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Wildwood, Mo, Us

Chesterfield, Missouri, Us

As the Founder and Principal Consultant of The Agilist LLC, I specialize in helping organizations optimize their processes and organizational structures to enhance product delivery and operational efficiency. Focusing on agile methodologies and process improvement, I work closely with clients to identify opportunities for growth and implement strategies that drive sustainable success. My expertise spans various industries, enabling businesses to achieve their goals through tailored consulting services.

Saint Louis, Mo, Us

Saint Louis, Mo, Us

▪ Partnering with other leaders in an Agile Enablement Team in order to build strategy around how we as an organization work together utilizing SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Chapters, etc.▪ Introduced a 4x10 Work Week that rotates so that the team maintains coverage 5 days a week but no one is stuck working every Friday. If you work on Friday, then you work the following Monday. This means the developers have a 4 day weekend every other week. This has led to a better work life balance and increased productivity from the team.▪ Enacted a quarterly Developer Growth Model. This self-assessment is taken every quarter by the developers with 25 key areas of growth. The Developers then choose two areas to focus on for the quarter to drive them to growth. This has led to an overall team growth rate of 15% with some individuals growth rate being as high as 57%.

Saint Louis, Mo, Us

▪ Led ‘Product Dojos’ to help teams, product management, leadership and UX develop skills in an immersive learning environment▪ Develop Agile and Product training materials, bootcamps and process guidelines▪ Deliver Agile training sessions, workshops, and one-on-one coaching for Business and IT participants at the team, program and portfolio levels▪ Participated in mentorship program to grow enterprise-level Agile coaches, Scrum Masters, Product Managers/Owners and Release Train Engineers▪ Introduce Human Centered Design, XP and DevOps practices to Agile teams▪ Coach Development/IT Managers to work as a team and change how we hire full stack developers with a team first mindset▪ Coach Executive Leadership to lead with intent to support self-organization▪ Facilitate cross functional team mediation and communication across various technical teams▪ Partner with IT/Operations leadership to ensure alignment with Agile methodology

Saint Louis, Mo, Us

Leading and fostering the team in order to help them grow as individuals as well as convert our team into a High Performance team.• 1 on 1 coaching• Constructive feedback• Team Retrospectives• Daily Standups• Sprint Planning• Sprint ReviewLeading and fostering other teams in their transitions into an Agile methodology• Coaching new Scrum Masters and showing them how to help their teams succeed at their transformation.• Meeting with Leadership and helping them understand Agile and how it can truly affect change within their organizations.• Lead the effort to start the Scrum of Scrums to get all of our Agile teams and leadership working toward the same vision and goals.Research and Deliver products that will help our clients have more hands on visibility into their applications monitoring.• Built servers for, passed Service Design, and delivered Dynatrace monitoring solution in both commercial and federal environments.• Built servers for, passed Service Design, and have a fully functioning Gitlab instance. This is a code repository strictly used for infrastructure as code.• Built servers for and passed Service Design for an open source infrastructure monitoring service called Zabbix.• Built microservice application in golang that receives data from build services and allows our puppet configuration to use HTTP API calls to verify that those servers were built.

Boston, Ma, Us

– Developed custom Drupal modules for fortune 500 companies.– Created a custom Learning Management System to be integrated into Drupal.– Utilized Virtual Machines for local and remote server setups using tools like Puppetand Ansible.– Using command line I administered, troubleshot, and fixed issues with Linuxservers.– Worked with many people on multiple teams around the world utilizing the AGILEwork methodology.– Worked within Zendesk to provide support for clients.

Boston, Ma, Us

AcquiaU is highly competitive, hands-on 14-week technical training program during which time participants are brought through to Site Builder level on Drupal and the Acquia platform, learn coding and Agile development best practices, and rotate through jobs as team contributors. Hands-on learning and practical skill application resulted in the buildout of two company-wide websites: Drizzle will launch as the internal communication portal for global employees, and the Digital Academy, EMEA Marketing team, targeted as being the first Acquia domained website build in Drupal 8. - Utilized the Acquia Cloud interface and other development tools like DevDesktop, command line, Drush, and git workflow to collaborate and rapidly build test and production websites - Oriented on the different Acquia departments and products from Acquia leaders: Site Factory, Lift, and AWS - Gained cross-functional product and team knowledge by completing job rotations

Austin, Tx, Us

– Manage and upkeep existing sites built in Drupal, Moodle, Docebo, etc using PHP primarily and also using CSS and JavaScript. – Converted websites to be Responsive for mobile devices. – Performed basic command line scripts in Linux terminal to upkeep servers and for git repositories.– Custom built reports using MySQL as well as utilizing a Jasper Reports server for dynamic reports for clients to run.– Set up and configured AWS Auto scaling service through Linux command line.

Master Of Science - Ms, Management And Leadership

Certificate, Game And Interactive Media Design

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Administration, Information Technology Management