SUMMARY:

• Leading enterprise Agile transformations at the Organizational strategic level (culture, vision, product roadmaps, value streams), and at the Team level (performance and vitality). Since 2008, coaching and for high productivity and fast delivery of business value with Scrum, XP, Kanban, and SAFe.
• Scrum Alliance CSP, Scaled Agile Framework SA. Background in process transformation with a Lean focus on rapid delivery, system thinking, and continuous improvement. Big - 4 consulting experience.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Agile Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• and coaching newly-transitioned Product Owners on vision articulation and on release planning leveraging minimum-viable-product principles and customer-facing positioning. Invigorating Scrum events with intentional thinking techniques and root-cause problem solving exercises. Introducing SAFe team coordination and synchronization with rolling look-ahead planning. Showing scrum masters how to enable productivity gains through purpose and team autonomy. Leading development of metrics and reports that are meaningful to the business and to senior leadership.

Agile Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Raised the maturity of development teams supporting new card launches and merchant services. Observed Scrum events and defined paths to improvement. Trained and coached Product Managers transitioning to Product Owner roles. Introduced productivity and performance metrics for rapid feedback. Elaborated cost-of-delay principles for product roadmapping and backlog prioritization. Delivered classroom and webinars on planning and estimating.

Agile Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Built collaboration between software development, manufacturing, and the business to better support product delivery with faster time to market. Transformed release and iteration planning. Helped senior leadership to address organizational and cultural anti-patterns and to adopt a change management plan.
• Brought visibility and risk reduction into software delivery through rigorous adherence to Definition of Done and a team focus on goals. Steered the use of metrics to support continuous improvement in estimating and planning. Coached and trained developers, Product Owners, and ScrumMasters on techniques for planning, estimating, and retrospectives. Helped set up a ScrumMaster community of practice.
• Results: Important improvements in collaboration, cross-platform alignment, Agile methods, engineering practices, and progress visibility and reporting.

Agile Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coached multiple teams to adopt Scrum practices and an Agile mindset with a focus on business purpose. Developed structures for process metrics and Scrum maturity assessments. Coached and trained a team of inexperienced internal and vendor technical and business people in a start-up of a Scrum team that rapidly reached a productive state.
• Results: Teams began to transition from compliance toward full adoption, with higher morale.

Senior ScrumMaster / Scrum Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated enterprise integration of Scrum into a traditional development environment for this giant pharmacy benefit manager. Coached and trained globally distributed business and technical teams. Brought new focus to strong vision definition and product roadmap development, rigorous release and sprint planning, robust testing practices, and mindful retrospectives.
• Advanced the organization's competence in Rally. Founding member of a metrics leadership group. Designed and conducted Agile maturity audits.
• Results: Energized distributed offshore and onshore teams through self-organization and a focus on business goals. A culture of collaboration between business and IT enabled steadily increasing productivity.

Scrum Coach and Trainer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Directed a rapid start-up of 24 Scrum teams. Engaged executive management with an adoption playbook. Formed and coached a Product Owner council and product coordination team to communicate a vision and roadmap. Designed courseware and delivered classroom to Product Owners, ScrumMasters, and executives. Coached teams to achieve high productivity and continuous improvement.
• Developed Agile maturity audits to reveal and address anti-patterns. Implemented concurrent testing and steered installation of continuous-integration tools. Created and set up an ALM and a metrics framework.
• Results: Radically changed the role of executive-level business owners in release planning. Shaped robust sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives. Teams quickly began to deliver significant business value. The culture embraced collaboration and continuous improvement.

Scrum Master / Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Improved the effectiveness of a Scrum team creating a web-based financial content management system. Served the team as ScrumMaster. Trained and coached a distributed team of developers and testers to improve transparency and raise productivity. Coached the Product Owner on product backlog definition and grooming, and on elaboration of stories and acceptance criteria. Initiated robust testing disciplines and drove adoption of automated testing.
• Results: Achieved adoption of Scrum practices for high productivity. The team doubled delivery of useful functionality without adding technical debt.

Scrum Coach / Trainer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Sold the concept of Scrum to accelerate development of a data mining application. Developed custom courseware and trained managers and developers in distributed teams. Coached and mentored a senior executive, a technical lead, and a project manager transitioning into Scrum roles. Put engineering practices (test-first, pair programming) in place.
• Results: The development organization delivered more useful functionality in the first month than in six months prior to Scrum, and was able to sustain a high-productive state.
• Facilitated adoption of the Scrum framework through formal, intensive coaching, and modeling the ScrumMaster role. Reconciled Scrum practices with legacy project lifecycle standards.
• Results: Faster project startups, daily focus on project work, Agile collaboration practices, and less waste from task switching.

Senior PMO Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created and managed initiatives to adopt lean project standards. Promoted practices that revealed improvement opportunities in workflows, resource planning, and tool integration. Defined collaboration opportunities that would expand the global base of project management expertise and would support continuous improvement.

Senior PMO Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Drove improvements in scheduling and progress tracking on a $500-million project. Conducted organizational and process maturity audits. Defined best practices for project initiation, team communication, and response to change. Improved process transparency and repeatability.

Director - PMO and Process Transformation

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Improved product delivery in the Investment Bank Architecture group. Transformed software development practices by introducing an Agile mind-set, reduced process overhead, and work transparency. Greatly improved success rates and reputation among the customer base.

Senior PMO Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• On a $300 million project with 25 workstreams converting a trading platform, achieved adoption of effective scheduling practices and resource planning disciplines.
• Introduced Agile methods for an information infrastructure supplier developing a new service management application. The application went into production defect-free and ahead of schedule.