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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.• Work to determine and implement effective Agile strategies.• Work hand in in hand with development team and product owners to deliver valuable software early and often.• Mentored my eventual replacement for a succesful project transition.

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• Responsible for validating, updating and creating large data sets using SQL Server and other tools.• Served as Test Analyst, creating test cases, automating test scripts, and performing manual testing.• Built test tools using Excel VBA and OLEDB connections to reduce team's testing effort on repetitive tasks.

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 content processing, packaging, delivery, billing and reporting. •• 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 basis to get additional scripts created and executed.•• Created and used SQL scripts to validate and analyze multiple end-to-end content requisitions, processing and digital delivery scenarios.•• Designed Notification Templates, and defined triggers to improve request management and asset management capabilities for application users. •• Led and facilitated information sessions for Automation and Unit Testing with clients and team •• Leveraged HP Quality Center, Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Jira for issue tracking, requirements and test cases. •• Coordinated testing activities and worked with offshore resources on a daily basis.

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..