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Kirkland, WA, US

Kirkland, Washington, United States

• Mentor, guide, and empower consultants in career development for higher retention and increased versatility for clients
• Lead cross-functional teams to provide highest value product improvements first
• Increase staff retention rate through mentoring, developing community, and improving hiring practices
• Interview candidates for ability to deliver Lean & Agile services, a consultative mindset, technical skills, and versatility
• Manage 10+ direct reports to empower them in career development, assist with matching to engagements, and connect with account leaders
• Lead quarterly in-person and/or on-line community building events for consultants from all accounts

Kirkland, WA

• Clearly communicate responsibilities, expectations, and mediate when role confusion causes conflict enabling flow and reducing churn
• Build team trust and unity through intentional interactions and behaviors yielding open communication through trust and mutual respect
• Culturally sensitive management and communication

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Coached five teams of Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Business Focused Product Owners in applying Agile methods within data hypothesis, data dictionary definition, and Databricks notebook development
• Defined Quick Start curriculum for improving Daily Stand-ups across 80 teams
• Metrics based assessment model based on feedback from key stakeholders and teams

San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible Epic Owner to deliver three high priority (“glass ball”) initiatives to address security audit findings for IoT Digital Farming SaaS provider
• Provided delivery leadership across 5 agile teams, ultimately increasing velocity by 20%, and clarifying teams’ collective understanding of the path to remediation

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Empowered delivery of four Scrum Teams providing FCC licensing data for Spectrum Asset Management business/legal teams
• Supported teams in Scrum methodology, continuous improvement, and backlog development
• Clearly communicated of risks, impediments, and priorities between on-shore and off-shore team reducing inter-continental churn and reducing defects by 35%
• Worked with Data Scientists and Data Engineers to make Jupyter notebooks useful in product demos without intermediary image manipulation or translation through Excel for streamlined work process reducing developer time.

Issaquah, Washington, United States

• Responsible to identify and select digital learning options for individual contributors to self-service upskill
• Provided on-request Kata sessions to teams for practicing new skills with active feedback and assistance
• Led Katas/Dojos for developers and quality analysts to learn TDD and CI/CD concepts

Greater Seattle Area

• Improved agile technical practices within local Blue Cross affiliate Agile Release Train increasing velocity by 60%
• Led SQL Testing, Mob Programming, Pre/Post PI Planning coaching, and PI Planning facilitation leading to increased value delivery
• Coach team collaboration, self-organization, Feature/Story writing, WIP Limits, Agile product management, and value stream alignment
• Scrum Master 1:1 coaching
• Responsible for facilitating TDD practices within T-SQL/C# environment; led mob programming for four teams at local Blue Cross affiliate. Coach team collaboration, self-organization, Ci/CD and TDD for Claims & Payments.

Bothell, Washington, United States

• Led hybrid remote/in-office team to increase cross-functional skill, improve delivery predictability by 40%, and build culture of collaboration within team through Scrum events and methodologies
• Coach delivery teams on maximizing flow, minimizing WIP, and iterative refinement of product backlogs

Florence, South Carolina Area

• Implemented Agile/Scrum processes for distributed and in-office teams of software developers, testers, designers, and SRE/DevOps
• Coached scaled delivery across teams enabling successful delivery of work based on business value
• Directly oversaw new teams with sprint 0 planning and implementation
• Facilitate team workshops for teams to understand Agile and Lean principles, Scrum, Kanban, and individual and team roles/responsibilities
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
• Track and analyze metrics to empirically determine and improve progress and performance

Florence, South Carolina Area

• Budget forecasting & budget management for software user conference drawing 800-1200 guests annually
• Vendor selection and contract negotiation
• Pre-conference site visits, conference creative alignment, entertainment procurement, and venue relationship development
• Partnered with Disney, Marriott, and Omni hotels’ event and hospitality staff
• Coordinated production vendors (lighting, audio, video, graphics, videographers, photographers, and contract entertainment) to produce seamless event

Greater Seattle Area

• Successfully navigated building customer facing access portal product in an Agile/Scrum methodology within an airline regulatory system using waterfall style requirements delivery
• Ruby on Rails based site facilitating customer connectivity purchases, and providing in-flight news, information, etc.
• Built internationalization/localization and branding schemes to support customization within brands and languages

Greater Seattle Area

• Served on Core Framework team enabling release of new nostalgia based social networking brand Memory Lane
• ScrumMaster for team with greater than 95% completion rate
• JSP based markup, Apache Tiles XML configurations, CSS, HTML
• Creation, maintenance, and dissemination of global style elements’ implementation (CSS & HTML)
• Reduced complexity of Tomcat and Maven configurations across enterprise git repositories yielding more consistent quality and faster build/boot times

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Web designer and front-end developer for private community oriented social network service
• Designed major UX revision using HAML and Sass for Ruby on Rails site
• Semantic markup, separation of presentation from content, and adherence to MVC style of architecture
• Ruby on Rails

Kirkland, Washington, United States

• Built shared components and templates in CSS, HTML, ASPX, C#, and Javascript enabling 300% team scaling for ground-up rewrite of web interface.
• Guided database, middleware, and other non-front-end developers in all-hands re-write of web interface in under four months
• Owned specific pages’ interface ensuring consistent interaction quality
• Represented development team in user testing sessions and aided in analysis of results leading to refinement of product

Sammamish, Washington, United States

• Designed branding and identity system for multiple direct to consumer software brands
• Implemented web analytics, A/B testing, and multivariate testing improving increasing average cart sales by twenty-seven percent
• Analyzed advertising metrics to determine C-Net front page buyout reduced normal sales conversion by thirty percent

Bfa, Visual Communications Design

Ba, Interdisciplinary Visual Arts

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