SUMMARY:

• Accomplished Agile Practitioner, Trainer and Coach with over 10 years experience leading successful Agile projects and transformations. More than 20 years of hands - on software development experience including 10 years in management roles. Servant leader specialized in helping companies and teams through transition to Agile methodologies, building, mentoring, and coaching Scrum Masters, Product Owners and high performing teams, and successfully delivering programs and projects on time and on budget using Agile frameworks, such as Scrum, Kanban and SAFe. Proven record of success in scaling agile across mid-sized and large organizations. Work across different departments and methodologies helping people be doing their job more effectively and enjoy what they are doing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Mateo CA

Enterprise Scrum Coach

• Lead successful agile transformation within Magnetic to decrease release cycle from 6 month to 2 weeks, increase velocity and predictability for the complex fast growing digital advertisement platform utilizing continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD)
• Provided strategic transformation mentoring and training to company executives and became a trusted adviser
• Conducted initial Scrum training across multiple locations within organization; trained total of 50+ people using own training materials
• Provided advanced mentoring and coaching for 5 Scrum Masters and 4 Product Owners
• Provided coaching and mentoring to 9 teams across 4 geographic location observing sprint ceremonies, providing constant feedback to empower self-organized teams and to meet commitments predictably with at high level of quality
• Nurtured transparency and trust across the teams implementing effective retrospective techniques
• Ran Scrum of Scrums (S2) to improve inter-team communication and removing corporate level impediments
• Defined and implemented Scrum Maturity model, conducted regular teams assessments for constant process improvement
• Developed and administer dashboards on agile portfolio in JIRA and Confluence; defined and maintained team performance metrics
• Led successful enterprise efforts to scale agile across entire organization by adopting Spotify model; supervised Agile Guild that includes 8 people
• Exemplifies a servant leadership style, and role model for healthy conflict resolution
• Developed and Delivered successful Kanban solution for DevOps and Support teams
• Build and support minimal needed levels of reporting for program delivery and executive stakeholder’s requirements.
• Influence at all levels of the organization and help implement recommended changes to build Agile software delivery culture

Confidential

Associated Director, Agile Program Management

• As a Delivery Director facilitated successful launch the first release of CA Medical-Medicare Informational System, planned and managed Go-Live activities across over 15 teams and multiple geographical locations
• Created, negotiated with the client and managed project plans, timelines, deliverables and budget
• Acted as a central point of contact for all communications relating to the project including weekly status reports to the stakeholders (CA Department of Health Care Services) and Xerox PMO office
• Overlooked schedules and deliverables to ensure that deadlines are met
• Work with engineering, product development, QA, TechOps and other departments to resolve resource and schedule conflicts and dependencies; helped adopting best architecture and engineering practices
• Co-creator of Cognizant Daikibo methodology, proprietary version of SAFe, and Agile Maturity Model
• Member of Cognizant Agile Academy, primary editor of Cognizant Agile training material
• Defined and maintained custom metrics in VersionOne
• Created and tailored Agile processes based on customer needs, keeping the processes always aligned to the Agile Manifesto

Confidential, CA

Agile Coach and Consultant

• Facilitated Agile adoption in large organizations working at team and program levels by providing Agile assessments, defining and implementing transition back logs, work with the Executive Teams to define a transformation strategy
• Deliver classroom format training for teams of up to 100 people on Agile principals, Scrum and Kanban frameworks
• Help teams become in achieving a high performance by leading by example and demonstrating techniques to technical team members, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, functional manager and their executives.
• Enhanced inter-personal work relations and collaboration skills while focusing on Agile methodologies and strong technical skills
• Worked with individuals ranging from executives to individual contributors in their Agile adoption journey
• Reviewed cPrime learning materials and provided recommendation for the further improvements
• Clients: The Weather Company, Western Union

Confidential, CA

Sr. Software Director/ Agile Transformation Coach

• Referred to Sr. VP of Engineering by a former SunPower colleague for a business critical mission to automate and optimize highly customizable and engineering intensive design process of commercial size solar installation projects
• Orchestrated and coordinated successful Scrum transition across entire engineering organization to build scalable data driven, cloud based design tools (System Design Tool, Wind Tunnel Data Visualization Tool, Structure Analysis Automation) integrated with company ERP and PLM
• Used Agile development processes to decrease solar project turnaround time from 2 week to 1-2 days with lower engineering costs that caused the company ~2.5M saving a year.
• Implemented lean development practices such as Test Driven Design and Development, Code reviews and Code Previews, Continuous Integration, Refactoring etc.
• Acted as a Scrum Master, led Scrum ceremonies and maintained Scrum artifacts
• Planned, directed and executed enterprise wide Agile transformation and conducted basic Scrum training sessions across organization to increase overall company productivity
• Ran Scrum of Scrums across multiple distributed Scrum teams working on 3 parallel projects simultaneously including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, review and retrospectives
• Sped up value delivery by implementing 2 week sprints, coached teams in Scrum basics throughout development cycle
• Introduced Kanban to decrease maintenance issues and resolution time
• Mentored and coached Scrum masters and Product Owners by conducting Scrum Master and Product Owner training sessions and providing day by day coaching
• Improved team collaboration and project visibility by utilizing Agile Scrum Tool (Rally). Set and administered Rally accounts for team members, maintained Product and Iteration backlogs, set up bug-tracking system in Rally
• Constantly improved team’s productivity by monitoring Scrum performance metrics

Confidential, Richmond, CA

Software Director / Scrum Coach

• Referred to Sr. Director of Strategic Projects by Carl Bass, Confidential President and CEO, to pioneer development of software tools for the solar industry.
• After being introduced to Agile methodology by Martin Fowler personally and forming connections with Agile community brought Agile Methodology to SunPower Software Development department and implemented Scrum processes.
• Planned, directed and executed Agile transformation and conducted basic Scrum training sessions across software development and QA teams to increase Software Development Department productivity by 300%
• Acted as a Scrum Master, led Scrum ceremonies and maintained Scrum artifacts
• Improved internal customer engagement and minimized rework by introducing 2 week sprints and delivering demos at the end of each sprint
• Implemented lean development practices such as Test Driven Design and Development, Code reviews and Code Previews, Continues integration, Refactoring etc.
• Mentored and coached 2 off-shore teams during the Scrum transition
• Ran Scrum of Scrums across multiple distributed Scrum teams working on 4 parallel projects simultaneously including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, review and retrospectives
• Mentored and coached Scrum Masters and Product Owners on remote and co-located teams
• Improved team collaboration and project visibility by utilizing Agile Scrum Tool, Rally. Set and administered Rally accounts for team members, maintained Product and Iteration backlogs, set up bug-tracking system in Rally
• Constantly improved teams productivity by monitoring Scrum performance metrics
• Planned and manage a $2.5M budget

Confidential, San Rafael, CA

Development Lead / System Architect

• Managed team of 10+ software engineers to deliver quality software on time
• Responsible for architecture of features related to spatial data representation in Confidential MAP to make product compliant with GIS industry standards and help to grow business from $65M to over $100M in a few years
• Involved with the FDO Open Source community creating architectural reviews and suggesting code changes
• Led team efforts in establishing nightly builds that substantially decreased probability of lemon submissions Mentored junior engineers, helping them in their professional development