At Kobumura LLC, I’ve led our mobile app startup from pre-seed into growth stage. My focus is on driving technology strategy and innovation, leveraging AWS cloud services and modern engineering practices to enhance efficiency and scalability. I oversee the development of our Android and iOS apps, manage all vendor relations, and ensure our technical vision aligns with business objectives. It has been a challenging and rewarding journey, steering the tech side of the business while taking chances, pushing boundaries and fueling our expansion all while learning firehose-style!A few key achievements in this tenure include:• Developed and launched LittleTalks, mobile app that enables parents to engage with children through customizable characters and personalized messages, available on App Store and Google Play.• Designed and deployed BACON (Benchmarking, Analysis, and Campaign Optimization Navigator), dynamic web application offering in-depth analytics on advertising performance to enhance decision-making and optimize ad spend.• Enhanced product evolution by instituting agile feedback mechanisms that allow us to quickly prioritize development based on customer input.• Drove marketing success and boosted new customer sign-ups by producing a 90-second commercial and three social media shorts.

At Wells Fargo, I played a pivotal role in transforming modern engineering practices. I designed and rolled out a "Second Wave" agile roadmap, focusing on a successful SecDevOps initiative. My mission was to elevate team capabilities, ensuring they delivered rapid and high-quality solutions that met corporate standards. I facilitated the integration of advanced practices to boost efficiency and confidence in project outcomes and developed strategic approaches to empower teams to meet rigorous delivery standards while optimizing quality assurance processes.A few key achievements in this tenure include:• Boosted developer testing throughput by scaling unit, regression, TDD, and functional testing training from 40-55 participants every five weeks to 250 per week, streamlining program and introducing self-directed learning components.• Championed the implementation of streamlined server provisioning, cutting server turnaround from over eight months to just five business days.• Established QWADS program to facilitate cross-organizational collaboration on OKRs, leveraging data analysis to uncover and address bottlenecks and inefficiencies.• Assisted in the design and pilot of ADOPT program to drive leadership and organizational change through training modules covering leadership, organizational agility, engineering practices, cloud fundamentals, product development, agile activation, and SM/KL upskilling. Program implemented org-wide and became required training for managers / leadership.• Developed and executed comprehensive certification initiative for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud certifications, achieving goal of 80% cloud certification for engineers.• Collaborated with senior leadership to identify and elevate engineering managers as cultural change agents, integrating into high-impactexperimental group with top-level support.• Partnered with Data Warehousing team to integrate developer tool data, generating observability analytics for development teams.

Here, I played a crucial role in reshaping culture within DevSecOps and agile teams. I tackled internal process inefficiencies and led the transition from on-premises resources to cloud-based hosting. By securing executive buy-in and financial backing, I set a precedent for a successful experiment that inspired statewide adoption across all departments. I drove the strategic vision for cloud adoption, aligning resources with organizational goals, and directed the implementation of an automated service request system that streamlined operations and boosted efficiency.My support also extended to the executive team, ensuring a smooth integration of agile methodologies.A few key achievements in this tenure include:• Eliminated process inefficiencies and redundant handoffs by pinpointing and addressing bottlenecks in service departments.• Streamlined FedRAMP onboarding by designing and implementing efficient processes using ServiceNow.• Implemented ATO provisional approval process using ServiceNow, automating creation of ATO packages and reducing authorization time from9-18 months to under two weeks.• Advanced CIO's vision and values across domestic and international departments, reinforcing alignment with set goals.• Enhanced training programs for IT team managers and supervisors at foreign posts, supporting professional development and operational effectiveness.

At the VA, I took on a multifaceted role as a Project Manager, Agile Coach, and DevOps Evangelist for the Veterans Administration’s My HealtheVet program. I integrated telemetry and system monitoring to quickly tackle technical issues, ensuring that we consistently met our ambitious goal of 99%+ uptime by automatically notifying and assigning problems. My work involved enhancing performance and job satisfaction by coaching scrum masters, delivery managers, and product owners to drive high-quality software delivery.A few key achievements in this tenure include:• Reduced production delivery time from four to five months to bi-weekly by leading agile transformation for 110 team members, with project serving as model for VA's digital services transformation.• Implemented CI/CD pipeline to streamline development and deployment processes. Handpicked and led dedicated team to increase automated testing coverage on legacy code from 0% to 60%+, significantly improving code quality. Effort resulted in 92% reduction in production bug discovery upon reaching coverage threshold.• Developed Jira and Tableau dashboards for government POCs to visualize work progress and identify controllable bottlenecks, improving transparency and project management. Enhancement improved relations between client and development teams by providing real-time feedback in easy-to-digest format, alleviating long-standing tensions.• Enhanced SDLC workflow by integrating Jira, Slack, Jenkins, and SonarQube into development environment, which improved team efficiency and provided greater transparency to clients that had previously been lacking.• Executed migration of 262 servers from government data center to AWS GovCloud within five months, accelerating process from initially projected 18 months.• Contributed to Cerner rollout by managing data integration between Cerner and ViSTA systems for two VA hospitals.