Ritesh B Chopade

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About Ritesh B Chopade

Ritesh Chopade is skilled, experienced & certified Agile Coach & Scrum Master with 16+ years in IT industry & practicing Agile for nearly my career. Creative and transformational leader with proven record of accomplishment in leading people, driving transformational change and delivering business value in complex business environments. He works closely with product management & business owners on product strategy, backlog & roadmap. He has worked on international client locations & is passionate about coaching with a flair for Agile & DevOps towards achieving the best of business value. Worked with onsite, offshore model with globally distributed teams from product & Service enterprise working in variety of technologies and domains. As an Agile evangelist, expertise in coaching & educating scrum teams as well as corporate clients by training, facilitating, coaching & consultation as needed.In current organization, apart from my individual contribution, I am also working as Agile practice Manager where-in I look after practice consultant placement & revenue tracking within various vertical projects. Performing reportee’s annual performance appraisals, working with sales team and support them on RFI & RFP. Also lead mass walk-in or specific hiring for practice in Wipro. Ritesh has experience in designing & guiding scrum team for DevOps framework CI-CD pipeline and monitoring processes within project. He brings hands-on experience in building, mentoring & managing day-to-day execution of project teams, end-to-end product development, tracking to production deployment including Development, Testing and continuous integration through Jenkins. Indian & Overseas Projects / Clients worked with:Water NSW (WaternDomain, Australia)- Agile Transformation project.Telstra (Telecom Domain, Australia)- Agile Transformation project.Credit Suisse & HSBC (Banking Domain, India)- Agile Transformation project.Manulife Financials -(Insurance, Canada)- Upgrade & testing assignment. Fairchild Semiconductors -(MFG, Singapore)- Migration project.Frameworks & Expertise:• Agile Project Delivery Management (Scrum, XP, Kanban)• Setting up new Agile teams, training them in Agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban• Well versed with Agile & DevOps Maturity Assessment framework• Experience in creating improvement plan for teams based on Agile Maturity Assessment• Expert in Agile Management tools like Jira, Azure DevOps