SUMMARY:

I seek to serve as an Agile Coach for your organization. I bring over 20 years of experience as a n agile practitioner, devops professional, software delivery expert, d Confidential analyst, process improvement specialist, and technology leader.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Enterprise Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• In my role as an Enterprise Agile Coach, my responsibility is to assist the organization with its integration of software and operational systems.
• I’m currently working with technology leadership to bring about a Product Delivery focus for the future.
• This effort includes Business Agility and a scaling model for software delivery.
• I’ve also developed material:
• Agile Leaders
• Scrum Master
• Product Owner
• Kanban for Operations Teams
• Scrumban
• User Story
• Agile Basics

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Engineering Director/Quality & Automation

Responsibilities:

• I was able to complete the transformation that I’d started as an agile coach.
• I transformed an organization that had a functional structure into a cross - functional/cross-platform organization.
• I was responsible for bringing an automated testing strategy as well as DevOps and Continuous Integration to the organization.
• I introduced SAFe to the organization and guided my peers through the first program increment.
• I was able to bring two test tools that were not functioning into use bringing value that cost the company more $1 million.
• I was later charged with the responsibility of delivering the same results for the broader audience in technology.
• Delivered automated regression testing
• Delivered automated user acceptance testing
• Delivered automated UI testing with Selenium
• Delivered Continuous Integration strategy
• Created artificial intelligence for self-healing internal systems
• Automated server configuration

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Enterprise Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Advise leaders on overall agile strategy
• Mentoring and coaching VPs throughout the enterprise on organizational best practice
• Structur ed “ agile for Mainframe” workshop for technology VPs
• Created and conducted several agile workshops covering roles and responsibilities as well as different agile techniques
• Guid ed leadership through many of the DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes for the next stage of transformation into automation
• Provided coaching support to teams in the US, India, Canada, Philippines, Australia, and UK
• Led technology organizations with understanding and adoption of Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean, and Scaled agile Framework(SAFe)
• Conduct ed many sessions for the business and technology
• Established an agile community that is growing at such an incredible rate that several campuses have requested my “ agile Coffee Talk” sessions for their participants
• Been requested to deliver my agile overview sessions in NYC for business leaders
• Served as lead consultant on many process improvement initiatives throughout Amex
• Coach leaders and teams on proper agile and development best practice
• Conduct Program Increment Planning across many organizations in the enterprise
• Launched several agile Release Trains using Scaled agile Framework for as many as 12 teams

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Scrum Master, Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance to leadership with process improvement initiatives to include CI/CD and DevOps across the enterprise
• Assist Program Management with its agile implementation
• Instruct the organization on how to use Rally at all levels
• Conduct all of the agile ceremonies
• Serve as a servant leader

Confidential, Cary, NC

Agile Coach, Agile Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Lead coaching sessions with organizations of all sizes providing direction for agile adoption
• Conducted online sessions XP, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery
• Emphasized the value of complete, cross functional, properly sized agile teams
• Trained Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Program Managers, Project Managers in their roles
• Provided coaching and guidance to executives to assist them with agile transformations
• Traveled to client locations all over the North America delivering courses
• Currently developing my own content
• In the process of writing white paper on agile Transformation

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Application Development Supervisor/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Train employees in agile and Scrum and Kanban
• Introduce agile and Scrum to the organization
• Develop agile teams
• Coach teams, and manage in all ceremonies
• Develop a release plan
• Manage application development
• Vendor management
• Performance evaluation
• DevOps Implementation
• Collaborate with project management on new projects
• Lead IT in instituting best practice
• Introduce the notion of Test Driven Development
• Introduce SCM, and configuration management
• Acquire tools to support proper team collaboration

Confidential, Tacoma, WA

Agile Trainer/Coach/Certified Scrum Master/Build and Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I trained Product Owners to understand that their role is to work closely with the agile team and the business to deliver business value from sprint to sprint.
• Train employees that are new to agile and Scrum and Kanban
• Coach teams, managers, and directors throughout the organization
• Build/Deploy Applications daily
• Deploy to all server environments (Dev/Pit/Uat/Prod)
• Developed a deployment plan for a new web application
• Created a new ANT build and deployment script for the application as well as automated features
• Manage the source control system (CVS, GIT)Packaged applications for automated deployment Perform several Production Releases Created manual build/deployment script to interface with other automated scripts run by System Administrator deployment of JAVA and J2EE applications to WebSphere, Tomcat Application Servers. Led an effort for enterprise-wide improvements of Deployment and Release procedures
• Submitted two proposals to the innovation group for opportunities that can become future projects for the company

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Configuration Management Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deploy applications to several environments
• Manage configuration values for each application agile team member
• Maintain source control
• Prepare environments for application deployments
• Test in-house Install System
• Train development and test engineers to use the Install System

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Build Manager

Responsibilities:

• Packaged application modules for deployment to multiple environments
• Deployed applications to those environments agile and Continuous Integration
• Manage access to ClearCase source control system using Cruise Control and ANT
• Participated in two major software releases and provided support during the release process
• Executed automated and manual scripts for application build and deployment
• Developed process and standards documentation
• Established a WIKI (editable collaborative website) site for the build team to share information with management
• Support the development team while troubleshooting build issues

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Build /Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and established an automated build process for MS Windows and Linux Redhat environments for a large software development company
• Continuous Integration agile team member
• Produced automated integrated and nightly build results using ANT and Cruise Control scripts
• Wrote custom scripts and properties files to build and deploy applications to multiple servers and install environments
• Setup and maintained version control process using Perforce
• Worked with Release Engineering teams at several remote locations
• Performed troubleshooting procedures when there were build failures and resolved the issues
• Manually and automatically ran builds for historical versions of applications to apply non-service pack updates

Confidential, Olympia, WA

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed applications using Object Oriented Programming techniques
• Worked on agile scrum teams
• RequisitePro for Use Case(RUP) creation, Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC)
• Strong familiarity with J2EE technology
• Experienced in agile development and XP programming techniques
• EJB, Servlets, JSP
• Wrote Web Services applications using SOAP
• Familiar with UML
• Write and perform complex queries to drive applications
• Developed large scale Enterprise Applications for the courts
• Developed projects using ANT, XML, JAVA, WSAD/RAD6, WAS, DB2
• Contributed in leading the agency in instituting a new software build/release standard
• Perforce version control Administrator, also significant experience with Rational ClearCase
• Performed Configuration Management responsibilities
• Created test and performed quality assurance testing
• Suggested new products that increased improve team efficiency