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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Lead the agile approach for a large ($200m+) project involving multiple product lines to transform behavioral health outcomes in California, serving as subject matter expert for multiple leaders in the division.Lead the hiring, equipping, guidance and continuing growth of a team of scrum masters and agile coaches serving multiple Scrum teams across product lines in the project. Drive recruitment of additional specialist coaches and vendors to support program staffing.Coach and facilitate improved collaboration between product, engineering and division leadership to reduce organizational silos, improve transparency and alignment of efforts. Serve as a point of escalation and support for personnel across all functional areas for rapid impediment resolution.Evangelize a culture of data-informed, empirical decision-making at all levels to improve transparency and outcome focus, including establishment of agile and project health assessment approach. Support organizational efforts to adopt OKRs and synchronize with existing agile and engineering practices.

Coach improvements in effectiveness of Scrum implementations, engineering practices and cross-team collaboration at the multi-team level within the division, including a reduction in time from team initiation to working software from several months to 2 weeks.Lead the Scrum implementation, onboarding and startup of 6 new teams, assisting state leadership in realizing greater outcomes from contract development personnel. Serve as scrum master with multiple scrum teams across different projects including platform engineering, data mesh and enterprise shared services.Coach and train technical product owners in application of agile product management concepts to platform and data engineering teams, assisting them in the transition from engineering to product roles.Provided coaching and facilitation support to division leadership across multiple concerns including scaling challenges, prioritization, outcome focus and improvements in collaboration between engineering and product groups.

Sacramento, Los Angeles

Consulting for small business clients, recommending improvements in process & project management, application of agile development principles and techniques including Scrum and Kanban, content strategy, site performance and branding.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Lead engineering and product teams providing social commerce platform that’s driven over $850mm in sales.Drive definition of product strategy and roadmap, collaborate with senior stakeholders and support product owners, UX, development and test engineering staff in iterative product development process using Scrum.Provide agile coaching and drive continued embodiment of agile principles and values.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Lead adoption of agile software development methods using Scrum. Help product and engineering teams improve collaboration and predictability, reduce time to value and increase customer satisfaction.Facilitate Scrum events, coach and train teams in self-organization and agile principles, use of agile estimating and planning, and advocate for a culture of team ownership and continuous improvement.Provide line management of software development and test engineering staff, and implement high-level direction from VP engineering to support product development, DevOps, platform, security and support personnel. Provide direct product management support on an as-needed basis to supplement existing organizational capability.Provide expertise and coaching to shape engineering and product organizational design and collaboration patterns, guiding department through growth phase from one to three engineering teams.

Sacramento, California, United States

Lead agile project management of multi-team initiative providing learning management and collaboration solution for CA Community College system faculty and staff.Act as both Scrum Master and primary Product Owner, owning both Scrum process and creation of product roadmap and release plans, and managing product backlog in support of product vision established by leadership.Oversee creation of multiple support channels and training resources, with functional management of direct reports supporting local administrators and end user base of c. 90,000 professionals.

Sacramento

Create and implement agile project management system for multi-team initiative implementing learning management technology solution for CA Community College system faculty and staff at the state-wide level.Act as Scrum Master, facilitating Scrum ceremonies, coaching team members in Scrum roles/artifacts/events, backlog grooming and collaborative processes.Provide direct product management support, and foster transition to iterative, incremental product development approach in a multi-team, distributed environment. Facilitate collaboration among stakeholders, internal and vendor teams.

Beverly Hills, Ca

Supervised UI development team and coordinated projects involving multiple departments in an agile process environment.Oversaw UI team task estimation, tracking, reporting, and integration of deliverables to various internal teams using Scrum & Kanban methodology. Mentored junior UI developers in various job concerns.Selected technology components and advised multiple departments (Product, SEO, Design, Engineering, Ad Ops). Researched and defined guidelines & best practices for UI design, documentation and workflow.Designed and led implementation of updated UI framework for use by Break Media properties, including full redesigns of sites accounting for 16 million+ unique monthly views.

Los Angeles, Ca

Developed and task managed UI & front-end work for all Break-owned properties. Improved coding and integration practices for UI/UX, SEO and site performance concerns. Refactored/optimized template systems. Continued development of new UI and integrations per product design specs.

Beverly Hills, Ca

Developed and integrated ad campaigns, internal projects and new site functionality for high-traffic web site www.break.com and related properties. Acted as liaison between production, art, sales, engineering and QA teams.Technologies used included HTML/XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, JavaScript and DHTML.

Woodland Hills, Ca

Designed and developed new web sites for various companies using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash and PHP. Maintained and updated existing sites, including graphic revisions and redesign, content management and revisions to information architecture. Coordinated and acted as liaison with over 150 client accounts.

Los Angeles, Ca

Music performance for a wide variety of musical groups and organizations including Brentwood/Westwood Symphony, Walt Disney Company, college and regional theatre, and many private groups and solo artists. Private music instructor for 12 years.

Associate Of Arts (Aa), Music Performance, Summa Cum Laude

Graduate, Percussion Program, Dean'S List