Darrin Estep Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Darrin Estep Photography creates Product, Fashion, Headshot, & Corporate Photography in New Jersey and New York City area. Experienced in photographing model & actor headshots, model portfolios, corporate events, private jets, hotels, food, interiors & exterior spaces.My goal is to build long-term relationships with my clients and bring value to the product or service I'm shooting. I'm skilled with advance lighting techniques and take a lot of care in partnering with the client to exceed expectations. I'm a boutique shop and do my own post-processing work as well as shoot/edit video. Visit my site for more information and to book shoots directly with me.http://DarrinEstepPhotography.com

New York, Ny, Us

Portfolio, program and team level coach. Observe, guide and educate at all levels to facilitate better outcomes while embracing an agile mindset. Utilizing metrics to start discussions, measure progress and learn. Build and deliver agile training materials. Drive change across Wealth Management via chapter goals. Mentor junior and team coaches.Agile Coaching: Scaled Authentication & Entitlement program from one large Kanban to full program with 8 teams globally. Drove alignment of business strategy to execution for the Common Components program by encouraging the use of OKR's & KPI's to articulate features tied to value delivery. Maturity Assessments: Conducted maturity assessments at team and program level focusing on (e.g., design effectiveness, program execution & delivery, leadership behaviors and enablers) while leveraging this rubric to create and execute coaching plans to monitor outcomes.Metrics: Utilize dashboards to review team/sprint level execution. Highlight program backlog to drive transparency and learning. Increased automated code coverage by 20% over 3 month period on Trading Team by establishing coverage goal and making it visible.Change Management: Established communities of practice (COP) for SM/PO's to facilitate best practice discussions and learning. Establish and communicate guard rails for JIRA standards, sprint and program planning, ceremony purpose, roles & responsibilities. Stakeholder Management: Translate transformation chapter goals into actionable milestones by using established rubrics. Coach and guide across division leadership, portfolio management, and teams to create a culture of continuous learning and experimentation.Training: Authored and conducted training globally on various agile topics (e.g., metrics, roles & responsibilities, epic & story writing, operating model, etc.).Agile Framework: SpotifyALM Tool: JIRA

Madison, New Jersey, Us

Collaborated with senior leadership to establish a vision for change, setup the transformation team, roadmap and backlog along with initiating communities of practice. Provided team-level coaching across multiple development and UX teams, assisted with tool selection, and trained internal staff along with leadership on a path toward scaling the organization. Agile Coaching: Provided Agile team-based coaching across multiple product and UX teams. Embraced design thinking and customer centricity. One-on-one coaching with key roles (SM/PO). Created coaching plans to drive improvement and learning. Improve short & long term planning, introduced business value measurement, train on estimation techniques, backlog prioritization, ceremony support, and becoming a learning organization.Change Management: Authored agile playbook to provide guardrails for leadership and teams. Established COP for SM/PO's along with lunch n' learns to facilitate best practice discussions and knowledge sharing. Managed transformation progress via Portfolio Kanban board.Stakeholder Management: Influence direction of Transformation Team by providing insight and direction at organization and business unit level. Partner with senior leadership, vendor management and teams to increase agile maturity and adoption. Training: Authored and conducted training on various agile topics (e.g., playbook, roles & responsibilities, epic & story writing, planning strategies, etc.).Mentoring: Mentor junior scrum masters and product owners new to the role to help with professional development. Agile Framework: SAFeALM Tool: JIRA

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Coached agile development teams at the enterprise, program and team level to yield maximum benefits from an agile approach to everything from funding to product delivery. Stood up first PI for Consumer Pricing Program. Align with stakeholders based on initial assessment. Collaborate at all levels to guide, educate, and enable teams to operate independently beyond coaching engagement.Agile Coaching: Provide team level coaching for multiple global development teams. Share insights and direction to drive improved story quality, fewer defects with CI/CD and pairing. Led strategy discussions and facilitated first PI planning for Consumer Pricing Program.Change Management: Member of Vanguard program piloting adoption of agile funding model. Accelerated value delivery and learning by 6-9 months on average. Metrics: Establish and use dashboards for team, program level to understand the flow of work, learn from the data, and as a mechanism to measure outcomes.Training: Facilitated strategy workshop to realign business goals with product capabilities to allow for early value realization. Demonstrating value of utilizing OKR's and KPI's to connect strategy to delivery. Agile Framework: SAFeALM Tool: Rally

New York City, Ny, Us

Managed multiple global development and infrastructure teams across the Digital Products & Interactive Media (DPIM) division while introducing the SAFe framework to NBCU. Facilitated program and team ceremonies to drive adoption and scale the organization. Utilized program demo to showcase value delivery.RTE: Led SAFe train level activities for the Mobile SDK project. Integrated continuous knowledge transfer with SME’s and developers to expedite delivery of proof of concept by two months. Resolved escalations, managed risks and provided transparency to all stakeholders.SM: Increased team effectiveness by encouraging independent impediment resolution thereby decreasing WIP by two days on average. Engaged stakeholders in key discussions to minimize communication lag across time zones, vendors and departments. Monitored day-to-day activities using Rally & JIRA to ensure internal and cross team dependencies were quickly resolved.Training: Increased story completion rate by 80% across the division as a result of writing and conducting User Story Writing training delivered to 200+ people over 10 month period.Agile Framework: SAFeALM Tool: Rally, VersionOne

New York, Ny, Us

Release Train Engineer (RTE) for multiple geographically disperse teams within eCMS group in a newly established SAFe framework. Ran train and team level ceremonies across multiple projects to monitor progress, manage risk and provide transparency to stakeholders.RTE/Team Coach: Partnered with leadership in the Order Fulfillment Group to understand business goals, built an implementation plan, developed and conducted training (Scrum basics, user-centered design thinking, ceremony facilitation) and implemented Scrum across 10 teams.SM: Leveraged internal and external SME’s to expedite project completion by 25%. Encouraged product to focus delivery around MVP, learn, and reduce scope to deliver value based on feedback. Provided leadership with visibility into the program through dashboards and continuous communication.Agile Framework: SAFeALM Tool: Rally, Target Process

New York, Ny, Us

Managed multiple distributed development and marketing teams as a Scrum Master, facilitated all Scrum ceremonies and led SoS to manage department level risks and milestones. Provided Scrum training for entire IT organization. Influenced iteration sync across all development teams to yield a decrease time to market by 20% across the organization.SM: Ran team level ceremonies. Provided guidance on agile principles. Encouraged self-organization and strong communication. Provided JIRA admin for entire department. Change Management: Persuaded senior management to restructure all IT teams to align by product deliverables resulting in reduced friction and greater synergy between product and engineering groups. Decreased time to market by 25% for key deliverables. Agile Framework: Scrum + Kanban (not scaled)ALM Tool: JIRA

New York, Ny, Us

Scrum Master for several co-located development teams. Enabling greater product and engineering partnership by aligning communication and strategy planning, yielding better value delivered to customers. Decreased video ingestion time by 20% through streamlining processes and increased automation.SM: Established Scrum framework for newly formed footage team. Collaborated with contributor product group to survey and implement third-party integration features into Shutterstock.com to increase footage and image contributor retention by 10% annually.Business Development: Increased contributor sign-up by 20 people while representing Shutterstock booth at NAB in Las Vegas. Led shooting and editing project for internal hack-a-thon.Agile Framework: Scrum (not scaled)ALM: Rally

Collaborated with senior leadership to establish a vision for change, build the transformation team, roadmap and backlog. Interviewed 75+ SM's and PO's. Created an agile playbook and delivered weekly training to various levels to establish new norms and create a path toward scaling the organization. Agile Coaching: Coached and mentored all project stakeholders across various Scrum teams and lines of business. Influenced all levels of management to understand Scrum readiness per team. Provided thought partnership with the PMO, legacy organizations, and other non-Agile areas to negotiate greater transparencyTraining: Developed and delivered Scrum training to 200+ Medco employees and contractors. Created custom course modules focusing on product ownership, user story writing, story estimation, user-centered design, and other Scrum best practices. Created interview guide and conducted screening interviews with all Scrum Masters for Medco.Agile Framework: Scrum (not scaled)ALM: JIRA

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Scrum Master on large scale (10 people, $1.5M) people reporting project using Cognos and ETL. Coached cross-functional, geographically distributed team to focus on communication, building trust, streamline processes, and producing high quality results. Continually recognized and rewarded and is the longest running Scrum project that consistently exceeded business sponsor expectations. Partner with the development team and business sponsors from payroll, human resources, and benefits to understand and mitigate behavioral and cultural challenges on a Lawson Self Serve rollout to 6,000 people in multiple countries. Used diagnostic tools to surface gaps and worked through solutions to ensure a successful product adoption. Manage all aspects of concurrent projects including project planning, resource planning, release planning, vendor management, and budget. Set and manage expectations with management, offshore vendors and stakeholders. Resolve team conflict, remove impediments, and protect the team from outside disruption thus resulting in teams with high impact. Highlight accomplishments outside the team to reinforce great performance.

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Managed the redesign of 15 office sites and 12 practice sites for global locations under www.mckinsey.com to increase overall traffic, promote McKinsey knowledge, and improve the quality of candidate applications. Site redesign for the Middle East Office entailed working with independent film makers to produce high-quality video interviews, developing and implementing interactive concepts (frequently re-used on other sites) that enabled site visitors to follow a McKinsey project, play an interactive scenario-based game, and discover many paths to a successful career. Also built an SMS module to encourage greater participation with potential candidates. All of which led to the highest quality set of applicants they’ve seen to date. Managed editorial, design, and developer resources on-site and offshore to ensure high quality projects are delivered on-time. Confirmed client expectations are exceeded through post-launch surveys.

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Major ProjectsAutomated manual process for engagement performance reviews saving $300K per year: Designed, built, and delivered two performance survey tools rolled out firm-wide via Lotus Notes. Both tools are actively used today Firm-wide.Designed and built first preference based staffing system for non consulting staff (250 people in multiple countries): Collaborated with designers, architects and clients to build sophisticated workflow and approval.Other WorkManaged off-shore resources to ensure delivery of prototypes were on target and code was compliant. Developed and implemented scalable and re-usable elements such as script libraries, shared elements, and style sheets to increase consistency and decrease support costs. Co-founded and established group charter for the usability group.

New York, Ny, Us

Provided business solutions developed in Lotus Notes to American Express internal customers globally.Collaborated with business partners and provided technical leadership and coaching.Worked on all aspects of the software development cycle including analysis, design, implementation and support. Strong knowledge of LotusScript and graphics applications to provide high quality solutions.

New York, Ny, Us

Technical lead for the roll-out of ARS (Remedy) to 250+ people globally.Implemented the design and installation of the workstation image of Windows NT 3.51 (MCSE certified), Lotus Notes, Netsoft 3270, Microsoft Office 95, and ARS for the helpdesks globally.Provided on-call support to regional operation centers globally for workstation and ARS support including UNIX administration.Produced automation workflow using Notes databases, Visual Basic applications, and ARS schemas.