Accomplishments

• For multiple organizations, Introduced/Coached/Led multiple process transformations using Lean-Agile methods Scrum, Kanban, Scrum-ban and other hybrid techniques, also introducing tools and techniques for improved technical results, customer value, and team execution.
• Led teams in multiple organizations of up to 12 practitioners on multiple successful projects, including rescuing a troubled 8 month project at 3 months with on-time completion with full scope another managing work across seven distinct organizations i.e. vendors, partners, etc.
• Led successful transition of unstable practice to improved quality and very rapid cycle times, yielding a lean-agile practice with a standard two week feature lead time, while meeting multiple assessment/compliance requirements PCI/CISP, SAS70, CMMI Level III .
• Multiple technical efforts yielding world-class throughput, including methodology innovation, design leverage and tooling, team collaboration improvements, and build/test/deployment automation.
• Acted as technical lead, architect, and developer on numerous projects and dozens of successful lifecycles, across multiple industries, technical stacks, company cultures, and product concepts.
• Certified Scrum Master, Certified Lean-Agile Product Owner, Lean Certified, Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, and ITIL Foundation Certified

Industry Experience

Confidential

• Top provider of software and solutions for the insurance industry, providing productivity, rating, content management products to agency, carrier, middle markets. Products span multiple technical stacks - mobile/local/cloud/hosted platforms - SaaS/SOA/n-tier/local architectures.
• Supported approximately forty product teams in different agile approaches e.g. Lean/Kanban, Scrum variants through process design techniques, planning communications, requirements gathering prioritization, training, technical implementation roll-out, reporting collaboration tools, remote offshore teams support, product development release train, and library/dependency management.
• Coordinated migration of local development and collaboration tooling to central enterprise data center and implemented consolidated development process, tooling, reporting, relocating from substandard local office implementations to central enterprise data center.

Confidential

• Consulting firm providing Lean-Agile enterprise transformation support and training to software and IT organizations, engaging teams and leadership to evolve process Lean, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe and technical practices TDD, Design Patterns, refactoring, ATDD, CI, CD
• For multiple clients, consulted and coached multiple teams and leaders on Lean/Agile transformation, including principles and practices, establishing Kanban and related metrics, portfolio backlog management, team evolution Scrum practices, daily stand-ups and retrospectives, organizational change, full lifecycle improvement product management to release/deployment , cross-team coordination, technical practices and tools
• Provided training for teams on tools lean-agile methods, reporting collaboration, systems thinking, visibility, problem solving and roles.

Confidential

• Microsoft Gold Partner specializing in tooling and practices for Application Lifecycle Management. Engagements deliverables included technical and process training, implementation Visual Studio, TFS, SharePoint, MTM, SQL Server , enterprise solutions, and migration efforts.
• Trained live and online on development tooling and leverage, lean/agile/scrum techniques and practices, deeper test capabilities, and metrics
• Consulted onsite with multiple clients and implemented Application Lifecycle Management ALM solutions based on Team Foundation Server 2010 and related products, including enterprise level implementations and migrations across multiple tools and process changes.
• Provided client guidance on process improvement, source management, build, reporting, work tracking, release/deployment, and other aspects technical, process, organizational of team improvement.
• Composed related blog entries, newsletter content, white papers, video content, and training materials

Confidential

Acted as independent software consultant /contractor on multiple customer engagements.

Few of them are listed below:

• LexisNexis Agile Coach
• Coordinated team efforts on migration tasks and led training efforts to bring all technical team up on new Scrum process tools Established new end-to-end process, building on current methods but also bringing new team methods and productivity. Defined and implemented new tooling process for agile and iterative methodologies, as well as deployment / release for legal web applications. Supported multiple related systems, including ongoing maintenance for internal data center, user system administration MS Open Systems , virtual systems VMWare storage NAS , test environments, backup systems, SLAs, provisioning and risk management.
• Boeing Release Configuration Manager
• Release Management: Led cross-functional coordination and communication for management of ongoing releases to QA, pre-production, certification, and production environments Managed maintenance windows and scheduling of resources from development, QA, PMO, and Operations area Documented and evolved processes, orchestrated and recorded deployment events, including personnel, technical aspects, failover rollback.
• Configuration Management: Defined and implemented source and build tooling automated test on multiple J2EE web and support infrastructure applications for airline flight-line maintenance Coached development staff on tool usage, test interfaces, Scrum, branch merge strategy and administration, defined and implemented automation and process for 5 development teams.
• Various Short-term Clients Web software development Instruction

Confidential

• Public Services Division of large IT Management Consulting firm, developing applications and running/hosting managed services for local, state, and federal agencies. Systems included payment processing, over 140 Java/J2EE .NET apps award-winning portals as highly available systems.
• Enterprise Agile Coach: Led development teams and advised directors and senior management on process mechanisms and improvements for public service programs and hosting managed services Defined resource management, process evolution tooling, Lean-Agile flow, requirements development prioritization, systems and administration for delivery and production release MS Open Systems , reporting, change management organizational development, documentation and knowledge management Supported multiple initiatives around compliance, quality, and risk management CMMI / SAS70 / PCI-CISP / ITIL, Dev IT Best Practices, Security Testing, Disaster Recovery
• Release Configuration Management: Development: Led implementation of configuration management systems, change control process evolution, build and deployment automation, engineering approach standards, release coordination, Maintenance of SLAs Development coach on multiple projects Primary contact on organization ITIL release management.
• QA Lead: Led QA-based improvements for online payment processing Managed staff related budget Included functional verifications automation, process improvement, performance stress tests, security, and user interface for customer payment pages and admin tools

Confidential

Acted as independent software consultant /contractor on multiple customer engagements.

• IBM: Mid-Market Solutions
• Led 5-person Scrum team on automation for creating delivering distributed solutions for IBM business partners Defined toolkit definition approach, library system re-use, accelerated development method, build release packaging, collaboration/training with remote teams
• ClearOrbit
• Served as agile development team member for successful 3-month new product launch at industry show Created J2EE code, build automation, oracle scripting for quick-turn bar code and RFID printing solution
• ProTier Development Consultant
• Coded for quick-turn release of online console-based virtual machine VMWare management product, used by customers for enterprise IT consolidation VM delivery Coded .NET web console code in VB.Net C , VB6 code, and XML/XSLT for dynamic web UI skins
• Brady Systems Integration Development Consultant
• Developer on accelerated custom tooling using RF and barcode scanning for inventory management and ERP interfacing Worked multiple engagements defining customer requirements and evolving toolset using VB6, XML, proprietary tools, various databases

Confidential

• Software firm creating products for the health information systems industry leveraging speech recognition.
• Introduced Agile-Scrum approach, communications, development standards managed releases, library mechanisms re-use, build automation, QA lab and test mechanics unit/functional/integration/usability
• Led 8 developers on multiple product platforms MS Open Systems Handhelds, phones, Desktops and roadmaps
• Coded iPAQ handheld and interfacing for PC and digital recorder for speech recognition in medical dictation/transcription and other markets.

Confidential

• Software startup delivering new Java/J2EE-based process engine and solutions for multiple industry verticals
• Led development teams on multiple customer engagements, delivering to medical, insurance, and financial services markets
• Established requirements and solution definition, process methodology, J2EE implementations, disparate database and backend interfaces, online UI and security/access, development approach, build and deployment, test automation, project management
• Grew multiple teams, driving performance goals, budget review, personnel management

Confidential

Tools Technologies

• Processes Compliance Lean Development, XP, Scrum, ITIL, Theory of Constraints/Critical Chain, Business Analysis, PMBoK, Kanban, ALM Tooling, Development test tools IDEs, Source Mgmt, CI/CD, DevOps, Requirements Lifecycle Mgmt, Defect Mgmt, Test Automation
• Tools MS Office, Web 2.0 Blogs, Wikis, CMS Systems , Visio, SharePoint, BI/SSRS, TFS, SQL Server Analysis Reporting Services, Excel Reporting Services, Jira, Confluence, Rally, ScrumWorks Pro, VersionOne, LeanKit, TeamForge
• Software Microsoft, Sun, UNIX, BEA/Weblogic, Oracle, IBM, Open-source, Apache, Custom, Software/UI/Database Design, UML, Usability, Information Architecture, Wireframes , Java/J2EE, C/C /C , .NET, Visual Basic, Scripting Languages, Python
• System Architectural Hardware Local, N-tier, Web, Custom, Embedded, High Availability, Web Services/REST, SOA/SaaS, Relational Databases, Clustering Failover, Virtual/Cloud VMWare/HyperV/EC2 , Disaster Recovery, Data Centers 24x7 , Networking, Server Hardware