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NAKUL KEDAR

Melbourne,VIC

Summary

Accomplished Delivery Lead with a passion to drive agile delivery for key projects across multiple businesses. For over 8 years, I have formed teams with a high performing culture to ensure the delivery of outcomes with the use of agile methodology and project management principles. I have extensive knowledge in technology development from ideation to delivery and have coached and led teams across the entire end to end journey. Being a certified Scrum Master & Iteration Manager along with years of Agile experience, I thrive on helping individuals, teams/squads and organisations understand their impediments and how to best support them on their journey. My strength lies in building relationships, understanding context and people to apply pragmatic techniques and approaches to deliver on outcomes.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Delivery Lead / Iteration Manager

SEEK
06.2022 - Current
  • Delivering SEEK’s Unification Project in 2023 leading Sales Force Marketing Cloud team to deliver new enhanced technology across Asia Pacific
  • Coordinated with external vendors to deliver IT project components
  • Established teams/squads to enforce project timelines & deadlines
  • Implemented agile practices/principles to drive quality project delivery
  • Coordinating cross-functional teams in Asia to resolve project issues and mitigate risks
  • Providing detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management
  • Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects
  • Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives

Release Train Engineer

NAB
10.2021 - 06.2022
  • Facilitated all projects within NAB's Home Ownership Domain, helping teams implement new and better ways of working using Agile frameworks and methods
  • Demonstrated the ability to facilitate Agile release execution through progressive elaboration of breaking down large units of work into epics and features for Scrum Masters and their teams to deliver iteratively
  • Worked effectively in fast- paced environments meeting tight deadlines

Project Manager / Scrum Master

NAB
01.2018 - 10.2021
  • Implemented and coordinated the development of NAB’s lending applications through inception, enablement and end to end delivery
  • Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress
  • Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases
  • Researched current trends to stay knowledgeable in Scrum methods.

Senior Project Analyst

NAB
01.2016 - 01.2018
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria
  • Performed gap analysis to identify areas of improvement
  • Assessed systems for efficiency and functionality, providing written suggestions on enhancements needed to meet operational goals
  • Wrote, updated and maintained project documentation
  • Generated reports for project progress and performance.

Business Analyst

NAB
01.2014 - 01.2016

Education

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance

La Trobe University
Melbourne, VIC
06.2011

Skills

  • Agile Project Delivery
  • Lead Teams
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Resource Management
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Documentation & Reporting
  • Stakeholder Collaboration
  • Effective Communication
  • Highly Competent in JIRA, Confluence, Rally, Miro

Accomplishments

  • Successfully mobilised and mentored a cross-functional team of +30 resources to deliver quality technology leading to significant revenue increase
  • Leading and coordinating multiple scrum teams across Asia Pacific to deliver significant technological change at SEEK
  • Enforced scrum principles, facilitated continuous improvement and removed impediments in complex projects
  • Successfully coached teams on management of project financials through workshops, showcases and presentations
  • Tracked performance of projects against project plans and provided weekly status updates to executive team
  • Enforced scrum principles with tools available (JIRA, Rally) to reduce cycle time of user stories by 25%

Timeline

Delivery Lead / Iteration Manager

SEEK
06.2022 - Current

Release Train Engineer

NAB
10.2021 - 06.2022

Project Manager / Scrum Master

NAB
01.2018 - 10.2021

Senior Project Analyst

NAB
01.2016 - 01.2018

Business Analyst

NAB
01.2014 - 01.2016

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance

La Trobe University
NAKUL KEDAR