Enterprise Agile Coach Resume

SUMMARY:

Enterprise Agile Coach: Today business is re - written by software.
The pace of change is accelerating and investment horizons are shrinking.
Built-to-Last is being replaced by Built-to-Change.
For businesses threatened by digital disruption and constrained by traditional management approaches, excellence in Lean, Agile and advanced engineering practices are new survival skills. Teams and organizations new to Lean and Agile, migrating from Waterfall, or struggling with an agile initiative that has lost momentum often need help taking their transformation to the next level.
I help people realize even greater success as teams and organizations realize even greater success as businesses.
10+ yrs. Project Management: CMM/PMP
9+ yrs. Agile Enterprise, Portfolio, Program and Team Levels

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Rally, JIRA, TFS, Version 1, Pivotal Spanish (Advanced); English (Native)

CAREER HISTORY:

Confidential

Enterprise Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

Led the Transition from Coaching Programs to Transforming Ford
Member of Enterprise Transformation Task force and Enterprise Architecture Pilots
Co-Author of Agile Reference Model and Portfolio Transformation Playbook
Lead Coach on $100+ M/year Portfolio Group Level Transformation to Agile
Transformations of Product Driven Portfolio Groups, Portfolios, Product Lines & Product Teams
Multi-year Leader-driven Portfolio Group Transformation Plans: Vision & Roadmap
Outcomes and Timeframes by Organization: IT, HR, Finance, Business, Ent Arch …
Alignment of Operating & Business Models, Funding Strategies & Agile Maturity Models
Shift requirements from Sponsor-driven to Design Thinking & Startup discovery-based
Funding shift from Rqmts-based to Block Funded Product Lines & VC Funded Experiments
Testable "clean code", TDD, ATDD/BDD, Continuous Integration & Delivery
Transition software monoliths to API Marketplace & Micro-services with Instrumentation
Consistent practices for shaping, managing and delivering value driven demand
Value-driven collaborative governance for Ford's largest world-wide program
Data-driven (Big Data) Investments for Business Capability Fitness
Align with Enterprise Architecture, Global Data Insights & Analysis and Innovation Services

Methods: Scrum/XP, Kanban, SAFe 4.0, Pivotal, IDEO, Design Thinking & Lean Stack

Tools: Rally, Blueprint, HPQ ALM/QC, Pivotal Tracker, SonarQube, Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Agile Consultant

Responsibilities:

Author/coach for all new Scrum Masters Onboarding & Development
Facilitate Agile Kickoff, Sprint level and Release Planning Agile ceremonies
Coach Product Owners on product iterations, backlog management & the definition of ready
Establish consistent Sprint Reporting, Stakeholder Reviews & cross-team communications
Flow work to persistent teams of people, not people to start and stop project teams
Shift from big-bang program releases to smaller, more frequent releases with feature flags
Evolve from mini-waterfall sprints to advanced engineering practices & mob programming
Guide Tech Managers, QA & Dev OPS on branching, environments & test data strategies
Implement TDD, ATDD & CI/CD engineering practices and software quality metrics

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Agile Consultant

Responsibilities:

Restructured Program approach to improve alignment and leverage; reduce costs and risk
Delivered Agile Portfolio, Program and Team training to the PMO, business and technical teams
Defined Agile Program Calendar events & agendas; definition of Done & Team agreements
Guided Development teams on estimates, status tracking, burn-down charts & productivity metrics
Collaborated with Product Owner to align Product Backlog with Market Requirements Document
Guided Business Analysts and embedded QA on user story standards & Sprint Backlog preparation
Coached Project Managers, Product Owner and Business Analysts on prep for each meeting
Guided Digital Commerce releases thru Code, Market & Service Ready

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Agile Coach & Practice Director

Responsibilities:

Led Agile eCommerce project for Confidential Comic themed Internet-based Game; 10 person team: served as agile developer, Business Analyst and Scrum Master
22 person Magento development team struggling to deliver 283 user story backlog; re-prioritized and pruned; created Epics; groomed individual user stories; restructured into 2 Agile teams - one focused on data migrations and fulfilment integration and the other focused on functional enhancements
Java-based ecommerce sites and 1 agency platform for global financial company with offices in 197 countries and 300,000 agent locations. Goal: get teams of 12, 15 & 17 people back on track to meet Dodd-Frank mandated regulations.