Sarthak Khurana Agile Trainer, Coach, & Consultant

sarthakkhurana@gmail.com | 206-718-6466

Sarthak can provide value to your Agile implementation:

at the enterprise level, determine a precise & strategic path to change

across the organization and ensure that adoption of Agile techniques are

agreed upon by the highest leadership of the organization.

at the portfolio or program level, help enhance educational-based

understanding of organizations to establish and continuously re-evaluate the

right set of processes are in place for managing a portfolio of work in an

Agile way.

at the team level, partnering closely with teams to ensure that delivery teams

are adopting Agile best practices and continuously improving.

Key Areas of Expertise

Scrum, SAFe, & Kanban

Coaching

Agile Project Management

Agile in Distributed Global

teams

Leadership Coaching &

Training

Defense & Aerospace

Systems Engineering

Agile Training Courses

Scrum for Teams

Advanced Scrum

DevOps Practitioners

Leading SAFe

Product Mgrs./Owners

Release Train Engineers

Summary

Sarthak has over 8 years of experience providing

delightful project management for Tier 1 projects,

direct ownership experience managing multi-million

dollar project budgets for Fortune 500, 100, & 10

companies. Industries served: Aerospace, Defense,

Transportation, Consumer Electronics, Entertainment,

Telecommunications, State & Federal Govt. to name

a few.

He has experience in managing large and small scale

offshore collaboration efforts of various magnitudes.

Proven track record of on-time, on-budget deliveries

with exceptional quality, high customer satisfaction,

results oriented leadership skills; he has the ability to

communicate an unambiguous roadmap, build

team comradery, and drive relentless improvements

within organizations.

Expertise in providing Training, Assessments at various

stages, providing & receiving feedback, and

coaching to a diverse set of people, that may be

challenging to co-exist with.

Sarthak has served at various leadership roles on

several dozen scaled software

Kanban for Systems &

Software Development

Teams

Agile for Leaders

development/deployment projects which included

screening of hiring people and leading several

thousand employees & contractors both directly and

indirectly across the globe.

Certifications

Prior Experience

Organization: The Boeing Company

Role: Enterprise Transformation Coach, and

Trainer

Organization: AT&T

Role: Agile Consultant, Coach, and Trainer

Organization – Thales USA

Role – Value Stream Engineer, Coach, & Safe

Agilist

Organization – Thales USA

Role – Principal Systems Engineer, Coach, &

Release Train Engineer

Organization – Thales USA

Role – Sr. Systems Engineer – Regional

Engineering Lead

Organization – Universal Avionics Systems

Corp.

Role – Flight Management Systems Engineer,

Team Lead

Organization – Zonar Systems

Role – Programmer, SQA

Education

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University|Bachelor of

Science, Electrical & Aerospace Engineering.

Daytona Beach, FL

Lake Washington Technical Academy|Associate of

Arts and Sciences

Kirkland, WA

Certifications

Safe Program Consultant

ICP-ACC

Safe Agilist

Safe Release Train Engineer

Safe Practitioner

Safe Product Owner/Manager

Safe Enterprise Admin

Advanced Scrum Master

INCOSE - CSEP

Safe Practitioner

FAA-CFR| Part 145

IPC-A-610

Toastmasters International – Distinguished

Toastmaster (DTM)

Appendix – Resume with details

The Boeing Company Apr. 2019 – Present

Enterprise Transformation Coach, & Trainer

• Coach stakeholders, leadership, and all members of the enterprise on the culture change required

to shift from a traditional to an Agile methodology and mindset at all levels.

• Establish, Lead, & Mature LACE (Lean Agile Center of Excellence) members.

- Launch and facilitate COPs.

- Create a customized coachee training plan.

- Provide training roadmaps for all roles via SAFe & Agile certification courses.

- Support hiring & onboarding of other coaches and ensuring “One Voice” values are maintained.

- Lead a team of 30+ consultants & coaches globally in a collaborative environment.

• Administrator organization and team maturity assessments at various intervals.

• Support tooling migration and trainings.

• Create Boeing proprietary agile white papers, best practices, & coaching aids.

• Provide SAI (Scaled Agile Inc.) feedback on 5.0 Alpha & Beta course development.

• Assist in generating and understanding key metrics. (Current and desired)

• Conduct various workshops (VSM, Capability/Feature/Story writing) to correctly realign each agile

release train and solution train.

Cape Project Management Inc. Mar. 2018 – Present

Principal Consultant, Trainer, & Coach

Helping train corporate teams on various agile methodologies and consult the development

maturity model of agile teams as an embedded coach to ensure measurable outcomes for the

organization. I am responsible for guiding teams, programs, and portfolios through the

implementation process by teaching relevant skills, tactics, and techniques; all while encouraging

workers and leadership to embrace the agile mindset.

Khurana Consulting Inc. Nov. 2018 – Present

CEO & President

Services include: Agile, Scrum, Dev(Sec)Ops, and Kanban - Digital Transformations - Training - Certifications - Coaching & Consulting - Enterprise Maturity Assessment(s) - Tooling expertise (Version One, Agile Craft, Rally, TFS, JIRA)

AT&T Mobility & Entertainment Oct. 2018 – Mar. 2019

Agile Consultant, Coach, & Trainer

Provide Unambiguous Documentation on Value Delivered to Support AT&T Mobility &

Entertainment Leadership.

- Professional, On-Time Deliverables

- Increase Transparency and Reliability

Build & Grow AT&T’s Internal Coaching Capacity.

- Develop an Internal Coaching Center of Excellence

- Develop AT&T into an Adaptive, Agile Organization.

Provide Agile Coaching - which includes coaching teams (at various levels) on both

implementation specifics, and agile mindset/practices in general.

- Leadership Assessment and Roadmap

- Training Plan, Incl. Train-the-Trainer Plan for Internal Coaching

- Executive Agile Coaching

- Agile Team Assessments

- Team Coaching Roadmaps

Coach and mentor in a CI/CD environment, from vision through implementation, monitoring,

and support.

Thales USA 2017 – 2018

Principal Project Systems Engineer, Coach, & VSE

Coach the executive leadership and various ART leaders on SAFe and Agile best practices and

methodologies.

Oversee and ensure all Engineering activities are in alignment with the business line.

Manage and optimize the flow of value through the ART and Solutions Train using various tools,

such as the Program & Solution Kanban’s and other information radiators.

Establish and communicate the annual calendars for iterations and Program Increments (PIs).

Lead PI Planning readiness by fostering the preparations of Vision & Backlogs, and through Pre-

and Post- PI Planning meetings.

Summarize the Solution PI Objectives and publish them for visibility and transparency.

Assist tracking the execution of Features and Capabilities.

Lead frequent synchronization meetings, including the ART sync at the program level and the

value stream sync for Solution Trains.

Coach leaders, teams, and management in Lean-Agile practices and mindset.

Help manage risks and dependencies between ARTs and overall Value Steam.

Unblock and track impediments escalated by RTEs.

Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks.

Review & Encourage collaboration between teams & System and Solution

Architects/Engineering.

Work closely with all Stakeholders to help ensure Strategy and Execution Alignment with the

Roadmap.

Facilitate System Demos & Solution Demos.

Drive relentless improvement via Inspect & Adapt workshops; assess the agility level of the ART

and Solution Train and help improve.

Foster Communities of Practice and the use of engineering and Built-In Quality practices.

Organize and lead workshops for individual bottlenecks via RCCA (Root Cause Corrective Action)

Thales USA 2016 – 2017

Principal Project Systems Engineer, Coach, & RTE

Establish and communicate the annual calendars for Iterations and Program Increments Facilitate Project readiness by fostering the preparation of Vision and Backlogs, and through Pre-

and Post-PI Project portfolio meetings. Facilitate the Project planning, summarize Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives and

publish them for visibility and transparency. Facilitate periodic synchronization meetings, including the ART sync at the Program Level and the

value stream sync by facilitating feature and capability estimation by teams and the roll-up to Epics. Provide continuous training to 150+ team members, including senior management and various

leads. Work with Product and Solution Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help

ensure strategy and execution alignment Improve the flow of value through value streams using the Continuous Delivery Pipeline and DevOps

Responsible for the Planning and Execution of IVV activities for multiple projects at a time. Work closely with Program Engineers to agree on time constraints & identify project risk

mitigations. Prepare all documentation related to the IVV activities for multiple projects at a time. Decide on the appropriate test strategy, modules and practices. Organize workshops to optimize the System Test Plan. Create the System Test Plan & Find synergies between test activities for multiple programs. Efficiently manage test resources (budget, staff, software & Hardware). Represent Thales IVV as a focal in Customer Final System Acceptance Tests (FSATs). Manage Defects / EIRs for the customer. Define the IVV approach which best suits the schedule, budget and quality requirements of the

project, considering its scope and specific attributes of the system to be delivered. Ensure that the appropriate means and practices are applied to guarantee the adherence to

defined quality standards.

Thales USA 2013 – 2016

Sr. Systems Engineer – In Service Engineering, Regional Lead

LRU Server Reliability Tiger Team Lead Serve as the Engineering focal point for all In-Service issues for assigned customers. Communicate regularly with field and program teams around the world (field calls/meetings). Coordinate with external teams outside of In-Service scope of work to ensure a timely fix. Define, Plan, and Prioritize In-Service issues based on agreed criteria and customer needs into

sprints. Participate in scheduled Platform Task Force meetings. Publish performance reports per Airline including defined issues, paretos, proposed/available

solutions. Monitor the IFE fleet performance and define all In-Service issues for allocated customer programs. Initiate TR/DR process with Tech Pubs for final AMM revision updates after review cycles. Ensure previously released SB/SSBs get incorporated into the periodic AMM revision. Recommend maintenance frequency in MPD for customer specific tools created and released. Assist field teams on site with new and revised procedures released by engineering. Provide technical guidance to field teams to troubleshoot at a system level down to a specific LRU.

Universal Avionics Systems Corp. 2013 – 2013

Systems Engineer – Flight Management Systems

Developed full life cycle architecture of embedded avionics systems for large turbine aircraft, helicopters, and special missions.

Specified subcontract requirements for testing UASC automatic flight control systems development

projects and wrote test procedures specific to customer demands. Formal verification and validation testing following regulatory requirements such as DO-178B, DO-

254, DO-160, TSOs and MOPs along with methods of compliance. Diagnosed post flight data review and analysis of flight test(s). Performed design verification testing of control algorithms, flight control systems and interface

requirements, including software/hardware integration testing on product updates and initial releases.

Reduced industry standards and specifications to clear, concise requirements from which software could be designed, coded, and verified.

Interacted with teams of engineers working in production, quality assurance, flight safety, and certification to ensure flight systems, assembly, integration and installation were performed as intended.

Maintained company database for configuration management and FAA/Customer audits.

Zonar Systems 2009 – 2009

Programmer & SQA

Programmed EVIR (Electronic Vehicle Inspection Report) units for pre/post-trip inspections,

mandated by state and federal law.

Tested next generation GPS units capable of delivering real-time fleet performance, location and

tracking data.

Loaded Software/Firmware on High-Definition GPS/Vehicle Diagnostics System and tested each unit

to component level.

Communicated with North American clientele including Commercial, Private, Hazmat, Pupil Transport, State & Local, Transit, Utilities, and Waste & Recycling.