TECHNICAL SKILLS

Data Analytics: SPSS, SQL (Oracle, Hive), Hadoop, Tableau, ArcGIS

Agile Frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, Nexus, SAFe

Documentation Systems: JIRA, Confluence, GitHub

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lead, Agile Release Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led agile transformation/implementation for all of Engineering.
• Directed the strategy and executed a scaled agile workflow across hardware, software, and analytics.
• Directed the strategy for enterprise - wide automation of testing.
• Created the Confidential Agile Book of Knowledge.
• Created the templates for agile practices and documention.
• Mentored scrum masters in agile best practices and held Agile Office Hours.
• Coordinated with External Development teams to synchronize cadence with Engineering ART.
• Established and Facilitated Program Level ceremonies for Engineering ART.

Data Analyst and Agilist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created and managed two Data Science and Analytics cross-functional teams from origin as Scrum Master.
• Coached and mentored three Data Science & Analytics scrum masters in agile best practices.
• Doubled productive velocity in Data Product Development and Data as a Service teams by transitioning from waterfall to iterative scrum frameworks.
• Introduced and maintained formal and functional agile foundation for DS&A: ceremonies, best practices, etc.
• Introduced and maintained empirical agile processes, tracking velocity, burndown rate, etc.
• Integrated Documentation for Cross-functional Team in Confluence, JIRA, & GitHub.
• Created visualizations and maintained dashboards for new products with a focus on telling stories premised on data, grounded in human activity, and directed toward business purpose.
• Created, curated, integrated, and maintained practical, technical, and formal documentation (200+ pages) on company’s use of OBD-II device from inception through ETL and data analysis.
• Performed exploratory data analysis and hypothesis formulation to create and support features and products.
• Performed data quality audits to understand and remediate data quality issues.
• Performed firmware validation protocols and detected anomalies in new features, creating new FV tests as part of iterative process.
• Evaluated multiple disparate data sources for integration as new data products for development.
• Led peer-review sessions for code and data models.

Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Originated the use of agile frameworks and cross-functional teams within publishing industry.
• Developed the strategy for and directed the move of 132-person collocated and distributed staff from silo-based specialties to agile, cross-functional teams.
• Shifted relationship management from single touchpoint to continuous engagement.
• Increased contributor retention rate from 10 to 260% over three years.
• Increased organizational velocity by 50-75% over three years.
• Decreased inception to production time by 70%.
• Increased revenue by 175%, unique weekly visitors by 225% over three years.
• Increased capacity for project complexity and duration using SAFe
• First publication of crowd-sourced textbook development.
• Partnered with professional conferences, journals, and 100+ academics for a single project, resulting in 100+ original publications with reviews, interviews, and commentary.

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed bespoke strategies for data-product development life-cycles from ideation through internal and external review and publication/production.
• Designed bespoke strategies for corporate reputational advancement by crafting personnel as subject matter experts and thought leadrs using a layered publishing strategy focusing on blog, white-paper, and industry-specific articles.
• Created original methods and variables to analyze academic units (universities, colleges, and departments) in higher education space to measure their effective competitive position based upon performance-based metrics of faculty, students, and graduates.
• Advised higher education units (universities, colleges, and departments) on data-driven criteria for assessing institutional performance vis-à-vis formal and functional peer institutions.
• First person to bring agile framework to academic publishing.
• Created bespoke strategies for organizational structure guided by agile functional systems, produced as white papers and published internally for clients.

Product Owner, U/X

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Created an online community platform for content contributors to interact and socialize, which facilitated organic collaboration and increased submissions by previous contributors 175%.
• Advocated for development of open peer-review, developmental editing, and a focus on junior scholarship, which resulted in a 200% average increase in ad revenues.
• Worked to develop and refine the interaction between student and instructor E-book annotation.

Product Owner

Confidential, Asheville, NC

Responsibilities:

• Advocated for conceptual development to focus on functionality for E-Learning products.
• Created the concept “Theory in Action” and oversaw production of series modules which was considered “Most Innovative in E-Learning” at the American Political Science Teaching and Learning Conference.