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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Helping some of the largest organizations in the world achieve their full potential through Agile Transformation, Change Management, and Innovation Cultural.

Toronto, On, Ca

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Created and led new business practice focused on large scale agile and lean transformation, organizational change management, and management strategy consulting. Provided C-level consulting to Helped companies implement lean startup, agile product management, and lean portfolio management approaches. Managed tooling, service, and sales partnerships.Major transformation and agile product development clients included PNC, Carrier, IPC Systems, Philips, Highmark, and McKesson Pharmacy Automation.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Created and led Summa’s Agile Project Management Office, which was named the 2013 Project Management Company of the Year by the Pittsburgh Chapter of the PMI.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

• Manage and provide leadership to Summa’s Agile Project Management Office.• Review, approve, and conduct risk assessments of SOW’s for fixed fee and time and materials projects, project estimates, client proposals, change orders, work at risk situations and other delivery related articles.• Oversee project staffing assignments across Summa's portfolio of projects. • Lead/Drive governance across Summa’s project portfolio to ensure projects are being delivered successfully and in accordance with Summa methodologies and best practices • Identify, drive and implement improvements to Summa’s project management methodologies and best practices.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

•Oversaw the formation and implementation of the Agile Project Management Office in early 2012 with the responsible for implementing Agile and Project Management best practices across the organization.•Responsible for the successful execution of the portfolio of Summa consulting, external development, and managed services engagements by a nationwide, distributed staff of developers, user experience designers, project managers, and business consultants.•In the three and half years following the creation of the PMO, the company experienced 200% growth in number of employees and 300% growth in revenue, while transitioning from a primarily staff augmentation based consulting model to a company now achieving more than two-thirds of its revenue from full-lifecycle project based consulting.•Awarded the Project Management Company of the Year Award for 2013, the first full year that the Summa PMO existed, by the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Project Management Institute.•Led and drove governance across the project portfolio to ensure projects were delivered successfully and in accordance with established methodologies and best practices. •Provided executive level lean and agile coaching, training, and organizational transformations.•Managed, mentored, and trained a staff of agile coaches and project managers, ensuring the success of customer projects.•Responsible for developing and maintaining strategic partnerships, including coordinating joint sales and marketing efforts.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

•Managed a staff of technical consultants working on a variety of customer projects.•Delivered project management and Agile transformation services.•Managed a multi-year effort to modernize Carnegie Mellon University’s student information system

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Managed application development projects and strategy assessment engagements in a variety of industries, including finance, higher education, and medical device manufacturing.Managed complex application development projects for a major financial services, medical device manufactures, insurance providers, and universities.

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