Head Agile Coach Resume Salt Lake City, UT - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

30 years as a technology change agent helping organizations excel in adopting and using of Agile, LEAN, and ideations processes.
Have written several papers, articles, spoke at dozens of conferences, and been interviewed by several magazines on how to use technology to solve business problems.
Coached stakeholders from Senior Management to Agile team members to external partners, distributed around the globe in multiple aspects of adopting, applying, and understanding Agile, XP, Lean, Ideation, and Change Management.
Developed a dual escalation process with a multi - tribe impediment resolution guild to focus on removing longer term impediments while teams created an escalation path to obtain management support to remove team impediments.
Encouraged a desire for continuous improvement, a longing for knowledge and a quest for best practices by implementing Chapters, Guilds, Lean Coffees Teach-me Tuesdays, Book Clubs etc.
Worked with senior management to instill an agile culture by celebrating agile winning behavior. Used Gemba walks, metrics, and the voice the teams and their clients to identify agile winning behavior.
Established an agile team maturation process that included a series of trainings and mentoring sessions supported by a playbook of best practices, Gemba walks, periodic team maturity assessments, and ongoing monitoring and coaching.
Empowered teams to take ownership of their sprints through a retrospective format that included a structured impediment / opportunity discovery process based on Lean tools with published metrics / PKIs.
Beyond coaching, working roles have included serving as Scrum Master and Senior Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer, Product Owner and Chief Product Owner, and Chair of the Product Advisory Committee and User Advisory Council; organizing and facilitating such meetings as Release and Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

JIRA / TFS / RTC / MS Project

SaaS / Web / Mobile Apps

XP / Scrum / SAFe / Kanban / Lean

Integration / ETL / HL7 / CCD / X12

WORK HISTORY:

Head Agile Coach

Confidential, Salt Lake City, UT

Responsibilities:

Software provides systems and security management suites
Hired to help Confidential and their development teams and multiple US locations to perfect their use of agile.
Developed tools to help standardize and mature the organization’s practice of agile.

Agile Coach

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

Software provides integrated healthcare business solutions
Lead Confidential 's transition to Agile, including coaching and training staff in the use of Scrum, Lean, and XP processes that resulted in Confidential increasing its licensed users from 10K to 40K as velocity soared by 400%, predictability went from 4 to 15 weeks, and business value increased by 1200%.

Scrum Master

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

Worked with senior management to help them build strategies to get the most out of Agile at client while guiding a team of agile coaches and scrum masters as they help their clients and teams mature in the use of Agile.

Sr Agile Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Pioneered the use of mobile computing technology in educational.
Developed a strategy to move Acadia to the next level in the use of technology that resulted in strategic partnerships with: Confidential who founded a fellowship for using technology in the classroom and Microsoft who offered to help promote the use of laptops in public schools.

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