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Experienced IT professional with a decade of successful Agile transformations at scale in large enterprise organizations. Demonstrated ability to promote operational and cultural change. Facilitate value stream maturation through increased transparency and continuous improvement. Agile and Waterfall SDLC practical experience. Expertise in driving the imperatives that contribute to achieving Objective and Key Results (OKR) and improving Key Performance Indicator (KPI)s. Focused on building business values, governance adherence, and delivery efficiencies using Agile systems design. Army veteran! SKILLS:Steward individuals, teams, Value Streams, and Portfolios through Agile transformation | Teach, lead, and mentor cross-functional teams to build and continuously improve Agile principles and practices for various frameworks | Team and Agile Release Train event facilitation | Identify, monitor, analyze, and report key performance metrics, PI objective fulfilment, and risk mitigation progress | Emotional intelligence and organizational awareness to positively affect cultural norms and manage expectations | Fosters trust, transparency, and healthy conflict resolution | Leadership level appropriate communication | Comfortable in VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environments | Leverages Agile community resources | Business Process and Gap Analysis | Project Management | Schedule Management | Resource Management | Budget Management | Change Management | Artifact Management | Stakeholder Communication | Risk ManagementTools: JIRA Align | JIRA | Confluence | VersionOne | ServiceNow | AgilityHealth® | MS Office Suite | Google ApplicationsWaterfall SDLC Experience: Project Manager | Business Systems Analyst | Functional Testing Manager | Development Analyst