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Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, United States

In short - I am a leader for people, teams, and projects:• Manage people in various technical roles and mentor for a diverse group of engineers, architects, and leads as well as a thought leader in various guilds, COEs, and ERGs across the business. • Lead platform teams through several business transformations including rapid scaling and descaling of the business capabilities and team sizes, sunsetting old platforms, building new platforms on new tech, etc. My speciality has becomes… Show more In short - I am a leader for people, teams, and projects:• Manage people in various technical roles and mentor for a diverse group of engineers, architects, and leads as well as a thought leader in various guilds, COEs, and ERGs across the business. • Lead platform teams through several business transformations including rapid scaling and descaling of the business capabilities and team sizes, sunsetting old platforms, building new platforms on new tech, etc. My speciality has becomes shaping the path for organizational change in complex and fast moving IT environments. • People centered leader with a strong focus on building capabilities across business units to help enable and activate empowered, self organizing teams to deliver real business value.• Deliver key business initiatives with an emphasis on finding ways to bring high level strategies that I help shape into actionable plans that teams can execute successfully. I am able to do this by facilitating both technical and business level conversations to move projects and teams forward.• Champion for Agile values and building learning organizations that put empowered teams driving real business value at the forefront. Show less

Austin, Texas, United States

Served as a Senior Scrum Master and Agile Coach for several high performing teams first at CSID and later at Experian after they purchased CSID in August of 2016. Duties include:• Established and facilitated a growth based culture of improvement on several teams as well as scaling how multiple teams worked together to achieve common goals.• Restructured our value delivery streams to new ways of working and helped train the business through those transformations.• Established… Show more Served as a Senior Scrum Master and Agile Coach for several high performing teams first at CSID and later at Experian after they purchased CSID in August of 2016. Duties include:• Established and facilitated a growth based culture of improvement on several teams as well as scaling how multiple teams worked together to achieve common goals.• Restructured our value delivery streams to new ways of working and helped train the business through those transformations.• Established visibility across the organization of both important projects and team based measures of throughput and capacity.• Built out new business models and new teams to solve capabilities our business had yet to have a model for.• Led initiatives to match our tools configuration to our operational and compliance needs while an administrator across all of Experian for Jira and Confluence.• Facilitate and collaborate in various company wide user groups including centers of excellence, ERG leadership, developing internal training curriculum, several innovation programs and Hackathon activities. Show less

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Served as an agile delivery expert in a global healthcare startup that required collaborating with an impressive staff of bright minds from every corner of the world. • Established and maintained an Agile framework for software development for a company that had no formal software processes in place. I conducted Agile training sessions covering Scrum, Kanban, and “Scrumban” concepts both for our company and for our sister company at Mozido.• Aligned business stakeholders in our… Show more Served as an agile delivery expert in a global healthcare startup that required collaborating with an impressive staff of bright minds from every corner of the world. • Established and maintained an Agile framework for software development for a company that had no formal software processes in place. I conducted Agile training sessions covering Scrum, Kanban, and “Scrumban” concepts both for our company and for our sister company at Mozido.• Aligned business stakeholders in our company as well as our sister companies to grow the office of the PMO to standardize software delivery processes across the portfolio of companies and provide higher level project tracking to senior business leaders. This included consideration of business compliance and code security standards, code documentation and versioning for 3rd party consumption, and most importantly the ability to scale these practices as the company grew quickly. • Led Product workshops with business stakeholders to break down conceptual ideas into work items for team backlogs. We did this many times as the business focus for the young startup changed to match a quickly evolving healthcare climate including integration into AI modeling systems. • Led tool adoption efforts for our business processes including traceability and documentation of our SDLC, time management, architecture and requirements traceability, and demand management and capacity planning. Show less

Austin, Tx

While I was hired to be a Project Manager (and transitioned to a Scrum Master), I became a Product Owner for a new hardware project I successfully pitched the company President that eventually led to the company being purchased by Live Nation. • Successfully transformed a traditional waterfall development org into an Agile learning organization to the point that teams began to modify their own agile processes to suit business needs.• Project managed a large software team through… Show more While I was hired to be a Project Manager (and transitioned to a Scrum Master), I became a Product Owner for a new hardware project I successfully pitched the company President that eventually led to the company being purchased by Live Nation. • Successfully transformed a traditional waterfall development org into an Agile learning organization to the point that teams began to modify their own agile processes to suit business needs.• Project managed a large software team through several initiatives before their agile transformation. • Transformed into a Product Owner for an Arduino based hardware RFID ticketing module - bringing it from conception to full completion through several prototype iterations, testing, and finally creation of a mass producible product for festival clients. The goal was to redefine the customer experience at large festivals and included phases for Contactless Payment Systems, and social media integration. • Elaborate a simple hardware product into a roadmap of services that changed the course of our company and eventually turned into the modern festival experience. • Served as the Release Manager for our development teams including scheduling feature sets for release, and leading those releases through the SDLC process. Show less

Austin, Tx

Built a career as a project and program manager mostly for IBM but also for clients at AMD, and Jeep.• Managed project execution of over 100 large format physical events and several hundred small format physical events across IBM brands.• Managed project execution of over 75 digital tactics including virtual events, webcasts, and website launches that included partnering with business partners and industry specific media partners. • Led a diverse team of project stakeholders… Show more Built a career as a project and program manager mostly for IBM but also for clients at AMD, and Jeep.• Managed project execution of over 100 large format physical events and several hundred small format physical events across IBM brands.• Managed project execution of over 75 digital tactics including virtual events, webcasts, and website launches that included partnering with business partners and industry specific media partners. • Led a diverse team of project stakeholders including our IBM clients, external media and business partners, creative crews, 3rd party suppliers, labor crews, A/V teams, marketing specialist, digital content teams, etc.• Managed both physical and software projects in a wide array of formats including tradeshows, road shows, multi track meetings, briefings, hospitality functions, training functions, webcasts, virtual event launches, and concerts.• Built custom project management tools as a Quicken Quickbase Administrator & developer for web applications for an extensive database that tracked project planning details including financial data, reporting metrics, billable hours, year to year historical information, project content & speakers, etc.• Mentored and trained new employees and development training curriculum for new hires. Show less