Gary K. Evans Email & Phone Number

South Carolina, United States

Senior Agile Coach and Lean consultant. Experienced in team transition and organizational transformation.Agile Coach (Principal Scrum Master) for 10 teams and 6 Scrum Masters pursuing Amazon Web Services-based rewrite of South Carolina Medicaid services.Agile Coach for major U.S. health insurance company in their first agile team transition from traditional, Waterfall development. • Successfully guided Scrum Masters and five teams engaged in DevOps pipeline, mainframe development in COBOL, and Web API applications in organization's first Agile transition. • Trained Product Owners in their new role and proper story writing.• Established Scrum Master collaborative community.Agile Coach for fourth largest U.S. background check company.• Inaugurated Agile delivery with first team developing new product line using Amazon Web Services to replace legacy services.• Served as Scrum Master concurrently for two product teams.• Coached new Product Owners coming out of PM roles.• Now working at Program level across five product teams with additional offshore teams.Scaled Agile consultant with U.S. automobile manufacturer. • Responsible for aligning teams to meet program goals within vehicle product cycle.• Conducted multi-team planning with IT group to identify functional delivery rather than milestone management.• Developed operational model for team interactions.

Member of small, deeply-experienced team leading roll-out of agile across the BoA enterprise worldwide to over 30,000 technical associates. • Established global strategy for Agile at the bank. Aligned enterprise Agile and Kanban concepts and practices to corporate standards for change within the regulatory environment. Provided strategic consulting to senior Line of Business executives to develop transition plans for successful adoption. • Delivered the BoA Agile Framework as a 3rd generation aggregation of Scrum, Extreme Programming and Lean principles. • Wrote and delivered training and content to world-wide associates. Provided support and content for corporate website for Lean-Agile guidance and education, serving over 3,000 visitors a month. Coordinated and presented in biweekly Agile Practitioners' community of over 3,800 members. Wrote and regularly delivered training material worldwide to introduce agile ideas and practices; personally trained over 10,000 associates across the enterprise. • Provided embedded coaching to agile program and project teams experiencing impediments. Authored and conducted maturity assessments of agile teams and practices.

Agile process coach on Java & .NET projects. I helped groups deliver the right software faster than they ever thought possible.Mentoring and coaching accomplishments: • Served as agile coach and software architect on $5MM+ project for largest food services company in U.S. Handheld computers enable field service personnel to capture product and sales data, upload data to branch system which interfaces with centralized data repository and SAP software. Trained business analysts in requirements capture using stories and use case techniques. Trained developers in UML and component-modeling techniques and led the development of system UML models.• Coach and software architect on an aggressive rewrite of Membership Enrollment product for a major U.S. supplemental insurance company. Trained development and business team members (24) in OOAD and use case development. Coached project leads in developing project/iteration plans, led agile, just-in-time analysis and design object modeling, trained .NET C# developers in agile development approach, Test-Driven Development, and established Product Owner interfaces, daily meetings, and paired-programming practices on project. • Coach and software architect for the ground-breaking QuickCheck™ self-checkout system for grocery stores. Employed agile development approach that focused on short iterations, rapid delivery and immediate feedback from the Product Owner. The QuickCheck™ system is a distributed, event-driven, multi-user, multi-tasking architecture implemented using Java, RMI and publish-subscribe technologies driving audio, video and real-time messaging. Case study published at: http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/184414763.• Team mentor and software architect for a Java middleware system integrating gasoline fuel pumps with a grocery store Point Of Sale back-office system (IBM Supermarket Application). Original development budget of $1.2 million dollars; system was delivered on-time for $400,000.

Columbia, South Carolina

Managed 3 development groups of 22 people: operating systems, utilities, communications products.

Bs, Computer Science (High Honors)

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society

Ba, Philosophy