Arun Saraswat

Co-creator of the AI-Native Learning Path - AI-Native Foundations - AI-Native Change Agent - Leading the AI-Native Organization Trained hundreds of partners, trainers and professionals

- Developed the Innovait Framework - a lightweight approach to facilitate Enterprise Generative AI adoption - Co-author: 'Innovait, The GenAI Adoption Framework: A Leadership Playbook for Getting Real Value From Generative AI' - Defined Business Transformation (BX) Artificial Intelligence Strategy for large Aerospace company - Alignment with overall enterprise AI strategy, with specific emphasis on leveraging AI and Generative AI in DevSecOps acceleration - Fractional CTO for Perfleek.com - defined entire technology stack, agile development approach, DevSecOps pipelines on Azure, hired entire technology team - Designed and developed Adverity - Business Intelligence and Research Utility tools for Amazon.com 3rd party merchants - Trained 100's of 3rd party merchants to sell on Amazon and Shopify - Hosted live event workshops, online classes and meet-ups to promote E-Commerce, Digital Marketing and Entrepreneurship

- Defining Enterprise GenAI Strategy for Business Transformation (BX) - Driving DevSecOps Acceleration across the Enterprise - Training and Coaching Agile Architects (Enterprise, Solution and System Archs) in a SAFe environment - Innovation practices leveraging Lean Startup and Strategyzer methodologies - Designed and launched Agile Product Management pilot program to help the organization adopt a Customer Centric mindset and leverage Design Thinking Tools

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) training and consulting. Certified SPC - SAFe Program Consultant Certified LPM- SAFe Lean Portfolio Manager Certified ARCH- SAFe Architect Certified RTE - SAFe Release Train Engineer Certified SDP- SAFe DevOps Practioner Certified SSM - SAFe Scrum Master Trained over 1,200 professionals across dozens of Fortune500 companies to implement and scale Agile practices. Stellar feedback across hundreds of testimonials.

- Established a Lean Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) for AT&T Mexico - developed LACE Charter - implemented a Train the Trainer and Coach the Coach approach to stand up an independent LACE to service a > 15K person organization - Value Stream Mapping and Lean Portfolio Management facilitation for executives and financial decision makers to focus on a "value delivery first" approach - Fostering a Continuous Learning Culture by helping transform AT&T into a Learning Organization - Developing Team Learning - TDD, BDD, Shift-Left, Pair Work, XP, Agile Architecture, CI/CD - Leading employees at all levels to attain Personal Mastery, developing Mental Models, encouraging Systems Thinking and aligning on Shared Vision - Enterprise SAFe® Trainer responsible to deliver SAFe® Certification courses across AT&T and it’s lines of business – Leading SAFe®, SAFe® POPM, SAFe® Scrum Master, SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master, SAFe® for Architects, SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management, SAFe® Agile Product Management - Designed customized Agile labs – slide decks as well as custom exercises to clarify and reinforce Agile concepts - Launched video training library to enable on-demand training for hundreds of teams

- Large enterprise-wide Agile and SAFe transformation - over 150 teams across multiple Agile Release Trains - Launched Agile Release Trains - Developed an Enterprise DevOps Implementation and Rollout Strategy - including formation of DevOps CoE, pilot team identification criteria, program governance and success KPI's - Facilitated and coached all SAFe events including Program Increment (PI) Planning, Inspect & Adapt, Scrum of Scrums, etc. - Coached and conducted all ceremonies remotely - via Skype for Business and Slack Channels (Highly Secure environment restricted video use) - and had VERY successful events - Coached Scrum Masters and Product Owners on their roles in as members of the Agile Team - Coached Product Management and Release Train Engineers

Coached multiple development teams to adopt Agile practices - Pair Work - Mob Programming - Test Driven Development (TDD) - Behavior Driven Development (BDD) - Domain Driven Design (DDD) Helped introduce and facilitate SCRUM events and practices Coached teams to groom Features and Stories Coached and Mentored Dev Leads to become better leader servants and adopt an "all sink/all swim" mindset and foster collective ownership in technical practice

• Built a physical product E-Commerce brand (Sano Naturals(TM)) from $0 to $1.3M in annual sales on Amazon.com • Developed custom social micro-influencer strategy (on-shore/off-shore model) to achieve viral growth of skin care products • Identified and built custom software to fill gaps in Research and Business Intelligence tools for Amazon 3rd party vendors

• Responsible for all technology needs for an international education company, across 7 different departments. • Implemented full digital marketing solution including automated marketing workflow via Infusionsoft and integrated into custom developed reporting apps via webhooks • Developed custom sales funnels that generated over $10M in sales over a two-year period – implemented with Clickfunnels and Youtube Live video webinars • Flagship product was a video on demand LMS with over 75,000 subscribers and over 10,000 active monthly users. Migrated from COTS solution to custom N-Tier application • Created on-shore/off-shore team to R&D, architect and develop custom LMS solution Technologies Used: Python Django Framework, React JS¬, RabbitMQ, Celery, Infustionsoft, Adobe Connect, Clickfunnels

• Responsible for architecting complete solution for visualizing Verizon Wireless LTE network nodes based on nightly feeds of disparate data sources • Leverage Spring Batch and custom ETL process • Designed and developed MVC architecture based on Spring Framework • Led UI architecture and development using custom Javascript, Backbone.js and InfoVis data visualization library • Lead technical contact and SME point of contact between client stakeholders (both engineers and executives) and the Nexius team • Successful completion and delivery of project phase one to client in under 1 year Technologies Used: Spring Batch, SpringMVC, Backbone.js, InfoVis JS visualization library, MySQL, Hibernate, JSON, UML