SUMMARY

• Dynamic Senior IT Leader, experienced in diverse areas of business including research, education, finance, insurance, health care, broadcasting, and manufacturing. Hands on project management style with significant technical expertise. Seasoned program/project leader with proven track record of successful delivery.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Certified Product Owner, chair of several the Agile Leadership Conferences. Agile Alliance Treasurer and former Agile Leadership Network board member, both are international agile organizations. Major focus on large organization transformations adopting continuous improvement processes by incorporating Agile and Lean principles. Completed many new multi - million dollar system development programs (complete system life cycle and object-oriented), package integration, and enhancements of large-scale systems including enterprise package integration.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Hampstead, MD

Chief Learning Officer

Responsibilities:

• Lean Agile Coach focused on delivery of business systems utilizing the ‘just enough process’ for the task. Business Process Re-engineering, Project Management methods analyst, includes Lean Six Sigma, Kanban Software Development, Agile coaching, Scrum Master coaching, Test Driven Development (TDD), BDD, Lean Software Development and XP. IC Agile Member Organization, accredited to deliver several courses including Agile Fundamentals and Agile Project Management. Recent clients include OnDeck, Catalina Marketing, office Depot, Dexcom.

Confidential, Timonium, MD

Agile Coach/Agile Program Lead/Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Agile Program Lead of $125M initiative with 500+ staff across 57 teams located in 4 countries. Leading the single largest investment in new product for Confidential . Overseeing the Agile Transformation of this program with support from 6 Agile coaches. Leading the most successful initiative in the company while maintaining delivery schedule on time and within budget. Providing training and coaching in all aspects of agile delivery.
• Development Manager for Credit Authorization and Risk team. Supporting development team utilizing a Java stack with JEE, Glassfish, Oracle, and Unix delivery platform. Tuning division teams agile practices, helped teams gain performance improvements ranging from 50% to over 100%. Supporting Confidential ’s Agile Transformation in Timonium, Berlin, and Chennai. Training teams to use Scrum and Lean techniques.

Confidential, Towson, MD

Sr. Development Manager/Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Program Manager for newly formed Fraud, Waste and Abuse (FWA) product suite. The program incorporates STARS Solutions, Informant, and Commander products to run on a common platform. These products are being altered to share a JAVA EE, JBoss tech stack with UNIX & Oracle, and Windows & SQL Server as delivery platforms. Established new practices for the Health Payer Division to manage a suite a products. Worked directly with the Business Owners and Product Owners to establish a shared set of features and infrastructure requirements. Managed the Infrastructure team and performed program management for the three Fraud, Waste, and Abuse product-based teams. Responsibilities included vendor management for 3rd party tools.

Agile Practice Manager

Responsibilities:

• Development Manager responsible for delivery of Health Care Products, MCSource and SourceValue. Taught the teams to utilize Scrum and XP practices. Directed the implementation of Sonar to create a baseline of test coverage, complexity and other engineering practices. Managed consultants to provide training in Scrum including Certified ScrumMaster, Certified Product Owner, Test Driven Development (TDD), conducted agile transformation. Software Development and XP. Lead Health Payer Group through their first ISO 9001-2008 audit successfully using Agile methods.
• Developed agile software engineering and management best practices, metrics, and audit practices. Managing corporate wide intranet site to support agile software engineering across GDIT. Conducted Scrum team training, Retrospectives Workshop, Lean Software Development Workshop, and Kanban for Infrastructure teams. Established an Agile PMO function and an Architectural Recommendation and Review function. Recently setup the first program using Agile methods.

Confidential, Hampstead, MD

Managing Partner

Responsibilities:

• Lean Agile Coach focused on delivery of business systems utilizing the ‘just enough process’ for the task. Business Process Re-engineering, Project Management methods analyst, includes Lean Six Sigma, Kanban Software Development, Agile coaching, Scrum Master coaching, Test Driven Development (TDD), BDD, Lean Software Development and XP. Web based applications design and delivery using JAVA, J2EE, TomCat, Apache, MySQL, or .Net (MVC) based technologies using C#, Ant, CruiseControl, NUnit, NBehave, NHibernate, Selenium. Manage projects for outsourced initiatives with in-house staff and consultants. Guide organizations through process and methods assessment and establishing completed SDLC practices and deliverables.
• CapitalOne UK: Sr. Agile Coach, conducted an agile readiness assessment and provided overview of lean/agile practices. Conducted initial Scrum Project Launch for 4 development teams including training the ScrumMasters, product owners, and development teams.
• CapitalOne US: Sr. Lean/Agile coach for a large financial services company, conducting agile and scrum overview training, using JIT training model for large project team (48+) on corporate initiative to meet Sarbanes Oxley compliance for enterprise security access. Provide direct coaching and mentoring for all team members and project management.
• CareFirst: Program Management Consulting for enrollment and billing system consolidation, managed a $42M budget, with three development teams. Managed the program requirements, analysis and delivery efforts across several teams. Managed multi-million dollar vendor contracts and contractors. Lead the Facets product upgrade initiative. Conducted e-commerce vendor selection process using Lean Six Sigma practices. Successfully launched the CMMI Level 3 Certification process for each project. Introduced iterative delivery methods and agile project management practices.
• INPUT, Confidential: Agile Coach, led the organization’s transition to Agile using Scrum. Conducted Scrum training for the technical team, business associates, and leadership team. Worked with the Leadership to establish a program backlog with practices to create release plans and budgets. Developer productivity increased significantly in a short time enabling the teams to deliver 2 new programs in a few months.
• Invision, Confidential:
• Agile Coach led the organization’s transition to Agile using Scrum in a highly distributed work environment. Conducted Scrum training for the technical team, business associates, and leadership team. Worked with the Executive Leadership Team to establish a program backlog with practices to create release plans and budgets. Significantly enhanced their ability to manage the portfolio of product development and professional services using Lean practices.
• Liberty Mutual: Developed and delivered training on Scrum and Lean Practices for a large scale ($150M) Commercial Lines Billing Rewrite starting with Business Process Re-engineering, and Agile Team Startup using Scrum and XP Practices. Acted as an advisor to senior leadership on best practices for managing a large-scale project with staff and multiple vendors.
• The Motley Fool: (leading publisher of financial information) Lean/Agile coach lead the transformation of the Technology Department to use Agile Project Management practices including Scrum and Kanban. Team performance improvements up to 250% were realized in a 9-month period. Early implementer of Kanban for Infrastructure Projects. Cut delivery time in half for the Infrastructure VMWare Project using Kanban. Conducted many workshops including: 5 S Workshop, Learning to See Waste, User Story Workshops, Agile Release Planning, Kanban - Pull System for Technology Projects. Supported various XP practices including pair programming, Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, short iterations (2 weeks).
• Sinclair Broadcasting: Scrum Master/PM for a large television broadcasting company delivered new web services and provided classified ads for the domestic market.

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed new development projects for core enterprise systems. Managed four project managers with a cross-functional team in a matrixed environment, total headcount of 46, and budget scope $44M. Provided business relationship management, project schedule management, business process reengineering, requirements analysis, risk mitigation, scope management, project staffing and recruiting technical professionals, managing total cost of ownership (TCO), driving new SDLC process, developing technical pilots to prove the architecture’s validity, product evaluations of statistical tools, and business rule engines, an early adaptor of the Scrum methodology.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Director, Software Development

Responsibilities:

• Managed three software development teams with a staff of 38 professionals. Project responsibilities included web development, technical infrastructure, and core product development. Provided effective customer relationship management for top tier clients around the world, recruiting technical professionals, staff training, establishment of SDLC and best practices, and monitoring and measurement of technical service level agreements.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manager of Systems and Programming, supporting new development and enhancements of large-scale, multi-platform systems. Directed administrative and project responsibilities for multi-million dollar initiatives. Completed all phases of development life cycle to deliver new products. Implemented best practices, utilizing CMM Level 3 standards.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed development activities following the complete system life cycle.
• Acquired detailed business problem analysis and systems design skills.
• Mentored peers in technology skills and actively participated in the Programmer Trainee Program.
• Coordinated team member tasks on large-scale development projects.