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Agile Coach Cincinnati, OH
SUMMARY:
Implementing Agile isn’t easy. It’s complicated, it’s messy, and there are always many competing demands for your time. That’s why an experienced Agile Coach/Practitioner is vital to successful enterprise transformations. Experience matters, skills matter, training and education matter.I am a PMP, PMI - ACP, SAFe and ICP-ACC certified Agile Coach with over 20 years project management experience in the following industries
EXPERTISE AREA:
- I am an excellent communicator who knows the value of good working relationships and enjoys teaming with customers. A short list of my extensive skills:
- Agile implementations and transformations
- Agile project management
- Traditional Waterfall project management
- Backlog grooming & sprint planning
- PMO processes
- Training course development
- Business process improvement
- Budgeting & financial analysis
- Change management
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Forecasting & tracking key metrics
- Quality analysis & improvement
- Business continuity & disaster recovery
- Infrastructure & datacenter management
- Information Technology
- Consulting
- Industrial Automation
- Government & Non - Profits
- Aviation
- Financial & Accounting
- Healthcare
- Consumer Products
- Travel & Leisure
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Cincinnati, OH
Agile Coach
Responsibilities:
- Coach Agile teams developing software for Coupa accounting system.
- Assist and coach other Scrum Masters to achieve better Agile outcomes.
Confidential, Cincinnati, OH
Agile Coach/Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- Coached Scrum Masters and other Agile practitioners to deliver value more quickly.
- Led teams creating new national teller application for bank branches on one Release Train.
Confidential, Cincinnati, OH
Agile Coach/Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- Lead SAFe initiative in the enterprise; lead Scrum of Scrums; lead Program Increment planning
- Agile Coach for CFM - 34 & CFM-56 Engine Reporting applications; assisted with GE90 team.
- NextGen WMS Supply Chain Project - coached three teams of 12-20 on- & off-shore team members.
- Data Fabric/Data Lake Program - coached two projects of 4-6 members.
- Coached executives and others in the benefits and use of Agile.
- Assisted teams with sprints, program increments, innovation & planning sessions, daily standups, etc.
Confidential, Cincinnati, OH
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Agile Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Aligned BC/DR practices using Agile with vendor requirements to maintain certification.
- Used Kanban boards as information radiators for several concurrent projects.
Confidential, Cincinnati, OH
Customer Relationship Program Manager
Responsibilities:
- Scrum Master & Agile Coach for projects in Confidential ’s SAP landscape. Led team of on- and offshore resources in release planning, iterations, change management, migrations, firmware updates, Oracle revisionsstakeholder management, risk management, backlog grooming, etc. to deliver requested functionality.
Confidential, Cincinnati, OH
Unix/Linux Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Program Manager
Responsibilities:
- Planned and implemented changes to BC/DR exercise procedures using Kaizen methodology.
- Transformed an international team conducting semi - annual DR exercises to Agile delivery.
- Developed and tested Confidential crisis management plan. Tested disaster recovery plan semi-annually.
- Ensured conformity with requirements and contractual commitments; assisted with risk audits.
Confidential
Linux/Unix Installation & Data Center Program Manager
Responsibilities:
- Scaled Agile Subject Matter Expert for SAFe implementation on Confidential & Confidential account.
- Scrum Master for project to replace 250+ physical systems with virtual and private cloud.
- Created and conducted Agile training classes for Confidential Infrastructure Team (120 people).
- Scrum Master and mentor for team moving Russian employee data inside Russia.
- Program Manager for project to move 200+ app servers to new primary data center.
Agile Coach/Project Manager
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Managed installation of 350+ servers in Next Generation Data Center for Confidential migration project.
- Managed project to move apps & data off of remaining HP3000 systems to HP - UX & RedHat.
