SUMMARY

• Confidential is a Certified DevOps Coach, Certified Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scaled Scrum Expert, Certified Scrum Trainer and SAFe agilest; He is An MBA, A Licensed Communications & Computers Engineer, A Project Management Professional and a Certified TOGAF Enterprise Architect. He is an expert at:
• Providing advisory services on agile digital transformation (people, process, technology, change management) and attendant top - to-bottom organizational change
• Building, Teaching, Mentoring, Coaching and empowering high efficiency, self-organizing teams for agile digital transformation of medium & large enterprises;
• Collaborating with Executive sponsors, Business and DevOps teams to adopt and implement Agile enabled DevOps practices
• Incubating and maturing enterprise digital transformation practices (EA, Agile, Scaled Agile, DevOps. PM)
• Delivering Managed Digital Technology solutions and services for multi-billion dollar operations to achieve sustained profitability, efficiency, and productivity.
• Leading efforts from strategy to execution, from C-Level to Team-Level, on Digital Strategy, operational excellence, enterprise transformation and change management.
• Leading organizations through change occasioned by digital transformation
• His 25+ years’ experience includes leading and delivering digital transformation programs, involving large cross-functional teams, in Oil & Energy, Health Care, Government, Telecommunications, Information Technology, Non - Profit, Manufacturing and Financial Services Industries.
• As Agile Coach Confidential helps organization understand and adopt the Agile processes, partner with Product Owner/Client leadership teams, and works with project teams to deliver incremental functionalities of value to the customer, on-time and on budget.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Coach Executive leadership and various functional subject matter experts on Agile transformation strategies and plans, SAFe, Scrum, XP and Kanban Frameworks, its associated benefits, implications and overall help establish expertise for Agile delivery.
• Serve as a Subject Master Expert (SME) on scaling agile development, including the use of scaling frameworks such as Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Scaled Scrum.
• Provide Agile Leadership coaching, influenced and trained Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Program Managers, Technical Teams, Functional Managers, Change Managers and leaders on agile principles/values and how to build, grow, optimize and maintain a thriving agile organization at scale.
• Deliver hands-on coaching and mentoring of individual scrum teams in all aspects of scrum - daily meetings, planning, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, scrum processes, team building, and facilitation, Agile delivery toolsets as needed and transition the current process into an agile development process
• Coach individuals in Agile processes and tools
• Train Agile teams, coaching them through the process of onboarding and initial project sprints, and helping team members develop skills and become self-sufficient.
• Coach product owners/business sponsors, partners and stakeholders to fully understand and feel empowered to in corporate Agile in their lines of business
• Help identify organizational impediments to successful Agile transformation and work with leadership team to create effective strategies to overcome them
• Support Communities of Practice through participation, including facilitation, coaching and giving talks
• Assist in determining which delivery frameworks and methodologies are relevant to different complex initiatives (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe), Proactively identify Risks and drive action to mitigate and resolve risks
• Provide supports in implementing SAFe
• Observe and guide Agile pod(s) throughout the organization and through all phases of the Agile lifecycle
• Provide ad-hoc support to struggling pod(s) based on maturity assessment results

Confidential, Spring, TX

Digital Strategy, Enterprise Architecture and Transformation Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Acted as Practitioner, Coach and Mentor in the development and maturing of Exxon Mobil capability to develop digital strategy, transformation and strategy execution. Leveraged Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Kanban, SCRUM and other methodologies to Develop Reference architectures (As-Is, To-Be - Conceptual and Logical) for Capital projects, Gas Power Marketing and Upstream value stream in support of IT Business Architects responsible for these functions. To-Be technologies includes AI, Block Chain related applications with proof of concept and proof of value initiatives explored;
• Provided tools, techniques, best practices, deliverables and templates in the development and maturing of enterprise architecture capability for Exxon Mobil
• Created playbook for IT Business Architecture and served as subject-matter-expert in the development of business capability models, Strategy Articulation, Architecture Authoring and Roadmap development in Software AG Alfabet and ARIS tools
• Served as member of Architecture Center for enablement
• Provided ad-hoc support to struggling pod(s) based on maturity assessment results and contributed artifacts & deliverables leading to the standing up of the Architecture Council (Architecture Review Board)
• Acted as Subject Matter Expert in the creation of Architects Playbook & Workbench on ARIS - authored the approach and target process that is a component (of the process and technology) of Enterprise Architecture Target state architecture modeling and development environment
• Led workshops and provided demo to IT Business Architects for target state enterprise architecture playbook & workbench

Confidential, The Woodlands, TX

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Forecast of sprint iterations with the Product Owner and concerned business partners
• Coached individuals in Agile processes and tools
• Trained and on boarded Agile teams, coaching them through the process of onboarding and initial project sprints, and helping team members develop skills and become self-sufficient.
• Helped team to clarify goals and activities to be on-track
• Kept the team focus - shield the team from outside distractions and interferences
• Ensured the correct use of scrum process
• Monitored and eliminate team conflicts
• Conducted sprint Demos and Retrospectives
• Carried out scrum of scrum meetings