Greg Porter Rte,Sasm,Icp-Atf/Acc/Fdo,Csp-Sm Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Greater St. Louis

● Responsible for coaching, mentoring, empowering and guiding an agile release train (ART) consisting of seven software development scrum teams across a product at a Fortune 500 financial client.● Work closely with agile coaches, product leadership and team leadership to implement and encourage the use of SAFe and Lean-Agile practices and mindsets.● Remove, track and escalate impediments, manage and optimize the flow of value, and encourage cross team collaboration and communication using various tools, such as Jira, Aha!, Mural and Tableau.● Establish and communicate annual calendars for iterations, program increments (PIs) and deployments.● Plan and facilitate periodic SAFe events, including Program Increment Planning, Product Scrum of Scrums and RTE/SM sync.● Drive relentless improvement via various Inspect and Adapt workshops and retrospectives; assess the agility level of the ART and identify areas to improve.● Encourage the continuous flow of value by assisting with the improvement of devops and continuous delivery practices.

St Louis, Mo

● Spearhead the agile transformation of software development across the agency by implementing the scrum framework amidst a very challenging agency environment.● Fulfill the role of agile coach for all software development scrum teams, scrum masters and leaders across the agency.● Act as scrum master for two scrum teams supporting the development of a web component system for the brand sites of a large hospitality client● Empowered and coached the scrum teams and individuals to employ scrum practices such as grooming, planning, sprints, daily scrums and relentless improvement cycles to their software development deliverables, practices and processes.● Work to implement industry standard agile software such as Jira and Confluence to standardize sprint management, story definition and defect tracking as well as documentation across all projects.● Implement metrics using both story points and hourly estimates for measuring sprint velocity and reporting to help identify impediments to progress as soon as possible in order to minimize their impact on productivity.● Pivotal in the creation and guidance of a QA practice across all software development practices.

Greater St. Louis Area

● Responsible for the servant leadership over a department tasked with the design and development of a SaaS-based employee engagement product including a staff of 30-50 technology professionals.● Spearheaded the implementation of the agile methodology, scrum framework and Kanban method across the development teams.● Led the effort to become the company-wide agile practice leader and evangelist to encourage, foster and train agile/scrum practices with all scrum masters, project managers and leaders across Maritz Motivation.● Attained Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification and acted as primary scrum master for the SaaS scrum teams.● Worked closely with a third-party consulting partner to design and implement a combined internal and external engineering team that covered all aspects of the design and development of the SaaS product.● Implemented the first user experience practice by incorporating a user-centric design strategy of all product features.● Report on progress using metrics that facilitate strategic decisions and planning with peers and upper management through the implementation of formal Change Control Board and Executive Steering Committee processes.

Greater St. Louis Area

Responsible for the management, development, maintenance, upgrades, communication and training of technologies, architecture, development tools, source control management, change management, security, third party software packages, shared components, and department best practices, processes and procedures in support of the Maritz Travel application development teams.• Managed a team of 6-8 direct reports that included Java developers, Business Objects developers, architects and deployment specialists.• Led the design, implementation and yearly renewal of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) certification. Represent and oversee all security and personally identifiable information (PII) concerns for all Maritz Travel applications.• Managed several major application development upgrades that included all tiers of the application development environment (web, application, database, client/server and third-party packages).• Management of web, application and database servers including budgets, forecasting, consolidation and load monitoring.• Managed all infrastructure related projects and tasks for the department and served as the liaison to the Maritz infrastructure teams.

Greater St. Louis Area

Responsible for the management of a team of up to 10 Java developers and consultants to perform new development, maintenance, enhancements and production support of web applications supporting the needs of two major automotive clients’ incentive and recognition programs.

Greater St. Louis Area

Responsible for the management of a team of PowerBuilder and Java developers to perform new development, maintenance, enhancements and production support of a travel management system utilizing PowerBuilder, Java, Microsoft SQL Server, web service technologies, and an interface with a real-time airline reservation system.• Responsible for the European implementation of all internal and web-based U.S. systems of Maritz Travel Company. Performed a lengthy gap analysis of the differing business practices between the U.S., U.K., and German operations. Proposed solutions to differing business practices, support for multiple currencies, data formatting differences, and multiple language support for client web applications. Facilitated the review, revision and approval of the proposed solutions by representatives from the various offices. Managed all aspects of the development of the final solutions.

Greater St. Louis Area

Led a team of Powerbuilder developers to perform the requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and production support of a travel management system.

Greater St. Louis Area

Led a team of Powerbuilder developers through several major development projects, which included a quotations system, project management system, and material price maintenance system.

Greater St. Louis Area

Taught introductory and advanced programming courses in C, C++ and database management.

Greater St. Louis Area

Researched, designed and implemented a system that used bar coding technology for the tracking of mortgage files.