SUMMARY

• Vibrant transformational leader and team player who strives to enable an empowered, high performance team culture
• Influenced leaders, technology teams and business units on Agile principles and values including how to build, grow, and maintain a thriving Agile organization at scale
• Championed core agile / lean principles in teh organization including an incremental approach to value delivery
• Rolled out organizational initiatives such as Rally/Jira, Automated KPI Metrics, Organizational Assessments, Agile Training
• Fostered organizational information sharing and learnings. Presented and shared Agile learnings, metrics and best practices with teh organization.
• Provided Agile Leadership coaching and training to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Managers, and Executives.
• Strong technical project delivery experience in top tier organizations including Confidential, Confidential, Confidential Global Investors and Confidential
• Delivered hands - on coaching of teams / groups in all aspects of Scrum and Kanban - daily meetings, planning, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, managing flow, limiting WIP, etc.
• Exposed our technology teams to teh latest innovative thinking and ideas from teh Agile community to increase agility, leveraging Lean, Scrum, Kanban, and other Agile/Lean Thinking.
• Mentored and developed high performing, self-organized teams in areas of Agile Scrum, XP, Lean and Kanban
• Established mature, disciplined agile development practices including DevOps, continuous delivery, TDD and paired programming
• Responsible for managing teh delivery of features and enhancements for high visibility consumer facing platforms (iShares.com and BlackRockCash.com)
• 10+ years of combined Agile / Lean experience with experience transitioning teams successfully from Waterfall-based environments toward Agile; Over 15 years of experience in Technology Delivery
• Adept learner with excellent verbal and written communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Applications: Rally, Jira, Pivotal Tracker, Microsoft Office / Project / Excel / Word / Powerpoint / Visio / OneNote, Confluence, AWS, Cloud, Git, Subversion, Jenkins, Hudson, Cruise Control, CMS

Tools: Daily standups, Kanban, Release planning, User stories, Retrospectives, TDD, Rally, Jira, Wiki, Face-to-face, Agile-based, Waterfall-based, Continuous Integration, Continuous Documentation, Documentation, Requirements, SDLC, Scrum, DAD Disciplined Agile Delivery, Lean, XP, Continuous Delivery, Paired programming

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX

Databases: Sybase, MySQL, Oracle, Dynamo DB

Languages: Java / J2EE, Ruby / Rails, HTML 5, CSS 3, XML, SQL, JavaScript, JQuery

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Manager, Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Influenced leaders, business units, and technology teams on Agile principles, values, how to build, grow, and maintain a thriving agile organization at scale.
• Championed core agile / lean principles in teh organization including visualizing flow, leadership mindset and an incremental approach to value delivery
• Established optimal operating structure to support rapid and high-quality product delivery
• Provide Agile Leadership coaching and training to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, managers, and executives.
• Partnered with development and operations teams to coach and guide them on teh mechanics of Lean and Agile methods to achieve optimal team TEMPeffectiveness.
• Identified and implemented operational improvements in various areas of teh product delivery process
• Delivered hands-on coaching of teams in all aspects of Scrum and Kanban including daily meetings, planning, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, managing flow, limiting WIP, etc.
• Exposed Business and Technology teams to teh latest innovative thinking and ideas from teh Agile community to increase agility, leveraging Lean, Scrum, Kanban, and other agile/lean thinking.
• Rolled out organizational initiatives: Jira SM, PO, team training, BDD, Test Driven Development
• Facilitated creation of guidelines (e.g, Definition of Done, Definition of Ready and other agreements and best practices).
• Ensured strong organizational information flow
• Continuously developed potential and existing coaches impacting all levels of teh organization.
• Embraced servant leadership and display teh behaviors that come with teh key mindset shifts associated with Agile methods.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Scrum Master / Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Formed, mentored and developed high performing, self-organizing project teams (up to 14 team members) from teh ground up. Established team working agreements, definition of done with a strong line to agile development best practices.
• Championed continuous delivery efforts and became teh first scrum team to successfully drive continuous delivery to staging
• Promoted Agile within teh organization by presenting on topics such as DevOps, Continuous Delivery, TDD and Automation. Established and shared new types of metrics across multiple teams in teh organization.
• Worked with product owners to improve agile approaches related to project planning and work items
• Established strong code coverage metrics through teh disciplined use of TDD, Paired programming practices and a clear Definition of Done
• Partnered with team members to limit work in progress during sprints
• Successfully led look-ahead release planning sessions
• Delivered on time and on quality on all known scope.
• Collected insights related to teh work of teh team and reflected back to drive process and performance improvements
• Helped provide team structure through teh use of a consolidated Wiki
• Established high code quality and metrics resulting in low defect count discovered in automation

Confidential - San Francisco, CA

Co-founder

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all technology efforts including product development.
• Developed teh site from teh ground up using teh latest mobile-friendly technologies.
• Estimated and implemented agile user stories through project tracker.
• Managed and executed development pipeline directly and through outsourced streams.

Confidential, Alameda, CA

Founder

Responsibilities:

• Conceptualized, designed and implemented web platform.
• Estimated and implemented agile user stories through project tracker.
• Responsible for all technology aspects including product design, development, IT, web infrastructure, and database.

Confidential - San Francisco, CA

Sr. Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• In scrum master capacity, led and facilitated daily stand-ups and retrospectives to promote team communication and delivery.
• Worked to clear impediments of teh team and boost productivity - ie. QA Test environment issues.
• Fostered information sharing among teh team through wiki, retrospectives, working sessions and impromptu conversations.
• Improved our release and delivery process by procuring new environments and working to standardize them for consistency.
• Tracked lessons learned over time on Wiki and used learnings to drive future improvements.
• Developed project cost estimations for large global trading website platform redesign (eg. resources, number of weeks / sprints).
• Managed stakeholder expectations around release scope and timing by communicating relevant dependencies
• Led meetings with stakeholders and team members to facilitate design requirements sessions
• Identified and escalated major technical project risks to appropriate stakeholders in TPM Guide project to prevent delay
• Responsible for design, estimation, scheduling, coordination and delivery of high-visibility web and
• IT infrastructure initiatives. Led project development teams on teh ground as well as remotely.
• Provided overall technical direction and support.
• Coordinated and communicated IT efforts across multiple teams and departments. Worked with business stakeholders and team to understand, capture and refine requirements and to produce estimates.
• Successfully scheduled, coordinated, managed, and launched over 100 application releases to production. Facilitated testing, release planning and launch with QA, de and product owners.

Confidential - San Francisco, CA

Technical Lead / Sr. Design and Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

• In scrum master capacity, led and facilitated daily stand-ups and retrospectives
• Fostered information sharing among teh team through Wiki, retrospectives, working sessions and impromptu conversations.
• Proactively identified and communicated risks where appropriate
• Scheduled, coordinated and managed high-visibility releases to production. Worked with teh QA and business teams to facilitate testing and launch execution.
• Led local and remote development teams through projects and provided technical direction and support.
• Responsible for teh delivery of project features and enhancements utilizing TDD and Continuous integration frameworks like Junit, JUnitEE and CruiseControl.
• Worked with vendors on procurement to explore RSA, Single Sign On trading solution to enhance security.
• Provided design, estimation, support documentation for major components of teh system.
• Facilitated code releases to production including branch management, continuous integration, testing coordination, release planning and launch execution.
• Responsible for development efforts for teh BgiCash Global UI integration and redesign for US and EMEA.

Confidential - San Francisco, CA

Java/J2EE Developer Contract

Responsibilities:

• Developed an online price comparison search engine (www. Confidential .com) addressing over 30 million records utilizing Lucene technology. Teh portal encompassed books, video games and movies. Teh intensive searching tasks were distributed by using RMI over multiple servers to speed up searching.
• Developed crawlers to aggregate online product content
• Responsible for analysis, coordination, design and implementation to include teh front-end.

Confidential - San Francisco, CA

Part-time Java/J2EE/Struts Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for teh Referral Agents subsystem, which covers teh web application as well as teh business and persistence layers.
• Implemented teh integration tier using Hibernate as teh persistence framework.
• Defined and implemented teh security, referral agent and referral claim business services.
• Implemented presentation tier using Struts, JSP’s and Tiles.

Confidential - Oakland, CA

Java/J2EE/Struts Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for most aspects of teh latest J2EE-based website sprint covering site navigation, browsing, search, product statistics and integration of overall look-and-feel. Touched upon all tiers.
• Implemented an RMI-backed, database-driven Source Control Management system to provide course-grained control over source code by allowing it to be grouped by a collection of logically related features. Teh goal of dis was to reduce teh time for code reviews and staging and to simplify teh revision process.
• Designed and implemented a search interface using dynamically created JDBC queries to allow service staff to quickly gather customer and inventory information.
• Rewrote struts taglibs to introduce encryption switching between secure and non-secure pages pages on teh Servlet level.
• Wrote a Velocity-driven utility to generate integration objects using a simple database table schema significantly cutting development time.