PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Principle Consultant/Agile/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led teams in transforming traditional PMOs to include Agile / DevOps. Blending service delivery with business development and team leadership from developing an initial consulting proposal to leading, delivering and managing the delivery of large digital transformations and organizational change programs across geographies and verticals.
• Won strategic consulting and Agile Transformation contracts: $22M international bank, $26M Manufacturer, $18 Health Care Insurance provider, $28 Pharma Manufacturer.
• Developed strategic consulting proposals and Agile Transformation strategies, implementation road maps, rollout strategies and charters. Successfully engaged CXO levels and divisional business leadership in establishing Agile Transformation, moving from a project view to a product approach. Led Management of Change for business, operations and IT. Created Agile Release strategies, define Agile Release Trains and Program Increments. Trained Change Agents, executives, managers, and leaders. Created internal org change communications, defined/collected the feedback and metrics to report progress and continuously improve Agile Transformation results.
• Led OCM engagements, prepared client and internal organization for agile cultural transformational change driven by changes in IT delivery models, processes, roles, tools, technologies, and organizational structures. Trained teams on Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, etc.) and conducted role based Agile for Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer, Product Owner, Product Manager and Feature team members. Transformed delivery in distributed agile environment on - site / off-shore model.
• Implemented DevOps capabilities such as Continuous Planning, Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) and Automated Continuous Testing (TDD / BDD). Combined ITIL and DevOps to Deliver Business Value for Bimodal IT.

Confidential

Agile Transformation Leader

Responsibilities:

• Toronto - Led process improvement (Lean, Kanban, and ToC) for IT Operations. Identified constraints and bottlenecks using Value Stream Analysis. Reduced cycle time by 50% in one process and 90% of a second process. Delivery lead-time reductions of 75%. Trained team on 8 Wastes.
• Mexico City - delivered Agile to 50 bankers with specific for Product Owners and supporting teams. Led workshops to create a three year Product vision, annual Product Roadmap, a Release Plan, Story Maps for multiple sprints, prioritized Product Backlog with User Story requirements and Behavioral Driven Development style Acceptance Criteria.
• Established Lean-Agile strategy for a multi-year modernization program for Testing as a Service for outsourcing all QA functions. Led agile coaching and at various levels for the leadership team, +500 Testers, and 2,000 Dev Team members. Implemented Testing modernization strategy with Test Driven Development/Behavior Driven Development, shift left testing, automating testing, continuous testing, and virtual environments.
• Wrote an $18M proposal for 10 team agile program in Mexico.

Confidential

Transformation Leader

Responsibilities:

• Transformation strategy, governance, charter, processes, metrics, and tools in scaling agile (SAFe) for a multi-year modernization program. Led 35 onshore 55 offshore consultants in the engagement of +500. Led agile transformation in making the transition from waterfall to agile by executives, change agents, business and IT leadership, and Feature Teams. Identified Value Streams and Release Trains (ART), established Program Increments and Agile Implementation Plan.
• Established processes, governance, Roles and Responsibilities for multiple levels: Portfolio, Value Stream, Program, and Feature Team. Trained Teams and launched ARTs, coached ART execution and extended the portfolio. Created a bi-modal PMO. Led exec reporting/ metrics and program controls for PMO.

Confidential

Executive Director/Consulting

Responsibilities:

• Led PMOs and PM practice for Business Transformation consultancy, growing revenue by 135% YoY. Developed proposals, strategies, roadmaps and tactical plans for transforming traditional PMOs and software development organizations to include Agile / DevOps as well as waterfall. Developed business architecture and org designs for PMO and governance for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and outsourcing. Consulted on IT and PPM Governance including PMO assessment, establishment, maturation; applications portfolio rationalization, project portfolio, platforms, infrastructure and IT alignment with business strategy.
• For AHA’s led PMO and Agile development methodology, established Governance for agile business processes, standards, best practices, metrics, reports and dashboards. Drove agile development for teams of 75 and PMO maturity during ERP implementation
• Peer 1 Led executive team in creating a strategic product roadmap for a new product. Led Lean Startup for $250M revenue for new product strategy and roadmap. Led design thinking with a cross functional team to develop an $8M product evaluation/ roadmap for an innovative hybrid cloud platform and associated products. As a Product Manager, identified market requirements for current and future products. Worked with market research and interviewed customers and partners.
• Drove solution across teams (Dev / Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Operations and Sustainment/Support) through market requirements, product design, competitive market analysis and pricing and positioning.
• Xerox EPMO, Developed the consulting strategy and led strategic PMO & PM capability assessment and performance improvement / Project Portfolio Management roadmap for a +$200M portfolio. Transformed traditional PMO to include Lean-Agile/ DevOps by creating Agile transformation strategy, Agile CoE charter and agile governance. Provided strategic leadership and guidance to industry Best Practices, Process Standardization, Governance, and Continuous Process Improvements to increase the consistency and repeatability of delivery processes including: Invest Portfolio / Demand Management / Product Selection governance and Resource Management and road mapping for both waterfall and agile. Established a framework for a PPM tool set evaluation for the ePMO, selected Clarity for waterfall and Jira for Agile.
• Developed an implementation roadmap for agile PPM & PMO Performance Management.
• Verizon ePMO, facilitated PMO Summit workshops for MBU PMO leaders for $2.5 B portfolio to create a common standard on industry Best Practices, Process Standardization, and Governance. Created PM roadmap for new global Enterprise PMO that included investment portfolio and resource management, PPM tool solution strategy road mapping.

Confidential, Savannah, GA

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Recruited for Senior Manager of PMO. Built a PMO from scratch with a global portfolio of 120+ projects valued at $75M delivering $250M in value.
• Implemented Portfolio Value Management and governance for GAC’s long term business strategy.
• Process and policy rationalization and harmonization in alignment with overall IT/Finance Strategy in global M&A environment. Capitalized on the optimal IT assets from each side of acquisition.
• Increased project delivery rate by 50% first year and 120% second year using process improvement methodologies from TOC Lean 6 Sigma on a 120 project portfolio
• Owned IT Project Management - PMO, PM methodology and PM Best Practices. Led 18 PMs, grew PMO by 250%.
• Established PMLC and SDLC methods for Test Driven Development for agile and waterfall. Implemented Scrum and Kanban.
• Implemented PPM system (HP Project Portfolio Management Center) in an agile roll out to track projects, eliminate manual reporting. Created Investment Portfolio Management and Resource Management methodology and strategic roadmaps. Led PPM for 250 users, configured PPM dashboards and scorecards with KPI metrics/graphics for execs.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Manager, Consulting/PMO/Agile

Responsibilities:

• Provided PM and PMP and PMO Director coaching.
• PMO Assessments, Design, Setup, Operation, and maturity.
• Project and Program Planning, Assessments and Reviews.
• Project Portfolio Management - Planning, standardization, business case development, prioritization, approval, reporting, and initiation. Measure risks, resources, ROI and Costs for slated projects to determine trade-offs and priority.
• Project Startup Facilitation and Project Turnaround Management.
• Established Agile Transformation strategies, agile Center of Excellence and program charters. Developed agile processes and org designs at scale.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Program Manager/Global Program.Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Established hundreds of PMOs on Confidential accounts.
• Led global PPM Community of Practice for + 5K Project and Program Managers.
• Saved $40M by providing litigation support on troubled programs by providing negotiation and conflict resolution.
• Saved $27M by reducing labor costs of BAs and PMs on accounts for COO and VP of Global Application Services.
• Selected by senior leadership as PPM Capability’s Lead Technologist for Global Technology Council.
• Chaired the Global PPM Forum, a steering committee of 26 PPM leaders for PM standards and Best Practices.
• Conducted Six Sigma Risk Management research study on why projects fail.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Drove Delphi’s IT leadership team on multi-sourced service delivery outsourcing program to focus on business value with $108M in savings. Led leadership to capitalize on the optimal use of IT assets and services from each outsourcer.
• Process and policy rationalization and harmonization in alignment with overall IT/Finance Strategy in M&A environment
• Developed the consulting strategy, roadmap and led IT leadership team in re-structuring all IT processes for managing outsourced suppliers using best practices and frameworks, Complexity Reduction and Mastery, Process Optimization.
• Defined processes to develop, monitor and control a +$500M IT strategic plan, in a complex, global organization using Project Portfolio Management.
• Managed cross-functional stakeholders in analysis, modeling and in validating transformed processes, roles and responsibilities, artifacts and metrics. Advised client staff of their roles and responsibilities in the transition process.
• Developed Employee Culture Change Management (OCM) roadmap that engaged employees in an environment of reduced staffing to transform to a High-Performance Culture (HPC).