SUMMARY:

Scrum & Agile | Coaching | Transformation | Large Scale Software Development Passionate and pragmatic about improving outcomes, I help teams - of-teams transform their ways of working by improving their agility and creating tangible results while promoting Agile values and principles. With 9+ years’ experience as a practitioner in Agile ways of working at team, department, and enterprise levels, I help organizations adopt and adapt Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe, practices to their own context while staying true to the underlying principles.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:

Confidential

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic guidance to segment heads and CTOs to define Value Streams, establish Portfolios to steer technology investments, and overall Agile Transformation.
• Facilitate in-person training including Leading SAFe, Agile Bootcamp, and Kanban Basics.

Confidential

Agile Transformation Lead/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Co-developed Agile Transformation strategy for Enterprise Data segment.
• Coaching the first Scrum team in Enterprise Data on Scrum principles and practices. Advise Business Accelerator Lead in organization design to support SAFe adoption.

Confidential

Agile Coach & Agile Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Confidential ’s Mobile development group to re-align from 3 Platform teams to 5 Feature teams, resulting in predictable delivery cadence and a dramatic increase in stakeholder satisfaction with the group's delivery capabilities.
• Contributing author of Confidential 's Agile Playbook, capturing Confidential -specific Scrum practices.
• Organized and facilitated joint Quarterly Planning with 5 Feature teams.
• Coach and mentor Delivery Managers, Directors, and Scrum Masters on topics such as optimal Scrum team structure, XP practices, and release planning.
• Dramatically improved collaboration within Agile teams across Confidential by evangelizing the use of Flowdock to improve communication amongst team members.
• Advised PMO on adapting Enterprise-wide governance processes to Agile work.
• Defined and evolved a set of metrics used to observe teams’ performance and behaviors; coached Directors, Managers, Scrum Masters and teams based on those metrics.

Agile Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership to Product Managers and Product Owners in strategic efforts including road mapping, coordinated release planning, and integrating non-Agile workstream efforts with Scrum teams release cadences.
• Setup and utilized Portfolio Kanban to visualize and align business partners’ expectations and priorities.
• Ensure adequate funding for Scrum teams

Confidential

Scrum Master and Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Work with all stakeholders to identify and prioritize features, refine Product & Release backlogs, and plan releases.
• Coach development teams in Scrum practices.
• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, identify and help remove impediments, and track relevant metrics.
• Established and co-facilitated Confidential Agile Community of Practice, moderated topics including Relative Estimation, Agile Release Planning, and What Is Agile.
• Coach other Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Development Leadership in Scrum practices.

Confidential

Software Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Built and lead the team that developed Confidential ’s next generation SaaS platform in one year using a blend of Scrum and Lean methods.
• Worked with all stakeholders to prioritize features, refine Product & Release backlogs, plan releases, remove impediments, and facilitate Continuous Improvement sessions.
• Established a hybrid Scrum/Lean development methodology resulting in bringing Confidential ’s new platform to market in 12 months.
• Trained Team Members and Executives in Scrum and Agile methods.
• Fostered implementation of good software engineering practices including distributed source control, Continuous Integration (CI), use of design patterns and refactoring, and source-to-user story traceability.
• Led the overall planning and integration of Confidential ’s iPad telemedicine application.
• Coordinated feature compatibility with Confidential ’s web-based application.
• Worked closely with Operations team to ensure the smooth deployment of each release.
• Actively involved Operations when creating user stories and in major design activities.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Established Scrum process, led all Scrum meetings, and removed impediments.
• Coached 3 teams (30+ people) as they transitioned to Scrum from a proprietary waterfall methodology.
• Implemented and utilized Rally to manage the work.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led three concurrent major software development releases including a major re-architecture of the Horizon Meds Manager (HMM) pharmacy application.
• Developed overall project budget and release plan and proactively identified and managed risks and issues of 3 projects.
• Orchestrated and implemented improved processes that yielded 10-25% savings in development effort and reduced defects reported by QA dramatically resulting in 20 - 50% savings in QA effort. Collaborated with Product Manager, Customers, and Human Factors Engineer to plan and execute user centered design of a high-volume UI.