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Texas, United States

Westlake, TX

• Enterprise Agile Coach helping Fidelity to deliver a strong portfolio of products using Agile Methods. Coaching, mentoring, and partnering with select progressive and committed Product Areas, leaders and teams to.
• As a member of the FFIO Agile Coaching Chapter brought scaled processes and practices to the organization using lightweight frameworks to assist development such as an Impediment Removal Framework (based on Scrum@Scale.
• Coach to 20 teams, 2 Product Areas and 2 Domains while mentoring a peer Coach.
• Trained teams in SAFe, Scrum@Scale, Scrum, Psychological Safety, etc.
• Trained teams on using Jira and Jira Align, as well as internal tools, to assist in monitoring success outcomes.
• Facilitated AgilityHealth assessments, retrospectives, and rollups.

Lawrenceville, New Jersey, United States

• MATRIX Resources short-term contractAssisted both SiriusXM – Streaming Services (Lawrenceville, NJ) and Connected Vehicles (Irving, TX)
• Created Agile Assessment for all Agile Teams and the local business unit.
• Trained and coached Leadership, Business and Scrum Teams.
• Assisted successful Scrum deliveries by forming an Executive Transformation Team.
• Deceased defects by 50% over the course of the engagement.
• Started an Agility Community of Practice to help embed business agility in the department.

San Francisco, California, United States

• MATRIX Resources short-term contract
• Trained over 100 development teams in San Francisco and Mountain View locations.
• Held Topic Training sessions, brown bags, and spot coaching to improve team performance.
• Assisted in consultancy starting a Professional Services practice in San Francisco including follow-on engagements.

Arlington, Texas, United States

• MATRIX Resources short-term contract
• Trained/coached a global manufacturer of commercial, military and business jet aircraft.
• Enabled placement of contractors totaling $500K in revenue.

Plano, TX

RCG Global Services short-term contractCorrected development and roll out of a new store POS application that struggled for the previous 5 years using Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). In 5 months this client was beginning production implementations. Coached teams and the organization on the use of Agile processes and.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

KForce short-term contractFacilitated 2 teams building the next generation B2B platform for AT&T servicing small, medium and enterprise businesses utilizing web HTML5, CSS3 and mobile (iOS and Android). The Web team built a Learn-Shop-Buy enabling business customers to learn about AT&T products, Shop for Tablets, SmartPhones and Internet devices, pay for.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Pre-sales client engagements, lead Agile Team and Organization transformation projects utilizing various tools and mechanisms.
• Formulate company methodology for using Agile to innovate organization transformation to make better software and better businesses.
• Lead company engagements as Agile Coach and Scrum Master

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Improving Enterprises short-term contract
• Agile Coach for Airport systems (kiosk, agent systems, ground handling, etc.)
• Lead Agile process adoption and Agile project/program management for project teams
• Lead training classes for Agile for Project Managers, Agile for Product Owners, Project Kickoff Workshops, Agile Fundamentals, Rally, etc.
• Facilitate organizational transformation

Irving, TX

• Led team that rewrote Bahamas.com for the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism and Aviation ($1.7MM)
• Facilitate all project meetings for Strategic, Release, Iteration and Daily Planning
• Brought together Creative and IT Development to create a holistic Agency Agile Development Process.
• Created a Value Stream Map for Production Banner work and analyzed for efficiencies.
• Created/rewrite marcusgrahamproject.org.

Ft. Worth, TX

• TEKsystems short-term contract
• Agile Coach to various groups comprising the AA.com website
• Lead training and presentations for team maturity
• Advising senior leadership and meet with PMO on overall AA transformation.· Agile Coach to 9 Development Teams totaling over 100 members new to Agile.· Trained Teams in Agile Development including the use of the Rally.

Dallas, TX

• Insource short-term contract
• ScrumMaster and Agile Coach to a Microsoft Silverlight team on a complex over $1 million dollar Healthcare Spend Analytics project.
• Coached team and increased velocity performance by almost 300% in 3 months.
• Product approved by Board of Directors ahead of schedule.

Dallas, TX

• ViaRun Inc. short-term contract
• Coached and Mentored Scrum Masters and Development Teams in Kanban and Agile methodologies.
• Trained Southwest teams on User Stories, Strategic and Release Planning, Agile Iterations & Metrics.
• Transformed Air.com team to use Kanban and Scrum/XP hybrid methodologies in open workspaces increasing team performance by 35%.

• Advised clients on benefits of Agile Software Development processes and practices.
• Researched clients’ customer to determine which aspects of Agile were best suited for their situation.
• Presented Agile to client’s customer for a contract proposal.

Highland Village, TX

• Home-based business
• Invented new product publishing a provisional patent and trade mark the product line with USPTO.
• Created company business plan and web site.
• Product development and consulting.

Irving, Texas, United States

• Valtech Technologies short-term contract
• Led IT Projects as Scrum Master using Scrum/XP and Kanban in all phases of the Agile SDLC.
• Created Presentations, Excel spreadsheets and other tools as needed to meet client’s needs.
• Advised middle and executive client management on best practices to integrate Agile development into their horizontal and vertical organizations.
• Transformation was successful with Agile still being use at this client after 18 months.

Round Rock, TX

• Valtech Technologies short-term contract
• Led IT Projects as Scrum Master using Scrum/XP and Kanban.
• Transformed 30 IT team members to use Agile Methodologies including using a Scrum of Scrums.

Southlake, TX

• Software Development Manager (2005 - 2008)
• Coached/Mentored staff Project Managers and development teams in Agile Project Management increasing IT teams performance and increasing product quality.
• Development Manager of a $30MM dollar Web e-Commerce Internet Reservation Engine with 19 direct reports with 27 client airline carriers and 900 online travel agencies generating $100+MM/month total revenue.
• Managed client airline relationships and technical vendor/partner relationships.
• Coordinated multiple projects enabling new software deliveries for successful airline activation's.Technical Lead Developer - Java (2001 - 2005)
• Technical Lead on various Sabre projects such as a large internet booking engine enhancement, a secure internet ticket printing platform, a merchant service fees system and a guaranteed transaction processor.

Bachelors, Computer Science

Aas, Data Processing

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