SUMMARY:

Accomplished Enterprise Agile Transformation expert offering 16 years of experience, including 12 years of progressive roles in the Agile/Scrum SDLC; rare blend of analytical skill, sales success, and management capabilities. Innate talent for leveraging technology and automation to eliminate inefficiencies and optimize use of available information. Superior skill in translating complex and abstract ideas into sound, easily understood technical directions. Excellent team leader skilled in managing people and processes while developing motivated, high performing staff eager to take on challenges and work collaboratively to contribute to the organization’s growth plan.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Agile Transformations
• Release Planning
• Agile Management
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Agile Coach
• Feature Driven Development (FDD)
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• SDLC
• Scaled Agile
• Project Management
• Lean Agile Center of Excellence
• Extreme Programming (XP)
• Scrum
• Business Process Modeling
• Large Scaled Scrum (LeSS)
• Kanban
• DevOps
• Lean

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

MICROSOFT OFFICE: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, RTC, Rally, Jira, Version One, Salesforce, SharePoint

OTHER: Oracle, Java, MAC & Microsoft Windows OS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Enterprise Agile Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Provides onsite and remote on the Agile Methodology and the Scrum & XP frameworks, to teams within the Confidential IT Organization

Enterprise Agile Transformation Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Agile Transformation Manager for an Integrated Cloud Platform, tasked with the transformation of its’ Iterative Waterfall SDLC to a hybrid FDD/LeSS project then to SAFe. The Platform consisted of remote linked dispersed teams throughout the US and India.
• The Platform is a $372 million annual project with 1800+ team members.
• Authored and implemented the transformation plan, authored customized materials, and trained 50% of the staff directly.
• Manager also oversaw the data migration from Rally to a customized version of Confidential ’s Rational Team Concert (RTC) and Jira to serve as the team’s Agile reporting tool.
• SPC4 who trained and managed the Waterfall to SAFe Agile transformation for DirecTV’s wireless tabletop service.

Principal Agile Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Remote Agile Coach for Salesforce CRM Continuous Improvement Project.
• Also, acted as intermediary Scrum Master for new teams, who lacked a trained CSM.
• Trained internal assets to become Product Owners and Scrum Masters.
• Authored a tool for consulting client’s stakeholders to use when choosing the projects best suited for Agile implementation.

Agile Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Agile Coach for 3 different simultaneous projects. Implemented and Managed a LeSS project.
• Managed team members, project timelines in Rally, and budgets.
• Coordinated with over 106 applications to implement a project which impacted Confidential & Confidential clients in all 50 states.
• Authored an Confidential & Confidential Agile Quick guide.
• Completed all projects on time and under budget.

Agile Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the PMO office of Confidential in the revamping of their SDLC process to define the Agile methodology for all the company’s future projects.
• This includes authoring the SDLC manual, tools and artifacts for Scrum; evaluating projects for their Agile potential; and working with new and existing projects as Agile coach to test the improved methodology.
• Project utilized Rally, SharePoint, Oracle EBS, Power Point, Excel, and Java.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Principle Agile Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Represented the firm on all consulting engagements implementing the Agile methodology within the client organization.
• Acted as “All things Agile”, to consulting clients, by serving as an Agile Coach and other Agile roles to meet the client’s needs.

Enterprise Agile Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Also, the Scrum team was coached on Agile Development principles, as the team was converting from the Waterfall development method. In this SAFe development, the Agile Coach worked with the teams tasked to in corporate existing billing codes solely used for government and institutional clients into the larger network of personal customer billing.
• This Scrum utilized Rally, Confidential & Confidential Connect, SharePoint, Lotus Notes, Sametime, and Skype to link a team of 10 remote located developers.
• Team members were disbursed throughout the US, Brazil, and India. Time management, meeting coordination, and culturally diverse communication skills were essential in ensuring the Sprints were completed on time and produced a unit of shippable product.
• The Scrum used TDD (Test Driven Development) practices along with Scrum development principles to complete this project in 5 months and 1 week as opposed to the requisite 8 - month time frame originally outlined by the Stakeholders.
• This saved the Scrum of Scrum definitive time and an as yet immeasurable amount of money.

Agile Transformation Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Agile Transformation Coach for 5 Secondary Market Commercial Lenders and REITs, where the projects consisted of software development for the automation of file QA review for audits based on new government regulations.
• These projects required a conversion from the Waterfall methodology to the Agile/Scrum SDLC.
• The consultant worked extensively with Vendors and the CIO’s to upgrade and or replace existing software, while using the Scrum Team to customize the software to fit the Customer and Stakeholder requirements.
• The SaaS software suite offered by the firm to its clients for property, client, and asset management was revamped to adhere to more stringent privacy, leverage, and OSHA protocols.
• And said software changes resulted in the Design & Implementation of a new Scrum Sales Process based upon product changes due to new regulations.
• These Scrums utilized Rally, Jira, Version One, Oracle EBS, Skype, SharePoint, MS Project and Excel for tracking, communication and reporting tools.

Product Owner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As Product Owner for Confidential, performs annual end user UAT for their $3mm Retail Sales Software integration with HR Scheduling Software.

Lead Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• worked closely with the CIO and VP of Client Administration to double the client book in 2013 for Confidential by implementing Scrum Sales Process, this correlated into a 37% increase in revenues, while decreasing Operating Expenses by 12%.
• Implemented a customized version of Salesforce.com to track clients and prospects while complying with new stricter HIPAA, Medicaid and Medicare governance.

Product Owner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Product Owner for 2 Retail start-ups and 1 existing small commercial business.
• Scrum Coach for a total of 23 sales professionals, who have increased revenue for the business owners by an average of 52% utilizing a Scrum Sales Process.
• Scrum Master for the implementation of Salesforce.com as the CRM.
• These Scrums utilized Rally, Version One, Skype, and Excel for tracking, communication and reporting tools.