Vamsee Kumar Ar

About Vamsee Kumar Ar

A dynamic professional with around 18 years of experience with Product Delivery, Program Management, Release Train Engineer, Scaled Agile Framework, Healthcare, software development, People Management and Project management experience and take on challenging new roles. Global Capability Center (GCC) leader with a proven track of growth management, digitalization, transformation. Proficient in executing the strategies, defining the product capabilities, building and leading the cross functional teams, problem solving, senior stakeholder management and always envisions business and technical perspectives to develop workable solutions.Successful at motivating teams to meet demanding timelines. Specialized in organically building the cross functional teams from scratch. Leadership style knownto embody a passion for people, culture, growth, innovation, technology and Digital to transform business with ultimate goal of value creation to Roles and As a Delivery manager Leading a Span of 100+ FTE and 30+ contractor associates and proven ability to lead Agile teams for complex deliveries.• Vendor Management – Handling the delivery with multiple vendors like Virtusa, Cognizant, UST Global, Wipro etc.• Talent Management – Organically grown the Agile teams from 0 to 15 teams by associating with around 10+ TA partners like Naukri, People 360, StatusNeo, CareerNet, Growth Mode, Gigvistas etc.• Program manager for the ART of size around 200 and successfully ran around 20 PI events with 30+ Major initiatives, 100+ features delivered.• RTE (Release train Engineer) working as a servant leader to ensure that the Agile teams on the NextGen ART meet their Sprint Goals and PI Objectives.• Extensive understanding of agile methodology, techniques, frameworks (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban) and agile tools (such as Jira, Jira Align, Rally and Confluence).• Communicative and social - Excellent interpersonal and group facilitation skills including the ability to work with diverse stakeholders.• People management like Goal setting, Projects/Timesheets allocations, Shift allocations, Performance evaluations, Attrition management.• Leading the Objective and subjective metrics of the entire solution train and key player in arriving the score cards of all the agile teams.• Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation, theater and so on to help the team become a high- performance team.

Experience

1. Associate Delivery Manager

   Carelon

   Apr 2022 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   As a Asst Delivery manager managing a team size of 100+ FTE and 30+ contractors from multiple vendors and accountability of their deliverables• Program manager for the ART of size around 200 and successfully ran 10+ PI events with 10+ Major initiatives, 300+ features delivered.• RTE (Release train Engineer) from Offshore who’s tracking the deliverables of around 15 Scrum Teams under the NextGen ART.• People management like Goal setting, Projects/Timesheets allocations, Shift allocations, Performance evaluations, Attrition management etc.• Part of Way forward accountability initiative leading 2 tracks Retention and Own & Deliver• Part of Organizational initiatives like ASE training, Hiring and ASE utilization.• Leading the Objective and subjective metrics of the entire solution trainand key player in arriving the score cards of all the agile teams.• Responsible for enacting SCRUM values and principles: facilitate DailySCRUM meetings; Facilitate Sprint Planning/Grooming sessions; Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives; Maintain JIRA scrum boards, Kanban Boards and Dashboards for NextGen Application• Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation, theater and so on to help the team become a high- performance team• Empower the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings• Manage all Scrum boards and Kanban Boards• Leads the teams’ efforts towards continuous improvement• Status reports to leadership like Weekly, Bi-Weekly, and monthly report.

Education

• Sri Venkateswara University

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science

  2002 — 2006

• Trinity Convent

  High school

  1995 — 2000

• Sri Chaitanya College of Education

  Board of secondary education

  2000 — 2002