Agile Coach And Trainer Resume
SUMMARY:
Confidential has over 20 years of project management consulting and training experience. He has performed as an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Development Manager and Release Train Engineer.
EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Agile Coach and Trainer
Responsibilities:
- Providing Agile Project Management Training, Assessments and Coaching to people and organizations transitioning from a traditional project management methodology to an Agile framework. Experience includes:
- Agile and Scrum training for over 20 organizations and over 3000 individuals
- Agile coaching for State Street Bank implementing Agile best practices across three development teams and part of a center of excellence supporting a 300 team rollout.
- Customized training development and delivery of the following Agile courses:
- Scrum Master Certification Training
- Product Owner and User Story Training
- Scrum Team Member Training
- Advanced Scrum Master training.
- Agile for Executives
- Agile for Team Members
- Agile Engineering and Testing
- Developed and piloted the curriculum, Agile in the Federal Environment, for a large federal training organization.
- Author of the Practical Agile Blog and a 9 part Agile Education series available on Amazon
Confidential
Agile Program Manager/AVP Software Development
Responsibilities:
- Introduced Agile and Scrum as the project management approach for a large system replacement project.
- Facilitated daily Scrum of Scrums for system implementer and system integration teams for 22 Sprints.
- Performed all budget and resource planning for a team of forty contractors and employees.
Confidential
Director, IT Project Management
Responsibilities:
- Portfolio Management: managed a portfolio of 70 projects including reporting to executives on all project metrics including budget, schedule and resource status.
- Training, Coaching and Mentoring; improve the overall project management maturity of the organization.
- Developed customized content and trained project managers.
Confidential
Software Development Program Manager, AVP
Responsibilities:
- Development and execution of all project management and Agile processes including schedule management, risk management and change management.
- P&L oversight of a 47 million dollar project budget, including budget forecasting, tracking and reporting
- Management of 20 million dollars in outsource staffing contracts
- Oversight of hiring and onboarding for 180+ employees and contractors
- Reporting and decision support for all operational and financial metrics; earned value progress reporting, executive dashboard reporting, and budget reporting
Confidential
Project Management Consultant, Principal
Responsibilities:
- Managed enterprise - wide projects for Confidential 500 organizations.
- Developed the overall schedule and plan for large-scale projects.
- Projects were managed both in an Agile framework and in a traditional project management model depending upon the maturity of the existing processes.
- Project management activities included project office implementation, hardware and software deployment, software development, budgeting and scheduling, defining requirements, process improvement, product development and rollout.
Confidential
VP of Operations
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for post-merger consolidation of operations departments, including HR, Accounting, IT and Administrative functions across two organizations.
- Improved efficiencies through the implementation of a sales force automation tool, web-based time and expense reporting and web-based training registration.
- Managed all daily operations and the professional development of 200 consultants
AVP, Management Consulting, Northeast Regional Manager
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for all staffing, business development and account management for all key clients in the Northeast. Managed a team of 30 consultants and 6 clients providing over 6 million dollars in annual consulting revenue and impacting over 150 million dollars in strategic projects
Director, Project Management Consulting
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Managed a client team to create an IT Project Office responsible for all significant IT initiatives.
- The Project Office was implemented using PMI standards and methodologies. Originally rolled out within IT, it was migrated to an enterprise-wide Project Office to support the entire portfolio of over 75 million dollars in annual projects
- Applied project management practices to turn around the strategic Confidential program. Identified organizational gaps within the program structure and helped create a governance structure to effectively manage a mission critical program
Confidential
Technology Product Manager
Responsibilities:
- Managed the ongoing development and marketing of all technology enabled products, including proprietary client-server and web-enabled loan-processing applications
Confidential
Director, Product Management
Responsibilities:
- Product launch strategy
- Branding, logo and packaging design
- Sales strategy and the sales team management