ITIL Processes.Project Management Skills: Skilled in project planning, effort, design, scope, estimation, resource coordination and delivery as per specified timelines and Quality Control, through PMP processes. Team Building Skills: Strong facilitator who facilitates Scrum Ceremonies within Agile Transformation team to launch, train teams and manage team building activities Transition Management Skills: Performed Due Diligence activities & Formulated Transition Plan using internal tools and framework, on the areas where knowledge needs to be transferred from incumbent vendor

Experience

1. Associate Director

   Virtusa

   Jul 2021 — Present · Chennai, IN

   Heading client product engagements specializing in ERP, Customer Engagement & Healthcare domains, with end-to-end delivery ownership of projects, operations & bringing growth to the accounts.• Responsible for bringing in Delivery Led Growth (DLG) to all accounts under the segment, by identifying client challenges, defect-free project delivery, quick turnaround of niche skills.• Responsible for P&L & Budgeting for all the accounts under purview. Brought in innovative ideas to reduce costs that resulted in an annual increase of margins for all accounts, for current financial year. • Owned & drove responses to RFPs for new Logos and also new business from existing clients. Expertise in Delivery models, pricing models, Governance, Solution Drivers, Drafting rate cards. • Directed a team in upgrading Java Spring Boot from version 2 to 3.2.2 across 17 microservices as part of a Virtusa project for the client. Executed and managed the migration of SQL Server and Oracle databases to PostgreSQL for.NET and JAVA applications, transitioning from on-premises to AWS Cloud. Skilled in executing SQL queries on databases as required.• Spear-headed upgrade of an entire reporting platform from IBM Cognos version from 10 to 11, thereby automating the process of migrating the entire platform onto AWS cloud, through DevOps process.

Education

• Union Christian School

  High School, Maths & Science

  1995 — 1997

• University of Madras

  Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  1997 — 2001

Skills

• Service Delivery Management
• Program Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Cmmi Level 5
• Ibm Mainframe
• Business Development
• Itil Process
• Team Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Software Project Management
• Operations Management
• Onsite-Offshore Delivery Model
• Application Support Management
• Transition Management
• Pre-Sales
• Assembler
• Global Delivery