Manager - Agile Coach Resume Austin, TX - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Agile transformation coach and leader with proven ability to lead the organization’s use of Agile as a strategic asset for lasting culture changes and delivering business value.
Experienced change agent who communicates vision, develops and leads organization - wide Agile transformation strategy and inspires professionals to achieve transformative, measurable results.
Specializes in building and motiving high-performing teams to continuous improvement, imparting Agile principles and mindset, and building collaboration rooted in a foundation of Agile values - transparency, trust, respect, and commitment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Austin, TX

Manager - Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

Coach all levels of organization from waterfall development methods to Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) of a $4B/year insurance company.
Coached and guided management and teams through SAFe Program Increment (PI) planning event, formalizing Agile Release Train (ART) strategic alignment and delivering a 90-day PI Plan, a key success factor for the CIO.
Directed and trained Product Owners on the creation of portfolio-level Epics and Features; perform continuous prioritization/refinement of both portfolio and program backlogs.
Created and delivered agile training workshops to teams and management.
Shared Agile (Scrum) and Kanban best practices through informal communication and formal training sessions.
Coach and mentor Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and feature teams on enhancing their Scrum and Agile practices.
Coach all levels of organization on changing behaviors to align with Agile values and principles.
Identify organizational impediments to successful Agile transformation and work with the leadership team to create effectives strategies to overcome them.
Coach, mentor, and evangelize Agile best practices across the organization.
Provide feedback to management regarding the progress of Agile transformations within their teams.
Demonstrate servant leadership and behaviors aligned to key mindset shifts associated with Agile approaches.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Sr. Project Manager / Program Manager

Responsibilities:

Confidential, Austin, TX

Sr. Project Manager / Program Manager

Responsibilities:

Implemented 3 levels of metrics reporting at the team, product, and organization level to drive continuous improvement initiatives and continually drive high quality software delivery.
Led Agile transformation efforts across a large organization with multiple offshore teams.
Coached and mentored team members and management on Agile best practices and metrics
Created a learning framework and curriculum to change culture to one of a learning organization.
Implemented a Lean Management System with a focus on Leader Standard Work, Visual Control and an Accountability/Transparency board for continuous improvement in a lean-agile transformation.

Confidential

Managing Director

Responsibilities:

Coordinated with Product Owners to develop and prioritize the product backlog and right-size the epics and stories.
Led development team in multi-year, multi-million project building of an accessible, multi-module Singe Page Application (SPA) trading application using responsive web design written in JavaScript and C#.Net.
Led the development team in a performance improvement initiative that obtained the #1 rank in the Keynote KBTI performance Index for online brokerage transactions.

Confidential

Managing Director

Responsibilities:

Coached Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Development teams through transformation to agile from waterfall.
Coached and mentored executive leaders on the organizational value to drive implementation success and overall adoption of the Scrum framework.
Facilitated planning sessions at various levels, including road-map, release, and sprint/iteration levels.
Hired, managed, mentored, and coached Scrum Masters in the transition from waterfall to Scrum.