SUMMARY

• Remote work and trainer experienced and certified
• Created remote and classroom training courses and coursework
• Coach enterprises in Agile and lean software development process and practices (SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban), as well as facilitate adoption and transformations at Portfolio, Program and Team levels.
• Developed an Agile transformation strategy that is in alignment with the organizational goals and objectives to advance existing Agile implementation and advance adoption and use of Agile as development methodology across the organization
• Believe in evolving the culture and behaviors at all levels (individuals, teams, program, and portfolio), which in turn, transforms the entire organization
• Mentor all levels in organizational culture change, encouraging self - organizing teams, instilling the Agile Mindset and culture change, and establishing transparency and accountability at the team level.
• Coached and mentored new and existing Scrum Masters, Product Owners, as well as other team members regarding their roles and responsibilities to deliver faster with a sustainable pace, deliver with high quality, and innovate, thus resulting in high performing teams.
• Help teams fully understand the Agile principles and values as the key drivers to successful Agile transformation as well as providing soft skills training to help them overcome resistance to Agile and fully adopt it.
• Perform root cause analysis through Metrics, Organizational and Team Assessments to understand gaps and challenges that the teams and organizations are experiencing to help them focus on improving areas of weaknesses
• Introduced practices and frameworks such as Lean Startup, SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, CI/CD, and DevOps to organizations at portfolio, program and team levels
• Extensive experience over many years in helping enterprises adapt to new and better collaborative techniques in accomplishing their goals of software delivery better, faster, cheaper, as well as scaling such practices and processes.
• Mentor cross-functional domains and disciplines in lean startup techniques combined with DevOps practice and tools for faster E2E software development and deployment.
• Pragmatic Enterprise DevOps Advisor experienced architecting innovative visions, roadmaps and value streams for implementation of working software while removing silos within and without the enterprise.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Process Practice and Methodology: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework, DevOps, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), Six Sigma (DMAIC)

Remote work and training Tools/Skillsets: MS Teams, Zoom, Mural, Ideaboardz, Slack

Tools/Skillsets: ADO, Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence, etc.) CA Agile Central (Rally), PMO, ITIL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Agile Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead an Agile pilot for methodology implementation
• Classroom (in-person until COVID, remote afterwards) instruction
• Daily interactive and accessible coaching of teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners/Managers, Portfolio leaders and "C" level proponents.
• Collaborated in Product identification and Value Stream Mapping
• Mentored new and existing Product Owners and Scrum Masters in explaining the core values and principles of Scrum to effectively prioritize and clean backlogs, writing of proper user stories as well as facilitating ceremonies, communication, and collaboration plan, as well as reinforcing the Agile process.
• Provided One-on-one Product Owner and Scrum Master mentoring, just-in-time training, and the co-facilitation of Backlog Refinement and standard Scrum Ceremonies.
• Supplied on-going coaching and skills enablement via Agile Community of Practice gatherings
• Mentored new and existing Product Owners regarding their roles and responsibilities, which include product backlog management, user story writing, backlog grooming facilitation, adaptive product roadmaps
• Empowered the internal Agile coaching unit to positively influence the heavily siloed culture of the Organization by crafting and continuously expanding a change model that clearly aligns the adoption and revision of processes, practices, behaviors and principles with SMART objectives and performance outcomes.
• Co-developed an Agile transformation strategy that is in alignment with the organizational goals and objectives to advance existing Agile implementation and advance adoption and use of Agile as development methodology across the organization

Confidential

Enterprise Agile Coach/Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Designed the SAFe® Agile Portfolio Roadmap for the enterprise
• Lead the conversion from Waterfall to Agile
• Let the push to leverage CI/CD through DevOps
• Mentored cross-functional domains and disciplines in Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework at all levels in the enterprise
• Coached all disciplines in their roles and responsibilities.
• Coached all disciplines in Scrum/Kanban and SAFe practices and integrate their application at every level from individuals to teams to program and portfolio.
• Taught the practices and tools of relentless improvement and problem-solving and corrective-action skills for teams
• Trained/mentored Product Owners to become more hands-on in the new process adoption, helped guide backlog maintenance, and helped with their facilitating organizational change management.
• Established and communicated the annual calendars for iterations and Program Increments (PI)
• Facilitated PI Planning readiness via fostering the preparation of the Business Teams Vision and Backlogs, and via Pre- and Post-PI Planning meetings
• Aggregated Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives (the RTE) and published them for visibility and transparency
• Facilitated the ART sync for alignment, collaboration, and transparency of Program risks/dependencies
• Assisted the economic decision-making by facilitating features and capabilities estimations by teams and the roll-up to the value stream level and Portfolio Level.
• Encouraged collaboration among all teams and disciplines (Development, System, Solution Architects, Engineering, Product Management, and User Experience) to ensure effective and efficient flow of communication
• Worked with Product Management, Product Owners, and other value stream stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
• Reported status of Program Portfolio Management and Release Management and supported related activities
• Drove continuous improvement via Inspect and Adapt workshops; assessed the agility level of the program/value stream and provided plans for improvements
• Encouraged Team Level, program level, and value stream level Continuous Integration and Communities of Practice around SAFe, Agile, and Lean and around Engineering and Quality Practices

Confidential

Agile Transformation Leader/AML Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead a pilot of Agile AML projects for methodology implementation
• Classroom instruction
• Daily interactive and accessible coaching of teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners/Managers, Portfolio leaders and "C" level proponents.
• Mentored new and existing Scrum Masters in explaining the core values and principles of Scrum to effectively facilitate the ceremonies, communication and collaboration plan, as well as reinforcing the Agile process
• Provided One-on-one Scrum Master mentoring, just-in-time training, and the co-facilitation of Backlog Grooming and standard Scrum Ceremonies
• Supplied on-going coaching and skills enablement via Agile Community of Practice gatherings
• Mentored new and existing Product Owners regarding their roles and responsibilities, which include product backlog management, user story writing, backlog grooming facilitation, adaptive product roadmaps
• Empowered the internal Agile coaching unit to positively influence the heavily siloed culture of the Organization by crafting and continuously expanding a change model that clearly aligns the adoption and revision of processes, practices, behaviors and principles with SMART objectives and performance outcomes.
• Developed an Agile transformation strategy that is in alignment with the organizational goals and objectives to advance existing Agile implementation and advance adoption and use of Agile as development methodology across the organization