PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Product Owner and Project Management Professional, offering over 25 years of management, leadership, and coaching experience in software methodologies including Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean Software Development, Waterfall, PMBOK, as well as Agile hardware methodologies like, rapid prototyping and the hardware Scrum. An accomplished programmer and architect, and a fast learner. Experienced in remote teams, merged teams and teams with little Agile experience. Continuous Improvement can take you from wherever you are to as far as you can go.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Scrum

Healthcare

Lean Software Development

Medical

Kanban

Security

Waterfall

Salesforce

Manufacturing

SharePoint

Software development

ChangePoint

Testing

Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook

Adobe Acrobat

Microsoft Visio and PowerPoint

C, Python

Microsoft Project

SQL

Skype, WebEx Meeting

Windows, Macintosh OSX, Unix

TFS, Jira

Mergers and Acquisitions

Motivation and Reviews

Executive and customer presentations

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

Responsibilities:

• Coached 2 local teams, 2 remote teams and (indirectly) 3 off - shore teams
• Took all 7 teams from Scrum to Kanban, increasing velocity ~50%
• Encouraged Extreme Programming techniques and skills cross-.
• Mapped workflows and improved communication to get better efficiency.
• Introduced feature level planning.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Minnetonka, MN

Responsibilities:

• Lead weekly 'stand-up' for coordination of the status of all company projects.
• Created a Kanban board in Salesforce and coached updates to it.
• Assessed the risk on projects for executive review.
• Incrementally introduced Agile techniques to improve on existing phase gate procedure.
• Defined and documented the development process and test criteria.

Senior Engineer

Confidential, Shakopee, MN

Responsibilities:

• Documented existing workflows.
• Coordinated technical experts to define a new hardware and improved process.
• Managed delivery of formatted media to new projects, typically on critical path.
• Used Jira to improve the response time on requests for services.

Project Manager

Confidential, Eagan, MN

Responsibilities:

• Configured and developed tools for the PMO to track all IT projects.
• Synchronized with database, server and network teams.
• Upgraded ChangePoint from Compuware to implement new features.
• Re-trained project managers in how to use the system.

Agile Developer

Confidential, Plymouth, MN

Responsibilities:

• Developed hardware and software in incremental platforms of increasing functionality.
• Chose hardware; laid out circuit boards; wrote 64K of C code.
• Negotiated stories for releases with the Product Owner.
• Proposed and implemented product and process improvements based on failure data.

Security Consultant

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Supported a security department in the transition to a new manager.
• Collected status; reviewed processes; wrote recommendations.
• Helped define a business model for generating revenue from SMS services.
• Prototyped a user interface for the web site.
• Did a Fail Fast analysis, showing that product did not meet market needs.

Director of Development

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

Responsibilities:

• Ran a department with 32 engineers and technicians distributed around the world.
• Trained engineers to be managers and managers to be directors.
• Coordinated projects between engineering, IT, Production and Support.
• Built a test department to implement test automation and traceability.
• Merged with competition to become the number-two in two in the filtering market.
• Pioneered Big Data with a database of every URL in the Internet.
• Used a hybrid Agile/waterfall model with a Product Owner, PRDs and long sprints.

Engineering Manager

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

Responsibilities:

• Grew staff from 4 to 23 top-notch security and network engineers.
• Developed new procedures for employee reviews and incentive programs.
• Managed features to keep Military, government and financial organizations happy.
• Wrote the MRD for each release, and “sold” it to big customers.

Agile Product Owner

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

Responsibilities:

• On a budget designed just to write a document, delivered a working product using Agile.
• Using short sprints, with a team of 3, created a working model of increasing complexity.
• Won several phases of funding and transferred the product to a commercial contract.

Project Manager

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

Responsibilities:

• Managed a Gantt chart 5 feet high and 8 feet long for an ultra-secure operating system.
• Using Agile, build a security compiler in Perl in less than a month to save the schedule.
• Supervised a reinterpretation of Orange-book standards to make a useful product.

QA Lead

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented a traceable medical test plan for the FDA.
• Ran a department while the company was searching for a new executive.

Ergonomic Consultant

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

Responsibilities:

• Designed a more intuitive interface for milk carton production.
• Architect for a Geographic Information System that automated insurance underwriting.
• Developed numerical method for projecting the error in the result based on GIS uncertainty.
• Member of the executive committee. Participated in strategy definition and market positioning. (Public corporation)