SUMMARY

• He is courageous, profoundly collaborative; a passionate professional and Servant - Leader. He is a highly seasoned Agile Scrum Team Coach/Scrum Master, and a motivated service/customer centric facing Agile Program/Project Manager in Digital Cloud Managed Services environments, IT Infrastructures, and Agile Transformation and Coaching of global and distributed Development Teams.
• He is a driven Certified Scrum Master with SAfe 4.5 certification and excellent interpersonal skills.
• Agile Scrum Team coaching, and leadership skills combining more than 20 years as a Program/Project Manager and Product Development in both Agile/Scrum and Waterfall (SDLC) Methodologies.
• He seeks an intellectually curious and passionate organization challenged by the Agile/Scrum paradyne.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coached/mentored newly formed and distributed Scrum and Development Teams, and Product Owners in Agile/Scrum methodologies in Healthcare, Financial/Investment, and Automotive markets with multiple team sizes to 35
• Provided effective application and adoption of the Lean/Agile principles and frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to Agile/Scrum Teams utilizing servant-leadership and mentorship practices
• Facilitated team organization and all Scrum Ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Scrum/Stand-Up, Sprint Reviews/Demos, and Retrospectives utilizing Atlassian Jira, Confluence, RTC, and Rally as a collaborative software development management tool
• Coached Product Owners, Scrum Teams, and Development Teams in Agile/Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe Lean methodologies and principles across multiple work streams and functional areas
• Facilitated team collaboration and impediments identification, prioritization and resolution
• Specific concentrations and driver of adoption of Agile Software development methodologies (Scrum and Kanban practices) into those less mature Scrum Teams to a point where they became self-managing Teams

Confidential

Sr. Program / Project Manager / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Sr. Project Manager, Agile Coach (at both team and individual levels), and Scrum Master for Digital Cloud Unit in an Agile/Scrum/Kanban environment responsible for two major projects operating in Confidential ’s Digital Cloud hosted Marketplace
• Initialized, planned, executed, controlled, and assertively drove collaborative Agile and SDLC S/W development teams for Confidential ’s Cloud Hosted S/W services, products, and applications - including Release Management and Scrum/Kanban methodologies
• Independently and proactively led and mentored PMO operational activities to successfully define and drive Agile team disciplines, processes, procedures, policies, and organization into Agile project teams resulting in reduced development times, costs, and impediments; utilizing RTC as an Agile software development and management tool

Confidential

Sr. Agile Program Manager / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Independently created, developed, mentored, and managed an innovative Agile Program Management Office (APMO) from the initial concept to a fully functioning enterprise-wide office directing and governing a full portfolio of over 200 programs and subordinate supporting projects utilizing the methodologies and concepts outlined in both Agile/Scrum Methodologies and Theory of Constraints in both principle and practice
• Personally created, and developed, a Financial Planning Model that returned ROI, NPV, Payback, and most importantly; IRR analysis. This powerful and innovative tool allowed the many global HP businesses to objectively analyze, judge, rank and cull programs and projects that took hold across HP business units
• Under this structure; created multiple intimate global Agile project teams that streamlined customer focused software, BI, and global business processes and procedures. Coached and mentored Agile teams in Agile Methodologies and formal business and economic/financial concepts
• Provided, deployed, and adapted sophisticated Agile/Scrum software development management tool (Rally - CA Agile Center) for use across a large global Software Development organization

Confidential

Program Manager - Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

• Hands on contemporaneous Program and Engineering Manager
• Managed, directed, scheduled engineering technical performance of sustaining & new product development programs for marine seismic acquisition market utilizing re-deployable ocean bottom cable (OBC) technologies
• Managed day to day activities and direction of mechanical, electrical, & software sustaining engineering groups
• Customer advocate and key liaison between divisional new Product Development teams, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Global Supply Chain Group, and Corporate New Product Development Groups
• Proven ability to drive results and accountability in a cross functional environment by building and driving strategic, tactical, and collaborative relationships with internal staff, suppliers, and customers
• Drove customer expectations resulting in reduced cost, time to acquire & process seismic data, and decreasing cycle time across the seismic workflow
• Reversed trends of underperforming suppliers by redesigning under-designed products and processes

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Enterprise-wide engineering design and development programs for server, rack and appliance power technology in cross-functional international development teams
• Designed and developed core technology and product strategy
• Developed Dell’s Next Generation Power Distribution and UPS solutions, architecture, and global family of power products.
• Resulted in significantly reduced product costs, higher product margins and immediately yielded corporate product cost savings of $6 million.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed complex, multifaceted I/T development and infrastructure programs and business processes/information systems for internal customers utilizing Microsoft Solutions Framework as strategic program management tool
• Responsible for strategic/tactical development, program financial deliverables, and management of program portfolio.
• Directed and managed cross-functional program and development teams for internal corporate projects
• Delivered software application program, (previously delayed for 3 years), in 6 months
• Reduced field failure analysis cycle time from 30 to 10 days and returned an Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of 665 percent
• Developed business case and implemented corporate rollout of wireless technology using cross-functional I/T teams