SUMMARY:

• Principal PM, RTE, Agile Coach, Scaled Agile Framework
• Agilist experienced Confidential working with organizations to apply Agile/Lean practices Confidential enterprise scale from project to program to portfolio levels.
• Drives project/portfolio strategy for cloud (Azure) infrastructure, platform, properties, and applications.
• Trains teams to ease tools adoption. Coaches teams using Confidential ®, Agile (Kanban & Scrum), and Hybrid methods within the IT, SAP, BI, Cloud, Telecom, and consumer product sectors.
• Hands - on experience with P&L responsibilities. Possesses a global mindset on innovation, collaboration, execution and transformation.
• Six years of work and teaching experience in China; fluent in Chinese Mandarin.

TECHNICAL FOCUS:

Coaching on SDLC/Agile; IT Security; SAP; Business Intelligence.

EXPERTISE:

• Agile Coaching/Scrum/CICD
• Release/Sprint Planning/ART
• Confidential TFS/VSTS Agile Tool
• Simplifying hard problems
• Collaborations and Partnerships
• Mobile/Cloud, Business Intelligence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Agile Enterprise Coach/ Agilist

Responsibilities:

• Contributed to organization’s training package to streamline Agile implementation and adoption. Hands-on coaching and guidance to Chief Product Owner, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Scrum teams on producing value-added features and user stories.
• Trained team on Azure-hosted Confidential VSTS Agile tools adoption to govern the enterprise Agile Portfolio execution. This included: backlogs, Dashboard, Kanban board, Sprint planning, continuous grooming, user stories, and estimation.
• Coached teams on roles and responsibilities, through workshops on feature planning, story boarding, Kanban board workflow, writing robust user stories, relative sizing, task estimation, and WSJF (newly added to Confidential VSTS).
• Mentored Product Owners to streamline their value-added features, and implemented Lean execution by working with Scrum teams to get results (backlog prioritization and more).
• Fostered “How to …, and why…,” conversations within Scrum teams. How do we handle the dependencies from other waterfall teams? How do I deal with user acceptance testing if it is not part of the Sprint? Why do we need to train business users on how the Dashboard works?
• Facilitated release planning All-Hands (face-to-face and videoconferencing) value stream meetings with Agile teams.
• Encouraged collaboration Confidential every team conversation; resolved conflicts quickly; promoted team Working Agreement and Retrospectives.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Sr. Technical Delivery Manager/Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for Confidential EIT Agile Pilot Revenue SubLedge project. Conducted release planning, Sprint planning, backlog growing, retrospectives, burndown charts, removed impediments. This pilot Agile project benefited enterprise wide Agile adoption.
• Hosted value stream planning for waterfall delivery team in the beginning of the project. This convinced PO to rethink on incremental delivery for the Device Lifecycle Program (DLP) Mobile device leasing program. The program involved 20+ IT sub source and properties enhancements, upgrades, and SAP. As result, the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) was delivered in six months, three months shorter than original waterfall schedule.
• Tailored Agile adoption for HR system by aligning application teams to overall program goals and ensured coordination across data requests, regression testing, end-to-end testing, go-live planning & cutover, with up to 20 upstream / downstream applications.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Sr. Project Consultant/Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed four development, test, and validation projects with teams consisting of Confidential &T, offshore (India) resources, averaging 25 team members (three Scrum teams) per project.
• Managed Project Budget ranged from $500K - $2M+; project typical duration 3-6 months, full lifecycle of requirements, estimation, code, test, deployment and post-production (RedHat) support.
• PMI Waterfall & Agile (Kanban & Scrum) methodologies, project financial management, project planning/scheduling, risk mitigation, change control and project quality controls.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Chief Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with the client to complete software trial Sprints that clarified desired outcomes for the release and Sprint planning, working with customers on UAT testing criterial. Identified project incremental value.
• Facilitated development and customer team communications, daily Scrum; handled risk management, incorporated changes into Sprints, and collaborated on feature priorities.
• Managed program budget and forecast, monthly presentation to the executive management team and investors.

Confidential, Northridge, CA

Director, Program Management

Responsibilities:

• Provided product lifecycle planning and program strategy; executed project from concept to market release.
• Managed building large vendor relationships for Confidential and General Motors.
• Led large projects value stream planning on MVP requirements; performing feasibility, needs, and risk impact assessments. Focused on value for the customers.
• Introduced incremental delivery to managing customer’s expectations. Ensured the Agile process was used as intended, balancing traditional vs. Agile via the promotion of a hybrid approach.

Confidential

Visiting Professor

Responsibilities:

• Led a Six Sigma waste water reduction project for Suzhou Caterpillar manufacturing plant that saved $550K annually.
• Led a u-Go mobile apps project in Shenzhen that generated $2K net profit in six weeks; team was formally incorporated.

Confidential

Project Office Director

Responsibilities:

• Defined the PMO governance and expectations; led PCP planning and execution; worked with global teams and customers to meet requirements, resources, budgets, and on-time delivery. Drove functional team’s schedule to stay on task.
• Focused on customer’s product design needs and communicated pertinent information to product development team and manufacturing. Collaborated with partner manufacturers on quality, building trust, producing win-win scenarios.
• Controlled program risks; partnered with sourcing on commodity price fluctuations.
• Governed programs with a combination of an internal product development process and the partner’s development process, ensuring consistent and repeatable outcomes. Guaranteed the program managers’ accountability by mentoring and coaching them on managing project efficiency and mitigating risk.
• General Motor’s accounts increased 40% over prior year and continued an upward-trend.

Confidential

Director, Program Management Office

Responsibilities:

• Led a component of the Network Enterprise PMO, and managed WiMax and Confidential & Confidential software Confidential & Confidential project.
• Planned and managed multi-year China growth plan, expansion portfolio and roadmap.