Agile Coach Resume Houston, TX - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Enterprise Agile Coach with expertise in strategic planning, organizational transformation, facilitation, and individual and process coaching at portfolio, program and team levels. Background in web development and project management.
Certified executive coach with graduate studies in leadership and organizational development (MBA expected 2020); Certified in Scrum, Kanban. and SAFe.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Agile Coach

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

Coached infrastructure teams (messaging, video conferencing, etc.) in Kanban and Scrum adoption and program - level management in support of enterprise-wide SAFe rollout.
Trained Scrum Masters in team facilitation, user stories, actionable metrics. with Jira reporting.

Enterprise Agile Coach

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

Designed metrics reporting based on flow efficiency. Built Jira REST API metrics prototype.
Overall increased productivity of roughly 10% in first year with some teams achieving 90%+ predictability.
Led creation and implementation of Kanban transformation program.
Supported Scrum Masters, Kanban Leads and teams by coaching on the practice of user stories, team agreements and general SAFe practices. Taught Scaled Agile classes.

Agile Coach

Confidential, Montreal, QC

Responsibilities:

For various clients in finance, insurance and transportation industries: halped executives and teams through organizational Agile transformations, working variously as Team, Program and Executive Coach.
Aligned multiple PMO groups on Agile portfolio management and enterprise reporting practices
Coached 6 Agile Release Trains from value stream mapping through launch.
Led PI Planning.Trained 500+ employees and executives in Agile and SAFe Principals. Pass rate of 96% (of students) for Scaled Agile “ Leading SAFe ” course. Coached individual teams.

Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Aligned multiple PMO groups on Agile portfolio management and enterprise reporting practices
Guided introduction of Agile methods on major project for foreign investment service.
Facilitated multiple PI Planning sessions for an e-commerce team of 85.
Introduced Kanban Method in STATIK-based roll-out to 10 development teams, realizing 63% efficiency improvement in first year.
Served as Scrum Master to 3 teams new to Agile. Trained 100+ students.