SUMMARY:

• Enterprise Agile Coach, Trainer, and Speaker known as The Passionate Agilist known for - “Don’t be Waterfallin on my Agile”. Passionate Agile practitioner, passionate about guiding high performing teams to achieve positive results. Goal is to educate and coach both new and mature Agile teams to continuously improve. Guide and mentor executive levels to over the challenges associated with organizational change. Encourage transformations to be both “top down and bottom up”. Radiate information showing progress, trends & key performance indicators of agile maturity and adoption
• Extensive experience executing large, complex Agile programs at scale (SAFe, leSS). Draft/implement roadmaps for organizational transformation.
• Agile certifications include; Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Agilist (SA), Project Management Professional (PMP).
• 18+ years’ experience improving Project Delivery using various Agile frameworks (e.g. Kanban, Scrum, XP, etc)
• 8+ years formal Agile coaching experience with both new and experienced teams. Conduct Agile Maturity Assessments (AMA) at both team and organizations to encourage continuous improvement.
• Travel stateside and internationally working with both co-located and globally distributed team models, share the message that “offshore aren’t resources, they’re people”.
• Financial Services (8 yrs), Education (12 yrs), and Manufacturing (10yrs) background
• Expertise includes in depth knowledge of Agile electronic and manual tools (e.g. JIRA, Rally, TFS, RTC, along with manual boards.)
• Solid facilitation, communication, and conflict resolution skills. This is included the ability to Listen
• Extensive experience developing training content/materials and conducting training
• Experience with Agile tools and techniques including; Atlassian Rally, JIRA, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Rational Team Concert (RTC), HP Quality Center (QC), Net View, Confluence, SharePoint, and Remedy. Proficient with MS PowerPoint and other Microsoft apps/tools. Technical skills include experience with Extreme Programming (XP), pair programming, TDD, Refactoring, ADD, BDD, CI, Continuous Delivery and Deployment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irving, TX

Enterprise Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Training (led numerous Agile Boot Camps and workshops using custom created content) and coaching Agile teams on Agile practices, techniques, and semantics ensuring that all team-related ceremonies take place and those who attended understood their purposes while teaching all to keep within the time-boxes.
• Provided support for the development of a sustainable Enterprise Agile Framework.
• Identified and coached internal Agile champions, to remove reliance on external mentors.
• Ensured Agile metrics were tracked, monitored for indications of potential problems, and assisted teams to implement solutions. Conducted ongoing Agile maturity assessments (AMAs) to help teams measure maturity and progress with their Agile journey and alignment of Agile programs.
• Assist in resolving organizational impediments that prevent Agile teams from completing sprint commitments.
• Assisted in Agile Iteration and Release Planning along with providing guidance on creating Agile artifacts
• Facilitated team breakout sessions with an eye on process and related best practices
• Presented customer Agile Leadership series along with the development of their Agile Repository.
• Introduced teams to various Agile technical practices such as Design Thinking, Extreme Programming (XP), pair programming, TDD, Refactoring, ADD, BDD, CI, Continuous Delivery and Deployment, etc.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ/Indianapolis, IN

Senior Agile Coach/Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Led classroom/workshop training for professional levels through management on Agile frameworks, competencies, and methodologies. Created training content and workshop materials.
• Center of Excellence developed to insure consistency. Raised Agile awareness through creation of Communities of Practice (CoP).
• Defined and crafted Agile processes and best practices charter that could be shared and scaled throughout the organization.
• Built repository (KB) of Agile content, practices, and support for multiple area e.g. teams, executives, trainers/coaches.
• Introduced scaling (SAFe) to the Commercial Bank group and functioned as their Release Train Engineer (RTE) while coaching the individual that was stepping into the role. Facilitated Agile Release Train (ART) planning events for new teams, along with other Release Planning sessions. Assisted with setting up Scrum “iteration schedules”, identifying Roles, and teams defining their DoD’s and DoR’s.
• Introduced teams to various Agile technical practices including, but not limited Extreme Programming (XP), pair programming, TDD, Refactoring, ADD, BDD, CI, Continuous Delivery and Deployment, etc.

Confidential, Westlake, TX

Enterprise Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in Agile Release Planning. Provided Release Train Engineer (RTE)/Program Manager guidance for creating Vision and Roadmap artifacts for various ARTs (SAFe); created/updated Release/Program Plans with features and dependencies; and assisted with prioritizing session using WSJF discussions and calculations .
• Led new teams from training, initial team kickoffs through Releases. Worked with Operations and DEVOPS teams’ due to extensive knowledge of Kanban.
• Center of Excellence developed to insure consistency. Raised Agile awareness through creation of Communities of Practice (CoP).
• Defined and crafted Agile processes and best practices charter that could be shared and scaled throughout the organization.
• Built repository (KB) of Agile content, practices, and support for multiple area e.g. teams, executives, trainers/coaches. Teams successfully embraced new Agile technical practices and put into play pair programming, TDD, Refactoring, automated testing, and demonstrated continuous improvement.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Enterprise Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Defined and crafted Agile processes and best practices charter that could be shared and scaled throughout the organization.
• Built repository (KB) of Agile content, practices, and support for multiple area e.g. teams, executives, trainers/coaches.

Confidential, Tempe, Arizona

Director of Operations

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing Confidential operations .
• Responsibilities included; data center, Helpdesk, Desktop Support, Telecom/Networking, and Web development teams.
• Member of original team responsible for bringing Agile on campus. Scrum Master and Product Owner for original Scrum pilot teams, Scrum Master for the PMO. Worked to enable the UTO PMO strategy evolve toward business agility.
• Provided cross-college leadership and guidance to ensure the portfolio was transparent and focused on top priority programs delivering the highest business value.
• Also known as the Director who when first asked about Scrum, replied “why does Confidential needed a new sports team?”