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Columbus, OH, US

Columbus, OH, US

Nome, Alaska, US

Working with many teams of the Marine Corps to improve the processes and practices to be more agile.

Columbus, Ohio, US

ThinkPractical.ai - Strategic AI Advisor, building custom AI solutions as a partner of MindStudio.ai. If you and your company are exploring AI solutions, let me know. I can help think through the solutions, the strategy, and can even build you an AI chatbot or custom content creator for all kinds of purposes!

Columbus, Ohio, US

High performing teams that embrace the modern ways of working innately understand what it means to embrace the Agile Mindset. When done well, being agile is more akin to a new way of thinking. Brian explains this new way of thinking through the behaviors behind the Agile Mindset.Those that adhere strictly to a framework like Scrum, Kanban, LeSS, or SAFe.

Columbus, Ohio, US

Brian is an experienced agile coach. He is a public speaker and the author of the book "The Practical Agilist Guidebook" (PracticalAgilistGuidebook.com) and of the book “Agile Misconceptions: Unlearn the Myths to Learn the Mindset” (eBook: AgileMisconceptions.com). Brian has led multiple agile transformations and is passionate about coaching agile concepts.

Columbus, Ohio, US

Worked short-term contract at CareSource, establishing the Agile CoE point of view, building the Scrum Master Community, and coaching 16 Scrum Masters to build up their expertise to help guide the agile transformation.

Cleveland, OH, US

Brian led an enterprise-wide business agility transformation at the 11th largest bank in the country, focused on creating agility from both the bottom up (300 self-sufficient, durable product teams) and from the top down, where the executive team and all divisions are advocates of agile coaching, training, and servant leadership to support the company wide.

Building a world class business agility community in the midwestern United States comprised equally of both business and IT practitioners. Partnered with, following the format and inspired by the Business Agility Institute.

Columbus, Ohio, US

As Enterprise Agile Coach, I was responsible for maturing the business agility of the organization. Built portfolio management processes for a $72MM Technology budget for 40+ programs, and 60+ solution teams. Established a modern agile software development model through coaching and managing the software engineering and agile application delivery of the.

Wakeup Startup is a entrepreneur-driven movement to bring together those committed to creating, building, and growing high growth companies. WUSU is a monthly morning pitch event where founders pitch their companies to a group of entrepreneurs, investors, students, faculty, and the community. The event is designed for specific and candid feedback.Held on.

Seattle, WA, US

Agile Team Lead and manager of a team of a dozen, remote senior software engineers. Built continuous delivery product using story mapping, deep customer integration, #noestimates, TDD, pairing, and a modern agile approach. Worked closely with Product Manager, Tech Lead, and UX Lead in an environment where no feature was built without a customer advocate.

Round Rock, Texas, US

Coached, trained and facilitated the transition from waterfall to agile for the business unit of 100 software engineers and established productivity metrics and standards for a dozen teams using JIRA + Portfolio. Traveled to multiple remote teams, for which I was responsible, to deliver face-to-face agile coaching to establish agile processes at Dell.

Mountain View, CA, US

I was hired to build a remote software team for ITNinja.com from scratch. Established Agile methodology at KACE which became Dell Software. Worked with and coached the Product Manager who created the product originally as AppDeploy.com. Designed and delivered an enterprise software peer-to-peer support community, where users ask questions, blog, and share.

Providence, RI, US

Served as Product Manager, Agile Coach, and Software Engineering Manager. Drove the technology strategy, lead the product strategy and managed the software development teams, managed and evolved the agile processes in development and QA while building an innovative and disruptive social networking product in the health and wellness space. Worked with the.

Hired with less than a third of the funding left, I reinvented the company by creatively restructuring the technology, reducing costs, and relaunching the site. The product provided Pinterest-like features with interactive content, but only managed to gain 5000 users before we ran out of funding.Toobla was a visual social bookmarking Internet startup that.

One of the key organizers of a grassroots group fostering greater culture and passion for Social Media, Internet, Web and other cutting edge technology, ultimately leading to increased innovation. Columbus Tech Life encourages our tribe to connect, learn and grow by binding existing groups together, creating local online social spaces and organizing in.

New York, NY, US

Responsible for Engineering, Product, QA and R&D. Established Agile Product, Team, Quality, Design Thinking, and CI/CD practices. Grew and managed software engineering from 3 to 25 developers. Led technology strategy discussions at board meetings with investors. Submitted a dozen patents, named on 3. Built partnerships with executives at New York Times.

Seattle, Washington, US

Responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of 30 individuals at Cardinal Health and managing the partnership with Accenture. Deployed an Active Directory, Single Sign-on infrastructure solution. Tracked actuals in a complex project plan, facilitated weekly all team meetings, and managed client expectations.

Shared.NET technical vision with clients and partners. Built world’s first working product using Microsoft’s retail-specific thin-client operating system. Created architecture committee to coordinate commonality between 57 products. Strategic architect and technology advocate for all product lines and enterprise solutions. Responsible for articulating the.

Dayton, Ohio, US

Worked to help drive business development, designed and architect systems, focused on the Microsoft relationship and key member of the strategic management team.Key team member driving an innovative.NET project at American Electric and Power, built to transform their $3B coal mining business from an Excel-based manual process to an automated, real-time.

Started my career with a deep technical background, having held Architect, PM, Technical Team Leader, and DBA positions on 20+ large projects doing custom development, Internet and client-server rapid application development, leading teams of 35 or more to on-time, on-budget delivery. Led each custom software, system integration project through design.

Provo, UT, US

Responsible for managing customer relationships, contracts and all project teams in the Midwest. Wrote statements of work, negotiated with clients, actively managed and staffed teams. Was ultimately responsible for success of project delivery and profitability across a 10 state region.

Ba, Computer Science

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