SUMMARY:

Agile professional seeking a senior role supporting an enterprise Agile transformation, fostering a team and program environment, and encouraging lean thinking. Coaching at a program - level as part of an Agile Center of Excellence. Introducing scrum practices to seasoned professionals and supporting their overall adoption and maturity while being open to a change of mindset.

EXPERTISE:

• Staffing and Services, Asset Management
• Financial Securities Industry & Capital Markets

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Version One

Rally

IBM Rational DOORS

Serena Dimensions RM

Serena Business Manager

MS Office Suite

Skills:

Agile

SAFe 5.0

Team Leadership and Management

Requirements Mgmt

SDLC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Linthicum, Maryland

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Consulting engagement supporting the aerospace giant with its multi-year Agile transformation.
• Participated in a team of over 20 coaches tasked with helping the enterprise reach its transformation milestone.
• Coached a small team of hardware engineers to begin adopting lean-agile practices for use with sustainment of a fighter jet radar software re-hosting initiative.
• Created standard coaching assets, including a team-level plan, and brief topic introductory “cheat sheets” and presentations, for any team to leverage.

Confidential, Hanover, Maryland

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Coached two new RTEs into that role; included helping introduce PI Planning to a program of two 10-team Agile Release Trains (ARTs) in anticipation of an enterprise SAFe implementation.
• Coordinated a team of coaches to establish and support 14 scrum teams to adopt and mature team-level lean-agile practices.
• Mentored Scrum Masters new to that role and organization.
• Business Agility Service
• Coordinated creation & execution of a new enterprise Business Agility service.
• Coordinated creation of Business Agility service “kit” including marketing, communication, training, and guidance materials, and a service “playbook”.
• Executed one of the first business agility engagements for a client to introduce in their business operations.
• Coached 1st team on Agile concepts in mission-critical program (Evolve).
• Facilitated first team to utilize organization’s new Agile “Playbook”.
• Recurring Coach/Scrum Master position interview panel member
• Coaches Scrum Masters at team-level as needed
• Serves as thought leader on how teams new to agile mindset can transform
• Contributes to CoE activities including Agile tool (Version One) and Agile guidance (cheat sheets) standards, respectively, Agile Newsletter, Agile training delivery, and department (TMO) release reviews.
• Serves as thought leader on means of introducing Continuous Improvement
• Participates in, and presents at, Agile Communities of Practices
• Authored Agile Mentoring Guidance for new Allegis Scrum Masters

Confidential, Fort Detrick, Maryland

Requirements/Agile Manager

Responsibilities:

• Trains and coaches team members on Agile concepts
• Facilitates Agile ceremonies (e.g., daily stand-up, sprint planning, and retrospectives) and trains on writing user stories
• Helps teams to try and reduce impediments
• Manages Product Backlog
• Established strategy and approach to transform customer software development from a traditional SDLC methodology to Agile methodology.
• Worked with client to develop a “tailored” agile approach, plan and deploy a pilot scrum team, followed by a “scrum-of-scrums” comprised of multiple high-performing teams across the organization supporting a complex system.
• Lead the development and execution plan to support the transformation to Agile methodology, including development of processes, templates, artifacts, training materials, and lessons-learned.
• Drives the continuous improvement of the agile scrum methodology by applying Deming’s Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle. Using output from Retrospective meetings, began a grass-roots program of initiating spur-of-the-moment “Tiger Teams” as needed, in which members of my team and I facilitate efforts to eliminate or minimize scrum team impediments. This enables my team to deliver value quickly, resulting in refinements to the overall process, and helping to drive agile maturity.
• Functions as Agile Scrum Subject Matter Expert (SME) on external teams or committees developing new policies, approaches or techniques that impact beyond the scope of this organization.
• Interprets and ensures organization compliance with governing body Agile and Requirements Management regulations and processes, creating, managing and supporting processes based upon that guidance.
• Orients new staff on general IT industry, and client’s “tailored”, agile scrum process.
• Manages application requirements repository (Serena Dimensions RM).
• Managed a team of Scrum Masters; guiding and mentoring individual team members. Prepares and delivers annual performance reviews.

Confidential, Fort Detrick, Maryland

Requirements Manager

Responsibilities:

• Interprets and ensures organization compliance with governing body Requirements Management regulations and processes.
• Creates, deploys, and supports process based upon that guidance (created and implemented a Requirements Management Process based upon Waterfall best practices prior to the agile process described above).
• Supports development of specialized IT products which provide tools for broad application significant to the success of a key mission program and advancing the reputation of the organization as a field leader.
• Recognizes needs for new guidelines/procedures and develops them; extending existing knowledge precedents for others to follow. Defends those ideas and proposals as needed.
• Functions as a liaison with parent organization representatives to ensure that Requirements Management between organizations is consistent and reflects a continuation and synergy with respect to process and levels-of-detail.
• Interprets, selects and adapts guidelines, precedents and practices relating to other areas of technical specialization including Systems Engineering, Information Architecture, Configuration Management, Project Management, and Quality Assurance.
• Manages requirements repository in requirements management tool (DOORS 8.1).
• Facilitates custom tools design that automate development workflows.
• Applies in-depth knowledge of, and substantial experience with, industry best practices and techniques in developing results, recommendations and conclusions that may impact program, resource and organization research and development
• Managed a team of Business Analysts; guiding and mentoring individual team members. Prepares and delivers annual performance reviews.