SUMMARY

• He has extensive leadership and hands - on experience driving large scale programs in complex matrix environments. He knows how to provide structure and transparency to technology and business transformation initiatives including agile transformations, mobile application development, web and software development, reengineering busi­ness processes, third party software implementations, product launches and project/ program management. he is best at leveraging broad experience (Product Management, Technology, Mar­keting, Operations) to develop cohesive, cross-functional solutions that drive sustain­able change. Excels at building consensus and delivering results.
• He has a documented track record of rapidly deploying technology to meet business goals. Confidential has 20 years of experience within the public sector, retail, financial ser­vices, brokerage, heath care, marketing and wireless industries. He is a seasoned change agent who knows how to communicate at all levels in the organization, has traveled nationally to interface with Executive Business Sponsors and Senior Leaders for third party SAAS implementations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Agile Release Train Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coaches as an integrated member of the team focused on delivering incremental customer value via SAFe's release train model.
• Provides regular and open communication across the program and stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments
• Works with Product Managers and Product Owners to align business strategy and execution.
• Applies the Scaled Agile Framework methodology to facilitate release planning ceremonies.
• Provides daily leadership and coaching to Product Owners, Scrum Masters, team members to apply scaled agile practices to achieve program level success.
• Guides the Product Owners, Product Managers, Scrum teams to facilitate release planning preparedness (definition, grooming, scoping) to ensure that each release train has an actionable, prioritized backlog.
• Ensures that the Program has high visibility and understanding of the critical data for the release train - dependencies, issues and risks, Inspect & Adapt plans, train- level metrics, etc. and communicates appropriately.
• Leads Scrum of Scrums meetings.
• Participates in Portfolio and Program Management process improvement and stan­dardization activities.
• Acts as a role model and change agent from traditional project manager/program manager to Agile servant-leader.
• Drives cross team, ART and departmental impediments, planning, collaboration, and coordination
• Drives delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc) to identify areas of opportunity.
• Drives train-level continuous improvement via Inspect & Adapt workshops and con­stant demonstration of a Kaizen mindset.

Confidential

SPC4 SAFe Agile Coach & Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• SAFe trainer across the Enterprise.
• Coached, mentored and trained SAFe methods to design, develop, implement, and optimize complete end-to-end Agile-at-Scale solutions to support organizational transformation at the team, program, and portfolio levels.
• Trained and mentoring teams and portfolio leaders on Agile, Lean, and related methodologies.
• Facilitated for feature and story writing workshops.
• Provided thought leadership in offering development through strategic thinking, innovation, and methodology improvement.
• Provided role-based Scaled Agile Framework training for executives (business and technology), Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers (RTE), and system teams.
• Assisted the Portfolio Management team in portfolio backlog creation and groom­ing.
• Trained and coached Product Owners with the creation of portfolio-level Epics and Features, as well as performing continuous prioritization/grooming of both portfolio and program backlogs.
• Provided ongoing coaching to Product Owners to ensure consistent use of WSJF calculations and their utilization in prioritizing Features for a Program Increment.
• Worked closely with Release Train Engineer, Product Manager, Product Owners and UX Lead to provide coaching and support around best practices to prepare for the upcoming Program Increments.
• Provided input, feedback and guidance to teams to ensure they were able to com­plete PI planning with required planning deliverables during the time constrained, two day time-box.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia.

Enterprise Agile Coach, Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked directly with the CTO's primary Senior VP to implement agile across multi­ple IT departments within multiple geographies.
• Provided coaching/training to IT Managers, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Archi­tects, Designers and software development teams in the area of agile software prin­ciples and practices.
• Stood up QA automation for two mobile and web based Products.
• Led Confidential 's Pro & Services Scrum Masters. These Scrum Masters were my direct reports. Their teams developed User Experience Driven applications across smart phones, tablets and desktop browsers to optimize Confidential Pro Cus­tomers' experience in stores.
• Assessed the Agile maturity and skill-growth for teams and provided training and feedback as required.
• Ensured cross-team coordination and improved team processes.
• Encouraged the collection and maintenance of relevant metrics that helped the team see how they were doing.
• Created and delivered ad hoc training materials tailored to Confidential for Lean UX and Lean Startup frameworks. Methodology, approaches and frameworks were focused primarily around the works of Eric Ries, Marty Cagan and Alan Cooper.
• Actively contributed to Confidential 's Agile and Lean Community.
• Led a community of practice for paired programming.