K Naresh

Senior Agile Delivery Lead & Program Governance Manager with 18+ years of leadership experience across Enterprise IT, Product Engineering, and Industrial Technology ecosystems. Proven track record of steering end-to-end delivery governance, agile portfolio execution, and digital transformation initiatives, including a €9M enterprise technology portfolio at Accenture. Expert in establishing high-maturity delivery governance structures, scaling Agile frameworks (Scrum/SAFe/Hybrid Stage-Gate), and translating complex strategic objectives into predictable execution cycles.

Adept at managing global, cross-functional engineering teams (up to 30 members) across onshore/offshore models, optimizing delivery metrics, and aligning executive C-suite stakeholders in top-tier Global Capability Centers (GCCs) and enterprise product hubs.

Senior Scrum Master / Agile Project & Delivery Lead - ACCENTURE ATCI - Bangalore, India

(2021-05 - 2026-07)

• Enterprise Portfolio Governance: Spearheaded end-to-end Agile delivery governance for a €9M cross-functional technology program, leading matrixed engineering teams of up to 30 across global onshore/offshore locations.
• Delivery Cycle Optimization: Transitioned traditional delivery frameworks into an MVP-driven incremental release model, reducing the delivery cycle from 6 months to 3 months (50% faster time-to-market) while dramatically enhancing on-time release predictability.
• Jira & Metrics Infrastructure: Designed and governed a centralized Jira reporting ecosystem with 9 dedicated metric tracking dashboards, driving transparent executive visibility into backlog health, team velocity, defect density, and sprint progress.
• Agile Governance & Facilitation: Guided cross-functional squads through end-to-end Scrum ceremonies, driving process discipline, removing blockers, and building a high-trust engineering culture.
• Stakeholder Management: Maintained direct alignment with 9 senior global stakeholders per release, harmonizing product management, QA, operations, and enterprise architecture leadership to ensure zero-friction releases.
• Security & Quality Compliance: Formulated and implemented a cybersecurity validation framework for critical patch verification, elevating overall delivery governance and compliance standards across the vertical.

Scrum Master / Associate Project Manager - ABB GISPL / HITACHI ENERGY - Bangalore, India

(2016-01 - 2021-05)

• Agile R&D; Delivery: Led Agile delivery frameworks for hardware and software product engineering groups within grid automation R&D;, aligning cross-disciplinary engineering streams toward milestone commitments.
• Risk & Release Management: Governed release synchronization, multi-team dependency registers, and execution risk registers across the full engineering product lifecycle.
• High-Criticality Delivery: Honored with a Certificate of Appreciation for strategic leadership and flawless execution on a mission-critical infrastructure delivery initiative in collaboration with ISRO-ISTRAC, Bangalore.

Senior Domain / R&D; Engineer - ABB GISL - Bangalore, India

(2008-06 - 2015-12)

• Technical Governance & Systems Design: Architected and designed core protection and control algorithms for world-class Relion 670/650 relay series, establishing deep domain context that bridges engineering teams with governance frameworks.
• Algorithm & Framework Development: Engineered embedded logic architectures for global R&D; grid automation infrastructure.

M.Tech - Power Electronics - National Institute of Technology (NIT Trichy) (2008)

B.Tech - Electrical & Electronics Engineering - Intell Engineering College, JNTU Hyderabad (2005)