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Round Rock, TX, US

• Hands-on coaching of cross-functional Agile teams, DevOps, management, and executives in enterprise environments, focused on business value delivery of mission-critical projects while building or enhancing the.
• Help organizations organize and optimize their development and quality, while reducing time to market.
• Perform agile assessments and develop transformation plans.
• Train and coach development, delivery, DevOps, and business-unit teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, managers, and executives in Agile and Lean principles and practices, utilizing Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and/or Scrumban.
• Hands-on coaching and guidance for teams to use Agile methodologies and practices, and development techniques such as unit & automated testing, continuous integration (CI), etc.
• Identify and assess barriers and impediments to Agile success from the Team to the Enterprise, and work with appropriate levels to remediate and remove them, and help organizations scale their agile development.

Austin, Texas, US

• Agile Velocity provides Agile / Scrum training/coaching and technical practices guidance. The longest project (10 months) was with Louisiana’s largest private health insurance company and delivered their #1 project for.
• Train, mentor, facilitate, and support cross-functional development teams tasked in their adoption of Scrum, and their growth into high-performing Teams. Teams delivered on time, consistently exceeding the.
• Identified and helped resolve impediments, distractions, and barriers to Team success. Fostered collaboration at all levels to promote a successful Agile/ Scrum environment, and facilitate Team self-organization.
• Worked with Product Owners, stakeholders, development teams, and organizations to create vision, value stream mapping, roadmap, user stories, and acceptance criteria. Coached and mentored Sprint and Release planning.
• Directly introduced, coached, and guided a number of IT software, operations, and non-IT business unit teams on the mechanics of Kanban, SAFe, Agile, and Lean methods (including planning, self-organization.
• Provided introductory and advanced Agile/Lean/Scrum training to product owners, developers, testers, and managers.

Houston, Texas, US

• HP’s Enterprise Services - Enterprise Cloud Services/Virtual Private Cloud enables over 140 global private and public-sector clients to migrate into a hybrid managed-cloud environment and retire legacy platforms.
• Worked with software development, product management, and engineering/infrastructure teams worldwide (US, China, India, and Europe) with a major focus on improving quality, efficiency and performance, enabling a 300%.
• Direct and indirect management of the QA and testing teams, and introduced and nurtured many improved testing and deployment processes, including:
• All levels of automated testing, and continuous development and integration.
• Adoption of monthly releases instead of large bi-annual releases.
• Significantly improved production defect/enhancements prioritization and management.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Dell’s DX Object Storage solutions provide an elegant, self-managing, and cost-effective peer-scaling architecture for storage and distribution of digital content, from archiving all the way to service offerings in the.
• Led the Engineering team through multiple product development releases of Dell's DX object storage platform, and represented Engineering on core teams from definition to launch, and through sustainment. Acted as the.
• Mapped high-level marketing requirements to feature and test requirements for both in-house as well as vendor and partner development projects.
• Evaluated, prioritized and negotiated feature/schedule/cost tradeoffs as product and feature definitions were finalized.
• Performed root cause analysis of product issues delivered by technical support, field services, and internal testing, identified solutions, and managed product update releases when required, while ensuring appropriate.
• Developed and managed the development/test schedules, as well as vendor/partner and extended team interfaces.

Emeryville, CA, US

• Lyris provides leading integrated SaaS online marketing solutions encompassing email, search, and social and mobile channels, which bring email marketing, deliverability tools, content creation, and Web analytics.
• Developed and expanded the Agile understanding and practice throughout the development, QA, product management, operations, and management teams. Led multi-national teams with 17 direct and 6 indirect reports.
• Achieved 400+% productivity increases (and significantly improved morale) with Teams through direct coaching in an intensive reboot of Scrum, and XP practices such as TDD and Continuous Integration.
• Reduced open defects (which had increased 254% in the previous 16 months) by 66% in 2 months after assuming direct management of the sustaining team. Introduced Kanban and DevOps to the Sustaining, Continuous Delivery.
• Coached and partnered with Product Management and the Product Owners to set and attain business goals through development of the Vision, Product Roadmap, Release Plans, and User Stories, and obtain measurable business.
• Supervised overall release management, including release planning, release change control, release readiness and deployment of new features, updates, enhancements and patches to production.

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Hands-on project guidance to ensure completion of multiple development and architecture infrastructure projects on schedule and budget for Autodesk Collaborative Solutions, owner of Buzzsaw and Constructware, the leading hosted project collaboration services which enable dispersed project participants in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction.

Managed 2 programs for Harrah's Entertainment, Inc.: Offers Enhancement (a large conversion/enhancement of its core business-critical patron database system) and Concurrent Development (coordination of development, testing, and scheduling issues of numerous development projects which interfaced with the PDB system). The programs completed on-time and under.

Rancho Cordova, CA, US

Established a test group for a large Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) effort, and jump-started test automation development. Initiated and led integration/system test framework/harness development. Drove establishment of formal QA programs, and the introduction, training, and mentoring of inspections, reviews, and.

Provided engineering and management direction and expertise to start-up team delivering new and existing telecom/datacom device and applications testing and certification projects of varying scope/complexity. Identified business opportunities, supported sales, and negotiated/managed scope, schedule and cost issues. Established and developed test lab, led.

US

Directed 3 multi-site groups (software, system test, and systems engineering; 9 direct and 22 indirect reports) in 2 major and 5 international or maintenance releases, as well as multiple matrix-resourced HW/SW projects. Helped manage first-ever on-time major release (V9.0), with a 418% defect reduction to previous release. Reduced a 63% voluntary annual.

London, GB

Led initial field trials and system installations, and conducted system demos for customers and regulatory agencies of EZ-Pay™, the industry’s first distributed cashless wagering system. Managed concurrent system acquisition, configuration, delivery, installation, and 24/7 support projects. Technical liaison between customers, regulatory agencies and.

Business process and IT system reengineering and development for a large regional airline improving system uptime over 31%, while saving over $700,000 annually. Completed development, tested, and shipped Windows version of an issue tracking system for an ISV. Software and QA process analysis/consulting, for a large laboratory/medical equipment manufacturer.

Redmond, Washington, US

Managed 2 test and support teams which delivered the License Verification (three-tier IE/IIS/SQL web-based software registration) and Phoenix (global ERP implementation) projects on-time, with no open issues. Identified and drove SQA defects, issues, and concerns to resolution. Signatory responsibility for final product release, test plans, and protocols..