OBJECTIVE:

Senior Agile Coach / Consultant / Trainer

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 the 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 the organization.
• Provided Agile Leadership coaching and training to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Managers, and Executives.
• 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 the latest innovative thinking and ideas from the 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 the 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 KNOWLEDGE:

Applications: Rally, Jira, Pivotal Tracker, Microsoft Office / Project / Excel / Word / Power Point / 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, SAFe, 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

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Agile Coach / Consultant / Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Providing Agile training workshops for Confidential areas such as Agile for Teams, Scrum Master Training, Culture and Delivery
• Agile Transformational Coaching
• Agile Leadership Consulting and Advisory - Executive-level / Organizational Development / Culture

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 the 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 the mechanics of Lean and Agile methods to achieve optimal team effectiveness.
• Identified and implemented operational improvements in Confidential areas of the 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 the latest innovative thinking and ideas from the 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 the organization.
• Embraced servant leadership and display the behaviors that come with the 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 the ground up.
• Established team working agreements, definition of done with a strong line to agile development best practices.
• Championed continuous delivery efforts and became the first scrum team to successfully drive continuous delivery to staging
• Promoted Agile within the organization by presenting on topics such as DevOps, Continuous Delivery, TDD and Automation.
• Established and shared new types of metrics across multiple teams in the organization.
• Worked with product owners to improve agile approaches related to project planning and work items
• Established strong code coverage metrics through the 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 the work of the team and reflected back to drive process and performance improvements
• Helped provide team structure through the 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, CTO

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all technology efforts including product development.
• Developed the site from the ground up using the 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 the team and boost productivity - ie. QA Test environment issues.
• Fostered information sharing among the 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 the 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 the 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 the 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 the 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 the system.
• Facilitated code releases to production including branch management, continuous integration, testing coordination, release planning and launch execution.
• Responsible for development efforts for the BgiCash Global UI integration and redesign for US and EMEA.
• Conceptualized, designed and implemented an automated online affiliate-based system from the ground up.
• Built a multi-threaded, SAX-based XML importer to simultaneously index and insert over 1.5 million products into the system.
• Developed a Web-services layer to allow universal access to the product catalog via RSS and related syndication formats.
• Developed an Open Source Java-based plugin allowing the system to utilize A9’s new OpenSearch 1.1 platform.
• Implemented internal sales tracking, reporting and statistics. Created web interface for affiliates to generate dynamic creatives.
• Established and maintained relationships with third-party affiliate networks and direct partners to traffic products through additional channels.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Java/J2EE Developer

Responsibilities:

• The portal encompassed books, video games and movies.
• The 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 the front-end.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Java/J2EE/Struts Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Referral Agents subsystem, which covers the web application as well as the business and persistence layers.
• Implemented the integration tier using Hibernate as the persistence framework.
• Defined and implemented the 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 the 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. The goal of this was to reduce the time for code reviews and staging and to simplify the 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 the Servlet level.
• Wrote a Velocity-driven utility to generate integration objects using a simple database table schema significantly cutting development time.