SUMMARY:

• Skilled Agile Coach, Consultant, Trainer and Leader with nearly a decade of Agile experience.
• Strong formal along with Agile s from ICAgile, SAFe and Scrum Alliance
• Significant experience in applying Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban and SAFe framework, practices and methods
• Adept speaker, Coach and presenter for small groups, large conferences and C - level executives.
• Have lead Global Agile transformation initiatives across IS and Business areas from start to large-scale adoption at multiple organizations.
• Successfully aligns Agile to business strategy and strategic initiatives by using business agility techniques and digital business transformation practices and techniques
• Developed Business Digital Transformation strategies and stood up Internal innovation incubator

AGILE & WORK EXPIERENCE:

Confidential, Hanover, Maryland

Business Innovation & Agile Transformation Leader

Responsibilities:

• Founder of 1st BTC business model Career Circle
• Coaching Design Thinking and Lean Startup
• Development of Digital Strategies Around Dual Transformation and creation of Second Operating System to support Business Digital Transformation
• Using Strategic Agility Practices
• Develop and grow team of “Agile Leaders” through, mentoring, and coaching by standing up and growing Agile Center of Excellence
• Enterprise Agile Coaching at the C-Suite and Executive level
• Developed business agility and organizational agility playbooks, and coaching to transform all of Confidential
• Serve in the role of “Agile Coach” through championing,, and mentoring across the organization.
• Embrace and evangelize Agile values and principles across the organization and in the community.
• Monitor maturity and team adoption by measuring delivery teams
• Develop, implement, and promote Agile best practice standards including the use of playbooks and agile best practices
• Collaborates with executive leadership team on portfolio governance for Scrum, Kanban, and other projects
• Facilitates organizational learning, change management, and process adoption of Agile via metrics, benefits realization, outcomes, and retrospective findings.

Confidential, Elkridge, MD

Release Train Engineer / Agile Program Management

Responsibilities:

• Coaching of Scrum masters on facilitation and conducting daily scrum meetings and Scrum ceremonies (release, sprint planning, product and sprint backlog grooming, sprint reviews, retrospectives, user story development, planning and estimation activities)
• Mentoring, Coaching, and provided leadership for 7 agile delivery software teams on SAFe Agile release train
• Provided recommendations to teams and for continuous improvements through retrospectives and develop of quick feedback loops
• Performed and lead other RTE’s and agile delivery teams through release planning readiness and Program Backlog Management to ensure PI planning success
• Worked very closely with Product management, product owners and business owners to assure alignment and strategy of the HouseCalls business was being met and that value was being delivered
• Responsible for Capital Funding, Program Management, and Governance for the HouseCalls division (Medicare) for assigned Value Streams and Release Trains
• Project Management of Large IT Capital programs
• Preparing calendars and roadmaps, and helping facilitate sprints

Confidential, Owings Mills, MD

Agile Business Analysis Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead a group of Business Analysts by providing guidance on user stories and feature development, defining standards for work, reviewing work products, ensure work is done on schedule, being point person for problem escalation, and facilitating problem resolution among BA team as well as with the client.
• Using the XLC/Agile project process supporting Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for multiple projects within QIO organization (DDST, ADU, QMARS) - $1M + projects
• Works closely with customer to ascertain management expectations Works as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements and business processes
• Manage requirements and artifacts in appropriate requirements management tools (Collab tool, Serena RM & ALM, and SharePoint)
• Sets the direction for business requirements and process modeling methodologies, requirements management and process modeling tools, and ensured was performed and team consistently followed the methodologies defined by the client.
• Partnered with organizational leadership, including multiple Lean and Agile teams, sponsors and end-users to define the business requirements, user experience needs, goals and deliverables
• Facilitates with business analysis team to perform needs analysis, business processes walk-through sessions to document and identify opportunities for process improvements, client experience enhancements, and translate system designs into easily understood representations of the d Confidential and process flows
• Evaluated the performance of each team member, generating development plans and setting goals within the context of the corporate policy with 1 on 1 meetings

Confidential, Baltimore

Operations Excellence, Agile Project and Program Management

Responsibilities:

• Directed and Managed a team of 5 business analysts, including level 2 analysts and 5 project consultants to control the Medical Cost Reduction (MCR) and administrative savings as directed by the Utilization Management/Utilization Review (UM/UR) vice president.
• Enforced continuous process improvement practices through the use of concepts such as Agile Practices business process modeling, Six Sigma, prototyping, usability techniques, knowledge management, root-cause-analysis, and development of performance metrics.
• Managed multiple affordability projects ($2 - $3M) and the business requirements process related to these projects using Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Managed and mentored Business Analyst team and lead requirements gathering and analysis for specific high-profile projects related to affordability
• Derived KPI metrics to communicate and trace delivery of requirements as defined and agreed to across overall portfolio and all sub-portfolios with the affordability program
• Lead and participated in process to develop requirements; evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, differentiate between actual and required user needs and distinguish user requests from the underlying business problems.

Confidential, Frederick, MD

Business Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Acted as project lead, project manager and senior business analyst for technology teams and business teams supporting mortgage business units in the finance, trust accounting, mortgage backed securities, servicing and post closing areas. Gathered requirements from business users, wrote technical specifications, design documents, use cases, business rules, reengineered current business rules, project plans and various testing documents including test cases and test plans.
• Performed Project Management duties for projects relating to SOX reporting, audit and regulatory compliance work for software and hardware issues.
• Projects worked on included mortgage loan servicing management tool that maintained a series of reports and advanced workflow through implementing a new access d Confidential base application.
• Managed Six Sigma projects that reduced the amount of loan servicing errors also participated in projects that implemented imaging software that replaced manual inputs.