Thomas Mathews

Led Agile Transformation across Intel IT by deploying a comprehensive Good Scrum & Good Quality program, elevating agile maturity and improving team predictability and work product quality. Improved Intel IT's program planning and execution practices, enabling 89% of IT portfolio epics to have clear customer voice and achieve 85% on-time delivery.

Led the IT Organizational transformation initiative for 15+ geo-dispersed delivery teams, coaching them on Scrum and CA Agile practices to enhance scalability, transparency, and delivery velocity. As a DevOps expert, coached teams on Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery concepts, streamlining Change control processes while ensuring IAM security protocols.

Responsible for overall delivery of business and technical features within the Intel Retail Channel Marketing Program, focusing on accounts contributing at least 40% of consumer sales. Collaborated with Chief Product Owners and Technical Program Managers to deliver cross-cutting initiatives and facilitated continuous process improvement.

Managed an IT organization unit, including performance management, training, forecasting, budgeting, and expense control. Set up new delivery teams through hiring and vendor contracts, and led initiatives to improve productivity in Continuous Integration, Configuration Management, and Database build automation.

Delivered multiple projects supporting Intel Inside Program, Finance, and marketing objectives, including planning, execution, risk management, SOx compliance, and release management. Introduced Agile/Scrum practices to increase velocity and predictability, successfully achieving zero stabilization defects.

Worked as an Application Developer and Systems Analyst.

Worked on an ASP.NET Web Service project for Standard & Poor’s, developing a web-based platform for financial institutions to manage advisory services. Collaborated with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young on the Java-based interface.

Joined as a Software Programmer and was promoted to Module Leader, working on an agro-ERP product for an Australian client. Responsible for the design, development, and customer support of Winery (Production) and Viticulture modules.

Started as an Associate Programmer and was promoted to Team Lead, working on various Indian B2C client/server and US B2B web-based e-commerce projects. Utilized technologies such as Visual Basic, COM, Crystal Reports, SQL Server, ASP, VB Script, and Javascript.

Joined as Executive (Training & Software) and was promoted to Asst. Centre Head (Technical), coordinating Diploma Courses and undertaking corporate software-training programs. Served as a Project Guide for in-house client/server projects using Visual Basic and MS Access.

Completed a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Communication from Calicut University. The program provided a strong foundation in electronic principles and communication systems.