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Deland, Fl, Us

Fairfax, Va, Us

Driving large-scale transformational changes within the US Government, including but not limited to the US Army and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Coaching leadership in the full transformation of a major multi-billion dollar implementation from pure waterfall to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Supporting the rollout of a new SAFe implementation with Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) process that includes components of SAFe. Extensive training and coaching at all levels from the Office of the CIO down through the delivery teams.Head of the Agile Practice internally within ECS, expanding the Lean-Agile mindset within the enterprise.

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Wrote “Shift: From Product to People” with Pete Oliver-Krueger.It was released on 10/23/2024 and officially available on Amazon here: https://lnkd.in/g-wfm47ZYou can also reach out directly to me for a personally signed physical copy!

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

• Led a Lean-Agile transformation at the Department of State for over 15 teams (~250 people) to an essential SAFe configuration• Coached the delivery of the CTIS (Commodity Treatment Information Systems) Product to AWS and MS Azure, leveraging Azure DevOps. Guided and supported delivery through incremental improvements, introducing many new changes to improve delivery flow and team acceleration• Trained over 150 people with SAFe classes such as Implementing SAFe, SAFe for Teams, SAFe Lean Portfolio Management, SAFe Agile Product Management, and SAFe Agile Software Engineering.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Leading Lean-Agile change within the public sector for major US Government Agencies. Providing Servant Leadership via Agile and Scaled Agile coaching and support at multiple levels of Business, Development, and Operations. Encourages a DevOps culture and Architectural input for modernizing Agile product delivery. Accelerating Government journeys through step changes and relentless improvement measurements, driven by data.Math is my guide and I seek to find meaning in numbers and metrics to drive direction and give purpose out of activities, thereby converting output to valuable outcomes.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Enterprise Agile trainer and coach, having taught over 350 people in SAFe classes with over a 90% certification pass rate for those who have taken the exam.Technical change agent guiding Lean-Agile transformations to maximize client outcomes with business acceleration and profitability.

St. Louis Park, Mn, Us

Responsible for Magenic's National Project Center, including client training, coaching, complex technical deliveries (cloud migrations, digital transformations) and Agile portfolio governance. Primary roles include: • Coached teams in Agile delivery, focusing on bringing higher predictability, sustainability, and acceleration • As a SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), Michael has trained several clients over two years in Leading SAFe, SAFe for Teams, SAFe PO/PM, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Advanced Scrum Master, and SAFe DevOps • Supported the roll out of several Agile Release Trains (ARTs) with multiple clients in multiple roles: Release Train Engineer (RTE), Scrum Master and SPC-Program oversight • Oversee the delivery alignment and training events (summit, monthly reviews, round tables, and 1:1 reviews) with over 30 Agile Project Managers (coaching the coaches) • Support the roll-out of new initiatives, training and marketing materials to expand Magenic's delivery service offerings, including SAFe, the DevOps practice and Client Solution Management • Support the kick-off through closeout of new major engagements, ensuring delivery guidelines are met • Assist with sales and client relationships during the engagement pursuit process • Guided delivery with AWS, Azure, SalesForce, SharePoint and BizTalk software • Assist clients in building better backlogs by providing Product Owner boot camps and story splitting skills • Provided direction for cloud migration and transformation initiatives

Chicago, Il, Us

Agile Project Manager specializing in Microsoft based solutions, including SharePoint, Microsoft Azure (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), Business Intelligence Reporting with SharePoint (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS), BizTalk integration, mobile technologies and custom application development. Responsible for quality project delivery, blending traditional and Agile approaches. Act as a change agent for improving delivery processes, leveraging visualization tools, delivery guidelines, standards, and consistency in approach. Provides insight and experience for individual projects, focusing on small, mid-sized and large accounts. Promote and expand the Project Management Office for increased standardization across multiple companies.

Wilmington, Delaware, Us

Senior Project Manager, leading technical delivery for improving Scrum based development process and help provide project management leadership, mixing traditional and newer approaches for over 35 developers and over 15 Quality Assurance specialists. Responsibilities include process improvement within Microsoft focused shop (latest TFS 2013, .NET 4.5, DevExpress, MVC Razor), Product Management interaction with Product Owners and overall scheduling and tracking of delivery. Coordination of delivery team activities including inspection, promoting transparency and continuous improvement to automation.

Agile Leadership Network Houston is an organization promoting Agile practices in the Houston community. We conduct monthly chapter meetings and facilitate learning and networking in the agile community.

Aberdeen, Scotland, Gb

Information Management Lead involved with process improvement (Business Process Modeling, Lean, Kaizen), for a major billion dollar engineering project. Responsibilities include business analysis, coordination of vendor software selection for project use, quality assurance activities, recommendation of new processes at both incremental and step levels, and the introduction of new delivery methodologies.Leading software quality assurance activities of AVEVA products for the delivery of operational readiness in a major engineering project, including plant maintenance and material management preparation and validation.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Management lead for a multi-million dollar MD Anderson project involving the Dictation and Transcription of Diagnostic Images utilizing .NET and the latest voice recognition technologies. Responsibilities include project oversight of an onshore and offshore team, client interaction and vendor communications. Driving change within MD Anderson by proposing new methodology improvements using Scrum based delivery.

Provides guidance, governance and direction of consulting strategy and Project Management practices for the Upstream Oil & Gas industry. Drives delivery methodologies tailored specifically within the O&G industry to the geoscience and engineering communities, covering the full Exploration & Production lifecycle.

Houston, Tx, Us

Provide technical project management support, Agile-focused business analysis and process improvements for consulting operations that included SharePoint 2010, Sitecore, and multiple .NET and Java custom website deliveries.

Reston, Va, Us

Responsible for Project Management activities for SAIC's Upstream Petrotechnical Global Data Management (PGDM) division. Involved with the creation and identification of new upstream data management opportunities and lead or assist current data management projects portfolio. Focused in Houston, with involvement of Alaska, Calgary, Trinidad, Aberdeen, Sunbury and Stavanger officesKey achievements have included establishing a sustained data management practice within BP globally, that delivered the key “current state” appraisal of BP’s subsurface data management environment, including a road map to improve that environment and the establishment of a Global Data Management (GDM) Project Management Office for seven locations worldwide.Wrote white papers on Sustainable Data Governance and SharePoint/Documentum integration.

Wrote articles for IBM DB2 magazine on several different technology topics in the Information Technology industry.In 2009, DB2 magazine was insourced to IBM employees only.

Toronto, On, Ca

Key Senior Project Manager handling multiple north American IT projects with delivery goals established on time and on budget.Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) - Accomplished primary manager of multiple engagements including as the key Project Manager for KBR's new portal prototype and development project, KBRconnect redesign. Responsible for the coordination of KBR and third party resources that delivered requirements, technical design and development of an employee portal prototype. Led the research and documentation of integrating the Plumtree portal technology (v5.0.x) with Documentum content management technology (v5.2.x) for building and delivering a unified employee portal strategy. Roles included acting as a business analyst, quality assurance and overall project management between multiple parties.Pfizer - Was in charge of multiple projects related to Pfizer's Multi-product Publishing Management System (MPMS) that included the Lipitor, Zoloft, Viagra and Pregabalin product lines. This consisted requirements gathering, design, development and initial rollout of the system into full production within a three-month period under a team of nine consultants.Cooper Industries - Key liaison and manager for several ongoing Cooper initiatives from their Cooper Information Technology Shared Services (CITSS) division. Management included support and expansion of their current infrastructure and their custom-built company-wide intranet portal at www.coopernet.com.

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• NCBC - Effectively project managed the first release of the Internet Retail Banking Project within production at the S1 Data Center (an Application Service Provider; who is now part of National Commerce Financial Corporation (NCFC). This was a landmark event for S1 Corporation. The system supports over 500 concurrent users and a total customer base of over 100,000.• Successfully managed over thirty projects and delivered over fifty projects (Internet Banking, other web based solutions) in all aspects from pre-sales to project deployment.• Jointly managed the development of an Internet banking portal with C-Bridge management, which included development with e-commerce technology in EJB, XML and Rational Rose software modeling tools (UML concepts and RUP).• Created network topologies, improved design architectures and evaluated the feasibility of production systems with Data Center personnel; guided Sales Engineering on choosing the correct hardware and software for a successful project solution.• Designed and built entire static demo sites from the ground up using HTML and Javascript for customer web sites.

Phoenix, Az, Us

• Successfully installed over twenty accounts including up to a 7 multi-noded 152 line PC phone system in the OS/2 environment.• Senior level 2 and level 3 technical support member.

• Created and updated the install program for EcoGroup's product, "In Concert With The Environment" utilizing CodeBase and C-Scape with MS C v6.0 in the DOS platform.• Modified, expanded, and upgraded the "In Concert With The Environment" software which includes using the MS CodeView debugger and writing printer drivers, batch files, etc.

• Systems Level, Pascal, and C programmer for Star Computer's OS and development tools.

Mba, Ecommerce 2003

Bachelor, Computer Systems Engineer