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Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

- Collaborate with Amtrak Agility Enablement to influence change within the transformation as well as to create greater awareness of the lean agile mindset across the enterprise- Facilitated the launch, and maturity of The Amtrak Discover ART, acting as a change agent, and facilitator of relentless improvement through 3 planning intervals (PIs)- Facilitated the launch of Amtrak’s Agile CoP, including the facilitation of Lean Coffees that are attended by 4 ARTs, as well as enterprise-wide technologists, and business partners with the goal of expanding agility across the enterprise- Spearheaded the launch of Amtrak Digital Technology’s first Hackathon, collaborating with Amtrak Innovation and other ART leaders

🎙️ As the Co-Host of The Agile for Agilist Podcast, I facilitate inspiring, authentic and at times vulnerable conversations with scrum masters, agile coaches, and agile product development leaders. In each episode I get the opportunity to have deep and meaningful discussions along with my co-host Brad Nelson, and guest about the state of agile, and share contrasting agile stories and experiences as an agilist on a crazy agile journey. 🚀

Deerfield, Illinois, Us

- Lead a team of professionals in designing, developing, and implementing effective client engagement strategies and solutions architecture that support the development of highly innovative solutions to complex customer challenges.- Cultivate and maintain relationships with key stakeholders within client organizations, including executives, business unit leaders, and other decision-makers building trust and improving internal communication within client organizations. - Conduct in-depth analysis of clients' businesses to identify areas where our expertise can add value aligning each unique business need to a technical solution.- Manage the delivery of client engagements, ensuring that all project objectives are delivered with high quality, innovation and are on time and on budget.- Provide thought leadership and strategic guidance to clients, helping them to identify and pursue new opportunities for growth and innovation resulting in increased efficiency and revenue.

■ Act as a change agent and guide, providing coaching to executive leadership emphasizing lean and systems thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance.■ Change agent and mentor to product leadership, improving feature to story refinement practices and adoption of continuous exploration/integration/deployment practices facilitating the flow of value through the CI/CD Pipeline.■ Collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders, to develop the practice of design thinking, customer centricity, while emphasizing the principles of developing on a cadence with release on demand■ Conduct Product Owner, Scrum Master and DevOps certification training, in addition to conducting product development workshops, establishing communities of practice, and facilitation of value stream and OKR workshops

New York, New York, Us

■ Coached and facilitated MadHive’s transformation, and adoption of the business agility mindset, culture, practices, and methodologies, enabling MadHive to shift from a start-up into a scale-up ■ Created a foundation and continuous source of inspiration and energy for shifting MadHive's culture by coaching and training executives, managers, and leaders on the principles of business agility ensuring that we are continuously building sustainable capabilities within a model of flow that promotes stability and predictability■ Established a Business Agility Office (BAO) comprised of scrum masters as multi-dimensional agile coaches empowering them to coach beyond the boundaries of teams into all areas of MadHive’s value stream■ Unified MadHive’s once siloed Customer Success, Product, Sales, and Engineering teams into cross functional and collaborative squads, able to serve entire segments of end-to-end value within MadHive’s value stream■ Instituted metrics, data and evidence-based decision-making leveraging WSJF for prioritization and comparison of dissimilar bodies of work, WIP limits to improve quality, and feedback loops to increment the delivery of value

New York, Ny, Us

■ Acted as a change agent and guide, providing coaching to executive leadership emphasizing the increased stability and predictability gained from transitioning from project-based thinking to Lean/Agile product thinking■ Coached leadership to establish capacity for transition in parallel to delivery, empowering product managers, architects and teams the space to plan a sustainable product delivery roadmap inclusive of improvement items■ Established a mindset of decentralized systems thinking through empowering systems architects, vendor architects and lead engineers to form an architectural center of excellence, enabling asynchronous planning and delivery for each future sprint and product increment■ Facilitated backlog and roadmap refinement ceremonies with key leadership across product, engineering, and business units to assemble a 6 sprint and backlog, and future state roadmap based upon a shared understanding of WSJF ensuring alignment.

San Mateo, California, Us

■ Managing Consultant and Enterprise coach for Post Office (UK) working with executive stakeholders and CTO to launch 3 agile release trains. ■ Enterprise Coach at Pratt and Whitney across multiple early maturity software and manufacturing ARTS

East Hartford, Ct, Us

○ Operated across multiple vertical slices of Pratt & Whitney’s leadership teams, PMOs, and business units to provide guidance, and insight into developing agile practices and POCs within respective areas of authority, establishing trust as a consulting coach.○ Coached and transitioned internal stakeholders and external delivery managers to leverage collaborative Lean/Agile setting aside the relationship defined within their traditional waterfall-based contracts○ Provided agile training to manufacturing leadership teams enabling a POC for the transition to 3-D modeling-based manufacturing of parts.

London, England, Gb

▶︎ Enterprise Agile Coach and RTE for two Agile Release Trains launches▶︎ Coached key stakeholders at the portfolio, program and product level to reorganize, and transform from project based thinking to Lean/Agile product development.▶︎ Conducted 3 PI Plannings, introducing the concept of Objective & Key Results to facilitate growth big-picture goals and targets▶︎ Launched Lean/Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) to assist the team's ability to identify impediments, and develop plans of attack

New York, Ny, Us

■ Acted as chief scrum master, and coach for a team of 30+ system architects, software and quality assurance engineers in support of HBO’s end to end media workflow orchestration platforms ■ Facilitated product roadmap and feature development for HBO’s self-service workflow configuration tool allowing business teams to onboard retailer schemas and custom settings■ Coordinated product delivery efforts with cross-dependent teams, product owners and leadership to define product vision, ensure alignment of product roadmap, identification of milestones, impediment resolution■ Served as liaison and bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders for user story authoring and reporting on project roadmap

Purchase, Ny, Us

Consultant, inserted at the scrum master layer across two scrum teams• Scrum master and SAFE scrum coach; across two distinct scrum teams in support of MasterPass software development• Coach and mentor; developer, QA, product, and architecture, teams to ensure continuous improvement of velocity• Collaborate with PMO and product owners; ensuring that the backlog is consistently groomed, and release train in on track

West End, Queensland, Au

■ Coached the re-development of the product roadmap; and improved delayed product launch by a full quarter■ Coached scrum teams, implementing lean and agile based methodologies; enabling programming teams to track enhancements, assign priority, and achieve continuous development, release, and review cycles

London, Gb

• Managed team of senior content/platform architects and media specialists in support of maintaining and expanding Pearson’s global content standards and semantic model (ePUB/EDUPUB) for narrative, assessment and interactive.• Oversaw project plan for Digital Asset Management (DAM), Content Management, (CMS), in support of content distribution• Responsible for a budget of over $6M in internal resources, vendor contracts, and licenses.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Devised new strategy for content conversion and quality assurance, resulting in a 71% reduction in per title production costs, while improving throughput to 200 titles per month: an overall increase in efficiency by over 320%.• Executed domestic & global distribution workflows for launch of Nickelodeon’s viable backlog of over 200 titles in less than 3 months across three key online digital eBook retailers in over 160 international and domestic markets. Realized a 75% increase in backlog conversions within one year.• Facilitated growth by creating a culture of process and success; harnessed in house production development potential into a cohesive project management process, tying to product delivery, and tracking KPIs

New York, Ny, Us

Managed the custom media team and oversaw the development of 112+ custom media products for universities and high schools; providing direct real-time support and assisting in the closure of sales contracts. • Restructured internal production process, decreasing costs by 63% through revised workflow & new vendor selection, a $300k+ savings• Implemented department wide process change, leading to the recovery of over 63 PM man-hours monthly • Decreased custom media related instances of technical support calls by 19% though creation of enhanced documentation and pre-launch training sessions

New York, Ny, Us

• Lead projects as producer, strategist & product manager; responsible for information architecture, user experience, interactive strategy, technical writing, project management, and client relationship.• Drafted and authored, wireframes, style guides, creative briefs, SOWs, and functional spec documentation• Project List Includes: shuemura.com Ecommerce Site (US & EU) and, LOreal.com Ecommerce US

New York, Ny, Us

Strategic Consulting and Development, Online Brand Management, Custom Application Development, Website Design, SEO, New Media Analysis, Community Development• Coordinated contractual design and development with clients and managed 27 contracts in a 15-month period• Defined business needs and product requirements for multiple web-based interactive media & marketing launches

Fremont, California, Us

Field Service Engineer - Chemical Vapor Deposition and Copper Plating Tooling- Novellus Final Test San Jose, CA- IBM/Phillips East Fishkill, NY- Novellus R&D E. Tualitin, Or

Washington, Dc, Us

5 year US Navy veteran in service of Operation Southern Watch. Honorable discharge with good conduct and letter of commendation from Rear Admiral Albert Sacket.

Aviation Electronics, Avionics

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