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Los Angeles, CA, US

Thousand Oaks, CA, US

Applying value stream thinking, agile practices, and Atlassian tools to efficiently and effectively develop the right treatments for the right patient populations.

Toulouse, Occitanie, FR

• Headed team of two dozen passionate educators who are leaders in their fields.
• Personally designed and delivered standardized and custom curricula for enterprise clients including leading financial firms and the company that has repeatedly achieved the largest annual profits in global corporate.

Toulouse, Occitanie, FR

• Built and ran industry-leading, global practice centered on enabling business agility at all levels of scale.
• Grew practice from two to 20 members in two years, reaching $6M in services revenue.
• First Atlassian partner to complete the Jira Align early access program.
• First to earn the Agile at Scale specialization badge.
• Named Atlassian partner of the year and acknowledged for thought leadership.

Toulouse, Occitanie, FR

• Defined and delivered productized service offerings for top Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner.
• Ensured that customers’ agile methods and mindset were fully enabled and supported by a properly configured toolset.
• Partnered with customers to build sustainable, internal agile capabilities and enable high-performing, empowered teams at any stage of their agile journey.

El Segundo, California, US

• Built and coached high-performing teams for Inc. 5000 #1 fastest-growing education company. Delivered industry-leading solutions leveraging cloud, predictive analytics, and machine learning (ML). Coached the team.
• Delivered groundbreaking suicide and self-harm prevention tool that uses machine learning to identify and alert K-12 school staff of student intentions in real time to help save lives.
• Delivered next-generation web filter for company’s highest revenue product that uses the world’s largest deployment of a machine learning model on Chromebooks to continuously scan text and image content in real time to.
• Defined and optimized product delivery framework including creation and standardization of Jira issue types, workflows, screens, fields, and configurations across functional areas such as Product, UX, Engineering, and.

Dallas, TX, US

• Worked with senior leadership to plan and execute scaled agile transformation for strategic, next-generation TV initiative, achieving 33% faster time to market. Built and coached System Team of 30+ distributed members.
• Managed multiple concurrent projects spanning the entertainment and media value chain with combined budget well over $16 million.
• As Scrum Master, delivered platform and tools to enable development, blue-green deployment, and A/B testing of mobile OTT TV product for iOS, Android, Roku, etc.
• Facilitated training and structuring of first Agile Release Train (ART) comprised of ten scrum teams, later scaled to seven ARTs, serving as Scrum Master for several teams.
• Coached scrum teams on Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe 4.0; trained them on tools incl. AgileCraft (Jira Align), Jira, and Confluence; and mentored them in estimation and planning.

Los Angeles, California, US

• Product Owner and Scrum Master serving digital media clients including Universal Music Group, the world’s leading music company. Drove product strategy, created roadmaps, and defined MVP features for e-commerce.
• Launched global digital supply chain pilot for EMI to deliver audio and video content to hundreds of business partners worldwide.
• Created RFPs, managed vendor selection, and negotiated contracts and SOWs to realize organizational efficiencies and cost savings.
• Designed and delivered an efficient, scalable accounting and BI web portal for core digital music distribution clients and the growing e-book and music publishing business.

Santa Monica, California, US

• Built and directed North American digital marketing, D2C, and B2B team.
• Delivered cloud-based, open source, and API-driven products to reduce operating costs by seven figures while elevating user experience.

Santa Monica, California, US

• Oversaw U.S. Project Management team, leading it to the top for transparency, methodology, and performance, earning the company’s highest award.
• Directly managed multiple concurrent vendor engagements including SaaS solutions that reduced operating costs and increased film and TV licensing revenue.

Santa Monica, California, US

• Built and directed team of eleven geographically distributed Business Analysts, successfully executing several critical initiatives such as the Vevo launch and Univision acquisition.
• Designed and implemented artist KPI dashboard comprising physical and digital sales, streaming, social media activity, web analytics, etc.

Santa Monica, California, US

• Led web product development for the top U.S. music and video distributor, directing seven-figure budget, five-person team, and vendors.
• Created the company’s first web application to interface with the mainframe, increasing advertising revenue, and an online fan engagement contest that helped break new artists.

Santa Monica, California, US

• Cofounded, managed, and staffed in-house web product development team for the world’s largest music company.
• Partnered with business stakeholders to define product vision and launch numerous innovative web products.
• Created central product database to reduce costs and power B2B and B2C solutions.

Universal City, CA, US

Burbank, CA, US

Master Of Arts - Ma, Theology/Theological Studies

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English Language And Literature/Letters

High School Diploma