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Cumberland, RI, USA

I help software companies achieve reliable delivery, enhance cross-team collaboration, align leadership, and increase customer satisfaction. I maximize my clients' results and provide customized solutions to their business problems.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Lead organizational agile transformations.

I was a founder and coach of FreeStanding Agility, a provider of agile training, coaching, and consulting services. We are dedicated to helping our clients reach a state of self-sustained agility as soon as possible. We have helped over a dozen clients achieve this.

I trained, mentored, and coached software teams in Agile and Scrum. I helped over 25 companies across multiple industries improve their on-time delivery, quality, and cross-team collaboration.

• Educated and mentored software development teams on agile methods to improve their quality and ability to meet the needs of their customers.
• Lead driver for selection and organizational adoption. Transitioned the 700 person engineering organization to Scrum that improved the cycle time, quality and transparency into organization’s development practices.
• Led the team of ScrumMasters and Product Owners (120 in all) in identifying, prioritizing, and resolving organizational impediments.
• Coordinated a curriculum of 22 agile sessions for our engineering organization. Sessions helped teams improve their quality, collaboration and predictability.

• Led software development teams responsible for developing and delivering time and labor applications. Java technology products.
• Transitioned team to agile methods. Increased reliability and quality of the products, timeliness of delivery, and overall improvement in morale. Reduced cycle time from 12 months to six weeks.
• Led and delivered the User Interface to our first fully web-based suite of products. This simplified the deployment and significantly reduced the total cost of ownership for our customers.
• Delivered various products, across multiple platforms. Consistently solved customer problems of time and labor data collection, processing and business productivity. Client repackages software for $20M revenue annually.

• Led a business unit responsible for developing and delivering high availability software products and services for the AIX commercial market.
• Negotiated $6M+ contracts with our major customer and successfully delivered on those contracts.
• Delivered several releases of products generating 70% of the corporate revenues.
• Instituted a process to increase the predictability and quality of our software products. 50% decrease in customer reported defects within the first year.

• Led team of software engineers in our Network Management team.
• Defined, initiated, and led 2 product teams implementing SNMP management software for HP OpenView and an SNMP Proxy agent for our Transmission devices. Enabled customers to use standard protocols and systems to manage.
• Defined and implemented a SEI CMM Level 2 process as a member of a process team. Improved our quality and time to market.
• Planned and tracked the 5.0 release of premium 9800 Network Management System: a 2 million line C software product.

Mansfield, Massachusetts, United States

• Led a cross-functional team responsible for total life cycle of product development.
• Delivered the 9000UX Network Management System for a $9M sale.

• Developed, led, and managed teams responsible for all data communications products for all our platforms, IBM Mainframe, VAX VMS, and IBM PC.
• Defined and planned strategy of single networking interface to Cullinet’s client/server applications called Enterprise: Network. Delivered the solution to allow our customers to access data from both our enterprise and.
• Led 2 groups that delivered the Communications Subsystem for Enterprise: Builder & Generator for PC-DOS, IDMS-DC release 10.21, and KnowledgeLINK for VMS. This allows customer to create business applications for their.
• Designed and implemented communication subsystem for Enterprise: Builder & Generator for PC-DOS using object oriented programming techniques in C. These techniques simplified the integration with various data sources.

Worked at the Academic Computing Center working on a custom operating system for the 3090 IBM mainframe system.

Ma, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Organizer and President of the BU Bowling League.

Ba, Computer Science

Graduated Magna Cum Laude received the Kodak Award for Excellence in Computer Science.