Working closely with client teams & leadership to reduce business risk while improving business process efficiency. By using modern lightweight & generative methods including Flow Engineering, Value Stream Mapping, Business Agility, and Data Governance we are better equipped to build better data driven decisions and do so more efficiently.

Combining deep scaled agile & DevOps experience with organizational learning & continuous improvement to enable impressive productivity gains and collaborative data driven decisions. Working with individual core teams as well as leadership on organizational structure, frameworks, and culture by providing the guidance needed for digital transformational success. In leveraging tools and techniques such as Agility Health Radar, Value Stream Management, immersive dojo upskilling experiences, systems & design thinking we are built on what we started as VW.AC for CARIAD, Inc. Now more than 15 teams in total I have directly created multiple cross functional and highly capable self-organized teams that continue to deliver strong results for our customers across numerous major milestones and serve as strong inspiration for other teams to replicate. I assist with broader organizational culture through scale events such as SoS, Communities of Practice, Dojo style training and optimized PI Planning. At an organizational level I focused on the agile craft and consistency across the organization by using of Agility Health Radar to capture the current state regarding agile and DevOps maturity including higher level adoption of SAFe.

Sr. Scrum Master for multiple geographically disperse teams working to improve performance of agile teams and Agile Coach to executives to bring culture, tools and techniques across the organization while introducing DevOps mindset including observability, feedback and automation. Drove IP Iteration involving cross team retrospectives, big room planning as well as organizational learning in the form of brown bags, Dojo oriented tiger teams and RCAs.

Working with large Business Intelligence team to take on bold agile transformation & DevOps adoption. Drove many aspects of cultural change, agile training, tools & techniques as well as growth mindset. As RTE I worked directly with executive leaders and collaboratively with v-team through first two big room PI Planning events.

As Scrum Master for multiple teams within Release Engineering at Minecraft I was highly effective at building capable high performing DevOps teams that delivered strong results that contributed to the overall success of the studio. Leveraged extensive skills and experience in live operations, quality assurance and release management to drive team performance and process improvements. Owned improvements to large scale complex multiple platform pipelines, automated testing & reporting systems as a core element enabling all other teams. As Agile Coach worked with other coaches and leadership to establish supportive organizational structures and scale events including SoS, Big Room Planning, growth and large scale cross team demos. Drove advancement of unit testing, code coverage and pairing to advance quality and significantly increase release on demand confidence.

As part of Solutions IQ I worked directly with client POs to define project backlog for large database cloud migration to Azure then drove successful outcome by working closely with multiple project teams using agile methods including Scrum, TDD, CI/CD and XP.

Used agile methods to drive improvements in product quality and process improvements to reliably increase release velocity resulting in Groove Music being the top rated 1st party app. Drove various experiments, competitive analysis & deep dive investigations resulting in a continuous stream of data driven high value feature and process improvements. Mentored other teams on how to replicate the new state of the art that we created.

Owned test leadership over several features within the Games Hub and also Music+Video Hub of Windows Phone through several major releases. This included assisting with feature design, costing, test planning and execution along with test automation, account provisioning, Xbox LIVE service integration, game integration, performance and much more. Coordinated testing with partner teams, processed defects/feedback, solved technical and precedural problems as well as drove several initiatives designed to reduce testing costs, raise quality and ultimately increase the value delivered to customers.

Test leadership over many amazing rapid release social internet projects as well as process experiments within Microsoft Live Labs. Bringing new tools and process experiments together to enable our Start-Up Factory to churn out exciting new projects at a rapid pace using micro-teams.Bridged the gap between research and traditional product groups by thoughtfully eliminating excess requirements. After building a new team we released several projects including an internal crowd sourcing feedback tool as well as large scale communities like Listas and Photosynth. Implemented the Privacy Review Road Show, Common Elements Test Plan and other project startup rituals that enabled the teams to focus more on innovations instead of the process and ritual around it.

While Bungie was part of Microsoft as a game studio, I lead the test effort for very successful gaming community Bungie.net with rich integration with Halo 2 and Halo 3 as well as Xbox LIVE. Selected and then worked closely with an external vendor for high performance forum feature and created a big win-win.Lead various IT projects and deployments including onboarding two new buildings and other infrastructure details needed to spin-off from Microsoft.Lead test effort for game features and ongoing maintenance on Halo 2 in support of additional game add-ons and updates.Release Manager for Halo 2 and several downloadable updates and content packages. This included driving titles through a rigid certification process, negotiating waivers and golden master production.Drove the process to refine monthly multiplayer map playlist changes for Halo 2 through exhaustive play-testing and community interaction. Also implemented a creative solution to manage the official Bungie dedicated servers and playlists for Halo PC.

Started as the stress and performance lead over MSN then took on the QFE process and eventially the entire MSN Channels group of rich content sites covering a variety of topics. Within MSN Channels I managed a great test team that owned most of the click-through properties from MSN. This included 15 properties that each had unique features, audience and partner relationships. I met with and worked closely with numerous external partners to keep the quality bar very high. I personally handled all deployment choreography and hand-offs to operations. Created the MSN Channels Partner Certification guidelines that help partners to understand and then meet the criteria from providing content to the parent site while meeting performance and availability requirements.