Providing agile consulting to organizations at the executive, program and team levels. ClientsFrom Fortune 10 to 1000 in the following industries: Entertainment, IT, Avionics, Retail, Financial, Insurance, Medical, Manufacturing, Semi-conductors Highlights:- Consulting with executive sponsors to build transformation roadmap. Established and worked with Lean-agile Centers of Excellence (LACE) and Coaching Office teams.- SAFe engagements – Implementing everything from… Show more Providing agile consulting to organizations at the executive, program and team levels. ClientsFrom Fortune 10 to 1000 in the following industries: Entertainment, IT, Avionics, Retail, Financial, Insurance, Medical, Manufacturing, Semi-conductors Highlights:- Consulting with executive sponsors to build transformation roadmap. Established and worked with Lean-agile Centers of Excellence (LACE) and Coaching Office teams.- SAFe engagements – Implementing everything from Essential to Full SAFe configuration, ranging in size from 50 to 1000 members.- Aligning to Value – Conducted Value Stream Identification workshops leading to future ART design. Refined ARTs over subsequent PI’s, including shared services teams.- Business Value – Emphasize role of Business in Agile Transformation and helped influence use of PI Objectives with Business Owner ratings to establish Program Predictability Measure. - Program Coach – Training and coaching of Program Teams (RTE, PM, Sys Arch) to nurture the mindset and culture of the agile transformation within the ART. - PI Planning and Execution – Helping prepare ARTs for upcoming PI Planning events, including implementation of Feature Kanban leading up to PI Planning. Helping Program Teams prepare presentations and coached RTE’s through PI Planning events.- Measure and Grow – Helping clients assess state of agile transformation, agile maturity and lay out improvement roadmap.Team Coach - coached several scrum ceremonies (backlog grooming, retrospectives). · SAFe Training – Teaching in public and private settings, including Implementing SAFe, Leading SAFe, SAFe PO/PM, SAFe for Teams, SAFe DevOps, SAFe Scrum Master and Advanced SAFe Scrum Master.- Agile for Business Teams – Trained and coached several organizations desiring to move to an agile way of working within their existing business teams, using Scrum and Kanban models. Measured success against desired vision/outcomes as well as assessment and interview feedback. Show less

Led agile development organization of over 50 people in North America and across the globe. Details:Agile Development- implemented enterprise agile process across entire organization as well as external vendors- recruited agile teams across North America and Europe- implemented agile delivery team responsible for execution at the program level- developed integration plans for external development- implemented agile tools and metricsProduct- responsible… Show more Led agile development organization of over 50 people in North America and across the globe. Details:Agile Development- implemented enterprise agile process across entire organization as well as external vendors- recruited agile teams across North America and Europe- implemented agile delivery team responsible for execution at the program level- developed integration plans for external development- implemented agile tools and metricsProduct- responsible for systems processing over 1 million claims and generating over $80M in revenue- delivered on solution achieving client ROI of $5.3M- product owner for insurance-based repair solutions- created analysis for new market solutionsBusiness- worked directly with senior management team- presented at client engagements- software budgeting, capex and opex- due diligence for corporate M&A Show less

Led agile development for flagship estimation product serving top auto insurance carriers. Managed engineering teams located throughout North America and Mexico. Details:Agile Development- implemented Scrum process across multiple teams- drove adoption of agile tools/methodologies such as CI and TDD- implemented agile metrics such as burn-down charts and code coverageProduct- responsible for systems processing over 1 million claims- supported features on… Show more Led agile development for flagship estimation product serving top auto insurance carriers. Managed engineering teams located throughout North America and Mexico. Details:Agile Development- implemented Scrum process across multiple teams- drove adoption of agile tools/methodologies such as CI and TDD- implemented agile metrics such as burn-down charts and code coverageProduct- responsible for systems processing over 1 million claims- supported features on current product as well as next-generation platform. Show less

Led agile development teams across North America in development of enterprise solution for the insurance industry. Details:Agile Development- implemented Scrum software development lifecycle- ensured Scrum practices such as daily standups and sprint retropectives- drove adoption of agile tools/methodologies such as CI, TDD, design patterns, modeling, branching strategy and unit testingProduct- responsible for systems generating $5 million in… Show more Led agile development teams across North America in development of enterprise solution for the insurance industry. Details:Agile Development- implemented Scrum software development lifecycle- ensured Scrum practices such as daily standups and sprint retropectives- drove adoption of agile tools/methodologies such as CI, TDD, design patterns, modeling, branching strategy and unit testingProduct- responsible for systems generating $5 million in revenueDesign- promoted advancements in N-tier architecture, involving design patterns (such as Command, and MVP) as well as performance improvements.- adopted Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) technology for smart client UI, enabling closer collaboration with design group.- integrated Workflow Foundation (WF) into core product. Show less

Collaborated with multi-site development teams in the UK, Croatia and San Diego. Interfaced with OEM partner from design through delivery phase. Details: Agile Development- trained with Ken Schwaber and certified as Scrum Master and Product Owner- performed role of Scrum Master on several teams- implemented sprint planning meetings, daily standups and sprint retrospectives- established agile practices such as CI and TDD- validated requirements in form of user… Show more Collaborated with multi-site development teams in the UK, Croatia and San Diego. Interfaced with OEM partner from design through delivery phase. Details: Agile Development- trained with Ken Schwaber and certified as Scrum Master and Product Owner- performed role of Scrum Master on several teams- implemented sprint planning meetings, daily standups and sprint retrospectives- established agile practices such as CI and TDD- validated requirements in form of user stories- implemented agile metrics such as burn-down charts and code coveragewrote code (UI) in each sprintProducts- Enterprise application to assist with organization and classification for documents entering business workflows.- OEM product built to integrate Kofax transformation modules with partner’s document capture/repository applications.Design- User-centered designTechnology/Tools- C#, NET 2.0, CAB, SQL Express, Infragistics, Data Mining, UML, Design Patterns, NUnit, NCover, Subversion, VMWare Show less

Lead development effort for a .NET enterprise application used by a major non-profit organization. Used UML modeling together with a "light RUP" process. Managed project deliverables, customer contracts, budgets, resources, schedules, project teams.Also performed use case analysis with customer and functional spec implementation.Tools/technologies: ASP.NET, VB.NET, SQL Server 2000, web services.

Designed and built E-Commerce System for online sales of company software and collateral. Wrote Vision Document for proposed retirement software package.Tools/technologies: ASP.NET, IIS/Commerce Server, C#., web service, SQLServer, triggers/stored procedures, Win2000 Server and Workstation.

Designed and developed several features of CypherCast TM conditional access system, including Java Decryption Manager, IPTV, streaming encryption and persistent encryption prototypes.Tools/technologies: Java 2, log4j, observer pattern, Open Card Framework (OCF), Red Hat Linux (7.1), AES encryption algorithm

Designed and implemented server-side components for Digital Rights Management (DRM) software. Worked in RAD development cycle, involving frequent design reviews, code inspections, prototyping, unit tests and mini-releases. Managed junior engineer and coordinated schedule/resources with rest of team.Tools/technologies: J2EE, Apache, JRun, servlets, JSP, EJB and XML, RSA, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).

Consulted with Qualcomm, Intuit, GERS, Litton, Mitchell International, Bridge Medical, Imageware, Trilodyne and RJP Associates. Tools/technologies: UML, Visual C++, MFC, ATL, STL, Oracle, SQL Server, ADO, COM, MTS, NT Services, multithreading and firewalls.

Built host controller to track product information, download setpoints and respond to real-time events. Created quality data system via C/RDB to record inspection results associated with production. Worked on applications to interface with MRP II system.Tools/technologies: C, C++, RDB

Modified command interpreter for Tektronix graphics language, written in C. Revised CP/M disk formatting program.