Andrew Blair

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Senior Scrum Master, Azure Dev Ops Architect, Microsoft Power Platform @ Apex Systems
Andrew Blair's Location
Olathe, Kansas, United States, United States
About Andrew Blair

Transition Leader and Manager of Technical teams with deep and current technical experience. Looking for next opportunity as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach. Previous position was directing software development in Azure and AWS clouds.I have been delivering software based projects and products for 20 years with the last 8 years based on agile/scrum methods. (Certified Scrum Master, License 512471)In the last six years I have delivered new projects and products by leveraging Microsoft cloud Azure as well as transformed on premises operations to both Amazons cloud AWS and Microsofts Azure (MCP 1663848 - Azure Architect)

Andrew Blair's Current Company Details
Apex Systems

Apex Systems

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Senior Scrum Master, Azure Dev Ops Architect, Microsoft Power Platform
Andrew Blair Work Experience Details
  • Apex Systems
    Senior Scrum Master
    Apex Systems Mar 2022 - Present
    Glen Allen, Va, Us
    Senior Scrum Master posted at Schwab driving final integration projects for TD Ameritrade merger.Implemented multiple phase transformation of waterfall practice, releasing only once every two years, to a S.A.F.E release train, delivering monthly releases to production. Initial phase was a Pilot team. This involved creating first multidiscipline agile team to prove out incremental releases and continuous improvement while finding and eliminating institutional barriers to delivery. Second phase saw realigning existing teams on new model as optimized to Schwab realities. Newly reformed teams went thru sprint zero training and development. Third phase introduced the Release Train and the first 6 Sprint Program Increment, with all teams working from a common backlog and delivering completed functionality to production on a monthly cadence. The final phase consisted of assisting in standing up the team to replace Pilot team at end of contract.
  • Tricom Technical Services
    Senior Azure Dev Ops Engineer
    Tricom Technical Services Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
    Leawood, Kansas, Us
    Placed at PCG supporting development and operations teams. Major tools: Delphix, Job Runner and Azure Dev Ops.
  • Apex Systems
    Senior Scrum Master
    Apex Systems Oct 2020 - Jul 2021
    Glen Allen, Va, Us
    Senior Scrum Master placed at Apex client Wellmark a Blue Cross and Blue Shield company.Stood up agile team to handle vendor delivery of Real Time, Automated, Enterprise Plans quoting system. Also on boarded both internal agile team and external client team on Azure Dev Ops.
  • Wipro Limited
    Senior Scrum Master
    Wipro Limited Jan 2019 - Sep 2020
    Bangalore, Karnataka, In
    Placed at client sites: US Foods HQ in Chicago BP HQ in HoustonWells Fargo HQ in Charlotte NC.At BP handle the 3 Scrum Teams; Well Engineering A, Workflow Optimization, and Subsurface inside the Optimize Well Delivery programPrimary tools: VSTS (or Azure DevOPs ), MSTeams At Wells Fargo I handle the agile transformation of the RDS (Retail Delivery System) while aligning teams with a broader Wells Fargo transformation initiative (Digital, Cloud, Agile, Mobile, DevOps)Primary tools: Atlassian Products, JIRA, Confluence, Portfolio for JIRA.
  • Mcdonald'S
    Scrum Master
    Mcdonald'S Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
    Player/ Coach role of Scrummaster and Agile Coach on the client site McDonalds for employer Sapient/Razorfish (Waltech).As part of Sapient Razorfish’ Strategic Enablement project at global headquarters in Chicago, I supported the Agile Transformation of the division GDAP, data and analytics platforms. Conducting training for teams within GDAP on Agile fundamentals with additional training on supporting tools JIRA, Confluence and Portfolio. As teams were transformed to Agile delivery, I handled the administrative aspects of setting their work backlogs up as projects in JIRA as well as matching space in Confluence. In addition, every sprint, I lead two scrum teams IM&GBL and SATL as their Scrummaster. The IM&GBL team handles the unique to McDonalds challenge of location management of close 40,000 stores in over 130 counties. IM&GBL also maintains items across all menus which vary by both marketing regions and countries or franchisees within markets. The SATL team plays a crucial role of providing data analytics and forecasting with data scientists combining global headquarters data with data from markets and franchisees while adjusting seasonality and market factors.
  • Se2
    Scrum Master
    Se2 May 2016 - Oct 2017
    SE2 is the market leading provider of BPaaS (Business Process as a Service) to the Insurance Providers market.Player/ Coach role of Scrummaster and Agile Coach on the client site of SE2. SE2 is client of my employer TriCom. Every sprint, I lead two to four scrum teams in the Scrummaster role. Our scrum teams are formed as needed for our COE/CDT business units that are directly responsible for delivery. Over my tenure at SE2 I have led hundreds of team sprints. These sprints saw the completion of thousands of user stories and delivered to the client three to five hundred features every quarter.For my assigned Client Delivery Team (CDT), I fill the role of agile coach, working with the eleven to sixteen scrum teams thru their life cycles of formation, execution, and disbanding. Key to this is coordination of the teams within the CDT and coordination of the teams with COEs.We are in the process of adopting agile thru a multiyear transformation. This affects the COE/CDT business units as well as support departments like HR and Finance. All Scrummasters function as agile coaches taking on enterprise wide transformation initiatives. My initiatives have included TFS admin/adoption, Big Room Planning exercises and JIRA transformation from TFS.
  • Shoutz
    Director Of Software Development
    Shoutz Aug 2013 - Nov 2015
    Shoutz was a startup focused on providing of Marketing, Gaming and Technology to Lotteries. In the course of developing Royal Fortunes lotteries, Grand Rewards loyalty programs, Lottery Hub Rewards, GameZ Platform we have developed a multi-discipline software development team from the ground up.Recruited, trained, promoted and developed software developers, business analysts, QA and project management.Also incorporated staff, platforms and technologies from two strategic acquisitions; Front Flip and Master Software. Five active development teams with releases occurring on either a weekly or every two week basis. Deployments occurring to both MS Azure cloud and Amazon AWS cloud via continuous integration. Maintained multiple mobile applications, including award winning applications for Lottery Hub and Front Flip. Also develop android application to support our retail lotteries in St. Marten, Haiti and Dominican Republic.
  • Kbmg (Formerly Datacore Marketing)
    Technical Services Manager
    Kbmg (Formerly Datacore Marketing) Feb 2012 - Aug 2013
    Westwood, Ks, Us
    Clients: Novartis Animal Health, Hills Pet Food, Audi, GEHAManaged a team of five developers with additional ad hoc work being done by two contractors and an outside agency. We performed marketing and database work on behalf of Novartis Animal Health (NAH), Hills Pet Food, Audi and GEHA (Government Employees Health Association).For Novartis I managed the transition to mobile while supporting the Novartis relaunch into the market. The mobile optimized website, accessed thru in-clinic QR codes, saw 30 to 40 percent of rebates being completed in the veterinarians office and was credited with most of the relaunch success. At the same time we rolled out new websites, email campaigns and reskinned existing websites for the two new products and existing four products. Hills saw the launch of the MVC based contract management system for Hills Shelter program as well as email campaigns for consumer, vet and shelters. We performed survey processing for Audi in market efforts. For GEHA, I managed the developers responsible for maintaining the loading, cleansing and exporting of member data to support annual health care enrollment.
  • Quest Diagnostics
    Senior Developer
    Quest Diagnostics Oct 2010 - Feb 2012
    Secaucus, Nj, Us
    Projects: Custom HL7, Custom HRA – Cigna HRA, Custom Emails – Email Templates, Auto Enrollment SSO – Single Sign On – Participant Validation, Participant Consent, Metabolic Syndrome – Custom Participant Wellness, Project Lima – Order Entry/Exceptions, Eligibility Stabilization, SSIS Billing Reporting, SQL Reporting Blueprint for Wellness provide health wellness services for employers and their employees. The implementation is a series of web sites and window services written in C#, ASP.net with a SQL Server 2008 database. The data abstraction layer is handled with ORMs NHibernate and Subsonic. Development is done in Scrum inspired fashion with Team City, Rally and SVN. We develop in two week sprints with a release every three sprints. Over the last year we have done eight releases with from forty to over one hundred enhancements or features in each release.10-25-2010 2-17-2012
  • Euronet
    Contractor
    Euronet May 2010 - Oct 2010
  • Intouch Solutions
    Technical Architect
    Intouch Solutions Aug 2009 - Apr 2010
    Overland Park, Ks, Us
  • Engraph
    Contractor
    Engraph Mar 2009 - Aug 2009
  • Icop Digital
    Software Team Lead
    Icop Digital Dec 2006 - Dec 2008
  • Icop Digital
    Team Lead
    Icop Digital 2006 - 2008
  • Pcm Staffing
    Software Development Team Lead
    Pcm Staffing Jul 2006 - Dec 2008
    Working on ICOP LIVE for the company ICOP.http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1406179/icop_launches_wireless_audio_and_video_streaming_system/
  • Riverpoint
    Contractor
    Riverpoint 2004 - 2006
    Overland Park, Ks, Us
  • Fnis
    Software Developer
    Fnis 2002 - 2004
  • Keane, Inc.
    Contractor
    Keane, Inc. 2000 - 2002
  • Dst Systems, Inc
    Contract Programmer (Via Keane-Metro)
    Dst Systems, Inc Oct 2000 - Jul 2001
    Programming in Visual C++ and MFC.
  • Interactive Media Works
    Programmer
    Interactive Media Works 1992 - 1994

Andrew Blair Skills

Sharepoint Silverlight Windows Azure C# Sql Server Ssis Ssrs .net Javascript T Sql Application Development Software Development Html Wcf Jquery Agile Linq Scrum Microsoft Sql Server Asp.net Databases Html 5 Asp.net Mvc Sql Html5 Agile Methodologies Visual C# Sdlc Software Development Life Cycle .net Framework Microsoft Azure User Interface Design User Interface User Experience Usability Web Design Jira Web Applications Requirements Analysis Photoshop E Commerce Visio Usability Testing User Experience Design Interaction Design Axure Android User Centered Design Mobile Devices Wireframes Software Design Information Architecture Business Analysis Illustrator Iphone Application Development Ipad Android Development

Andrew Blair Education Details

  • The University Of Kansas
    The University Of Kansas
    Computer Science

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