SUMMARY

• An Enterprise Leader, Enterprise Agile Coach, Transformation and Change Enablement Lead with over 15 years experience
• A PMP/CSM/SAFe Program Consultant lead with experience cutting across the various phases of an operational lifecycle in IT Consulting.
• 13 years’ experience as an exceptional lead Program/Project Manager, with experience managing SDLC, Cyber Security, Agile, Web development, Application development, Infrastructure, Financial and Conversion Projects while mitigating risk and managing cost successfully.
• Robust Management career with strong leadership problem solving, coaching, planning, team building and project management skills.
• Experienced in implementing and maintaining projects in various industries while ensuring they adhere to Governance, Risk and Compliance Standards
• Motivated leader experienced in leading multi - functional teams across all levels of the organization to drive the implementation of Client/Business requirements to operational excellence, with a strong focus on customer retention, revenue growth and Service level management.
• The ability to handle complex issues independently and provide necessary feedback and resolution strategies to management.
• A Consulting Professional Agile Leader collaborating with all levels in house and virtually using distributed Agile and with clients to ensure successful deployment of solutions to meet client or business needs
• An Agile Coach with experience coaching teams, Business and Executive Leadership in Release Trains in a Scaled Agile Framework Environment (SAFe)
• Managed projects using different development methodologies such Waterfall to Agile, Agile and Lean
• Several years’ experience as an Agile Coach, Transformation Leader, Scrum Master, Project manager, Product Owner Delegate, Implementation Manager and Testing Liaison in the Healthcare, Telecommunications, Finance/Banking, Cloud Hosting, Data/Information Management and Content Management industries
• Experienced in Coaching and Enterprise Transformation Confidential all levels
• Exceptionally skilled in Organizational Operational, Change Management and Transformation tools

TECHNICAL TOOLS

• Rally
• TFS (Visual Studio)
• IBM RTC
• Unix, SQL
• Jira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Hartford, CT

AGILE PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Responsibilities:

• Member of the Agile Center of Excellence and Coach Community of practice to promote consistency in the adoption of Agile.
• Serve as a member of the Agile leadership team
• Mentor other coaches and provide organizational strategic oversight to coaching staff and organizational leaders
• Provide training to organization on Scrum and SAFe topics
• Coach Teams, Business Units and Executives on all levels of the Scaled Agile Framework and Agile to halp them identify how to integrate SAFe in their current roles and Scale the organization
• Assist with Team DevOps integration into their product lifecycle
• Help Organization identify where DevOps practices can be adopted in a cost-efficient manner
• Actively involved as an embedded coach to the Team, Program and Portfolio within the organization
• Participate in Coach’s call-in line to answers questions on any Agile related topic
• Coach several Scrum teams and coaches with various levels of maturity in Agile
• Work with members of the Organization daily to refine Features and Epics, decompose User Stories, Update Tasks accurately, conduct the ceremonies and remove impediments
• Work one on one with various levels of the organization to provide individual role specific coaching
• Facilitate the weekly Scrum of Scrum calls with the Release Train Engineer to understand and have visibility into activities and dependencies within team
• Act as a liaison between the Scrum Teams, The Executive Management, Stakeholders and The Business Clients
• Assist RTE with facilitation during Program Increment planning Confidential offsite locations as well as aiding participants

Confidential, Hartford, CT

AGILE COACH

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for coaching the members of the Enterprise Integration and Applications teams on Agile Principals using Scrum and Scaling the Enterprise using SAFe
• Coach several Scrum teams with various levels of maturity in Agile on how to implement the Agile methodology using Scrum
• Work with Scrum members of the Scrum Teams daily to refine Features and Epics, decompose User Stories, Update Tasks accurately, conduct the ceremonies and remove impediments
• Provide oversight direction on blocking issues resulting from dependencies on internal, external and executive teams
• Worked with DevOps Lead to identify and implement DevOps practices to halp teams improve development, testing, Integration and deployment practices
• Act as a liaison between the Scrum Teams, The Executive Management, Stakeholders and The Business Clients
• Instrumental in halping executive leadership understand the Transformation process and how they could support the teams

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Mobility & Uverse Lead Scrum Master/Coach

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated the servant leader approach while dealing with Scrum teams to get best results
• Facilitate estimation meetings during using the relative effort estimation techniques
• Coach team members on Agile principals and Gather/report all relevant Agile metrics
• (burn down charts and team velocity) to product owner and business stakeholders
• Senior Web Application scrum master for Clarify releases, enhancements and maintenance
• Lead/Application Scrum Master/Project Manager for Mobility & U-verse Annual Releases
• Managed over 40 medium to extremely large projects/programs Confidential Confidential &T. Budgets ranging from $200k - $3M
• Manage Project Budgets and Financials monthly to stay within provided financial limits and guidelines
• Managed project teams with 50-100 members using waterfall methodology or Scrum of Scrums and successfully delivered project goals with minimal issues

Confidential, GA

AGILE COACH & SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Coached the team on Scrum team composition & organization
• Facilitated Sprint planning exercises such as planning poker and T shirt sizing
• Conducted Release Planning
• Guided team on stand-up protocol and reporting
• Determination of artifacts necessary to support regulatory or compliance activities dat are external to Agile or present impediments in form of dependencies to the Scrum team
• Management practices for tracking of Technical Debt, backlog and blocked tasks
• Test Driven Development and domain Driven Design
• Promote management best practices for remote teams, team members
• Maintain project, program management interaction, product development interaction
• Collaborated with external teams to derive working agreements on deliverables scrum team
• Coach individual team members through conflicts, proper use of Agile and impediments
• Lead Project Manager for Agile PILOT program for Mobility CRM
• Responsible for setting up Rally tool and assisting SCRUM team in getting familiar with the Agile methodology
• Managed the ITUP Agile activities in PRISM to comply with ITUP requirements
• Spear headed the Agile change for the project team by acting as the SME on ITUP Agile
• Successfully accelerated the time to market for 2 critical projects with a 7-month lead time

Scrum master - Network planning and implementation

Confidential, GA

Responsibilities:

• Lead Implementation Manager for Confidential &T Mobility 4G and LTE 2.3.1 Calico Network implementation project
• Facilitated daily stand up meetings for Agile projects and tracked Agile metrics such as burn down charts and velocity measurements
• Managed Upgrade windows and Traffic moves from live and Greenfield Confidential &T sites
• Work daily with Network Engineers and Project Managers within Cisco and Confidential &T to build and adhere to Confidential &T processes and procedures.
• Plan and execute activities before, during and after network integration and testing of Confidential &T zones
• Responsible for sprint planning and coaching team members on using rally
• Accountable for budget variances and risk analysis to ensure the project is on time and within budget