Senior Agile Coach Resume Castle Rock, CO - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Passionate software professional with extensive experience in leading Agile software development. Expertise coaching organizational change programs, mentoring teams in Agile adoption, collaborating with clients and teams, and mentoring and coaching product owners. Skilled at applying deep development and agile experience to enable technology and business to collaborate and deliver value to customers. Knowledge of DevOps practices. Possess CSM, CSP, CSD, PMI - ACP, Confidential SPS, and SAFe SPC4 s. Proven background leading events with 500+ participants.

KEY SKILLS INCLUDE:

Scrum and Kanban Coaching Agile Product & Project Planning

Team Building and Development Requirements Elaboration and Management

Transformation Planning & Execution Portfolio and Backlog Management Coaching

Executive and Leader Coaching Hands on with ATDD/TDD

Continuous Improvement CoachingLeading Large Planning Events

Coaching Distributed Teams Experienced with Jira and Rally

Courseware Developed and Delivered

Agile FundamentalsLeading SAFe

Agile Product OwnerSAFe for Teams

Agile PlanningSAFe PMPO

Advanced User StoriesSAFe Scrum Master

Agile for TestersAcceptance Test-Driven Development

TDDAgile for Leaders

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Castle Rock, CO

Senior Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

Remotely coached an organization in the use of the Confidential framework and accompanying scaling, Scrum and agile practices.
Worked with leaders and teams to improve story writing, story grooming, Confidential and sprint planning, clarified and assisted Product Owner in carrying out responsibilities, filled in agile and scrum knowledge gaps through the use of and workshops, established direction to begin their CI/CD journey.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Agile Coach/Technical Director

Responsibilities:

Provided coaching to achieve enterprise wide adoption of Scrum and Kanban of more than 550 development teams.
Coached teams of varying maturity levels and guided them as they formulated experiments to enhance their way of working.
Updated and created Agile curriculum and courseware content to better focus course outcomes and strengthen certain key learning outcomes
Designed and planned a Dojo platform to enable teams start their DevOps journey
Provided guidance and coaching on portfolio management practices to enable leaders to identify priorities and gain visibility on organizational initiatives.
Created Scrum Master and Product Owner self-assessment tool allowing Scrum Masters and Product Owners to evaluate their maturity level and design their improvement path.
Defined strategy for adoption of scaling practices that provided teams a just-enough pathway to scaling adoption.
Delivered various Agile courses regularly to enable in Agile methodology across the corporation.
Developed and delivered leadership workshops to engage leaders in Agile transformation allowing them to lead in an Agile way.

Confidential, Fort Collins, CO

Scaled Agile Framework Coach

Responsibilities:

Collaborated very closely with program leaders and managers in defining, executing and adapting transformation initiatives to ensure leaders owned transformation outcomes
Coached product management and other business stakeholders to use the SAFe portfolio layer to define how value flows through the organization to the customer.
Worked closely with product management, architecture, and the Release Train Engineers (RTEs) to craft and prepare features for PI Planning to ensure the organization was well prepared and would have successful PI Planning events.
Guided Release Train Engineers in establishing multi-site, cross-train planning, coordination and reporting to enhance transparency of work flow throughout the organization.
Collaborated with other coaches and organizational leaders to define a transformation roadmap and coached contributors at all levels to move change initiatives forward.
Taught SAFe 4.0 PMPO, Team, and SM courses in the U.S. and India.
Increased knowledge of DevOps and continuous delivery principles and practices.

Confidential, Lafayette, CO

Senior Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

Formed a guiding coalition of program leaders into a transformation team, who used agile practices to help them define and execute their agile transformation strategy.
Helped organization understand and progress through their adoption by identifying and implementing key program-level metrics so they could gauge their progress.
Introduced SAFe-like release planning practices to help the organization improve alignment between business and technology so there existed a common mission for the organization to rally to.
Supported the organization during the adoption of DevOps/Continuous Delivery (CD) practices.

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