SUMMARY

• 25+ years of experience in SDLC, Agile and Waterfall or a hybrid approach, 10+ years of which as an IT Director, Leading Design and Develppment of Executive Informations Systems (EIS), Management Information Systems (MIS), Decision Support Systems (DSS), and Business Intelligence Systems, all requiring Big Data involvements;
• Enterprise/Organizational Agile Coaching for more than 10 years, Feature Driven Development (FDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD), along with incorporation of DevOps;
• 20,000+ hrs Experience as Program/Senior Project Manager of multi - million dollar programs/projects;
• Expert in Transforming and Transitioning organizations from Traditional, Plan Driven/Waterfall methodologies to Agile; Hybrid methods, in transformation process from Waterfall/Traditional methods to Agile;
• Extensive knowledge and practices of Scaled Agile/Scrum: Scrum@Scale (directly being trained by Jeff Sutherland, one of inventors of Scrum and Agile, who has introduced Scrum@Scale), SAFe, LeSS, and DAD (Disciplined Agile Delivery) and their applicability for enterprise level and large organizations, and Agile plm;
• DevOps: Knowledge of DevOps, its incorporation with Agile implementations, since inception via IBM;
• Expert in Determining Best fit Delivery Methodology Programs/Projects, in order to maximize ROI;
• Provided Specific Plan of Action, tailored to the needs, requirements, and demands of the organization, in delivering Agile Coaching for all levels of the organization, and their Agile teams;
• Coach all levels of organizational workforce (Executives, Management, IT, End User Community, Stakeholders, Agile teams, etc.), through workshops, training modules/sessions, coaching and coopertation through actual routines and ceremonies ( PI Planning, Iteration Planning and Demos, Review Sessions, Retrospective Sessions, Daily Standup, Backlog Refinement Processes);
• Agile Maturity Assessments provided at the start point, as “Base Maturity Assessment”, then repeated every 3 to 6 months, in order indentify and progress levels, qualitatively and quantitatively, and provide overall Agile Maturity trends, through Annual Curves and Matrices;
• More than 25 years of experience working within a host of industries, Oil and Gas, Financial (Banking and Credit/Debit Cards), Global Retail, Construction, Architectural and Engineering, Medical and Health, International Staffing Services, and more;
• Project Management Methodologies (PMI/Waterfall and Agile methodologies); Project Management Tools, MS Project, TFS, JIRA Agile Lifecycle Mgmt, Visio, SharePoint, MS PPM;
• Invaluable experience in Business Intelligence, Knowledge Mining, and Machine Learning, working with Dr. Ryszard Michalski, one of the pioneers of Machine Learning. This in part, included participating in development of a Visual Rule Based Machine Learning system, called VINLEN within LUCITE Project for NIS, National Institute of Science,;
• Contributor to Agile sections of IIBA BABOK; Presenter of BA Agile Best Practices at Chapter;
• Facilitator at Agile Alliance Agile Jam; Facilitator at Agile Open Space in SoCal;
• Developing Strategic Roadmaps, Release Plans; and Business Plans, closely working with Business Leaders;
• Project Planning, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Milestones, Estimating, Scheduling, Progress Control, Status Reporting, Project Organization, Resource Allocation; Leading Complex and Concurrent Projects;
• Organizational Reengineering, Workflow/Process Optimization and Reengineering;

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Agile and Transformation Coach: Coaching IT and other workforce on Agile, in the process of transitioning from Waterfall/Plan driven methodology to Agile, Scrum@Scale, SAFe;
• Agile Maturity Effort: Leading Agile Maturity efforts aiming at standardizing and promoting agile processes, creating uniformity and elevating the level of understanding and practices;
• Coaching, Training, and implementing Agile and Scrum and KANBAN processes, Providing Training Workshops for Business Units;
• Setting up knowledge enhancement sessions about Agile for Executive and Middle Management, Project Managers, Product Owners and Business Analysts, and Business Customers;

Confidential, BAKERSFIELD, CA

Agile Coach - Senior Scrum Master - IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Member of Confidential ’s global (international) Agile Council (Agile Center of Excellence) for 3 years;
• This “Council”/”COE” also served, as an enterprise PMO for agile programs and projects, across global Confidential for all business units, Scrum and KANBAN, FDD, ATDD and TDD Practitioners;
• The “Council”/”COE” would set up the “guidelines”, based on industry best practices and global business unit experiences, and communicate them with all global business units, along with sharing effective experiences and activities of each business unit with all, through communications, global online presentations, and demonstrations;
• While very active in all functions of the “Council”, also delivered several industry state of the art global presentations;
• Agile Coach, DevOps, FDD, ATDD, TDD, and Agile plm incorporation, and Transformation Lead: Coaching executive and middle management, and all levels of workforce on Agile and DevOps, and point of Reference for Agile aspects of processes and projects, Leading Agile and DevOps Transformation for IT and other departments and for determining best delivery method for each IT Project;
• Agile and Scrum Maturity Effort: Leading Agile and Scrum Maturity efforts aiming at enhancing Agile/Scrum practices, standardizing Agile/Scrum processes throughout the enterprise, creating uniformity and elevating the level of understanding and practices, globally;
• Coaching, and implementing Agile/Scrum processes, Providing Training Workshops for the Business Units. Setting up knowledge enhancement sessions about Agile/Scrum for Project Managers, Product Owners and Business Analysts (including BA Role in Agile environment), and Team members;
• Scaled Agile Feasibility Assessment and partial adaptive implementation: Assessment and feasibility study of SAFe implementation, PI Planning, within the reasonable time, cost, and quality characteristics; and with inclusion or partial inclusion of levels of SAFe, Portfolio Level, Program Level, and Team Level; Value Stream Level was only touched upon;
• System Thinking, building incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles, Visualize and limit work-in-progress, unlocking the motivation of knowledge workers, and Decentralization of decision making, were more emphasized;
• Incorporation of DevOps with Agile practices: Assessment and feasibility study of DevOps implementation, within the reasonable time, cost, and quality characteristics; attempts for Culture change; implementation of more Automation, including in testing, and continuous delivery; Incorporation of Lean practices; Measuring and incorporation of aspects of business operations and engineering; Lunch and Learn sessions, and incorporation of feedback loops;
• IT Project Manager for Thermal DSC project with multi-million dollar budget;
• Scrum Master for i-DOT (Integrated Diatomite Operations Tool), a high priority and mission critical sensitive operations integrated software system;
• Facilitating Project Managers/Scrum Masters Planning and Oversight Meetings and guiding them follow action items via monthly sprints: This organizational set up worked as the business unit’s PMO, as it oversaw all programs and projects across the business unit;
• Helped Solution Delivery Supervisor (Product Owner) in developing and maintaining the Product Backlog for PM/Scrum Master Team (or PMO) Action Items and in terms of Product and Sprint Backlogs, and facilitating scrum stand ups;
• This set up was also introduced, in order to coaching all Project Managers on Agile and Scrum processes;
• Business Analysis Organizational Capability (BAOC): Co-leader for BAOC project, which was carried out in three phases of Assessment and Enhancement of BA Organizational Capability; Implementation of Recommendations/Enhancements; and Look back;
• This project held one of the highest priorities throughout the Business Unit;
• Facilitating Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings and helping in sprint Pre-Planning and Backlog Refinement process and meetings;
• Helping Product Owner and Business Analysts for drafting the user stories and requirements, Product Backlogs, Release Planning and Road maps, UAT determinations;
• Providing Status Reports, Burn down Charts, and progress reports, scorecards, project team velocity, and following up to remove the impediments, and facilitating all Scrum/Agile work in a very collaborative environment;
• Designing and Enhancing Metrics and Progress Tools, Reports and Scorecards, Scrum and Agile Maturity Reports for internal use, Stakeholders, End Users and other respective Business Units;
• Working as On-Boarding coach for new resources, during a 30, 60, 90 day On-Boarding;

Confidential, CA

Program / Project Manager / Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Leading the company efforts in IT management, and development of strategic IT roadmap, in compliance with the strategic business needs and objectives;
• Leading Incorporation of Agile Methodology, and transformation from Waterfall to Agile;
• Leading IT projects in traditional PMI method or as Agile Project Manager;
• Project Management of multiple projects, leading development of web sites and web based and desktop systems following PMI or Agile methodologies; prepared and presented the Project executive reports and Presentations;
• Scrum Master for Agile driven projects, facilitated ceremonies, provided leadership in setting up the Roadmap for Releases, provided assistance in optimizing the product and sprint backlogs, priorities, approving or helping the approval of releases for several projects;
• Product Owner for Agile driven projects, gathering the requirements, writing the user stories, setting up and updating the product Backlog, and sprint/iteration backlogs;
• Leading the company project efforts for enhancing Targeted Marketing and Business Intelligence in regards to Business Development and Operations, by incorporating Data Mining that has doubled its major client base, by utilizing Analysis of large market data sets and creating Reports, creating BI dashboards, Market Trends, Scorecards, and Performance Metrics;
• Lead in Reprographic Order and Billing and order tracking System Project: Provided a fast track Project Management along with Business Analysis for the E-Commerce project providing Reprographic and A&E Support Services to customers;
• The system included supply and order process, management and order tracking systems, customer billing, backend administration and access definition modules, online statistics and metrics analysis;
• Retail Supply Chain, Oder and Billing Tracking and Order Refinement for DEXXXON via MEDG;
• Workflow Optimization: Optimized company workflow resulting in higher work quality and efficiency using technology enhancement, database development/integration and the use of multi-layered reporting systems;

Confidential

Project Manager / Product Owner / Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided Analysis and solutions for major critical aspects of business, competitive market evaluation and growth requirements, and Business Analysis of information regarding major aspects of business and its clients, resulting in problem identification, resolution and growth;
• Project Management and Master Design of Company’s new integrated web-based business systems and databases, a hybrid methodology of waterfall and Agile;
• Led the company technology infrastructure planning and development efforts and projects;
• Developed new Business Plans and Profitability Strategies and Analysis, and Budget Analysis Led, as the Project manager, the Design and Development of an innovative and efficient online Exam Preparation Center (EPC), as a web portal that identified Hospital medical staff applicants and business opportunities;
• In addition to being responsible for the data modeling of data base engine for this system and its reporting system for different user categories, I was responsible for producing BI reports and metrics, by analyzing the captured data;
• Optimized Corporate Business workflow, contract, and other business templates;
• Led the company Marketing and Contracting efforts for improving its Client Base and generation of New Contracts, reaching a 60% Hit Rate;
• Designed several corporate web based systems and proprietary applications;

Confidential, WASHINGTON, DC

Project Planner / Business Analyst And Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and Presented Project Management Plan for “STARS” (a series of web-based applications with integrated databases);
• Business Analyst for multiple “STARS” projects; Business Analysis of several inter-related web-based Projects;
• Designed efficient Integrated Databases for “STARS” projects to optimize legacy systems;
• Instructed Managerial Information Systems, E-Commerce; Mentoring Oracle, Software Eng;

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Initiated the “Center” as an advanced Information Management, Business Intelligence, and Project Management Office;
• Designed an innovative proprietary ERP, MIS, DSS, BI, and Project Management Systems, provided their Business Systems Analysis, Gap/Impact Analysis, and led their Development and Deployment throughout the whole Lifecycle;
• The ERP, MIS, and Project Management Systems were Modular, using an integrated databases, multi-level reporting, covering all departments;
• Lead for the development of MIS and Operations software systems of constructed Hospitals;
• Lead for the development of Modular systems for various departments, including A&E, Budgeting, Supply/Logistics, Contracting, Purchasing, Accounting, and HR Departments, plus Eight Construction Management Departments;
• Enhanced Decision Making by providing Analytical and Business Intelligence Reports for the CEO and the Board of Directors;
• This required Evaluation and Analysis of major activities of all Confidential departments, 500 contractors and about 100 A&E firms, leading to quantifying their progress and identifying their strengths and weaknesses;
• Provided Macro Project Management on Physical and Financial construction progress of more than 1000 projects, including 120 Hospitals, and their software systems;
• Leading the corporate wide technology efforts, as the head of Informatics Committee;
• Managed Internal Training for Technology Courses for all management levels and the key staff;
• Directed Confidential ’s participation and Presentation in annual Expositions;
• Special Officer in generating funds for projects via bonds resulting in 50% budget increase;