Business development, knowledge leader content productions, consulting and coachingMarch 2023 - PresentFirst Land Services Inc./Nextera Energy Resources, Palo, IA - Renewable Energy Land Services Agent• Cultivating enduring relationships with landowners for utility-scale renewable energy projects, reducing opposition and fostering partnerships• Facilitating communication between Construction Management and Land Owners, for smooth project execution• Salesforce CRM system implementation champion, becoming a principal agreement requestor and status reporter• Locate agreement request documents from public and private sources• Analyze title package documentation to determine how to document land ownership and payees in agreement requests• MISO Site control land ledger development• Coordinate land surveys, ensuring impacted landowners are notified and legal boundaries are known in the field• Notary Public for the State of Iowa

Leadership agility coaching practice development for Walmart Inc.Product team coaching practice development for Walmart Inc.• Coached leaders in an organizational pillar on structural impediments that create waste and prevent teams from being able to deliver value to stakeholders• Coached a pilot team in the pillar towards self-organization, empowerment and an experimental mindset

Desktop Services - Business Capability Agile Coach• Evolved a catalytic leadership mindset in Desktop Services leaders• Grew empathy on product teams for the people they deliver to so workis meaningful and teams are intrinsically motivated to deliver measurableoutcomes• Feedback from users who fit the personas in delivered user storiesincreased 53% across the product family• One of my product teams presented their objective and key resultslearning journey to company executives

Coached Walmart Inc. co-located and distributed product teams on their journey towards business agility• Employed journey mapping, user persona development, product roadmapping and value stream mapping to build a collective understanding of customers and what they value• Mentored Product Owners on regularly engaging stakeholders and end users in product experiments• Coached managers on persistent, dedicated product team formation that enables team empowerment and self organization • Empowered teams to experiment with agile frameworks and other ways to maximize the flow of work for their specific context• Advanced mindset shifts through formal training sessions, ad hoc workshops and real-time coaching• Partnered with peer coaches and Workforce Transformation partners on practices evolutionOutcomes and Results:• Sixteen teams and six leaders coached. Tied for highest lean-agile adoption rate (83%) of any coach despite coaching twice as many teams as any other coach• Distributed team members in Bangalore, IN became valuable regular collaborators using co-location emulation recommendations• Financial Performance Reporting teams aligned into three cross-functional product teams that were able to set up continuous integration pipelines• Machine Learning team streamlined their value stream, cutting cycle time in half• Machine Learning team’s team working agreement made it much easier to onboard new team members• Financial Data Visualization team employed rapid prototyping tools to validate stakeholder requests, enabling the team to incrementally deliver dashboards that tell the right stories versus over-engineered hard-to-use dashboards that were wasted efforts

• Scaled distributed teams as product development demand increased• Coached company co-founder to be a first-time Product Owner of an interactive education platform for a major publishing company - Project budget of over two million - Won awards from Horizon Interactive and EdTech - The platform involved technology that was brand new to the company, yet was delivered on schedule, in time for the back-to-school 2017 sales season - Established a “minimum viable product” mindset to minimize scope, elicit stakeholder feedback early in development cycles, and minimize wasted development efforts - Found ways to reach end-users to evolve the product appropriately - Utilized a variety of cloud-based monitoring and analytics to validate product hypothesis - Facilitated product roadmapping, user story development, business case development, building product backlogs, stack ranking the backlog, and backlog grooming activities• Facilitated the development and delivery of new product concepts, including simulations for college chemistry, and a three-dimensional medical rendering tool for an original equipment manufacturer (OEM)• Served as OEM customer liaison, demonstrating new product concepts, gathering feedback and building product backlog items based on feedback - Provided frontline resources with in-person and remote product training• Observed student end-users interacting with product offerings on a variety of hardware platforms to discover new problems to solveSkillsBusiness Intelligence: Google Analytics, Unity 3D Analytics, Jira Issue CollectorsProject Management: Scrum Framework, Atlassian Framework, Trello, Smartsheets,, telecommunication collaborationCollaboration Tools: Skype, Stride, Google Hangouts, Google Meet, Confluence, Trello Web: Unity3D WebGL, native WebGL, custom-built Ruby on Rails Content Management System with API support, React, CloudFront Managed Amazon Web Services, WordPress, custom-built software licensing, OAuth user validation

• Coached an Agile pod, paving the way for the adoption of Agile software development• Was principal architect of the company-wide software quality assurance infrastructure, providing real-time visibility into the progress of all software development efforts across the company• Developed customized Atlassian framework tools for issue management and asset repository creation• Authored the company-wide software quality assurance strategy, which is communicated to prospective clients - QA was brought into the software development life cycle sooner in order to reduce, rework, and improve estimate accuracy - Established an iterative process with multiple quality gates that reduced risk, and also aligned better with client priorities and timeline requirements• Collaborated with the Project Management team to create QA Jira tasks• Collaborated with Business Intelligence team to determine the most effective ways to validate dashboards setup for clientsSkillsBusiness Intelligence (BI): BI dashboard validation collaboration, Google Analytics, Bing Analytics, Crazy Egg, Microsoft Excel Analysis ToolPak, Jira Issue Collectors, application programming interface integration Project Management: Agile Pods, human resources forecasting, Atlassian Framework Risk Management: software configuration management, Continuous Integration, Extreme Programming Collaboration: Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Sharepoint, Microsoft Office 365, WebEx, join.me, DropBox

• Facilitated scrum teams creation, including establishing collocation areas, and scrum of scrum collaboration meetings• Collaborated with Quality Assurance Leads on the use of Confluence and Jira to facilitate cross-team collaboration and improve transparency

• Collaborated with Development Managers, Project Managers, and Business Analysts on estimating, scheduling, and managing development efforts• Mentored team members on effective backlog and sprint management – team delivered over ninety percent of planned work, exceeding departmental goal of seventy percent• Was the dedicated Quality Assurance resource, supporting a scrum team made up of six Software Developers, a Database Administrator, a Product Manager Liaison, and a Scrum Master• Selected to serve on company-wide committee which was tasked to come up with a road map with action items to make the Quality Assurance organization “world class”• While leading the company-wide Quality Assurance Best Practices Committee, recognized the need to improve Quality Assurance communication across the company, so founded bi-weekly Quality Assurance Manager collaboration meetings• Served on the Business Analyst Best Practices Committee• Led an internal Think Tank team to develop a marketing platform for patent considerationSkillsBusiness Intelligence: internal business intelligence dashboards, external business intelligence dashboards, internally-developed ISC tracking systems, source code tracking systems, Google Analytics, Bing Analytics, SQL Server Management, Mongo DB, application programing interface validation Project Management: human resources management, Microsoft Project, Scrum Framework, self-organized co-located teams, Jira, Confluence, company-wide best practices team leadership Collaboration Tools: SharePoint, Microsoft Office 365 Communicator, Confluence, Jira Testing Tools: Nessus Vulnerability Scanner, IBM AppScan, IBM Rational Functional Tester, Selenium Web Driver

• Collaborated with executives in Mortgage Compliance and Finance to develop a testing framework for the Mortgage Compliance piece of an organization-wide, service-oriented architecture project• Led a team of contractors to develop targeted use cases and test data for the framework• Used Mercury Quality Center for the requirements and testing repository

• Significantly improved testing efficiencies by developing and implementing data backup/restore and merging procedures for mainframe regression testing• Trained Quality Assurance Analysts on how to use the tools mentioned above• Reduced the time it takes to complete test cycles by developing automation methods for various portions of the testing process• Trained Quality Assurance Analysts on how to use automation methods for testing• Became the divisional expert on applying data-driven software automation; responsible for automating various labor-intensive computing processes• Trained operational personnel on how to use data-driven software automation tools• Was part of a select implementation team that was trained on the IBM Rational Unified Process• Used Java, SQL, XML and HTML regularly• Applied Tatham process improvement methodologies to IT system testing• Sold divisional leaders on using remote Win XP computer clusters to improve IT efficiencies

IST Quality Assurance Analyst (10/1999 - 12/2000) • Tested iterative software releases that led to the successful launch of the Mattel Interactive e-commerce website • Applied Total Quality Management techniques that improved the end user experience at the Mattel Interactive e-commerce website • Served as a liaison between internal business users and IT developers for client/server application development • Created and executed test cases and test plans, then wrote defect reports and design suggestions based on the resultsTechnical Support Representative (10/1997 - 10/1999) Outbound Sales Representative (10/1995 - 10/1997)