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Portland, Oregon, United States

Leading DesignOps Transformation: Driving the development and rollout of a unified, scalable DesignOps framework at JLR to boost design consistency and operational efficiency globally.Shaping Global DesignOps Strategy: Collaborating with global teams and stakeholders to implement a cohesive DesignOps strategy that enhances customer experience.Defining Product Vision: Setting the vision and roadmaps for key platforms to align with JLR’s strategy and ensure seamless integration across systems.Providing Agile Leadership: Leveraging Agile/Scrum expertise to lead teams across projects, guiding them through all product stages to deliver impactful customer-facing solutions.Fostering Collaboration: Building strong relationships across teams, pushing for meaningful improvements, and supporting JLR's agile transformation and design goals.Strategic Planning and Execution: Converting strategy and partner inputs into actionable plans, driving alignment and advancing DesignOps objectives.Setting Best Practices: Establishing standards and a single source of truth within JLR’s design ecosystem to drive innovation, consistency, and efficiency.Engaging Stakeholders: Clearly communicating product updates and complex topics to leadership and partners, ensuring alignment throughout development.Empowering Teams: Providing guidance and training to help teams adopt DesignOps principles, promoting continuous improvement and top-notch design outcomes.

Portland, Oregon, United States

Spearheaded the establishment of new value streams and SAFe agile Release Train structures, enabling the collaborative delivery of clinical products across multiple business lines within the newly formed Evernorth domain.Led Agile transformations by adapting methodologies to fit organizational context, driving results through problem-solving, defining and tracking metrics, and engaging stakeholders to ensure alignment and success.Provided coaching and guidance to multiple Scrum teams during transitions, ensuring alignment with Evernorth's strategic objectives and technology roadmap deliverables.Orchestrated seamless migrations of business lines from Cigna subsidiaries to Evernorth, overseeing codebase transitions and compliance.Identified and mitigated delivery obstacles and IT environmental gaps through strategic solutions and operational optimization within the Cigna and Evernorth ecosystem by using agile release trains to identify gaps and opportunities for ecosystem improvement.Implemented cloud-based solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, optimizing infrastructure for scalability and reliability. Possess comprehensive technical expertise in home-based provider healthcare business lines, including intricate understanding of electronic medical record (EMR) provider usage, provider technology solution needs, and the delicate balance of delivering technology solutions that have a patient-centric digital user experience.Deep understanding of EMR workflows and technology needs across various roles within onsite healthcare facilities.Technical experience with EMR and EHRs (Epic, NextGen, AllScripts and RoundingWell) for electronic medical records management, health data interoperability, and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions of member data providing insights and opportunities to help empower members to seek opportunities to improve and manage care.

Directed the kickoff and co-development of the Evernorth member logged in website experience, involving 28 cross-company technical teams co-developing on the effort within Cigna.Managed diverse teams across Product, Portfolio, and Engineering functions, aligning operations and initiatives across three Cigna/Evernorth subsidiaries for optimal efficiency.Unified multiple teams' delivery outcomes in a highly matrixed healthcare organization, leveraging project management tools such as Jira, Wrike, Trello, and Confluence to streamline collaboration and drive productivity enhancements.Implemented SAFe Agile best practices for metrics, tracking individual Scrum team velocity, sprint burndown, lead/cycle time, defect rate, escaped defects, team satisfaction, and dependency management to assess team health and performance.Established Employee Community Charter emphasizing DEI, career growth, and leadership practices for a 100-person organization, enhancing culture and engagement.Provided leadership and coaching to Cigna/Evernorth Scrum Masters through personalized 1x1 coaching sessions and organizational Scrum guild activities, enhancing Agile practices and fostering continuous improvement within the organization.

Portland, Oregon Area

Planned and executed Agile transformation for 7+ scrum teams, with focus on stabilizing and increasing velocity, executing on product backlogs, and successful releases to production environment with minimal post-release defects.Implemented live web chat and mobile chat, assistant chatbot workflows and AI powered opportunities to intercept members for coaching or program opportunities for the entire Cigna member population through newly developed web applications and native mobile applications.Led Kanban development teams to manage work items, improve transparency, and enhance workflow efficiencies, ensuring timely delivery of project milestones and meeting client expectations.Created coaching sessions and managed Scrum Masters, fostering continuous improvement in Agile practices within the organization.

Portland, Oregon Area

Orchestrated Agile ceremonies and facilitated team collaboration, ensuring alignment with stakeholder requirements and timely delivery of sprint goals.Scrum Master for a 0-1 native mobile app incentivizing insured populations to track physical activity, promoting better health outcomes, a dev ops team and a kanban team focused on UX/UI digital updates. Utilized Agile metrics to track performance, improve Agile maturity, and championed Agile principles to enhance team effectiveness.Implemented Agile metrics including velocity, sprint consistency, sprint burndown, and team satisfaction to track team performance and Agile maturity. Leveraged these metrics to identify areas for improvement and championed Agile principles to enhance team effectiveness.Worked within the four Kanban principles for Kanban development teams so that they could manage work items, improve their transparency and workflow efficiencies.Enhanced team consistency and health by implementing consistent and accurate usage of Jira, Confluence, and Slack. Improved task management, documentation, and communication, resulting in enhanced collaboration and workflow efficiency.Achieved significant results, doubling team velocity and ensuring consistent sprint delivery within three months of joining the 0-1 native mobile app team and improved results, efficiencies and delivery of our dev ops focused team and Kanban team.

Portland, Oregon Area

Project development team ScrumMaster for numerous federal agencies, research institutes, research universities, healthcare based organizations, nonprofits, software companies and local school districts.Maintains conceptual and technical integrity of all released features and products, project budgets, demonstrates in-progress work, communicate needs between stakeholder, design and development team, negotiate and manage scope and scope changes, and gather estimates for new RFP proposals by collecting time and technology need estimates from back-end and front-end developers.Responsible for supporting multiple projects while maintaining scope, schedule, and budget. This includes process development, creative and technical team management, defining deliverables, estimating and budgeting costs, leveraging resources, adapting to scope changes, providing analytical research, testing for quality assurance and achieving seamless and successful implementations.Able to support and guide self-organizing, high performing teams through leadership and mentoring, while being able to facilitate a quick resolution to team impediments, dependencies, and dysfunctions. Experienced with creating a transparent development process while upholding a servant leader role and promoting the principles of Agile values.Demonstrated understanding of iterative/incremental software development and Agile processes such as XP, Scrum, and Kanban.Knowledge of how to lead a team to make achievable delivery commits, assist the Product Owner with keeping the backlog maintained and groomed while tracking relevant metrics that provide insight to project progress and help the team learn about their velocity as a unit and the overall project burndown rate.Experience using Jira and Wrike as a way to provide a viewable dashboard to all stakeholders, capture team communication, sprint deliverables and displaying project metrics.

Portland, Oregon Area

Performed technical audits and supported agile transformation for Moda Health and BenefitHelp Solutions, integrating Agile best practices and migrating from waterfall methodologies, while evaluating system configurations, benefit structures, and provider agreements.Enhanced audit prioritization by embracing agility, introduced entry-level Agile ceremonies to the group, and facilitated these ceremonies to bolster team collaboration and comprehension of business priorities and deadlines.Utilized Facets for managing complex requirements of managed health plans for large and small insured populations.

Portland, Oregon Area

Producer of Medicare-compliant member materials for numerous Medicare Advantage and Part D prescription plans.Copyeditor of all required documentation and responsible for version control.Authenticator of content, design, and documents that uphold Medicare requirements.