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San Jose, Ca, Us

• Deliver personalized coaching and mentoring services to Agile coaches and practitioners worldwide• Manage the Lean and Agile Software Development Group on LinkedIn, with a membership of over 204k individuals, and the Scrum Practitioners Group on LinkedIn, with over 142k members• The only guest lecturer to be requested by 100% (23/23) of graduate students attending a class in Agile Project Management at the University of Florida to return in the Fall of 2023

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Cepheid is a molecular diagnostics company that develops and manufactures diagnostic instruments and tests for conditions like respiratory infections, blood viruses, and COVID-19. They offer a cloud app to manage the instrument ecosystem.• Led a cross-functional initiative to overhaul Cepheid's software management processes for defining business strategy and discovering customer needs, and translating them into requirements and working software• Established an agile product development process through co-creation that increased transparency, collaboration, and trust between product managers, UX designers, developers, and quality engineers• Pioneered a discovery process and rapid prototyping culture that yielded unprecedented insight into customer needs and revealed significant gaps in proposed and existing products (100% improvement)• Executed lean process improvements to minimize the time to market, resulting in a 76% reduction in cycle time in one case, and a 100% on-time delivery rate in a second case• Coached product teams in agile solutions to requirements management to increase automated testing and requirements coverage while at the same time minimizing the number of tests needed by software quality to validate the product in a regulated market (at least a 50% reduction in effort)

Oakland, California, Us

KP Digital creates digital tools and platforms that allow Kaiser Permanente’s 12.4 million members in eight independent regions across the United States to manage their healthcare.• Provided one-on-one agile coaching and mentorship to over 30 product managers (owners) and upper management (managers, directors, and VPs) within KP Digital• Led by example as the Product Owner for KP Digital’s top-performing teams in terms of reliability, time to market, and process efficiency (93% in the case of the team responsible for A/B testing)• Orchestrated the work of multiple teams in collaboration with regional stakeholders (doctors) in delivering healthcare solutions such as scheduling appointments, telehealth, and AI-guided healthcare• Co-authored and piloted KP Digital’s new playbook and operations model to support its Agile transformation and new “innovation” teams• Trained KP Digital product teams in Agile practices, Scrum, Kanban, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), and Lean UX

Oakland, California, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

Cisco is a multinational technology company that designs, develops, and sells networking hardware, software, and services.• Coached and mentored an innovation team at Cisco that combined Design Thinking and Agile practices to rapidly triage and ideate over 40 products in a span of only four months• Designed and delivered KPIs and dashboards to provide feedback to the digital marketing teams on the outcomes of their customer acquisition, customer engagement, and revenue generation tactics

Santa Clara, California, Us

Affymetrix was a biotechnology company specializing in developing and manufacturing microarray technology for genetic research and clinical diagnostics.• Created and fostered an Agile organization that delivered a CRM solution in 9 weeks and an e-commerce solution in 12 weeks, increased BI adoption by 500%, achieved zero downtime and a greater than 50% reduction in operating costs through Scrum and Kanban adoption• Pivoted the e-commerce team to help a microarray team get back on track, resulting in the development lead exclaiming when the job was done that if your “process isn’t agile, it’s fragile”

Santa Clara, California, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

• Collaborated with business stakeholders in the design and delivery of customer data solutions to provide a 360-degree view of the customer for HP• Facilitated data-driven decision-making amongst HP management and teams through mentorship and coaching

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Led, designed, developed, and delivered customer data solutions for Hitachi Data Systems• Coached and mentored business analysts and developers in use-case, business, and data-modeling

• Provided technical consulting services to multiple clients

Houston, Texas, Us

• Led, designed, developed, and delivered some of the first data warehouses, Business Intelligence (BI), and data science solutions for HP, attracting the attention of HP’s intellectual property lawyers• Trained, coached, and mentored HP managers worldwide to use the new data services to optimize customer service operations, training, staffing, and dispatching