Chris Schmitt Email & Phone Number

Westlake, Texas, US

Cork, Ireland, IE

• Lead coach and trainer in SAFe transformation across all technology areas.
• Principal member of Agile transformation CoE. Developing transformation roadmap, organizational role definitions, integration with existing portfolio governance processes, Agile Playbook. Planned, trained, coached ART.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Enterprise Digital and Agile Transformation of 10+ Tribes, 70+ squads. (Spotify-like approach)
• Coached and trained high-profile Partner Service Group Tribe (Lead Coach) and launched three of the tribe’s six squads.
• Guided Portfolio (Quarterly Business Review) Funding and Governance process and OKR capability rollout of Tribe.

Omaha, NE, US

• Extended Lean Agile thinking and capabilities beyond teams and programs into leadership ranks, Portfolio, Product Development and other supporting business functions. This allowed them to realize greater Business.
• Coached 3 programs, plus 2 SAFe ARTs with 28 teams in the Advised Client and Enterprise Work Flow areas.
• Built out Agile Metrics proficiency and Improvement Kata method to develop greater effectiveness, performance and predictability. Developed cross-team dependency coordination approaches to improve collaborative.

Newark, New Jersey, US

• Focused on 4 business agility teams utilizing Scrum and Kanban practices including: two lean startup-like, strategy development teams, a business group’s program office and a business operations improvement team.
• Contributed to the Agile Transformation Office’s maturity by: helping to identify appropriate Agile Maturity assessments tools, developing and training Product Leadership, Product Owners, PI Planning for multiple.

Omaha, NE, US

• Launched 20+ Scrum, Kanban teams working across diverse enterprise areas including: Advised Client technology products, Marketing, Planning and Analytics, Data Governance, Procurement, Executive Dashboards.
• Guided upstream Product Development Agility, SAFe Scaling and cross-team coordination. Emphasized continuing team maturity and reteaming approaches.
• Developed scaling guidelines, training materials, Agile maturity assessments. Worked with Jira, Leankit, Rally (CA) tools.

Dearborn, Michigan, US

• Provided Agile Program, Product, and Team-level coaching for multiple programs. Offered Agile trainings and facilitations in: PI, Release and Iteration Planning, Product Ownership, User Story Workshops, Agile team.
• Coached Marketing and Sales Data Warehousing, Infrastructure and Big Data programs, improving team performance.

New York, NY, US

• Led $50M workforce relocation initiative impacting 750 technology employees and consultants in shift to new Metlife technology hub in Raleigh, NC. Required workforce planning, recruiting, and job readiness (knowledge.
• Improved delivery of overall transformation program objectives, utilizing hybrid Kanban and Scrum-based approach to coordinating across 10+ teams. Sustained 4 – 5 new hires per-week average over 2 years across all.
• Fed 500+ new hires into highly effective on-boarding and job readiness capability, incorporating: knowledge acquisition, curriculum development, job knowledge and capability assessments, and surveys.

Novato, CA, US

• Managed staff of 4.
• Streamlined senior management project funding decisions by using Lean Portfolio Management of a $130M annual Technology Project Portfolio.
• Developed Lean Business Case, benefit realization, impact and risk assessment practices while pushing for adoption of Agile framework for both technology and business process projects. Conducted Agile training for.
• Created Agile-based, incremental development approach for BPM customer service solution.

• Scrum educator, providing Program Management, Architecture, and Multilingual application design consultation. Improved efficiencies, leading $30M technology program, analyzing project dependency. Clients: Sonoma.

New York, NY, US

• Tapped by S&P CIO to lead high profile, Index Services business (S&P500) technology organization towards a global delivery capability. Expanded index calculation breadth beyond equities to include: fixed income, hedge.
• Increased value delivery by introducing and adopting Agile-Scrum framework as one of 1st S&P technology groups.
• Developed and delivered Scrum education sessions for business product development, technology, and test teams. Played ScrumMaster role and coached 4 Scrum teams on and offshore.
• Architected and developed index calculation system, supporting over 600K committee and benchmark index products.
• Grew revenue 20% after implementing new web-facing index data product using Scrum.

New York, NY, US

• Performed rapid application delivery approach for new web-based, mutual fund product with portfolio analytic and publishing capabilities. Worked with widely distributed development and testing teams in UK, Germany.
• Reduced timelines, improved accuracy, and increased capabilities by: - Utilizing web services, and 5 European languages for Mutual Fund product which was compute-intensive. - Maintaining continuous refactoring and.
• Contributed as member of S&P and McGraw Hill Architecture committees.
• Received S&P Corporate Gold Ace award for outstanding teamwork 2003.

• Web architect, Project Manager, Business Analyst, Technical Instructor, Client-server development.Standard & Poor’s
• Rapid, incremental delivery for 4 of the first S&P websites using Java, JEE, HTML, JS, Corba, Tuxedo, Oracle.
• Developed and implemented dial-up, Windows-based, client-server Muni Bond product.
• Company-wide data modelling and database design.
• Consultant member of S&P Enterprise Architecture committee.Maritime Overseas Corporation
• Reduced contract creation from 2 weeks to 1 day through rapid development of Charter (Contract) generation system. Bob Cohen Group

GB

• Delivered database portion of new T&E application for corporate audit and management consulting practice.
• DB administration, information modeling, implementation and tuning of company operation databases in 90+ locations.
• Managed staff of 5 DBAs.

Ba, Anthropology And Economics Double Major, Math Minor

Agile Coaching, Facilitation, Coaching Competency Cohort

Advanced Project Management

Executive Education

Business Process Management, Business Architecture, Soa

Cea, Enterprise Architecture