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CONSULTANT AGILE/SCRUM COACH
Career Overview
I am an Agile and Scrum Coach with a client-focus, and am results-oriented with over seven years' experience coaching at the team and enterprise levels. My well-rounded experience in various additional roles such as technical trainer, scrum master, business analyst, product owner, project manager, and program manager across numerous industries enables me to provide unparalleled communication and persuasion skills.
Qualifications
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Accomplishments
- As an Agile Coach working at the Enterprise level, I have advised and guided leadership at the executive level to adopt truly Agile ways of thinking and operating.
- I have coached Program and Portfolio Management from an Agile perspective with the goal of facilitating scaled agile.
- I have coached many struggling teams and helped them achieve performance measured by faster development, higher quality, and fewer release roll-backs
- As a coach, I have helped companies identify communication impediments and then guided them to remove the issues to increase productivity and decrease defects.
- I have great success coaching Product Owners to better understand their role, improve Backlog maturity, and to evangelize about team successes to executive leadership, reversing years of poor performance
- I have also coached executive leadership about Agile best practices and helped resolve numerous problems regarding predictability, transparency, estimation accuracy, and deployments
Professional Experience
Abbott LaboratoriesAugust 2015 to July 2016Consultant Agile/Scrum Coach
Dayton , OH
Dayton , OH
- As an Agile Consultant, I guided the PMO management to identify gaps in agile thinking and culture, and to organize a continuous process of improvement.
- I coached struggling teams and turned around failing teams so they became high-performing ones.
- I restored order on the teams by re-establishing Agile best-practices and accountability.
- Team productivity increased significantly and restored the confidence of upper management.
- I coached the PMO and executives on Scaled Agile Framework and guided them to formulate a plan for a transition to the SAFe model.
- I drove improvement within Product, PMO and Development approaches to Release Planning, Release Train planning, and cross team coordination.
CIBERJune 2015 to July 2015Consultant Agile Implementation/Assessment Coach
City , STATE
City , STATE
- As an Agile Consultant, I was contracted to perform an in-depth Agile Health Assessment
- While guiding and supervising other coaches, I helped identify areas of misunderstanding by management and coached improvements to release plans
- I led team of Agile Coaches to gather metrics on the client's agile maturity
- Provided additional coaching and training to internal team-level coaches
- Created recommended course of action for improvements
Blue Cross, Blue Shield KansasJuly 2013 to June 2015Consultant Agile/Scrum Coach
City , STATE
City , STATE
- As a Scrum coach, I guided multiple teams during a large scale conversion from legacy COBOL systems to a modern JAVA architecture.
- I helped organize and plan a roll out of Scaled Agile Framework alongside other coaches.
- Provided guidance on adaptation of SAFe methodology, planning Release Trains and Program Increment deployments.
- I observed teams and identified areas of improvement on Agile best practices, and Scrum processes.
- I held workshops and training sessions to guide learning in order to improve performance, predictability, delivery, and quality.
- I applied LEAN concepts to identify antiquated "legacy" processes that produced additional wait-times and inefficiencies, then coached with Management and IT to develop solutions that removed the waste.
- Guided product owners in backlog improvement, Feature creation and User Stories decomposition, release planning and then cross teams planning.
- Organized and ran Scrum of Scrum meetings.
Pearson ECollegeApril 2012 to July 2013Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Program Manager
City , STATE
City , STATE
- As a Scrum Master and Scrum Coach, I successfully determined gaps in team and department performance, developed an improvement plan, and improved performance by greater than 20% on each team.
- I helped with the implementation of the SCRUM framework for the Technical Consulting (TC) group developing software in a Software As A Solution (SAAS) system.
- I led PMO effort to develop an Agile Project Estimation methodology.
- I officiated the SCRUM rituals for the TC team, including backlog grooming, iteration planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups Daily, weekly, monthly reporting, burn-down/burn-up charts, and cumulative flow diagrams to measure progress and keep team on track.
- I helped integrate non-collocated teams in Sri Lanka and developed methods of streamlining communications.
- Successfully managed dozens of releases through complex SAAS release processes.
Level3November 2011 to February 2012Consultant Project Manager
City , STATE
City , STATE
- Program manager in charge of the Level 3 & Global Crossings Infrastructure.
- Responsible for coordinating the kickoff and planning of 16 integrations projects.
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Vail ResortsAugust 2011 to November 2011Consultant Project Manager
City , STATE
City , STATE
- Served as project manager for the Vail Epic Photo program.
HealthGradesDecember 2008 to August 2011Scrum Business Analyst, Project Manager, Scrum Master
City , STATE
City , STATE
- I was Project Manager, Requirements Analyst and Scrum Master on multiple executive projects and programs to integrate new properties into HealthGrades.
- I served in SCRUM roles such as Scrum Master, Agile Requirements Analyst Coordinating the efforts of teams in various locations within the USA and Australia.
CSS, Finance IndustryMay 2007 to December 2008Consultant Business Analyst/Senior Requirements Analyst/ Project Manager
City , STATE
City , STATE
- I was tasked with applying my Business Analysis expertise to identify gaps and failures in the BA process and propose improvements that resulted in the creation of a new department for Requirements Analysis (RA) Specialists.
- I coached product team on requirements elicitation and management techniques.
Walt Disney WorldDecember 2006 to May 2007Consultant Business Analyst, Disney Photo Imaging
City , STATE
City , STATE
- I served a blended role as Business Analyst on Agile teams, and applied RUP methodology to analyze and document requirements for the Disney Photo Imaging team.
- I project-managed each agile development project and successfully achieved objectives on time.
Verizon (Syniverse)February 2000 to January 2006IT Business Analyst
City , STATE
City , STATE
- I served as Business Analyst on large-scale, complex projects within the Telecommunications industry in both North and South America.
- I elicited, gathered and managed Business and System Requirements.
- I presented new products to International executive and technical level customers.
- I accomplished corporate goal of analyzing and developing a new clearing product for Brazil, under budget and against great difficulties.
DirecTV Galaxy Latin AmericaJune 1996 to June 2000International Corporate Trainer
City , STATE
City , STATE
- I performed needs-analysis, developed curricula and supporting training materials for the development of new DirecTV businesses in the region.
- The subjects I trained included business processes, product features, and supporting financial and CRM applications.
- I provided CSR and Executive-Level product training in Spanish, English and Portuguese throughout Latin America.
- I supported Engineering and Software Development teams in setting up product and billing application testing.
- Member of Business Process Improvement project team that successfully increased sales in the region Team Lead for Conditional Access Reconciliation project that diminished exposure to signal piracy by decreasing the number of "orphaned" active IRDs by over one-half million.
Education and Training
University of ColoradoBA: Education and SpanishCity, State, USA
Secondary Education and Spanish Literature
Certifications
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
SAFe Agilist (SA)
Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP)
Rally Super User Training (2015)
Computer Based Curricula
Scrum Team Training
Requirement Elicitation via Use-Case Modeling
UML Modeling
Languages
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Technical Skills
| Skills | Experience | Total Years | Last Used | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rally Power User | Expert | 3 | 2015 | |||
| PPM Tools: Rally, Jira, TFS, Agile Planner | Expert | 8 | Ongoing | |||
| Test Driven Development (TDD) | Moderate | 3 | Ongoing | |||
| Scaled Agile | Expert | 3 | Ongoing | |||
| Serena Agile Planner | Expert | 1.5 | 2014 | |||
| Microsoft Office Pro Suite | Moderate | 18 | 2012 | |||
| Familiar with Java, .Net, C# Mainframe systems | Moderate | 15 | 2015 | |||
| SAFe, Scrum, Kanban | Expert | 7 | 2015 |
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School Attended
- University of Colorado
Job Titles Held:
- Consultant Agile/Scrum Coach
- Consultant Agile Implementation/Assessment Coach
- Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Program Manager
- Consultant Project Manager
- Scrum Business Analyst, Project Manager, Scrum Master
- Consultant Business Analyst/Senior Requirements Analyst/ Project Manager
- Consultant Business Analyst, Disney Photo Imaging
- IT Business Analyst
- International Corporate Trainer
Degrees
- BA : Education and Spanish
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