SUMMARY:

• Seasoned IT leader and agile evangelist seeks a position as SAFe / agile change agent to optimize and drive Agile transformation and to share knowledge across the enterprise.
• Charismatic, positive, and influential change agent, balancing the resilience needed to drive transformational strategies with proven soft skills to leverage and influence agile adoption leaders. Sharp acumen for transferring lean IT principles and practices to software development, including CI/CD and DEVOPS for the purpose of orchestration, automated testing and faster delivery. Worked in most agile roles within the SAFe framework, helping to create backlog flow, higher velocity, and accurate forecasting.
• Certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC4) | Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI - ACP) | Certified Scrum Master (CSM) | Strategic and Tactical Leadership | Staff and Development | Off-Shore Vendor Management | Multiple Agile Hybrid Methodologies | Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) | Planning and Estimating Expertise | Project and Portfolio Management | Extensive Stakeholder Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: CA Agile Central (Rally) | Agility Health Radar | Team Foundation Server (TFS) | Rational Team Concert (RTC) | Atlassian (Jama, Jira, Confluence) | Sharepoint | MS Project | SmartSheet

AppDev: web services/mobile apps, e-commerce, discovery/pilot, new services, system deployments, data migrations, program level, some infrastructure

Verticals: Financial, Medical,, Cellular, Accounting, Manufacturing, Inventory, Space & Defense

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

RTE, STE, SAFe Agile Coach / Release Train Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Successfully pre-planned and facilitated multiple global PI Planning events for 2 separate release trains for SAP S4HANA and custom SAP applications.
• Drove agile release trains, focusing SM’s and teams on improving agile best practices by breaking down engrained waterfall mindsets to think and practice iterative/incremental delivery of value.
• Working in concert with the Product Mgr., improved the refinement and readiness of the product backlog, producing a stakeholder approved, prioritized feature list for PI Planning.
• Brought into the Solution Train Engineer (STE) role to work at the portfolio level in creating good flow of epics from funnel to portfolio backlog, relative sized, WSJF prioritized, with good acceptance criteria.
• Acted as PO of an innovation team to create Power BI and Tableau Dashboards to show agile stewardship and look-back, comparative metrics at both the program and executive/portfolio level.

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

SAFe / Agile Coach / Release Train Engineer (RTE)

Responsibilities:

• Successfully pre-planned and facilitated multiple PI Planning events with 145+ people, 12 teams.
• Drove the execution of multiple ART’s, increasing feature completion against planned from 69% to 94% in the first PI under my leadership.
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrums, ART Sync, and SAFe / Lean-Agile CoP ceremonies, coaching and inspiring 12 scrum masters to exercise relentless improvement to increase velocity and quality.
• Helped align the scope of work with the right resources by re-structuring scrum teams to be cross-functional, and identifying where Kanban teams would achieve better efficiency.
• Partnered with executive leadership to expand SAFe / Agile practices to other programs, and helped bring in and pilot agile maturity tools to measure team health and maturity.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

SAFe / Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Coached multiple lean agile teams on $16M program, providing 1:1 coaching and mentoring to teams, scrum masters, product owners, RTE’s and leadership.
• Served simultaneously in the Release Train Engineer (RTE) role, performing all pre-planning and facilitation of PI Planning sessions of 85+ people to launch agile release trains.
• Facilitated ART Sync | Scrum of Scrum meetings, capturing emerging issues and impediments.
• Using Agility Health Radar tool, facilitated over a dozen Agility Health assessments to measure team health, and then helped the teams dissect the results and build growth plans.
• Led DevOps test automation team to develop custom test automation and release orchestration frameworks, resulting in the conversion of over 10K manual test cases, increasing productivity by 75%.

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Agile Adoption Coach / Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As an Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) and coach, worked closely with ePMO, TPMO, and CoE, assisting in moving IT waterfall organization closer to agile | lean methodologies.
• Program managed critical fraud Know-Your-Customer and Customer Risk-Rating $3M project, working with 6 integrated application teams and 2 vendors to meet business and compliance requirements.
• Led next-generation mobile application project that won industry for excellent user experience.
• Project managed complex cloud-based, SSO white-label integration project with bill pay vendor, resulting in 220% increase in revenue with new and existing clients within 6 months.

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for co-located scrum team, helping a team of cross-functional engineers operate sound scrum principles for over 30 sprints with quarterly release cycles.
• Facilitated sprint planning, estimating, sprint reviews, and retrospective sessions for a mission critical ERP and call center web-service application.
• Took initiative in improving the accuracy of forecasting by developing estimating tool, which stabilized team velocity and increased organizational trust in the team’s ability to deliver.
• Worked with the Product Owner and business stakeholders in product backlog refinement sessions, properly decomposing and estimating user stories in preparation for sprint planning.

Confidential, Chandler, AZ

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed highly visible and strategic $6M deployment infrastructure project, migrating data from legacy platform to new strategic platform, saving the company $10M in annual maintenance costs.
• Managed portfolios, budgets, business plans for large, strategic projects from $2-6M in size.
• Managed project managers, overseeing their project status, offering mitigation strategies for issues and risks, and mentoring their performance and communication practices.
• Coordinated and hosted weekly executive steering committee and stakeholder meetings, improving communication and coordination at the VP level and across all organizational layers.

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scrum master for POS merchant services project, eventually rolling out to 50+ mid-large retail chains.
• Led distributed, lean-agile teams, championing agile best practices and facilitating all ceremonies.
• Worked with co-located team, along with off-shore vendor, managing mobile app releases for digital wallet and merchant credit card processing.
• Spear-headed improved auditing process to adhere to banking compliance regulations.

Confidential, Renton, WA

Director-Product Management

Responsibilities:

• Fronted development and marketing of al curriculum, products and services.
• Project managed 50+ projects under tight deadlines and limited resources, coordinating contractors consisting of authors, editors, graphic designers, videographers, QA, and sales.
• Sold shrink-wrap and electronic downloadable products to customers throughout the U.S. and Europe, increasing revenue by 430% from year one to year four.
• Attended quarterly U.S. trade shows, selling product and conducting workshop/breakout sessions from 30-70 people in attendance.