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Scrum/Agile Coach (CSC), Mentor and Trainer, Process Improvement Consultant: 1996 - PresentSubway; Network for Good, Newegg, Turnitin, Frontline, PA; Filmtrack, Zumba, Achieve3000, cVent, Pertrac, Beatport, Syncsort, Football Fanatics, GFI, Shutterstock, Healthcare Source, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, Escher Group, Northeastern University, ThirdAge, and Avid Technologies.• Mentor, coach and train teams in in deeper understanding of Scrum/Agile concepts, in leadership, management theory and techniques, communications and meeting management skills, and mentored teams in implementation and good development practices, and in effective product development techniques. Highly skilled at guiding projects from inception to delivery in a flexible, timely, cost effective manner. Proven expertise in remote development and modifying process frameworks pragmatically to best meet company goals.• Work closely with management teams to help remove roadblocks to delivery and adopt Scrum and Agile methodologies. Modified traditional Scrum, when needed, to include portfolio planning, release planning and remote development. Help teams convert development from chaos, Waterfall, RUP to Scrum/Agile.• Initiated Scrum methodologies/training and led WPNI editorial, appl., mobile & web tech. for WashingtonPost.com (6M-12M PVs/day), BudgetTravel.com(2-6M PVs/mo.). Drove development of theRoot (1M-2M PVs/mo.), delivering in under 3 months. Led Slate.com (1M-3.5M PVs/day).•Planned, budgeted, staffed, led major redesign for WashingtonPost.com. Defined shared services strategy. - Northeastern University Contract CTO, Process Improvement Consultant: Brought in Scrum and Agile methodology to teams with 30+ projects. Defined/Led the Enterprise Data Integration/SSN replacement vision, architecture and implementation. Delivered web services. Led Health Center EMR requirements & vendor selection. Administered, negotiated, defined India off-shore work.

(Thru 12 Sep 2008)•Initiated Scrum methodologies and training.•Led ecommerce, mobile, web tech. for WashingtonPost.com (6M-12M pvs per day) & BudgetTravel.com. Drove rapid development of theRoot (1M pvs in 1st month), incl. reqs. def., staffing, budget, dev., and rollout. Stabilized and led Slate.com (1M-3.5M pvs/day).•Stabilized the washingtonpost.com publishing/production systems. Reduced unexpected outages from 2X a week to once in 6 mos. •“Up skilled” the dev. team.•Changed the dev. culture from an “over the wall” mentality to one of strong partnership with the product teams.•Re-established the credibility of the tech. team with a consistent track record of delivering high quality software on time.•Planned, budgeted, staffed major redesign for WashingtonPost.com. Defined shared services strategy. Brought in QA, agile dev. practices.•Liaison to outsourcing firms.•Set up job categories and pay scales.•Cited as an example of WPNI’s “Excellence” for all employees.

- Clients: Avid Technologies, SoftImage, Northeastern, Kodiak Ventures/Furneuax Associates, Outsourced Solutions, Vertex Software, among others.- Evaluated potential acquisitions and outsourcing opportunities, saving over $100K. Renegotiated IT contracts for savings of over $6K per month. - Increased reliability and security of network infrastructure.- Designed websites (php, Postgres, Linux, Xcart), producing Market Research, Product Requirement Documents and Functional Specifications. - Consulted with teams in India, New York, and California- Partnered with management teams to reengineer business units, streamlining organizations and processes. - Shipped various releases within 2 weeks of predicted FCS.

- Restructured Moscow Dev. team to save money and better use resources. Managed 8 engineering groups, totaling 125 people, in Moscow and Westford. Led cross functional team of 172 people total.- Built and led a 25 people Westford based Eng. team to produce a state-of-the art, multi-tier, distributed, web-based application, built on WebLogic and J2EE, using WebDAV, JSPs and EJBs. Managed Dev., Program Mgt., and QA groups. 8 direct reports.- Shipped ContentWare 2.6 and 3.0 (PC & Mac), as well as multiple custom versions, which generated over $1.7M within 3 months.- Eliminated maintenance nightmare by producing one version of custom software.- Created systems for successfully meeting deadlines and tight budgetary goals through use of development groups in India. Reduced costs by approximately 40%.- Introduced release cycles, development methodology, schedules, configuration management, Beta, Design Partners, post project reviews, and other techniques to ensure timely delivery.