Seasoned Solutions Delivery Manager and Agility Coach with 15 years of experience developing thriving global teams in complex and adaptive environments. With a Lean-Agile mindset, a relentless drive for continuous improvement, and years of real-world experience, I have a strong grasp of the challenges facing enterprise software delivery organizations and their leadership today. I have proven the ability to lead and inspire a wide variety of industry-leading businesses, teams, and people around the world, leveraging data-driven insights to measure and streamline flow, while delivering amazing digital products and experiences for customers on-time, in-scope, and under budget.Highlights:-Recently established measures to substantiate impact of transformation efforts with a Fortune 100 Financial Services company: +19% improvement in ability responding to change, 12% reduction in speed to market, and 17% increase in value delivered.-Established Agile Delivery Center of Excellence, expanding delivery organization by 10x, with 100% success rate on projects delivered to satisfied customers, evidenced by Net Promoter Score.-Achieved 70% adoption rate within 3 weeks of production deployment vs. legacy, increasing labor revenue and service orders resulting in $1m+ in yearly benefit with a single initiative.-Successfully delivered initiatives for 13 Fortune 500 companies.Personal Interests: Family, Humor, Outdoors, Fishing, Hiking, Biking, Boating, Sports, Exploration, Education, Reading, Music, Storm-Chasing, Forestry, Travel, Traffic, Education, Media, Markets, Fitness, Technology, Landscaping, Fossil-Hunting, and Metal Detecting.Business Interests: Databricks, Team Building, Technology, Global Markets, Digital Transformation, Systems, Data & Analytics, AI, Agriculture, Energy & Renewable Resources, Sustainability, Economics, Finance, Developer Advocacy, Project to Product Mindset, Continuous Improvement & Integration, PMO Evolution, Cybersecurity, Stakeholder Engagement, User Experience, and Customer Service.Need to Know:-Legit 3-point shooter: 40%+ from beyond the arc.-Former Lifeguard: Will save your life.-Aspiring pilot, master gardener, fishing guide, optimist, and author.
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Technical Delivery ManagerBlueprintTexas, United States
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Delivery ManagerBlueprint Apr 2024 - PresentBlueprint is redefining the data solutions ecosystem. Headquartered in the greater Seattle area with employees across the US and Europe, Blueprint is a data intelligence firm that is committed to delivering an informed world. Focusing on customer experience and intelligent supply chain in retail, manufacturing, technology and the federal government, we enable digital transformation by offering technology solutions that build digital culture, make employees more productive, improve satisfaction and increase revenue. -
Sr. Project Manager & Agility CoachDo Agile Better Dec 2021 - Apr 2024Dallas-Fort Worth MetroplexFinancial Services IT - MM (MA) - Defined and delivered tailored foundational Lean-Agile strategies within End User Technology & Services, and Annuity Technology Portfolios in partnership with executive leadership and over 30 globally distributed hybrid/remote delivery & operations teams to analyze and improve the flow of Value to End Users. Provided Training and hands-on coaching for Developers, Technical Leads / Architects, Testers, Analysts, Product Managers, Product Owners, Project Managers, Scrum Experts, Release Train Engineers, Directors, and Team Leads to improve clarity and alignment of strategy through execution. Key performance highlights include 19% improvement in organizational ability to respond to change, 12% improvement in time to market, and 17% improvement in value delivered.-Introduced the AgilityHealth measurement and growth platform to provide consistent data and meaningful qualitative and quantitative metrics to drive effective decision-making towards achieving shared business-driven outcomes. -
Sr. Sap Delivery Lead & Agile CoachMindset Consulting, Llc Feb 2017 - Nov 2021Minneapolis, MinnesotaAs a Sr. SAP Delivery Lead, responsible for defining project delivery strategy, as well as the end-to-end delivery of 50+ high-value cloud-based UI5/Fiori applications for several Fortune 100 customers. As an Agile Coach, established the agile delivery center of excellence, expanding delivery organization by 10x, with 100% success rate on projects delivered to satisfied customers, evidenced by Net Promoter Score.-Rail Transportation, CA: S/4HANA Facility Tools, Customer Dashboard-Manufacturing, MN: Repetitive Manufacturing-Education & Medicine, MD: Employee Display-Consumer Products, IL: S/4HANA Sales & Purchase Orders-Medical Equipment, MN: S/4HANA Advisory & Managed Services-Energy / Utilities, NE: SAP Equipment Management & Reporting-University / Public Services, PA: Inventory Provisioning Apps-Dental & Animal Health, MN: CRM Sales Enablement Apps, EWM/ECC/Legacy SQL Inbound/Outbound Dashboard, & Fulfillment Center; $1.3M annual benefit.-Financial Services, NY: Invoice Approval & Advisory-Water, Hygiene and Energy Tech, MN: Agreement & Incentives Management for Mobile Sales Reps, Reporting Apps: Training cost reduction 90% per user, 100% adoption.-Agriculture, MN: Farmer Customer Portal, Design Thinking / Advisory-Medical Equipment & Devices, MN: Mobile App for Field Technician Service & Repair, Offline Mobile DT & PoC-Agriculture, Cargill; MN: EWM Route Monitor - Central America, ERP React Native Hybrid Mobile, Bank Asset Management, DevOps CI/CD, Europe, Supply Chain - North America including EWM, ECC, AWS, TM, PM, QM, WM, Leonardo, & S/4HANA back-end integrations.-Chemical, OH: In-Plant Inventory Management - ECC WM Data Management, Forecast, Order Planning, Sales Orders-Diversified Industrial & Consumer Products Technology, MN: Warehouse App - DevOps, Internal Movements, Receiving, and Shipping -
Sr. It Program Manager | Agile CoachUnitedhealth Group Dec 2014 - Feb 2017Eden Prairie, MnBig Data - Responsible for program and team-level leadership of large, high-value (blue chip) healthcare application software development, data integration, and analytics programs supporting Optum's clinical lines of business. As a PMO Agile Champion, provided coaching and portfolio-level strategic guidance to streamline delivery process flows, introducing new tools, practices, and methods of measuring growth across the organization over time.Healthcare IT Systems, HIPAA Compliance, MS Office, MS Project, Visio, SQL, Hadoop/Apache, Quality Center, Rally, VersionOne, Jira, MarkLogic, Jenkins, Drupal, Aha, GoToMeeting, WebEx -
Project Manager | Scrum Master - Digital & EcommercePerficient Jan 2012 - Dec 2014Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area-Retail, Target Corp (MN): IBM MB/MQ SOA Enterprise Architecture, Business Integration, Digital / Agile Transformation & eCommerce. Responsible for coordination of multiple cross-functional DevOps teams continuously integrating back-end database / legacy systems, with RESTful API design, development, testing, and integration for a variety of multi-channel front-end UX applications.-Public Services, State of MN (MN): Liferay ERP Portal Upgrade and Web Redesign: Responsible for end-to-end project delivery, including ownership of scope, schedule, and budget. Primary point of contact for program and project-level activities, responsible for facilitating collaboration of business and IT delivery teams.-Retail Consumer Electronics, Best Buy (MN): IBM BPMS Upgrade, BPM Workflow Creation, and Non-POS Recall Automation. Responsible for end-to-end delivery, providing oversight and approval of budget, staffing, and schedule for several interdependent programs and project teams.-Pharmaceuticals Benefits, Prime Therapeutics (MN): Adobe CQ5 / AEM Content Management System / Website Redesign. Responsible for providing direction and coaching of subject matter experts, facilitating resolution of key issues, and guiding the successful delivery of project objectives.-Financial Holding Company, UnionBank (CA): Responsible for leading rearchitecture and redesign of the corporate actions functionality within a banking application. Conducted stakeholder interviews and design thinking to elicit detailed business requirements, creation of UX wireframes, business process workflows, the creation of an interactive prototype for moderated usability testing, and onboarding of development team. -
Project ManagerEwings Associates 2011 - 2012Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaRetail, Target Corp (MN): Project Manager (Contract) responsible for coordinating a large matrix program to launch a new, experimental business model and process for launching the first suite of small footprint urban stores located in select cities. Facilitated steering committee events to align executive level resources responsible for the direction of numerous cross-functional workstreams. Responsible for project planning, systems administration, executive status, along with iterative, incremental, and re-usable pattern for future store launches, as well as new business formats. -
Sr. ConsultantFinancial Services 2004 - 2010Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaFunctional and technical subject matter expert for new banking, brokerage, and planning operations technologies including CRM, trading platforms, and information management systems as a result of new regulatory requirements and M&A activity. Worked with local and international cross-functional teams with a focus on test execution and discovery of new business requirements.Series 7, 63, 66 licensed Financial Advisor
David Otto Education Details
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Master Of Business Administration (Mba)
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David Otto works for Blueprint
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David Otto's current role is Technical Delivery Manager.
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David Otto attended University Of Minnesota-Duluth, Hamline University.
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