PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 18 years Agile Experience as a Developer, Scrum Master, Product Owner and Agile Coach.
• Agile Scrum Coach & Mentor as well as Product Owner and Product Owner Mentor..
• Business and Product development Coach & Mentor
• Mentor to Leadership, Management, and Product teams on their roles in an Agile Transformation
• Mentor leadership to support the organization in identifying, tracking and removing obstacles across all levels of the Organization and assessing matureness on the 7s scale.
• Expert Agile Coach and Agile Trainer, having trained over 1000 Product Owners, Scrum Masters, & teams in Scrum and Kanban
• Able to provide Industry recognized training for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Kanban Board Owners and Development Teams
• In collaboration with strategic partners or clients, able to create custom Agile training material. Perform "Train the Trainer"
• Agile Coach, Mentor and trainer to Client business customers, proxies and stakeholders in how to communicate Business Requirements, Needs and Features in an a Story format so that IT, Software, Hardware and Enterprise product development teams understand and can deliver.
• Excel at effective Portfolio, Program and team backlog grooming
• Has trained Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), and Kanban teams.
• Scaled Agile teams with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) and Nexus.
• Experience with Traditional and Agile development tool sets such as Version One, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Rally, Jira, Confluence, Trello, Kanban
• Reduced time to market by up to 80% for product development teams
• Recognized revenue 80% faster with D2C and B2B product development and launch teams.
• Multiple implementations of SAFe, Nexus, Less Huge and Less Small to address scaling concerns based on portfolio and program objectives and team sizes.
• Increased software development velocity by 96% in 6 months by implementing the Scrum framework at Loot Crate.
• Able to successfully transition the Walt Disney ABC Home Entertainment Television department to Scrum and Kanban methods, resulting in 200% productivity increase and shortening iteration cycles by 50%.
• Have mentored, coached and trained 1000’s of developers, stakeholders, scrum masters and product owners transforming to Agile Frameworks including Scrum, XP, Lean Start - Up and Kanban.
• Coached and mentored teams in methods to develop annuities, insurance plans, and other financial products.
• Reduced defects found in products/production environments by working with DevOps to implement Continuous Integration, Open Source and other Agile Technology Components to shorten feedback loops.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Madison, WI

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Worked with organization to develop internal and DevOps Centers of Excellence (COE), and with organization at all levels to assist with building and executing a transformation strategy including Agile / DevOps CoE vision, direction, and roadmap.
• Coached all B2B and D2C initiatives, a total of over 20 teams in Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban and Lean Start-Up including Retirement, Annuity Product Factory, Wealth Management and Financial Advisor Teaming.
• Increased team throughputs by up to 9600%, Reduced time to market by 80%, and realized revenue 80% earlier in specific initiatives by adopting new Product Owner techniques for Product Value Stream Mapping.
• Trained Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Development Teams, Program and Portfolio Managers.
• Implemented the SAFe framework across over 400 developers in over 30 teams, creating several release trains and training the RTE (Release Train Engineer) in their role.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Led and coached teams that brought multiple products to market including an API library for EIDR Registry.
• Led and coached teams that worked on the Disney ABC revenue recognition, accounting and finance for Disney content distribution.
• Worked with organization to develop internal and DevOps Centers of Excellence (COE), and with organization at all levels to assist with building and executing a transformation strategy including Agile / DevOps CoE vision, direction, and roadmap
• Recruited to drive Agile transformation in software development department.
• Coache and mentored the Scrum teams for Web Applications, and Integrations for the Disney ABC Home Entertainment Television Grdoup.
• Led teams to increased effectiveness and velocity through the adaptation and customization of agile principles to their in-flight and on-deck projects.
• Worked with Technology teams to implement and maintain Open Source Libraries and Continuous Integration Technology stacks to keep the business Agile.
• Mentored and Coached SAFe 4.0 to coordinate release trains.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Recruited to drive Agile transformation in software development department.
• Led the Scrum teams for Web Applications, Sharepoint and Salesforce.
• Worked with organization to develop internal and DevOps Centers of Excellence (COE), and with organization at all levels to assist with building and executing a transformation strategy including Agile / DevOps CoE vision, direction, and roadmap
• Coached teams that brought multiple products to market including an API library for on-line bank registration, resulting in a 50% increase of automation for the client and operations teams.
• Led teams that brought 2 products to market and dozens of internal projects in sharepoint and salesforce.
• Worked with DevOps to automate deployments and prioritize Agile Technologies, such as TDD/BDD and Open Source Libraries.
• Mentored and Coached SAFe 4.0 to coordinate release trains.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Recruited to implement Scrum framework across all functional departments and manage the E-Commerce, Applications Development and ERP Scrum Teams.
• Coached the front-end ecommerce team, resulting in both a great product and in a huge uptick of company revenue with the addition of an increased customer base of 72%
• Increased productivity of software development teams by 96% through successful Agile Transformation
• Coached DevOps teams to empower softdev through Agile Efficient technologies such as automated deployments, TDD/BDD, and Continuous Integration.
• Mentored and Coached SAFe 3.0 to coordinate release trains.

Confidential, Long Beach, CA

Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Recruited to drive Agile Transformation and Scrum framework implementation.
• Implemented, coached and mentored 5 scrum teams including product owners, scrum masters and stakeholders.
• Successfully brought 3 products to market in a fully SaaS/AWS environment.
• Mentored and coached SAFe 3.0 to coordinate release trains.

Confidential, Carlsbad, CA

Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Recruited to implement and drive Scrum framework across multiple scrum teams.
• Brought 2 software applications to market.
• Implemented Confidential ERP, Dynamic ERP and NetSuite ERP.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed Project Planning, Project Estimating, Project Execution, Project Monitor and Project Close out.
• Software Development, logistics and infrastructure project manager.
• Oversaw Scrum Backlog groomings, Scrum Plannings, Daily Scrums, Scrum Reviews and Scrum Retrospectives.
• Project Manager for the software development and logistical implementation of the first Special Forces-only ERP system, SWALIS.
• Implemented SAP ERP.