SAFe® 5 Scrum Master Certification - (How to become) Certification Process

Senior Business-IT Agile / PMO / Program / Portfolio / Project Manager / VP / Director with broad multi-cultural experience in Strategy and Planning, Execution, M&A, Transformation, Complex Cross-functional Project Management, Change Management, Operations, Six-Sigma, Financial Analysis, Marketing, Systems Thinking, Design Thinking, Lean, Supplier Development, and Cost Reduction. Industry background includes Consulting, Insurance, Heavy Manufacturing.
Entrepreneurial servant-leader with business acumen and passion for results. Skilled facilitator, communicator, and trusted relationships-builder for "C" level executives, external / internal / global / remote teams, and cross-functional SMEs.
• Multi-cultural experience in USA, Canada, Brazil, UK, Colombia, India, China, with McKinsey, Travelers, Caterpillar, TCS, GE and start-ups
• Set up 24x7 Global IT Shared Services operation for GE and McKinsey
• Led a procurement and supply chain cost saving initiative for Caterpillar during the 2008 financial crisis for over $15M benefit
• Led several International expansion initiatives for Travelers Insurance in Canada, Brazil, Colombia, UK, and Asia for over $1B premium benefit
• Founded, grew and successfully divested a Management Consulting Firm in India
• Founded and developed implementation channel partnership in India for an Enterprise IT software solution now owned by HP
• Experience in Agile Transformations, Post-Merger Integrations 

Kishore is an Enterprise Lean/Agile & SAFe® Transformation leader with 25+ years of progressive experience in the IT industry — leading people, processes, and technology — to deliver high-value solutions with measurable results. He has a proven track record of successful Lean/Agile, SAFe® transformation of large-scale, complex federal systems and hands-on experience working with Agile/SAFe® coaches and consultants to tailor transformation efforts for lean product and solution delivery in large, complex, and controlled federal govt. settings.

He has mentored and coached teams in SAFe®, Lean/Agile methodologies such as Scrum, XP, and Kanban, and other technical practices such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and Release on Demand, etc. He has also authored books on the Agile Ecosystem, and Customer Experience (CX) Ecosystem, which are available on Amazon. 

Farrah is a SAFe Program Consultant and global training and organizational development leader with 20+ years of experience in learning and development, organizational and leadership training instruction, and executive coaching.