Elton Smith Email & Phone Number

Portland, OR, US

• Working remotely with Medtronic supporting the Medtronic Delivery Framework (MDF).
• Started off as a trainer and team coach, then added being a product owner for the application supporting MDF.
• Supported teams in Asia Pacific.

Scottsdale, Arizona, US

• Scrum Master for three point-of-sale teams supporting Nike stores in 40 countries
• Worked closely with the Nike Retail Commerce program team on scaling and quarterly planning improvements

San Mateo, California, US

• Trained and coached an Agile Release Train at Google with their first SAFe PI Planning meeting
• Worked with T-Mobile on Agile Transformation
• Trained teams at Maxar on using Jira Align (AgileCraft)

Santa Clara, CA, US

• Worked as an Agile Coach at Marketo in Portland Oregon
• Worked as an Agile Coach at Walgreens Boots Alliance in Deerfield Illinois
• Traveled to Poland to deliver SAFe Agilist classes
• Traveled to Singapore to assist with Singtel Agile process set up

• SAFe Team Coach working with Scrum teams in the Product Excellence group
• Created original training material and trained Product Owners and Scrum teams
• Assisted Scrum Masters and teams in SAFe release planning and execution
• Coached 10 teams and 3 programs on embracing Agile and using VersionOne effectively

Austin, Texas, US

When my contract at Rent-A-Center ended, the CEO of AgileCraft asked me to help with the design of their next release. For two months I worked remotely with their very talented UX designer to align the new screens with SAFe on three levels (team, program and portfolio).

Plano, TX, US

• Enterprise Agile Coach, working with people at all levels in the company
• Coached Agile teams (approximately 20), Scrum Masters and Product Owners
• Implemented the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and trained Release Train Engineers
• Facilitated a SAFe PI Planning meeting with over 100 participants
• Using Scrum and SAFe, the company was able to complete and install a POS system in over 2800 stores across North America
• Created course material and trained teams on using Scrum and Kanban

At AT&T I coached a collocated eCommerce team working in a very chaotic environment. Shortly after I arrived, the Product Owner had to leave the country because of a family emergency and I became his temporary replacement. I worked with the team, training them to use Rally and developing a backlog of User Stories. In one sprint we managed to triple their.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

At Good Technology I worked with three software development teams concurrently as a Scrum Master. Two of the teams delivering a secure browser in Android and iOS. The secure browser is part of the Good For Enterprise (GFE) product, available for both Android and the iPhone. The third team I worked with was extending IBM's Domino email and calendar tool for.

Austin, TX, US

E2open provides cloud based supply chain management services. I was the Scrum Master for several teams in Dallas and Austin. The teams used Rally to keep up with Agile requirements and Atlassian Confluence for team wikis.

Houston, Texas, US

At EDS, I initially worked in the BlueSphere organization as a consultant delivering eCommerce solutions to clients. When demand for these services slowed, I moved to internal development and built web applications for EDS corporate use. Next, I supported the EDS Fellows organization for several years as a software developer. It was here I enhanced the.

Dallas, TX, US

I worked as a software developer in a variety of positions at TI. I developed mainframe systems (personnel administration and accounts payable) in the 80's. My focus turned to manufacturing support as I worked with semiconductor factories on reengineering and robot control in the 90's. My first experience with Scrum was after attending the OOPSLA 95.