Expertise: Strategic Planning, Organizational Design, Systems Thinking, Change Management, Organizational Evolution, Program & Product Management, Leadership & Team Coaching, Professional Coaching & Facilitation, Lean & Agile Delivery Practices, Business Development • Built Pliant Solutions from the ground up and currently leads 15 team members across 9 active clients.• Fosters strong client and partner relationships while delivering on multimillion dollar programs.• Identifies, develops, and builds opportunity pipelines.• Leverage in-depth customer, product, and technical knowledge and industry trends during sales and proposal process.• Builds high-value, strategic, and consultative relationships with clients and partners to bring awareness of the surrounding ecosystem while maximizing opportunities. • Delivers thought leadership through participation in community events, mentoring, and speaking engagements.

Enabling amazing people, with amazing clients, for amazing outcomes!Specializing in mission-focused rapid creation and deployment of enterprise data solutions, Peregrine’s delivery is characterized by an extreme commitment to client value creation and an ease of acquisition facilitated by being an SBA 8(a) certified business

Darren’s leadership and execution on the Enterprise Transformation Services (EATS) initiative continued the SEC's Agile adoption, implementation, and transformation efforts across the agency. It provided the Agile transformation strategy, Agile operating model, and transformation coaching support.• Led the SEC’s strategy for organizational cultural change at every level of the agency; provided guidance and consultation on organizational design, change management, leadership development, and Agile scaling practices; conducted ad-hoc training support.• Provided executive, leadership, and team coaching to OIT, business, and vendor partners, ensuring a unified direction and aligned expectations among delivery teams.• Dedicated partner with the Office of Acquisitions (OA), bringing agility to the Acquisitions Team and Agile Contracting by updating SOO templates, QASP, vehicles, and contractor onboarding.• Initiated, planned, and facilitated Program Increment Planning across the SEC, engaging and coaching over 80% of the OIT project portfolio covering $346 million in contract work.• Conducted continuous Enterprise Agile Readiness Assessments to understand the current state of agility, establish an Agile baseline, identify and mitigate potential key risks to implementation, and recognize key enablers for success.• Established an inclusive, collaborative environment across OIT, business, contracts, and contractors, to enhance Business Agility and organizational alignment to achieve strategic goals.• Created and facilitated an Agile Community of Excellence: - Composed & distributed 142+ bi-monthly Agile newsletters to over 5000 Federal & Contractor SEC subscribers - Created training curriculum and delivered 70+ Intro to Agile trainings & 45+ workshops - Administered & facilitated 70+ Agile & Product Owner CoPs - Hosted Lunch and Learns

On the Agile Engineering and Test Automation Services initiative, Darren provided Agile Product Delivery training, facilitation & coaching support for the NFTS modernization efforts, helping USCIS more effectively and efficiently oversee, adjudicate & administer the lawful immigration of people in the US. USCIS can now react quickly to changing needs while maintaining a high degree of customer service & responsiveness to the public, internal needs & other stakeholders within DHS.• Developed & presented the USCIS Organizational Agility strategy & Agile Transformation Roadmap & launched Agile engagements & pilot programs.• Creation, execution & implementation of the eProcessing operating model supporting service-centric customer product delivery.• Provided technical coaching & support shaping & visualizing service boundaries of each of the 13 services.• Trained & coached the new eProcessing architecture to promote & increase organizational adoption & architectural best practices.• Coached OIT Leadership on org design & systems thinking practices.• One-on-one personal development coaching using Adaptive Leadership & advanced communication practices (e.g. Kantor model).As part of the Electronic Immigration System program, Darren provided enterprise-wide Agile Transformation coaching, consulting & training services to 1350+ federal employees & contractors across multiple branches & programs at USCIS supporting the adoption of Agile Delivery, DevSecOps & Lean Portfolio Management practices.• Supported Bimodal Program deliverables through kanban practices & work visualization.• Aligned & implemented the Annual Operating Plan across divisions and programs.• Program forecasting & optimization using Lean & Agile principles.• Creation & support of the Office and Transformation Coordination’s program & Agile onboarding for new & existing employees.• Logistical support of the software delivery operations for POs, O&M, delivery teams & supporting staff.

In modernizing its IT infrastructure and business solutions, the US Census Bureau created the Mobile Application Development program, delivering the first mobile application to be used for statistics and the US Census.• Supported the product launch of US Census Bureau’s first true mobile application for the field operation division.• Created US Census Bureau’s mobile development environment with continuous integration and test automation.• Trained, mentored, and coached all program stakeholders and US Census Bureau employees in the early adoption of Agile practices.• Implemented and facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint planning events, retrospectives, reviews, story boards, story writing, information radiator, and Agile metrics – decreasing overall release time by 80%.• Built and deployed the Mobile Application within two months, decreasing overall release time by 80%.

• PM/Contributor to the Learning Management System project• Team implementer and Coach of Agile Practices• Agile Coach working with teams to maximize Stand-ups, Backlogs, Sprint Planning Meetings, Retrospectives, Reviews, Story Board, Story Writing, Information Radiator• Scrum Master responsibilities include Stand-ups, Backlogs, Sprint Planning Meetings, Retrospectives, Reviews, Story Board, Story Writing, Information Radiator, and continuous Agile Adoption

• Key driver of the inception, adoption, and transformation of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Scrumban and Kanban)• Team contributor and developer of an “Agile Ecosystem,“ driving the organization’s Agile adoption and process maturation• Lead, mentor and facilitator of Technical Development division providing enabling technology for cross functional teams across the enterprise• Agile Coach working with teams to maximize Stand-ups, Backlogs, Sprint Planning Meetings, Retrospectives, Reviews, Story Board, Story Writing, Information Radiator, and continuous Agile Adoption• Scrum Master responsibilities include Stand-ups, Backlogs, Sprint Planning Meetings, Retrospectives, Reviews, Story Board, Story Writing, Information Radiator, and continuous Agile Adoption

State of Idaho, Department of Health and Welfare (DHW)Medicaid Readiness Project, Agile Coach / Scrum Master • Driven implementer of the inception, adoption, and transformation of Agile methodologies for the Medicaid Readiness project (Scrum, Scrumban and Kanban)• Team contributor and ambassador of an “Agile Ecosystem “, driving the organization’s Agile transformation and process maturation• Lead, mentor and facilitator of Technical Development division providing enabling technology for cross functional teams across the enterprise• Scrum Master responsibilities include Stand-ups, Backlogs, Sprint Planning Meetings, Retrospectives, Reviews, Story Board, Story Writing, Information Radiator, and continuous Agile Adoption

Health Insurance Exchange (HIE), Agile CoachResponsible for bringing an understanding of the enterprise, business system and industry to the team(s) supporting or interfacing with the application. Primary responsibility of is to define and document the functional requirements needed to develop an application based on the current and /or future business process. Also prepare and review designs, to recommend improvements, and to provide guidance during the testing process. Help the Software Engineers establish a clear understanding of the business functional requirements and either creates the functional designs to meet the requirements or reviews and approves the designs written by the Software Engineer.• Analyzed Idaho’s options for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and complied an implication analysis for Idaho Legislators, DHW and Department of Insurance (DOI)• Defined and documented the functional requirements necessary to develop a HIE solution based on the State’s current business process and future federal requirements• Prepared and reviewed solution designs, delivered improvement recommendations, and provided extensive guidance throughout the State’s HIE evaluation process• Provided standard, well-structured work planning which defined scope, resources, commitments, quality, risk, tasks, and acceptance criteria

IT Project Manager• Managed complex IT projects driving toward completion while on time and within budget• Initiated the inception and initial adoption of Agile methodologies (Kanban / Scrum)Quality Assurance Lead• Managed changing business priorities, resources and execution of testing efforts under the Point of Sale and Merchandising Point Solutions domains• Managed SOX compliance processes and documentation within Testing ServicesBusiness Process Designer• Defined, designed and improved strategically significant business processes that resulted in improved profitability, customer value and efficient and effective operations• Current and Future State business process design, documentation and requirements specification for cross functional projects (IT, Operations, Finance, Merchandising and Retail Operations)• Facilitated Discovery meetings and interviews with business owners, IT and upper management to capture key interactions, activities and deliverables for cross functional projects and processes

Global IT Vendor Manager• Managed relationships with OEMs (HP, Lenovo, Dell, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Tandberg and Mitsubishi), distributors/VARS (Insight, Zones) and service vendors• Identified, selected and negotiated millions of dollars in commodity contracts while building better business processes for receiving and distributing hardware• Analyzed spend forecasts for Google’s Operation team aligning department and company goalsIT Operations Manager• Agile coach and team Agile lead • Spearheaded the International Hardware Deployment project which restructured worldwide hardware deployment from a centralized model to a hub and spoke infrastructure, contributing to better inventory management• Trained worldwide Technical Staff on deployment logistics• Collaborated with the Inventory team to ensure that all new hires have the necessary computer systems, software, hardware, and support before their first day of joining Google• Managed inventory levels for all standardized hardware, laptops, desktops, workstations, monitors, cell phones, EVDO cards, video conferencing units, and projectors• Outsourced non-crucial business needs, enabling our technicians and engineers to concentrate on Google’s core business functions and maximize ROI • Established a global capital asset tracking system that moved data entry from regionalized systems (excel spread sheets) to categorizing, tracking and reporting of all Google’s assets under one coherent web-based system • Rebuilt the ticket categorization structure for Google’s internal ticket system, thus creating an Enterprise Incident Tracking Application, giving management more comprehensive reports and trend analysis as well as ease of ticket categorization for the Desktop Support teamTeam Lead• Facilitator of the Agile Ecosystem and Project Management methodologies • Developed the “Google Buddy” program introducing 50 – 280 new hires per week to Google’s culture, internal information systems and enterprise processes

IT Project Manager / System Administrator• Designed, analyzed and implemented IT projects in relation to enterprise solutions; HEAT Helpdesk Solution, Service Level Agreements, local back up procedures and security policies• Supervised and directed technician workflow and ticket creation/closure to ensure work efficiency and customer satisfaction• Managed vendor relationships and contracts for PC hardware, system applications, and warranty services