Krishna Juluri
Guelph,ON
Summary
Accomplished Agile leader with a proven track record of driving organizational performance towards strategic goals. Expertise in guiding and coaching diverse teams, integrating Agile methods, mindsets, and best practices. Proactive and team-oriented attitude with strong analytical and interpersonal skills. Committed to delivering quality and excellence. Mentoring all levels of the organization, encouraging self-organizing teams, instilling the Agile Mindset, and fostering a culture of transparency and accountability. Successfully coached and mentored Scrum Masters, Product Management, and other team members to deliver faster with sustainable pace, high quality, and innovation, resulting in high-performing teams.
Strong leader and problem-solver dedicated to streamlining operations to decrease costs and promote organizational efficiency. Uses independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success.
Collaborative leader partners with coworkers to promote an engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings.
Proficient leader delivering encouragement and feedback to help employees be successful. Energetic professional with great poise. Well-trained in coaching and mentoring.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Manager, Solution Delivery
Cox Automotive
12.2022 - Current
- Organized cross-functional teams using Value Stream Mapping and used lean methods to identify and eliminate waste.
- Facilitated roadmap planning for Enterprise Infrastructure teams (Database, Storage, Compute and Network)
- Orchestrated core team synchronization for effective discovery, prioritization, and planning.
- Risk Management and mitigation plans.
- Work with my peers across Solution Teams to develop Enterprise Agile Delivery Metrics.
- Establish and maintain strategic relationships with stakeholders to build a highly valuable program backlog for funding and prioritization.
- Instill prioritization and planning processes across the delivery stream and system.
- Worked with Program and Project managers to plan and complete infrastructure integrations during Mergers and Acquisitions.
- Provided strong leadership to enhance team productivity and morale.
- Delivered large-scale Infrastructure projects and introduced new systems, tools, and processes to achieve challenging objectives.
- Facilitated virtual, in-person, and blended learning sessions.
Agile Coach
Cox Automotive
12.2021 - Current
- Coach enterprises in lean software development processes and practices (SAFe, Scrum, Scrumban, and Kanban) and facilitate adoption and transformations at Portfolio, Program, and Team levels across domestic and global teams.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided the necessary training to create a positive mindset toward Agile methodologies.
- Collaborated with the coaching COE to design standard practices, assessment templates, training sessions
- Embrace the Agile mindset, advocate and champion Agile across the organization by challenging, coaching, and guiding teams using Agile and lean principles.
- Provide creative solutions to Agile transformation opportunities, resistance to change, resource constraints, conflicting priorities, and lack of accountability.
Agile Transformation Coach
Cox Automotive Canada
05.2019 - 12.2022
- Established Program and portfolio Intake processes, canvases and served as an Agile Transformation Coach leading the transformation from Waterfall to Agile framework/methodologies for 20+ teams
- A transformation agent that implemented value streams using Scaled Agile across the organization to escalate value delivery and drive relentless improvement
- Coached leaders, teams, RTE’s, Scrum Masters and Product Owners/Managers on the scaled approach to agile
- Building a top-down and bottom-up support of scaled agile delivery
- Tailored SAFe to the organization’s needs, building an approach that could grow as our teams matured
- As a certified SAFE Practice Consultant (SPC), I teach and certify leaders, Product and Engineering team members and colleagues via Scaled Agile training to extend and promote a lean-agile mindset
- The courses I teach on demand are: Leading SAFe, SAFe RTE SAFe Practitioner, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, and SAFe for Scrum Master, SAFe Advanced Scrum Master and SAFe Lean Portfolio Management
- Partnered with different levels (across the organization) to drive opportunities for value delivery acceleration across the organization
- Built Value Stream Maps and used lean methods to identify and eliminate waste
- Coach enterprises in Agile scrum and lean software development process and practices (SAFe, Scrum Scrumban, and Kanban), as well as facilitate adoption and transformations at Portfolio, Program and Team levels across domestic and global teams
- Worked as part of the organization’s PMO to lay standard processes, define roles and responsibilities of Scrum Masters, RTE, Project Managers and Program Managers
Release Train Engineer
Cox Automotive Canada
04.2017 - 05.2019
- Ensured alignment by making visible the committed features, enablers, and capabilities and publishing a dashboard of team delivery during each increment
- Partnered and worked directly with other Release Train Engineers to manage dependencies across solutions and deliver capabilities
- Led PI Planning activities across multiple Release trains
- Organised and facilitated ART Sync, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos
- Facilitated continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture on teams
- Perform root cause analysis through Organizational and Team Assessment to understand gaps and challenges that the teams and organization are experiencing to help them focus on improving areas of weaknesses
- Community of Practice (CoP)
Scrum Master
Cox Automotive Canada
03.2014 - 04.2017
- Help teams fully understand the Agile principles and values as the key drivers to successful Agile transformation as well as providing soft skills training to help them overcome resistance to Agile and fully adopt it using strong decision-making and problem-solving skills
- Facilitated release planning and dependency management with Software Development Manager and teams
- Organized and coordinated the following ceremonies for both Scrum and Kanban teams: Sprint planning, estimations, Daily stand-ups, Backlog refinement, reviews/demos, and retrospectives
Project Lead, Quality and User Acceptance
Dealertrack Canada
04.2010 - 03.2014
- Monitored project progress, identified risks and took corrective action as needed.
- Facilitated workshops to collect project requirements and user feedback.
- Established new and improved QA processes by developing test processes, test cases and assigning and executing tests.
- Analyzed quality management system metrics to identify trends, lead improvement projects and prepare third-party inspections and audits.
- Established and updated QA processes and metrics in line with industry best practices and project goals.
- Acted as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases by providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally.
Quality Assurance Analyst
Freelance Consulting
06.2005 - 04.2010
- Reported progress, test metrics and results to project stakeholders.
- Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes, and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
- Kept scripts and test cases updated with current requirements.
- Advised developers on problems with databases, performance and other issues.
- Incorporated delivery requirements into planning of testing schedules.
- Demonstrated creativity and resourcefulness through the development of innovative solutions.
- Recommended changes and corrections to developers for optimal software performance and usability.
- Completed in-depth usability testing on Windows, Android and iOS mobile devices.
- Evaluated function, performance and design compliance of every product against design standards and customer needs.
Education
Bachelors in Computer Applications -
Kanpur Vidyapeeth
IndiaMaster of Engineering Management - Management
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON04-2026
Skills
- Leadership
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Agile Transformation
- Agile Training
- Value Stream Mapping
- Team Formation
- Solution Delivery
- Organizational improvement
Certification
- SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Release Train Engineer (RTE)
- Agile Coaching Certification (ICP-ACC)
- Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
- Scrum Master (CSM, SSM)
- Certified Product Owner (CSPO)
- PMI-ACP
- Certified Agile Leadership (CAL)
Timeline
Sr. Manager, Solution Delivery
Cox Automotive
12.2022 - Current
Agile Coach
Cox Automotive
12.2021 - Current
Agile Transformation Coach
Cox Automotive Canada
05.2019 - 12.2022
Release Train Engineer
Cox Automotive Canada
04.2017 - 05.2019
Scrum Master
Cox Automotive Canada
03.2014 - 04.2017
Project Lead, Quality and User Acceptance
Dealertrack Canada
04.2010 - 03.2014
Quality Assurance Analyst
Freelance Consulting
06.2005 - 04.2010
Bachelors in Computer Applications -
Kanpur Vidyapeeth
Master of Engineering Management - Management
University of Ottawa
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