PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Driving Agile transformation with extensive experience in guiding organizations through the Agile transformation journey. Expert in building the Agile mindset through continuous and effective teaching,, mentoring, and coaching best lean Agile practices. Dedicated servant leader with a sole goal of driving Agile transformations to enable organizations experience the benefits of Agile including and not limited to: early delivery of products, increase in product quality, focus on business value, eliminate waste, improve lead time and increase customer satisfaction.
• Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Agile practices at the portfolio to project level, removing impediments, promoting cross - collaboration, and fostering self-management. Track history of cultivating customer centricity to deliver high quality solutions that meet the needs of stakeholders. Track history of cultivating and developing effective partnerships within the line of business and technical partners to foster an environment that results in highly energized, engaged and performant teams.
• Agile Mindset
• Scale Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Process Improvement
• Integrated Logistics Supply System (ILS-S)
• Change and Transformational Leader
• MS Suit
• Professional Presentation
• Top Secret Clearance
• Negotiation Across Organizational Boundaries
• Standard Base Supply System (SBSS)
• Agile View
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Strong Analytical Skill
• Kanban
• Jira & Confluence
• DevOps
• User Stories - INVEST Model
• Agile
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Life Cycle Logistics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Guided and advised portfolio executives on how to apply Agile values and principles to empower teams and delight customers.
• Assessed the Agile practices of the portfolio and promoted ways to increase executive effectiveness.
• Influenced organizational structures, systems, and cultures to align with Agile principles and values to maximize value and achieve strategic goals.
• Supported and educated Product Management and delivery leadership.
• Facilitated creation and communication of change vision for Agile adoption.
• One-on-one, team, and group coaching with executive leadership
• Helped with defining success metrics for Agile adoption.
• Participated in the facilitation of an internal guiding coalition committed to Agile adoption.
• Helped with identification and removal of enterprise-level obstacles to change.
• Facilitated portfolio-level strategic planning related to the organizational change from Agile transformation.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Lead Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Provided multiple Agile-focused to stakeholders and team members.
• Provided product owner and support.
• Fully engaged in the project, made a meaningful contribution, and encouraged a sustainable pace while maintaining a high level of quality.
• Mentored Scrum Masters and Product Owners on Agile software development principles and practices, processes, team building, and facilitation.
• Collaborated with client business leaders, executives, scrum masters, product owners, and development teams to constantly improve performance and responsiveness to a client’s customers and employees.
• Motivated team member participation and recognized individual member contributions in building a sense of team camaraderie, trust, and value.
• Overcame difficult challenges, removed impediments and obstacles, and drove continuous improvement through encouraging the adoption of technical practices, improving agile execution, and building team skills and capabilities.
• Coached executives and stakeholders to align their expectations and support for a collaborative Agile development environment.
• Program Manager for all open mission critical weapon systems. Identified mission requirements, partnering with other Air Logistics companies for resource loading and scheduling. Provision of program visibility, recommendations, and work in progress.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Created strategic coaching objectives in partnership with leaders and teams to drive adoption, maturity, and optimization of Agile and product mindset and practices.
• Coached, taught, and partnered with leaders and teams to develop transparency to strategies, objectives, and work; facilitated product chartering, roadmaps, OKRs, ruthless prioritization techniques, and celebrated outcomes in creative ways.
• Developed transformation roadmaps that incorporated a continuous focus on improving Agile ways of working, product discovery, and continuous delivery.
• Fostered a culture of collaboration, psychological safety, communication, transparency, and a growth mindset.
• Delivered role-based product, workshops for leadership and enabled employee engagement.
• Removed roadblocks and promoted a culture that fosters problem-solving, learning, innovation, experimentation, and focused on value delivery.
• Drove alignment and coordination across multiple product teams to optimize execution, communication, and value delivery via outcome-based goals (OKR).
• Built and sustained autonomous teams while aligning with enterprise goals.
• Utilized feedback and metrics to work with other coaches and scrum masters and focused on continuous improvement.
• Applied lean management principles to identify waste that could be reduced or eliminated.

Confidential

Computer Operator Analyst/Scheduler

Responsibilities:

• Managed reports scheduling and processing for 39 host accounts providing system integrity and reach back support.
• Pivotal in the Air Force sustainment Center’s Resource allocation (resource loading and Scheduling) Initiative that cut back over $30 million cost on new inventory.
• Facilitated the transformation/upgrade of 20-year-old program to meet new demand and transformation of over hundreds of data base reports to Enterprise Supply System
• Resolves issues/problems with in-line supply transactions, system performance, connectivity, and interface programs.
• Analyzes rejects and performs quality checks ensuring timely processing and accurate computer system updates.
• Produced 258 annual weapon reconciliation reports; 188K items identified in the AFEMS/$163M
• Led fiscal year 2012 Standard Base Supply System closeout; processed $10.4 million price change and migrated over $40 million financial to fiscal year 2013.
• Ensured 100% global asset visibility through the creation of over 1,000 Standard Base Supply System schedules and enabling access to over 20,000 supply reports.
• Directed Standard Base Supply System reports restoration; provided 2 years continuity for 25,000 Air Force Sustainment Center Customers and recovered over 20,000 reports.