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• Clients: Internal, ARDAPRoles: Agile Coach, Product Owner, Change Agent
• Developed and delivered customized 2-day workshop on agile with a framework agnostic view.
• Launched Digital Quick Start Guides - a monthly series breaking complex topics into digestible information with a focus on taking an audience from 0 to 1.
• Led launch of internal chatbot leveraging IBM Watson Assistant and Discovery. Team went from green light to live in 16 days, and achieved 80% recognition rate within 5 months using Kanban.
• Launched monthly innovation challenges leading to 100+ submissions.
• Continued to serve as agile coach for prototypes using Ranger framework.

• Client: Internal Research & DevelopmentRoles: Agile Coach & Scrum Master
• Developed a custom agile framework - Ranger, to support the development of 30-day prototypes (used on ~20 projects/year).
• Launched and lead Agile Community of Practice. Grew from 0-165+ members.
• Provide coaching to projects across the organization. Leverage metrics like cycle time and CFDs to identify attainable improvement.Client: DARPARoles: RTE & Scrum Master
• As a Release Train Engineer helped transition a large program from 7 competing teams (hackathon model) into a release train with increased transparency and collaboration.

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Client: OUSD(R&E)Roles: Agile Coach & Scrum Master
• Guided an intercompany development team of 15 through Tuckman's 4 development stages in less than 5 months to deliver needed functionality on an aggressive timeline for a STEM scholarship program.
• End result allowed for the execution of option years.
• Fostered a transparent agile environment with psychological safety allowing the team to grow and achieve continuous improvement while building trust and delivering value for the end client.
• Successfully implemented Agile scaling techniques (Scrum of Scrums) as a team grew to 25+ team members.

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Clients: IR&D
• Proposed, presented and secured funding to investigate the potential benefits of Holographic computing
• Serve as Project Leader and an Agile Coach on Kanban projects that look to leverage Mixed Reality to develop spatial planning and training applications.Client: CCIIO
• As ScrumMaster work to remove team's impediments and shield team from distractions through servant leadership.
• Lead Retrospective Meetings to help team work towards continuous improvement and Sprint Review meetings to provide transparency.
• Moderate other Scrum meetings (stand-ups and planning), and work with Product Owners to groom and order the backlog.

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Client: CCIIO
• Worked on building a web application in support of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight’s (CCIIO’s) work on the Federally Facilitated Exchange (FFE) using an Agile-Scrum approach.
• Served as a Business Analyst, interviewing SME's to gather requirements, and generate User Stories complete with Acceptance Criteria.
• Worked with developers to clarify ambiguities, negotiate scope, and increase value.
• Used combined business and technical knowledge to help Product Owners prioritize functionality more effectively

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Client: CCIIO
• Worked on building a web application in support of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight’s (CCIIO’s) work on the Federally Facilitated Exchange (FFE) using an Agile-Scrum approach.
• Created Test Team community of practice allowing testers across projects to analyze trends and share knowledge to improve test quality across projects.
• Lead contributor to several process improvements including - escaped defect tracking, cross-team test information sharing, shared test sessions, transparency and WIP reduction.
• Created modular tSQLt tests to increase unit test coverage across 100+ scenarios.
• Made recommendations to modification of store procedures to improve system performance, and created re-usable queries to improve test reliability

San Antonio, Texas Area

Tactical Agile is focused on teaching how to achieve agility through the use of agile frameworks. This course is scrum-centric but touches on many methodologies and extrapolates beyond software development.

Graduate Course: Special Studies in Management - Agile Methodologies

Burbank, CA

• Served as a Business Analyst and QA consultant for the development of custom applications and solutions.CAPGEMINIClient: Major Studio (M&E) – Digital Distribution ProjectRole: Business Analyst / Tester•
• Worked on building an automated digital distribution platform for post-production services (using RightShore model with 40+ resources) covering end-to-end scenarios for managing requests, manufacturing, automated.
• Worked in the capacity of a Business Analyst and Tester (as a part of a 5 member team) to gather requirements, test and deploy functionality via Agile.•
• Directly interfaced with multiple client SMEs to gather and analyze business requirements, create end-to-end functional / technical scenarios, as well as stories and elaborate enhancements.•
• Led the effort to automate test scripts using Telerik Test Studio, increasing testing capacity. Included writing, executing, and analyzing/documenting results for automation scripts. Worked with offshore on an ongoing.
• Created and used SQL scripts to validate and analyze multiple end-to-end content requisitions, processing and digital delivery scenarios.•

Mcmurray, PA

• Concept development, rapid prototyping, and design development using Pro-E, complete with detailed design drawings
• Researched Titanium Nitride coating and communicated with vendors for information regarding possible reasons for drill bit failures. Led to the use of a new vendor

Bachelor Of Science, Engineering Science, 3.436

Activities and Societies: SWE, Track & FieldMinor in Mathematics Minor in Physics

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Values Driven Leadership, 3.97

Other; Core: Credential Of Readiness, Pass With Honors

HBX CORe (Credential of Readiness) is a 120-150 hour certificate program on the fundamentals of business from Harvard Business School..