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|[pic] |Manoj Khani |

| |Agile Coach |

| |manojkhani@ / 310-401-3057 / Santa Monica, CA |

Manoj can provide value to your Agile implementation:

• at the organization level, to help determine the right Agile methodology

• at the portfolio level, to help define value streams and improve flow of value to customer

• at the program or team level, to increase Agile maturity and performance of teams and release trains, by applying agile principles, practices, knowledge of transformational challenges and solutions

Summary:

SAFe Agile Coach with 10+ years of Lean Agile Development and Transformation experience

• SAFe Coach and Program Consultant (SPC4) with extensive experience leading successful agile transformations in large enterprises

• Structured guidance at Team, Program and Portfolio level for Agile Transformation and Sustainability to achieve empirical improvement in delivery, quality and employee engagement

• Big room SM/SP/PMPO/SA trainings with workshops and team building exercises

• Hands on experience running PI planning for new and existing ARTs (Agile Release Trains) in order align to common goal and mission

• Coaching ART execution via multiple ceremonies for Teams, Program and Solution

• Lead/establish L.A.C.E (Lean Agile Center of Excellence) for lean governance and program success

• Lead/establish Community of Practices (COP) for Scrum Masters, Products Owners, Architects

• Prioritization (WSJF), User Story definition (INVEST), Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CICD) and Release on Demand coaching for shortest sustainable lead time to market.

Certifications:

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SAFe Program Consultant

Release Train Engineer

Product Owner Product Manager

SAFe DevOps

Scrum Master SAFe Agilist

SAFE Practitioner

Appendix with details

AT&T / El Segundo, CA Dec 2018 – Present

Program Coach – Shared Services in SAFe Large Solution configuration

▪ Transforming and coaching 13 software delivery teams to be Agile in a shared agile-waterfall environment

▪ Help teams become self-organized and adopt agile practices for planning, prioritization and execution

▪ Lead/assist PI planning, maturity assessments, DevOps implementation and COP/SoS/Product Sync ceremonies

AIRFIND / Santa Monica, CA Jan 2018 – Dec 2018

Agile Product Management – Agile product development to create 8+ native android B2B apps

▪ Defining, planning and leading success of an international team of engineers using lean agile development principles

▪ Instituted agile principles like weekly sprint planning, regular release cadence, daily standups and JIRA tracking

▪ Added 2 news apps to the product portfolio, build in record time and passing android CTS/GMS requirements

ELIASSEN GROUP / Reading, MA July 2016 – Dec 2017

SAFe certified PO/PM, Agile Coach and Client Delivery Lead for AT&T and

Team Coach – Integrated Offer Platform @ AT&T El Segundo, CA / 4 months

▪ Problem assessment and solution training across large cross-sectional teams of full stack engineers

▪ Prepped the IOP team through their first Agile Release Train (ART) planning, backlog definition and estimation

▪ Coached product owners, scrum master and team members on story points estimation, release cadence, retrospectives, sprint planning and grooming to successfully complete the first every art wide planning

▪ Co-ran SAFe for Teams and SAFe PMPO training for ART team members

Product Consultant – Manhattan Beach, CA / 3 months

▪ Define MVP for first ever online marketplace for reclaimed paper backed by Voith

▪ Lean agile development for solution validation, website development and conversion optimization

Product Coach – Don’t Fear the Web @AT&T El Segundo, CA / 12 months

▪ Product coach responsible for teams optimizing and delivering image content for IOS and tvOS

▪ Worked closely with PM and POs to institute Lean Agile practices and transition from Waterfall development

▪ Coached standups, user story writing (Invest), story pointing estimation, backlog refinement using WSJF etc

KAPPTUR / Playa Del Rey, CA 2014 - 2016

Founder – Developed PhotoPanda, a photo storage optimization iPhone app, which outranked Google Photos in Asia and was featured on iTunes in over 12 countries

▪ Released MVP in 12 weeks within record budget, hiring and managing a distributed team

▪ Iteratively improved user engagement with 17 version updates in 12months to bring average sessions times to 13min

▪ Generated a consistent revenue stream via in-app purchases

M-GO (acquired by Fandango) / Culver City, CA 2013 - 2014

Product Management, Smart Devices – Led the product redesign of MGO’s Smart-TV streaming app as PM and Scrum Master for Smart TVs, releasing a noticeable improved version that increased customer engagement & NPS

▪ Built and managed the product roadmap for MGO’s streaming app for Samsung and LG smart TVs

▪ Managed and prioritized backlog and led daily standups for a team of 4 developers, 2 designers and QA

▪ Successfully worked through stringent partner guidelines to release the apps in aggressive deadlines

▪ Used Conviva and in-house analytics for success validation and features decision based on data

▪ Established an onsite usability lab and administered first set of interviews for consumer feedback on prototypes.

PAWALLA INC. (Birchbox for Pets) / Culver City, CA 2012 – 2013

Head of Product and Customer Acquisition – Joined as Director of Product and was promoted to become part of the executive team that raised over $500K in seed funding

▪ Improved the ecommerce transaction rate by 66% within the first 3 months, by simplifying steps during checkout and adding product recommendations

▪ Grew user engagement by ~15% over 6 months by improving user onboarding and updating product’s look & feel

▪ Developed product roadmap, identified success metrics, generated creative briefs, wireframes and user stories

▪ Email: Created email campaigns, customer segmentation and optimized Open & Click-thru rates

▪ Affiliate: Developed and managed campaigns with over 500 affiliates via PepperJam and Integrate

▪ Facebook: Grew fan base 5X with optimized post promotions, page likes and newsfeed advertising

YELLOWPAGES / Glendale, CA 2010 – 2012

Sr. Manager, Search & Decision Experience – Overhauled search engine to lead it to #2 in Local Search rankings and optimized YP’s online ‘Search Decision Experience’ UI.

• Product owner for YP’s local search platform that handles over 2B search requests annually

• Hired and managed 2 Product Managers and led a team of 8 engineers, 2 designers and 5 QA specialist to rank YP’s search at #2, ahead of competitors in the market

• Major UX optimizations include “Chain Collapsing” on web and “Restaurant Finder” for iOS

• Ideated, led and built a New ranking system to re-iterate ‘Best Match’, moving away from traditional 5-star visualization. Socialized the project and built consensus by pitching progressively up to C-level team

• Managed roadmap, defined KPIs, quarterly targets, and managed 2 product managers on the team.

/ Beverly Hills, CA 2007 – 2010

Technical Manager, Search & Discovery – Transitioned to Product Management by submitting product ideas, features benefits and product requirements to the head of the MySpace product management team.

• People You May Know (PYMK) – Created and iteratively improved a people recommendation engine that generated personalized recommendations. Grew the feature from a small test email campaign to a permanent module for over 400MM profiles; improving friending by 40%

• Video Recommendations - Created personalized content recommendations module for MySpaceTV to drive a 15% improvement in CTR over curated “Popular suggestions”

• Image Search – My first consumer product launch, where I helped identify the opportunity and defined requirements. The product was built within 6 weeks and brought in about 1MM new searches/day

• Partner Manager for ads team to optimize search and text ad placements on all Fox Interactive Media websites

EarthLink, Inc. / Pasadena, CA 2005 – 2007

Lead, Quality Assurance

Progress Software Corporation / Nashua, NH 2001 – 2005

Software Engineer II, Development Tools

Education:

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, Lowell, MA

Master of Science in Computer Engineering

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, PUNE UNIVERSITY, India

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Mentor, Fonder Institute Los Angeles Chapter (20+ startups) 2016 – Present

Founder, The Kayak Club Meetup Group (1000+ members) 2016 – Present

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