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Rosemead, Ca, Us

Enterprise & team-level coaching for the largest subsidiary of Edison International, the primary electric utility company for much of Southern California providing 15 million people with electricity across a service territory of approximately 50,000 square miles....- portfolio-level coaching responsibilities: Power Supply, Grid Modernization, Corporate, Customer Service- Agile (with focus on Scrum & Kanban) training- develop and administer agile maturity assessments- technical excellence coaching & training: test-driven development, XP, pair-programming, mob-programming, testing, & automation- just-in-time (JIT) requirements refinement- user story mapping, user role modeling- definitions of done/ready, team working agreements, estimation techniques- organizing and facilitating agile communities of practice- scaling

• Coordination and facilitation of an annual Business Agility & Tech Innovation conference using Open Space Technology conference format at University of California Irvine.• Manage logistics, vendor relationships, and participant engagement to ensure a seamless conference experience.• Collaborate with technologists, product managers, and executives to curate engaging content and networking opportunities.

Consulting engagements spanning SCADA systems, public utilities, avionics, big pharma, health care, insurance, telecom, computer manufacturing, fintech, asset allocation, embedded systems, government, and more. Clients: Ultra Mobile (aka Mint Mobile), Cloudvirga, Aon Hewitt, Automobile Club of Southern California (AAA), Acorns, Southern California Edison (SCE), Rocket Nine Solutions & United States Army Research Laboratory, Birmingham City University School of Health Sciences (Intelligent Behavior Analytics IBA®)- empathetic and culturally cohesive working environments- safe spaces for experimentation, emergent framework flexibility, and continuous improvement- agile/lean values and principles- Deming principles: shifting quality concerns left- scaling approaches: SAFe, LeSS, Scrum of Scrums- Scrum, Kanban, and collaborative development concepts- agile maturity assessments- enterprise coaching: executives, management, I.T., PMO, HR, sales/marketing

Irvine, California, Us

Coached a world leader in state-of-the-art in-flight entertainment and communications (IFEC) solutions to deliver broadband Internet access & entertainment to the seat-back or the passenger’s personal device, mobile phone service, global television, thus creating opportunities to increase operational efficiencies and measurable delivery improvements leveraging...- agile maturity assessments- test-driven development- just-in-time (JIT) requirements refinement- user story mapping, user role modelling- definitions of done/ready, team working agreements, estimation techniques- Scrum, Kanban- mob programming- CI/CD

Orange, California, Us

Enterprise coaching services resulting in the organization’s first successful sprint delivery of working software in over 30 weeks, thereby enabling CalOptima members access to quality health care services in a cost-effective and compassionate manner. - agile values & principles adoption- creation of dedicated teams- promotion of emergent/flexible Scrum/Kanban frameworks- XP & mob programming concepts- just-in-time (JIT) requirements elicitation & refinement- Scrum Master/Product Owner/Scrum Team training & education- definitions of done/ready, user story mapping, user role modelling- value stream identification & mapping- waste identification & elimination- self-organization- executive coaching

Irvine, California, Us

Enterprise coaching for a leading disruptor in the digital evolution of mortgage lending...- agile values & principles adoption- Scrum of Scrums- just-in-time (JIT) requirements elicitation & refinement- user story writing and "grooming" education- dedicated product-delivery teams- value streams- metrics as leading indicators of value delivery- agile/lean education for distributed teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, analysts, and executives- measurable continuous delivery of customer delight (value)

Costa Mesa , Ca, Us

Coach and Scrum Master for a top MVNO named INC. Magazine’s #1 Fastest Growing Company, delivering unlimited talk and text for an estimated 40 million foreign-born people living in the United States who regularly stay connected with friends and family around the globe. - re-organization/transformation of hierarchical departmental silos into value streams- customer-value-driven Agile teams achieving unprecedented value delivery- continuous improvement, collaboration, transparency, and waste elimination- positive culture change following structural lean/agile values & principles adoption- program management for Transaction Service Provider engagements (T-Cetra, Q-Pay, VidaPay)- PCI-Compliance project management- data center migration project management

Costa Mesa, California, Us

Project management & agile coaching for a nationwide leader in roadside assistance, travel, & insurance products & services. - agile guidance & enterprise-level coaching on lean & efficient approaches to value delivery- agile maturity assessment of a proprietary Scrum-Waterfall hybrid framework- Jira/Confluence standardization / "steering committee"- process-gap analysis- program management for a customized Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solution- project management/successful delivery: BI/Big Data collaboration to consolidate disparate insurance data into an Industry Standard Data Model (ISDM), leveraging Hadoop

Newport Beach, California, Us

Short-term, successful agile consultation for a leader in Smart Beta investing/asset management. - formed exploratory “Agile Steering Committee”- removal of dependencies on 3rd party off-shore "black box" development- collaborative, transparent, in-house/off-shore development leveraging agile practices- education on agile values & principles for the enterprise- proven efficacy of iterative/just-in-time (JIT) requirement elicitation & refinement- business systems analysis: SharePoint-based customer facing web application

Dublin, Coolock, Ie

Managed a software configuration management/build & release/QA team supporting global digital marketing endeavors for a multinational pharmaceutical manufacturer of branded and generic drugs with medical, therapeutic, and cosmetic indications.- ownership enablement of Allergan's I.P. previously controlled by managed services vendors- architected Team Foundation Server (TFS) globally centralized IDE, source control, CI/CD, feature/defect tracking, branch/merge models- MSBuild/MSDeploy/TFS-enabled continuous integration/deployment accessible globally (staff & vendor developers)- program management: closed-loop digital sales enablement (Veeva, Skura), dynamic digital/mobile sales decks, call tracking - Allergan brands program management: Botox, Juvederm, Latisse, Lapband digital marketing applications & loyalty programs- established mobile device management/BYOD best-practices & security via Mobile Iron VSP administration- established mobile application development standards for staff and vendors- I.S. strategy leadership: 3rd party RFP/ROI evaluations- lean, agile, DevOps principles to drastically improve high-quality software time-to-market- strategic I.T. solution implementations: AWS, Azure, Akamai, Mobile Iron, Verint/KANA (CRM), RackSpace, HP WebInspect- vendor management: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Gartner, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hewlett-Packard, and others. - I.S. top-performer award winner

Irvine, California, Us

Build & release engineering and tech support for a creator of smarter, simpler, faster enterprise and individual financial planning and insurance sales solutions. - automation enhancements: software configuration management, build & release, QA, & tech support- streamlined, automated monthly (content & code) update process for legacy VB app- custom MSIs to seamlessly deliver web/desktop versions of the Advisys application, and silent installations of 3rd party prerequisites (i.e. .NET frameworks, dongle drivers). - developed automated unit & UI test suites- tier III tech support and training of tier I & II support techs for Advisys- managed technical relationships with clients such as Mass Mutual and Fifth Third Bank.

Irvine, Ca, Us

QA strategy leadership for a manufacturer of a wide range of personal computers, computer monitors, servers, and computer accessories. - test automation- ported manual testing of Microsoft & 3rd party software shipped on Gateway/eMachines SKUs to repeatable/automated test suites, reduced testing cycle times for all SKUs- automated testing of: security & virus scan, CD/DVD burning/playback, games, digital imaging, & recovery software- vendor management: Google, Microsoft, Symantec, and McAfee.

Software QA for a small boutique software development agency with clients such as pre-paid credit card providers and health care services- automation tools evaluation & implementation- porting manual .NET Web application tests to automated test suites, drastically reducing test cycle times

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Release management/analysis for one of the nation’s largest mortgage originators. - release management of internal and public facing .NET loan origination application deployments- release night activities: prod validation, business sign-offs, DR deployment, redundancy testing- Dev/QA environment validation- change management board sign-offs- chaired weekly change management meetings.

Software development and QA of the UCOS control system offering support for SCADA, DCS, PLC/HMI, and mixed control system architectures. - source control and defect tracking tool administration- develop & maintain all Installshield projects/scripts, makefiles- detailed build and release notes- installation media distribution- setup of all software developer and build machines.

Mathematics And Computer Science

Certification, Agile Project Management

High School, General Studies