SUMMARY:

• An Enterprise Transformation Coach/Trainer/Mentor and Strategist for Agile and Lean Six Sigma.
• I have trained many thousands in the transformation to Agile and Lean Six Sigma as the preferred approach to product delivery for Information Technology in 30 countries on 4 continents with a high degree of emphasis on SAP projects (20 years SAP experience) across the following industries:
• High Tech, Oil and Gas, Utilities, Consumer Products, Life Sciences, Chemicals, Food and Beverage, Industrial Products, Automotive, Public Sector, Retail, Aerospace and Defense.
• Specialize in large programs and project management and leverage a people - centric approach to product delivery to ensure that IT and Business solutions are well received and quickly adopted to maximize value delivery.
• I bring high energy and a positive attitude and enjoy coaching and training at the Team, Management and Leadership level.
• 20+ years of proven ability to lead/motivate teams to execute complex projects and technologies.
• Extensive customer relationship management and business development experience.
• Excellent leadership, organization, interpersonal, communication and change management skills.
• Widespread international exposure having globally delivered projects, coaching, training, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Associate Partner and Enhanced Project Launch Lead

Responsibilities:

• Successfully led Enterprise level programs for 40+ major clients to train/coach/mentor and promote Agile and Lean as the preferred approach to project/program delivery client and Confidential resources.
• Created and led the Confidential Enhanced Project Launch (EPL) Team at Confidential to ensure all Enterprise level programs were successful from Day 1 through Project Launch. Provided guidance and leadership on scaling Agile globally within Confidential .
• Extensive experience with Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban depending on the clients needs and the outcomes they desire.

Confidential

Enterprise Agile Coach and Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Trained and Coached >100 IT and Business resources on Agile Scrum, SAFe and Scrumban.
• Successfully stood up and coached 14 Agile teams during this time period.

Confidential

Enterprise Agile Coach and Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Trained and Coached 60 IT resources on Agile Scrum, ScrumBan and Kanban.
• Successfully stood up 4 Agile Teams and coached 8 total teams during this time period.

Confidential

HR Director & Enterprise Agile/Lean Coach, Trainer and Mentor

Responsibilities:

• Provide Agile, Lean and Six Sigma coaching, training and mentoring for not just Confidential IT, but across the Confidential Business landscape globally as a Master Black Belt.
• Dotted line reporting into Information Technology for providing Talent Development for Strategic Workforce Planning.

Confidential

IT Director - Organizational Change Management

Responsibilities:

• Created the IT Organizational Change Management Team (OCM) within IT.
• OCM Team comprised of three pillars to drive organizational change: Agile Methods/ Lean Six Sigma (LSS), Communications and Talent Development.
• Established Lean Six Sigma training program including all training modules and provided hands on Instructor Led Training, coaching and mentoring for hundreds of projects worldwide.
• Provided Agile, Lean and Six Sigma coaching, training and mentoring for Global IT in 22 countries.
• Established Lean Six Sigma IT Council Meeting that created and reviewed Global IT KPI’s for trends to identify LSS continuous improvement projects.
• Established video updates for the “IT SHOW” and “Business Connections” as very well received IT Communication mediums via Google Videos as regular tri-weekly updates for connecting IT across the globe to one another and to the business.
• Provided numerous online software application training modules for learning and reporting across all newly developed technologies deployed to our internal customers.

Confidential

Sr. Global IT Manager - Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Provide various and numerous training classes for more than 1,000 Confidential resources: Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Testers, Developers, Executives, Managers and Business Leaders transitioning to Agile/Scrum and Lean processes.
• Successfully stood-up over 50 Agile project teams in 6 years across the Confidential Business Value Chains of Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain Management, Customer Integration, Finance, Human Resources, Environmental, After Market Services and Infrastructure.
• PMI recruited me to be a member of their strategic team to create and finalize the PMI-ACP Exam that is used today for PMI Agile Certification purposes.
• Created Agile Transition Team comprised of CIO, IT VP’s, Directors and key Functional Managers to facilitate transition to Agile Methods in IT.
• Established an entirely new global Change Management Process involving IT and the Business leaders to agree on process using Product Requests for Business Value Chains in IT that the Business Leaders led and made decisions on project priorities; not IT.
• Agile PMO created to establish one stop shop for all Agile templates, best practices, training documentation, active projects, on time delivery metrics and survey data.
• Created and maintained an Agile Principles and Practices RACI chart for roles and responsibilities so everyone knew what was expected of Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Team Members, Functional Managers and Stakeholders.
• Collaborated with Corporate Executive Board to create with other companies an Agile Suitability Scorecard for teams to use to help validate Agile as the correct choice.

Confidential

Sr. Global IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established and stabilized a Project Management Office at Confidential .
• Leveraged PMBOK via PMI as the basis for all documentation standards for Software Applications and Infrastructure projects.
• Brought all Global IT projects onto one platform for reporting via MS Project Office.

Confidential

Global IT Manager - Project Management and Analysis

Responsibilities:

• Created and recruited the Project Management and Analysis Team for the Business Systems Group within Confidential IT.
• Led a team of 20 Project Managers and 6 Business Analysts.
• Prioritized all project work for Business Systems Group; did resource allocations and metrics reporting across all software application enhancements, support and maintenance.
• Customer interface as needed for project initiation and/or escalation as needed for all Business Divisions within IT.