Promoted to lead a cross-functional agile talent team and technical entry program, including directly managing entry software engineering teams. Drive organizational transformation by developing and executing data-driven strategies that support over 3,000 global employees. Spearhead initiatives aimed at enhancing platform excellence and operational efficiency across engagement, training, and development, while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and agile adoption.Details:- Mentor, coach and develop entry software engineers, introducing them to our tech stack and agile ways of working to increase their speed to impact on the organization and spur technical growth and innovation.- Obtain and define business needs, build roadmaps, prioritize work and set a compelling vision to inspire and guide the teams’ delivery of strategic software and talent related products and services.- Manage multi-million dollar annual budget, aligning talent strategies with organizational goals and driving engagement initiatives across IT teams.- Drive accountability by effectively implementing agile practices and OKR methodologies.- Optimize productivity by empowering team members to make decisions, holding them accountable to outcomes and removing obstacles that hinder delivery.- Partner closely with the Agile Office to create and implement impactful training and development solutions, promoting and strengthening agile best practices across the organization. - Develop and execute impactful engagement initiatives, working with cross functional volunteer teams and partnering with divisional leadership to set strategic direction and define outcomes.- Create and execute global people strategy in partnership with senior divisional leadership and HR partners.

Led 20-person agile software development organization consisting of four DevOps teams that built anddelivered custom enterprise software across global Bayer Crop Science early discovery and testing todigitize and automate manual processes in innovative and differentiating lab workflows. Continued tolead org-wide talent team focused on talent attraction, hiring and engagement (see Product Development Talent Lead role details below).Details:o Managed multi-million annual budget across multiple funding sources to ensure delivery ofstrategic roadmaps and successful retirement of legacy applications.o Engaged with product management and business partners to prioritize and deliver the pipelineof work and staff teams accordingly, including working with MSP to provide flex staffing tosupport key projects.o Collaborated with key business partners and stakeholders to address external dependencies,identify risks, and develop strategies for overcoming obstacles to meet delivery timelines.o Collaboratively developed technical and product strategies to satisfy business outcomes.

Created, built and led embedded IT team focused on talent attraction, hiring and engagement for theProduct Development Organization (500 people). (Dual role with Development Manager from 2016-2020).Details:o Drove consistency across the organization by partnering with managers, technicalinterviewers, managed service provider and HR, providing training and guidelines, and ensuringadoption of processes and tools.o Led technical entry program recruiting and hiring strategy and execution.Key Results:o Enhanced technical hiring community by building strong relationship with them, holdingregular touchpoints for knowledge sharing, feedback gathering and training.o Guided the organization through multiple hiring process changes including several iterationsof contract hiring changes and the shift to Bayer HR tools and processes.o Initiated vendor event to showcase products and teams and increase supplierengagement. Representatives and candidates from 14 suppliers and over 50 Monsantocolleagues participated. The event directly led to several hires and an uptick in qualitysubmissions.o Co-lead diversity and inclusion group to increase awareness across the organization.o Partnered with Product Development Lead and Monsanto video team to create recruitingvideos for the organization.

Piloted agile coach role during the early stages organization’s agile transformation. Coached teammembers on scrum best practices and provided timely feedback on deviations or improvementopportunities.Key Results:o Engaged with other Agile Coaches to implement best practices and lead agile transformationacross the organization.o Increased awareness of team performance by tracking and communicating velocity andrelease progress.o Facilitated conflict resolution and coached team members on effective conflict resolutiontechniques, enabling the team to resolve minor conflicts amongst themselves.o Provided effective methods for the team to inspect and adapt through regular retrospectivesand exercises, such as the team health check.

Provided highly effective testing though close collaboration with the development team and businessanalysts through all stages of product development.Key Results:o Lead Advancement test team during team lead’s extended absence, which included facilitatingSprint planning meetings and daily stand-ups, as well as coordinating releases.o Initiated training of team members in automation techniques by engaging developers forassistance and pulling team together in on-going working sessions.o Increased effectiveness of Advancement testing by partnering with the support team toanalyze production usage patterns and modifying the testing approach accordingly.

Provided highly effective testing though close collaboration with the development team and businessanalysts through all stages of product development.Key Results:o Lead testing efforts on key projects involving new products.o Trained and supervised consultants brought on to assist the QA team.o Standardized QA team’s documentation through the creation of test plan template.

Provided highly effective testing though close collaboration with the development team and businessanalysts through all stages of product development.Key results:o Volunteered to Develop, test, and maintain Visual Basic application to automate SAP transportmigration process.o Trained new employees on SAP testing processes, transport creation and migration, and defectmanagement.o Acted as Defect Manager for end-to-end testing for VOIP and IPTV initiatives.