Head of the Agile DevOps Center for Enablement responsible for the definition and governance of the end-to-end technology delivery life cycle; Agile coaching & training; and DevOps tooling for New York Life. My teams help our value streams maximize value delivery for the business using Agile/DevOps tools and principles.

Balmville Ventures provides expert consulting in Agile software development, project management, business analysis, and organizational training and development.

Agile coach and trainer for Global Enterprise Technology Systems. Improved the role based training provided to Scrum Masters and Product Owners. Helped Product owners for over 20 teams develop the vision statement and scope for both their teams and their products. Facilitated the development of a coach’s community of practice.

Agile coach and trainer for Enterprise Data Systems teams at a large pharmaceutical benefits company.

Helped teams in Compliance line of business double their productivity and cut their time to market rate in half. Developed and ran Scrum & Agile training for teams and Lean & Agile transformation and leadership training for executives. Co-devleoped the Agile taxonomy and cadence for portfolio and program planning. Managed team level coaches and scrum masters.

Internal coach and trainer for 60+ development teams in four business units. Taught over 700 associates Agile topics including Scrum, Kanban, XP and SAFe. Standardized and improved the training for new Agile teams which covered the basics of Scrum and ADP’s scaled Agile SDLC. Helped over 80 teams transition to Agile leading them through their initial preparation, planning and Scrum kickoff. Led the planning efforts for large multi-team programs. Developed successful format for leading large scale multi- team Sprint review sessions. Co-created advanced classes for Product Owners and Scrum Masters. Helped the Product Management organization transition to a multi-level Product Owner structure.

Helped 13 development teams improve their understanding of Agile, Kanban, and Scrum. Created Agile workshops to help associates learn Scrum, Kanban, and effective Product Ownership. Improved the design and usage of Agile planning tools and development roadmaps. Administrator for internal installation of JIRA. Wrote the detailed SDLC documentation to allow the Agile process to pass audit requirements.

Provided project management, business analysis, and training for client projects. Specialized in Agile development techniques.

Provided project management for client projects. Manager of audit team for Multinational Bank responsible for auditing adherence to customer services processes

Provided project management, business analysis, and training for client projects. Specialized in Agile development techniques. Scrum Master / Project Leader for a large Pharma client development team creating health care plans using a propriety authoring tool. Scrum Master and Business Analyst at a CT based hedge fund on a team developing a system for analyzing bi-temporal financial data.

Co-managed a dynamic IT consulting practice which focused on aiding organizations transform their software development process using Agile development practices. Provided project management, business analysis, and QA automation aid for client development projects.
 Clients were primarily in the P&C Insurance market segment.

Product Owner for a development team responsible for the development and maintenance of a web based claims management system. Team consisted of 12 - 23 developers, analysts and QA staff. $6 million system with an annual ROI of $8 million produced on time and under budget. Provided initial business analysis for system requirements that guided the development for first 2 years.Product Manager. Managed the development portfolio of 3 teams totaling over 50 application developers, business analysts, and QA testers. Utilized Agile and XP project management techniques. Worked with direct managers of two of the teams to transition teams from Waterfall techniques to Agile. Managed customer relationships to cooperatively set priorities based on business needs and development capacity.