I help organizations: • Build rigorous guardrails for their GenAI development efforts • Innovate across the full scope of their business • Roll up their sleeves and deliver tangible value

Senior Agile Strategist at Business Agility Consulting Group, focused on helping companies develop integrated strategies and adapting them to win in the marketplace. With twenty years working both in-house and as an external advisor in technology and business delivery, Brian has assisted a wide variety of companies in a wide variety of industries improve strategic clarity and effective delivery.

Responsible for improving Agile Delivery across Product & Engineering at Rosetta Stone.

Enterprise Agile Coach

Coach and scrum master for two development teams during maturation of their agile practices. Guided teams towards an industry standard agile scrum implementation.

Scrum Coach for Agile Transformation: Led the first development team to adopt scrum at ShareBuilder. Developed reporting tools that increased velocity and deceased error rates. Mentored new scrum masters as agile was rolled out to 17 teams.Mobile Products and Mobile Infrastructure: Managed multiple iterations of Mobile Applications from initial requirements gathering through deployment for Apple iOS, Android, and Black Berry. Oversaw infrastructure upgrades including server side improvements and capacity expansion. Managed the creation of a new abstraction layer for workflows to enable a thinner and more maintainable UI on multiple clients.Project Execution: Managed numerous projects introducing new features to ShareBuilder's mobile applications, website and back-end infrastructure. Managed off-shore development teams in India, and integrated workflows between off-shore and local teams. Worked with business requestors and business systems analysts to more closely collaborate with development teams. Also worked with operations teams to more smoothly hand off enhancements and new systems into the production environment.

PMO startup / turnaround at Labor Ready: Initially as BA Manager, and then as PMO Manager, set up project management process at Labor Ready. Set up processes and garnered internal buy-in of project management from triage of initiation requests, to project selection, planning, execution, controls, and closing. Created customized Waterfall SDLC with the Development Manager.Problem Management: Ran the Problem Management Root Cause Analysis and Prioritization group. Received ITIL Foundations training.Internal IT/Business Consulting: Engaged proactively with business units to understand core business issues and appropriately apply IT. Created department from scratch, from creating executive sponsorship and getting peer buy-in for voluntary commitment of budget and resources.IT & Business Strategic Planning and Alignment: Defined IT Development services for business units, and oversaw the delivery of the Change Management, Release, and Configuration services. Ran internal effort to evaluate business IT needs, current IT effectiveness, the gap between customer needs and capabilities, and recommended an organization and staffing plan.

Business Intelligence: Managed internal BI team that drove process improvement projects with two business units to clarify their business objectives, model their business processes, identify KPIs (key performance indicators), and implement data-driven decision making. Recommended actions to expand business lines and customer acceptance.Quantitative and Qualitative Data Analysis: Created alignment between teams and their target customers through analyzing quantitative web performance data in context with qualitative input from key internal and external stakeholders. New Technology and Market Research: Created new methodology to assess impact of Blogs and Newsgroups on internal business plans.Analysis

Project management: Managed the entire project life cycle, including developing proposals and selling engagements, aligning internal resources and managing projects, and final client presentations. Sold engagements with a wide variety of software and hardware technology vendors, averaging three simultaneous active projects; consistently beating budget & schedule. Turnarounds: Brought in to turnaround troubled projects. Facilitated project turnaround and client management by focusing engagements on clients’ core business issues.Business Development: Co-led team that launched a successful new consulting product, trained team members and developed sales tools to develop business in a down technology market and consistently exceeded sales targets by 50%. Business modeling and market forecasting: Completed detailed market share analyses and market forecasts for multiple technologies, including enterprise security and international telecom outsourcing. Also modeled business financials for scenario analysis.

Responsible for all aspects of defining, negotiating, and closing multi-million dollar, multi-year agreements with international aviation partners. Business Development team doubled revenue in 18 months.Negotiated and drafted SLAs (Service Level Agreements) between corporate IT services and new ventures.Structured deals using an industry specific forecasting methodology.Conducted negotiations in USA, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, and China, developed a sophisticated understanding of cultural and business difference across geographies leading to exclusive contracts.Analyzed and made recommendation for all internal projects ($100K to multi-million) to senior management. Won approval for major initiatives, including the redeployment of existing IP to web based delivery. Presented proposals to board of directors for evaluation of several multi-million dollar acquisitions.