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Atlanta, GA, US

Greater Atlanta Area

• North Highland is a global consulting company with a proven record of enabling exceptional results for our clients. Our consultants provide experience and expertise across a variety of industries and service areas. We.
• Designed and led cohort-based experiential leadership development programs for managers and executives. Program design included the creation of a custom model for Agile culture and leadership excellence and the design.
• Applied scaling principles (from SAFe and Scrum@Scale) to design and roll out Agile scaling strategies for multiple organizations, facilitating first and subsequent PI Planning / Big Room Planning events across fully.
• Led the coaching and maturing of dozens of cross-functional, distributed Agile teams (representing hundreds of team members) across many industries, leading to clarity of execution and alignment across the organization.
• Developed, operationalized, and taught coach training programs (aligned to the Core Competencies of the International Coaching Federation), with a focus on coaching Agile leaders. Coaches trained in this program are.
• Evolved business planning and reporting structures to include high-quality OKRs and KPIs.

Coaching is a powerful, co-creative partnership that moves you toward the life you want. I work with a diverse set of clients who are committed to transforming their worlds through neuroscience-informed approaches to behavior change. Learn more at www.ashleysilfra.com

Greater Atlanta Area

• Responsible for a portfolio of more than 10 projects worth over $4M. Key responsibilities included team management, customer engagements, strategic planning, and facilitation of the full software lifecycle, from.
• Secured an additional $1.2M in support for a key strategic program and helped ensure comparable levels of funding through 2020.
• Led the rapid transformation of a siloed team of 6 individuals into a group of over 25 individuals divided into cross-functional teams, while facilitating adoption of core Agile principles to increase team velocity and.
• Managed the successful execution of 37 deliveries across 11 key products within a 10 month period.
• Facilitated critical process improvements to streamline documentation creation, automated testing, and continuous integration.
• Drove critical requirements, funding, and delivery negotiations to create agreement for the way ahead.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Software Systems Branch Chief, consisting of 15 researchers, students, and contractors from diverse backgrounds.Accomplishments:
• Defined group vision, leveraging existing skill-sets and identifying growth areas.
• Facilitated employee growth, through coaching-style leadership and activities.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Technical project manager, leading cross-functional teams in the development and deployment of web applications. Primary responsibilities include Agile project management (including Product Owner and Scrum Master.
• Led the implementation of VMIS, the Volunteer Management Information System, for the U.S. Army, praised by the Army Community Service Director as “tremendously impressive.”
• Owned the design and creation of critical shared assets for the Army Family Web Portal (AFWP), including SSO, CMS, and reporting solutions.
• Co-led dozens of presentations and trainings for customers and stakeholders of the AFWP systems.
• Enabled 7 cross-functional teams to adapt to shifting requirements and develop complex systems.
• Enhanced effectiveness for automatic software conversion project through role as Scrum Master.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Full-stack developer & small project leader, working primarily on applications focused on data analytics.Accomplishments:
• Designed and developed data analytics REST APIs for internal R&D projects using Flask, Angular, and major open source python packages such as Numpy, Scipy, Scikit Learn, and Pandas. Core APIs covered ETL processes.
• Integrated high-performance Nonnegative Matrix Factorization implementation into Python library for the high-profile DARPA XDATA project.
• Developed Lucene-based text processing software for efficient preprocessing of text corpora.
• Represented Georgia Tech at 3 DARPA XDATA Hackathon events, where GT/GTRI-developed tools for text preprocessing and topic modeling on large datasets were successfully demonstrated.
• Designed and developed a prototyped mapping application for rendering geospatial datasets in JSON and KML to support real-time object tracking.

Tutored students in programming and writing skills at the Dept. of Computer Science and Writing Center, respectively.

Clayton, GA

Second Nature is the industry’s most clinically sophisticated wilderness therapy program and was founded on the idea that troubled teens and their families deserve quality clinical treatment, combined with sensitivity and compassion. My responsibilities included administration, teaching, individual therapy, group therapy, scheduling, trip leading, group.

Beijing, China

Managed Summer Camps program for local and international elementary school children, including being responsible for contracting, transport, marketing, risk management, program development, and data analysis.

Beijing City, China

Founded grassroots organization for building community and opportunity for refugee populations in East Asia with a focus on education, cultural cooperation, and a shared vision for human dignity.

Founded company focused on selling tailored costumes and teaching sewing classes and camps for elementary through high school students; responsibilities included teaching, curriculum development, business administration, website design, and advertising.

Graduate Coursework, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Golden Key International Honor Society

Chinese Language Program

Activities and Societies: Recipient of China Government Scholarship, 2009-2011