Christopher Stemen Email & Phone Number

Fairfax County, Virginia, United States

Agile Transformation Architect focused on strategic opportunities and solutions centered around organizational change and adoption of Agile concepts for ECS’ Justice and Homeland Security customers.Guide contracts on delivery approach for Agile transformations including staffing, roadmap to success, and organization-wide engagements with our customer’s key stakeholders.Build senior level teams to scale the business unit’s abilities to operate and maintain the ECS way of enterprise quality solutions.Analyze the Justice and DHS customer mission focus and align to ECS’ strategic approach across the Portfolio of products and servicesCertified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC 5.1)

Arlington, Va

In my role as Chief Strategist I design Blackstone Federal organizational transformation products and services that support the mission space of the United States Department of Homeland Security.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Design and consult on Agile software best practices, specifically adapted to the Federal space.Currently serving as a primary consultant on software process implementation under the guidance of the Deputy Director for the Department of Homeland Security, as well as leadership from specific offices within.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Leading manager in Guidance Software's PMO (Program Management Office), with Program Managers and Sr Project Management direct reports.Successfully implemented the major aspects of essential of SAFe 4.0 at Guidance Software. This includes 2 consecutive years of cadence sprints across all teams, and the formation of product release teams of teams involving Engineering, Marketing, Systems, Operations, and Customer Service. Alignment of teams and trains has been accomplished through execution of strategic verticalization of staff, quarterly roadmapping and budgeting, and shortened release cycles. Process improvements have lead to increased feature delivery, reduced overheard on coordination of business operations, and improved NPS from customers and ratings services.Designed the corporate project management portfolio, which includes the system for reviewing, selecting, tracking, reporting, and closing all company project efforts in a single coordinated framework constructed in JIRA.The Project Management portfolio systems I have designed involve advanced concepts for tracking projects in a single integrated JIRA solution, including the executive portfolio, department quarterly road maps, and workforce scrum and kanban boards. I utilize a "project levels" progression which incentivizes projects to advance through the framework.Currently implementing corporate EVM processes and tools into the PMO, with reporting on staff resource levels, costs/expenses, revenue targets, expected earned value based on project task completion vs revenue recognition, and forecast modeling. The end result is improved strategic decision-making capabilities for executives on investments in current products, as well as alignment of staff.Management of staff responsible for all product development and deliveries - specifically the guidance of all project managers and scrum masters.Development of the PMO career path and training program at Guidance software.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Coordinate and deliver project management processes and tools driven by executive corporate initiatives (program initiatives) involving nearly all company departments.Primary responsibilities include ensuring the program, and all projects within, are aligned with corporate strategic goals, as directed by executive management.Organize department directors, including Product Ownership, R&D, Technical Support, Customer Service, Marketing, Training, and executive management, to communicate the mission and vision of each project, identify dependencies and resolve issues.Responsible for optimization of costs, resources and staffing for cross-department projects.Design and oversee project analysis and review across all projects within the program, including metrics for measuring health, timelines, deliverables, team coordination, and project alignment with corporate vision.Develop Project Management training and mentoring programs, including in-house training on Agile/Scrum methodologies, Lean principles and tools (Confluence, JIRA, Service Desk, HipChat, Git/BitBucket, TFS, etc.).Serve as the single point of contact for cross-program communication, including schedule, status, major milestones, and changes to scope.Manage product development initiatives with an understanding of complete development process and schedules, and use of change control board systems to provide oversight and decisions on critical project updates.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Lead R&D Senior Project Manager for Guidance Software's primary product line: the EnCase product suite, including Forensic, Enterprise, Portable, and the eDiscovery, Cybersecurity and Analytics products.• Highly experienced Agile advocate. I am leading the effort to implement and facilitate the Agile/Scrum methodology across the entire R&D department. This includes creating and coaching teams, leading the ceremonies, leading the Scrum of Scrums• Responsible for creating and maintaining the release strategy and sprint planning objectives.• Currently leading an enterprise-wide mission to improve collaboration and planning with Agile/Scrum principles and tools beyond the R&D department (Operations, Sales and Marketing, Information Services, etc.)• Installed a mix of Scrum and Kanban methods to organize teams based on their process needs.• Formal training in Agile Software development methodology (Certified Scrum Master).• Experienced with Agile management tools, including JIRA, Confluence and Microsoft TFS Agile.

Vienna, Va / Los Angeles, Ca

The 3rd employee of a start-up software company that has currently expanded to more than 30 employees.Managed teams of 10+ members, including software developers, testers, technical writers, and business analysts.Assistant Deployment Manager for Chainbridge Technologies’ first mobile application (TE Mobile).Designed the corporate employee career development and compensation process.Under my team leadership, Chainbridge selected as VSE corporate services Small Business of the Year for 2010.Responsible for the delivery and sustainment of over 60 production applications to commercial, government and academic clients.Managed all product and services sales and delivery for VSE Corporation, a $1 billion Defense contractor. 50+ custom ERP, business, and mobile applications were successfully deployed. Customer satisfaction surveys rated these apps superior. Worked closely with department Vice Presidents to support their data management needs. Experience includes working with Accounting, Business Development, Contracts, Human Resources, Quality Assurance, Facilities and Security, and Information Technology.Managed development of Watson Pharmaceutical’s Nephrology Data Management System, a comprehensive web-based solution, accepting and reporting on sensitive patient and sales data from thousands of clinics.Guided the development of systems for the United States Army Intra-American Defense Board, Department of Energy Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program, and Georgetown University’s School of Medicine, among others.

Rockville, Md

Application development, testing and deployment of Microsoft SharePoint portals in support of the Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program for the National Institute of Health.Supported business analysis, requirements gathering, solution design, and onsite deployments.Performed Jr. Project Management duties, including team weekly status report generation, and utilization of CASE tools to organize software development life cycle process.

Mclean, Va

Supported the National Securities Studies and Strategies group with hardware and software support as a Level 2 help desk engineer.Assisted with application development and support for the Science and Engineering occupational survey system, including onsite deployment and training to CONUS United States Air Force bases.Developed data collection and extraction systems on the IBM Domino platform, utilizing Lotus Script and ODBC drivers.

Bs

Completed 4 Years Of Course Work