Vyankatesh Chakkarwar

VYANKATESH S. CHAKKARWAR India:- (P) Australia:- (S) Email:-Pune, India/Sydney, Australia Visa: Australian PR Professional profile Vyankatesh is an Entrepreneur and a seasoned management professional with over 16 years of experience in Banking & Finance, Mobile Telecom & Payments domain across various levels and successfully helped SME & MSME businesses scale up sustainably. He is a natural leader experienced in uplifting capabilities of Sales, Business, IT & Operations, to fulfill their potential and work as cohesive, highly committed self-organizing & self-directing teams - for driving the attainment of business goals. (E.g. increasing margin/profitability, scaling up business) Has an excellent track record of leading & delivering solutions and maturing/uplifting agility in the areas of Digital, Payments, BFSI and stringent Regulatory Compliance working with around 183 countries. He has sound business acumen and strategic approach that is vital for success when engaging at various levels within and outside customer’s organization. Vyankatesh is adept at building rapport and relationships with customers, business stakeholders, leaders and cross-functional teams and has a real interest in enabling organizations to deliver customer centric products in competitive markets. He has successfully delivered first in class programs (Budget 10M-30M) from ground zero to full grown application in a time mandated environment. Certifications: SAFe Agilist (SA), Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Agile Master Certified (SAMC), Scrum Master Certified (SMC) and Scrum Product Owner Certified (SPOC) Key Strengths and Skills Ownership of complete end-to-end portfolio of services offered to business users and customers. Uplifting customer experience and also efficiency by Custormer journey and value chain mapping and implementation. Continuous improvement through retrospection. Offering dependable, accurate and pragmatic MVP/MMF advise and options Work with product owners to apply SMART principles and prioritize per customer value Predictability measures, performance metrics, radiators, burndown charts, cumulative flows, Product Increment boards Transmitting and translating metrics into meaningful insights Collective process definition by teams to empower them with continuous improvement Facilitating teams through relentless continuous improvement: Build-Measure-Learn to ensure effectiveness through Retrospectives Forming motivated, collaborative self-learning and high performing tech and business teams and team of teams Help develop best practices to enable efficient scaled delivery (Coach for SCRUM, SAFe, KANBAN, FDD, TDD) Helping develop best practices to enable efficient scaled agile delivery to help grow agile maturity Ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery through effective planning of iterations Coach & Facilitate rolling wave planning across and progressive elaboration across different levels of planning & delivery Estimation, Velocity, to get precise on predictability Conducting organization wide trainings for teams on Agile framework, principles & practices Project Landscape: Payments (Digital Channel, NPP, Acquiring),fast paced, highly regulated Banking and Finance services (BFSI) global environment, FMCG Publication, Recognition & Affiliation Recognised by Management/Leadersand teams as preferred &most likable Coach Awarded “Sensible leadership and Partnership”, recognised as “Most likable Coach” Article on Agile Maturity Metrics: https://www.linkedin.com/hp/update/- Submitted Patent in Motorola’s innovation repository Member of PMI, Business Agility Consortium and Scrum Study Professional Experience Jul-2022 – Till date Business Growth Consultant India Summary: India has over 80% rate of failure for SME & MSME businesses and key aspects of these failures are likes of entrepreneur mindset change, Business process maturity, customer value based prioritization, need for high performing teams and team of teams to name few. Vyankatesh works with businesses to review their current context understand business goal & objectives and provide solutions. He works with businesses to train, coach and implement required changes. Recently he has been working with multiple businesses to setup their new ventures and also with businesses to achieve sustainable growth, social media marketing, customer engagement and experience journey, achieving profitability, business process improvements, setup teams from ground zero. Mar 2020 – Jul 2022 Portfolio Coach, Program Manager Sydney, Australia Summary: Vyankatesh is currently on career break, prior to that he was working as Program Manager for Business Lending division leading programs with budget of about 10-30mil for APRA’s regulatory obligations. He has worked as Portfolio Coach for business lending working with across Head-of level to individual teams in all horizontals like Business bankers, Business front-to-back office, IT development teams and Operations. Nov 2017 – Mar 2020 Consultant – Portfolio Coach Cuscal (Fastlane), Sydney Summary: Cuscal engaged Vyankatesh to uplift their value delivery capability of three portfolios (EFT, NPP & Digital Payments)each consists of two to three teams by using Lean, Scaled Agile, Spotify, Scrum & Kanban. Vyankatesh conducted various assessment, interviews and reviews to understand current context and conducted workshop to establish vision along with objectives to come up with roadmap for uplifting delivery capability. He has facilitated transformation of Business, IT and Operation teams. He was also part of initiative group and steering committees within Cuscal to contribute to organisation wide Agile transformation. He is also instrumental in facilitating Automation to compliment Agile transformation. Jun 2017 – Oct 2017 Agile Consultant SMS Management & Technology, Sydney Summary: Worked with SMS Management and Technology as Agile consultant in Advisory division working on Agile capability uplift, Development of structured framework for Agile transformation for one of the Australian giant enterprise. Framework is based on scaling of Agile, Lean, Kanban, Scrum, Change Management, various coaching techniques, adoption plan and feedback loop. SEPT 2008 – Mar 2017 Assistant Vice President CREDIT SUISSE, SINGAPORE Summary: Joined Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS) based in Singapore as Senior Software Engineer, quickly promoted to senior roles likes of Portfolio Coach, Senior Scrum Master, Program Manager. Successfully established portfolio comprised of Business, front/back office, IT and operations. Recognised by Director, stakeholders & team for proactive approach, sensible leadership and partnership Vyankatesh was engaged by Global Market division within Credit-Suisse to transform multiple portfolios to enable their capability of rapid and stable delivery which resulted in approx. 40% improvement in productivity of teams Developed self-organising cross functional teams, virtual organisation of teams (Portfolios) which resulted in early delivery of product and reduced process waste caused by silos and lack of alignment Post OTC clearing reform by Dodd-Frank, Credit-Suisse had engaged Vyankatesh to establish a brand new stream of work and portfolio for Post-Trade exchange links (Clearing of OTC, Options & FX STP). Option clearing using OCC schema for US options and FX Straight through Processing for real time reconciliation. Project nominated for 2011 Credit Suisse CIO awards Successfully delivered project from ground zero (Concept to Full grown) in iterative development using Agile framework enabling incremental delivery. Transformed team from Forming to Performing statein less than a Quarter and delivered 3 markets in less than 10 months since team inception Delivered Ultra-low latency software application with Time to Market (TTM) of 200 Microsec Industries first Algorithmic trading application for South-African stock markets Highly stringent compliance upgrade for exchange links connecting European, American and Asian Stock markets – Compliance bodies of 22 countries in the world Business driven first in class deliveries for Equities and Listed Derivatives markets APR 2008 – AUG 2008Senior Software Developer SAMSUNG MOBILES, India Role: Development of new feature for mobile UI Application and integration Maintenance of existing features and porting of different features for different products Unit Testing and System Testing; Documentation AUG 2005 – APR 2008Senior Software Consultant MOTOROLA (Client), India Integra Micro Systems, India Role: Development of new feature for mobile UI Library and integration of libraries for Motorola Mobiles Unit Testing and System Testing, Documentation Change Request, Problem Reports tracking and configuration management Qualification Post Graduate Certificate Course (6 months), Embedded Systems, Pune University, India Bachelor of Engineering (4 years), Electronics & Telecommunication, Amravati University, India