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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.

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.

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.

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.
• 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).

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.

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.

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.

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Completed 4 Years Of Course Work