SUMMARY:

• Agile Transformation Coach - Enterprise Change Management Leadership
• Lean Agile transformation servant leader, executive coach, and portfolio management consultant.
• Lead enterprise Lean Agile transformations by guiding C-level business leaders and their technology executive partners through the layers of adoption.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to transformation team coaches to ensure a successful business and technical adoption of Agile principles, methods, and culture.
• A firm believer in servant leadership.
• No boulder is too big, no amount of water is too heavy to carry if you influence everyone you serve to be servant leaders too

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages, Software & Tools : AWS Cloud, Jira, Confluence, Visual Studio - Team Foundation Server (TFS), LeanKit, SharePoint, Salesforce, Planview, MS Project, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Visio, VB.net, PHP, ASP, MySQL, XML, HTML, Java Script, OCMOD, VQMOD, OpenCart, Linux/Apache, CSS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Provide Lean Agile transformational leadership and guidance for enterprise Agile adoption.
• Coach business executives toward rapid decision making and prioritizing value.
• Coach technology executives toward rapid delivery of business goals and objectives.
• Lean Portfolio and Program Management, Lean Agile/Scrum/Kanban/TDD best practices, SAFe and Nexus scaling, DevOps, Product Management and Ownership, federal business and technology management consulting, state government change management and organizational development solutions.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Executive Agile Coach / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Providing executive workshops to Information Technology senior executives, senior leaders and key influencers to pave the way for an enterprise Agile transformation.
• Provide expert Agile training, opinions and subject matter expertise to ensure fully informed decisions can be made for a conclusion of “all-in” commitment to the Agile transformation.

Agile Transformation Coach / Consultant

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Responsibilities:

• Lead Executive Workshops, Mentor/Coach Sr. Business Executives, Train/Mentor Coaches.
• Wrote and evangelize the Agile Transformation Charter.
• Lead and provide enterprise Lean Agile/Scrum/Kanban and LeanKit training classes to Federal Reserve business and technical personnel, Bureau of the Fiscal Service program personnel and newly appointed Product Owners.
• Provide executive coaching to senior bank and government executives.
• Mentor executives in Agile best practices and Change Management approaches.
• Organized and led multi-faceted and highly complex Visioning and Feature Mapping sessions for launch of AWS cloud architecture pilot.
• Coach enterprise solutions architecture and development teams for a major AWS cloud architecture transition from legacy mainframe and Client Server to AWS Cloud platform for the United States Department of Treasury: Bureau of the Fiscal Service.
• Coach Agile Transformation Steering Committee for ensuring Agile matures across the enterprise.
• Utilize Nexus for scaling Scrum. Mentor and Coach the Nexus Integration Team to identify dependencies and risks in the Product Backlog.

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Agile Transformation Coach / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and evangelized the Agile Transformation Charter.
• Trained executives and Sr. leadership in Agile best practices to include: Scrum, Kanban, Change Management and LeanKit tool for visualizing workflow.
• Lead and providing enterprise Agile/Scrum/Kanban/Lean and LeanKit training classes to all of HCA MidAmerica and Delta IT&S leadership, hospitals/facilities personnel.
• Provide executive coaching to CIO and DOO in Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Lean best practices.
• Actively standing up numerous Kanban teams for operations and Scrum Teams for project driven work.
• Emphasize MVP and Refactoring.
• Train PMO Portfolio Managers and Operations Directors on tactics for deploying DevOps.
• Leading the Agile transformation of PMO and enterprise Business & IT infrastructure.
• Implemented LeanKit as standard PM tool across the enterprise.
• Developed transformation vision, stood up steering committee and delivery team.
• Developed training plan and materials to prepare enterprise for transformation. Currently leading training for executives, senior leaders and health system facility IT Directors.
• Manage very large Threat Vulnerability Program (10 projects) for Confidential utilizing Planview and LeanKit.
• Led large-scale Facility Security Remediation project for 14 hospitals surgery centers and clinics using Scrum method and LeanKit tool as a pilot transformation project. Project required an urgent management solution to get back on track and ensure a 12/29 deadline. Delivered the project to completion ahead of schedule, allowing multiple resources to be freed up for other projects. Taught the newly formed scrum team and product owner/director that through the use of planning, standups, transparency of a Scrum board, and retrospectives, processes could be improved drastically, work efforts streamlined and awareness of backlog and work in progress could be laser focused.
• Train PMO Sr. Project Managers on Lean/Agile/Scrum/Kanban PMO governance.
• Participate in and coach weekly senior leadership meetings.

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Agile Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead Product Visioning for new products and projects. Teaching Lines of Business’ stakeholders, customers, managers, technology departments such as middleware, mainframe, and scrum development teams to focus on the new product being developed. Hold whiteboard sessions to map our current business/technology environments.
• Conduct Feature Mapping sessions with business and technology teams to identify functionality, features, and epics.
• Work with multiple product managers and business lines within the bank. Work with business analysts to develop business cases, user stories and release planning for mobile and online banking products. Teaching Product Owners how to work with development teams by prioritizing the Product Backlog, explaining the feature set, discussing the level of effort, determining the definition of done and agreeing to the sprint goal.
• Conduct Product Visioning with multiple lines of business having multiple product managers, product owners, business analysts, and multiple IT management teams.
• Work with Agile teams to remove impediments in a highly fractional environment running multiple projects with fractioned resources.
• Work with Quality Assurance management team on how to implement TDD and RBT successfully.
• Facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and Daily Scrum of Scrums to identify dependencies within several projects.
• Coach Product Managers, their assigned Product Owner, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, and Development teams on processes throughout iterations and release cycles. Demonstrate how to break down epics to user stories, tasks to sub tasks, and estimation of each story.
• Work with the bank’s vendors to coordinate high level planning.
• Mentor new scrum masters, product managers, business analysts and development team.
• Produce and maintain Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and velocity using TFS.

Confidential, Leawood, KS

Senior Vice President / Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Create vision, Product Roadmap, Feature Mapping and Product backlog for Scrum Teams to develop user stories, work with development team to elaborate stories, break down from epics to user stories and sub stories.
• Set the sprint goal with the scrum team, discuss release planning for APS Product Conveyor data transmission product for eCommerce OpenCart websites built with Linux/Apache, MySQL, PHP, ASP.net, and XML.
• Coach stakeholders, sponsors and executives in Agile/Scrum rituals, artifacts, and rules of the road to set expectations and thoroughly get buy-in for starting an Agile/Scrum project (impediments to the sprint) mitigation.
• Collaborate with clients and development team to determine accurate UX design and usability of eCommerce websites.
• Participate as Subject Matter Expert for OpenCart architecture on every project.
• Utilize Lean, Kanban and Scrum methods to satisfy project parameters. Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and scrum of scrums when applicable.
• Mentor scrum masters, product owners, and development team members on scrum ceremonies.