SUMMARY

• Transformation Lead - providing guidance, mentoring, coaching, and developmental support to senior leaders and stakeholders as they navigate Agile transformations and continuous improvement journeys.
• Working closely with director-and above roles, providing hands-on leadership, shaping and executing large-scale transformations, and effectively demonstrating systems-oriented leadership to bring together and inspire high-performing teams aligned to exceeding client expectations and achieving their targeted business outcomes.

Areas Of Expertise

• Lean Agile Delivery Enablement
• Lean Agile mindset transformation
• Portfolio Agile Advisory & Coaching
• Leadership Development
• Agile Process Coaching
• Complex Program Delivery
• High performance for Distributed Teams

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business Agility Enablement - Transformation Leader

Responsibilities:

• Partner with customer stakeholders and account teams throughout the engagement to enable positive business outcomes and high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Actively engage with the client, account team, and coaching team during engagement to ensure strong shared understanding of goals and outcomes for the transformation and continuous improvement journey.
• Developing deep relationships with those on the team, acting as a mentor in order to support their professional growth, and building a team culture of safety, trust, and fast feedback.
• Act as a trusted advisor throughout the lifecycle of an engagement in a way that positions my coaching team as the best provider to help them address challenging and strategic problems and creates a “provider of choice” experience for everyone that engages with our services.
• Working hands-on as the primary coach and advisor for senior leaders.
• Guiding, advising, and aligning leaders on forming transformation vision, goals, strategies, roadmap, backlog, coaching office, and change management plan, as well as showing the client how to successfully connect these key elements to enable transformation progress and improvements.
• Proactively supporting senior leaders and sponsors in defining and aligning on the vision and goals and outcomes for their journey and serving them to keep connected to these as a transcendent purpose throughout the change effort.
• Actively shaping roadmaps and approaches for change by recommending tactics and improvements while creating a sense of urgency for taking action, achieving results and maintaining momentum throughout the journey.
• Partnering with senior leaders on strategies for hearing all voices throughout the community, establishing tight feedback loops, and leveraging learnings to inspect and adapt throughout the change effort.
• Enabling comprehensive change management approaches that engage all impacted stakeholders, teams, and departments.
• Educating key stakeholders on proven transformation and change management practices as well as their role in making the change reality within their organization.
• Modeling true Agile leadership in all of my actions and inviting the client to deepen their awareness and development of Agile leadership competencies.
• Mentoring and pairing with change agents and stakeholders within the client organization on becoming true Lean-Agile champions and developing lasting organizational capabilities.
• Acting as a mirror for the organization and account team in order to reveal the system, identify lingering impediments and recommend approaches for overcoming obstacles that are preventing them from achieving their desired outcomes.
• Identifying and tracking outcome-based metrics and key performance indicators that enable the client to evaluate progress and gain insights.

Confidential

Federal Government Consultant - Portfolio Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Worked with teams to ensure that delivery teams within agencies are adopting agile and performing effectively.
• At the portfolio or program level, to help agencies to establish the right processes for managing a portfolio of work in an agile way.
• Helping to create an open and trust-based environment, which enables a focus on delivery and facilitates continuous improvement.
• Ensuring key metrics and requirements that support the team and delivery are well defined and maintained.
• Facilitate scrum of scrum (SoS) and engaging with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Supported communities of practices to promote organizational understanding of Agile roles and to help individuals develop into them.
• Monitor process maturity and facilitate retrospectives, planning sessions, and sprint reviews.
• Coach and influence several development teams in implementing and practicing scale lean agile principles and values.
• Interface with project leadership, stakeholders, Product Owners, and Scrum Master’s to improve performance, communication, and transparency.
• Helped and assisted systems teams during transformation to agile methodologies and created Kanban/Scrum board, define WIP limits, tracking product backlogs and initiate daily stand-ups.
• Coach teams and management towards improving agile process and metrics, evaluate and mentor existing Scrum teams, and provide guidance to product owners, developers and testers..
• Support the creation of team charters, including team norms and agreements, definitions of ready and done, release and sprint schedules, and other standards that will help drive team success.
• Support identification and development of user stories, including sizing efforts and story point assignments, identification of acceptance criteria, and associating user stories.
• Support Agile engineering practices such as regular code check-in, unit testing, architecture evolution, simple and clear design, regular review and feedback loops with the customer, testing automation and regression testing, including (if appropriate), continuous integration.
• Be an agent of change. Challenge legacy systems and processes and encourage teams to think outside the box. Motivate and push teams to try new approaches to their work.
• Facilitate difficult conversations where necessary to build strong and healthy working relationships, both within your assigned teams and across the organization.
• Completed an assessment of the current state of agile implementation within the teams.
• Set up a coaching plan to address the areas of opportunity found during the assessment.
• Responsible for training, mentoring, and providing templates to be utilized for creating project documentation and delivering work products throughout the project life cycle.
• Coached all levels of team members, helping them understand their role within the agile organization.
• Providing relevant business context for Agile software development team and leading team through planning exercises designed to help select development work for time-boxed execution.
• Facilitating Agile Scrum Framework execution by team by filling a role as a Scrum Master for the team. Minimizing the impact of impediments to successful completion of development work.
• Provide vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project through understanding and representing the customer to the team through backlog management, sprint planning, and elaboration of the user stories and requirements.
• Lead the daily scrum meetings and guide the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum best practices and values and enforcing.
• Responsible for training, mentoring, and providing templates to be utilized for creating project documentation and delivering work products throughout the project life cycle.